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British Columbia storm pounds province with snow, rain, smashing records - up to 74 cms (29 inches) of snowfall in 24 hours

Amy Judd
Global News
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:48 UTC
Athlete Mark Abma, captured on Whistler, after the early January snowfall.
© Eric Berger/Whistler Blackcomb
Athlete Mark Abma, captured on Whistler, after the early January snowfall.
The storm that moved across B.C. over the past 72 hours has left many areas of the province cleaning up on Friday.

No weather alerts remain in place for the province but parts of Vancouver Island remain under high streamflow advisories.

The Englishman River and Little Qualicum River on Vancouver Island were under a flood watch following the downpour but Friday afternoon it was downgraded to a high streamflow advisory.

High stream advisories remain in place for part of Vancouver Island, the North Shore, Fraser Valley, Howe Sound and Sunshine Coast.

From 8 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 2, to 9 a.m., Friday, Jan. 4, many areas of B.C. saw a huge dumping of snow.

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Strong winds, heavy snowfall hit parts of Poland


Radio Poland
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:39 UTC
PAP/Darek Delmanowicz

PAP/Darek Delmanowicz
Firefighters were called out more than 800 times after strong winds and heavy snowfall hit parts of Poland on Wednesday, a spokesman has said.

High winds lashed the country's northern regions, while snow paralysed much of southern Poland, Paweł Frątczak, a spokesman for the State Fire Service, said on Thursday morning.

Firefighters were kept busy removing fallen trees and securing buildings against flooding amid rising water levels in some areas in the northern part of the country.

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Heavy snow hits Slovakia


Bloomberg
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:15 UTC
heavy snow
HEAVY SNOW: Slovakia is blanketed by snow as temperatures drop to 14 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Heavy snowfall disrupts life in Kashmir - up to 3 feet measured

Peerzada Arshad Hamid
Xinhua
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:04 UTC
Heavy snowfall cuts off Kashmir

Heavy snowfall cuts off Kashmir
Normal life in Indian-controlled Kashmir was Saturday disrupted by heavy snowfall that lashed the region, officials said.

Local government officials at mechanical engineering department said Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, received around 12 inches of snow, disrupting traffic on roads and causing power outage.

Likewise, Qazigund recorded 11 inches, Pahalgam 16 inches and Kupwara 17 inches of snow, officials said.

The snowfall has cut both surface as well as aerial connectivity to Srinagar.

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Tropical Storm Pabuk, a once in three-decades weather system, batters Thailand coast


The Guardian
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 05:17 UTC
tropical storm Pabuk
© Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images
A fallen tree in the aftermath of tropical storm Pabuk in the southern Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Saturday.


Nearly 30,000 people are forced into emergency shelters as the waning weather system skirts Koh Samui

Floods and blackouts caused by Tropical Storm Pabuk have left nearly 30,000 people in evacuation shelters across southern Thailand, but tourists stranded on holiday islands were spared the worst and began to plot routes home.

Pabuk, a once in three-decades weather system, packed winds of up to 75km (45 miles) an hour and brought heavy rains and storm surges as it lashed the entire south of the kingdom on Friday, downing power cables and causing widespread flooding.

A fisherman died in southern Pattani province early on Friday as high waves smashed into his boat and another crew member was reported missing.

But the storm tacked away from the key tourist islands of Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao where large numbers of holidaymakers hunkered down for 24 hours in heavy rains, unable to leave as airports closed and ferry services were cancelled.

"There were no casualties, there is some sunshine today and I'm confident some tourists will be able to leave today as ferries and flights resume," Kittipop Roddon, Koh Samui district chief said.

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Researchers find depths of Pacific Ocean cooling, possibly linked to Little Ice Age

Bob Yirka
Phys.org
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 00:08 UTC
pacific
© Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Cold waters that sank in polar regions hundreds of years ago during the Little Ice Age are still impacting deep Pacific Ocean temperature trends. While the deep Pacific temperature trends are small, they represent a large amount of energy in the Earth system.
A pair of researchers, one with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the other Harvard University, has found evidence of deep ocean cooling that is likely due to the Little Ice Age. In their paper published in the journal Science, Jake Gebbie and Peter Huybers describe their study of Pacific Ocean temperatures over the past 150 years and what they found.

Prior research has suggested that it takes a very long time for water in the Pacific Ocean to circulate down to its lowest depths. This is because it is replenished only from the south, which means it takes a very long time for water on the surface to make its way to the bottom-perhaps as long as several hundred years. That is what Gebbie and Huber found back in 2012. That got them to thinking that water temperature at the bottom of the Pacific could offer a hint of what surface temperatures were like hundreds of years ago.

Comment: It seems our planet never really recovered its former temperate glory following the medieval warm period because, by most metrics, the climate has returned to cooling. It's also notable that the Atlantic Ocean circulation system is at its weakest in 1000 years with a quadrupling of dead zones.

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10,500 tons of spilled coal in the Ohio River: How it affects the environment & drinking water

Billy Kobin
Courier Journal
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:24 UTC
Barges stuck in river
After seven barges carrying coal sank recently in the Ohio River near downtown Louisville, many are wondering: How will this affect the river and our drinking water?

The U.S. Coast Guard is working with the Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Towing, the company that owns the vessel that was pushing the barges, to recover the sunken barges as well as the two others that are still stuck on the river.

As recovery work continues, here is what we know about the presence of coal in the Ohio River and potential environmental concerns following the incident:

Is my drinking water safe?

The spill is not expected to affect Louisville's drinking water.
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Up to 7 feet of snow in 7 days hits Austria and the eastern Alps

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:00 UTC
snow beard
Ski areas in Austria have reported huge snowfalls over the past week with the ski area of Tauplitzalm in Styria claiming 210cm (7 feet) of snowfall in that period.

Other big accumulations have been reported by the Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn with 150cm (five feet), resorts around Innsbruck with up to 1.2m (four feet) and the Hintertux glacier with 110cm (3.7 feet).

The problem of warm temperatures causing rain at lower elevations seems to have eased too with Saalbach saying its resort-level snow has jumped from zero to 90cm in the past week or so.

St Anton, with 70cm of fresh snow, has moved up to equal Solden for the deepest reported base in the country at 3.3m (11 feet).

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Much of Greece covered in blanket of snow

Tasos Kokkinidis
Greek Reporter
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 12:16 UTC
snow greece
Many regions throughout Greece will see snowfall on Thursday, even in relatively low-lying areas, as part of the phenomena caused by the "Sophia" weather system.

According to the latest forecast by the National Observatory of Athens' Meteo service, snowfall will be especially heavy Thursday (today) and Friday. It is already snowing throughout the prefectures of Macedonia, Ioannina, Trikala and Larissa, and tire chains are required on several roads.

Snow is also expected in Greece's second-largest city of Thessaloniki as well and even the northern suburbs of Athens will see snow in the evening.

"Sophia" will bring very low temperatures, as a mass of cold air from the north sweeps through the country. Temperatures will drop several degrees below zero Celsius overnight into Friday and Saturday, especially in central and northern Greece.

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Black Cat

Unusual animal behaviour: 5 dogs attacked by lynx in Inuvik, Canada since late November

MaMackenzie Scott
CBC News
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 11:53 UTC
A local wildlife official says the lynx attacks
© David Zalubowski/Associated Press
A local wildlife official says the lynx attacks in Inuvik are surprising.
'I have never seen a lynx do this,' says renewable resources officer

Lynx have attacked five dogs in Inuvik since late November, a trend the local wildlife official says is surprising.

"I've been in Inuvik for 10 years and I've been a wildlife officer for 17, and I have never seen a lynx do this," said Toby Halle, a renewable resources officer in Inuvik.

Halle said a local trapped a lynx on Tuesday. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources received a call about another lynx altercation with a dog on Wednesday morning.
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