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Snow Globe

Over 8,000 dead sheep removed from Northern Ireland farms following record Spring snowfall


BBC
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:33 UTC
The carcasses of more than 8,000 sheep that died in snow blizzards last month have been collected from NI farms.
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The Department of Agriculture has agreed an aid packaged for farmers
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill told the assembly of the consequences of the weather on farmers.

She said farmers' losses were "greater than anticipated", adding that 8,153 dead sheep and 240 cattle had been collected from 440 farms.

The executive has agreed a £5m aid package to help those who lost livestock.

Mrs O'Neill said the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development would pay for the collection and disposal of animals that had died in the snow.
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Igloo

Record cold grips the Canadian Prairies


TheWeatherNetwork
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:33 UTC
Temperature Plunge
© TheWeatherNetworkTemperatures plunge across the Prairies.
Recent weather in the Prairies is being described by many as 'Springter,' a mix of spring weather and stubborn winter conditions.

Many residents in the Prairies are dealing with what seems to be like a never ending winter.

After temperatures climbed to nearly 20°C in parts of southern Alberta last week, freezing rain, slick road conditions and even record breaking cold weather made a comeback over the weekend.

"I'm ready to get on with spring and do my spring planting, so this colder weather is putting a hold on everything," said one Calgarian we caught up with Monday.

"Both camera operator Shawn Legg and I wore our long john's Monday morning after already putting them away a few weeks ago," laughed Calgary reporter Kelsey McEwen. "So that just shows the wild swings we've had."
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Cow Skull

Mass death of multiple sea creatures along east coast of UK

Alex Wood
Yorkshire Post, UK
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:55 UTC
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A dead puffin washed up on the east coast of England
Environmentalists have raised concerns for marine life on the East Coast after extreme weather claimed tens of thousands of animals.

The "mass mortality" has been put at an estimated 150,000 velvet swimming crabs, 10,500 edible crabs, 2,000 common lobsters and a staggering 635,000 mussels in just one 10-mile stretch from Barmston to Bridlington along the Holderness Coast - in all around 800,000 individuals.

Cuttlefish bones have been recorded along the length of the East Coast, as well as increased numbers of dead harbour porpoises on Lincolnshire beaches.

The death of hundreds of seabirds, found washed up on beaches from Aberdeenshire to North Yorkshire, has also been blamed on the weather, with over 200 dead or dying puffins recorded on Yorkshire beaches alone between Scarborough and Withernsea.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.3 - SE of Bandar Bushehr, Iran


US Geological Survey
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:49 UTC
Iran Quake_090413
© USGS
Event Time
2013-04-09 11:52:50 UTC
2013-04-09 16:22:50 UTC+04:30 at epicenter

Location
28.500°N 51.591°E depth=10.0km (6.2mi)

Nearby Cities
89km (55mi) SE of Bandar Bushehr, Iran
92km (57mi) SSE of Borazjan, Iran
103km (64mi) WSW of Firuzabad, Iran
124km (77mi) S of Kazerun, Iran
272km (169mi) NNE of Manama, Bahrain

Technical Details
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Snowflake Cold

The whole CO2 "argument is tiresome and absurd...alarmists living in a fantasy world": Joe Bastardi

P Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:46 UTC
Joe Bastardi
© WeatherbellJoe Bastardi
Joe Bastardi of weatherbell.com/ kindly took the time to write a comment, and so I think it deserves being upgraded to a post. It's one whole semester of meteorology summed up (edited by PG)!

Here's the problem globally: We continue to dwell on temperatures in the Arctic and ignore the fact that it's a natural cyclical distortion because the planet wobbles on its axis and has much more water in the southern hemisphere, and more land in the north. So there is an eternal search for a balance that can never be attained. It can only go back and forth. Think about it. While CO2 warmists are yelling and screaming about the Arctic melting, the southern hemisphere ice is expanding. We are now told the deep water is warming (what bullocks, it does this every time the PDO has been warm. What will happen over the next 20 years is the southern hemisphere sea ice will retreat and the northern hemisphere will advance once the AMO turns cold. We just can actually observe it now from above with satellites.

There is so much lunacy in their argument, they don't even realize global ACE drop is because of the distortion; instead they scream about warming causing increased activity, when in reality globally it has gone the other way. Until such time someone can show me that there is less OUTGOING RADIATION than incoming, there is no "warming" going on. There is no trapping of heat. Physically all CO2 can do is add its 0.4 to 0.7°C to the 33°C of the blanket gases that were wonderfully placed there and made the Earth's temps reasonably livable, in spite of the variations that have to happen because of the system's design.
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Windsock

Typhoon-like winter storm wreaks havoc across Japan, leaves 3 dead

Adam Westlake
Japan Daily Press
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:12 UTC
Japan storm
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The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has reported that a low pressure system storm caused by typhoon-like winds worked its way across the country over the weekend and into Monday, leaving extensive damage and affecting public train routes, along with injuring a number of people. Both the western and eastern parts of the country experienced heavy rainfall by Saturday evening, with the JMA issuing warnings for wind speeds as high as 126 kilometers per hour (78 mph) and waves as large as 6 to 8 meters in coastal areas.
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Attention

Samara: The Russian city being 'eaten alive' as cars, buses and trucks disappear, swallowed by giant sinkholes

Amanda Williams
Mail Online
Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:58 UTC
Samara sinkhole
© English Russia/ExclusivePixThe city of Samara in Russia appears to be sinking into the earth, as massive sinkholes open up swallowing cars and wreaking havoc
They may look like stills from an apocalyptic horror film, but these images have become a daily reality for residents in a Russian city.

Citizens of Samara, in south east Russia, live in fear of the ground literally disappearing beneath them after huge sinkholes have started to appear all over their city, leaving devastation in their wake.

The yawning underground caverns are all believed to have sprung up in recent weeks swallowing cars, buses and claiming at least one life.
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Airplane

Transatlantic flights 'to get more turbulent'

Jonathan Amos
BBC
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:32 UTC
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Planes are already encountering stronger winds, scientists say
Flights across the North Atlantic could get a lot bumpier in the future if the climate changes as scientists expect.

Planes are already encountering stronger winds, and could now face more turbulence, according to research led from Reading University, UK.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that by mid-century passengers will be bounced around more frequently and more strongly.

The zone in the North Atlantic affected by turbulence could also increase.

Reading's Dr Paul Williams said comfort was not the only consideration; there were financial consequences of bumpier airspace as well.
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Snowflake

Hours after 62 degree weather, Colorado faces major winter storm Monday night, Tuesday

Joey Bunch
Brushnewstribune.com
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:37 UTC
The National Weather Service gives Denver a 90 percent chance of snow - up to 7 inches - Monday night, after a forecast high of 62 degrees Monday afternoon.

Rain and thunderstorms are expected to roll into the metro region in the afternoon with a southwest wind gusting up to 34 mph, forecasters said Sunday afternoon.

Rain is expected to turn to snow about 9 p.m.with heavy snow after midnight.
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Ice Cube

'Tonnes' of dead fish found on Swedish lake


TheLocal.se
Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:47 UTC
The Dannemore lake, near Östhammar in the east of Sweden, was discovered to be covered with floating fish this weekend as the ice began to melt. Among the dead fish were pike, perch, roach, and bream. "It was not a pleasant sight, there were tonnes on fish on the lake," Timo Hakulinen, who made the discovery, told the Aftonbladet newspaper.

"It was my friend who tipped me off about it. He'd seen a bunch of sea eagles out on the ice and I went to look closer." Hakulinen guessed that the fish had suffocated after a particularly long winter had left ice on top of the lake for longer than usual. "It's been cold and no water has come. The lake was frozen to the bottom and the fish were trapped," he added.

In nearby Uppsala, experts agree that the sub-zero temperatures are likely the cause of the occurrence. "I've not heard anything yet, but these things quite often are about lack of oxygen. The ice stays on top and the water doesn't get oxygenated," Lennart Nordvarg, head of the Uppsala County Board's Nature and Environment Department, told the paper.

"But you can never rule something else out."
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