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Late-winter storm piling up snow in the Sierra Nevada, California - over 2 feet in 24 hours

Snow at Squaw Valley, 16th, March
Snow at Squaw Valley, 16th, March
A late-winter storm moving through California is piling up snow in the Sierra Nevada, making travel hazardous and raising avalanche danger.

The National Weather Service says the Heavenly and Northstar ski resorts near Lake Tahoe reported Friday morning they each received more than 2 feet (0.61 meters) of snow in 24 hours.

The Sierra Avalanche Center says there's high avalanche danger at all elevations in the central Sierra backcountry in the greater Lake Tahoe region.

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At 191.5 inches, Erie in Pennsylvania closes in on all-time snow record (of 199.4 inches for Buffalo)

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Not that the city was hoping to break this record, but Erie could appear at the top of a dubious list before all is said and done.

Erie cracked the 190-inch mark with its snowfall Wednesday and Thursday, continuing to shatter its previous record of 152.1 inches by 3 feet.

A lot of which can be attributed to the bludgeoning it took around Christmas.

In case you haven't been outside lately, winter doesn't appear to exactly be going anywhere yet.

And Erie is closing in on Buffalo's all-time seasonal snowfall record for 199.4 inches, which stands as the big-city record, from the 1976-77 season.

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SOTT Focus: Yale's Two Climate Bombs Point to Impending Ice Age

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Let's just assume humans are melting the arctic: it is only at a faster pace than what happens every cycle, and somehow leads to an ice age.

They keep talking about runaway warming but that isn't what Earth does. This video was an attempt to use ONLY the mainstream science and demonstrate that you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist or a "denier" to believe cooling is coming... you just need to believe in mainstream science :)

Isn't that even more fun than doing it the usual way?


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Thousands without power as blizzard brings heavy snow to north-east US (VIDEOS)

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High winds and blowing snow led meteorologists to categorise the storm as a blizzard in parts of New England.

A fierce storm has lashed the north-east in the US, with widespread power outages amid the hurricane-force winds and heavy snow.

With spring tantalisingly in their grasp, many residents were left shaking their heads — and wielding shovels they had hoped would not be needed again — after the third major storm in two weeks buried some towns beneath two feet of snow on Tuesday.

"The groundhog was right. Six more weeks of winter, and probably then some," said Paul Knight, of Portland, Maine.


Comment: See related article: At least 2 feet of snow dumped on parts of Maine and New Hampshire


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At least 2 feet of snow dumped on parts of Maine and New Hampshire

A man rides an electric wheel chair on Union Street as heavy snow started falling in Bangor Tuesday afternoon.
© Gabor Degre | BDNA man rides an electric wheel chair on Union Street as heavy snow started falling in Bangor Tuesday afternoon.
The latest nor'easter has dumped at least 2 feet of snow in some areas of Maine and New Hampshire.

Light snow was still falling Wednesday morning, with snow showers expected to continue through the night.

Most places in northern New England could see up to an additional 3 inches, with up to 6 inches in the mountains.

Comment: See additionally: Thousands without power as blizzard brings heavy snow to north-east US (VIDEOS)


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Two dogs die in attacks as deep snow pushes British Columbia cougars out of forests

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Conservation Office fielding three to five calls a week in the Cariboo due to deep snow

Two pets were killed by a cougar within days in the Bridge Lake area.

"There was a dog kill on Tuesday [Feb. 27] and another dog that was killed today [March 1]," said Conservation Officer James Zucchelli. "We were able to track down and get the cat this afternoon."

The cougar was dispatched around Bell Road in Bridge Lake. Zucchelli said he believes the cougar is likely responsible for both dog deaths due to it's proximity to both scenes and it's likeness to a photo of the cat caught during the first attack.

The office is only 90 per cent sure due to the lack of DNA testing though and would like to remind the public to remain diligent in safeguarding their property and pets from cougars.

Comment: Also see: Siberian tiger rampages through Russian village killing dogs


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Late winter storm dumps 10 inches of snow overnight in Lexington, Kentucky

Trees weighted down by heavy snow fell on vehicles on Hartland Pkw.
© Charles BertramTrees weighted down by heavy snow fell on vehicles on Hartland Pkw. In a Lexington. Reports of up to 10 inches of snow in parts of Central Kentucky.
A winter storm that dumped up to 8 to 10 inches of snow in Lexington overnight clogged secondary roads and weighed down or broke limbs and power lines Monday.

Lexington police responded to three injury collisions and 41 non-injury collisions from 4:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Officers also responded to 73 motorist assists in that time frame and 65 traffic hazards, such as trees down, low hanging wires and particularly poor road conditions. Some of those included vehicles that ran off the roads.

Susan Straub, a spokeswoman for the city of Lexington, said since around 4:45 a.m. the vast majority of those 65 traffic hazards -- about 50 -- were for downed trees. City crews were working to remove the road hazards, Straub said.


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More than 700,000 animals in Mongolia die from severe wintry weather

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A total of 710,740 animals have died so far this year in Mongolia due to the extreme wintry weather known as "dzud", the country's meteorology service said Wednesday.

The dzud is a brutal weather phenomenon in Mongolia where a dry summer followed by a frigid winter kills vast numbers of livestock either by starvation or cold.

Snowfall covered up to 50 percent of the country, with 66 administrative subdivisions in 12 provinces experiencing dzud or near dzud conditions, Mongolian National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring said in a statement.

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Some birds migrated north looking for spring - then spring froze

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© Bruce Di Labio / OTTwpAmerican Robin eating Sumac fruit since there are no worms out yet.
Birds have migrated north in large numbers in recent weeks - an early gamble that is now forcing some to do a U-turn, and others to starve.

A number of people in Ottawa have heard Canada geese fly over noisily, beginning in late February's mild spell.

"Thousands of geese showing up in eastern Ontario. A lot of them are actually still here," birder Bruce Di Labio said. But with snow covering the cornfields and freezing temperatures at night, they aren't going any farther north.

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Late winter storm dumps two feet of snow on Kenai Peninsula highways in Alaska

Snow removal underway in downtown Seward.
© City of SewardSnow removal underway in downtown Seward.
A late-season winter storm that brought more than two-feet of snow to parts of the eastern Kenai Peninsula has created hazardous driving conditions along the Seward Highway and dangerous road conditions on the eastern Sterling Highway.

State Department of Transportation and Public Facilities road crews have encountered the heaviest snowfall totals-- more than two-feet deep-- from Seward north through Moose Pass and up to Turnagain Pass.

Due to existing snow and the anticipation of additional snowfall this weekend, DOTPF cautions drivers to expect dangerous to hazardous road conditions through the weekend in the areas hit heaviest by the snow.