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Early snowfall at low elevations in Spain - up to 10 inches thick

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 04 Oct 2020 11:31 UTC
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3 Oct 2020 - The effects of storm Álex are felt at low elevations with snow thicknesses up to 25 cm.

The mercury dropped to 5C below zero in Cerler, the coldest temperature in Spain on Saturday, followed by Torla with minus 2.1C, and Panticosa with minus 1.8C, according the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).

Along with this strong cooling, the Huesca Pyrenees has registered snowfalls ranging from 8cm in the Casa de Piedra Refuge at 1,600 meters to 30 cm (1 ft) in the Refuge from Bachimaña at 2,200 meters.

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Snowflake Cold

Winter arrives early in southern Siberia

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 05:30 UTC
Siberia cold


Northern Siberia has been tracking anomalously warm of late, while the south has been unusually cold — a setup serving as yet another example of the meridional (wavy) jet stream flow brought about by the historically low solar activity we're currently receiving.

On Sept 15, 2020 NOAA and NASA announced that the new Solar Cycle 25 has begun. Since then, the sun has been blank almost 90% of the time, writes Dr. Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com. Our star has been devoid of sunspots for 199 day in 2020, or 71% of the time. This sustained lack of spots shows that Solar Minimum of SC24 is not over; that SC25 is still too weak to break its icy grip.

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Snowflake Cold

Ice and fire in Argentina - 2 feet of late snowfall in Patagonia after storm

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:07 UTC
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Two feet of snow and far below freezing in some areas, temperatures up to 43°C in others.

Meteorología de la República Argentina

PATAGONIA - Snowflakes 50 to 60 cm (2 ft) of snow in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. With temperatures below zero, it differs from the North Argentina, registering thermal contrasts of + 40°C.

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Apple Red

Tomato production fell 20% due to the intense heat in July in Extremadura, Spain


Fresh Plaza
Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:21 UTC
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According to Extremadura's Grouping of Agricultural Cooperatives (Acopaex), this season's tomato production will be 20% lower than the figures that were initially expected as a result of the intense heat in the month of July. The president of Acopaex, Domingo Fernandez, said that 2.1 million tons had been contracted but that they would collect 500,000 fewer tons.

After the last few years of good harvests, the production has suffered; not only in Extremadura, but also in other producing territories such as Andalusia, Portugal, or Italy. Producers are worried about this situation, especially because they won't have enough tomatoes to be profitable, as prices have been very tight for years.

The production of the current campaign will also be 20% lower than last year's production when producers obtained a similar figure than what had been contracted. "This had not happened for many years. We might sometimes produce 2, 3, or 5% less than what was contracted, but 20% less is a very large amount," Fernandez stated.

Source: hoy.es
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Fire

Wildfires tear through drought-racked Paraguay amid record heat

William Costa
The Guardian
Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:55 UTC
Members of Paraguay’s highway patrol and local residents try to extinguish a fire on 27 September in San Bernardino, east of Asuncion, Paraguay.
© Norberto Duarte/AFP/Getty Images
Members of Paraguay’s highway patrol and local residents try to extinguish a fire on 27 September in San Bernardino, east of Asuncion, Paraguay.
Country faces more than 5,000 fires, with yellow smoke reaching the capital as neighbouring Brazil and Argentina face blazes

Devastating wildfires have broken out across across Paraguay, as drought and record high temperatures continue to exacerbate blazes across South America.

A total of 5,231 individual wildfires broke out across the country on 1 October - up 3,000 on the previous day. Most of were concentrated in the arid Chaco region in the west of the country, but thick yellow smoke had reached as far as the capital, Asunción.

Paraguay's outbreak came as the southern hemisphere heads into summer and neighbouring countries also face unprecedented wildfires. The Brazilian Amazon is recording its worst blazes in a decade, with numbers up 61% on the widely reported fires of last year, and separate fires in the southern Pantanal region.

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Attention

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: A pattern emerges do you see it


Adapt 2030
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:33 UTC
September snow in Spain
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
The interconnectedness of stock markets going off line, universal basic income in Switzerland unveiled as food insecurity hits New Jersey in the USA. Crop losses continue mounting across the planet as both hemispheres experience extreme out of season cold and deep snows. Its apparent now the shift is here.


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Snowflake

Heavy early snow on Triglav mountain in Slovenia

JL Flanner
Total Slovenia News
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:00 UTC
The Triglav Lodge at Kredarica

The Triglav Lodge at Kredarica
The photo above is from the webcam set up at Triglav Lodge at Kredarica, the highest mountain hut in Slovenia and the highest meteorological station in the country.

You can check on the current conditions, as see images from many other webcams in the hills and mountains of the country here.

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Snowflake Cold

Unusual winter records for September in Spain - up to half a meter of snow

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:46 UTC
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That's winter, as in WINTER.

Up to half a meter of snow in high altitudes, while the meteorological station of Cogulla, in Cerler registered the minimum for the country on Sunday with -5.9 degrees.

The Cogulla meteorological station, located in Cerler, at 2,300 meters, registered the minimum in the country on Sunday at -5.9 degrees.

Torla was the second coldest with -1.9 (in Cebollar, at 1,900 m) and Panticosa, the third, with -1.1 (in Petrosos, at 1,850). Among the top ten places, the 2 degrees of Benabarre also stand out, as this station is located in a population center.


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Igloo

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: The truth about the next ten years


Adapt 2030
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:17 UTC
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There are now 15 of the top astrophysics and scientists across the globe stating that a new Grand Solar Minimum will completely envelop our planet by 2030. The shift for our societies will be tremendous as the Sun heading to Solar Max registered 32 days in a row with no sunspots. Europe record early deep snow along with Ireland with the coldest September temperatures ever recorded.


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Snowflake

Italy's coldest September in 50 years


Wanted in Milan
Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:27 UTC
September snow falls near Rome

September snow falls near Rome
Temperatures plunge suddenly as Italy battered by torrential rain.

Italy's incessant rain and sudden drop in temperature in recent days have resulted in the country's coldest September for 50 years, reports Italian media.

Over the weekend, temperatures in Italy plunged by between 10 and 15 degrees, leading to snow falls much earlier than usual.

The spell of bad weather, triggered by a belt of cold air from northern Europe, has been particularly intense in Milan and Turin which recorded 5°C and 4°C degrees respectively on the night of Sunday 27 September.
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