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Snowed in! Family opens front door to discover 9 foot wall of snow in Glenrinnes, Scotland

Chris MacLennan
The Press and Journal
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 13:10 UTC
The snow wall that greets the Robertson Family
© Laurie RobertsonThe snow wall that greets the Robertson Family
Usually, it's the neighbours that come knocking, however, a huge snow wall has formed outside the front door of this Moray family's home - completely blocking access.

The Robertsons from Glenrinnes have watched as snow crept closer towards their home over the last few days.

And now, after several heavy drifts, the family are now unable to use their front door.

Mum Laurie Robertson took to social media to share images of the entrance to her house completely blocked.

Mrs Robertson said: "We are up one of the back roads so if there is snow, more often than not its drifts if there is any wind.

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Avalanches leave 9 people dead in past week across U.S.

Jan Wesner Childs
The Weather Channel
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:25 UTC
Searchers dig a tunnel into 20 feet of snow that buried three victims after an avalanche in San Juan County, Colorado, on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.
© (San Juan County Office of Emergency ManagementSearchers dig a tunnel into 20 feet of snow that buried three victims after an avalanche in San Juan County, Colorado, on Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.
Nine people are dead after avalanches in four different states in the past week, highlighting the danger that comes during the peak of avalanche season and winter weather.

The latest incident happened Thursday in Colorado, where a backcountry skier was caught up in a slide near Vail.

Avalanches also killed three hikers Tuesday in Alaska, one skier Jan. 29 in Utah, three Monday in Colorado and one Tuesday in New Hampshire.

Ethan Greene, director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, said such incidents aren't out of the ordinary for this time of year but recent days have been especially lethal.

"What I think is less usual is the number of fatalities in a short period of time," Greene told weather.com Thursday.
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Eye 2

A sign of the coming times? Snowy owl seen in Central Park, New York after 130 years, a rare spotting of an 'unpredictable' Arctic bird

Ryan W. Miller
USA Today
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:29 UTC
A snowy owl was seen in Central Park in New York City on Jan. 27, 2021.
© REBECCA DEPORTEA snowy owl was seen in Central Park in New York City on Jan. 27, 2021.
Becky DePorte was about 45 minutes outside the city when she got the text from a friend last Wednesday: A snowy owl was in Central Park.

DePorte - an avid bird-watcher - was then unaware a sighting of the owl hadn't been reported in Central Park in 130 years. At the time, she was in Rockefeller State Park Preserve with a friend who was looking for a pileated woodpecker, a bird she had seen plenty of times growing up in rural Pennsylvania.

"I really didn't care about a pileated woodpecker," she said. So she hopped in an Uber, and "$60 and 45 minutes later, I was back in Central Park running to the ballfield with my camera."

"I was so happy" as she snapped photos of the bird, DePorte added. "It was the best, most unusual spotting I had had."


Comment: Read also: Historic Arctic blasts are about to engulf North America, Europe and Asia simultaneously: Grand Solar Minimum

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Snowflake

"Rare" snowfall hits Maui, Hawaii for fourth year in a row

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:01 UTC
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The summit district of Haleakalā National Park, Maui was closed on Feb. 3 and 4 due to rare wintry conditions and inches of snow, reports mauinow.com.

Rangers urged the public not to travel to the park, and closed both the road and entrance gate — locals were not permitted to see the snow or ice.


Comment: Snow covers the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii

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Avalanches claim the lives of 5 people within a week in the U.S.

Jackson Cote
MassLive
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:42 UTC
Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
© Robert F. BukatyMount Washington in New Hampshire.
Backcountry skiing proved to be a deadly activity for multiple people in the U.S. this week whose lives were taken in separate avalanches.

The body of a skier who had been missing for days was found underneath more than a dozen feet of snow Wednesday evening on a trail near Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the state's Fish and Game Department said in a statement.

In Colorado, three skiers died in an avalanche earlier in the week in an area called Mineral Creek near Silverton. They were publicly identified by the county and town of Eagle as Seth Bossung, Andy Jessen and Adam Palmer.


Comment: Another fatality occurred at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah:



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Attention

Major Arctic outbreak for Central and Eastern U.S

Robert Felix
Ice Age Info
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 01:54 UTC
Blizzard Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories effect from Iowa to the Great Lakes regions. "If you don't need to travel, please stay put," warns the NWS.

Blizzard warnings and temperatures 10-30 degrees below normal, and our government is foolishly fighting 'global warming'?
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A strong cold front moving across the central U.S. today will bring areas of freezing rain, snow, and strong winds to the Midwest through the Great Lakes, says the National Weather Service. Blizzard conditions are expected for north-central Iowa.
Iceage Coming
© Twitter
A major Arctic outbreak will filter into the central and eastern U.S. in the wake of this front with temperatures 10-30 degrees below normal from the northern Plains to the Mid-South.

Winter Storm Impacting the Midwest and Great Lakes.

Heavy snow for the U.P. of Michigan and western Lower Michigan into Saturday.
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Snowflake Cold

Historic Arctic blasts are about to engulf North America, Europe and Asia simultaneously: Grand Solar Minimum

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:35 UTC
Ice earth GSM

According to the satellites, the global lower troposphere cooled rapidly during the past two months (Dec + Jan). Mid-latitude cooling is only intensifying-further during February as record-breaking polar blasts are about to descend into North America, Europe, and Asia simultaneously:

Low solar activity is weakening the jet streams, reverting their usual tight ZONAL flows to unusually wavy MERIDIONAL ones. This reduction in energy is effectively "buckling" those bands of fast-flowing air, with the upshot (in the NH) being the transportation of tropical warmth anomalously-far north, and, conversely, the sinking of polar cold unusually-far south.

North America

Following the record cold and snow that recently buffeted the Northeast, Midwest, and West, North America is now on course for something widespread truly historic.

Comment: See also:

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U.S. coast to coast record-setting storm

Meredith Garofalo
Weather Nation
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:20 UTC
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Destructive mudslides, feet of snow, wind and waves collapsing houses along the shoreline — all part of a powerful storm system that brought impacts coast to coast to close out the first month of the year.

We start in California with a tale of two different types of precipitation. While it was much needed moisture for the Golden State, it also brought hazards for days from the mountains to the beaches. Some cities picked up more than a foot of rain, leading to flooding and mudslides. This prompted evacuations and even rescue missions in Monterey County.

At the same time, mountain snow in the Sierras began coming down at a very fast rate, with final storm totals between six to nine feet. The snow engulfed towns, snarled traffic, and even stranded those brave enough to be out on the roads. From there, the storm system tracked toward the Midwest, with snow amounts measuring more than a foot in some locations from Milwaukee to Chicago to Northwest Indiana.

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Snowflake

Snow covers the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Nael Hijjo
YouTube
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:46 UTC
SNOW
Deep snow covers the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on Friday. A Winter Storm Warning was in effect.

Mauna Kea (maunakea) is a volcanic mountain. Its peak is 4,207.3 m above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaiʻi.

Most of the volcano is underwater, and when measured from its underwater base, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world, measuring 10,211 m in height.

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Ice Cube

According to the satellites, Earth cooled rapidly during the past 2 months

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:23 UTC
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During the past two months, Earth has cooled, rapidly.

The Version 6.0 Global Average Lower Tropospheric Temperature (LT) Anomaly for January, 2021 has come out at just +0.12 deg. C above the baseline, down 0.03 deg. C from the December, 2020 value of +0.15 deg. C.

[NOTE: Dr Roy Spencer and Dr John Christy - who update the chart at the beginning of every month - have changed the 30-year averaging period used to compute anomalies from 1981-2010 to 1991-2020. They stress, "this change does not affect the temperature trends."]

Since 1979, NOAA satellites have been carrying instruments which measure the natural microwave thermal emissions from oxygen in the atmosphere.
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