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Ottawa just had its coldest & snowiest winter storm in over 120 years


OttawaStart.com
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 06:09 UTC
Ottawa winter storm
© ASHLEY FRASER / POSTMEDIAA woman shoves along Adelaide Street after Ottawa was hit with a winter storm Sunday Jan. 20, 2019.

The winter storm that, as of Sunday afternoon, is still passing through the region, was the coldest & snowiest Ottawa has seen since before the dawn of the 20th century.

Rolf Campbell, who tweets @YOW_Weather, observed that the storm - with a high reaching minus 18 degrees and two-day snow accumulation in surplus of 25 centimetres - was rivaled only by Feb. 8, 1895, when the max temperature was 17.8 degrees and accumulation exceeded 45 centimetres.

(There was also a snowstorm on Jan. 18, 1934 where it was minus 18.3 degrees, but the accumulation was only 15.2 centimetres.)

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Lake Tahoe ski resorts receive 1 ½ feet of snow in 24 hours - just days after storms dumped 4 feet in 48 hours


Tahoe Daily Tribune
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:48 UTC
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A winter storm that moved through the region Sunday dumped 1 ½ feet of snow at some Lake Tahoe ski resorts.

Here are 24-hour snow totals reported by resorts in the South Lake Tahoe and Incline Village areas on Monday morning.

Kirkwood Mountain Resort reports 18 inches in 24 hours.

Heavenly Mountain Resort reports 18 inches in 24 hours

Diamond Peak Ski Resort reports 14 inches in 24 hours.


Comment: Details of the earlier event: Storms bring 4 feet of snow in 48 hours to Sierra Nevada resorts

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Europe setting a super freeze trend - 3rd year in a row


Adapt 2030
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:29 UTC
A car covered in snow in Obertauern, Austria
© CHRISTIAN BRUNA/EPAA car covered in snow in Obertauern, Austria. The storms have trapped motorists in their vehicles in Germany and stranded residents and tourists in Austrian alpine villages cut off by blocked roadways.
Third year in a row of extreme snowfall events for Europe. Grand Solar Minimum intensification forecast these amplifications, and these are the totals for 2019, but the real extremes will show around 2020-2021.

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Three meters of heavy snowfall hits Dersim, Turkey


Rudaw
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 19:01 UTC
A man shovels snow from the roof of a house in the eastern city of Elazığ, Jan. 16, 2019.
A man shovels snow from the roof of a house in the eastern city of Elazığ, Jan. 16, 2019.
Northern areas of Kurdistan are blanketed by meters of snow.

The regions are very mountainous and just several hundred feet can affect whether it snows or rains.

In Ovacik (Pulur) town in Turkey, 3 meters of snow has fallen and it is causing problems for locals. It is located in Dersim province.

"The roads are blocked; we have to clear them. When we reach them we need to open the springs and water for the livestock. The barns are also covered with snow. We clear them and feed the livestock," said local shepherd Omed Jandash.

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Brutal Arctic blast overtakes eastern US with wind chill falling to -30F degrees in some areas

Daniel Manzo and Emily Shapiro
ABC News
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:33 UTC
The Arctic blast is producing wind chill alerts and gusts of up to 50 mph
The Arctic blast is producing wind chill alerts and gusts of up to 50 mph
After a winter storm brought up to 2 feet of snow to parts of the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, brutally cold temperatures swept through the eastern U.S. Monday.

Temperatures Monday morning were 30 to 40 degrees colder than just a day earlier in some areas. In Philadelphia, it was 48 degrees on Sunday morning and a biting 12 degrees on Monday.

Wind chills are expected to remain dangerously cold all day, and parts of the Northeast wind gusts could reach 50 mph.

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Ice Age Farmer Report: Tropical frosts: Food prices exploding & 'Pole Shift' in Media


Ice Age Farmer
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:29 UTC
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Tropical frosts and shifting growing zones -- not "Just Winter." Christian stresses the need for maximum discernment, as a flurry of news articles about the magnetic pole shift hit, muddying the information space.


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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Moscow winter thunderstorms - Etna erupts - Middle East snows


Adapt 2030
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:17 UTC
Heavy snowfall created traffic problems in areas of the Kingdom on Wednesday night
© Amjad GhsounHeavy snowfall created traffic problems in areas of the Kingdom on Wednesday night.
Unusual fog, thunderstorms, blizzard and lightning in Moscow and parts of Russia, the front is heading to Kazakhstan. More mixed up jet streams with electrical storms over Malta as Etna on Sicily erupts and a second major snow storm blankets Jordan and Lebanon.


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At least four dead in Lebanon as severe weather sweeps through region


The National
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:34 UTC
An aerial view shows an informal tent settlement housing Syrian refugees in the area of Delhamiyeh, in the central Bekaa Valley.
© AFPAn aerial view shows an informal tent settlement housing Syrian refugees in the area of Delhamiyeh, in the central Bekaa Valley.
At least four people have been killed in Lebanon, including a Syrian girl and her brother, after heavy rain and snow battered the country.

Storm Miriam - also referred to by some Lebanese officials as Storm Tracy - is the second to hit the Eastern Mediterranean country this month after Norma, which struck on January 6.

One person was killed and 10 injured on Tuesday in a vehicle collision caused by poor visibility, the Daily Star said.

The first storm had a devastating effect on more than 20,000 refugees living in tents in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and areas in the country's north, displacing many whose shelters were either flooded or destroyed by snow.

Comment: Details of the earlier storm referred to above: Storm packing snow and rain paralyzes parts of Lebanon

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Stunning footage captures snow-covered building in Ennstal Alps, Austria


Aol
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:08 UTC
House Completely Covered
Barbara Reiter captured stunning footage of a snow-covered house in the majestic Eisenerzer Reichenstein mountain range in the Ennstal Alps in Styria, Austria, on January 16.The region had been hit with weeks of heavy snow leading to evacuations. Egineers from the armed forces were working to clear snow off buildings, according to reports.


Credit: Barbara Reiter via Storyful

Comment: Elsewhere across Europe in the Balkans the following image has emerged on social media from Bosnia and Herzegovina depicting the extraordinary depth of the snow for some parts of that region:



While from Poland during the past week the following images were posted:






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Storms bring 4 feet of snow in 48 hours to Sierra Nevada resorts

Paul Rogers
The Mercury News
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 19:05 UTC
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows
Snowpack up to 103 percent of normal after slow winter start

A wave of steady storms this week, capped off Wednesday night by a powerful atmospheric river event that caused the National Weather Service to issue a rare blizzard warning, brought more than four feet of snow to some Lake Tahoe-area ski resorts.

The huge snowfall boosted the statewide Sierra snowpack to 103 percent of normal on Thursday, up from just 69 percent on Jan. 1.

It also comes ahead of one of the biggest California ski weekends of the year, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday weekend.

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