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Cascades snow depth running 109% to 167% of normal

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:51 UTC
snoqualmie snow

Snoqualmie snow
Skiers and snowboarders arrived Monday to fresh snow at Snoqualmie Summit.

"During different times this season it has been the number one snow pack in the county - currently it's over 600 inches (50 feet)at the top of Alpental," said Guy Lawrence, general manager at Summit at Snoqualmie. Fifty feet! That's the height of a 5-story building!

And that will continue growing, because more spring snow is expected.

"Next week we're probably going to get a couple of systems that will bring snow to the higher elevations in the Cascades," said Nick Bond, a professor at the University of Washington and a state climatologist.

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Spring snowstorm hits southern Russia and Kyrgyzstan

Nature News
YouTube
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:54 UTC
SNOW
Snow is everywhere! Terrible snow storm hits southern Russia and Kyrgyzstan! Bishkek.


Comment: View also: Spring snowfall suprises residents of Magadan in Russia's east

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Seismograph

6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Fiji region - 2nd major quake in that area of the Pacific Ocean in 5 hours


Xinhua
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:37 UTC
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Fiji region at 15:11:18 GMT on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 597.77 km, was initially determined to be at 21.8731 degrees south latitude and 179.3414 degrees west longitude.

Comment: In the same region of the Pacific Ocean and a little over 5 hours earlier a huge 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck just off the Kermadec Islands.

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Cloud Lightning

Thundersnow at Denver International Airport captured on camera

Ashton Altieri
Denver.cbslocal.com
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:47 UTC
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An unusual thundersnow storm moved directly over Denver International Airport on Tuesday night. Thunderstorm is rare in most of the country but does happen with some regularity in Colorado, mainly in the early spring and late fall.

Thundersnow is simply a thunderstorm that occurs when it is just warm enough for a storm but still cold enough for the storm to produce snow instead instead of rain.

Alex Inscoe captured the weather event on video. It shows lightning during a snowstorm which brought half inch of snow to the airport between 10:15 p.m. and 10:45 p.m.

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Snowflake

Spring snowfall suprises residents of Magadan in Russia's east


Euronews
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:55 UTC
What

What's this white stuff then?
Magadan was engulfed in the snow over the past 24 hours, leaving the Russian Far East city streets covered by a huge blanket. Metrologists predicted poor weather conditions, but no one expected the springtime snowfall.

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Cloud Precipitation

2nd-wettest March on record caused flood crisis in New South Wales, Australia

Sakina Fatima
The Siasat Daily
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:43 UTC
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© IANS
Extensive areas of flooding resulted from the torrential rain, killing one person and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes, dpa news agency reported.

Rainfall that resulted in last month's flood crisis across the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) was more than double the average, making it the second-wettest March on record, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said on Thursday.

Extensive areas of flooding resulted from the torrential rain, killing one person and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes, dpa news agency reported.

The disaster is estimated to have caused A$2 billion ($1.5 billion) in damage, according to the Australian Financial Review.
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Seismograph

Huge 6.6 magnitude earthquake strikes just off Kermadec Islands

Ciaran McGrath
Daily Express
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:03 UTC
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AN earthquake measuring 6.6 in magnitude has been recorded north-east of New Zealand, within the so-called Ring of Fire, the USGS has reported.

The tremor is the latest in a a series of 34 in the region in the last day, the USGS has said. It struck at a depth of 6.2 miles. There is currently no tsunami alert in force - but a series of quakes did trigger one earlier this month.

Seismic activity is commonplace in the region, located within the so-called Ring of Fire which stretches around the Pacific Basin.

On Monday, the American Geophysical Union tweeted: "An M8.1 #earthquake off the coast of #NewZealand triggered an estimated 300 #landslides on #RaoulIsland, the largest of the #Kermadec Islands.

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Attention

Taal Volcano, Philippines records more earthquakes, gas emissions

Arlie O. Calalo
The Manila Times
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:46 UTC
Taal Volcano (taken October 26, 2020).
© Mike Frialde/INQUIRER.net
Taal Volcano (taken October 26, 2020).
TAAL Volcano registered more earthquakes and emitted more gas over the past 24 hours, signs of a looming eruption, the state-run Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said on Wednesday.

Based on the Taal Volcano Network (TVN), 212 quakes, including 168 tremors with durations one to 20 minutes, and 44 low frequency volcanic earthquakes were recorded.

Some 1, 229 tons of sulfur dioxide were emitted by the volcano in Batangas province in the past 24 hours, according to Phivolcs chief Renato Solidum.

Solidum said with the volcano under Alert Level 2, an increased unrest may lead to an eruption and advised "all concerned to remain vigilant".

"The fact that we have volcanic tremors and prolonged background tremor recorded, higher than normal sulfur dioxide emission rate of 923 tons per day, slow but steady inflation of the volcano still indicates magmatic activity at shallow depth beneath the volcano," he said.
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Fire

Italy's Mount Etna spews lava lighting up night sky


Ruptly
Thu, 01 Apr 2021 01:36 UTC
Mount Etna eruption
© YouTube/Ruptly (screen capture)
Mount Etna was seen spewing gigantic streams of red hot lava and plumes of smoke up in the night sky, Catania, Wednesday. The Sicilian peak which is 3,326 metres (around 10,912 feet) high, is considered to be one of the world's most active volcanoes.

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Snowflake Cold

'Lucky' storm in late March blasts Vail resort in Colorado with cold temperatures and at least 8 inches of fresh snow

John LaConte
Vail Daily
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:55 UTC
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Vail Mountain among ski areas to report country's highest snow totals

While Vail Mountain's decision to close a few lifts on Monday caught some by surprise, the preserved runs turned out to be welcome stash spots after Tuesday's snow event.

Vail reported 8 inches of fresh snow at 5 a.m., and snow continued to fall on the mountain's high-elevation runs throughout the morning.

Temperatures in the single digits greeted skiers when the lifts started turning at 8:30 a.m. and parts of the mountain remained in the 20s into the afternoon hours.

Vail, Breckenridge and Winter Park all reported 8 inches of snow at 5 a.m.; the three ski areas were tied for the highest totals reported of any in the country on Tuesday. Beaver Creek reported 7 inches.

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