Weather Underground midday recap for Tuesday,December 10,2013
A cold frontal boundary continued to move off of the East Coast on
Tuesday, while a pair of frontal boundaries moved across the northern
portion of the country.
A mixture of rain, sleet and snow impacted the Eastern Seaboard on
Tuesday as a cold front moved offshore. The heaviest snow associated
with this system fell in New England, while coastal regions experienced
mixed precipitation. Marlborough, Conn., reported a midday total of 2.50
inches of snow, while Sandwich, Mass., reported a midday total of 2.0
inches of snow. To the south, a line of showers and thunderstorms pushed
across Florida and along the southern portion of the Eastern Seaboard.
Alma, Ga., reported a midday total of 1.06 inches of rain, while Norfolk
Hampton Roads Exec, Va., reported a midday total of 1.09 inches of
rain. Lake effect snow warnings were also issued across parts of New
York on Tuesday as an abundance of moisture began to move across the
Great Lakes.
A cold front extended from the upper Mississippi Valley across the
central Great Lakes, which provided snow showers to western Michigan.
Mason, Mich., reported a midday total of 1.60 inches of snow, while
Newaygo, Mich., reported a midday total of 2.0 inches of snow. This cold
front, along with a separate cold front to the west, pushed extremely
cold temperatures across the upper Intermountain West, the northern
Plains and the upper Midwest. Crane Lake, Minn., recorded a morning low
of -37 degrees. Meanwhile, a ridge of high pressure kept the West Coast
clear of wet weather on Tuesday.
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