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45 relations: Alberta clipper, Atlanta, Boston, Cabarrus County, North Carolina, Canada, Central United States, Charlottesville, Virginia, Duke Energy, Eastern Canadian blizzard of March 1971, Electric generator, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Freezing rain, Gatineau, Georgia (U.S. state), Granville County, North Carolina, Great Lakes, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Stream, Gwinnett County, Georgia, Highway, Ice storm, Interstate Highway System, Jackknifing, January 1998 North American ice storm, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Low-pressure area, Maryland, Meteorological Service of Canada, Montreal, National Weather Service, New England, North Carolina, OC Transpo, Ontario, Ottawa, Quebec, Rockingham County, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southern United States, Traffic collision, Transitway (Ottawa), Virginia, Washington, D.C., Wilkes County, North Carolina, Winter storm.
Alberta clipper
An Alberta clipper (also known as a Canadian Clipper) is a fast moving low pressure area weather system which generally affects the central provinces of Canada, as well as parts of the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, and Northeastern United States regions, precipitating a sudden temperature drop and sharp winds.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Cabarrus County, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Central United States
The Central United States is sometimes conceived as between the Eastern United States and Western United States as part of a three-region model, roughly coincident with the U.S. Census' definition of the Midwestern United States plus the western and central portions of the U.S. Census' definition of the Southern United States.
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Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville and officially named the City of Charlottesville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Duke Energy
Duke Energy, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an electric power holding company in the United States, with assets also in Canada and Latin America.
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Eastern Canadian blizzard of March 1971
The Eastern Canadian blizzard of March 1971 was a severe winter storm that struck portions of eastern Canada from March 3 to March 5, 1971.
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Electric generator
In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy) into electrical power for use in an external circuit.
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Environment and Climate Change Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada (or simply its former name, Environment Canada, or EC) (Environnement et Changement climatique Canada), legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act (R.S., 1985, c. E-10), is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for coordinating environmental policies and programs as well as preserving and enhancing the natural environment and renewable resources.
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Freezing rain
Freezing rain is the name given to rain precipitation maintained at temperatures below freezing by the ambient air mass that causes freezing on contact with surfaces.
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Gatineau
Gatineau (locally), officially Ville de Gatineau, is a city in western Quebec, Canada.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Granville County, North Carolina
Granville County is a county located on the northern border of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.
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Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.
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Gulf Stream
The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
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Gwinnett County, Georgia
Gwinnett County is a county in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
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Ice storm
An ice storm is a type of winter storm characterized by freezing rain, also known as a glaze event or, in some parts of the United States, as a silver thaw.
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Interstate Highway System
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.
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Jackknifing
Jackknifing refers to the folding of an articulated vehicle so that it resembles the acute angle of a folding pocket knife.
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January 1998 North American ice storm
The North American Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as Great Ice Storm of 1998) was a massive combination of five smaller successive ice storms in January 1998 that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from eastern Ontario to southern Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from northern New York to central Maine in the United States.
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Kannapolis, North Carolina
Kannapolis (Kŭh-nă-pŭh-lŭs) is a city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties, in the U.S. state of North Carolina, northwest of Concord and northeast of Charlotte and is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area.
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Low-pressure area
A low-pressure area, low, or depression, is a region on the topographic map where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
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Meteorological Service of Canada
The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC; Service météorologique du Canada – SMC) is a division of Environment and Climate Change Canada, which primarily provides public meteorological information and weather forecasts and warnings of severe weather and other environmental hazards.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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OC Transpo
OC Transpo is the urban transit service of the City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
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Quebec
Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.
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Rockingham County, North Carolina
Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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Traffic collision
A traffic collision, also called a motor vehicle collision (MVC) among other terms, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.
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Transitway (Ottawa)
The Transitway is a bus rapid transit network operated by OC Transpo in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Virginia
Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Wilkes County, North Carolina
Wilkes County is a county located in the US state of North Carolina.
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Winter storm
A winter storm is an event in which varieties of precipitation are formed that only occur at low temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are low enough to allow ice to form (i.e. freezing rain).
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Redirects here:
2005 Atlantic Power Outage, Atlantic Power Outage of 2005, Ice Storm of December 2005, Ice storm of December 2005.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2005_North_American_ice_storm
