Thanksgiving Week 2010 Arctic Outbreak and Storms By: Frank Pereira, HPC Meteorologist Overview:

• Main Author: Synoptic Pattern
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.692.5234; http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/winter_storm_summaries/event_reviews/2010/Thanksgiving2010.pdf

Heavy snows, arctic blasts, hurricane force winds, tornadoes and flooding rains highlighted Thanksgiving week 2010, disrupting travel and holiday plans for many across the U.S. The week began with heavy rains along the California and Oregon coasts, with heavy snows across portions of the Sierra, Wasatch, Tetons and Colorado Rockies (Fig. 1). As heavy precipitation continued across the western U.S. into the middle portion of the week, significant precipitation spread through the Midwest into the Northeast (Figs. 2a, b), with heavy amounts reported across the mid Mississippi and Ohio Valleys during the latter portion of the week (Figs. 2c, d). In addition to significant rains, severe weather was reported across the Midwest, including several tornado, damaging wind and hail