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Are we in for a big winter? Heavy rain and snow in the Pyrenees and Alps - up to 27.5 inches of early snowfall recorded


iloveski.org
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:51 UTC
Passo Stelvio
Passo Stelvio on September 9, 2024.
The recent heavy snowfall and rainfall in Europe represents a significant boost for the snow industry and mountain tourism in Europe. The intense Isolated High Level Depression, which has crossed Western Europe, has resulted in considerable snow accumulations for this time of the year.

Recent weather events in the mountainous regions of Europe, especially in the Alps, seem to anticipate a winter of heavy snowfall. The heavy precipitation and heavy snowfall forecast for the coming months is excellent news for both the winter sports industry and the accumulation of water reserves.

According to data provided by Meteo France, the Alps have recorded accumulations of between 10 and 70 cm of snow on their highest peaks and the Pic du Midi in the French Pyrenees has been dyed white. The "premature" arrival of snow is particularly noticeable in the French and Italian regions, notably the Mercantour and Haute-Maurienne valleys in France as well as the Italian Alps and the Apennines, from the Ligurian coast to Reggio Calabria, where up to 20 cm of snow has been recorded on the highest peaks.

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Zululanders feel the chill as snow blankets Drakensberg, South Africa

Tamlyn Cramer
The Citizen (South Africa)
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:35 UTC
Snow covers Sani Pass as Zululanders get cold, wet Monday
Snow covers Sani Pass as Zululanders get cold, wet Monday
JUST as many Zululanders thought spring was firmly in their sights, winter returned with a chill today (Monday).

With Brackenham dropping to as low as 12.4 degrees Celsius, Richards Bay CBD 17 and eSikhaleni a more mild, yet still cold 17.8 degrees, the mercury failed to rise above 11 degrees in eShowe, while Hluhluwe reached 15 and Mtubatuba 14.

The cold temperatures brought rain across much of the Zululand region.

Elsewhere in KwaZulu-Natal, snow not only capped the Drakensberg mountain range, it covered Sani Pass in a thick white blanket, as seen in a video shared across social media platforms.

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Early snow covers Too-Ashu mountain pass in Kyrgyzstan


AKI Press
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:35 UTC
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Snow has fallen on the Too-Ashu pass in Zhaiyl district of Chuy region on September 2, drivers told Turmush.

Meanwhile, the road service workers said snow melted quickly.

This was the second snowfall this summer-autumn season. The first snow fell on the night of August 27-28, the employees said.

There was no threat to cars and now there is no any threat for vehicles, according to them.

No road accidents occurred on the pass despite the weather conditions, the regional police reported.

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Climate Science goes full-bore witchcraft: Your beefsteak makes bridges fall like Tinker-Toys

Jo Nova
joannenova.com.au
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:40 UTC
Climate Propaganda
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The Modern West is regressing to 8th Century occult science

Today the supposed "newspaper of record" for the most powerful nation on Earth is effectively telling people that the steak they eat, the car they drive and the heater they use could cause bridges to collapse "'like Tinkertoys". But you'll have to join the dots yourself, because they never do. No one asks the experts: How many Tofu-burgers does it take to save Brooklyn Bridge? How many bus trips will we need to save the Golden Gate?

The worlds leading journalists never ask the obvious questions. They just leave a trail of breadcrumbs: Man makes CO2, CO2 causes Spooky weather and Spooky weather eats bridges. So good people drive EV's!

Each breadcrumb looks like bread, like it might be real, but no one sees the whole loaf and before you know it, everyone is lost in the woods, installing solar panels to save their bridges.

Two days ago the breadcrumbs said "good people go without air conditioners".

Things are so bad the New York Times tells us that on a 95 degree day in summer, one bridge in Manhattan got stuck open "for hours". (The tragedy). Another time a railway bridge in Iowa got washed away and some pavement buckled in Maine.

The truth is that US bridges are a miracle. There are, seriously, more than 600,000 bridges across the country and yet this was all the catastrophe they could find in the leading paragraph. We're supposed to believe that we're in a bridge crisis, and that "extreme" heat, floods and "snap weather changes" are new, and worse, and we're causing it.
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Unusual snowfall for Table Mountain, South Africa

ZamaNdosi Cele
IOL
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:36 UTC
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Table Mountain reported its first dusting of snow in four years on the morning of Wednesday, August 28. Snow is an unusual occurrence on Table Mountain and it was last spotted on August 29, 2020.

Footage of white snow covered Table Mountain quickly went viral across social media platforms TikTok, X and Instagram.

On Instagram, Table Mountain Cableway said: "It's official! It's snowing on Table Mountain! The mountain is covered in a beautiful layer of snow, turning our stunning landscape into a winter wonderland!

"But that's not all! Table Mountain is in the running for Africa's Leading Tourist Attraction in the World Travel Awards 2024! Your vote can help us bring home this prestigious title and showcase the magic of our iconic landmark to the world."

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August snow at higher elevations in Montana


kxlh.com
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:11 UTC
Fresh snowfall is seen on the summit of Big Mountain at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024
Fresh snowfall is seen on the summit of Big Mountain at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024
We're not out of August yet, but Mother Nature isn't letting that stop her from giving us a preview of wintry conditions.

Several higher-elevation areas of Montana currently have a dusting (or more) of snow, thanks to a cold front that cruised through on Tuesday night into Wednesday.

Glacier National Park reports that part of Going-to-the-Sun Road has been closed due to wintry weather.

The road is closed between Avalanche Creek and Jackson Glacier Outlook due to snow and icy conditions.

There is no word at this point on how long the famed road will be closed.

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Early snowfall hits Kashmir, India


Free Kashmir Press
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:47 UTC
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While plains of Kashmir witnessed rain, higher reaches in Sonamarg received season's first snowfall, officials said. The snowfall followed several days of overcast skies and rain, bringing a noticeable drop in temperatures in the Ganderbal district.

The season's first snowfall was recorded at Sonamarg's famous trekking spots, including Vishansar and Nichnai.

The fresh snow and rain have provided relief from the recent heat, with temperatures plummeting across Jammu and Kashmir, including Srinagar. The rain began earlier in the week and continued to soak most parts of the region.

Independent weather forecaster Faizan Arif Keng predicts that more snowfall is expected in other higher reaches over the next 24 hours. The Meteorological Department has also forecasted continued cloudy skies with the possibility of more rain, likely to extend through the end of the month.

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Large patch of the Atlantic Ocean near the equator has been cooling at record speeds — and scientists can't figure out why

Sharmila Kuthunur
Live Science
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:04 UTC
Scientists are trying to decipher what drove the recent dramatic cooling of the tropical Atlantic, but so far few clues have emerged. "We are still scratching our heads as to what's actually happening," the researchers said.

Atlantic Ocean
© NASA / JSCThe Atlantic Ocean, near the Bahamas, as seen from the International Space Station in July 2024.
For a few months this summer, a large strip of Atlantic Ocean along the equator cooled at record speed. Though the cold patch is now warming its way back to normal, scientists are still baffled by what caused the dramatic cooling in the first place.

The anomalous cold patch, which is confined to a stretch of ocean spanning several degrees north and south of the equator, formed in early June following a months-long streak of the warmest surface waters in more than 40 years. While that region is known to swing between cold and warm phases every few years, the rate at which it plunged from record high to low this time is "really unprecedented," Franz Tuchen, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Miami in Florida who is tracking the event, told Live Science.

"We are still scratching our heads as to what's actually happening," Michael McPhaden, a senior scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who oversees an array of buoys in the tropics that have been gathering real-time data of the cold patch, told Live Science. "It could be some transient feature that has developed from processes that we don't quite understand."
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August snowfall in North America


Inthesnow.com
Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:31 UTC
Mammoth Mountain on Saturday afternoon.
Mammoth Mountain on Saturday afternoon.
Canada and the US have battled extreme heat and forest fires through the summer, but recent days have brought some relief and even pre-ski-season excitement, with the first snowfall spotted on high slopes in the Canadian Rockies. Unusual weather conditions have also brought snow to peaks in California's Sierra Nevada mountains too.

Mammoth Mountain, which is due to start its 24-25 season in less than three months time on 15th November is pictured above this weekend. Lake Tahoe ski areas to the north also saw a brief snow covering with Northstar, due to open a week after Mammoth on the 22nd pictured below.

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Chinese Academy Of Sciences: "Antarctic cold spells shattered records" in July-August, 2023

P.Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Sat, 27 Jul 2024 00:11 UTC
The Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the Antarctic cold spells shattered records amid global heat waves in late winter 2023, something we never heard from the mainstream media.

Antarctica
© NASA (public domain)
In report appearing in the online PhysOrg journal, 2023 "brought an unexpected twist with extreme cold events in Antarctica" - according to a new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.

"Record cold temperatures were observed in our Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) network as well as other locations around the region," said Matthew A. Lazzara of the Antarctic Meteorological Research and Data Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). "These phases were marked by new record low temperatures recorded at both staffed and automatic weather stations, spanning East Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf, and West Antarctica to the Antarctic Peninsula."
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