Ossetia in Caucuses crushed with a blizzard knocking out power to 70,000 homes.
Switzerland record snow and skiing in the streets.
Queensland Australia coldest ever temps in December, but media includes a thermometer reading 90F in the article.
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Ossetia in Caucuses crushed with a blizzard knocking out power to 70,000 homes.
Switzerland record snow and skiing in the streets.
Queensland Australia coldest ever temps in December, but media includes a thermometer reading 90F in the article.
Gerald Reczek reported on twitter, as he was walking his dog in the early morning hours, he saw a light rise up from the horizon and and disperse within 15 minutes.
Severe Weather Europe responded and speculated is likely be the Russian Fregat upper stage burn on the launch of AngoSat communications satellite, Angola's first satellite, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngoSat_1
According to SWE similar sightings were made in Romania.
No reason is given why a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan would be seen in Austria. Similar explanations were produced when the Norway Spiral appeared over Oslo in 2009.
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A juvenile male humpback whale was stranded at North Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore on Tuesday, Dec. 26.
A juvenile male humpback whale was stranded at North Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore on Tuesday, Dec. 26.
According to a report in the SF Gate, the Marine Mammal Center said the body found on the shore of North Beach was that of a 30-foot-long male whale.
The cause of the whale's death remains unknown.
"A team from California Academy of Sciences went out yesterday [Christmas Day] to get some samples, and a larger team is going out today for a necropsy," Laura Sherr, a spokesperson for the Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center told the SF Gate.
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A dead humpback whale washed ashore in Atlantic Beach, Long Island, was reported to police on Dec. 26, 2017.
A dead humpback whale washed ashore in Atlantic Beach, Long Island, was reported to police on Dec. 26, 2017.
The mammoth mammal's body is around 30 feet long and it likely was already dead when it came ashore, an expert said.
"Usually when it's orientated dorsal-side down, an animal has washed up dead on the beach," said Rob DiGiovanni, chief scientist of the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.
"It was called in by the public, [but] photos we have when the police showed up was of the animal dorsal-side down," he said.
© Korea Times photo by Shin Sang-soon/Yonhap
Some parts of the Han River are frozen in Seoul, Friday, after subzero temperatures over the past few days.
Some parts of the Han River are frozen in Seoul, Friday, after subzero temperatures over the past few days.
Comment: Study: Cosmic rays trigger climate change on Earth by increasing cloud cover
See also: Coldest summer for 100 years in Queensland, Australia
Every year more and more anomalous weather events are being reported all over the world, we're even seeing changes in the seasons; in the US and Europe it's unusually cold with some regions seeing record breaking snowfall. Both hemispheres are recording more abrupt and harsher winters that's leading to massive crop losses for farmers and a surge in commodity prices.
Mainstream science is failing to recognise the impact that our Sun's activity, the lowest in 200 years, is having on our planet; we're seeing a dramatic weakening of Earth's geomagnetic field and more more cosmic rays are entering into our atmosphere causing more cloud cover, and in tandem the polar jet streams are behaving erratically meandering further south for prolonged periods, causing the infamous 'polar vortex' phenomenon.
It's clear there are great changes occurring on Earth and some point to the beginning of a mini ice age.
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It's cold out there.
It's cold out there.
The first comes from the province of Nova Scotia on the east coast, where a powerful windstorm on Christmas Day knocked out power for tens of thousands of people.
A storm knocked out power to tens of thousands of Nova Scotians on Christmas Day as high winds blew trees onto power lines and broke utility poles.
By mid-morning on Tuesday, about 50,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were without electricity, down from about 90,000 at the peak of outages at 9 p.m. on Monday. [...]
Environment Canada had issued wind warnings for the entire province on Monday, cautioning of gusts up to 110 km/hr.
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Pedestrians walk down the centre of the road in Moncton, N.B., as a winter storm blows through Atlantic Canada on Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25, 2017.
Pedestrians walk down the centre of the road in Moncton, N.B., as a winter storm blows through Atlantic Canada on Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25, 2017.
Even the usually rainy Pacific Northwest got the white stuff. The National Weather Service says it's only the sixth time since 1884 that downtown Portland had measurable snow — only an inch or two — on a Dec. 25.
A blizzard warning was issued Monday for portions of Maine and New Hampshire, with forecasters saying snow of up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) and wind gusts up to 50 mph (80 kph) could make travel "dangerous to impossible."
Most businesses were already shuttered on Christmas Day in New England. One of the few open was The Tobacconist cigar shop in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, where area-resident Dwayne Doherty said he welcomed the fresh blanket of snow.
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The National Weather Service in Cleveland reported the lake-effect snowfall that inundated Erie over the weekend and Christmas — and continues to fall — can now count itself as the most intense in Pennsylvania history.
Erie received 34 inches of snow on Christmas Day, not only breaking the all-time city Christmas record of 11 inches but also breaking the all-time daily snowfall record, which was 20 inches on Nov. 22, 1956.
Downtown Petoskey saw near whiteout conditions all day.
Some that live in the area woke up to upwards of 20 inches of snow overnight.
It was a lot more than many wanted to deal with, others are excited to see the snow piling up.
"Thanks for all your reports of thunder snow this morning," the NWS said on Twitter. "We have seen the lightning on lightning detection, mainly in clouds but a few cloud to ground near and W/NW of Boston."
WCVB reported that multiple lightning strikes were detected on radar around. 9:30 a.m. near Needham, Wellesley and Newton.
Comment: The Russian rocket explanation seems unlikely. Whatever the immediate cause, perhaps this has something to do with the luminescence: See: SpaceX rocket launch spooks Californians with eerie glowing trail (VIDEOS)