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Record cold in Alaska's northernmost town

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:29 UTC
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While most of the state is blossoming into spring, areas north of the Brooks Range have still been dealing with cold and blizzard conditions. Early Wednesday morning Utqiagvik saw the thermometer fall to minus 20F, beating the previous record of -19F set back in 1973. It is the first time in recorded history that Utqiagvik saw a low of minus 20 this late in the season.

Utqiagvik, northernmost town in the United States, is the largest city in Alaska's North Slope Borough and is located north of the Arctic Circle.

Probably not very much ice will be melting at 20 degrees below zero.

Thanks to Stephen Potter for this link.
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Return of the snow plows to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia as late April storm dumps nearly 10 inches of the white stuff


Cape Breton Post
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:38 UTC
Above, a Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal plow clears a bridge, located at the top of Upper Prince Street in Sydney, that crosses Highway 125 just south of the Grand Lake Road intersection.
© David Jala/Cape Breton Post
Above, a Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal plow clears a bridge, located at the top of Upper Prince Street in Sydney, that crosses Highway 125 just south of the Grand Lake Road intersection.
Just as Cape Breton residents began to believe that warmer and more pleasant weather was here to stay, Mother Nature sent yet another message that winter isn't over until it's over.

As much as 25 cm of heavy, wet snow fell across the municipality on Tuesday during a late-April storm that forced snow removal equipment back onto the streets, roads and highways.

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Early winter wonderland in Lesotho, South Africa

Nomahlubi Jordaan
Times Live
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:41 UTC
Snow has created a blanket of white in Lesotho, and snowfalls in the Drakensberg are expected this week.
© Denis Balibouse
Snow has created a blanket of white in Lesotho, and snowfalls in the Drakensberg are expected this week.
The SA Weather Service has warned that severe thunderstorms and floods are expected in certain parts of the country, including Gauteng and the Eastern Cape.

Forecaster Mbavhi Maliage said temperatures were cool on Tuesday and would remain until Wednesday, with a 60% chance of rainfall expected in Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Eastern Cape.

"There is a watch for heavy rainfall that will lead to localised flooding between East London and Port Edward," Maliage said.

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Record cold and heavy rain to sweep across south-east Australia

Naaman Zhou
The Guardian
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 03:48 UTC
Melbourne and Canberra could record their coldest April days as chilly weather hits Australia’s south-east
© Joe Castro/AAP
Melbourne and Canberra could record their coldest April days as chilly weather hits Australia’s south-east.
Record cold and heavy rain could sweep over Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and parts of Queensland in coming days as "the strongest cold front of the year" moves across Australia.

Temperatures could be between 8C and 14C below average in the country's south-east, and Melbourne and Canberra could break their records for coldest day in April, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

Melbourne is forecast for a maximum of just 13C on Thursday and Friday, which would make it the coldest April day since 1996. Canberra is forecast for an even colder maximum of 7C on Friday, which would break the city's record for the earliest day below 10C.

One of the bureau's forecasters, Dean Narramore, added that parts of northern and central South Australia could experience "one of the coldest April days since the 60s or 70s."

Frost is forecast for inland parts of New South Wales and Victoria.

"It's pretty unusual to see a cold front this strong, this early in the year, Narramore said on Wednesday, as he described it as "the strongest cold front of the year".

Comment: Early snowfall for 3 states in Australia

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A springtime winter wonderland blankets New York, New England as calendar nears May - up to 14 inches of snow recorded

Mark Puleo
AccuWeather
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:05 UTC
A spring snowstorm dropped 14 inches of wet snow on the Otsego County town of Cherry Valley, elevation 1,437 feet.
© Debbie Whiteman
A spring snowstorm dropped 14 inches of wet snow on the Otsego County town of Cherry Valley, elevation 1,437 feet.
While the calendar may seem to say we're too close to summer and far enough removed from winter, a springtime snowstorm unleashed more than a foot of wintry weather on areas of New York and nearly as much in New England.

Snow began falling in southern New York on Sunday afternoon as photos emerged from areas such as Binghamton of accumulated snow on yards.

From there, the mix moved northeastward and left higher-elevation areas with a mess to clean up. In Otsego County, WKTV Meteorologist Jill Reale measured 14 inches of snow in Cherry Valley.

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100 million years ago, the Sahara was the most dangerous place


University of Portsmouth
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:33 UTC
Kem Kem group animals
© UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH
Artist's illustration of Kem Kem group animals.
100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on Earth.

This is according to an international team of scientists, who have published the biggest review in almost 100 years of fossil vertebrates from an area of Cretaceous rock formations in south-eastern Morocco, known as the Kem Kem Group.

The review, published in the journal ZooKeys, "provides a window into Africa's Age of Dinosaurs" according to lead author Dr Nizar Ibrahim, an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Detroit Mercy and Visiting Researcher from the University of Portsmouth.
This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time-traveller would not last very long.

Dr Nizar Ibrahim, Visiting Researcher
About 100 million years ago, the area was home to a vast river system, filled with many different species of aquatic and terrestrial animals. Fossils from the Kem Kem Group include three of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever known, including the sabre-toothed Carcharodontosaurus (over 8m in length with enormous jaws and long, serrated teeth up to eight inches long) and Deltadromeus (around 8m in length, a member of the raptor family with long, unusually slender hind limbs for its size), as well as several predatory flying reptiles (pterosaurs) and crocodile-like hunters. Dr Ibrahim said: "This was arguably the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth, a place where a human time-traveller would not last very long."
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Cabin completely buried in snow 3 times this winter in Iceland


Iceland Monitor
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:36 UTC
Taking a break from shoveling.
© Jón Þór Jósepsson
Taking a break from shoveling.
A cabin in Unadalur valley, near the village of Hofsós, North Iceland, was completely buried in snow - not once, but three times this winter, Morgunblaðið reports. Nothing but its TV antenna was visible. The owners, with the help of rescue workers and other volunteers, have been busy lately digging out the cabin. "It's been quite a workout," states Jón Þór Jósepsson, one of the family members.

There was unusually heavy snowfall this winter, and the family checked on the cabin on a regular basis. "When I got there in mid-March, the place was completely buried in snow, with nothing but the TV antenna sticking out," states Jón Þór. The snowbank on top of the roof was up to 2.5-meters (8 ft, 2 in) thick.

Comment: Up to 30 FEET deep snow banks in Iceland - 'We've never before had snow on this scale'

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Heavy spring blizzard hits northern China, biggest in decades say residents

Alex Linder
Shanghaiist
Tue, 21 Apr 2020 05:44 UTC
Northern China blizzard
Spring has brought a blizzard to the door of many in northern China, trapping them inside.

The snowstorm over the last couple of days has covered large swathes of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Inner Mongolia with localities raising red alerts for snowfall.

Some residents of Qiqihar in Heilongjiang province say that they haven't seen so much snow in 20 or 30 years.

Footage from up north shows snow burying cars and blocking the doors of some houses, forcing people to climb out windows to escape.

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Snowflake Cold

April's weather broke at least 6 records across Canada and not in a good way

Lisa Belmonte
Narcity
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:56 UTC
snow
© David Mark, Daniel Bowman
Cold and snow and no rain, oh my! It's been one heck of a wild ride so far this month for a number of reasons including the weather. April weather records in Canada have been broken across the country and it's not in a good way.

According to The Weather Network, April is a month for cruel, tumultuous weather that often flip flops between extremes.

In keeping with that tradition, conditions throughout this month have been less than favourable in some parts of the country.

On April 22, northern Ontario experienced late extreme cold and Geraldtown shattered its daily record low by more than seven degrees when the temperature reached -20.4 C.

That's colder than the average low in December in that region.
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Snowflake Cold

Bone-chilling cold sweeps Northeast Russia, records from the 1950s and 1960s fall

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:18 UTC
Extreme cold in Yakutia, Russia


As originally logged by hmn.ru (and now deleted?), cold records have been falling across NE Russia this week as Arctic air continues to invade the transcontinental nation.

The Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia, has broken a myriad of low temperature records as winter continues to encroach into Spring 2020.

In the village of Talon, the mercury dropped to a nipple-hardening -30.7C (-23.3F), shattering the previous April record: the -27.3C (-17.1F) set in 1966 (solar minimum of cycle 19).
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