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Snowflake

More weird weather hits Australia; snow falls in Tasmania just days ahead of summer


Yahoo7 News
Thu, 24 Nov 2016 01:43 UTC
snow in Tasmania November 2016
© Tasmanian Rover Ski Club.Snow falling in Tassie has sent internet punters into a tail spin.
Just when you think the weather in Australia can't get any weirder, it always manages to, and then some.

With summer merely days away it has begun to snow in Tasmania.

Footage shows snow falling in our southern most state late Wednesday afternoon has gone viral and left internet users stunned.

The footage was uploaded to the Tasmanian Rover Ski Club social media accounts as a possible last minute push for potential ski bunnies to flock to the slopes.

"It is only 7 days until summer though you would not think that on Ben Lomond late this afternoon," the post reads.

The footage has been viewed over 170,000 times since it was first posted.

The temperature today in Tasmania will reach a low of 7 degrees.

Tasmanians could be witnessing a new trend, the Apple Isle having been struck by out-of-season around the same time last November and again in February this year.

In stark contrast, neighbouring Victoria this week experienced severe thunderstorms, high winds, grassfires and a steep drop in temperature from a November record high - all in one day.

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Igloo

November snow in Tokyo - First time in 50-years


Sputnik News
Thu, 24 Nov 2016 05:13 UTC
Snowing November in Tokyo
© AP Photo/Koji SasaharaPeople walk against blowing snow in Tokyo.
Japan's capital is experiencing November snow for the first time in more than 50 years, data from the Japan Meteorological Agency shows.The snowfall was registered on Thursday morning in central Tokyo. It was also snowing in the cities of Yokohama, Kofu, Utsunomiya and Maebashi. According to the NHK broadcaster, this is the first time that it is snowing in November in Tokyo in 54 years.

Japan's meteorologists do not exclude that by Friday morning, there could be up to two centimeters (almost one inch) of snow in Tokyo.

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Snowflake Cold

Siberian snow theory points to early, frigid winter in U.S.

Brian K Sullivan
Bloomberg
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 03:10 UTC
winter siberia
© Andrey Rudakov/BloombergA frozen road in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia.
  • U.S. could get a blast of cold from north to south in December
  • MIT scientist's research contradicts prevailing U.S. forecasts
For those cursing the unseasonable November chill, there's an ominous sign up north. It suggests this winter will be long and cold, according to one eminent scientist.

He's the father of the "Siberian Snow Theory." In a nutshell, he argues that the more snow covering the ground in northern Eurasia, the colder we can expect it down below. Sadly, Siberia is looking pretty white already.

Judah Cohen, a renowned MIT climatologist, has been working on this theory for 17 years, despite skepticism from some U.S. government weather experts. Cohen, who figures his theory has been right 75 percent of the time, spies all the makings of an early, cold winter.

"This year, we have had this very textbook situation," Cohen said.

Comment: The signs are already here, with early snowfalls and cold records already being set:

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Control Panel

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration adjustments correspond exactly to their confirmation bias

Tony Heller
Real Climate Science
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:48 UTC
Climate
Thermometers show the US cooling since about 1920, but NOAA massively cools the past to create the appearance of a warming trend.

Comment: See also: The coming ice age - Antarctic peninsula has been cooling not warming

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Snowflake Cold

Officials declare 'yellow alert' for severe cold weather in China


Shanghai Daily
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:59 UTC
Snowplows clear a main road in Mudanjiang City in northeastern Heilongjiang Province yesterday. Heavy snow fall since Friday has closed several expressways in the province.
© Xinhua Snowplows clear a main road in Mudanjiang City in northeastern Heilongjiang Province yesterday. Heavy snow fall since Friday has closed several expressways in the province.
China's national observatory yesterday issued a yellow alert for a cold front that is forecast to sweep central and eastern China.

From today until Thursday, temperatures in most of the central and eastern part of the country are expected to drop by 6 to 10 degrees Celsius, said the National Meteorological Center.

In some parts of Henan, Anhui, Hubei and Hunan provinces, the temperature will drop by up to 16 degrees, said the NMC.

Yellow is the second-most severe level on China's four-level color weather alert scheme.

The cold front will be accompanied by gales, rain and snow.

Meanwhile, under the influence of a strong cold spell, parts of Beijing have been hit by snowfall since early yesterday.

Much of the capital city has been hit with snow after 8pm yesterday.

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Info

Global warming fraud: NOAA shows record warming where NO temperature stations exist

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Sun, 20 Nov 2016 06:57 UTC
NOAA global warming fraud
© YouTube/Adapt 2030
NOAA shows record warm temperatures where there are no temperature monitoring stations or ocean buoys, that is straight up fraud. From Africa, Middle East and Antarctica, all made up data. All the while second most snow for Northern Hemisphere and RSS land stations show strong cooling and the sunspots are gone from our Sun three years early on the regular 11 year solar cycle.


Comment: See also:

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Snowflake

Record snowfall of 11 feet at Revelstoke Mountain Resort, British Columbia

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:18 UTC
Revelstoke Mountain Resort
Revelstoke Mountain Resort
"Epic Conditions - 340cm of Snow so Far!" More than 11 feet!

"With 2 weeks left before the season starts on December 3rd, Revelstoke Mountain Resort has maintained it's historic snowfall with 340cm of snow so far and a base of 100cm.

"We have record amounts of snow"

See Revelstoke webcams:

Revelstoke Snow Report

No! I need a spade! Not a bloody fishing rod!
No! I need a spade! Not a bloody fishing rod!
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Snowflake

Record November snowfall of 43 inches in Xinjiang, China

New China TV
You Tube
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:54 UTC
A person holding an umbrella walks in the snow in Atlay in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on November 15, 2016.
© VCGA person holding an umbrella walks in the snow in Atlay in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on November 15, 2016.
Snowstorms have paralyzed traffic and halted flights in Altay prefecture in NW China's Xinjiang, following 50 hours of blizzards in the region.

In mountainous areas, 43 inches of snow has been reported, setting a new record for November.


Snow cleaners clear snow in Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 16, 2016. The local authority launched a level-four emergency response after the city's snowstorm continued past 50 hours.
© Xinhua/Ye Erjiang Snow cleaners clear snow in Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 16, 2016. The local authority launched a level-four emergency response after the city's snowstorm continued past 50 hours.
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Chalkboard

Mathematician claims one in 500 chance of extinction next year

Alexandra Sims
The Independent, UK
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 16:17 UTC
Earth
© NASAThe calculation is based on the Doomsday Argument.
The human race faces a one in 500 chance of extinction in the next year, an expert mathematician has claimed.

Dr Fergus Simpson, a mathematician at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos Sciences, said there was a 0.2 per cent chance of a "global catastrophe" occurring in any given year over the course of the 21st Century.

The calculation is based on the Doomsday Argument, which it is claimed can predict the number of future members of the human species given an estimate of the total number of humans born so far.

"Our key conclusion is that the annual risk of global catastrophe currently exceeds 0.2 per cent," Dr Simpson wrote in an academic paper called Apocalypse Now? Reviving the Doomsday Argument, accessed through Cornell University's online library.

"In a year when Leicester City FC were crowned Premier League champions, we are reminded that events of this rarity can prove challenging to anticipate, yet they should not be ignored," he added.

According to Dr Simpson's calculations, around 100 billion people have already been born and a similar number will be born in the future before the human race expires.

He estimated there was a 13 per cent chance humanity would fail to see out the 21st Century.

This is a more optimistic conclusion than previous studies, with British Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees suggesting there was a 50 per cent probability of human extinction by the year 2100 in his 2003 book Our Final Hour.
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Ice Cube

Heavy snow, blizzard conditions snarl traffic across midwestern U.S.

Renee Duff
AccuWeather
Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:52 UTC
While the blizzard has come to an end, lake-effect snow and squalls will continue to develop over the Great Lakes this weekend. For more information, please visit this news story. High winds, heavy snow and localized blizzard conditions caused travel chaos across the midwestern United States late this past week.

After dumping over a foot of snow across the northern and central Rockies on Thursday, a storm with heavy snow and high winds shifted into the Midwest on Friday. The heaviest snow fell from Nebraska and South Dakota to portions of Minnesota and Ontario, where snowfall totals ranged from several inches to nearly a foot. Nearly 14 inches of snow was reported in Cass County, Minnesota.
Storm map
© AccuWeather
There was a sharp variation in snowfall on the northern and southern fringes, where a few miles meant the difference between a couple of inches of snow and more than half a foot. Blizzard conditions unfolded across these areas as wind gusts in excess of 50 mph howled from the north and northwest. The combination of heavy snow and high winds led to blowing and drifting snow, near-zero visibility and extremely dangerous travel along area roadways.

The first flakes of the season in Denver resulted in a deadly 20-car pileup along Interstate 70 near Evergreen, just outside of Denver. Parts of the highway were closed at multiple times throughout the evening. As many as 340 crashes and 550 spinouts were reported on Minnesota roadways on Friday, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Two people were killed and another 37 were injured.
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