German capital Berlin has experienced more snow this month than any other December of past 110 years, as more bitter cold is expected in the country's east, the German Weather Service (DWD) said Tuesday.
Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg have never seen such a thick snow in December for more than a century, as some places received 40 centimeters of snow since Dec. 1, the weather agency said.
Earth Changes
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The rain will continue to spread from northwest to southeast across Southern California this morning, falling heavily at times.
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As many as 1.2 million airline customers may have been affected by almost 8,200 flight cancellations as the storm that hit three days ago closed major airports. Passengers were forced to try to make new plans, sometimes without being able to reach airlines by phone or online for help.
"There's a haphazard strategy to how airlines address these issues," said Brandon Macsata, executive director of the Association for Airline Passenger Rights. "That's why passengers get so angry. It's not about the weather. It's about how airlines communicate after weather occurs."
The disruptions affected the nation's largest and most- congested air travel market during one of the busiest times of the year. With planes already flying at their fullest since World War II, carriers were struggling to find empty seats to rebook travelers.
Lord Stirling gives the definitive low-down on how the Gulf Oil tragedy has affected the weather worldwide, the Jet stream 5 to 7 miles above the Sea is driven by the waters (the Gulf Stream) below, this has caused (or exacerbated) freak weather in Russia, and South and North America.
The outlook is not good, with the possibility of cold soil lasting until May or June instead of Jan or Feb, crop failures can be expected. In short, we are at the front edge of an oncoming Ice-age.
Thank the hubris and unfettered greed of the corporate and government psychopaths. The death knell for a large part of life on earth has sounded.
The outlook is not good, with the possibility of cold soil lasting until May or June instead of Jan or Feb, crop failures can be expected. In short, we are at the front edge of an oncoming Ice-age.
Thank the hubris and unfettered greed of the corporate and government psychopaths. The death knell for a large part of life on earth has sounded.
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In one town, Theodore, 300 residents are being flown out by a fleet of helicopters after floodwaters swamped buildings.
The floods have caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to sunflower and cotton crops.
The state government of Queensland has declared several areas disaster zones.
The state capital, Brisbane, has recorded its wettest December in more than 150 years. Cyclone Tasha, which hit Queensland on Saturday, also brought torrential rain to the state.
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Earthquake Location
Earthquake Location
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 06:54:21 UTC
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 05:54:21 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location:
19.682°S, 168.175°E
Depth:
31 km (19.3 miles)
Region:
VANUATU
Distances:
115 km (70 miles) W of Isangel, Tanna, Vanuatu
210 km (130 miles) N of Tadine, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
215 km (135 miles) S of PORT-VILA, Efate, Vanuatu
1770 km (1100 miles) ENE of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia
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One of the best ways to look at long-term temperatures is with isotope data from the GISP2 Greenland ice core, from which temperatures for thousands of years can be determined. The ice core isotope data were obtained by Minze Stuiver and Peter Grootes from nuclear accelerator measurements of thousands of oxygen isotope ratios (16O/18O), which are a measure of paleo-temperatures at the time snow fell that was later converted to glacial ice. The age of such temperatures can be accurately measured from annual layers of accumulation of rock debris marking each summer's melting of ice and concentration of rock debris on the glacier.
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Several roofs have collapsed under the snow.
Moscow has been hit with freezing rain which has made roads and pavements dangerously slippery.
It has also caused traffic chaos, with 2000 kilometres of traffic jams reported around the capital as people try to go shopping for next weekend's Orthodox Christmas.
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Front-end loader clears snow on Bornholm
Front-end loader clears snow on Bornholm
"You can't even imagine how bad this is. The roads are closed, and they are digging and digging, and they just can't get through," said Helle Skov Olesen, who lives on the island nestled between Sweden and the northern coasts of Germany and Poland.
"They don't even know where to put the snow," she told daily Politiken.
Denmark's meteorological institute (DMI) measured 140 centimetres (55 inches) of snow on Bornholm, "the equivalent of the amount of snow at various ski resorts," Steen Rasmussen of the institute said.
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A driver of a snow plow stopped to help a stuck ambulance in Brooklyn during Sunday’s snow storm.
A driver of a snow plow stopped to help a stuck ambulance in Brooklyn during Sunday’s snow storm.
Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, said the department is currently down roughly 400 workers.
"We are undermanned - we need another 400," Nespoli said in a telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal. "I mean this is a perfect example of why you need the man power in New York City. We're shorthanded here."
Nespoli praised the workforce, saying the workers are doing a yeoman's job given the weather conditions and the depleted troops. But he said the staff reductions have nevertheless taken a toll.
"Whenever you cut your workforce down, it's going to hurt services," Nespoli said. "Guys are retiring, and they have to replace these people. You can't allow a city like New York not to have the services that the public's used to," he said. "This is a major blizzard."
