In a rare incident, heavy snow blanketed the Almas Road in the northwestern Iranian town of Khalkhal nearly one month into the spring.
Reports say the snow is 50 centimeters high and local authorities tried to open the routes after the heavy snowfall.
As a result of the snowfall, temperatures fell in northwestern Iran and even in distant areas.
The region is considered one of the agricultural hubs of the country and the sudden cold snap has caused concern among local farmers during the spring season.
A major search and rescue operation is under way after an avalanche in the Ötztal Alps in western Austria.
Three people have been killed, and a fourth has been taken to hospital.
Austrian reports describe a snow slide of 180m (600ft) in length and 80m in width close to the village of Vent, not far from the Italian border in the province of Tyrol.
Police say 17 members of a Dutch ski group were in the area at the time, along with four local mountain guides.
Four of the Dutch group were buried by the avalanche, which took place close to the Martin-Busch Hut, at an altitude of 2,500m. Police said two of them had died before they could be rescued.
Sarah Swain 9news.com.au Tue, 09 Apr 2024 13:24 UTC
Snow falling on Tuesday at Thredbo.
The first snow of the year has fallen at Australian ski resorts in NSW and Victoria.
Thredbo and Perisher in NSW as well as Hotham, Mount Baw Baw and Mount Buller in Victoria also all reported a fresh dumping of the white stuff in the past 24 hours.
But there are still another couple of months until the reports open for skiing and snowboarding, with June the month they welcome visitors.
"Someone must've shaken up our snow globe overnight. Winter mode has been well and truly activated," Thredbo bosses posted on social media.
Perisher posted a photo showing they had had a few centimeters of snow.
Further south, Mt Buller confirmed a "dusting", saying it's 60 days until the June long weekend - when the season really kicks off.
At least four people have died in the storm that brought nearly 2 feet of snow to higher New England elevations and winds gusting to 70-85 mph, knocking out power to over 600,000 customers.
A deadly late-season nor'easter that has hammered the Northeast and New England with drenching rain, heavy snow and gusty wind continues to pummel the region Friday.
Snow will continue at times for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, but the worst of the weather should be on a downward trend by Saturday, the FOX Forecast Center said.
Tragically, two people lost their lives during the recent storm in Pennsylvania when trees fell onto their cars. One of the victims was an 82-year-old woman who was waiting at a stoplight in Collegeville on Wednesday when a tree fell and crushed her car.
A 70-year-old man was also killed when a tree fell onto his car in Aston Township late Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities.
Another death was reported in New York when police say a tree fell onto a car on Route 128 in Armonk, killing the driver. Police said the driver was the only person in the car then and was later identified as the wife of a New York Yankees front office executive.
Lucy Bergemann WeatherNation Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:15 UTC
Heavy snow has been falling since Tuesday night in the Great Lakes - up over a foot for parts of the U.P.!
Snow continues into Thursday with the heaviest snow will be in the UP of Michigan where lake enhancement could help pile up close to a foot near Marquette where blizzard warnings were in effect at one point.
A few winter weather alerts linger through Thursday morning for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
A spring storm bringing heavy, wet snow swept through Quebec overnight, knocking out the lights for nearly 300,000 Hydro-Québec customers and shuttering schools in multiple areas.
All schools under the English Montreal School Board, the Lester B. Pearson School Board and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board are closed due to a mixture of snow and power outages.
Around a dozen schools with Montreal's French school service centre, the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal (CSSDM) are also closed, as well as some under the Riverside School Board in Longueuil, due to power outages.
As of Thursday morning, Hydro-Québec was logging 971 outages, affecting 281,116 customers across the province.
The most affected regions include Montreal, with more than 73,000 customers affected, followed by the Laurentians and the Montérégie, with more than 86,000 and and 41,000 customers in the dark, respectively.
Tens of thousands of people in the Outaouais, Laval and Lanaudière are also without power.
A solo skier was found dead on B.C.'s Cathedral Mountain west of Lake Louise after an avalanche over the weekend, according to Avalanche Canada. The skier appeared to have veered off the peak's shoulder on March 29, landing on Cathedral Glades, a slope at approximately 6,500 feet. The avalanche was a D2.5 size slide and partially buried the skier.
The victim was located from the air on April 1 due to a visible ski. Rescuers found a transceiver in the skier's backpack, switched off, Calgary CTV News reports. The incident date was determined from a professional observation on March 30, estimating the avalanche to be 12 hours old.
Avalanche risk is currently ranked as "considerable" in alpine regions and "moderate" at treeline in the areas surrounding Cathedral Mountain. Additional snowfall is forecasted to impact the region this week which may increase avalanche risk in these areas.
A fatal helicopter accident was reported on Tuesday, April 2, at Petit Combin, near Verbier, Switzerland. Three people lost their lives in the accident while three further people were injured.
According to the police report, a type B3 helicopter crashed at the Petit Combin, a popular backcountry and heliskiing location near the famous Verbier Ski Resort, around 9:25 a.m. The helicopter was taking four guests and a guide for a heliskiing trip and was manned by one pilot. While the police report stated that 'unspecified reasons' caused the helicopter to slide off the peak of the Petit Combin at 3,668 meters (12,034 feet), eyewitnesses reported to British newspapers that an avalanche sent the helicopter down the north wall of the Petit Combin. The slope from Petit Combin runs at an angle of between 40-45°.
The avalanche broke below a lift on the Riffelberg.
Three people have been killed and another person injured in an avalanche at Riffelberg, near the Swiss Alpine ski resort of Zermatt.
Footage on social media showed a wall of snow crossing an off-piste sector of the Riffelberg sector of Zermatt, one of the most luxurious ski resorts in the Alps.
Authorities launched a major rescue operation despite bad weather but it was later suspended.
Heavy snowfall and very strong winds had prompted authorities to warn of a major avalanche risk in the southern Swiss Alps.
The risk was considered especially high in the Grisons and Valais cantons, both popular ski destinations.
The course of life and labour reminds me of a long journey I once took on the railway. Suddenly, there was a breakdown ahead, and passengers took the event in various ways. Some of them sat still resignedly, and never said a word. Others again, went to sleep. But some of us leaped out of that train, and ran on ahead to clear the road of all obstructions.
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