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JUDI WESTFALL: It was a little bit of a shock. It was snowing when I got home last night, but I didn't expect it to be over a foot of snow today. So a little bit of a shocker for us.
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JUDI WESTFALL: It was a little bit of a shock. It was snowing when I got home last night, but I didn't expect it to be over a foot of snow today. So a little bit of a shocker for us.
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Snowfall was recorded in several north Kashmir towns including Kupwara and Baramulla. Srinagar city and south Kashmir witnessed heavy snowfall through the night, bringing down the temperature.
The preliminary totals show that Casper Mountain had received as much as 15 inches by 8:30 am, Wednesday, March 10. Snow totals inside Casper ranged from 5-9 1/2 inches on Wednesday morning.
A Winter Storm Warning has been issued for lower elevations of Natrona County and far southern Johnson County until 5 PM Wednesday.
Storm dumps heavy snow on Mount Laguna
Mammoth Mountain says the resort has received 15 inches of snow Wednesday. And with the storm expected to linger through the end of the week, that may not be the end of the snowfall before this weekend.
California Highway Patrol reported early Wednesday morning that snow was falling along the 5 Freeway through the Grapevine, but the roadway remained open.
Snow was also reported on the 15 Freeway in the Cajon Pass. Drivers were being advised to avoid mountain passes if at all possible.
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Snow-covered Texas grapevines.
Snow-covered Texas grapevines.
"A large number of Texas farmers, ranchers and others involved in commercial agriculture and agricultural production were seriously affected by Winter Storm Uri," said Jeff Hyde, AgriLife Extension director, Bryan-College Station. "Freezing temperatures and ice killed or harmed many of their crops and livestock as well as causing financial hardships and operational setbacks. And the residual costs from the disaster could plague many producers for years to come."
AgriLife Extension estimates that the following sectors were among the state's biggest agricultural losses by commodity:
- Citrus crops, at least $230 million
- Livestock, at least $228 million
- Vegetable crops, at least $150 million
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The north of European territory has already established frosts of minus thirty degrees, and in several cities on the night of the first spring holiday the temperature dropped to record lows.
In addition, to the already record low values, frosts intensified even further from the Kola Peninsula to Vorkuta.
In the Murmansk region, the record holder was the Krasnoshchelye settlement, where the temperature dropped to -34.5°C.
Comment: In other parts of Russia the same extremely cold weather for the time of year is also clearly apparent, see:
- Spring has exploded in blizzards in Moscow and the Moscow region
- Severe blizzard hits Chukotka, Russia
The Kedarnath and Gangotri dham are covered with thick sheet of snow.
Here, in Nainital, locals are facing troubles because of the snowfall.
J&K's Gulmarg is also covered under the snow.
Watch the visuals of snowfall from various parts.
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The winter in Moscow "broke out" with the snowfall
Spring has arrived according to the calendar, but instead has exploded in blizzards in Moscow and the Moscow region.
In VDNKh, at 9 am on March 7, the height of the snow was exactly 40 cm, and on the morning of March 8, it increased to 48 cm. The height of the snow increased more visibly in the area of Tushino: there the snow piles increased by 10 cm. At the weather station with the same name it is 55 cm.
Gulmarg tourist destination in north Kashmir received nearly two feet of fresh snow since Sunday night while many other hilly areas of Kashmir received moderate to light snowfall, the officials said.
They said snow-clearance machines have been pressed into action in the affected areas.
Farid Nekfar, who heads the disaster management department of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province, said efforts were ongoing to recover at least two bodies after the avalanche that occurred in the afternoon on March 4.
"We are in contact with the locals and emergency teams. So far 12 dead bodies have been recovered from under the avalanche," Nekfar said. "Unfortunately the area is under the control of the militants."
Comment: Just 5 days earlier: Up to 2 feet of March snowfall in upper reaches of Kashmir - temperature drops 7 degrees Celsius below normal