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© Shannon Stapleton / Reuters3 killed as ‘historic’ snowstorm blasts Midwest US
The storm front swept across the Midwest this weekend, leaving large swathes of the region blanketed in snow. The city of St. Paul in Minnesota was forced to declare a snow emergency, while nearby Minneapolis is predicted to receive more than 50 centimeters of snow by the time the storm passes through the region.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, which serves the two cities, was forced to cancel nearly 500 flights. Airport officials said the snow was falling too fast for plows to keep runways clear. Hundreds of crashes were reported across the state. Some 300 thousand houses were without electricity.
Comment: The US has been battered by snow storms since the beginning of winter, spring is here and the cold weather is not abating:
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- Historic cold record broken for Edmonton, Canada
- Ice storm pelts Southern Ontario with more than 550 collisions on Toronto-area highways
- Think the snowfall is finished? Over a foot of snow falls on the Twin Cities
- Records broken with latest snow fall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
© Joe NelsonThe scene at Cedar Avenue in Richfield.
The snow will continue to fall throughout the day Sunday, producing another 2 to 5 inches of snow in the Metro, according to WCCO Meteorologist Matt Brickman. The snow will be light throughout the morning hours, producing heavier snowfall as the day goes on.
That is, of course, on top of an already historic snowfall. Brickman says it's already the biggest April snow event in history, and after Sunday's snow, it could even crack the top 20 biggest Twin Cities snowstorms ever.
Streets were most deserted during Saturday's snowstorm, but not everyone stayed home.
Well, according to the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, the day has been magnified by the trifecta of records broken by today's snowfall of 13.1 inches as of 11 p.m.
© Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star
An ice storm pelting parts of southern Ontario has knocked out power to thousands of people and wreaked havoc on the roads.
A provincial police spokesman said more than 550 crashes had been reported in the Greater Toronto Area by late Saturday.
"We've got cars in the ditches, we've got cars on the concrete wall, we've got cars facing the wrong way," Kerry Schmidt said. "We've got problems all over the place."
Comment: Some past crazy weather for Toronto:
- Toronto 'exploring' call to army for ice storm help, deputy mayor says
- Toronto under snowfall warning as winter storm hits city
- Toronto mops up after record-breaking storm
- Another Canadian city under water: Toronto battered by storm, flooding; 300,000 residents without power after deluge breaks rainfall record three-fold
© The Weather Network
Although a prolonged period of frigid conditions and even some of the coldest temperature anomalies worldwide have dominated the Alberta pattern recently, the ridiculous stretch of cold weather in Edmonton is jaw dropping. Saturday, April 14 marks the 168TH CONSECUTIVE DAY of overnight lows below freezing as recorded at Edmonton-Blatchford Airport. This puts the area in first place for the longest run of consecutive days with a minimum temperature below 0°C, ahead of the 166 day stretch in 1975.
Edmonton is known as being one of the coldest cities in Canada and with a record like this, it's certainly living up to its reputation. The last time the city got to an overnight temperature of at least 0°C was back on October 29, 2017. That's almost six months ago.
"From that point onward, we never reached above the freezing mark again in the overnight," says Weather Network meteorologist Erin Wenckstern. "We got extremely close to it on December 15, but we never quite reached the freezing mark at that point."
© Rapid City Journal
Mix them all together and you get one crazy storm system, perfectly suited for a Friday the 13th arrival date.
Mother Nature's science experiment exploded Friday, bringing rain, snow and tornadoes to a huge swath of the Great Plains and Midwest, even stretching down into the south.
In Rapid City, what started out as rain late Thursday eventually turned to snow overnight and kept a steady flow of flakes falling throughout the day Friday.
There's been sunshine, rain and even lots of sow depending on the time and the place as the 2017-18 season continues to wind down.
Some ski areas including Andermatt and St Moritz (pictured top today) have reported 30cm of 24 hours but the biggest accumulation this week is a whopping 95cm (3 feet, 2 inches) at Isola 2000, located north of Nice in the southern French Alps.
© BASCores have been collected across the continent - making this the largest study of its kind
The study shows there has been a significant increase in precipitation over the period, up 10%.
The effect of the extra snow locked up in Antarctica is to slightly slow a general trend in global sea-level rise.
However, this mitigation is still swamped by the contribution to the height of the oceans from ice melt around the continent.
Comment: Unsurprisingly no data is given to back up the claim that the snowfall is mitigated by ice melt - and there are many studies stating the contrary: Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
Some 272 billion tonnes more snow were being dumped on the White Continent annually in the decade 2001-2010 compared with 1801-1810.
This yearly extra is equivalent to twice the water volume found today in the Dead Sea.
Comment: See Also:
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Southern Spain snow, Morocco snow and South Africa freeze in the crop belt
- A dark December: In one month Moscow totals 6 minutes of sunlight while Belgium bears just 10.5 hours
- Unprecedented cold? That's global warming!
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