Earth Changes
Footage shared by Amarillo-based meteorologist Corbin A Voges shows the snowy conditions on Wednesday morning.
"Crazy weather! We made it to 76° yesterday afternoon and we are accumulating snow just 15 hours later!" Voges wrote in a tweet.
The NWS reported downed power lines and stranded cars on highways as near-whiteout conditions struck some areas.
Around 4 pm Wednesday, the tornado hit causing damage to the area. Choctaw County Sheriff Scott Lolley reported there are no deaths or injuries from the tornado but there are a lot of trees and roof damage on the South end of the city.
Medford Taylor a resident of Silas talked about when the storm came through his back yard.
"The wind got pretty strong," Taylor said. "I was in the house by myself watching out the back window and saw it come through the backyard. It didn't hurt the house that much, but it tore all my trees down."
Five homes in the Silas area have reported damage so far.
Matt Eichelberger, who captured the footage, told Storyful that his encounter with the meteorological phenomenon occurred on March 16 during a trip to Big Sky, Montana.
Credit: Matt Eichelberger via Storyful
The storm's winds reached upwards of 60 mph in East-Central El Paso, where the weather station at the El Paso International Airport recorded a high of 64 mph gusts, according to Joe Delizio, a meteorologist with National Weather Service El Paso.
"Inside the city, but a little bit to the east, we had stronger winds," Delizio said, explaining there were wind gusts "in the 60s and 70s east of the mountain range."
The avalanche happened in the Flassin area, in the Gran San Bernardo Valley, about 1,800 metres up.
The victim was going down a gully with a companion who witnessed the accident.
There was another group of three skiers in the vicinity who were not hit by the avalanche.
Tongai Gandiwa (32), Stewart Phiri (23) and Shadreck Bvudzijena (age unknown) struck while sitting under a tree and where pronounced dead on arrival at Kenzamba clinic.
Tongai's brother, Shine (30) who sustained serious burns was taken to the same clinic where he was treated.
This anomaly is likely the result of human-caused climate change and associated shifts in the jet stream. The results are reported in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Comment: The multitude of unexpected events and changes that we're witnessing on earth and throughout our solar system clearly shows these climate extremes are part of a much bigger shift, and that the drivers are much greater than CO2: Cosmic climate change: Is the cause of all this extreme weather to be found in outer space?
Recent summer droughts and heatwaves in Europe have had devastating ecological and economic consequences, which will worsen as the global climate continues to warm.
Comment: Except the climate, overall, is cooling: Global cooling to replace warming trend that started 4,000 years ago - Chinese scientists
Comment: Note that our planet is not only suffering extreme droughts, extreme flooding is also on the rise, and research shows that both of these patterns have occurred before, and it would appear that they're part of a cycle that is linked to ice ages; however, as revealed in the article, it would appear that, this time, it may be even more severe:
- Cyclical climate change: Major drought in the Middle Ages and its parallels with today
- Highest flooding in Europe for 500 years, historical records show correlation with abnormal cold
- Melting icebergs key feature of an ice age, scientists find
- Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium, last significant decline recorded during the little ice age
- NASA: Recent "Greening Earth" has had strong cooling effect on land
- MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
Comment: As the Sahara Desert shrinks by a whopping 8%, since 2015 Europe is suffering the worst droughts in two thousand years.