Bizarre Thanksgiving Weekend: Ice Storm and a Hurricane

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An ice storm and a hurricane. They sound like they occupy completely opposite ends of the weather spectrum. If this were politics, one is like a far-left Democrat, the other a far-right Republican.

Yet for at least part of Thanksgiving weekend 2015, we saw both on our weather map.

Before we go further, Hurricane Sandra in the eastern Pacific Ocean did not cause the freezing rain/sleet event in the Plains states, one facet of Winter Storm Cara.

However, you may wonder how these two disparate meteorological phenomena can at least exist at the same time in somewhat close proximity.


, a very late tropical cyclone plus an early ice event lead to this bizarre holiday weekend weather potpourri.

Seeing the potential for Sandra to still be a tropical depression Saturday as little as 400 miles away from an area of freezing rain is a cool, weather geeky factoid you can add to an already bizarre 2015.

And, by the way, if you think hurricanes can't feed into winter storms, remember Superstorm Sandy's wintry side just over three years ago?


Round 2 on the Ice event that's ongoing?

Damn...