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Mexico's coldest wave in 42 years

Robert Felix
IceAgeNow
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:16 UTC
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Snow in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on 3 January 2013.
This is from an article that appeared in Vanguardia this morning in an inconspicuous spot in the first section. I guess we weren't supposed to see it.
Chihuahua - The arrival of cold front 21 generated temperatures of 13 degrees celsius below zero, as well as road accidents in various municipalities reported by the meteorologist of The State Civil Protection Department (UEPC), Salvador Echevarria Campos.

The UEPC meteorologist reported that 63 of the 67 state municipalities woke up to temperatures below zero degrees celsius, of these, 20 registered between zero and minus six degrees, with the forecast saying that these conditions will continue the same.

Madera and Casas Grandes are the locations with the lowest temperature registering minus 13 and minus 11 degrees, followed by Matachi and Villa Ahumada with minus 10 degrees and as well Temosachic and Bocoyna with minus 9.

Campos emphasizes that the Capital woke up to minus 6 degrees and explains also that the frost will continue, due to a mass of cold air that arrived with Cold Front number 21, which is at the border of Chihuahuan Territory but closures and havoc prevail.

Meanwhile, in the State of Sonora, temperatures registered 14 degrees below zero in the last few hours (and Sonora) has been affected by the most extensive cold wave in the last 42 years.

Caption on photo: 'Suffering. The streets of Nogales, Sonora woke up covered with ice.'
Thanks to Alan Stover for this info, and for the translation.
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Umbrella

Washington tsunami debris: Dock found in Olympic National Park is from Japan


Huffington Post
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:19 UTC
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© AP Photo/Olympic National Park
This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 photo provided by Olympic National Park shows a dock that washed ashore on a wilderness beach near Forks, Wash. Crews scraped off more than 400 pounds of organic material, including species native to Japan but not found in the United States.
The dock that washed ashore on a remote Washington beach last month has been confirmed as debris from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan.

The state Marine Debris Task Force says it was identified by the Japanese government through photos that showed a fender serial number. The dock came from the Aomori Prefecture and is similar to the dock that washed ashore last summer at Newport, Ore., also from the tsunami.
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Snowflake

'Rare' red warning for Wales issued by Met Office, up to 30cm of snow expected


BBC News
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:14 UTC
Met office map
© Met Office
Met Office map showing, yellow, amber and red warning areas for heavy snowfall on Friday.
Gritters are out in force after a rare red warning for snow has been issued by the Met Office for parts of Wales.

It applies to the Heads of the Valleys and Brecon Beacons in south Wales but snow is expected across much of Wales.

Red warning areas could see up to 30cm of snow and blizzards. People are warned to avoid non-essential journeys.
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Igloo

Croatia snowfall shatters record set in 1861

Robert Felix
IceAgeNow
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:13 UTC
"Just want to inform you about epochal snow event in Croatian capital Zagreb (SE Europe)," says reader Mihael Krstic.

"We have new record snow depth for January set to 68cm (27 inches) beating previous 49cm (19 inches) and all of that in just 24 hours! That's biggest snowfall from 1861.

"More snow is on the way until end of the week!

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Snowflake Cold

Unique snow system headed into Western North Carolina mountains


Citizen-times.com
Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:06 UTC
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© AP Photo/The Victor Valley Daily Press, James Quig
As the season's first major snowstorm barrels into the Western North Carolina mountains, weather watchers are keeping an eye on the system through Internet tools and weather balloons launched into the air.

This storm is shaping up as the first substantial snowfall in more than two years. Last year, the Asheville Regional Airport set a record with the only winter without a measurable snowfall since the airport opened in the 1960s.

"This isn't our typical system where a cold front comes through," explained Pamela McCown of the Institute for Climate Education at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
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Stop

Mysterious dolphin deaths continue in Gulf of Mexico

Kimberly Blair
USA Today
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:38 UTC
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© Bruce Graner, Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal
Dolphins frolic in the wake of a cruise boat just offshore from Fort Pickens State Park in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola Beach, Fla.
An unusually high number of dolphin deaths that began three years ago in the northern Gulf of Mexico is continuing though the number of deaths in Florida peaked in 2011.

From February 2010 to Sunday, the bodies of 830 marine mammals, nearly all bottlenose dolphins and a few whales, have been found along the coast from Louisiana to Apalachicola, Fla., according to figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Of those, almost 150 dolphins found dead on beaches or in marshes were premature, stillborn or neonatal bottlenose.

In the seven years before 2010, the northern Gulf each year saw an average 63 bottlenose dolphin strandings, incidents where injured or sick marine mammals come ashore.

That the number of dolphin deaths continues to be higher than before 2010 worries Teri Rowles, who heads NOAA's investigation team.

"This is the longest unusual mortality event nationally," she said of the dolphin deaths.
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Cloud Precipitation

One dead, 900 hurt in Japan 'Bomb cyclone' blizzard


Japan Times
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:56 UTC
Tokyo snow
© KYODO
Commuters walk carefully over snow Tuesday morning near Tokyo's JR Shinbashi Station.
The heavy snow that blanketed eastern Japan over the holiday weekend left one man dead and injured more than 900 others, while Tokyo commuters dealt with slippery streets as they returned to work Tuesday.

A low-pressure system, dubbed a "bomb cyclone" by the local media, dumped 8 cm of snow in nine hours, the heaviest snowfall in the Tokyo region since January 2006, the Meteorological Agency said.
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Cloud Precipitation

New snowfall could hit most of UK this weekend


Wales Online
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:49 UTC
UK snow
© Unknown
Snow could fall on most of the UK by the weekend as the cold snap continues to bring freezing temperatures to most of the country.

Eastern areas have borne the brunt of the snowfall with 42 schools closing in Norfolk, all planes grounded at Norwich International Airport and a six-vehicle pile-up on the A11 leaving three people with injuries.

The Met Office recorded snow depths of 8cm (3in) in Norfolk and Suffolk as the snow continued to fall.
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Attention

China's inflation accelerates as 'abnormal' weather boosts food prices

Zhou Xin
Bloomberg
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:33 UTC
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© AFP/Getty Images
Chinese shoppers buy vegetables at a supermarket in Hefei, Anhui province, China. First the US and now China is warning about sharp increases in the prices of food.
China's inflation accelerated more than forecast to a seven-month high as the nation's coldest winter in 28 years pushed up vegetable prices, a pickup that may limit room for easing to support an economic recovery.

The consumer price index rose 2.5 percent in December from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said today in Beijing. That compares with the 2.3 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 42 economists and a 2 percent gain in November. The decline in the producer-price index eased to 1.9 percent.

Chinese stocks headed for the biggest drop in eight weeks on concern that the quickening in inflation makes further policy loosening less likely, after data yesterday on exports and credit growth underscored the strength of the economic rebound. Chen Yulu, a central bank academic adviser, said Jan. 8 that price gains may become a concern in the second half.

"With growth momentum firming up and inflation picking up, the likelihood of any further easing has disappeared and the next interest-rate move will probably be an increase," which could come as early as the fourth quarter, Zhu Haibin, chief China economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Hong Kong, said in a telephone interview.
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Map

Former USGS scientist: Coastal cities are 'sitting ducks' for next big storm

Suzanne Goldenberg
Guardian
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:48 UTC
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© Marcia McNutt screenshot via YouTube
Marcia McNutt, who resigned as director of the US Geological Survey, says Hurricane Sandy has left communities exposed. Cities on the United States east coast are "sitting ducks" for the next big storm because of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy, one of Barack Obama's top scientists warned on Tuesday.

Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation as director of the US Geological Survey, told a conference that Sandy had left coastal communities dangerously exposed to future storms of any size.

"Superstorm Sandy was a threshold for the north-east and we have already crossed it," McNutt told the National Council for Science and the Environment conference in Washington. "For the next storm, not even a super storm, even a run-of-the-mill nor'easter, the amount of breaches and the amount of coastal flooding will be widespread."

McNutt, a professor of marine geophysics, was careful to preface her public remarks by saying she spoke as a scientist and not an Obama Administration official. But the unusually stark warning from a departing Obama official indicates the challenges ahead in protecting American population centres from the extreme storms of a changing climate.
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