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August Snow in Romania
Sorin Timiş, the mayor of Borşa, told Mediafax that he did not remember ever to have snowed in the area during the month of August.
"The temperature on the mountain dropped to 0 degrees Celsius, and in Borşa to 6 degrees Celsius," the mayor said. Only a few days before, the temperatures in town were at 36 degrees Celsius.
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Denise Biggs was met with a blanket of snow as she woke up in the Eastern Cape this morning
Denise Biggs was met with a blanket of snow as she woke up in the Eastern Cape this morning
The snow has found its way to our plains on the back of a country-wide cold front, and it isn't just the moutainous regions that are enjoying a flurry: Parts of KZN, Eastern Cape and Free State are being covered by a wonderful white dusting.
Snowfall in South Africa
The South African Weather Service have warned that snowfall in all three of the aforementioned areas will be disruptive, and advised motorists to take extra care on the roads:
Eastern Cape - #SNOW ROADS CLOSED: N9 Lootsberg Pass, R61 Wapadsberg Pass, R57 Nico Malan Pass, R58 Barkly Pass
— Rob Beezy (@TrafficSA) August 17, 2017
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Death Valley Park Ranger Roberto Mendez stands by Furnace Creek’s unofficial thermometer.
Death Valley Park Ranger Roberto Mendez stands by Furnace Creek’s unofficial thermometer.
With an average daily high temperature of 107.4 degrees Fahrenheit (41.9 degrees Celsius), July was the valley's hottest month on record, blazing through the former record of 107.2 degrees F (41.8 degrees C) set in 1917, the National Weather Service's Las Vegas Forecast Office (NWS Las Vegas) wrote Aug. 2 in a tweet.
Temperatures in Death Valley in July blazed into the record books not only as the hottest month in the desert valley in eastern California but also as the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to NWS Las Vegas.
During July, temperatures were at their lowest at around 5 a.m. local time, averaging about 95 degrees F (35 degrees C), Death Valley National Park representatives wrote in a Facebook post on Aug. 3.
"This is an extreme place to live and visit in the summer, especially this past month," they said.
A photo shared in the post showed a National Park Service (NPS) official posing next to the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in the park, leaning against a sign displaying a local temperature of 124 degrees F (51.1 degrees C).
Death Valley's highest temperatures during July were 127 degrees F (52.8 degrees C) on July 7; 126 degrees F (52.2 degrees C) on July 8; and 125 degrees F (51.7 degrees C) on July 31, according to daily temperature reports compiled by the National Weather Service, The Washington Post reported.
Nevertheless, it does happen, and this year, the first people in southern Canada to see snow were people at Sunshine Village resort in Banff, Alta., and if the video below is any indication, it was more than a few flakes.
The video, captured below, was taken by Matt Wilson and posted on the resort's Facebook page, showing thick snowfall, though with no accumulation. Elsewhere in the range, Banff staff posted a photo of some rainy weather.
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A cold front passed across Switzerland on Wednesday and Thursday bringing heavy rain, especially to western, southern and eastern parts of the country.
More rain was expected on Friday, turning to snow above 1,900-2,200 metres, according to MeteoSuisse.
Pictures posted by Swiss paper Le Matin showed snow in Arolla in the Val d'Hérens. Parts of the Vaud Alps, including Glacier 3,000, were also covered in fresh flakes
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Tekapo, South Island was cut off by snow last month.
Tekapo, South Island was cut off by snow last month.
MetService meteorologist Georgina Griffiths said not only has it been cold, the main centres have also experienced more rain than last year, with Christchurch sitting at 134 per cent of its usual rainfall at 551mm compared with 411mm.
However, just to confuse people even more - especially in eastern parts of the country - temperatures are expected to hit 18 degrees, even 20 degrees in Napier, this weekend.
"It has been enormously wet and cold, it's been a crappy year, basically. It's an unusual and extremely volatile year."
She said most towns were "running quite cool bar this recent four or five day warm blip".
"The temperatures for the first 60 per cent of the year, 220 days, Christchurch is running a full degree and a half cooler than this time last year. That might not sound much but actually when you get a year when it's 1 degree above the long term average you're almost into record territory."
Wellington and Auckland were each running 1 degree colder than last year.
"It may not sound like much, but it's very significant difference over a seven-month time period."
Last year was one of the warmest winters in New Zealand with June 2016 the third warmest June on record.
Comment: Temperatures are becoming more extreme around the planet. There was a record high temperature in Ahvaz, Iran of 129F (53.7C) this year - the hottest in the country's history. Yet there have also been record cold temperatures in many other places, such as Australia, Slovakia, Russia, Arctic and the US.
See also: Record low temperatures across the planet outweigh record high's by 18:1 ratio