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Eagle

More symbolism? Two frozen bald eagles locked together in fight rescued along Susquehanna River in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Maddie Crocenzi
witf.org
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:29 UTC
These two eagles were rescued by Rebecca Weaver and her daughter along the Susquehanna River bank near Bloomsburg on Sunday, Feb. 25.
© Submitted, Rebecca WeaverThese two eagles were rescued by Rebecca Weaver and her daughter along the Susquehanna River bank near Bloomsburg on Sunday, Feb. 25.
Two bald eagles were saved along the Susquehanna River bank near Bloomsburg on Sunday thanks to a concerned citizen.

Rebecca Weaver, from Almedia, said her daughter Alyssa heard a strange screeching sound when she was outside. Weaver and Alyssa found the two birds locked together, shivering from the cold water.

Weaver said Scott Township Police came to the property under the impression that they were supposed to collect two dead birds. When police realized the birds were alive, Columbia County Game Warden Rick Deiterich was dispatched.

"The eagles were likely fighting in the sky over territory and dropped to the ground near the river where they continued their battle," said Deiterich in a Pennsylvania Game Commission Facebook post. "They seem to have tumbled into the water and would not, or could not, let go of their grip on one another."

Comment: See also: Symbolic? Bald eagle found covered in ice in Osage County, Oklahoma (VIDEO)

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Snowflake Cold

Austrian ski industry researcher declares "every mountain station" in the Alps shows "winters have gotten colder"

P Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:00 UTC
alps cooling
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne here.

Over the years we've all heard the dire predictions of snow becoming a thing of the past and that especially in the Alps the ski industry would in large part disappear. Warmer temperatures would put an end to snow as we know it.

Yet an analysis of the data tells a very different story, according to Austrian ski industry researcher Günther Aigner in a video presentation dubbed: Will the Arlberg see snow disappear? An analysis of historical temperature and snow datasets:

In the video Aigner shows what's going on concerning winters in the Alps. He begins by presenting some predictions of disappearing snow made by renowned scientists such David Viner and Mojib Latif. Other scientists such as Andreas Reiter, a future studies researcher, predicted Tirol would soon become mostly just a wine region. Other scientists made even more absurd predictions, Aigner shows.

Comment: We see these seemingly subtle changes reflected in the dramatic events occurring all over the world:

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Ice Cube

Record breaking frosts in central Russia


Earth Chronicles
Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:00 UTC
Frosts in Belarus are breaking records
Frosts in Belarus are breaking records
The temperature record of the current winter is beaten in Belarus - according to the data of the Republican Center for Hydrometeorology, Control of Radioactive Contamination and Environmental Monitoring in Klichev, a temperature of -30.4 ° C was recorded last night.

Frosts came to Belarus in the middle of last week: in some places the night air temperatures approached the -30 ° C mark. The weather forecasters explained the cooling by the so-called ultrapolar invasion - the arrival of cold air masses to Belarus from the Arctic.


Comment: The polar vortex just split into a double vortex - cold temps for Europe will persist


According to Hydromet, last night the coldest was in Klichev (Mogilev region) - there was recorded a drop in temperature to -30.4 ° C. It was in the Mogilev region that five people died from frosts since the beginning of the year. At the same time, according to weather forecasters, the strongest frosts were observed on the night of February 27 in the Dnipro floodplain, where it was everywhere below -25 ° С.

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Snowflake Cold

Coldest late February temperature for 117 years recorded in Germany of minus 30.5 degrees C

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:15 UTC
Minus 30.5 degrees were measured on the Zugspitze
© Angelika Warmuth/dpaMinus 30.5 degrees measured on the Zugspitze in Germany
Minus 30.5 degrees C (-22.9F)
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According to the German Weather Service (DWD) in Offenbach, minus 30.5 degrees was measured on the Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak, on Tuesday night.

"At minus 30.5 degrees it was as cold there on the night of Tuesday as never before in a third decade of February since 1901 - ie 117 years! Under minus 30 degrees on the extreme for the end of February is really an extreme you can see very clearly what a massive cold air intrusion it is currently ", so meteorologist Dominik Jung from weatherportal wetter.net .

Thanks to Ole Jensen for this link
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Ice Cube

Stacks of rare blue ice form 30ft high on shores of the Great Lakes (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

Mary Kekatos
Daily Mail
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:35 UTC
Stunning photographs have capture the epic natural phenomenon known as blue ice forming on Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas
Stunning photographs have capture the epic natural phenomenon known as blue ice forming on Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas
Stunning photographs have captured the epic natural phenomenon known as blue ice forming on Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas over the weekend

Photographers flocked to The Great Lake State's shoreline to capture the irregular rectangles towering with the iconic Mackinac Bridge in the background.

Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. Air bubbles are squeezed out and ice crystals enlarge, preventing the passage of light and making the ice appear blue.

In the middle of her work shift Sunday morning, mother-of-three Tori Burley received a text message from her father that excited her: 'The blue ice is back!'

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Snowflake Cold

Deep freeze kills 8 people in Poland


novinite.com
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:09 UTC
ice ice
At least eight people have died in cold weather over the weekend in Poland, officials say.

The deaths bring the total number who have died due to the cold since November to 48.

Temperatures sank to -20C in some parts of Poland. The frosty conditions are set to continue, and authorities have called on citizens to help the elderly and homeless, who are particularly vulnerable in winter.

Meanwhile in Moscow temperatures have dropped to this winter's low despite the approaching spring.

The Meteorological Office said on Monday the mercury in the Russian capital dropped to nearly -20C on Sunday night, the coldest night this winter.
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Snowflake Cold

At least 50 dead as 'Beast from the East' blasts Europe (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)


Sputnik
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:56 UTC
Rome snow
© EPAThe Colosseum in Rome was blanketed in snow for the first time in years on Monday
A bitterly cold snap, already nicknamed "The Beast from the East," has caused widespread travel disruptions and school closures as far south as Italy, where the mercury dipped as low as minus 4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday morning, according to the local meteorological service, AFP has reported.

At least 50 people have died across Europe as a blast of icy Arctic weather sweeping in from Siberia has dragged temperatures to as low as minus 27 degrees Celsius.

One of Europe's coldest spots is Dolina Campoluzzo in northern Italy, where air temperatures have plummeted to a shivering minus 40 degrees Celsius.

With dozens of people having died across the continent as "The Beast from the East" has sent temperatures plunging and rough sleepers, the elderly being seen as the most vulnerable to the bitterly cold snap, some local authorities in Europe have ordered officials to find shelters for the homeless.

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Snowflake

Scientists are stunned as the North Pole surges above freezing

Jason Samenow
Washington Post
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:36 UTC
temperature map
© University of Maine Climate Re-analyzerGFS model analysis of temperature difference from normal (in Celsius) on Sunday over the Arctic. The temperature is above freezing at the North Pole.
The sun won't rise at the North Pole until March 20, and it's normally close to the coldest time of year, but an extraordinary and possibly historic thaw swelled over the tip of the planet this weekend. Analyses show that the temperature warmed to the melting point as an enormous storm pumped an intense pulse of heat through the Greenland Sea.

Temperatures may have soared as high as 35 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) at the pole, according to the U.S. Global Forecast System model. While there are no direct measurements of temperature there, Zack Labe, a climate scientist working on his PhD at the University of California at Irvine, confirmed that several independent analyses showed "it was very close to freezing," which is more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) above normal.

The warm intrusion penetrated right through the heart of the Central Arctic, Labe said. The temperature averaged for the entire region north of 80 degrees latitude spiked to its highest level ever recorded in February. The average temperature was more than 36 degrees (20 degrees Celsius) above normal. "No other warm intrusions were very close to this," Labe said in an interview, describing a data set maintained by the Danish Meteorological Institute that dates back to 1958. "I was taken by surprise how expansive this warm intrusion was."
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Snowflake Cold

Siberian cold hits France leaving two people dead


RFI
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:40 UTC
walking in the snow
© PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFPSnow in a forest in Corsica last week.
Two homeless men were found dead in France this weekend as temperatures plummeted to their lowest at this time of year since 2005. There were snow and ice warnings in the Alps as the cold front that originated in Siberia crossed Europe and hit France.

A 35-year-old homeless man was found dead by his companions in the south-eastern city of Valence on Sunday and on Friday the body of a 62-year-old who lived in a cabin in the woods near Paris was also found.

Both probably died because of the cold, officials said.

As temperatures drop to as low as -10°C in the east of the country, the authorities have ordered 3,100 emergency accommodation places to be opened, 500 of them in Paris.
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Snowflake

Snow depth passes 5 meter mark at ski resorts on 3 continents with 11 meters at Niseko in Japan

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:18 UTC
Niseko
Niseko, Japan
The 2017-18 season snow depth total has now passed the 5 metres mark at ski areas in Asia, Europe and North America according to their official statistics.

Engelberg in Switzerland was the first to pass the 5m mark in the northern hemisphere, several months ago, and peaked at a 655cm base after the exceptional January snowfall in the Alps. Its total dropped back below six metres earlier this months but recent snowfalls have taken it back up to 645cm at present.

North America had a slow start to the season in its famously snowy west, particularly in more southerly states but Mt Baker in Washington State has a reputation for getting the most snow of any ski area in the world most years and it is clocking up the inches, reporting nearly 90cm of snow in the past 72 hours alone and a base depth now up to 597cm.
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