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Snowflake

Up to 4 feet of snowfall thumps upstate New York (UPDATE)

Diane Rutherford
wwnytv.com
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:36 UTC
A Jeep is buried in snow in a town of Adams parking lot
© WWNYA Jeep is buried in snow in a town of Adams parking lot
The National Weather Service has cancelled the blizzard warning and has instead issued a lake effect snow warning.

The lake effect snow warning is in effect in Jefferson, Lewis and Oswego counties until 4 a.m. Saturday.

According to the NWS, 31.7 inches of snow fell in Watertown as of 3 p.m. Friday. In Carthage, a whopping 40 inches of snow was reported as of 4:40 p.m. Friday.

Additional snow accumulations of 6 to 11 inches are possible in the most persistent snowfall areas. Wind gusts are forecast to be as high as 30 miles per hour.

The lake shore flood warning remains in effect until 7 p.m. Friday.


Comment: Update: Newyorkupstate.com reports on 29th February:
Meteorologists were predicting up to 4 feet of snow could fall this week in a lake effect snowstorm that was intense even for Upstate New York.

Copenhagen, in Lewis County, had 44.2 inches of snow
© Kathy HanchekCopenhagen, in Lewis County, had 44.2 inches of snow
They were right: So far, Carthage, in Jefferson County, has measured exactly 48 inches of snow since the storm began Thursday. Copenhagen, in Lewis County, has measured 44.2 inches so far.

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© Kathy Hanchek

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© Kathy Hanchek
It's not over yet: A few more inches could fall today off Lake Ontario, the source of moisture for nearly all of this week's snow.

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© Kathy Hanchek
Western New York got hit hard, too, as strong west winds blew over Lake Erie. The southern Erie County town of Sardinia had 26.5 inches.




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Snowflake

Up to 73 cm (29 inches) of snow dumped in southern Ontario, Canada

Ian MacLennan
Barrie360.com
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:32 UTC
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Environment Canada got out the ruler and measured 53 cm of snow in Barrie as a result of the recent snow squall activity.

The tally came in around 9:30 Saturday morning.

The difference in snowfall from one place to the next shows how localized these squall events can be.

In Shanty Bay, a weather spotter reported 19 cm, while Phelpston, just south of Elmvale, recorded 39 cm.

The area around Flesherton was the most severely punished, with totals between 62 and 73 cm of snow.

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Doberman

Woman dies after attack by 2 pit bull terriers in Shreveport, Louisiana


Shreveport Times
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:45 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
A Shreveport woman attacked by two pit bull dogs late Thursday has been named by the Caddo Parish Coroner's office.

Geraldine Hamlin, 64, of the 2900 block of Seventh Street, in north Shreveport, was mauled in the incident that occurred around 10 p.m. at her residence. She was taken to Ochsner LSU Health hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries at 6:59 a.m. Friday.

An autopsy was scheduled at Ochsner.
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Cloud Grey

Record cold for summer in southern Brazil

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:44 UTC
FROST

End of February and frost formation in southern Brazil. The fourth summer frost in 2020.

The city of São Joaquim-SC, at the top of 'Serra Catarinense', registered a new frost record in the middle of February, and the fourth summer frost in 2020.

The measurement was made in 'Vale do Caminhos da Neve,' 3 km from the center of São Joaquim.

According to the Keizer Station Network, the low temperature in the municipality was 2ºC. However, the smallest state in Urupema was around 0.9ºC
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Cloud Grey

Moscow sees warmest winter since records began 140 years ago


RTE
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:00 UTC
Tourists walk at a holiday market
© Alexander Zemlianichenko/APTourists walk at a holiday market during Maslenitsa (Shrovetide) celebrations in front of the Historical Museum, left, and historical hotel Moscow on Revolution Square near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 25, 2020.
Moscow, which for the past months has largely been deprived of its traditional seasonal covering of snow, has seen its warmest winter since records began, Russia's state weather service has annoucned.

The head of Russia's forecasting centre Roman Vilfand told the TASS news agency that the average temperature in Russia from December to February has been 2.5C warmer than the previous record of -2.8C seen in the winter of 1960-1961.

He said such differences between records were extremely rare. Records began 140 years ago in Russia.

"I am sure that we are not going to see such a warm winter again for a long time," he said. He added that the winter record for Russia as a whole would also likely be beaten but said the data was still being compiled.

Comment: Cosmoslogical processes, indeed. Weather, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and much else besides, are regulated by cosmic ray flux and solar activity.

Don't get us wrong - something is going on, but 'greening the economy' isn't going to put a dent in it.

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Cloud Precipitation

New record for wettest February set as 90mph winds set to batter UK

Chiara Giordano, Jane Dalton
Independent (UK)
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 19:26 UTC
The River Taff in Cardiff.
© @rebecca_melenThe River Taff in Cardiff.
The UK has suffered its wettest February on record after three successive storms brought heavy downpours and flooding.

A UK average of 202.1mm has fallen this month, surpassing February 1990 when 193.4mm fell, the Met Office said.

Householders across the country were bracing themselves on Saturday night for further damaging high winds - of up to 90mph.

Some areas were deluged by more than a month's worth of rain in just 24 hours, as safety teams worked quickly to erect flood defences in vulnerable areas.
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Igloo

Drivers snowed in overnight on Iceland's Ring Road

Larissa Kyzer
Iceland Review
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 18:16 UTC
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Nearly a hundred and fifty people had to be rescued by ICE-SAR yesterday after their vehicles got snowed in on the Ring Road around the Eyjafjöll mountains and Jökulsá á Sólheimasandi glacial river in South and Southeast Iceland on Thursday night, RÚV reports.

The trouble started around 5pm on Thursday, when police in South Iceland were notified that a car had gotten stuck in the snow on the bridge over Jökulsá á Sólheimasandi glacial river, blocking all other traffic. By the time police arrived, many other vehicles had queued on either side of the bridge while heavy snow continued to fall. In the end, ICE-SAR had to transport passengers from 45 vehicles to temporary overnight accommodations, either at a hotel in Skógar or a shelter that the Red Cross opened in Heimaland.

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Cloud Precipitation

Widespread flooding after rivers overflow in Lorestan Province, Iran


Floodlist
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:59 UTC
Floods Iran
Flooding in Iran
Flooding in Lorestan Province in western Iran has left villages cut off and prompted flood rescues and evacuations.

Heavy rain that began around 24 February increased levels of rivers in the province, including the Khoram, Kashkan and Poldekhtar, according to media reports. Rain also triggered some landslides in hilly areas of the province.

Roads have been damaged or blocked by flooding and landslides, and several bridges have been destroyed, leaving numerous villages cut off, particularly in Kuhdasht County, according to Tasnim News Agency.

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Cloud Precipitation

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Does the locust plague signal a 2000 year shift in rainfall patterns?


Adapt 2030
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:31 UTC
A swarm of desert locusts
© FAO/Giampiero Diana
With the United Nation forecasting the current locust swarms to bump to 500X by June, this gives us a good indication that new grow zones are emerging across the planet in desert areas that were dry for millennia but are shifting back to a wetter climate based on an intensifying Super Grand Solar Minimum. The densest concentrations on the maps show where new grow zones are emerging where we could grow new crops to feed the planets population.


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Snowflake

Heavy snowfall in the Alps - up to a meter in 48 hours

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:38 UTC
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A major snowstorm is currently underway in the Alps.

Snowfall is widespread across the region but so far heaviest in the north and west.

The snow is still falling and new stats are arriving every few moments but so far amongst the biggest accumulations have been reported in France and Switzerland.

Crans Montana has reported the most snow - a metre in the past 48 hours, but it looks like more resorts will pass the metre mark by the weekend.

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