Robert W. Felix Ice Age Now Fri, 28 Sep 2018 19:31 UTC
Not just for the day, mind you, but for the entire month.
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Greetings Robert! I am a follower and Reader of Iceagenow living in Munich Germany and I think this bit of news is worth posting on iceagenow.
Just like in the Netherlands, Germany is also experiencing record low temps for September! Just days after Summer officially ended, an unusually strong Polar Air mass with record subfreezing temperatures has settled across West Central Europe.
Here is the Graphic and Translated Text from Wetteronline.de
Sydney Morning Herald has a spooky headline Arctic Methane seeping from lakes its runaway global warming greenhouse gasses, oh wait, its a remote lake off the Brooks Range in Alaska's North Slope oil and gas production areas. It gets better, they blame humans for causing permafrost melt but then say this methane isn't from permafrost melt its an oil field seep, all they while forgetting record cold and crop losses in W. Australia during the same week. So much for unbiased media.
A 22-year old hiker died at the hospital in Sibiu after a blizzard caught him on a ridge at over 2000 meters in the Fagaras mountains.
The mountain rescuers brought him and the girl who was with him down from the mountain, but the doctors couldn't save him, local Digi24 reported. He suffered from extreme hypothermia and was in critical condition. The girl who was with him was also admitted in the hospital with hypothermia and frostbites.
The mountain rescuers said the hikers had mountain equipment suitable for this period of the year but that the weather conditions were extreme and only winter equipment could have saved the young climber.
The weather in Romania got very cold at the beginning of this week and it even snowed at over 2000 meters. The famous high-altitude roads Transalpina and Transfagarasan were covered in snow and the mountain rescuers were called to help some tourists who were blocked by snow on Transalpina and had to sleep in their cars.
Earlier tremors destroyed houses, killing one person and injuring at least 10
A powerful earthquake has struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning.
The huge 7.5 magnitude quake was recorded near the island of Sulawesi, east of Borneo, the US Geological Survey said.
Authorities lifted an early tsunami warning within an hour, although officials warned those in the area to remain vigilant as a number of aftershocks hit.
Comment: Earthquake Track reports the depth as being just 10 kms and the event having 5 strong aftershocks in the subsequent hour.
Two climbers were buried in a 2.5 size avalanche on Mt. Athabasca, Sept. 19. Both suffered serious, but non life-threatening injuries.
An early season avalanche swept away two climbers on Mount Athabasca in Jasper National Park last week, prompting Parks Canada to issue an early season avalanche warning.
The two climbers from Jasper were roped together on the Silverhorn route when they triggered a 2.5 size avalanche around 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday (Sept. 19). The female leader was partially buried, and her male climbing partner helped dig her out.
The avalanche dragged them 600 metres down the side of the mountain before they came to a stop below the ramp of the north glacier. They were flown by helicopter to the Jasper hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
"The leader described the climbing as 'styrofoam like' snow," according to a report by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG).
The first snowcap of the season is seen on Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters, on Sept. 26, 2018.
The snow was announced by the Kofu Local Meteorological Office in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture.
This year's first snowcap came four days earlier than average, and 27 days earlier than last year.
Local officials at the office observed the snow-topped mountain during an about 20-minute break in the cloud cover from 1:30 p.m. on Sept. 26. At 1 p.m. that day, the temperature at the top of the mountain was 2.2 degrees Celsius, after dropping to minus 5.1 degrees at 11 p.m. the previous night.
With a maximum temperature of 10.9 degrees measured in De Bilt, Sunday was officially the coldest September 23rd ever measured in the Netherlands, Weeronline reports. The previous cold record for this day was 11.5 degrees on September 23rd, 1974. Sunday was also the coldest day in the Netherlands since April 5th.
The chilly weather on Sunday stood in stark contrast against the warm late summer weather of the past week. On Tuesday Maastricht even had a last tropical day, with a maximum above 30 degrees.
This is the third cold record broken in the Netherlands this year. The other two cold records were for the coldest February 28th and March 17th ever measured. The country also counted nine heat records over the summer.
Bronwen Weatherby BristolLive Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:11 UTC
Snow at Filton train station in Bristol
Winter is coming and this year's could be one of the coldest on record, according to one meteorologist.
The long-range weather forecaster predicts the climate could surpass even the Beast fron the East, which caused disruption between February and March this year.
The cause is believe to be 'supercharged' low-pressure systems, say weather forecast website El Nino.
A band of warm ocean air could bring a change in the weather's behaviour resulting in chilly temperatures across the UK.
Combined with a drop in solar activity, this winter could be one of the coldest in recent years with freezing winds, buckets of snow and minus temperatures all a possibility throughout the season.
Over 1,500 tourists are still stranded in snow-marooned Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday adding that the evacuation is on but it might take days.
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has instructed officials to evacuate those stranded on a priority basis, a statement said.
A total of 300 people were evacuated by Tuesday evening most of whom were faculty and students from IITs Mandi, Roorkee, Guwahati and Mumbai and some foreigners.
On Wednesday as the weather cleared, the state government and the Indian Air Force (IAF) stepped up their efforts to airlift tourists stranded for the past four days.
Comment: See also: Early snowfall hits Sibiu, Romania