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US: Christmas brings Northeast blizzard, bitter cold in Midwest


The Associated Press
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
Snowy Road
© Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press via APPedestrians walk down the centre of the road in Moncton, N.B., as a winter storm blows through Atlantic Canada on Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25, 2017.
The good news for many in the Northeast and Midwest was that it has been a white Christmas. The bad news was that a blizzard swept into parts of New England and bitter cold enveloped much of the Midwest.

Even the usually rainy Pacific Northwest got the white stuff. The National Weather Service says it's only the sixth time since 1884 that downtown Portland had measurable snow — only an inch or two — on a Dec. 25.

A blizzard warning was issued Monday for portions of Maine and New Hampshire, with forecasters saying snow of up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) and wind gusts up to 50 mph (80 kph) could make travel "dangerous to impossible."

Most businesses were already shuttered on Christmas Day in New England. One of the few open was The Tobacconist cigar shop in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, where area-resident Dwayne Doherty said he welcomed the fresh blanket of snow.
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Record-shattering 53 inches of snow in 30 hours for Erie, Pennsylvania

Matt Rosenberg
Trib Live
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 13:13 UTC
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© Jill McCormick
OK, this is taking "White Christmas" a bit too far.

The National Weather Service in Cleveland reported the lake-effect snowfall that inundated Erie over the weekend and Christmas — and continues to fall — can now count itself as the most intense in Pennsylvania history.

Erie received 34 inches of snow on Christmas Day, not only breaking the all-time city Christmas record of 11 inches but also breaking the all-time daily snowfall record, which was 20 inches on Nov. 22, 1956.

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Snowflake

Upwards of 20 inches of overnight snow slams Petoskey, Michigan

Aaron Parseghian
9and10news
Mon, 25 Dec 2017 12:40 UTC
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Emmet County, specifically Petoskey, is continuing to deal with the winter storm.

Downtown Petoskey saw near whiteout conditions all day.

Some that live in the area woke up to upwards of 20 inches of snow overnight.

It was a lot more than many wanted to deal with, others are excited to see the snow piling up.

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Arrow Down

Still duping people years later - Al Gore asks for 'climate crisis' money

Anthony Watts
Watts Up with That
Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:30 UTC
Al Gore
© Newscats Org
The true mark of a shyster is to take advantage of every opportunity to milk a person for money, and especially when emotions and sympathy run high. Christmas is one of those times. I give you exhibit A, Al Gore's "Climate Reality Project". I got this in my inbox this morning.
Donate Climate Reaity
© The Climate Reality Project
Of course, when you click on that donate button, Al doubles down:
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Snowflake

Deep snow covers Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii


Big Island Video News
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:32 UTC
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea
Heavy snow has fallen on Mauna Kea, and more is expected as a Winter Storm Warning remains in effect for Hawaii Island summits.

The Mauna Kea Access Road remains closed at the Visitor Information Station, rangers say.
"Plan on difficult travel conditions," the National Weather Service stated this morning. "Additional snow accumulations of 6 to 10 inches, with localized amounts up to 12 inches, are expected."

Mauna Kea already appears to be buried, according to the view from the observatory webcams that are not iced-over.

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Snowflake Cold

Tropopause freeze anomaly & sparkler electrical storms in South Australia


Adapt 2030
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:56 UTC
Tropopause anomaly
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Serious disturbance in the Tropopause where a segment of the atmosphere has dropped super cooled air to the surface of our planet. USA set for all time record cold of -21C in Louisiana and on into Mexico and across the SE USA. Arctic sea ice recovering to nearly the baseline of 1981. Also temperature measurements are being used to still push the CO2 global warming narrative.


Comment: Spectacular 'spider lightning' display turns Adelaide sky pink (VIDEO)

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Record snowfall for Calgary, Canada


Calgary Herald
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:08 UTC
Road conditions worsen in Calgary
Road conditions worsen in Calgary
As much as 31 centimetres of snow fell across Calgary since Tuesday afternoon, creating commuter headaches and leaving roads and sidewalks dangerously icy.

Data released by Environment Canada indicate southern portions of the city bore the heaviest brunt of the storm, receiving almost twice as much snow as Calgary's northern areas before it tapered off late Wednesday morning.

The storm also broke the day's previous snowfall record of 11.7 cm set in 1953.

Calgary's snowfall was part of a larger system that blanketed much of southwestern Alberta in snow, with the hamlet of Beaver Mines west of Pincher Creek getting as much as 60 cm of precipitation.

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Snowflake

Over 4 metres of snowfall at Niseko ski resort in Japan

Patrick Thorne
In the snow
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:25 UTC
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Japan's ski areas are seeing a very snowy start to the 2017-18 ski season with the resort of Niseko passing the 4 metre mark for season snowfall to date in the past 48 hours.

The famous ski area on Japan's northerly island of Hokkaido has had 60cm (two feet) of snow in the last 48 hours and nearly 1.2m (four feet) in the last seven days. December snowfall totals are already at 238cm (nearly eight feet) and season to date at 4.3m (over 14 feet).

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Ski area of Les Paccots in Switzerland claims 3.5m (almost 12 feet) of snow in 7 days; second resort has 9ft in 72 hours

Patrick Thorne
In the snow
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 10:22 UTC
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The huge snowfalls in the Alps have continued through the past 10 days and Eastern Switzerland seems to be at the heart of the perfect snow storm.

The small Eastern Swiss ski area of Les Paccots claims to have received 3.5 metres of snowfall (nearly 12 feet) over the past even days, with accumulations of up to a metre in 24 hours.

The centre is not yet fully open for the season, opening at weekends before Christmas, but says it will be operating on Wednesday 20th December then daily from Friday 23rd December.

All the snow has not been without problems though, a tree came down on a lift cable last week forcing the centre to close until the cable was replaced.
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Rising seas could displace 150 million people by the end of this century, says climate report


RT
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:37 UTC
Iceburg
© Alister Doyle / ReutersA view of icebergs remaining after a break-up of Wilkins ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, January 19, 2009.
Lands inhabited by more than 150 million people could be submerged in water by the end of this century. That's according to the latest projections from a group of US researchers.

A new study published in the journal Earth's Future used the latest information from the Antarctic ice sheet and combined it with existing models on the expected rise in sea levels.

The academics behind the report found that if levels of greenhouse gas emission remain high, the median global average sea-level rise could be 4ft 9ins (1.5 meters) by 2100. Astonishingly, this is double the estimate of 2ft 5ins (736cm) projected by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2014.

The team, made up of researchers from the top universities in the US, believes the IPCC report did not account for the collapse of large parts of the Antarctic Ice Sheet - something a slew of scientific papers have since found is very likely to happen. In the event of such a sea level rise, some 153 million will be displaced, a population equivalent to half the size of the US.

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