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Drone video: Massive, growing snow-dump hill looms over town in Sweden


The Local (Sweden)
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:13 UTC
How to make a mountain out of a snow hill.
© Joacim Eriksson/ScreenshotHow to make a mountain out of a snow hill.
A growing hill at a snow dump site in the town of Sundsvall has wowed local residents and gone viral in Sweden.

Sundsvall, on Sweden's east coast, has had an unusually snowy winter, as The Local has previously reported. Snow ploughs and trucks have been hard at work clearing the snow from the city centre and dumping it on the outskirts of town, creating this "mountain".

Joacim Eriksson shared this incredible drone video of the snow mountain. Watch it below:


Sundsvalls Tidning reports that the hill is made up of 500,000 cubic metres of snow.
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Delayed spring in Romania means delayed crops

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 19:58 UTC
snow in Romania
Most of Romania covered by snow - A "very rare event."

"From what I've noticed spring is delayed by a month this year, which is not a joke," says reader. "It will subsequently affect the crops that will be delayed."

"March was another winter month in most of Europe, which is extremely unusual. Myself I can't remember such a thick snow by this day in many areas.

"Most of Romania is covered by snow at 24th March. Very rare event, I'm not sure if it happened before since the weather is recorded.

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Germany covered by glaciers 100,000 years earlier than previously thought - implications for arrival of the first people


Max Planck Institute
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:00 UTC
This boulder in the gravel pit Rehbach in Saxony, Germany, was transported from Scandinavia by glaciers 450,000 years ago.
© MPI f. Evolutionary AnthropologyThis boulder in the gravel pit Rehbach in Saxony, Germany, was transported from Scandinavia by glaciers 450,000 years ago.
New chronological data for the Middle Pleistocene glacial cycles push back the first glaciation and early human appearance in central Germany by about 100.000 years.

Using state-of-the-art dating techniques researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have obtained new chronological data for the timing of the Elsterian and Saalian glacial cycles in central Germany. They found that the first Quaternary glaciation, which covered huge parts of Europe in ice, occurred as early as 450,000 years ago and not - as previously thought - around 350,000 years ago. The researcher further showed that once these glaciers had retreated, the first people appeared in central Germany around 400,000 years ago.

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Snowflake

Early spring snowfall and floods bring havoc to the Balkans


Daily Mail
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:12 UTC
A municipal worker clears ice and snow from the platforms of the Gara de Nord, the main railway station in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, March 23, 2018.
A municipal worker clears ice and snow from the platforms of the Gara de Nord, the main railway station in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, March 23, 2018.
Heavy snow and flooding wreaked havoc across large parts of the Balkans on Friday, forcing road closures, flooding homes and stopping ferries along the Adriatic coast.

The spate of fresh snow came as Croatia was already struggling to contain overflowing rivers that were swollen from melting snow.

Croatian authorities said that only small vehicles were allowed on main roads leading toward the coast while trucks or buses could not pass. Citizens have been urged to avoid traveling.

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Snowflake Cold

70% crop losses due to extreme weather in Australia

Jess Davis
ABC Australia
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:21 UTC
crop losses NSW
© ABC Rural: Jess DavisTo the naked eye this wheat crop looks good, but inside are damaged grains.
It was always going to be a big ask for the nation's grain crop to reach last year's record breaker, but extreme weather events across the country have guaranteed the harvest is well down on last year.

Some grain-growing regions have even reported a drop of more than 70 per cent on last year's harvest.

In the north of the country grain farmers battled extreme dry, in NSW and Victoria a late frost and record rains damaged crops, and WA made a comeback late in the season with much-needed rain.

Dry winter impacts yields

For Matthew Dart who farms at Merriwagga in southern NSW it's a harvest he was happy to see the back of.

"It was one of those years where any mistake in any given sequence you were penalised so heavily," he said.

Comment: Weather patterns are out of sync, in particular global temperatures are plummeting, and as a consequence we're seeing devastating crop losses all over the world:

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Saharan dust cloaks Crete skies, record snow in Algeria and Cyclone in France


Adapt 2030
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:55 UTC
dust storm
Massive Saharan dust cloud covers Crete, other areas along eastern Med including Cyprus and Turkey will be in the path tomorrow. Romania blizzard and the dust from Africa will collide over the Black Sea area in what is sure to be a once in a lifetime display of nature. Cyclone Hugo set to make landfall in Bay of Biscay France, Record snow in Algeria, and Spain such heavy snow dump that the Port of Montenegro is closed due to snow on the road. Welcome to the new Grand Solar Minimum !


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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Super rare March snow for North Africa, southern Spain and French beaches


Adapt 2030
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:41 UTC
snow Algeria
© TSA
European Superfreeze 2.0 brings snow on French Beaches, Record snow in Spain and what can only be considered super extra double unusual snow in Algeria during March. Dust storms with density of sand in the air that can only be described as a "Sand Blaster in the Atmosphere" and massive 1 KG / 2LB+ hail in the USA. The intensification of the Grand Solar Minimum has hit its step forward. You are on your own, you need to prepare.


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It's official: New York City hasn't witnessed snow like this in 130 years

Harry Enten
CNN
Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:03 UTC
NYC hasn't seen snow like this in 130 years
NYC hasn't seen snow like this in 130 years
The snow has been falling all day in New York City.

For most New Yorkers, the snow was probably a drag. For a record seeker like myself, this late season snow storm allowed me to catch my snow white whale.

This marks the fifth consecutive season that at least 30 inches of snow have fallen in New York City. The only other recorded time it snowed this much, for this long a period, was back in the 1880s (records begin in the 1869-1870 season). That five-year stretch occurred mostly during the presidential administration of Chester A. Arthur, another president who made a name for himself in New York.

As of 8 p.m., 6.7 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park in Manhattan, the official measurement site for snow in Manhattan. More snow has fallen since then, but that alone put New York over 30 inches of snow for the season. Before the storm, New York City had only 27 inches of snow recorded for the season.
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Almost 16 feet of snow falls in 18 days across California's Sierra Nevada

Chris Dolce
The Weather Channel
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:47 UTC
Nearly 16 Feet of Snow Fell in California's Sierra Nevada in 18 Days
Nearly 16 Feet of Snow Fell in California's Sierra Nevada in 18 Days
A series of storms have been a boon for California's Sierra Nevada where nearly 16 feet of snow has piled up in March, more than double the paltry seasonal total before the month began.

Through the end of February, the Lake Tahoe ski resort Alpine Meadows had received just 147 inches of snow this season at an elevation of 8,000 feet. Since then, 191 inches of snow, or nearly 16 feet, has fallen in just 18 days.

The seasonal total at the resort is now up to 338 inches. That's still a far cry from the more than 600 inches recorded there through mid-March last year, but above the 2014-15 and 2013-14 winters when less than 300 inches was tallied up.
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Late cold weather grounds hundreds of frozen storks in Bulgaria


The Guardian
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:44 UTC
Safet Halil holds a stork in his farm backyard. He found five of the stranded birds, took them home and lit a stove to warm them up, before feeding them fish.
© Dimitar DilkoffSafet Halil holds a stork in his farm backyard. He found five of the stranded birds, took them home and lit a stove to warm them up, before feeding them fish.
What would you do if you encountered scores of distressed storks covered in ice lying in a snow-covered field? In Bulgaria, people have been taking them home.

A cold snap in the north-east of the country has stranded hundreds of the migrating birds this week, covering their wings in ice and grounding them.

"I found five frozen storks near the village road the day before yesterday," Safet Halil, 53, from the village of Zaritsa, near the town of Dulovo said on Wednesday. "I took them home, lit a stove to warm them and fed them fish."

Halil, a road maintenance worker, sparked a wave of support on social media on Monday and others in the region followed his example, with more than 40 birds sheltered inside people's homes, garages or barns.

Experts said the frozen wings had forced the birds to spend the night on the ground instead of perched on trees as usual.
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