More urgently, Mongolia is still recovering from the effects of a devastatingly cold storm that killed more than a million head of livestock this winter.
The snow comes from a series of cold storm systems that originated in the Gulf of Alaska, according to Eric Kurth, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.
The island's two highest peaks — Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa — are getting hit with a cold, wet storm that has dumped about 2 feet of snow, and an additional foot of snow is possible when another storm hits the islands later this weekend.
We're predicting a cold, nasty storm with tons of ice and snow to blanket the East Coast.
In Los Angeles and Ventura counties, the cold storm should bring 1 to 2 inches of rain along the coast and 2 to 4 inches in the mountains and foothills Thursday night into early Friday, meteorologist Scott Sukup said.
Most of that precipitation — including this week's storms hitting San Francisco — is coming from the typical winter weather pattern in California: cold storms from the northern Pacific Ocean, coming northwest of the state.
Drilling opponents and some oil-spill veterans assert that the extreme cold, storms, high waves, winds, darkness, and fog that occur routinely in the region could challenge spill cleanup, particularly in the event of a late-fall blowout, when ice begins to gather.
The second named storm of the 1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Beth's genesis was impeded by a cold environment surrounding the storm.
A cold front bypassed the storm to the south, and a building ridge behind it turned Gretelle to a west-northwest drift.
My roommate's night out and her exhibiting the beginnings of a cold were the perfect storm that woke me abruptly at 3 30 AM.
