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Snowfall, blizzard cause traffic disruptions across Romania


Romania Insider
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:12 UTC
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Roads and railways have closed, trains have been canceled and schools have closed across the country after the recent snowfall and blizzard.

The A2 highway, linking Bucharest to Constanța, a city on the Romanian Black Sea coast, closed on the evening of February 5 because of the blizzard, G4media.ro reported.

In Buzău, Brăila, Ialomița and Tulcea counties, all national and county roads were closed between 22:00 and 08:00 for all vehicles, except the intervention ones.

In Harghita and Covasna counties segments of national roads were closed for traffic after trees fell onto the roads, while the blizzard closed national roads in Constanța county (DN 2A Hârșova - Ovidiu and DN22 Ovidiu - Tulcea). In Prahova county, the traffic was blocked on the national road DN1A Ploiești - Cheia because of the trees that had fallen down, while the DN 71 Sinaia - Moroieni was closed because of the blizzard. Similarly, roads were closed in Galati county (DN24 D Galați-Bârlad) and in Călărași county (DN 3 Călărași - Lehliu - Fundulea, DN3A Fetești - Lehliu, DN 31 Oltenița - Călărași, DN 21 Călărași - Slobozia and DN 3B Călărași- Borcea) because of the blizzard.

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Villages without electricity, water due to 2 meters of snowfall in Bosnia and Herzegovina


Sarajevo Times
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 20:10 UTC
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Due to strong winds and snow, all the villages around Sokolac are without electricity and the city is without water.

Sokolac Mayor Milovan Bjelica told RTRS that snowfall in some villages exceeds two meters.

He said the mechanization was working to maintain the main roads and that private machines for cleaning roads to the villages were also employed.

"The routes to the centers of the local communities are mostly walkable, but the villages are all blocked. I am in constant contact with the commander of the Police Station and the director of the Forestry Department, whose teams are on the field towards Kalina, where a lot of trees fell on the road and created additional problems," said Bjelica.

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Big snows: Another snowfall record broken in Revelstoke area in British Columbia

Liam Harrap
Keremeos Review
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:34 UTC
Avalanche control at Three Valley Gap
© Ministry of TransportationAvalanche control at Three Valley Gap
Three Valley Gap received record breaking snowfalls for January

It's been a record year for snow levels at Three Valley Gap, roughly 20 km west of Revelstoke on Highway 1.

Although the season started below average in November, the Ministry of Transportation noted record breaking snowfalls for both December and January.

Three Valley Gap received 287 cm of snow in December, which is 171 per cent above average and record breaking. It also got 233 cm last month, which is 145 per cent above average and a new record for January.
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State of The Climate Report 2020

Tony Heller
Real Climate Science
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:37 UTC
The Climate is fine, but climate science is a catastrophe - and Congressional Democrats demand a censorship plan from Google by tomorrow.
AP News Clip
© Associated PressU.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
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Big White ski resort in British Columbia breaks snowfall record

Paul Clarke
Vernon Morning Star
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 20:14 UTC
Big White Ski Resort is having a record-breaking season.
© Big White Ski ResortBig White Ski Resort is having a record-breaking season.
As of this morning, the resort has recorded a cumulative snowfall of 615 cm and it's still snowing.

Well that didn't take long.

Big White Ski Resort received 25 cm of snow in the last 24 hours, helping the resort break its all-time snowfall record by five centimetres set in 2015.

As of this morning (Feb. 6), the resort has recorded a cumulative snowfall of 615 cm and it's still snowing.

With so much snow the resort has already announced it will remain open until the third week of April, which is about a week longer than usual.
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San Diego airport just tied a cold record from 1894

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:44 UTC
San Diego


At least FOUR San Diego County National Weather Service (NWS) stations reported record-breaking temps Wednesday morning, as brutal Arctic air continues to ravage the Western half of the CONUS.

The frigid air mass currently tearing up record books across the Western U.S. took names in San Diego overnight Tuesday. Record lows were busted across the majority of the county as the mercury dipped into the 20s (and below).

Yenny on Twitter put it best:


I've taken the time to list a few of the new "cold af" records below (data courtesy of the NWS):
  • Ramona's low temperature of 19F (-7.2C) busted the previous record of 23F set in 2002.
  • El Cajon's and Vista's lows of 30F (-1.1C) beat records of 31F and 32F, respectively, set in 1985.
  • While the San Diego International Airport tied its record of 38F (3.3C) set way back in 1894!
A number of freeze warnings will remain in place for the county through Thursday.
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Ice Age Farmer Report: Plagues of locusts, pestilence, and famine: 2020


Ice Age Farmer
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:01 UTC
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© EPAMen run through a swarm of desert locusts to chase them away in the bush near Enziu, Kitui County, some 200km east of the capital Nairobi, Kenya.
The worst plague of locusts in a century threatens food security of hundreds of millions of people. They have destroyed 40-50% of Pakistan's crops, prompting a National Emergency declaration.

The media is both promoting AND debunking the "Grand Solar Minimum," sowing confusion.

China's Coronavirus quarantine is eviscerating their agriculture.


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Fierce cold, even record cold, in Kamchatka, Russia

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:35 UTC
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The weather in Chukotka and Kamchatka has noticeably deteriorated.

Both in the continental regions of Chukotka and in Kamchatka it is now much colder than it should be on the calendar. The temperature anomaly reaches 6-8 degrees.

In Kamchatka, and in the southeast, the cold reached a record. In Nachiki, on the morning of February 4, the air cooled to -43.4°C. The previous record, -42.7 °C, held since 1973.

Not only cold, but also blizzards with a sharp gusty wind (up to 24 m/s) came both to Kamchatka and Chukotka. And this weather will last some more time.

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Violent storm leaves Italy's Mount Etna covered in snow as temperatures drop by 20 degrees C


Yahoo! News
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:13 UTC
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A storm in Catania, near Mount Etna, has covered in snow as temperatures dropped 20 degrees Celsius in just 24 hours.

Filmed on February 5, the footage shows snow blanketing the nearby region combined with winds up to 130kmph.

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38 dead in eastern Turkey as second avalanche buries rescuers of people trapped in first avalanche - UPDATE: Death toll increases to 41


Yahoo! News
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 19:26 UTC
The bodies of more than two dozen rescue workers and civilians were discovered in Van province, where they had been helping dig out a minibus buried by a first avalanche late Tuesday
The bodies of more than two dozen rescue workers and civilians were discovered in Van province, where they had been helping dig out a minibus buried by a first avalanche late Tuesday
At least 33 people were killed in eastern Turkey Wednesday by a second avalanche which buried a team of rescuers searching for people hit by the first the day before.

The bodies of 33 rescue workers and civilians were discovered in Van province, where they had been helping dig out a minibus buried by snow late Tuesday, the government's disaster agency AFAD said.

Five people aboard the vehicle were killed, taking the overall toll to 38. Eight people had been rescued alive from the first avalanche.

Television images showed dozens of people scrambling up the mountains, digging through snow in blizzards to find those trapped under the snow.


Comment: Local media reports the death toll from this double tragedy is up to 41 as of February 6th.

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