Unusually cold temperatures and record snow continued to hit the US well into February, blanketing large parts of the territory.
Winter Storm Shirley impacted the Deep and Upland South and Ohio Valley. In Texas, main roads were blocked, more than 4 million households were without power, and as many as 10 million were left without tap water. It was the costliest natural disaster in the recorded history of the state.
Basic infrastructure was affected as it proved ill-prepared for such a sudden drop in temperatures. "Green energy" also proved to be quite useless in such emergencies with frozen wind turbines and unusable solar panels covered in snow. Is this a glimpse of what may occur in other countries?
Major power outages were also reported in Chihuahua, Mexico, as the same weather system affected northern parts of Mexico and its "green energy" output.
The storm also caused icy precipitation across the Mid-Atlantic states causing over 212,000 power outages and killing at least 12 people.
Freezing rain also left roads, power lines, and trees covered in ice in the North-Western Portland-Oregon, region, and left more than 270,000 people without power. A total of 11.1 inches of snow also fell in Seattle in the middle of the month, making it the snowiest day in Seattle in 52 years.
But the US was not the only country with rare snow and extreme cold events this February. Moscow had its heaviest snowfall in 100 years, with a month's worth of snow falling in just two days. And another snowstorm hit Crimea, forcing the closing of the Crimean Bridge for the first time.
Further south, after a period of unseasonably warm weather across the country, the cold front "Medea" brought frigid temperatures and snow to northern Greece.
A strong winter storm also battered northern Japan coastal regions, ripping off roofs, flooding homes and disrupting transport.
It should be noted that Scotland, Italy, Libya, and Kazakhstan also experienced extreme cold and snowfall this past month.
We continue to read month after month about record-breaking cold and snow, longer winters, increased precipitation, and while climate is a complex matter, and there have been anomalous record heat waves in some countries from time to time, when we consider the numbers, increasingly cold temperatures and heavier snowfalls predominate. The evidence suggests that a new ice age is settling in.
As part of this shift, weather chaos is also part of the picture. Heavy rain and floods continued to disrupt normal life around the world. Raging floods displaced 60,000 in Java Island, 30,000 in Greater Jakarta Region, and affected 90,000 in Semarang City, Indonesia.
South Wales was slammed by a month's worth of rain in 24 hours, while in France, rivers across the country burst banks as Storm Justine dumped half a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
A 7.3-magnitude quake struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan. The quake came nearly a decade after an earthquake and tsunami killed over 18,000 people.
One thing is sure, it's becoming increasingly clear that humans are not in control of what's going on out there.
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Reader Comments
So much for the Global Warming Scam, it makes a mockery of the science and predictors, when looking at the effect on a global scale. This is not Global Warming, for anyone with eyes to see, the earth is/ has entered a global cooling, and also the hypothesis, that the human psyche, has a role to play in the catastrophic events occurring on the World at this time.
Just my thought.
Real science is hard to find, due to $$$ ties. But there are real ones out there. I recommend paulbeckwith.net for starters. Guy McPherson, Peter Carter, Paul Wadhams are a few others who come to mind, sans puppet masters.
The GSM is a tiny blip on the radar compared to the gigatons of CO2 we've been pumping out since at least 1750, exploding exponentially in the past decade. The O2 bonds on the CO2 vibrate and send infrared radiation back to earth. Anyone serious needs to read Energy for Survival: An Alternative to Extinction, circa late seventies, by the late, brilliant Wilson Clark and colleagues. Book snuffed by large fossil fuel goons, and Clark killed in a CIA type car accident. Used copies are still around. As we rapidly melt the Arctic, the jet streams slow, meander, and stop, they wreak havoc with the five major bread baskets of the planet, as farmers well know.
I'd LOVE nothing more than to be dead wrong. Daniel Geery, aka Daphne (our deceased Goldendoodle).
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As always, eager and anxious to be wrong!
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Hope the Scaremongers - Scientists & Politicians can get it together as I still remember the National Geographic articles of “the coming ice age”. Now we had the Global warming scare, so do hope they come up with proper facts & modelling eventually instead of making current young children depressed and suicidal of what is now termed "climate change" expressed in their art work .... Maybe the Weather is just the weather and not to freak out.For those that believe in the Co2 agenda why do you support the destruction of Western manufacturing just to make in China which has unlimited pollution allowance?Hypocrisy at it’s finest.