It's known for being one of the snowiest spots in Colorado and this year is no exception. In 48 hours the Wolf Creek Ski Area picked up 26 inches of new snow thanks to back-to-back storm systems over the weekend.
The storm brought the total for the season at Wolf Creek to 122 inches, making it the first resort in Colorado and one of the first in the United States to surpass the 100-inch mark. Jackson Hole checked in Sunday morning with a total of 123 inches so far this season.
The Saturday snowstorm put down a solid blanket of snow across the northern half of Lower Michigan and a sliver of the eastern U.P. Here are the snowfall totals.
Snowfall totals for December 11-12, 2020
You had to be around and north of Big Rapids, Mount Pleasant and Gladwin to get several inches of snow. The large area of northern Lower shaded yellow or orange had over six inches of snow. The small darker orange spot near Alpena had over one foot of snow.
The southern half of Lower Michigan and most of the U.P. didn't get in on the snowstorm, as expected.
A low-pressure trough off the coast of south east Australia caused a wild weekend of weather for south east Queensland and northern New South Wales with torrential rain, damaging winds, abnormally high tides and dangerous surf.
Flood warnings are in place in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW) after heavy rainfall. In a 72 hour period to 14 December, 738 mm of rain fell in Upper Springbrook in Queensland, including 323mm in 6 hours overnight, 12 to 13 December. In NSW the highest rainfall totals were seen in Burringar with 424 mm in 72 hours.
NSW State Emergency Service (NSW SES) said areas of Northern Rivers and parts of Mid North Coast and Northern Tablelands Districts were among the worst affected. NSW SES said they had received 900 calls for assistance and carried out 4 flood rescue operations.
At least 2 people are missing after flash floods in Izmir Province, western Turkey.
Flooding struck between 13 and 14 December 2020. A stream overflowed, flooding roads in Dereköy in Menderes district, sweeping away a vehicle carrying 5 people. Three managed to survive, while 2 others are thought to be still missing. Search and rescue operations are ongoing.
Turkish State Meteorological Service reported 42.1mm of rain in the town of Menderes in 24 hours to 14 December. In Karabağlar, situated about 10 km to the north, 77.3 mm of rain fell during the same period. Elsewhere in the province, 147mm of rain fell in Urla and 103.4mm in Karaburun. Heavy rain was also reported in parts of Muğla and Antalya provinces during the same period.
For the second successive day, on Sunday, dozens of far-flung and remote villages, including border towns of Keran, Karnah, and Tanghdar, remained cut off due to accumulation of snow and slippery road conditions in north Kashmir, reported a news agency, United News of India (UNI).
Meanwhile, due to the accumulation of about two to three feet of snow since 8 December, traffic to border towns of Gurez in Bandipora and Machil in Kupwara remained suspended.
"Traffic remained suspended to dozens of far-flung and remote villages, including Kernah, Keran, and Tanghdar, due to slippery road conditions and accumulation of snow," an unnamed official of Police Control Room (PCR), Kupwara, told UNI over phone on Sunday.
Two members of the same family were killed by lightning in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.
A survivor of the lightning strike in Nongoma, 300km north of Durban, was taken to hospital, co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Sipho Hlomuka said on Saturday.
Hlomuka issued a statement in which he sent condolences to the Buthelezi family and said disaster management officials had been asked to support survivors.
Looking at Summer snow in Tasmania, 11 foot snowfalls in Europe, sunspot anomalies, the changes or an age or geoengineering, so many changes are happening, I wonder which is the most responsible for the shifts in the world we are seeing.
A waterspout formed near Bynoe Harbour in Australia's Northern Territory on Tuesday, December 8, as local Mark Hay was returning from an outing on the water.
Hay said he and his companions were "dodging a storm" when they spotted the waterspout.
"It got a lot bigger as we [came] around the top end of an island in Bynoe Harbour," he told Storyful. "So we stopped to take pictures and it just kept growing bigger then moments later it disappeared."
A FREAK weather event that caused severe damage in the Victorian city of Horsham has been confirmed as a tornado.
Preliminary investigations confirmed a short lived, but fierce storm hit a narrow swathe of the northern suburbs of the city.
Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Diana Eadie said it had been classified as an EF1 event, which means top wind speeds of between 138 and 177kph.
The State Emergency Service (SES) reported close to 100 requests for assistance, with 76 calls for property damage, around 12am to 1am Monday morning., with most of the damage in a narrow band 400 metres wide.
Ms Eadie said the entire event took place in around a minute.
Temperatures dropped in upper areas of Diamer district in Gilgit-Baltistan region to intense cold after sporadic snowfall for last two days, ARY News reported on Wednesday.
Mercury dropped to minus-21 Celsius at Nanga Parbat base camp, according to a weather report.
Babusar Top, Nanga Parbat base camp and Fairy Meadows have received heavy rainfall, according to weather report. Battugah Top and adjoining areas have also received snowfall on mountains.
Babusar Top and Battugah Top have received over four feet snowfall in the snow spell.
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