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More snow for Rockies and Dakotas as winter maintains its grip  April 15th, 2013 photo MoresnowforRockiesandDakotasaswintermaintainsitsgripApril15th2013b_zpsb22dd60d.jpg

More snow for Rockies and Dakotas as winter maintains its grip  April 15th, 2013b photo MoresnowforRockiesandDakotasaswintermaintainsitsgripApril15th2013_zpsf0d1324f.jpg

Many living in the Northern part of the country tonight are saying enough is enough as heavy snow and strong winds are producing blizzard like conditions and it’s not over yet. The Weather Channel’s Janel Klein reports.

Winter is still going strong in the West.

Schools were closed and the Legislature canceled its session Monday after a snowstorm broke records in North Dakota, and Wyoming and Colorado were bracing for another system that could dump as much as a foot and a half.

Almost all of Interstate 94 in North Dakota was under a no-travel advisory because of blizzard conditions, according to The Weather Channel. The IRS said it would waive late-filing fees for people in the state who could not submit their tax returns in time because of the storm.

Bismarck, the state capital, got more than 17 inches on Sunday, the largest snowfall there of any day on record.

 

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Published on Mar 4, 2013

Winter watches and warnings are in effect in 19 states.


Paul Schlacter

Published on Jan 17, 2013

The sleet and snow that fell on January 15 2013 in White County Arkansas was not normal. Background levels in this area are 35cpm. The sleet and snow was showing an alert level above 100cpm. The high levels only lasted about 24 hours indicating a short half life of the hot particles. This kind of exposure can reduce the immune system and may be the cause for recent spikes in flu and illness in this area and others. We can only assume because the event was short lived is why they are not warning parents to keep there children out of this unsafe wintery mix. Not creating panic or concern seems to be more important than public safety. Why warn parents exposure to the snow and sleet is equal to flying at 30000 feet or exposure levels for nuclear plant workers right?
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15.12.2012 Snow Storm Ukraine [Statewide] Damage level
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Snow Storm in Ukraine on Saturday, 15 December, 2012 at 11:34 (11:34 AM) UTC.

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Heavy snowfall and strong wind blocked roads across northern Ukraine and left hundreds of villages without electricity, authorities said Tuesday. The Emergencies Ministry said sleet, snow and powerful wind brought down power lines in some 200 villages in northern Ukraine. With snow as thick as 50 cm in some areas, hundreds of cars were blocked on the snow-covered highways in the northern Kiev and Chernigov regions. The snowy weather has caused traffic chaos in the capital, where some 10,000 of cars have been stranded on major transport interchanges and bridges. More than 30 traffic accidents occurred in Kiev Tuesday morning, according to the authorities. As of midday (1000 GMT), the Boryspil International Airport and Kiev airport still operated normally.

 

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15.12.2012 Snow Storm Romania Multiple areas, [Southern areas] Damage level
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Snow Storm in Romania on Saturday, 15 December, 2012 at 11:48 (11:48 AM) UTC.

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Heavy snow stranded drivers for hours in icy winds on the night from Wednesday (December 12) to Thursday (December 13) with the army trying to get people to safety. Hundreds of people remained stuck on roads in the north-east of the country with 7 counties badly affected by the storm. “We were stuck until the army came,” said one passenger. “I suffered hypothermic shock. We stayed in the car, after that we tried to walk, but I felt very bad,” the woman added. “We couldn’t pass, so we tried this way to get towards Roman (a town in north-east part of Romania), but it’s not possible,” another passenger said who had been stuck in the snow for hours. Fifty villages remained isolated in Dolj county and 40 schools were still closed on Thursday. “He (girls father) is still isolated. His mobile phone battery is dead. He has been isolated since Sunday. It’s not possible to reach him, the snow is too deep. There are also three more people who couldn’t come down to the village,” said one woman about her father. Dozens of villages also remained isolated also in Iasi county. Extremely low temperatures are expected in the coming days, up to minus 14 F in parts of the country and minus 7 F in Bucharest.

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A Boeing 737-600 Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, plane having ice cleared from its fuselage as it stands at terminal 5, Arland airport outside Stockholm, Wednesday Dec. 5, 2012.  Only one runway track is open due to the heavy snow fall and many flights have been canceled. (AP Photo / Johan Nilsson / SCANPIX)  SWEDEN OUT

A Boeing 737-600 Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, plane having ice cleared from its fuselage as it stands at terminal 5, Arland airport outside Stockholm, Wednesday Dec. 5, 2012. Only one runway track is open due to the heavy snow fall and many flights have been canceled. (AP Photo / Johan Nilsson / SCANPIX) SWEDEN OUT

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Snow Storm in Sweden on Wednesday, 05 December, 2012 at 11:13 (11:13 AM) UTC.

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Updated: Thursday, 06 December, 2012 at 06:03 UTC
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The snowy weather has caused traffic chaos in Sweden’s capital city of Stockholm as flights and local traffic were badly affected on Wednesday. The snow had covered the whole city by about at least 30 centimeters and flights were largely canceled because of the bad weather, affecting around 60,000 travelers. Almost all the buses in Stockholm had stopped running, and the metro kept being delayed due to the continually falling snow. Thousands of people suffered power failure and schools were also closed. The Swedish Traffic Administration advised people to drive their own cars if they had to go out. On Wednesday afternoon there were thousands of people waiting at the train station in Stockholm center as over 40 departures had been canceled.

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Moscow snowfall: blessing for pedestrians, nightmare for travelers
Heavy snow caused traffic jams as snow clearing ploughs are parked near Red Square in Moscow. Source: AP

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04.12.2012 Snow Storm Russia [Asia] Capital City, Moscow Damage level
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Snow Storm in Russia [Asia] on Thursday, 29 November, 2012 at 13:44 (01:44 PM) UTC.

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Updated: Tuesday, 04 December, 2012 at 08:28 UTC
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Weather forecasters said a cyclone that has moved to Russia from the Balkans and has mixed up with warm southern masses of air along the way is likely to produce a snow cover 12 centimeters to 13 centimeters thick. The snowfall is accompanied by an eastern wind that blows at 5 to 10 meters per second and may have gusts of up to 15 to 20 meters per second. Forecasts indicate that the snowfall will continue in the later hours of the morning, too, while the air temperature, which showed minus 5 degrees Celsius at the time of reporting, is likely to climb to 2 degrees later. “This may produce aggregations of wet snow on the wires of power transmission lines,” an official at the Moscow mayoralty warned. Also, the authorities issued recommendations to car owners to consider options to going to work in their private cars later in the day, even though the full force of Moscow City’s street cleaning teams and the whole fleet of snowplows has been brought into the cleaning effort and it spraying the streets with anti-icing chemicals.

Officials say that preference in this situation should apparently be given to public transport. Moscow city and Moscow region’s Bureau of Hydrometeorology have circulated the so-called storm warning, according to which “snowy weather with an occasional of intensification of the snowfall, blizzards, icing on the roads, and the accumulation of snow banks is possible. Moscow’s road police have asked the people driving private cars to exercise maximum possible caution on the roads, to keep safe distances between cars, to avoid chaotic maneuvering and abrupt braking. In addition to this they alerted the Muscovites to the necessity of observing strictly the rules of cautious driving, including the scrupulous observance of speed limitations. Moscow Railway workers put the entire fleet of snowplowing machinery on alert. “Teams of track repair workers will join the snowplows if need be and the workers of other departments will join them, too,” an official said. “The workers of all the services are prepared to keep all the works under unrelenting control.” Last week, Moscow fell into grips of a snowfall, the intensity of which made it unprecedented over a period of more than 50 years. The snowstorm reined in the city and the region for almost two days and the precipitation of snow on the ground totaled one-sixth of an averaged amount of snow that falls out during the year. The snow banks on the roads, which the road maintenance services had no chance to remove on time, produced a true transport collapse on the automobile roads.

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Connecting the global cooling dots

Alan Caruba
factsnotfantasy.blogspot.co.uk
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Winter doesn’t officially begin until December 21, but winter has a mind of its own as does all of nature. While the United Nations charlatans gathered in Doha, Qatar to try to save its global warming hoax by first calling it “climate change” and then by fashioning a funding mechanism to transfer the wealth of developed countries to those who are not, winter has arrived “early” around the world.

That might just have something to do with the cooling cycle that has been active for the past sixteen years, “inconveniently” blowing a big hole in the global warming lies we’ve been hearing and reading since the late 1980s.

From IceAgeNow.info, a site by Robert W. Felix, the author of a book about ice ages (the Earth has been through quite a few in its 4.5 billion years), here are some recent news stories:

On December 1, “Heavy snowfall severs Russia” told of “Hundreds of drivers (who) were caught by surprise in a 40km traffic jam after an unexpected snowfall and heavy winds.”

On November 30, “Finland snowstorm causes blackouts” reported that “Tens of thousands of households were without electricity on Friday as the result of a storm that dumped heavy snow across southern Finland and sent winds gusting up to 27 meters per second, felling trees and downing power lines.” That same day, across the former land bridge between Russia and North America, “Fairbanks – Coldest back-to-back November on record” was a news item that reported “The mercury hit 30 below for the first time this winter at Fairbanks International Airport.”

On November 29, the news was about a “Severe snow storm hits northern Japan” during which it was “blasted by an intense snow storm causing widespread havoc to residents of Hokkaido and Northern Honshu.”

On November 28, “Snowfall paralyzes life in China” was the headline of a report that “China has experienced the biggest snowfall in 52 years. Snow caused power outages in 57 villages, brought down thousands of trees and killed numerous domestic animals. Temperatures fell by as much as 14 degrees below zero in some areas.”

You don’t have to be a meteorologist to connect the dots. It is getting colder in the northern hemisphere of the world. To those who would dismiss this, saying that Russia has always been famous for its winters, that is the equivalent of whistling passed the graveyard.

In England, a November 29 report in The Telegraph, reported that “Councils are gearing up for what could be Britain’s coldest winter in 100 years, as sub-zero temperatures and snow follow days of downpours that have devastated large parts of the country.” The Met Office, England’s equivalent of the U.S. Weather Bureau, warned that “The forthcoming cold snap, caused by clear skies and northerly winds, could herald the start of a freezing winter.”

This was not unforeseen, however. In late January 2012, the British daily, The Mail, reported that “The supposed “consensus” on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planning has not warmed for the past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th century.” England and much of the northern Europe and North America was gripped by a mini ice age that lasted from 1300 to 1850.

It is no secret to climate scientists that the sun is in what they call a “grand minimum” by way of describing relatively few magnetic storms, also known assun spots. Few storms means less solar radiation and, since the sun is the primary source of heat for the Earth that means things get colder here. This is worth keeping in mind when the Secretary General of the United Nations or any other lying politician or alleged scientist tells you otherwise.

In a new book worth reading, “The Whole Story of Climate” by E. Kirsten Peters, the author brings a wealth of knowledge to the subject from the standpoint of a geologist. As to the claim that carbon dioxide emissions are the “cause” of a warming that is not happening, she points out that “The fact is, if human beings had remained hunter-gatherers throughout our entire history, never producing a single molecule of greenhouse gases through agriculture or industry, climate today would still be changing. It would be lurching toward higher temperatures, crashing toward vastly colder temperatures, or at least swinging toward something different from what has been. That’s just the nature of Earth’s climate.”

Preceding the introduction and rise of humans was an age known as the Pleistocene Epoch about 1.8 million years ago. It “was not a time of only monotonous cold. In fact, it alternated between long periods of cold – lasting roughly 100,000 years – and short periods of considerably warming times – lasting about 10,000 years.”

We humans are the result of the Holocene Epoch, a much more temperate, warmer period that followed the Pleistocene and, writes Peters, “From the Earth’s point of view, the Holocene is no different at all from other brief, warm intervals in the Pleistocene.”We are now about 11,500 years into this warmer cycle and, if the current cooling cycle continues and gets colder, we are knocking on the door of the next ice age.

Nor is this a problem only for the northern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere polar sea ice expanded in September 2012 to its greatest extent since satellites began measuring the Antarctic ice cap in 1979.

That’s what Robert W. Felix has been warning about in his book, “Not by Fire, But by Ice”, published initially in 2005. He’s not alone. Habibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences predicts that there will be a sharp drop in the temperature of the Earth starting in 2014. He’s predicting it will last about 200 years.

We are well past when the next ice age – mini or not – should have begun and, if all the global warming charlatans are right, we can actually THANK heightened levels of carbon dioxide for delaying it! However, the truth is that higher or lower levels of carbon dioxide show up centuries after any shift in the Earth’s temperature.

Just as the recent weather reports indicate, lower temperatures, greater snowfall, and other miseries of a colder Earth are in the future of the billions who live in the northern hemisphere. Bundle up.

WHITE OUT

 
by Staff Writers
Paris (ESA)


Time series of Northern Hemisphere June snow cover (red), June sea-ice extent (black) and September sea-ice extent (grey). Thick lines denote five-year running mean. Relative to a 1979-2000 baseline, June snow cover – also known as ‘snow areal extent’ – has declined by 17.6%, whereas September sea-ice has declined by 13.0%. Credits: C. Derksen and R. Brown, Environment Canada (Data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center and Rutgers University Global Snow Lab)

Santa Claus may someday need wheels for his sleigh – satellites show a decreasing amount of snow in the Northern Hemisphere. A new analysis of snow cover observed by satellites shows record lows in Eurasia for June each year since 2008. In addition, three of the past five years have seen record low cover in North America.

This is the lowest June snow extent since satellite observations began some 45 years ago. June snow cover is found to be falling much faster than expected from climate models, and is disappearing even quicker than summertime Arctic sea-ice.

These results, published in Geophysical Research Letters in October and based on snow chart data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are consistent with indications of a decline in monthly-average snow mass, published last year as part of ESA’s GlobSnow project.

The results show that the maximum amount of snow across the Northern Hemisphere is slowly falling, while spring snow – particularly at high latitudes – is melting significantly earlier.

GlobSnow produced a long time-series of snow mass from 1979 to 2012, as well as a time-series of snow cover from 1995 to 2012.

Earth Watch Report

Early Snow Pummels West Virginia

By KRIS MAHER

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Sandy dumped 2 feet of snow in parts of the West Virginia mountains. John Rose, a Republican candidate for the House of Delegates, was the third person killed in the state. (Tom Hindman / Charleston Daily Mail / October 30, 2012)

Parts of West Virginia were digging out from up to three feet of snow dumped in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, a deluge that cut power to hundreds of thousands of residents and shut down main highways.

The thick blanket of snow at higher elevations across the ridges of the Appalachian Mountains, including in parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania, also brought concerns that rivers and creeks in low-lying areas could flood later in the week as the snow melts, with temperatures expected to reach 60 degrees. Falling trees and storm-related traffic accidents claimed the lives of three people in Maryland, three in Pennsylvania and one in West Virginia, state officials said Tuesday.

Close to 300,000 West Virginia residents were without power Tuesday afternoon, as high winds and heavy snow snapped branches and downed power lines, and officials expected the number to rise. Outages at several utilities had left some areas without access to water, and officials were sending out trucks to deliver bottled water.

“West Virginia continues to be hard hit,” said Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat. “Right now, my main focus is on life safety, power restoration and critical infrastructure.…We are doing everything we can to help the folks in need.”

More than 30 of West Virginia’s 55 counties had snow, with the heaviest snowfall at higher elevations, said Liz Sommerville, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Charleston, W.Va. Bowden, above 3,000 feet, recorded 24 inches by early Tuesday, compared with 16 inches in Beckley, elevation 2,300 feet, and 9 inches in the capital of Charleston, elevation 980 feet.

“Trees are coming down. I got a feeling that a lot of weaker structures are going to come down,” said Gary Berti, of Davis, W.Va., where 30 inches of snow had fallen by Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Berti, 54 years old, said all the stores along the main street of Davis were closed Tuesday and only pickup trucks with four-wheel drive were braving secondary roads. Restaurants without power were making food for rescue workers using gas stoves, he said: “They’re cooking everything they’ve got because they know they’re going to lose it.”

Snow was expected to keep falling on mountainous areas through Wednesday, and blizzard warnings remained in effect in more than a dozen counties Tuesday. At lower elevations, snow was expected to turn to rain by Tuesday night.

The West Virginia Department of Transportation reported accidents on three major highways in the state and said fallen trees and power lines were complicating efforts to clear roads. The agency urged residents to stay home. Marshall University canceled classes at various campuses around the state, and West Virginia State University closed for the day.

Western Maryland recorded two feet of snow, and blizzard warnings remained in effect Tuesday. While eastern areas of the state endured some flooding, officials were bracing for worse, said Ed McDonough, a spokesman for the Maryland Emergency Management Agency. More than 300,000 people in the state were without power Tuesday, with many outages in the Baltimore area. About 50 people were evacuated late Monday from the town of Crisfield, which sits on the Chesapeake Bay, after floodwaters spilled into homes.

In Pennsylvania, 1.25 million residents remained without power Tuesday. Gov. Tom Corbett warned that the central part of the state could see minor flooding, but far less than what storms last year brought to the region. The highest point in the state, Mount Davis, received 9 inches of snow, with several more inches expected. There is “nothing of major significance at this point in time that we have great concern about,” Gov. Corbett said at a midday news briefing.

Pennsylvania officials planned to have a shelter open in West Chester, Pa., to house 1,300 people from New Jersey, and another in East Stroudsburg, Pa., to aid 500 people displaced in New York. In addition, Pennsylvania officials were providing 35 ambulances and a large vehicle to transport people, as well as providing a rescue team requested by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to New Jersey.

—Jennifer Corbett Dooren contributed to this article.

Crossroads News : Changes In The World Around Us And Our Place In It

Environmental  :  Geo Engineering – Chemicals -

Permanent cloud-seeding gets green light

A plan to boost snowfall in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains has passed through State Parliament.

The Government announced last month that cloud seeding trials had proved successful and that it would seek to make the process permanent.

The Member for Monaro, John Barilaro, says the trial resulted in a 14 per-cent increase in snowfall.

He says the legislation will help safeguard the region’s ski industry

It ‘s great for tourism and great for the local economy,  Mr Barilaro said.

There are other benefits of course such as the alpine environment with the extra snow depth.

That will mean when the snow melts, there will be additional water for our river systems, for the dams, for the environment.

There  also another benefit about green energies through the hydro electric reduction that comes out of the snowy scheme.”

The State opposition has welcomed the cloud-seeding legislation.

The former Member for Monaro and Opposition spokesman for Primary Industries, Steve Whan, says the plan to increase snowfalls will boost water flows and snow cover.

I moved a small amendment which the government accepted to ensure that if there are different elements used as the chemicals that they would be properly tested,  he said.

â??Apart from that it went through very smoothly and I’m very pleased that this – initially a Labor initiative – is allowing cloud-seeding.

â??It has now turned into a permanent feature of the winter in the Snowy Mountains.”

- ABC

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