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Snowflake Cold

More record lows on Canada's east coast

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:47 UTC
IceAge
© Westend61
Coldest July 14 since 1871

New Brunswick

Issued by Environment Canada Saturday 15 July 2017

The following stations set a daily minimum temperature record on July 14, 2017:

Grand Manan
New record of 3.7 (38.7 F)
Old record of 5.0 (41.0 F) set in 1992
Records in this area have been kept since 1883

Saint John
New record of 4.7 (40.5 F)
Old record of 6.1 (43.0 F) set in 1970
Records in this area have been kept since 1871

Newfoundland And Laborador

The following station set a daily minimum temperature record on July 14, 2017:
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Snowflake

Rare snowfall filmed on Table Mountain, South Africa


memeburn
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:02 UTC
snow table mountain
It hardly ever snows on Cape Town's fabled Table Mountain, but when it does in the internet era, it's definitely going to get caught on tape.

The courtesy comes from YouTuber Justin Hawthorne, who this past weekend experienced the fluffy precipitation from near the summit of the mesa.

Snowfall began around midday on Sunday 16 July, and lasted for around two minutes, Hawthorne notes in a comment.

"There had been a few lighter flurries over 15min or so prior. There were only a few spots on Table Mountain with visible snow that I saw leading up to this, but it clearly showed that snow had fallen on Saturday night — but a little."

"It was just fantastic to have had some snow falling during the day, in good weather conditions - so it made for a great shot," he added.

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Igloo

Close to the middle of summer and still no Northwest Passage

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:03 UTC
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Sea Ice Extent July 17, 2017
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Snowflake Cold

Extreme cold weather kills 2 people in Argentina


Daily Mail (UK)
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 22:29 UTC
Argentina cold weather
© AP Photo/Federico GrossoSnow covers a dock in Villa La Angostura in southern Argentina, Monday, July 17, 2017. The National Meteorological Service says that the cold front comes all the way from the South Pole.
Officials say cold weather and freezing temperatures from a polar wave have killed two people in Argentina.

The victims are a 54-year-old homeless man in the seaside resort city of Mar del Plata and a 41-year-old man living in a shack in Santa Fe province. Officials said Monday that both died of hypothermia.

The National Meteorological Service says the cold front comes all the way from the South Pole and is hitting Argentina's center and northern regions particularly hard. Temperatures in those areas have reached as low as 19.4 Fahrenheit (-7 Celsius).

An absolute record of -13.7 Fahrenheit (-25.4 Celsius) was also registered in the Patagonian ski resort of Bariloche.

Flights were delayed or canceled there as the airport was temporarily closed due to weather conditions.

Comment: In neighboring Chile 280,000 people lost power this week as extremely cold weather there brought snow to Santiago for the first time in 20 years.

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Snowflake Cold

'Coldest temperature in years' across Australia's south east

Benedict Brook
NEWS.com.au
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 06:31 UTC
Qantas turboprop ready to be de-iced
© suppliedA Qantas turboprop ready to be de-iced.


TEMPERATURES plummeted to a record breaking -12C this morning as winter made its presence felt across Australia's south east.

AUSTRALIA may have just recorded its coldest temperature of 2017 as a series of cold fronts barrelled across the country's south east on Sunday.

NSW and Victoria both had a freezing start to the day dropping to -12C in the mountains. Qantas has been forced to de-ice planes at Melbourne — a task usually only needed in Canberra and Hobart.

Sunday will still be chilly for Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart but temperatures will rise further north.

South of the Murray, the mercury in Ballarat fell to -2.1C, in Bairnsdale to -3.5C and at Mount Hotham to -7.8C.

But that's nothing on NSW and the ACT where residents of Orange woke to a low of -6.3C, and Canberra fell to -7C. But the mountain resort of Perisher knocked it out of the winter ballpark slumping to -12.1C at 3.30am.
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Ice Cube

Forget extreme temperatures: Nothing kills as many people as moderate cold

Joanne Nova
JoNova
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:00 UTC
Cold in Kashmir
© The News Tribe
Some are scoffing at the idea that rising heating costs will kill people. But check out the number-one temperature-killer in 74 million deaths across 13 countries. It's not the extremes that we need to worry about, the deadly phrase is "mildly suboptimal temperatures". Look at the blue finger of death in the graph below, starkly showing how irrelevant "extreme heat", or any other ambient temperature zone, is.

Do you need an excuse to turn the heater on in winter? Low ambient room temperatures will thicken your blood.

Moderate cold accounted for as many as 6.6% of all deaths. Extreme temperatures (either cold or hot) were responsible for only 0·86%.

Join the dots — will we save more lives by:

a) making homes cold now in the hope that lower "carbon" emissions will,

b) mean less deaths from heat in 90 years time despite people probably having better access to heaters and air conditioners?

Would you sacrifice ten years of your life...
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Snowflake

Snow falls in the middle of July in Schefferville, Quebec

Charles-Olivier Caron
The Sherbrooke Times
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:56 UTC
Schefferville in northern Quebec
July snow in Schefferville, Quebec
The community of Schefferville, located in the North of Quebec has seen its been shortened by Mother Nature. The snow fell during last night, while the temperatures were very cool.

The mercury hit 1 degree Celsius on Wednesday morning at Schefferville and the slush has been seen by many citizens. According to Francois Desy, who lives in the community with almost 200 people, the snow was visible a little more in altitude, on the small mountains near the city. Some white spots were visible on the mountains at low altitude.

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Snowflake

Chilly in Chile: 280,000 lose power in first Santiago snowfall for 20 years


Sky News
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:27 UTC
Santiago snow
© Getty ImagesThe cold snap brought a rare opportunity to build snowmen in Santiago


Up to five centimetres come down in the city's first snowfall for decades, causing havoc in the Chilean capital.

More than 280,000 people have reportedly been left without power in Santiago after a rare blanket of snow hit the Chilean capital.

About 3-5cm of the white stuff came down on Saturday in what some reports say is the first snowfall there for 20 years.

A security guard at a medical facility died from an apparent heart attack while trying to clear snow, according to reports, while trees struck electricity lines.

And two other people - a 15-year-old girl and her grandmother - were thought to have been injured after they suffered electric shocks from a damaged cable.

The snow has also led to treacherous driving conditions.


Comment: Last month snow and heavy rains disrupted mining operations in the desert region of northern Chile.

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Sun

Southern Europe gripped by record-high heatwave

Brett Gibbons
The Weather Channel
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:45 UTC
heatwave southern europe
© The Weather CompanyRecord temperatures are being recorded across southern Europe
A heatwave has gripped southern Europe with temperatures rocketing above 40C in parts of Spain.

Wildfires have been sparked in Italy and tourist sites in Greece have been shut because of the heat.

One man died in Spain of suspected heatstroke late Wednesday while working on roads near Seville, where temperatures reached 43C. In nearby Granada the mercury has been recorded at 45.7C.

Spain's meteorological agency AEMA said seven cities including capital Madrid had set record temperatures for July.

It soared to 40.2 C in Madrid, smashing a previous record of 39.6 C recorded in 2015.

New record highs were also set in Badajoz, Caceres, Ciudad Real, Cordoba, Jaen and Teruel.
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Info

Extreme weather 2017 caused by cosmic rays not CO2, the grand solar minimum amplifying effect

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:48 UTC
Galactic cosmic rays
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Inversion of weather extremes is the theme of the year on Earth in 2017, extreme cold wipes out vineyards in Europe through May, but now record heat. In the USA record floods turn fields in to lakes, but now record drought in crop lands. All time record droughts reversed in California and Florida in a matter of months, Australian wheat crop plunges by 40% from 2016. What no body is talking about are cosmic rays causing all of this. There will be a 19% increase of cosmic rays over solar cycle 25 which will make all of theses weather anomalies of 2015 until now look small in comparison. Are you ready?


Comment: See these related articles for more information:

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