Giant HailĬheng Jia, of China, takes a picture of Yongxin Yan by a digital thermometer at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in Death Valley National Park Friday, Jin Furnace Creek, Calif. Maybe, someday, a Green Bay blizzard will greet another visiting Florida team. I'll watch any game if it's played in bad weather, no matter how poor the matchup. The blaze orange colors in the stands weren't traveling Buccaneer fans, but rather deer hunting outfits helping insulate Packer fans from the cold and snow. Future Hall Of Famer Steve Young was their quarterback, by the way. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in white uniforms, no less, were about as out of their element as you could be.
Only 19,856 intrepid souls attended that game in the snowstorm, leaving the stadium two-thirds empty. Since I was born after the Ice Bowl, I dream of attending a game at Lambeau Field like the "Snow Bowl" game on Dec. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)Īs a kid, my first thought when I saw snow falling outside was to play football.Įven more fun than stumbling around in an impromptu football game is watching real football players do the same.Īs a Wisconsin native, the Packers are in my blood. The 'Acqua Alta'Ī field crew member sweeps the snow in the endzone during the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks during the NFC divisional playoff game on Januat Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I think this bucket list item for me involves two things: Flying in a helicopter or plane well ahead of the haboob and setting up a time-lapse on the ground of the haboob's passage as the sky turns a ghostly pall of orange. The choking dust can irritate your respiratory system, not to mention leave grit in your teeth. Suddenly-reduced visibility can lead to chain-reaction traffic accidents, sometimes with deadly results. While spectacular, these dust storms are dangerous. This term originates from the Arabic word for wind: habb. When this happens in the desert, huge clouds of dust can be kicked up and swept outward from the thunderstorm that caused it, known as a haboob. Precipitation falling into a very dry low-level air mass evaporates, chilling the air and crashing it into the ground, spreading laterally like spilled milk.
Some thunderstorms, particularly in the West, produce very little rain. My favorite weather video we receive each summer is from the Desert Southwest. HaboobĪ haboob was photographed from an airplane over Phoenix, Arizona, on August 21, 2016.
Attempting to climb to the summit in winter is strongly discouraged. Tours are available in winter, but only by snowcat. Washington Observatory is a private, non-profit scientific and educational institution. I also marvel at the undercast, the sea of dense, low-level clouds trapped in the valley below. Washington Sees Record Wind Chill)įor me, it's not only the extreme winds but also the beautiful accumulations of rime ice coating anything outside in these harsh conditions. In 1934, a 231-mph wind gust was measured here, a world record which stood until an Australian tropical cyclone topped it by 22 mph in 1996. Washington, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.īehind a strong cold front in winter, it's common to see wind gusts exceed 100 mph, accompanied by hurricane-force sustained winds. Since 1932, dedicated meteorologists and support staff have taken regular weather observations atop the 6,288-foot summit of Mt. If there's one location to sample extreme winds safely, and with at least some predictable regularity, it's from the relative sanctuary of the Mt. This one may be on every meteorologist's list. In it for the structure and the scenery," Fisher replied in a tweet.Īn undercast of low clouds hovers in the valley below the Mt. "Definitely a dream to go summer High Plains chasing. WBZ - CBS Boston chief meteorologist Eric Fisher listed an LP (low-precipitation) supercell in the High Plains number one. The Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes mixed it up a bit, mentioning a waterspout and a haboob (more on that below).
When I posed the question of such a weather bucket list on Twitter, each response mentioned the northern lights, and usually either a tornado and/or hurricane. That's the premise of the so-called "bucket list" which you can find in cultural references like the 2007 film "The Bucket List" which tells the story of two terminally ill men who break out of a hospital and go on an adventure to check off a list of things they want to do before they die.īut some meteorologists like me have a different kind of bucket list: one that features all of the weather they would like to see in person if safety weren't a concern. What would you like to do before you die? Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.
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