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Still more massive November snowfalls in the Alps - up to 3 feet in 24 hours

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:38 UTC
Monterosa
Monterosa
There have been more huge snowfalls in the Alps overnight with one resort reporting 90cm (three feet) of snow in the past 24 hours and a total of 2.4 metres (eight feet) in the last week as heavy snow storm after heavy snow storm has moved in across the Alps.

Cervinia in Italy (pictured below) reported the heaviest snow but many other resorts are reporting big accumulations too. Zermatt, over the border from Cervinia, says it has had 70cm of snow in the past 24 hours - both areas are already open from the 19-20 ski season.

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Snowflake Cold

Heavy snow in southeastern France downs trees, kills 1, knocks out power to 200,000 households


Sputnik
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 04:24 UTC
snow france
© Infos Françaises
Large snowfall in southeastern France led to a disruption of electricity supply to about 200,000 households, media reported early on Friday.

The power cuts were registered in the departments of Drome, Ardeche, Isere and Rhone, the BFMTV broadcaster reported, citing electricity supplier Enedis.

Enedis said that the power cuts had been caused by ruptured transmission lines due to trees falling on them.

Comment: And winter has yet to begin:

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Attention

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: This cycle is going to be different


Adapt 2030
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:46 UTC
US arctic blast
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
With heavier more powerful cycles at our door step we as a society need to have conversations on global food security. We as a species have even forgotten major celestial events as recently as 200 years with the meteor shower of 1833 in SE USA and the Carrington event that aurora were seen in South America. Now this year unprecedented blizzards, Arctic freezes cover the N. Hemisphere and the coldest temperature ever recorded in October in the N. Hemisphere in Utah. Changes have begun.


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Snowflake Cold

Snowfall on mountain in Oman as mercury drops below 5°C


Khaleej Times
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 19:53 UTC
snow
With mercury dropping around the Arabian Gulf, winter has officially begun in the region - with heavy rain, hail, strong winds and even snow lashing parts of the region.

A video of snowfall on a mountain in the Gulf has gone viral after it was posted on Thursday.

According to Times of Oman, snow fell in Oman's Jabal Shams early on Thursday morning as temperatures fell below 5°C.

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Snowflake

Heavy snowfall in the Pyrenees - as much as one metre

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:41 UTC
Cauterets
Cauterets
The 2019-20 season has got underway this morning in the Pyrenees.

The Alps 2500 ski area that is shared between the Spanish resorts of La Molina and Masella announced yesterday it would open this morning in order to be the first in the region to open for the ski season, as it was last year.

The Pyrenees have had some significant snowfall over the past week with many areas reporting at least 50cm of snowfall up high and some as much as a metre. The snowfall is also forecast to continue, and be heavy, through the coming weekend.

Actually the heaviest snow over the past week has been reported in the French Pyrenees where Piau Engaly (Pictured below) and La Pierre St Martin have both reported 875cm (nearly three feet) of snow in the past week.


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Ice Cube

Astrophysicist- Mini Ice Age is now accelerating

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC
piers corbyn ice age now
© Ice Age NowAstrophysicist Piers Corbyn (brother of Jeremy)

Contrary to what the politicians are trying to foist on you, a new mini ice age - a new Maunder Minimum - has already started.

"We are plunging now into a deep mini ice age," says astrophysicist Piers Corbyn. "And there is no way out."

For the next 20 years it's going to get colder and colder on average, says Corbyn.

The jet stream will be wilder. There will be more wild temperature changes, more hail events, more earthquakes, more extreme volcano events, more snow in winters, lousy summers, late springs, short autumns, and more and more crop failures.

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Snowflake Cold

Temperatures as low as -10C hit southern Germany as country gets colder


The Local (Germany)
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:43 UTC
Pumpkins in Marktoberdorf, Bavaria covered in snow on Wednesday.
© DPAPumpkins in Marktoberdorf, Bavaria covered in snow on Wednesday.
Germany has been met with wet and cloudy weather, with snow in the south, particularly at higher altitudes. Here's what the rest of the week holds.

"The weather remains dingy and uncomfortable in many places this week," Rainer Buchhop, MeteoGroup weather expert, told t-online.de.

On Thursday, stormy weather is expected throughout much of south Germany. In the morning winds of up to 75 kilometres per hour struck the southern areas of Oberallgäu, Garmisch-Partenkirchen und Berchtesgadener, leading the German Weather Service (DWD) to issue a storm warning level 2 (orange).

In many places - such as Oberstdorf in the Bavarian Alps, where the Mercury dropped to -10C on Wednesday night - there will be icy surfaces, said Buchhop.

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Snowflake Cold

Record cold temperatures across Ontario, Canada

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:15 UTC
BlackburnNews.com file photo
© Blackburn NewsBlackburnNews.com file photo
Some records go back to 1873

Weather summary for Ontario and the National Capital Region issued by Environment Canada
Wednesday 13 November 2019.

A very cold arctic airmass made its way across Ontario bringing record low temperatures. The airmass also resulted in snow squalls near Lake Huron.


Summary of record low daytime minimum temperatures in degrees Celsius:

Toronto Pearson International Airport
New Record of -13.9
Old Record of -9.6 set in 1986
Records have been kept since 1937

Hamilton Airport
New Record of -14.1
Old Record of -9.6 set in 1986
Records have been kept since 1959
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Snowflake Cold

Historically early and deadly Arctic blast breaks U.S. cold records set more than 100 years ago

John Bacon
USA TODAY
Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:53 UTC
Baby it's very cold outside
Baby it's cold outside
It was literally freezing in Florida and Alabama while parts of Maine, Michigan and New York were digging out from a foot of snow Wednesday as a historically early and deadly Arctic air mass gripped much of nation.

Records, some dating back more than 100 years, were toppled as the front continued its ferocious roll for a third day.

The entire state of Alabama was under a freeze warning as temperatures dipped into the 20s and below, breaking records at more than 100 locations. The National Weather Service in Mobile citing the "widespread, significant freeze" for Alabama and Florida's Panhandle, urged residents to protect exposed pipes, keep pets warm and check on neighbors.

In Florida, the average low temperature for November in Pensacola is 50 degrees. It was 20 degrees colder Wednesday morning.

"30 here near Pensacola Beach," tweeted resident Robert Pooley. "Hate it!"

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Cloud Grey

Parts of South Island, New Zealand 'snapping back to winter' with 0C morning

Brittney Deguara
Stuff
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:04 UTC
Central Otago's Alexandra was feeling the cold this morning.
© JOHN BISSET/STUFFCentral Otago's Alexandra was feeling the cold this morning.
Summer might be 18 days away, but it is feeling like winter never left in some parts of the country.

Central Otago and Alexandra woke to a cool Tuesday morning, with temperatures dropping down to 0 degrees Celsius. That was in contrast to the warm highs of last week, where some areas hit the 30s.

MetService meteorologist Tahlia Crabtree said it would have felt like they were "snapping back to winter".

Parts of the South Island were below 10°C on Tuesday morning - Queenstown got down to 1.6C, but it felt like -1C, according to the MetService website.
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