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Heavy snowfall landed overnight on stretches of the Ronda to San Pedro section of the A-397
Strong winds and snow have battered areas at higher altitude in Ronda and Madrid.
Pictures circulated today of early morning traffic grinding to a halt on the Ronda to San Pedro section of the A-397 thanks to a thick blanket of snow.
Comment: Late heavy snowfall also hit the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with France:
De la #neige aussi dans les #pyreneesorientales #catalunyanord #capcir #lesangles 📷 @LesAnglesSki pic.twitter.com/GvGDHKZW0J
— Météo Pyrénées (@Meteo_Pyrenees) March 16, 2020
❄️ #pasdelacasa #andorra 2513m -2 📷 @MeteoAnd_OECC @Meteo_Pyrenees pic.twitter.com/UMSz7plwgV
— Météo Pyrénées (@Meteo_Pyrenees) March 16, 2020
POURTALET 1800❄️
— Météo Pyrénées (@Meteo_Pyrenees) March 16, 2020
Le retour de la neige ce matin, entre Navarra et Andorra, en versants sud et fond de chaîne. 0 vers 1800m 📷 @hoteldupourtalet @meteopyrenees #pyreneesatlantiques #pyrenees #aragon #pirineos pic.twitter.com/BfNqrmXFMu
Btw ... I trust many of you already got this footage of "moving grounds" on their wazzaps 😎 pic.twitter.com/b71TrXU7gU
— Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 (@albcontact) March 16, 2020
So much for global warming.
When a zonal pattern traps cold air at the Pole, Alarmists shift their attention further south and write about spring being early in certain places, calling it "unprecedented". However when these winter patterns fall apart they sometimes hurl blobs of very cold air south, and mild winters can end with wild storms, as was the case on March 11-15, 1888.
Thanks to Caleb Shaw these links.
© Phil McCarten / Reuters
The earthquake was registered at 03:13 UTC. The epicentre was located 97 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of the village of Sola. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 178.8 kilometres (111 miles).
There have been no reports about possible casualties or destruction.
The entire Gurez Valley has been cut off from Kashmir since early November, 2019 due to exceptionally heavy snowfall, with snow-clearing efforts along the key Razdan Pass -which connects Bandipora to Kanzalwan- not expected to be completed until the end of April.
On March 14, the Dawar Battalion of Snow Leopard Brigade received a request from the civil administration to evacuate 160+ civilians stranded in the "cut-off" Gurez and Bandipora regions.
The operation lasted hours amid record-breaking snowfall, reports republicworld.com — and key to its success was the immediate medical support given to critically-ill patients suffering from the cold.
Saturday's evacuation of 160+ people came just days after March 8th's efforts to save 390+ stranded at Sela Pass in Tawang district, again due to record-breaking snowfall.
"The rescue operation was carried out at an altitude of 14,000 feet on the nights of March 7 and 8," Tezpur based Defence Spokesman Lt Col Harsh Wardhan Pande said. Those rescued were again provided with "immediate medical support" as well as "hot snacks".
India's record snowfall has contributed to the staggering accumulations across the Northern Hemisphere this season — levels are currently some 500+ gigatons above the 1982-2012 average:
© REUTERS / Njeri MwangiA swarm of desert locusts flying over a grazing land in Kenya.
The most devastating plague of locusts in over 30 years is about to hit Africa and the Middle East, according to Rome-based Senior Locust Forecasting Officer Keith Cressman.
The officer, who is employed by Locust Watch, a division of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization, on Monday cited the organization's most recent report forecasting that new "extremely alarming" swarms of the insects were forming in the Horn of Africa.
Comment: The unprecedented plague of locusts is just one of a number of effects likely related to our planet's increasingly erratic seasons and extreme weather patterns. We've already seen the damage early frosts, summer droughts and golf ball sized hail - to name but a few - can do to our food supply, but there are other equally disastrous knock on effects that may not be immediately apparent. And for an idea of just how some of these changes are affecting wildlife, a recent article Spring arriving earlier across the US throwing wildlife into disarray notes:
Warmer spring temperatures have also led beetles, moths and butterflies to emerge earlier than in recent years. Similarly, hibernating species like frogs and bears emerge from hibernation earlier in warm springs.All species don't respond to warming the same way. When species that depend on one another — such as pollinating insects and plants seeking pollination - don't respond similarly to changing conditions, populations suffer.See also:
In Japan, the spring-flowering ephemeral Corydalis ambigua produces fewer seeds than in previous decades because it now flowers earlier than when bumblebees, its primary pollinators, are active.
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© Ívar Kristjánsson
The Coastguard vessel Týr is arriving in Flateyri as a precaution, as the village is on avalanche alert; as is Patreksfjörður. Some residential properties in both communities have been evacuated as a precaution, and some industrial buidlings in Ísafjörður have been evacuated for the same reason.
According to the Icelandic Met Office, there has also been a strong easterly wind affecting the north and east, with significant precipitation in East Iceland. South Iceland has gentler southerly winds with scattered sleet and rain showers but plenty of sunshine in between.
© NASA WorldviewOn March 16, the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite took this image of Tropical Cyclone Herold and showed a well-developed hurricane with a visible eye.
Herold formed on 13 March 2020 as Tropical Cyclone 22S and was later renamed Herold once it had intensified into a tropical storm.
Heavy rain from the storm caused flooding in Sava and Analanjirofo Regions in Madagascar. At least 4 people are thought to have died.
Disaster authorities said initial assessments showed that over 3,000 people have been affected in the district of Maroantsetra in Analanjirofo Region and Sambava and Antalaha districts in Sava Region. Flood water reportedly reached up to 2 metres in some areas, damaging around 500 homes.
Comment: An appropriate question asked by one of the commentators (Neil Cooper) below the the video: