With the start of the next arctic blast to the upper Midwest, the temps have started to drop well below zero. Shot in Saint Cloud, MN which is the far northwest suburb of the Twin Cities metro area, the temperatures have dropped rapidly after midnight to the double digit below zero range.
B-Roll package includes time lapse of a breakfast of Steak, Bacon and Eggs freezing solid in under 9 minutes along with clips of signs showing the current temp at -12F.
Clip 1 Standup shot in front of the camera explaining the setup of the timelapse shot to document freezing the food.
Clip 2, Setting up the food to be frozen and timelapse of 9 minutes to show the food freezing.
Clip 3 Standup shot explaining the freezing of the food and if you have to be out today that you need to dress warm.
Clip 4 Sign showing it is -12F below
Clip 5 Sign showing that the temp is -12F below zero.
Clip 6 Large flag at 25th and Division blowing in the wind.
Clip 7 Traffic on Division
Clip 8 People walking in downtown Saint Cloud looking cold.
Clip 9 Two women walking in the cold and not dressed for the temps and they are freezing.
SID: Douglas Kiesling
New B-Roll footage from around the Fargo North Dakota area of the early morning conditions with the main interstates closed down after the blizzard conditions from last night.
Shot 1: Road Closed sign for I-29
Shot 2: Another shot of the I-29 Road Closed barricade
Shot 3: Ice and snow covered I-29 through Fargo with I-29 Closed road sign
Shot 4: I-29 Closed with Semi getting off ice covered i-29
Shot 5: Shot of car stuck in the ditch, car is covered in snow.
Shot 6: Another shot of car stuck in the ditch.
Shot 7: Nighttime shot of blowing snow across snow and ice covered roadway
Shot 8: Driving into Saturday Sunrise along road with snow blowing across Cass County Highway 20.
Shot 9: Shot of oncoming snowplow on Cass County Highway 20
Shot 10: Snowplow clearing icy and snow covered freeway entrance ramp.
Shot 11: Driving on snow and ice covered I-29
Shot 12: Behind a snowplow on I-29 dumping sand and salt on the road with oncoming snowplow.
Shot 13: Ambulance running with lights and sirens along Hwy 10 in MN
Shot 14: Partially down Railroad crossing guard with lights and snow blowing across it.
Shot 15: Rural county road in ND with snow blowing across it with sunrise in background.
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SID: Eric Whitehill
The official low temperature in International Falls, MN was -42F or -41.11C at sunrise this morning in International Falls, MN.
With the lack of any wind, the cold air has pooled over the area and trapped all of the exhaust gasses which has created smog.
Clip 1 International Falls City Limits Sign.
Clip 2 An outdoor thermometer showing -42F
Clip 3 An outdoor thermometer a few miles south of the city showing the air temp of -45F
Clip 4 Tight shot of the thermometer with the -45F air temp.
Clip 5 International Falls Water Tower
Clip 6 The welcome flags at the boarder entrance.
Clip 7 Traffic on Main Street.
Clip 8 The one and only person that was brave enough to be out walking along Main Street.
Clip 9 Snow and Ice Crystals that built up on the tree on main street from the exhaust gases from the smog.
Clip 10 Pan shot of the frost from the exhaust gases on the tree on main street.
Clip 11 Traffic on Main Street
Clip 12 Traffic on Main Street
Clip 13 Traffic on Main Street
Clip 14 International Falls Chamber Of Commerce building in the daylight with snow and ice on the roof.
Clip 15 Welcome To Minnesota Sign.
Clip 16 Exhaust Gases from the Boise Cascade Mill that were trapped by the temperature inversion.
Clip 17 Tight shot of the exhaust gases.
Clip 18 POV Driving shot of the smog from all of the exhaust gas from all of the furnaces, wood burning stoves, vehicles and business around the city.
SID: Douglas Kiesling
Some of the coldest air of the winter has settled over the boarder town known as “The Icebox of the Nation” International Falls, MN with temps in the -40F range this morning.
Clip 1 International Falls Chamber Of Commerce Building.
Clip 2 – 3 The outside air temperature reading the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit at -40 Below Zero.
Clip 4 Flags near the boarder standing still
Clip 5 Tight shot of the flag frozen in place in the still air.
Clip 6 Showing what happens to an Egg in a frying pan in the -40 degree temps.
Clip 7 Time lapse footage of an egg in a frying pan in the -40 temp freezing in just under 5 minutes.
Clip 8 Explaining what just happened to the egg in the frying pan as if it were exposed skin.
Clip 9 – 16 Various B-Roll around downtown International Falls with signs and traffic.
SID: Douglas Kiesling
With the temps barely getting above freezing today in Minneapolis, MN, the lite snow made for slick roadways and the persistent cold it starting to get old.
Clip 01 Skyline shot form Nicollet Mall
Clip 02 Shot showing the current time and temp
Clip 03 People at a bus stop in Minneapolis looking cold.
Clip 04 Blowing snow on Interstate 94/694 heading into Minneapolis
Clip 05 A roll over wreck on Interstate 94
Clip 06 Tight shot of Exhaust that froze to the tail pipe of a car.
Clip 07 POV drive by of another wreck on Interstate 94 in Minneapolis
Clip 08 People in Minneapolis bundled up for the cold.
Clip 09 Traffic in Minneapolis
Clip 10 People in Minneapolis in the cold
Clip 11 A couple walking in the cold and he tossed snow at her for fun.
Clip 12 Woman walking into Brits Pub looking cold
Clip 13 Woman walking in the cold
Clip 14 Two women walking in the cold.
SID: Douglas Kiesling
StormChasingVideo.com
Video footage featuring shots from far western MN where a dangerous windchill warning is in place. Included in the video package are shots featuring local bank thermometers reading well into the double digits below zero; as well as shots featuring the arctic-like landscape with a very heavy and thick hoar frost that covered all vegetation; houses and vehicles.
Package also includes footage of drifted and nearly impassible rural roadways following the strong winds after the ground blizzard.
SID: Nick Elms
SCV Stringer Eric Whitehill is on the road live streaming the blizzard conditions setting up around Fargo ND this afternoon. Live winter storm chasing video. Copyright 2013 StormChasingVideo.com & LiveNewsVideoNetwork.com .
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SID=EricW
B-roll footage of the ground blizzard conditions in the Fargo, ND area.
Shots include
Behind a car on i29 with zero visibility – hard time seeing vehicle in front with flashers on
Corner of 40th Ave S and 45th St S in Fargo
Truck with blowing snow near Argusville, ND
Zero visibility – Blowing Snow
Snow with stop sign in background
Another stop sign and blowing snow
Vehicles and Flag getting whipped around in Argusville, ND
View of Vehicles on I-29
i-29 sign blowing in the wind
Fargo Interstate sign getting blown in the wind
Tree in open country getting whipped around by snow
SID: Eric Whitehill
Rivers across southern IL crested Thursday afternoon after upwards of 7-inches of rain helped melt snow and filled rivers across the region. With several days of rising, the rivers across the region are finally starting to fall.
The Big Muddy River in Jackson County crested Thursday afternoon at moderate flood stage (28.39 feet) and is slowly beginning to fall. On December 20, the level was just under 7 feet, so the river has risen nearly 22 feet within a six-day’s time due to the rain and melted snow. Cold temperatures have even made some of the flood waters freeze in places.
Dec 20 at 6am: 6.80′
Dec 26 at 6am: 28.39′
TOTAL RISE: 21.59′ in 6 days.
(values from USGS)
Package shot in Murphysboro, Illinois in Jackson County approximately an hour and a half southeast of St. Louis and 45 minutes north of Cape Girardeau, MO.
Scene 1-2: Establishing shots of the Big Muddy River sign over IL-127 on the south side of Murphysboro.
Scene 3: Shot of submerged ROAD CLOSED sign in the 4th and Plum area in town. Water is nearly frozen.
Scene 4: Wide shot of ROAD CLOSED sign and 4th sign.
Scene 5-6: Wide shots looking down at the 4th and Plum intersection submerged in nearly-frozen water.
Scene 7: Shot of a barricade looking down the street to flooding over road.
Scene 8: Shot of water coming up to amphitheater at Riverside Park in Murphysboro.
Scene 9-10: Shots of “No Swimming Allowed” sign submerged in water at the park.
Scene 11: Wide shot of flooded street with a nearly submerged barricade in the distance in the water.
Scene 12: Shot of submerged barricade in the water.
Scene 13-14: Wide shots of flooding with submerged barricade and park stuff.
Scene 15: Barricade laying down in flood waters.
Scene 16-18: Various angles and zooms of picnic table and trash can in water.
Scene 19: Zoomed in shot of flood waters.
Scene 20-23: Various shots of barricades blocking closed roads.
Scene 24: Shot of wood frozen into the icy flood waters.
Scene 25-26: Shots of water flow under the IL-127 bridge.
SID: Tony Laubach
StormChasingVideo.com
Extreme cold is an understatement as the coldest air of the season has moved in to central Minnesota as people get ready to travel for Christmas.
Footage was shot in Stearns County, MN with air temps that dropped as low a -30F in place just outside of the city and the urban heat bubble. Inside the city, the temperatures were slightly warmer from -17F to -22F.
Clip 1 Electronic Sign warning of the freezing temps.
Clip 2 Pullback shot of Christmas Lights to to a sign saying North Pole.
Clip 3 – 4 Temp readings from the truck saying -30F That is Negative Thirty Degrees Below Zero just north of Saint Cloud, MN where the winds were calm out side of the urban heat bubble.
Clip 5 Sign showing that the temps in Saint Cloud were dropping from -17F to -18F
Clip 6 Christmas Lights
Clip 7 Bank sign showing it was -22F
Clip 8 Another bank sign showing it was -21F
Clip 9 Sign showing the temp was -17F
Clip 10 Traffic on Highway 23 in the middle of the night.
Clip 11 – 12 Smoke stack at Saint Cloud State in the sub zero weather. close up and wide shot with the moon.
A powerful winter storm system covers the Oklahoma City metro are with Freezing Rain and thick ice.
Shot #1: Tree branches down on car and in front yard. Norman, OK.
Shot #2: Tree down on OG&E Power truck. Norman, OK.
Shot #3: Close up of Ice Accumulations on Plants. Norman, OK.
Shot #4: Cloe up of Ice Accumulations on trees with traffic. Norman, OK.
Shot #5: Tree down over residential road. Norman, OK.
Shot #6 & #7: City crews working to clear roads in Norman, OK residential areas.
Shot #8: Tree completely split apart in Norman, OK residential area.
Shot #9: Tree branch down over 1/2 of road in Norman, OK.
Shot #10: Ice accumulations on power lines and trees in a residential area of Norman, OK.
Shot #11 & #12: Ice accumulations on tall grasses in Moore, OK.
Shot #13: Traffic in Oklahoma City, OK flowing nicely during Ice Storm.
Shot #14: Icicles on awning in apartment complex. Oklahoma City, OK.
Shot #15: Close-up of ice accumulation on vegetation. Oklahoma City, OK.
Shot #16: Tree with branches down. Norman, OK.
Shot #17: Ice covered trees and traffic near Sooner mall. Norman, OK.
SID: Chris Sanner
The start of the next winter system is underway as several inches of snow fell overnight in central Minnesota around the city of Saint Cloud.
Footage of snow cleanup, snow plows on the road and even a fire where a propane heater started a construction site on fire.
Clips 1 – 5 Snow removal in a parking lot in Saint Cloud, MN
Clips 6 – 9 Fire crews battle a fire at a construction site on University and Cooper in Saint Cloud. The cause of the fire was reported as it started from a propane heater in the 10F temps.
Clip 10 Drive by POV shot of a snow plow coming towards the camera
Clip 11 Street lights with heavy snow falling.
Clip 12 – 13 Snow covering the cars at a local car dealership.
Clip 14 – 15 POV Snow plow on Interstate 94
Clip 16 POV driving in heavy snow on Interstate 94
Clip 17 – 18 POV driving in heavy snow and blowing snow behind a snow plow.
Clip 19 Traffic on Highway 23 and 33rd avenue
SID: Douglas Kiesling
The first wave of the next winter storm moved into southern Illinois late Friday afternoon bringing a quick shot of snow to the region before easing into the night. The snow, which came down heavy at times, fell at an inch an hour at it’s highest rate leaving a half an inch in 30 minutes. It did slicken roads a bit and caused one spin-off along I-57 just north of Marion.
Video package shot around the towns of Marion and Herrin in Williamson County, approximately 45 minutes south of Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
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Scene 1-3: Heavy snow and low visiblity POV shots.
Scene 4: Unloading school bus in the heavy snow with two kids getting out.
Scene 5: Oncoming snow plows laying down salt along IL-13 just outside of Marion.
Scene 6: POV drive shot along I-57 northbound north of Marion with two cops and a van that went off the road in the snowstorm. Driver was not hurt.
Scenes 7-10: Various shot of high contrast heavy snow falling around the county.
Scene 11-13: Hot of a black car with the accumulating snow falling.
Scene 14: Shot of tree with blowing branch and snow falling.
Scene 15: A vehicle drives away form the camera as the snow falls.
SID: Tony Laubach
Storm Chaser Tony Laubach is streaming live from the road near Mt Vernon Illinois tonight. Winter weather driving conditions live from US57.
SID=TonyL
*** Youtube Edit: Due to some scenes containing holiday music, we replaced the audio track on youtube with a generic youtube audio track provided by youtube This is only on the Youtube copy, ENG copies have the raw audio ***
Video footage package highlighting the prolonged cold wave that has taken hold on the Upper Midwest and how Minneapolis residents have pushed forward in continuing in pre-holiday and winter season outdoor activities despite the sub-arctic freezing temperatures and snow.
Video footage from the Minneapolis & St.Paul downtown areas of hearty Twin Cities residents enduring the prolonged arctic cold temperatures including, Broom ball on ice,Hockey and ice skating as well as touring the downtown Holiday park areas on foot.
Video Footage also includes a local full length Santa Claus fire truck armada in Northeast Minneapolis, as well as some of the best of the Minneapolis area holiday lights and scenes during the freezing temperatures and short days.
SID: Nick Elms
Heavy lake-effect snow falling in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Person shoveling sidewalk, girls walking in snow, cars driving/slushy, snow covered road conditions. Shot around Noon, Thursday 12-12.
SID: Blake Naftel
Prolonged multi-day Lake Effect Snow event dumping over 2 feet of snow over Oswego County, NY including the town of Pulaski. Frigid arctic air moving over the much warmer surface of Lake Ontario created a heavy band of snow training over the same area of Upstate New York producing incredible snowfall totals.
Scene 1: car with deep snow on roof at gas station in Pulaski, NY
Scene 2: colorful sunrise during the snow storm in Pulaski, NY
Scene 3: driving shot of pedestrian walking along road, because snow is too deep on sidewalk
Scenes 4-8: driving footage of traffic and snowplow during storm, driving footage of snow covered vegetation, and blowing snow in Oswego County
Scene 9: Electronic road sign warning “Heavy Snow in Area” & “Reduced Speed Advised” with traffic and heavy snow
Scenes 10-11: high contrast heavy snowfall and trees
Scenes 12-14: ice-covered trees south of Scranton, PA from heavy freezing rain
SID: Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer was in New York City today and shot this B-Roll package for the wintery weather that includes footage of snow falling streets of Manhattan, cars driving in snow, taxi cabs driving in snow.
Footage shot around Time Square NYC with snow falling and people checking out the crystal ball at Time Square.
Additional footage shot around Radio City Music Hall and snow and 30 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, Ice Rink, GE Building and snow Empire State Building with clouds and snow and the Chrysler Building with snow.
SID: Simon Brewer
Live sunset from Siesta Key Beach in Sarasota Florida. Streamed live on Dec 8, 2013. Sunset at 5:36pm. Temps are in the low 80s (26C) at 4:30pm. Copyright 2013 StormChasingVideo.com & LiveNewsVideoNetwork.com
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SID=BrianD
Video footage package highlighting the moderate snowfall in the Winter Weather Advisory area within the central Twin Cites Metropolitan area.
Video footage includes; Multiple vehicle spin-outs and disabled vehicals, local and state roadway snowfall and ice removal operations including MNDOT heavy salt/sand spreading from close range in and through the Lowry Hill Tunnel area on glaze ice roadways.
Video Package also contains footage from (MSP), Minneapolis/ST.Paul International Airport, with runway snowfall removal ops, local airport snowfall removal, as well as flight and main concourse De-Icing operations during the moderate snowfall and peak of morning departures.
SID: Nick Elms
Simon Brewer from the hit TV show Storm Riders on The Weather Channel was out shooting for us this morning in the Missouri Bootheel region to document the winter storm and ice storm that is hitting the region.
In the video, Simon documented Powerflashes from ice on powerlines covered in ice,
power lines shorting out, heavy snow, heavy icing and incredible power of the winter storm system hitting the area.
Clip 1-2 Power lines shorting out and sparking.
Clip 3-4 Snow plow with under body blade sparking on the roadway.
Clip 5 Street light and power lines covered in ice.
Clip 6 Ran and sleet bouncing off a flag lamp
Clip 7 American Flag covered in ice still plowing in the wind
Clip 8 Vegetation covered in ice.
Clip 9 Fence coverd in ice
Clip 10 Fence covered in ice.
Clip 11 Tight shot of barbed wire covered in ice.
Clip 12 Car in the ditch
Clip 13 Ice covering the ground and power lines.
Clip 14 – 15 Tight shots of power lines.
Clip 16 – 18 Wide and tight shots of crews out working to restore the power.
Clip 19 POV shot of driving with everything covered in ice.
Clip 20 – 22 POV Shots of driving in the ice storm.
Clip 23 POV shot driving in the snow and ice.
SID: Simon Brewer
www.StormChasingVideo.com
An intense winter storm continues to barrel across the country bringing ice, sleet, and heavy snows to many states, including Illinois which just saw a State of Emergency declared for Jackson County due to heavy snow, which is just to the southwest of Mt. Vernon. Snow totals pushing a foot have been recorded across Illinois with Mt. Vernon ranging around 10 inches as of 10am CST.
Mt. Vernon is in Jefferson County, Illinois approximately 80 miles east of St. Louis.
Scenes 1-4: Tipped over semi truck along I-57 south of Mt. Vernon.
Scenes 5-6: Two semis that came together in the center median of I-57 south of Mt. Vernon.
Scene 7: Semi truck off the shoulder along an on-ramp to I-57 southbound south of Mt. Vernon.
Scenes 8-10: Shots of a pickup truck spinning wheels trying to get free of a snow bank.
Scenes 11-15: Shots at the scene of a vehicle in a snowbank with cops blocking the lanes and a tow truck pulling the vehicle out of the snowbank.
Scene 16-17: Man pushing a girl and her car onto the street. Girl waves out the driver window in second scene as she safely pulls off.
Scene 18: A car trapped in a snowbank with several people around the vehicle and a cop in the foreground.
Scene 19: POV shot as a pickup has to back into traffic to get into a parking lot.
Scene 20: Semi truck spinning its wheels trying to get out of a parking lot.
Scene 21: POV in nearly white-out conditions with vehicle barely visible ahead.
Scene 22: Wide POV of northbound snowplow on I-57 south of Mt. Vernon.
SID: Tony Laubach
The major winter storm moving across the country began making its impacts felt across southern IL as moderate amounts of sleet came down through the day on Thursday. Sleet in some places looked almost like snow and even brought out the snowplows to clear off roads as drivers slowly navigated area highways. This is only the beginning across the region as more ice and snow are expected to create even worse conditions by Friday afternoon.
Accumulations of sleet and ice have reached as high as a quarter-inch in areas with I-DOT reporting many ice covered roads in Jefferson, Perry, and Jackson Counties.
Shot in Carbondale, Illinois in Jackson County which sits roughly an hour from Cape Girardeau, MO and Mt. Vernon, IL. It is 100 miles south/southeast of St. Louis.
Scene 1: Establishing shot of backed up traffic going into Carbondale on US-51 with sleet covering the highway.
Scene 2: Long shot of an oncoming snow plow clearing the sleet from the roads with traffic behind it.
Scene 3: Shot as snowplow leaves Carbondale clearing sleet from the highway.
Scene 4: POV drive shot of a vehicle that slid off the sleet-covered highway just north of the Carbondale city limits. Pans to highway patrol car parked on shoulder.
Scene 5: View looking through falling sleet of highway patrol car and oncoming traffic.
Scene 6: Shot along US-51 north of Carbondale with traffic driving on sleet-covered road.
Scene 7: POV drive shot along US-51 north of Carbondale showing oncoming traffic, falling sleet.
Scene 8: Shot in Carbondale showing large amounts of sleet on roadways.
Scene 9-10: Shot of UPS driver delivering packages in moderately falling sleet.
Scene 11-13: Shot of vehicles with dark tinted windows and surfaces showing ice and sleet that has accumulated on vehicles in Carbondale.
Scene 14: Zoomed shot looking at trees with sleet falling.
Scene 15: Shot from inside vehicle as windshield wipers come on trying to clear the sleet from the windshield.
SID: Tony Laubach
Arctic cold gripped the Denver, Colorado metro region early Thursday morning December 05, 2013. A record low temperature of -15 degrees was recorded at Denver International Airport shortly before daybreak. While temps moderated by late morning, the cold still held the Denver area residents and wildlife in its icy grip.
Video highlights include furnace exhaust vents, power plants, electrical power plant, temperature readings, waterfowl, South Platte River fog, construction workers, and area shoppers.
SID: Ed Grubb
