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Australian heatwave - Forgotten history

Joanne Nova
JoNova
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:32 UTC
Don't believe your lying eyes - Australian newspaper archives are full of temperatures recorded higher than 121 in the shade which is 50C. All of these temperatures in the map below are found in historic newspaper archives. Measurements done after 1910 are even done with official Stevenson screens, yet the BOM "throws them away". It's true that ones done in the 1800s are often recorded on non-standard equipment, or are just literally "in the shade" under cover. So some of these, perhaps many, are one or two degrees too high. But even if we take two degrees off, how scary is global warming when Australia knew many days of 48C and 49C and some at 50C 120 years ago? The BOM - supposedly so concerned about the State of Our Climate - show little interest in talking about our history or in analyzing it, or even mentioning it.

And modern temperatures are recorded on electronic equipment, sometimes in areas affected by urban heat islands (concrete and cars).
Forgotten History
© JoNova
50C temperatures have occurred all over Australia before

Australians have been recording temperatures of over 50C since 1828, right across the country. In 1896 the heat was so bad for weeks that people fled on emergency trains to escape the inland heat. Millions of birds fell from the sky in 1932 due to the savage hot spell.

Comment:
Australia heatwave: Dozens of wild horses found dead at dried-up waterhole

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Winter Storms Indra & Harper - Record cold Boston - Falling iguana alert


Adapt 2030
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:25 UTC
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Winter storms Harper and Indra blend into the same weeks headlines, record cold and more records snows. Boston breaking records back to 1878, now three locations in the northern hemisphere mimic Maunder Minimum climate.

Iguanas will fall from trees last part of January.

More record cold to follow through first week of Feb even down to Cuba.


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Wild Canadian winter: 11 feet of snow, days of -65C windchill


The Weather Network
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:18 UTC
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Just as some Canadians were beginning to doubt if a true Canadian winter would ever arrive this year, it's now safe to say most parts of the country have experienced at least some of the season's wrath. Heavy snow, flash freezes, extreme cold alerts -- we've seen it all.

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Storms dumped nearly 8 feet of snow in 7 days at Squaw Valley ski resort in California

Brendan Weber
nbcbayarea.com
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:20 UTC
Squaw Valley
© Squaw Valley Alpine MeadowsSquaw Valley, looking squeaky clean after 6 feet (1.8m) fell there in the last week. Snowfall is already well above average in the Sierras and there’s more to come Sunday and early Monday.
Thanks to Mother Nature's onslaught of recent storms, skiers and snowboarders near Lake Tahoe are shredding across several feet of fresh snow.

Storms that rolled across the Sierra Nevada over the past week dumped nearly 8 feet of snow at Squaw Valley and multiple feet of powder at a host of other nearby resorts.

Check the list below to see how much snow fell across Lake Tahoe ski resorts over the past seven days, as reported by the resorts.
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Snowflake Cold

Temperature extremes: Russia down to nearly -60 °C, Australia scorching at nearly 50 °C on January 18, 2019


Severe Weather Europe
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:27 UTC
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Parts of Russia again plunged towards -60 °C last night, while parts of Australia are in the middle of the summer and a strong heat wave, with temperatures approaching 50 °C. Yesterday, the difference between the two areas was over 100 °C!

Temperatures plunged down to -57.5 °C in Delyankir (Oykmyakonski District, Sakha Republic) in far eastern Russia last night. This part of Russia is the one of the coldest places on Earth and the coldest inhabited area - the (fairly) nearby Oymyakon holds the official lowest recorded temperature in the northern hemisphere: -67.7 °C on February 6, 1933.
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Severe snow falls in the Austrian Alps

Peter Franko
News Pressed
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:36 UTC
DEEP snow in Ebensee am Feuerkogel, Austria today, January 16
© Gessl PatrickDeep snow in Ebensee am Feuerkogel, Austria, January 16
Austria is snowed under — to the delight of skiers and the horror of homeowners. Even older Austrians are amazed by the amount of snow that's fallen in a matter of days. Soldiers, firefighters and volunteers are helping in the most affected areas.

Austria is used to dealing with large amounts of snow, but this year the country has received far more than usual. Meter-high piles cover the rooftops and rising temperatures are leading to rising fears that roofs could collapse. In the village of Altaussee in Styria, residents whose homes lay below the Loser Mountain were evacuated due to the risk of an avalanche.

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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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