Robert W. Felix Ice Age Now Mon, 31 May 2021 12:55 UTC
For some reason, the adelaide.com headlined that it was the coldest May morning in Melbourne in 70 years. You have to read almost to the bottom of the article before finding that it was the coldest May morning in Adelaide since 1927.
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From adelaiade.com
It was a frosty morning across southeast Australia, with many inland places plunging well below zero and Adelaide dipping to 3.5C — the equal coldest May morning since 1927.
Meanwhile, Melbourne shivered through its coldest May morning in more than 70 years, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Sunday.
Temperatures fell to 1.7C, which is the lowest for the city since mid last century.
Robert W. Felix Ice Age Now Mon, 31 May 2021 12:28 UTC
Dozens - more likely hundreds - of cold records were broken or shattered on Saturday.
Many locations broke daily low temperature records, while others shattered lowest daily high temperature records.
Some of these records for lowest high temperature dated back to the 1800s.
For some reason unfathomable to me, AccuWeather forces you to muddle through several rambling unimportant paragraphs before you get to the heart of this story, which is:
Record cold across a huge expanse of the northern tier
Outdoor enthusiasts encouraged to always be prepared after weekend avalanche kills two near Jasper.
Two people are dead after a "slab avalanche" occurred Sunday morning near Jasper, Alta, according to Parks Canada. Officials said the avalanche happened on Mount Andromeda in the Columbia Icefield, a mountain known as a popular climbing destination.
Emergency services received reports of the avalanche at around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, and two people were found dead by the search and rescue teams that were dispatched.
It was a rainy start to Memorial Day weekend in Boston on Saturday — and a snowy one in part of Vermont.
The peak of Stratton Mountain was blanketed in heavy, wet snow overnight Friday into Saturday morning, canceling gondola rides, mountain biking, and yoga sessions at the Stratton Mountain Resort.
Snowfall during the spring isn't uncommon on the mountain, but late May is unusual.
Andrew Kimiecik, a marketing communications specialist for the resort, said a small storm hit the mountain during the first week of May last year.
"One out-of-place storm in May isn't always unusual, but to see one this late in the month is a pretty uncommon occurrence," Kimiecik said.
Located in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Zedo Mountain is an important geographical boundary with the mountainous area to its east and the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to its west.
The mountain is still covered by snow in late May when most part of the country has embraced summer.
Sneaky late-May wet snow in Ontario catches many by surprise
Many in southern Ontario were caught off guard Friday morning once they awoke to a frightening scene -- wet snow, freezing rain and ice pellets.
With temperatures hovering just above the freezing mark in parts of the region, a low-pressure system that tracked south of the province Friday morning helped usher in wet snow, freezing rain, ice pellets to parts of the region. Much of the frozen precipitation is falling in higher terrains in the south.
"This pattern of a ridge to the north and low tracking to the south of the Great Lakes is your typical pattern where you can get freezing rain and ice pellets. This setup would be quite normal in the winter," said Nadine Hinds-Powell, a meteorologist at The Weather Network.
"What is unusual though is that it is this late in spring and the cold air intrusion into the moisture is this far south in Ontario."
There were reports of ice pellets and large snowflakes less than 10 km northwest of Milton, Ont., on the escarpment, with a light dusting on some surfaces.
A Twitter post from a British meteorologist has gone viral after he detected "mind-boggling" temperatures within the Arctic Circle in Russia, where the thermometer last week hit 30°C, hotter than almost everywhere else in Europe.
Scott Duncan, a professional meteorologist based in London who designed the popular weather-forecasting website WXCHARTS, tweeted on May 19 that such temperatures are "truly exceptional for any time of the year," but even more shocking in the month of May.
"This part of the Arctic is 20-24°C hotter than average for this time of year," Duncan said.
It was another freezing start for many in the South today, with temperatures plunging to a bone-chilling -10C in some places.
Forecaster Niwa said Middlemarch, inland from Dunedin, hit -10.1C, which was provisionally New Zealand's lowest May temperature since 2001, excluding high-elevation locations.
The wintry conditions prompted warnings for road users, with gritted roads and freezing fog reported.
Dunedin Airport was also very cold, recording -8.4C, while inland Otago was sub-zero in most places. Further north, parts of the Mackenzie Basin were also hovering around -10C.
Nepal's Home Ministry has called for expedition agencies and tourism officials to make climbers return immediately from the mountains. For those high on Everest and Baruntse, returning is easier said than done.
While climbing permits are valid until the end of the month, the impact of Cyclone Yaas has prompted authorities to summon climbers down, the Everest News blog told ExplorersWeb. In fact, there may be little need for the official press release. On Everest, most teams at higher camps have switched their focus to getting down safely, in very tough conditions.
We still await news from Baruntse, where Marek Holecek and Radoslav Groh have been trapped after completing a new route. The exhausted pair, possibly without food or even fuel for melting water, are into their eighth day on the wall. Yesterday, they only managed to descend 100m. In Holecek's latest message, he said that they would attempt to descend during the night.
In the storm
Heavy snowfall will continue until Saturday. This is bad news for Holecek and Groh, as well as for those on Everest. Many climbers are weathering the storm in Camp 2 or trying to get down the mountain.
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