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Worst snowstorm in decades hits Japan: Eleven dead


Yahoo News
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:35 UTC
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People hold umbrellas as they walk on the street covered with snow in Tokyo. At least 27 cm accumulated, the highest snowfall in the capital since 1969.
Eleven people died, more than a thousand were injured and tens of thousands lost power when the worst snowstorm in decades hit Tokyo and areas around the Japanese capital before heading north to blanket the tsunami-hit Pacific coast.

Flights were still backed up at Tokyo's Haneda international airport on Monday and the lobby was packed with anxious travelers, with some flights overbooked.

As much as 27 cm (10.6 inches) of snow fell on Tokyo by late Saturday, the most in 45 years, Japan's Meteorological Agency said. Back streets in outlying neighborhoods remained choked with snow and frozen slush on Monday morning, forcing commuters in heavy boots to pick their way carefully to work.
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Professor Matthew 'say anything' England's past bad climate science

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:26 UTC
global warming debate
© Michael Ramirez
Readers of course recall the latest claim in a series of excuses about "the pause" in global warming with the new paper from Professor Mathew England of the University of New South Wales (home of the award winning Chris Turney "ship of fools") that is getting media attention, where he concedes there has indeed been a pause, and offers "trade winds" as the explanation. But if there was a pause in "climate change" , why then back in 2011 did he blame it for flooding?
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As wildfires break out in Alaska and Oregon, Georgia declares state of emergency due to continuing snowfall


Press TV
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:46 UTC
Georgia state of emergency
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Georgia has declared state of emergency as a new winter storm is looming over the area two weeks after a rare storm paralyzed the state and wreaked havoc on roads and residents.

Gov. Nathan Deal extended the previous number of central and northern Georgia counties under a state of emergency to 45, after the National Weather Service warned of the upcoming storm, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Dean was publicly embarrassed for what critics called a lackluster response to the Georgia's snow gridlock on January 28.

The situation was compared to "end of the world" scenarios as Atlanta and other areas were covered by 2.6 inches of snow and ice. Thousands of motorists were stranded on the road.

Comment: Wildfire warning issued for Alaska - apparently freeze-dried vegetation can 'spontaneously combust'

More winter wildfire weirdness as forest fires break out in Oregon

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Black snow falls in Siberian city


RIA Novosti
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:36 UTC
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© RIA Novosti. Andrey Lebedev
Black Snow Falls in Siberian City
Black snow covered the ground in a city in Siberia Sunday, raising concerns among local residents, Russia's environmental watchdog said.

This is not the first time that oddly-colored snow has fallen in the West Siberian city of Omsk.

Black snow appeared in the region last winter twice in December and was likely caused by a local thermal power station, TPP-5, that was working at overload capacity, Rosprirodnadzor said.
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© RIA Novosti. Andrey Lebedev
Black Snow Falls in Siberian City
"Work is underway. According to preliminary reports, this is again TPP-5 that has dumped ash. By Monday, the samples will be examined," a spokesman for the watchdog said.
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Cloud Precipitation

UK floods: Swollen Thames threatens thousands of homes


BBC News
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:45 UTC
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In Datchet the Thames has flooded the village
Thousands of homes along the River Thames are threatened with flooding as water levels continue to rise.

Fourteen severe flood warnings are in place in Berkshire and Surrey, while two remain in Somerset.

Amid criticism of Environment Agency head Lord Smith, PM David Cameron - who is in flood-hit Dorset - said it was not the time to change personnel.
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Snowflake Cold

The Ice Age Cometh! Snow set to hit the South AGAIN as big freeze goes on in the North East


The Daily Mail
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:26 UTC
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Here we go again: Snow falls at the Lincoln Center in New York during Fashion Week on Sunday night
Another round of snow and ice dubbed 'Winter Storm Pax' is expected to coat Atlanta and other parts of the Deep South this week.

Less than two weeks after some southern cities were crippled by a couple of inches of snow, forecasters have issued another winter storm watch for the Georgia area.

With forecasters predicting snow, sleet and freezing rain for parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and possibly north Texas on Monday, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has begun to treat priority roads and bridges to avoid another ice storm fiasco.

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal was forced to apologize for the state's poor handling of last month's snow storm, which left hundreds of children stranded in schools overnight, some without provisions, and created traffic jams stretching for miles on roads coated with just two inches of snow.

According to The Weather Channel the next swathe of southern snow will kick off on Monday morning, as a stripe of wet conditions develop in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and possibly extreme north Texas. It will then spread eastward into the Mid-South region.
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Latest global warming hoot: The 'missing' heat was blown into the depths of the oceans by the wind!

Oliver Milman
The Guardian
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:23 UTC
Study shows sharply accelerating trade winds have buried surface heat underwater, reducing heat flowing into atmosphere

The contentious "pause" in global warming over the past decade is largely due to unusually strong trade winds in the Pacific ocean that have buried surface heat deep underwater, new research has found.

A joint Australian and US study analysed why the rise in the Earth's global average surface temperature has slowed since 2001, after rapidly increasing from the 1970s.

The research shows that sharply accelerating trade winds in central and eastern areas of the Pacific have driven warm surface water to the ocean's depths, reducing the amount of heat that flows into the atmosphere.

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In turn, the lowering of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific triggers further cooling in other regions.

Comment: In the end, this article isn't completely retarded: the increased wind speeds/intensity discovery is an interesting discovery.

But this vehement belief that Earth Changes MUST be 'man-made' causes them to miss the obvious and interpret their data in the most bizarre ways.

The ocean deeps are not warming because the wind is blowing the heat down there; they're warming because they're heating up FROM BELOW:

Volcanic eruptions, rising CO2, boiling oceans, and why man-made global warming is not even wrong

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Snowflake Cold

Heavy snowfall in south China kills livestock, destroys homes

Xu Wei and Wen Xinzheng
Jakarta Post
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:04 UTC
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© Xinhua
Passengers board a bus in the snow in Zhengzhou, Henan province.
Snowstorms moved further south on Sunday, battering parts of Central and East China, delaying flights and forcing road closures, as forecasters warned rain and snow will continue in those areas this week.

Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces were among the areas hardest hit, as dozens of flights were delayed and several highways closed.

Snowfall in those areas is expected to continue through Monday afternoon.

Comment: Meanwhile, wildfires rage in Tibet, Norway and Alaska...

Many Tibetan monasteries and famous sites destroyed this winter by mysterious 'wildfires'

Wildfire warning issued for Alaska - apparently freeze-dried vegetation can 'spontaneously combust'

Third 'winter wildfire' breaks out in Norway - Second in two days - What is going ON?!

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Cloud Precipitation

California drought granted respite with series of storms

Rory Carroll
The Guardian
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:36 UTC
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© Jeff Chiu/AP
A woman carries an umbrella as she crosses the street with lanterns in Chinatown, San Francisco.
Rain prompted fire officials to lift ban on outdoor open burning in parts of state, but they warned of continued risk of wildfires

A series of storms has drenched California and even heavier rains are expected this weekend, promising a fleeting respite from the state's devastating drought.

Bay area mountains were expected to receive 152mm (six inches) of rain and the northern sierras two feet of snow, a welcome deluge after the driest winter on record.

A ridge of high pressure that has hovered over the west coast for months, blocking normal weather patterns, eased and allowed a weather system to break through, dumping rain across swathes of California on Thursday and Friday. Bigger weather systems were expected to follow in the next few days, bringing even heavier rain.

"Current satellite imagery depicts the early stages of what promises to be a significant precipitation event over the weekend," said the California Weather blog. "'Heavy' and 'rain' are not words that have been used in the same sentence for a long time here in California."

Areas with 20% normal rain levels since last July, the start of the season, could see that jump to 40% by Monday, said Jan Null, a meteorologist with the Golden Gate Weather Services. "It's a lot, but there is such a big deficit to make up. What we need - and I don't know if we'll get it - is half a dozen such weekends like the one we're going to get."
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UK storms: While some FLY in 80 mph winds, others wade through murky water to salvage what little they have left (amazing photos)

Jill Reilly and Wills Robinson
The Daily Mail
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:34 UTC
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Neighbourhood: Rows of houses in the village of Moorland have been flooded following the heavy rain.
  • Heavy rainfall of up to an inch forecast, threatening more havoc around already overflowing rivers
  • Storms are expected to be at least as severe as last week which causes chaos across southern England
  • The Environment Agency has issued more than 500 flood warnings and alerts, three of which pose 'a danger to life'
  • The body is facing fresh anger after a senior official hailed its performance during the storms as a 'success story'
  • Ministry of Defence has put 1,600 personnel on standby to assist in southern England if needed
  • The Environment Agency say there is a significant risk of further flooding throughout Devon and Cornwall
  • Flooding has now spread to the Home Counties - Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Hampshire
  • Calmer conditions and some respite today and tomorrow, but 'deep depression' is likely early hours of Tuesday
  • Much of Somerset has been underwater since December and there is more bad weather coming
  • Records show that England faced the wettest January since 1766
Devastating storms continued to cause misery in Britain yesterday, forcing hundreds of people to be evacuated from their homes, while forecasters warned the bad weather could continue into next week.

But the Environment Agency provoked anger last night after claiming their response to the widespread flooding had been a 'success story', despite thousands of properties being ruined by the rising water levels.

Director of operations David Jordan told a press briefing that the 5,000 homes flooded during the winter storms were 'individual tragedies'.
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