The March bomb cyclone resulted in over $4 billion in damage, while Alaska posted its warmest March by a landslide.
Floodwaters cover parts of Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on March 17. By Jason Samenow Jason Samenow Editor and writer covering weather and climate Email Bio Follow April 10 at 12:01 PM It was a wild March headlined by abnormal warmth in our nation’s coldest state and a destructive and costly “bomb cyclone” in central United States.
Flooding from the cyclone inundated “millions of acres of agriculture, numerous cities and towns and causes widespread damage to roads, bridges, levees and dams,” NOAA reported. It became the second billion-dollar weather disaster of 2019, following a storm system Feb. 23-25, which unleashed tornadoes, flooding and severe weather in the South, and high-wind damage in the Northeast.
Thanks to this wet start, just 6 percent of the Lower 48 is in drought, “one of the smallest contiguous U.S. drought footprints on record,” NOAA reported.Temperature differences from normal over Earth during March 2019. The Lower 48 was one of just a few cold locations in the Northern Hemisphere during March. Almost everywhere else, it was toasty, and Alaska was at the epicenter of the warmth.
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