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Airplane

More than 1,000 flights cancelled or delayed as snow storm threatens much of US

Amy Lieu
Fox News
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:26 UTC
Over 1,500 flights cancelled as winter weather wreaks havoc US's busiest airports
Over 1,500 flights cancelled as winter weather wreaks havoc US's busiest airports
More than a 1,000 flights have been canceled or delayed in anticipation of snow and icy conditions Tuesday, as a winter storm threatens the Midwest, the South and the East Coast.

There are 977 flight cancellations and 143 delays as of 4:55 a.m., according to FlightAware.com.

"A dangerous week of cold air and travel conditions are coming up," Fox News Senior Meteorologist Janice Dean said Monday. "Snow and ice will coat even the Deep South Tuesday through Wednesday, which will make travel incredibly difficult and possibly crippling."

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines has canceled 170 flights to and from Atlanta on Tuesday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Bizarro Earth

'Hundreds of thousands' of fish dead in Australia


Digital Journal
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 05:27 UTC
Darling River Mass Death
© ROBERT GREGORY, ROBERT GREGORY/AFPJust weeks after up to a million fish were killed, another mass death occurred in the Murray-Darling river system.
"Hundreds of thousands" of fish have died in drought-stricken Australia in the last few days and more mass deaths are likely to occur, the authorities warned Tuesday.

Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee.

Just weeks after up to a million were killed -- with scientists pointing to low water and oxygen levels as well as possibly toxic algae -- another mass death occurred in the key agricultural region.

Inspectors from the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries have visited the site and said they found that "hundreds of thousands of fish have died".

"Further fish deaths in the Darling River are anticipated as a significant number of fish have been observed under stress," the department said in a statement.

Some 700 kilos (1,543 pounds) of dead fish were removed from the river Monday, with similar amounts expected to be collected Tuesday, it added.

The Darling River is part of the Murray-Darling River system that stretches thousands of kilometres across several states.
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Snowflake Cold

Toronto under extreme cold warning, day after record-breaking snowfall


CityNews
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:05 UTC
Cars are buried in snow in Toronto on Jan. 29, 2019
© CITYNEWS/Bert DandyCars are buried in snow in Toronto on Jan. 29, 2019.
Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for Toronto, the day after a record-breaking snowfall blanketed the city.

The warning also extends to the rest of the GTA.

"A frigid Arctic air mass and strong winds will result in wind chill values of -30 to -35 tonight through to Friday morning," the national weather agency said in its warning.

680 NEWS meteorologist Jill Taylor said temperatures will fall to -9 C on Tuesday afternoon. The windchill will be near -30 overnight.

Conditions are expected to improve on Friday as milder air moves into the region.

Meanwhile, the cleanup continues from the massive snow storm that led to traffic and transit issues, as well as school bus cancellations and school closures.

In Toronto, the city recorded the largest single-day snowfall - which led to school bus cancellations in the Toronto District and Catholic school boards.

Taylor said around 26.4 centimetres of snow was recorded at Pearson International Airport on Monday, breaking the record of 13.4 centimetres set on that date in 2009. As of 10 a.m. Tuesday, the city recorded 33 centimetres, which factors in the early-morning snow.

But the last time Toronto had more than 20 centimetres of snow in a single day was 51 years ago - 20.8 centimetres on Jan. 14, 1968. Prior to that, Toronto recorded 36.8 centimetres on Jan. 23, 1966, and 27.9 centimetres on Jan. 3, 1943.

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Attention

Frigid weather shuts down large Midwest universities


Yahoo News
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:24 UTC
Road closed
The Latest: Cold shuts down large Midwest universities
The Latest on a major snowstorm and the expected frigid weather in the Midwest (all times local):

9:20 a.m.

Major universities in parts of the Midwest are shutting down because of the extreme cold blanketing the region.

Arctic air dipping into the region sent temperatures plunging Tuesday, and even colder weather is expected Wednesday.

Hundreds of public schools are closed from North Dakota to Michigan. The universities closed through Thursday include the University of Minnesota, the University of North Dakota and the University of South Dakota.

Comment: See also: Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Coldest temperatures of your lifetime descends on the US (EMERGENCY WARNING)

Ice Age Farmer Report: "Fatal Cold" incoming - Your food is under attack - Major shortages

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Snowflake Cold

Ice Age Farmer Report: "Fatal Cold" incoming - Your food is under attack - Major shortages


Ice Age Farmer
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:40 UTC
snow
The powers that be seek to make profane all that we ingest, and that agenda is in overdrive as we enter the Grand Solar Minimum.

As we experience record cold temperatures this week, Christian puts together the pieces, stressing the importance of growing your own food in order to stay healthy and thrive in the future.


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Comment: A list of related articles carried by SoTT recently about the impact of extreme weather events on food crops and by no means exhaustive: Extreme weather affecting crop harvests in Europe - North too dry, south hit by hail

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Snowflake Cold

Arctic blast grips Sweden as mercury plunges below -39C


The Local (Sweden)
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:24 UTC
Icy pavements in Stockholm in January
© Tomas Oneborg/SvD/TTIcy pavements in Stockholm in January.
With slushy streets in southern Sweden and a new cold record of the season in the far north, the big freeze shows no sign of letting go of the country any time soon.

Snow was falling in almost all of Sweden on Monday morning and was expected to continue doing so on and off until Tuesday, according to national weather agency SMHI.

"It's not snowing in the far north, where it is cold and clear. Naimakka had the lowest temperature of the year tonight, -39.3C," said meteorologist Linus Dock.

In southern Sweden the mercury was hovering just above freezing with sleet forecast, but could drop to below freezing on Tuesday.
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Ice Cube

Cold winter brings out icebreakers ahead of schedule in Finland


Yle
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:11 UTC
icebreaker
Sisu is the fifth icebreaker Finland has deployed this season. She was sent out on Sunday, some two weeks earlier than last year.

Months of bone-chilling temperatures have turned much of the Bay of Bothnia into thick slabs of ice. Finnish icebreaker Sisu is now headed toward the region, and according to the ship's chief officer Patrik Barck, it seems like there will be a lot of ice to deal with this winter.

Sisu is the fifth icebreaker sent out so far this season, which is early compared to last year, when the fifth icebreaker was deployed some two weeks later on 10 February.

In 2017, ice levels on most of Finland's seas were very low, as well.
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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Coldest temperatures of your lifetime descends on the US (EMERGENCY WARNING)


Adapt 2030
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:04 UTC
US freeze
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
What is considered as the coldest temperatures to blanket half of the US in five generations is intensifying. Temperatures will reach -47F as ground temperatures over the next three days with wind chill down to -70F in parts of the Great Lakes, Midwest Pains states and N.E USA, additionally S.E USA will be at all time record cold as well and the power grid will be at all time draw for home heating. This is an indicator of the Grand Solar Minimum intensifying. Good Luck and make preparations for power outages in this historic cold.


Comment: It is always best to be prepared. See also: And do have a listen to the SOTT Talk Radio show that was devoted to this subject:

Surviving the End of the World (as we Know it)

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Snowflake Cold

Up to 2.3 metres (90 inches) of snowfall in 7 days over the Pyrenees


J2Ski
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 19:56 UTC
Fresh +50 cm of snow in Saint-Lary-Soulan, France (the Pyrenees) this morning, January 28.
Fresh +50 cm of snow in Saint-Lary-Soulan, France (the Pyrenees) this morning, January 28.
It has been snowing heavily in the Alps over the weekend and continues to snow in the Pyrenees, where conditions have been transformed over the past week after a two month, mostly-dry, spell.

This time it is the Western Alps and France and Western Switzerland that is seeing the biggest snowfalls, with one area reporting 70cm in the past 24 hours and many at least 30cm.

But it has been snowing again in the Eastern Alps which saw huge accumulations between Christmas and mid-January, resorts in Austria have posted up to 50cm of snow in the last 24 hours.

A week of snow in the Pyrenees is now starting to add up big time with some areas reporting more than 2 metres of snow has fallen there in the past 7 days. La Mongie / Barèges say they've had 2.3 metres (nearly 8 feet) of snowfall since last Monday.
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Snowflake Cold

Up to 70cm (28 inches) of fresh snow falls in 24 hours over the Alps

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 19:08 UTC
snow alps
There's been heavy snowfall again in the Alps, particularly in the past 24 hours.

A fortnight after the three weeks of heavy snow that brought the Eastern Alps (Austria, Germany and Eastern Switzerland) to a standstill, this time it's the turn of the Western Alps, France and Western Switzerland in particular, to get the big dumps.

The biggest 24 hour accumulation reported so far is at the small resort of Cordon in the Northern French Alps with 70cm (2 feet, 4 inches) of snowfall.

Les Marécottes - Salvan in the Swiss Valais region over the border has posted the second biggest at 65cm (2 feet, 2 inches).

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