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White Christmas unlikely in Northeast
If you're dreaming of a white Christmas in the Northeast, keep dreaming. Your chances are melting away. For this holiday season, the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University has completely revised its annual white Christmas probability statistics. For the past decade, the center has been using meteorological data from 1961 through 1990. Now the statistical chances of seeing an inch of snow on the ground on Christmas Day will be based on the years 1971 through 2000. (December 10, 2001)
Web site has wind data for biological or chemical attack
For emergency management officials in the Northeast who in time of an airborne biological or chemical attack must know which way the wind blows: click here. The Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University has developed a web page that provides easy access to the most recent weather observations, including wind direction and speed, during the preceding 24 hours. The data comes from approximately 200 National Weather Service stations across the region. (October 18, 2001)
Northeast heat wave sets 38 new temperature records
How hot was it? It was so hot that on Aug. 8 and 9 the record high temperatures for the date on Mount Washington, N.H., were smashed. Throughout the Northeast last week, 38 new high- temperature records were set and 15 old records were tied, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. (August 15, 2001)
Nor'easter makes this second snowiest season for Syracuse
N.Y. -- Thanks to the early March nor'easter that has dumped more than 17 inches of snow on the city of salt, this has become the second snowiest season ever for Syracuse, N.Y. In fact, Syracuse is the snowiest city in the Northeast, according to climatologists at Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. With a total of 171.9 inches through 11:59 p.m., March 5, Syracuse is about 20 inches shy of breaking the old snow record, set in the winter of 1992-93. That season included the "storm of the century" on March 13 to 14, 1993, that dumped 42 inches on Syracuse. The normal winter snowfall amount in the city is 110.3 inches, according to the center. (March 6, 2001)