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'Pretty nasty' snow storm to hit Ontario, parts of Quebec and New Brunswick


Yahoo! Canada News
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Wayne Cuddington , Ottawa Citizen
File photo of a winter storm in Ottawa, Ontario.
Toronto - Environment Canada warned Wednesday that a dangerous winter storm was moving into the southern and eastern regions of Ontario as the weather system works its way up from the U.S.

The agency said in a special weather statement that much of the province will be walloped by snow starting Wednesday afternoon as the outer reaches of a weather system making its way north from Kentucky crosses the border.

Meteorologist Arnold Ashton said the system will move on to deliver snow to parts of southern Quebec and New Brunswick on Thursday.

"It's the combination of snow and blowing snow that makes this particularly nasty," Ashton said.

Environment Canada said the areas of Dunnville and Niagara in southwestern Ontario and the stretch between Kingston and Cornwall in the east will bear the worst of the storm, getting 15 to 20 centimetres of snow.

The weather agency said other communities in those regions can expect up to 15 cm of snow, while central Ontario residents should get their snow shovels ready for 5 to 10 cm.
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Airplane

About 200 Philadelphia flights cancelled due to storm


wpxi.com
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00 UTC
Philadelphia - The winter storm has led to the cancellation of a couple hundred flights at Philadelphia International Airport as well as delays in departures and arrivals.

Airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica said Wednesday evening that the airport had recorded about 200 cancelled flights due to the winter weather.

She said there have also been delays in arriving and departing flights, with arrivals delayed four hours or more.

The University Park airport in State College in central Pennsylvania said Wednesday night that it had closed due to the storm but planned to reopen Thursday.

Passengers and people coming to pick them up are urged to contact airlines to check on flight status, or check with the airport on its website (www.phl.org ) or toll-free flight information number (1-800-745-4283).

Source: The Associated Press
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Igloo

Numerous Japanese cities reach record lows as freezing temperature persist

Adam Westlake
The Japan Daily Press
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 19:10 UTC
Heavy Snow
© The Japan Daily Press
As Japan continues to deal with a persisting cold front, Christmas Day brought record low temperatures to as many as 44 locations, mostly in the northern region and on the island of Hokkaido. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that cold temperatures would last throughout the week, with more heavy snowfall in the north and areas that face the Sea of Japan.

Tuesday saw temperatures setting a record low for the month of December, with Hokkaido's city of Furano reaching minus 28.4 degrees, the coldest ever recorded since monitoring began. Record lows were also made in Tokyo, at 6 degrees, and the prefectures of Tottori and Saitama with minus 8 degrees. Homes and offices in Japan very rarely have central heating systems, and windows are poorly insulated, making it sometimes difficult to keep warm in the winter. People instead rely on kerosene-powered space heaters, creating a high demand for oil. In areas where snowfall makes it difficult to drive, gasoline stations drive trucks around with tanks of fuel and long hoses, making deliveries so people don't even have to leave their homes.

The city of Monbetsu, also in Hokkaido, reported a meteorological phenomenon known as ice fog occurring on Tuesday. The meteorological agency says this takes place when the water vapors from the ocean rise and meet cold air on land to form thick, low-hanging clouds of very cold fog.
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Windsock

Christmas day tornados kill three in U.S.


Euronews
Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:11 UTC
Three people were killed as tornados struck four US states on Christmas Day. Twisters first pounded Texas. Others then touched down in Louisiana and Mississippi. One headed straight for the centre of Mobile, Alabama tearing up residential and commercial areas causing severe power cuts.

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Cloud Precipitation

Freezing rain causes 21-vehicle pileup in Oklahoma


USA Today
Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:10 UTC
Oklahoma highway officials have re-opened Interstate 40 in downtown Oklahoma City after a 21-vehicle pileup at its intersection with Interstate 35.

The two cross-country interstates meet near downtown Oklahoma City. Freezing rain in advance of a snowstorm slickened the highway overnight, and a semi-trailer jackknifed on a bridge over the Oklahoma River.
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Arrow Down

Sinkhole appears in Yuma, Arizona

Joyce Lobeck
Yuma Sun
Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:48 UTC
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© Craig Fry/Yuma Sun
A massive sink opened up on Arizona Avenue near 10th Street early Monday. The hole measures approximately 60 feet in length, 30 feet in width, and nearly 25 feet deep.
Motorists traveling on Arizona Avenue where it curves into Walnut Avenue got a shock early Monday morning when they came across a huge sinkhole where the northbound lane had been in the roadway near 10th Street.

So instead of having Monday off for Christmas, city workers were scrambling to repair the damage.

What had been the northbound lane of the busy roadway in the area between a county retention basin on one side and McNeece Brothers Oil, 1060 S. Walnut Ave., on the other had become an enormous hole 60 feet long, 30 feet wide and 25 feet deep.

The sinkhole was reported by McNeece at 6:30 a.m. Monday, said Martha Guzman, city of Yuma spokeswoman. She noted that the sinkhole occurred in a section of the roadway that had been undermined by a break in a 16-inch water line.

While crews worked to repair the damage, Arizona Avenue/Walnut Avenue was closed to traffic between 12th and 10th streets. Both Yuma Police Department and Yuma County Sheriff's Office were providing traffic control at the scene.
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Ice Cube

Cold as Christmas: Emergency in Siberia, chilliest night in Moscow


RT
Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Reuters / Ilya Naymushin
A woman walks past trees covered with heavy hoarfrost and snow on the bank of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about minus 26 degrees Celsius (minus 14.8 degrees Fahrenheit), outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, December 24, 2012.
The coldest ever December has rolled through Russia causing the evacuation of hundreds of people in Siberia, where temperature hit below -50C, and plunging Moscow into its coldest night in the season. Will Christmas lift the frosty spell?

­The cold weather that has Russia in its icy embrace has been causing all kinds of havoc. Flights and buses delayed and cancelled, many schools have been closed, and there have been power outages just when power is most needed.
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© RIA Novosti / Alexsey Nichukchin
Police patrol in downtown Moscow on December 22, 2012.
In the town of Kyshtym, the Urals, 14,000 people are still waiting for the central heating to be restored. On Sunday a break in the central pipe left residents anxiously watching the red line on their home thermometers plunging as temperatures outside slid to -24C (-11F).

Just over the Urals, a state of emergency has been declared and over 2,800 people were evacuated from the village of Khovu-Aksy, the Republic of Tyva, temperatures there a lethal -38C (-36F). A helicopter was sent to pick up kids and women. Two days into the emergency, authorities are frantically repairing central heating pipes while most of the evacuees are staying with their relatives.
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Mysterious coral disease strikes Hawaiian island


ScienceWorldReport.com
Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:52 UTC
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© USGS
USGS scientist Thierry Work takes a sample from diseased coral at Tunnels Reef on the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii.
An unusual epidemic of coral disease has been killing a large number of corals on the north shore of the Hawaiian island, Kunai, according to researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

Examination of the diseased areas, called lesions, suggests a mysterious cyanobacterial infection. Known for causing blooms in freshwater lakes, some species of Cyanobacteria, a type of blue-green algae, produce toxins that can sicken aquatic life, animals and even humans. However, the researchers said the current outbreak appear limited to corals.

The coral disease outbreak is said to be the first such cynobacterial infection documented in Hawaii on such a large scale. The university researchers are collaborating with USGS scientists to identify the cause of infection and what is promoting the outbreak.
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Arrow Down

Minnesota's moose population is in mysterious decline


Times Leader
Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:38 UTC
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© Times Leader
Fly over northeastern Minnesota with "Sky Dan" and you'd see a moose. One time, he spotted 15 of them during an hour flight. The pilot was so confident, he even offered those on his aerial tours a money-back guarantee.

"If you didn't see a moose, you didn't pay," Dan Anderson, 49, said.

No longer. Anderson stopped providing refunds to customers in 2008. He was handing back too much money.

The state's iconic moose population has been mysteriously declining for years, a drop-off that pushed the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources this month to propose labeling moose a species of "special concern."

"It's a classification that means we need to pay attention to this species," said Richard J. Baker, endangered species coordinator for the department.
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Bizarro Earth

Hypothermic sea turtles continue to wash up in record numbers on Cape Cod


WickedLocal.com
Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:54 UTC
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This distressed loggerhead sea turtle was found on Nantasket Beach in Hull. Another turtle was found earlier in the week in Humarock.
Hypothermic sea turtles continue to wash up in record numbers on Cape Cod but in an unusual twist, two large loggerhead sea turtles have stranded on South Shore beaches since Monday. On Tuesday, Hull animal control officer Casey Fredette retrieved a live loggerhead from Nantasket Beach while on Monday another 40-pounder was rescued in the Humarock section of Scituate.

Cold-stunned sea turtles strand annually on Cape Cod but almost always on the southern and eastern beaches of Cape Cod Bay from Sandwich to Truro. Typically, the northwest and northeast winds of late autumn create enough wave activity to drive the floating, nearly immobile marine reptiles ashore on those windward towns. Strandings on the South Shore are very rare events, and normally are confined to the discovery of long dead, smaller turtles early in the winter.
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