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Building collapses under weight of snow in downtown Edmundston, Canada

Elizabeth Fraser
CBC News
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:11 UTC
A snow-heavy building used for storage collapsed in Edmundston early Friday morning.
© Bernard Lebel/Radio-CanadaA snow-heavy building used for storage collapsed in Edmundston early Friday morning.
A downtown building that's been part of Edmundston for at least 115 years collapsed early Friday, and city police say it was probably because too much snow had piled up on its flat roof.

Insp. Alain Lang of the Edmundston police said there were no injuries, and no one was near the empty building when it came down around 4 a.m.

The building at Church and Hill streets is owned by Downtown Edmundston, which used it for storing tents chairs, tables and other equipment for a farmers market.

She said the building was initially bought in 2012 and was supposed to be bought to be a tear down and rebuild a farmers market with that lot and the two next to it.


Comment: See also: Another roof collapses due to snow weight in Nakusp, British Columbia - 200 inches of snow in some areas this year

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Heavy snowfall disrupts traffic in northeast China


China.org.cn
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:13 UTC
Workers remove snow from train tracks at Shenyang North Railway Station in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province, March 15, 2018.
© XinhuaWorkers remove snow from train tracks at Shenyang North Railway Station in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning province, March 15, 2018.
More than 4,800 people have been deployed to clear roads after heavy snow hit northeast China's Liaoning province starting Wednesday night, causing flight delays and expressway closures.

As of 11:00 a.m. Thursday, about 868 pieces of snow clearing equipment were put into use to remove snow from roads.

Snowstorms hit most parts of the province Wednesday evening, and snow was still falling Thursday, the provincial meteorological bureau said.

The bureau issued warnings in 12 cities to watch out ice on streets.
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Late-winter storm piling up snow in the Sierra Nevada, California - over 2 feet in 24 hours


The Press Democrat
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:44 UTC
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)

Matt Rosenberg
Trib Live
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:57 UTC
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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

Suspicious0bservers
Sott.net
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:09 UTC
Beaufort gyre
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)


bt.com
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:04 UTC
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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


US News
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:09 UTC
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

Brendan Kyle Jure
The Columbia Valley Pioneer
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:38 UTC
Cougar
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

Mike Stunson and Beth Musgrave
Lexington Herald Leader
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:46 UTC
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


Xinhuanet.
Wed, 07 Mar 2018 11:57 UTC
DEAD ANIMAL
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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