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© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters3 killed as ‘historic’ snowstorm blasts Midwest US
The storm front swept across the Midwest this weekend, leaving large swathes of the region blanketed in snow. The city of St. Paul in Minnesota was forced to declare a snow emergency, while nearby Minneapolis is predicted to receive more than 50 centimeters of snow by the time the storm passes through the region.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, which serves the two cities, was forced to cancel nearly 500 flights. Airport officials said the snow was falling too fast for plows to keep runways clear. Hundreds of crashes were reported across the state. Some 300 thousand houses were without electricity.
© Todd and Brad Reed Photography)These photos of the Ludington North Breakwater were taken just 10 minutes apart by Ludington photographer Todd Reed on Friday, April 13.
MLive Meteorologist Mark Torregrossa reports that a quick rise in water level known as a seiche caused the lake to rise 13.9 inches in just 42 minutes around 12:30 p.m. on Friday, April 13.
Photos captured by Ludington-based photographer Todd Reed provide evidence of just how dramatic the phenomenon also known as a "Great Lakes meteotsunami" was.
Thunderstorm induced seiche causes Lake Michigan to rise over foot in less than hour
Docks were damaged as the water level rose quickly.
The first photo taken around the time of the seiche shows the Ludington North Breakwater almost completely covered by water.
"The water was as high as (I) had seen since Nov. 10, 1975, the day the freighter Edmond Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior. Water was also flooding the beach and the end of Ludington Avenue," Reed said in an email.
© Joe NelsonThe scene at Cedar Avenue in Richfield.
The snow will continue to fall throughout the day Sunday, producing another 2 to 5 inches of snow in the Metro, according to WCCO Meteorologist Matt Brickman. The snow will be light throughout the morning hours, producing heavier snowfall as the day goes on.
That is, of course, on top of an already historic snowfall. Brickman says it's already the biggest April snow event in history, and after Sunday's snow, it could even crack the top 20 biggest Twin Cities snowstorms ever.
Streets were most deserted during Saturday's snowstorm, but not everyone stayed home.
Well, according to the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, the day has been magnified by the trifecta of records broken by today's snowfall of 13.1 inches as of 11 p.m.
Four persons were killed and as many were injured after being struck by lightning at village Veni in Mahagaon tehsil of Yavatmal district this afternoon, officials said.
The victims had taken shelter under a tree during rain when the tragedy took place.
© Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star
An ice storm pelting parts of southern Ontario has knocked out power to thousands of people and wreaked havoc on the roads.
A provincial police spokesman said more than 550 crashes had been reported in the Greater Toronto Area by late Saturday.
"We've got cars in the ditches, we've got cars on the concrete wall, we've got cars facing the wrong way," Kerry Schmidt said. "We've got problems all over the place."
Comment: Some past crazy weather for Toronto:
- Toronto 'exploring' call to army for ice storm help, deputy mayor says
- Toronto under snowfall warning as winter storm hits city
- Toronto mops up after record-breaking storm
- Another Canadian city under water: Toronto battered by storm, flooding; 300,000 residents without power after deluge breaks rainfall record three-fold
© KOKHWildfires have burned thousands of acres in northwest Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management confirms that a 61-year-old man died April 12 in Roger Mills County as a result of injuries he sustained in a fire that began southeast of Leedey. A turkey hunter who went missing the fires in Dewey County was rescued from the fires and transported to a burn center.
The whale was almost 10 feet long, said Wendy Noke, a marine mammal biologist with Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute.
Pygmy sperm whales live in tropical and temperate latitudes throughout the world's oceans. They reach lengths up to 11.5 feet and weigh up to 1,000 pounds.
They live up to 23 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and have a characteristic known as the "squid tactic" that allows them to eject more than 3 gallons of dark, reddish brown liquid when they feel threatened or when trying to evade predators. They are rarely sighted.
© The Weather Network
Although a prolonged period of frigid conditions and even some of the coldest temperature anomalies worldwide have dominated the Alberta pattern recently, the ridiculous stretch of cold weather in Edmonton is jaw dropping. Saturday, April 14 marks the 168TH CONSECUTIVE DAY of overnight lows below freezing as recorded at Edmonton-Blatchford Airport. This puts the area in first place for the longest run of consecutive days with a minimum temperature below 0°C, ahead of the 166 day stretch in 1975.
Edmonton is known as being one of the coldest cities in Canada and with a record like this, it's certainly living up to its reputation. The last time the city got to an overnight temperature of at least 0°C was back on October 29, 2017. That's almost six months ago.
"From that point onward, we never reached above the freezing mark again in the overnight," says Weather Network meteorologist Erin Wenckstern. "We got extremely close to it on December 15, but we never quite reached the freezing mark at that point."
Comment: The US has been battered by snow storms since the beginning of winter, spring is here and the cold weather is not abating:
- Is the Gulf Stream about to collapse and is the new ice age coming sooner than scientists think?
- Historic cold record broken for Edmonton, Canada
- Ice storm pelts Southern Ontario with more than 550 collisions on Toronto-area highways
- Think the snowfall is finished? Over a foot of snow falls on the Twin Cities
- Records broken with latest snow fall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
To see how weather all over the world has gone haywire, as well as fireballs and a variety of other strange phenomena, check out SOTT's monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - March 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs