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High avalanche risk in Alps amid heavy snow - 2 dead


Washington Post
Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:29 UTC
Musher Michael Ruopp is pulled by his huskies as he rides on a field near Lichtenstein, Germany, Sunday, Jan.6, 2019.
© Thomas WarnackMusher Michael Ruopp is pulled by his huskies as he rides on a field near Lichtenstein, Germany, Sunday, Jan.6, 2019.
Authorities warned Sunday of a high risk of avalanches on the northern side of the Alps, after heavy snowfall in recent days created dangerous conditions across parts of southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

A 20-year-old skier died in an avalanche Saturday on Mount Teisen, near the Austrian border, German police said. The woman's five companions were unharmed.

In Austria, public broadcaster ORF reported that a 26-year-old man died Sunday after being struck by an avalanche while skiing near the town of Schoppernau.
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Thousands of hectares of crops affected by snow in Sonora, Mexico


Fresh Plaza
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:39 UTC
crop snow
The heavy snowfall left by the fifth and sixth winter storms of the season, as well as the extreme cold, generated frost damage in thousands of crops throughout the state of Sonora.

The weather mainly affected the garlic and asparagus crops in the mountains and the north of the state; as well as vegetable and legume crops in the valleys of Yaqui and Mayo, south of Sonora.

So far, the presidents of the Associations of Farmer Unions of Sonora have not specified how many hectares were affected because the damage is still rising. In addition, according to official weather forecasts, the low temperatures will continue the following days and its possible there will be more snowfall.
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Strong winds, heavy snowfall hit Turkey


Hurriyet Daily News
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:13 UTC
Turkey's eastern province of Bitlis
Turkey's eastern province of Bitlis
Istanbul and the region of Thrace in Turkey's northwest were hit by heavy snowfall and strong wind which caused flight delays.

Turkish Airlines cancelled its Jan. 4 Salonika and Kosice international flights as well as many of its domestic flights taking off from Istanbul's Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports due to the weather conditions.

Istanbul's higher areas, such as the district of Beylikdüzü, were hit by snowfall on Jan. 3 night along with strong winds.

Following warnings of harsher weather conditions by the Turkish State Meteorological Service, snowplows and salt trucks were waiting ready to intervene in the event of possible icing.

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Snow storm hits 17 Iranian provinces


Tehran Times
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:49 UTC
Seventeen provinces of Iran have been stricken by heavy snow storm over the past 24 hours, Rescue and Relief Organization head Morteza Salimi has said.
Seventeen provinces of Iran have been stricken by heavy snow storm over the past 24 hours, Rescue and Relief Organization head Morteza Salimi has said.
Snow swept across 17 provinces namely West Azarbaijan, Ardebil, Isfahan, Alborz, Tehran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, North Khorasan, Fars, Semnan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Qom, Kordestan, Gilan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, and Markazi, Tasnim news agency quoted Salimi as saying on Friday.

Some 90 rescue teams comprising 320 rescue workers offered relief and rescue service, Salimi highlighted.

Meanwhile, some 4,100 who were stranded in the snow storm received relief services and 656 cars stuck in snow were released, he added.

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Major winter storm slams central Italy - 6 feet of snow falls


philadelphia.cbslocal.com
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:29 UTC
Thick snow in Roccapia, Abruzzo,
© Fulvio Ferrante / Meteo AQ Caput FrigorisThick snow in Roccapia, Abruzzo, central Italy last night, January 4.
The region has been hit with more than six feet of snow.

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British Columbia storm pounds province with snow, rain, smashing records - up to 74 cms (29 inches) of snowfall in 24 hours

Amy Judd
Global News
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 15:48 UTC
Athlete Mark Abma, captured on Whistler, after the early January snowfall.
© Eric Berger/Whistler BlackcombAthlete Mark Abma, captured on Whistler, after the early January snowfall.
The storm that moved across B.C. over the past 72 hours has left many areas of the province cleaning up on Friday.

No weather alerts remain in place for the province but parts of Vancouver Island remain under high streamflow advisories.

The Englishman River and Little Qualicum River on Vancouver Island were under a flood watch following the downpour but Friday afternoon it was downgraded to a high streamflow advisory.

High stream advisories remain in place for part of Vancouver Island, the North Shore, Fraser Valley, Howe Sound and Sunshine Coast.

From 8 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 2, to 9 a.m., Friday, Jan. 4, many areas of B.C. saw a huge dumping of snow.

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Strong winds, heavy snowfall hit parts of Poland


Radio Poland
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:39 UTC
PAP/Darek Delmanowicz
PAP/Darek Delmanowicz
Firefighters were called out more than 800 times after strong winds and heavy snowfall hit parts of Poland on Wednesday, a spokesman has said.

High winds lashed the country's northern regions, while snow paralysed much of southern Poland, Paweł Frątczak, a spokesman for the State Fire Service, said on Thursday morning.

Firefighters were kept busy removing fallen trees and securing buildings against flooding amid rising water levels in some areas in the northern part of the country.

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Heavy snow hits Slovakia


Bloomberg
Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:15 UTC
heavy snow
HEAVY SNOW: Slovakia is blanketed by snow as temperatures drop to 14 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Heavy snowfall disrupts life in Kashmir - up to 3 feet measured

Peerzada Arshad Hamid
Xinhua
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 13:04 UTC
Heavy snowfall cuts off Kashmir
Heavy snowfall cuts off Kashmir
Normal life in Indian-controlled Kashmir was Saturday disrupted by heavy snowfall that lashed the region, officials said.

Local government officials at mechanical engineering department said Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, received around 12 inches of snow, disrupting traffic on roads and causing power outage.

Likewise, Qazigund recorded 11 inches, Pahalgam 16 inches and Kupwara 17 inches of snow, officials said.

The snowfall has cut both surface as well as aerial connectivity to Srinagar.

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Greenland Crater - The 12,000 year old comet that erased ancient civilization

Jimmy
YouTube
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:12 UTC
Ancient Impact
© ScreenCapture/YouTube
NASA recently discovered of a massive, 19-mile (31km) wide crater, found hidden underneath Greenland's Hiawatha Glacier. This crater is the result of an asteroid impact, from a nearly 1 mile-wide mountain of iron, weighing somewhere around, get this, 11-12 BILLION tons, and was traveling at approximately 12 MILES per second - which is equivalent to more than 43,000 miles per hour - when it slammed into the earth some 12,000 years ago - And...with the mind-boggling force of essentially a 700-megaton bomb. And without a doubt, THIS is the reason why there is so much mystery and why we know so little about lost Ancient human civilization
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