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© adnsur.comAn unusual frost hit Rio Colorado, Argentina last week at the height of the summer
The event was recorded on February 26, 2019, when a local weather station registered below freezing temperatures that reached -1.1 °C (30 °F) in parts of the productive area and -2.0 °C (28.4 °F) in other areas. The low temperatures also surprised some localities south of La Pampa, where temperatures of -3.8 °C (25.1 °F) were recorded.
The frost lasted 4 hours, causing direct damage pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, melons, watermelons and other vegetable crops to a lesser extent.
Agronomist Pilar Muniz said frost at this time is unusual. No one expected it and so producers were not prepared against it.
"In this sector, we expect the first frosts at the end of March, early April, but not at this time," Muniz said.
© Josh Brogadir14” of snow in Norwood
A major snowstorm hit the Northeast overnight, shuttering public schools in New York City and Boston.
Over 580 flights have been canceled for the day. The most affected so far are Boston's Logan International Airport, LaGuardia in New York City and Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
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Usually snowing ends in Galyat KPK in the mid of January but its astonishing that that snow is still on in the month of March 2019.
© Joe Ahlquist/The Rochester Post-BulletinRick Brewer, of Red Wing, Minn., sits in his pickup after getting stuck in drifted snow on U.S. Highway 63 Monday after heavy snow and winds over the weekend north of Zumbro Falls, Minn.
Lucas Sjostrom, executive director of the Minnesota Milk Producers Association, said some tanker trucks haven't been able get down snow-choked rural roads to pick up milk.
"There are tons and tons of dairies around the state that had to dump milk in recent days," he said. "I know it's in the hundreds. It may be over 1,000 dairies."
Sjostrom also said roofs caved in on at least 20 Minnesota dairy barns — in some cases killing and injuring cows.
He said a roof failure was the final straw for a fifth-generation Olmsted County farm family, who sold their herd after years of low milk prices.
February was a recording breaking month for snowfall in eastern Idaho and just over the border into Wyoming. Island Park, Picabo in Blaine County, Stanley, Swan Valley and Jackson, Wyoming all broke snowfall records for February.
"A lot of near-record or record-breaking snowfall totals for the month of February. Island Park takes the proverbial cake with this one," National Weather Service Meteorologist Alex DeSmet told EastIdahoNews.com.
Island Park received a total of 105.6 inches of snow in February. The previous record was 78 inches in 1949. That's a difference of 27.6 inches.
"It's already a snow place and to break the record by that wide of a margin is pretty impressive," DeSmet said.
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© ricarg63 / InstagramColdest February on record for Vancouver
In fact, February 2019 was the coldest February on record in Metro Vancouver since the records began in 1937. Not only did the month see some frigid temperatures, but they also persisted throughout the month.
Vancouver Is Awesome spoke to Matt MacDonald, Meteorologist, Environment Canada, who explained just how the chilly the month was.
"We typically see around seven days in the double digits during the month of February," he described. "We didn't have a single day above 10 degrees this month."
"The preliminary numbers have us at 22.5 inches of snow, averaging across the state, which would break the record set in 1962," State Climatologist Justin Glisan announced this morning.
Having nearly two feet of snow fall in Iowa in February is not normal.
"In a given February, we typically get 6.8 inches over the 30 year average, so — yes — it's a lot more snow than we tend to get," Glisan told Radio Iowa.
Record-breaking snow, Minneapolis
In Minneapolis, it was the snowiest month since 1991 and now is the 4th snowiest month on record.
The February record was shattered with 39.0″ (previous record was 26.5″ from 1962).
Comment: Crop and cattle losses are on the rise everywhere, whether it is due to extensive drought, massive hail, epic flooding, unexpected frosts, and even epidemics. See also: Erratic seasons and extreme weather devastating crops around the world