Kenneth Garger New York Post Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:47 UTC
The roof of an athletic dome in Binghamton — one of the largest in the state — collapsed Wednesday night as the area was pummeled with over three feet of snow.
Bahij Kashou, the owner of The Greater Binghamton Sports Complex, told WICZ the roof couldn't handle the reported 40 inches of snow that fell in the area.
"Usually, you know depending on how the snow comes, if it comes around two or three days it's different," Kashou said.
Pamela Gardner necn.com Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:21 UTC
This week's big storm dropped anywhere from 9 to 15 inches of snow across Greater Boston
The big winter storm continues to wind down this evening across New England, with some very impressive snow totals.
A whopping 44 inches of snow fell just 3 miles south of Ludlow, Vermont, at 1,800 foot elevation. Ludlow reports 41 inches at 1,500 feet, Windsor was the next highest total with 39 inches of snow, according to the fire department at 10:25 Thursday morning.
Times are changing. The mid-latitudes are cooling. The snowpack is building. Thanks, in no small part, to a slumbering Sun.
Record-busting snow buried the Northeast United States Wednesday and Thursday this week as a mass of brutal Arctic air rode south on the back of a weak and wavy "meridional" jet stream flow.
Centre County, Pennsylvania was overwhelmed Wednesday by more than a foot of unprecedented pow-pow.
State College was hit by 15 inches of global warming goodness, which broke the 24-hour December snowfall record by 2.5 inches in weather books dating back to 1893 (the previous record being the 12.5 inches set Dec. 11, 1992). In fact, more snow fell Wednesday than during the entire 2019-20 winter season.
Comment: The signs are coming faster and faster now.
Heavy rain has triggered floods and landslides in Samoa, in particular in areas around the capital of Apia.
Apria recorded around 85 mm of rain in 24 hours to 17 December. Media reported the Vaisigano river broke its banks. Flooding swamped roads, causing severe disruption to traffic in the city. The Disaster Management Office called for extreme caution as the heavy rain continued and urged residents of some low-lying areas to evacuate their homes.
Samoa's Public Service Commission advised all employees except for essential services employees to stay home.
Officials say 25 buildings were damaged, but no injuries had been reported in parts of northern Pinellas County after a possible tornado moved over the north part of the city Wednesday.
The Civil Defense of Santa Catarina reported that at least 11 people died, 10 in Presidente Getúlio and one in Ibirama, Santa Catarina, due to a heavy rain that hit the state as of Wednesday night (16 ).
The storm caused floods and landslides in cities in the Itajaí Valley. Until around 10 am, 20 people were missing.
There are also damage caused by rain in Greater Florianópolis and in the West of the State.
Access to Presidente Getúlio, a city with 14 thousand inhabitants and is about 80 kilometers from Blumenau, is blocked due to landslides.
More than three feet (more than a meter) of snow in many areas.
"Isn't it ironic that the US Northeast, home to so many AGW academic radicals, is being chastened by reality?"
- Bill Sellers
Tens of millions of Americans in Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states were blanketed with more snow in one dump than during the entire 2019-2020 season.
Large parts of the eastern United States woke this morning to more than 3 feet of snow as a major winter storm hit parts of New York and Pennsylvania, led to hundreds of accidents and travel disruptions, airport delays, power outages, and left at least four people dead.
Yuzawa Town is hit by heavy snowfall in Niigata Prefecture
Japan deployed the military on Thursday (Dec 17) to help residents trapped by record snowfall that has blanketed parts of the country, with 10,000 homes losing power in the north and west.
Prime minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency cabinet meeting and urged the public to be cautious, as local media reported more than 1,000 cars were stranded on an expressway connecting Tokyo to Niigata in the north.
Over 72 hours, a record 2.17 metres of snow fell in Minakami, Gunma prefecture, reports said, while Yuzawa in Niigata prefecture — famous for skiing — got a record 1.8 metres of snow on Thursday morning.
Pittsburgh has broken its record of snowfall for Dec. 16, according to the National Weather Service.
NWS meteorologist Jenna Lake said at about 8 p.m. Wednesday that the city has seen about 5 inches of snow so far, shattering the 1.9 inch record set on this day in 1890.
The area surrounding Pittsburgh has seen a few inches more, about 7 to 7.5 inches, because the city tends to be warmer, Ms. Lake said.
Ms. Lake also said that an additional 1-2 inches is expected from 8 p.m. until about midnight.
Adverse weather conditions have left 120 towns and villages in Chernihiv region without electricity, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports.
"As of 7 a.m. on December 16, bad weather conditions (wet snow, wind gusts) on December 15 into December 16 caused blackouts in 120 populated areas, reads the report.
Emergency teams of regional power distribution companies have started to conduct needed repairs to resume electricity supply.
As reported on December 15, bad weather left 234 towns and villages in 3 regions of Ukraine without electricity: Chernihiv region 204, Sumy region 23, and Kyiv region 7.
Comment: Record snowfall - More snow in parts of northeast US than all last season - over 3 feet in many areas