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Blizzard conditions close access to Hawaii summits


Bigislandvideonews.com
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 23:57 UTC
Ice, snow, and high winds close Mauna Kea Access Road
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© NOAA
There is some visibility on Mauna Loa.
The wintry weather continues on the summits of Hawaii Island.

Mauna Kea rangers report blizzard conditions have shut down the road to the summit of the mountain. Poor weather is forecast for the next several days. Webcams have been blinded by the white out.

The summit of Mauna Loa is also closed. The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park says the area is off limits for backcountry use due to the continued winter storm conditions.

A high wind warning is in effect for both summits until 6 p.m., reports the National Weather Service. Southwest winds are blowing 45 to 70 mph with localized gusts over 105 mph.

A winter weather advisory is also in effect, with an additional 1 inch of snowfall expected at elevations above 12,500 feet.

There has been constant snow on the summits over the last week. On Saturday, the harsh weather took a break long enough for island residents to drive up to the summit.
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Cloud Precipitation

Giant waterspout spotted near the coast of Mauritius

Shawn W
news.islandcrisis.net
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:27 UTC
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© Delphine Hugounenc
Waterspout
A giant waterspout has allegedly been observed at La Preneuse beach on Friday 6th of March. The sighting of the meteorological phenomenon is attributed to Delphine Hugounenc, a French woman who has settled down in Mauritius for two years now.

Delphine Hugounenc related that she was at the public beach of La Preneuse with her family on the 6th of March. Around 16h00, something bizarre caught her attention. According to her, she saw a waterspout over the sea. When she pointed it out to a friend of hers, they were both shocked at such a sight. Delphine Hugounenc also admitted that on seeing the phenomenon, a feeling of insecurity swept over them.
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Blue Planet

M6.2 - 14km N of Aratoca, Colombia


USGS
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:37 UTC
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Event Time
  1. 2015-03-10 20:55:43 (UTC)
  2. 2015-03-10 16:55:43 (UTC-04:00)
Nearby Cities
  1. 14km (9mi) N of Aratoca, Colombia
  2. 18km (11mi) SSE of Piedecuesta, Colombia
  3. 27km (17mi) SSE of Floridablanca, Colombia
  4. 31km (19mi) SSE of Giron, Colombia
  5. 272km (169mi) NNE of Bogota, Colombia
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Wolf

Brutal winter takes toll on wildlife around New York

Thane Grauel
lohud.com
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:12 UTC
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© Loraine Izzo
A screech owl that lost a lot of body weight because of the harsh winter.
Wildlife rehabilitators say that animals - mainly waterfowl, owls, hawks and some mammals - are under serious stress due to the cold winter.

Two months of snow cover and brutal bouts of arctic air are endangering wildlife.

Wildlife rehabilitators say that animals — mainly waterfowl, owls, hawks and some mammals — are under serious stress. Many have starved because their food sources have been covered with snow and ice and the water they need to survive has been frozen.

"It's been a really hard, long, cold, desperate and brutal winter for wildlife," said Taffy Williams, a wildlife rehabilitator from Yonkers. "A lot of raptors, hawks and owls are being found dead."

Animals have been foraging in places they usually don't — risky places such as urban streets or sun-warmed banks along parkways.
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Snowflake

Italian village receives more than 8 feet of snow in just 18 hours

Nick Squires
The Telegraph, UK
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:39 UTC
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Snow in Capracotta
Italian village has broken records after it received a dump of more than eight feet (2.56 metres) in 18 hours

A tiny village in Italy is claiming to be one of the snowiest places in the world after it was smothered under more than eight feet (2.56 metres) of snow in less than 24 hours.

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An intense storm left the inhabitants of Capracotta climbing out of first floor windows onto great mounds of snow and having to get around on snowshoes and skis.

Other locals had to dig tunnels from their front doors in order to be able to leave their homes.
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Snowflake Cold

States of emergency declared in many parts of Bulgaria, snowdrifts of five meters (16 feet) reported

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:44 UTC
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Road blocked by snow in Bulgaria
A man froze to death in Kardzhali and 40 people were stranded on Belmeken 3-meter drifts.

Third day continues with disastrous conditions after heavy snowfall.

Rescuers found frozen to a bus stop 65-year-old Sabahattin Azis of Krumovgrad Gorna tower, BNR reported.

The man came out of his home on Friday night, when the abundant snowfall began. After not returning the next day, neighbors organized a search in the area, but because of the deep drifts failed to find him. The man's body was found today in a clearing in the road.

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Cassiopaea

Link between cosmic rays and global temp found

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 17:12 UTC
cosmic rays graphic
From the paper in PNAS:(h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard)
Our results suggest weak to moderate coupling between CR and year-to-year changes of GT," they write. "However, we find that the realized effect is modest at best, and only recoverable when the secular trend in GT is removed." This "secular trend" is the warming widely believed to be caused by excess carbon in the atmosphere, an effect the researchers accounted for by first-differencing. "We show specifically that CR cannot explain secular warming, a trend that the consensus attributes to anthropogenic forcing. Nonetheless, the results verify the presence of a nontraditional forcing in the climate system, an effect that represents another interesting piece of the puzzle in our understanding of factors influencing climate variability,
While they might simply be trading one effect for another with that sort of language, or they might simply be latching on the to Forbush decrease signal, it seems to me that they set out to prove that CR's aren't affecting trend. The fact that they show a link at suggests there's at least some merit to Svenmark's cosmic ray theory.

Comment: Cosmic rays are only one factor. For the low-down on climate change, read Pierre Lescaudron's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

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Snowflake Cold

SOTT Exclusive: The Snowball Effect - U.S. Senator Inhofe and the 'Global Warming' blame game

Εἰρήνη
Sott.net
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:45 UTC
snowmen protest global warming
In this YouTube video taken from C-SPAN, Inhofe removes a large snowball out of a plastic bag and tosses it onto the Senate floor, in Senator Bill Cassidy's direction:


Inhofe says:
"In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record [Inhofe was probably referring to a January report from NOAA and NASA], I ask the chair, do you know what this is? It's a snowball. And it's just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out. Very unseasonable. So here, Mr. President, catch this. But now the script has flipped," Inhofe continues, "this is something that has been happening over a long period of time."
During the broadcast, Inhofe also expressed his contempt for President Obama's National Security Strategy, which outlines White House foreign policy priorities, of which global warming was one of eight "top strategic risks" to the United States, along with the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and catastrophic attacks on the country. The report states:
"Climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water."
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Phoenix

'Firenado' spins up as large wildfire blazes in Cape Town, South Africa


The Weather Channel
Wed, 04 Mar 2015 03:09 UTC
wildfire in south africa
© AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam
A couple stands on the beach as they look at the fire, rear, at Houtbay on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, March 3, 2015.
A large wildfire burning in and around the South African city of Cape Town continued to rage for a fourth day on Wednesday, forcing officials to evacuate some 500 people.

Conditions were even powerful enough to spark a "firenado." According to weather.com digital meteorologist Jon Erdman, a firenado is a rapidly spinning vortex that forms when air superheated by an intense wildfire rises rapidly, consolidating low-level spin from winds converging into the fire.

The inferno destroyed three homes and left five more damaged overnight as the sky glowed orange around Table Mountain National Park, according to an emergency spokesperson.

Those who were evacuated spent the night with family or friends, or they were lodged in a nearby community center. Some of the evacuees were allowed to return to their homes Wednesday afternoon, Cape Town disaster risk management spokesperson Charlotte Powell said.
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Cloud Precipitation

Landslide and flooding after heavy rain hits Scotland


BBC News
Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:40 UTC
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Work has been taking place to clear the landslide on the A87
Heavy rain in Scotland has caused a 100 tonne landslide and flooding on roads across parts of the Highlands.

The A87 Invergarry to Kyle of Lochalsh road was shut overnight at Cluanie but traffic is now getting through.

Some rivers reached their highest levels on record and eight people were rescued from a flooded caravan park near Beauly.

More than 30 flood warnings are in place across Scotland.
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