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It's snowing 'like winter' in France - Hikers rescued in Pyrenees


Sott.net
Tue, 01 May 2018 17:36 UTC
Rescue in the snow for the gendarmes of Luchon in the Pyrenees

Luchon, neige
© Crédit Facebook/PGHM de LuchonThis impressive picture was taken by the PGHM from Luchon during the rescue.
Gendarmes in Luchon intervened this Monday to rescue a couple of hikers buried under snow, one of whom suffered a broken ankle. The intervention took place on the descent of the Pic du Cagire (1912m).

The hiker slipped in the middle of the afternoon and injured her left ankle not far from the Mourtis resort in the south of the Haute Garonne department.

"Initially they thought they could reach the Col de Mente where their vehicle is. But with a growing pain and the weather worsening, the couple resigned themselves to contacting our services for help at around 5:30pm," said the gendarmes.

Despite it "snowing like in winter," a team of five gendarmes went to the location. The victim was taken down slopes where 20cm of fresh snow had accumulated.

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May snowfall in Utah National Park


Yahoo! News
Tue, 01 May 2018 17:20 UTC
Alpine, Utah
© Robbie lawlerAlpine, Utah
It may be May 1, but snow was falling across the higher elevations of southern Utah. The snow was expected to stick to grassy surfaces while roads would be just wet near Bryce Canyon National Park, according to the National Weather Service.

A Facebook post from the national park said it was "perfect May weather," in the sense that it "may snow, it may rain, it may thunder a bit later on," the post continued. The park shared this footage of snow along with the post.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: USA record cold and shocking crop report, France snow, EU electrified


Adapt 2030
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:44 UTC
neige, Normandie, 2018
© Instagram/@nono_basset_hound_et_stephSnow in a Normandy garden this Monday.
Normandy Region of France late season snow, with 300,000 lightning strikes over the last 24 hours. US record cold over the weekend Great Lakes region, but national news won't cover that, but if it were record heat it would be front page news. New shocking report US wheat 65% is now low or very low quality.


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It's snowing on April 30th in Normandy, France


Le Parisien
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:01 UTC
neige, Normandie, 2018
© Instagram/@nono_basset_hound_et_stephSnow in a Normandy garden this Monday.
This Monday, the negative temperatures allowed the snow to fall in places in the Eure and Seine-Maritime, even to hold on the ground.

Northern France is experiencing heavy rainfall. This Monday, they even give snow in places in Normandy.

These snow showers concern in particular the departments of Eure and Seine-Maritime. Temperatures are close to 0°C or even slightly below. As shown on this map provided by Météociel at 11h20, the temperature felt, which takes into account the effect of the wind, was negative in the majority of the department as well as in the South of the Seine-Maritime and the East of the Oise. In Rouen, the feeling was -5°C.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: US Planting Report: Delays, cold damage, drought and disease


Adapt 2030
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 18:43 UTC
crop damage
With the totals from the USDA as 3% of Spring Wheat planted vs 25% in the 30 year average, and corn at 5% vs 16% for the average and descriptions as "despicable" and a "snail's pace" for planting along with cold damage and drought across the central U.S. states they have described it as the "most stress" a wheat crop can handle. I've included a full timeline for crop losses moving forward to 2025 and this weeks incredible lack of planting. If this video doesn't not wake you up, nothing will.


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More snow and record cold at the end of April in Great Lakes and interior northeast

Chris Dolce
The Weather Channel
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:48 UTC
late snow
Snow fell in upstate New York and northwest Pennsylvania Sunday morning as record lows were set in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley, putting an exclamation mark on what has a been an awful April in those regions.

Residents in western New York shared photos on social media showing their displeasure of this wintry weather on the next to last day of April.

Accumulations, if any, were light in most areas, but the snow was a fitting end to one of the coldest Aprils on record in parts of upstate New York.

Although it wasn't snowing in the western Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Sunday morning, the cold temperatures did set several daily record lows.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: 2018-2019 forecast - where crop yields will decline globally


Adapt 2030
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:49 UTC
crop damage
This is a forecast based on repeated Y-O-Y losses, and persistent below normal temperatures in the same crop zones. The map series is for 2018-2019 and covers Australia, China, South Africa, USA / Canada. Ive included some commodity prices as well so you get an indication of where food prices are headed.


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On-track for coldest April in recorded history for some major US cities

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC
cold weather ahead
"Some cities in the east are experiencing temperatures a full 10 to 15 degrees F colder than normal, says meteorologist Jaclyn Whittal. Those cities include Buffalo, Chicago and Detroit.
Those in the northern tier of the U.S. either graciously accept winter with open arms or drag their feet the entire way. So, for those who would willingly trade in the snow for sand, it's been a rough season that has been painfully etched into our memories after the ice storm that rolled through the Great Lakes just weeks ago.

For some communities, April won't just be memorable... it well might just go down in history. How? Well there are so many fascinating statistics to swoon over that we dug up! While doing some number crunching for Detroit Metropolitan International Airport, it wasn't an eye opener that April has been about 10 F below seasonal norms. The normal monthly average daytime high is 59.1 F, we only got 49.7 as an average. Another stat that won't come as a surprise is the lack of warmth - we have yet to crack 70ºF more than once this April in Detroit, Chicago and Buffalo!

Comment: It looks like we'd better get used to this!

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Earth's 'greatest two-year cooling event in a century' shock

James Delingpole
Breitbart
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:02 UTC
world
© Adam Berry/Getty
Our planet has just experienced the most extreme two-year cooling event in a century. But where have you seen this reported anywhere in the mainstream media?

You haven't, even though the figures are pretty spectacular. As Aaron Brown reports here at Real Clear Markets:
From February 2016 to February 2018 (the latest month available) global average temperatures dropped 0.56°C. You have to go back to 1982-84 for the next biggest two-year drop, 0.47°C—also during the global warming era. All the data in this essay come from GISTEMP Team, 2018: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (dataset accessed 2018-04-11 at https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/). This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures.

The 2016-18 Big Chill was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average. February 2018 was colder than February 1998.
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Global wine output falls to 60-year low due to poor weather conditions in EU

Sybille de La Hamaide and Pascale Denis
Reuters
Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:26 UTC
vinyard poor weather conditions lowers wine output
A staff member works in a wine yard in Vinzel, Switzerland, April 24, 2018.

Global wine output fell to its lowest level in 60 years in 2017 due to poor weather conditions in the European Union that slashed production in the bloc, international wine organisation OIV said.

Wine production totaled 250 million hectoliters last year, down 8.6 percent from 2016, data from the Paris-based International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) released on Tuesday showed.

It is the lowest level since 1957, when it had fallen to 173.8 million hectoliters, the OIV told Reuters.

A hectoliter represents 100 liters, or the equivalent of just over 133 standard 75 cl wine bottles.

All top wine producers in the EU have been hit by harsh weather last year, which lead to an overall fall in the bloc of 14.6 percent to 141 million hectoliters.

Comment: Unpredictable and extreme weather events have been taking a toll on crops worldwide:

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