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Heavy pack ice traps boats, triggers rescue operation off Newfoundland


atlantic.ctvnews.ca
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:58 UTC
Boats are shown trapped in heavy ice off La Scie, Newfoundland in a handout photo from the Department of Fisheries and Ocean.
© Department of Fisheires and OceansBoats are shown trapped in heavy ice off La Scie, Newfoundland in a handout photo from the Department of Fisheries and Ocean.
Unusually heavy Arctic pack ice has trapped multiple vessels, stymied the fishing season and triggered a high-stakes rescue operation from a sinking ship off Newfoundland.

Five fishermen were rescued Wednesday from the Avalon Princess fishing boat, which started to take on water after getting stuck in thick sea ice near La Scie, N.L.

Trevor Hodgson, the Canadian Coast Guard's superintendent of ice operations for the Atlantic region, said the heavy ice is more than two metres thick in some areas off the province's northeast coast.

"We had a bit of stuff that forms over the winter, the normal ice in the area," he said. "What we're experiencing now is the ice that has come south through the Arctic due to melting up there."

What's unusual this year, Hodgson said, is the way the winds have pushed the thick pack ice towards land rather than out to sea.
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June snow again in USA as inter-tropical convergence zone shifts

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Thu, 08 Jun 2017 04:43 UTC
June snow USA
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More June snows across the western states of the USA and a Nor'easter travels up the east coast of the USA and Canada this week with snow possible. The trend is clear that later and later snows have begun in 2015 with July snow through 3 of the last 3 years in the western USA. As with every grand solar minimum the inter-tropical convergence zone shifts, and with it brings unseasonable weather patterns as the new norm.

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More snow for the Rockies and Cascades

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:25 UTC
rocky montain snow
Six or more inches (15 cm) of snow are possible this weekend across the highest elevations of the Washington and Oregon Cascades.

Several inches of snow could also hit higher parts of Idaho, western Montana, western Wyoming, northeast Utah, and northern Colorado into Tuesday, according to the Weather Channel.

With temperatures running 10 to 20 degrees colder than average at times, snow levels are forecast to fall to between 5,000 and 6,500 feet.

Where's all that vaunted global warming?!!

Thanks to Dean Koehler, Craig Adkins and Gordon Broussard for this link

Comment: And Summer is just a few weeks away:
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Drought followed by snow for storm-ravaged Western Cape, South Africa

Justin Deffenbacher
Times Live
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 13:04 UTC
Sutherland this morning.
© Snow Report SA‏Sutherland this morning.
Last week the Western Cape government declared the province a disaster area because of the severe drought.

This week residents were warned to stay indoors to escape the wrath of the worst storm Cape Town had seen in 30 years. Gale force winds, rain, and now a thick blanket of snow has covered certain areas.

The storm that battered the city throughout Wednesday moved inland to Matroosberg, turning the torrential downpour into snow. Employees and guests at Matroosberg lodge awoke to a 10 cm of snow.

"The amount of snowfall we received is a lot for this time of the year. We have had people from Cape Town calling all day to come see it and enjoy," lodge manage Didi de Kock said.

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Ski resorts open on six continents as snow falls or remains on slopes worldwide

Patrick Thorne
In The Snow
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:45 UTC
Snow slope
With the start of the ski season in Southern Africa, ski areas are open on six continents simultaneously, as of this weekend.

This is partly thanks to the fact that resorts will open for their winter or summer ski seasons on five continents this weekend.

Fresh snow has also fallen or is reported to be due to fall over the weekend in the Alps, Western North America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and south America, so it's a snowy June picture on ski slopes worldwide.

About half a dozen ski areas are still operating in each of Europe and North America (with Val d'Isere and Whistler Blackcomb due to re-open for summer glacier skiing this weekend and Mammoth pictured still open since last season) and the Gassan spring and summer ski area in Japan, Asia is also open in the northern hemisphere.
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Southern Hemisphere cooling trend is now apparent

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Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:09 UTC
Adelaide coldest start to winter
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With the Southern Hemisphere winter getting underway we need to look back at trends to see the future of the coming year. David Archibald has today given the most up to date information on our Sun entering a grand solar minimum and the State of the Sun, now with the past 5 winters under our belts we can look for trends. I present to you the trend of a cooling Southern Hemisphere.


Comment: See also:

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Ice Cube

Oops - Polar ice not receding after all?

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 04 Jun 2017 20:53 UTC
NASA satellite measurements show polar ice caps
NASA satellite measurements show the polar ice caps have not retreated at all.
In fact it may be standing at its greatest extent in at least 97 years. Al Gore predicted that the Arctic ice cap could completely disappear by 2014.

However, new data released by NASA reveals that the Earth's polar ice caps have not receded at all since satellite measurements began in 1979.

Considering that the late 1970s marked the end of a 30-year cooling trend, the polar ice caps were quite likely more extensive at that time than they had been since at least the 1920s.

This indicates that not only is polar ice not receding, it is now quite possibly at its greatest extent in at least 97 years.

Thanks to Dale for this link

Comment: See also: Arctic Sea Ice Expanded in May - and in the unlikely place of Barents Sea

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Arctic Sea Ice Expanded in May - and in the unlikely place of Barents Sea

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:34 UTC
May Northern Hemisphere ice map
Light blue line shows 2017 ice extent
As of May 15, sea ice in the Barents Sea was growing like crazy. "Something surprising is happening with Arctic ice," wrote Ron Clutz. "It is May and ice should be melting, but instead it is growing and in the unlikely place of Barents Sea." "In recent days 2017 NH ice extents have grown way above average." The ice is refusing to leave Newfoundland, says Clutz. And instead of backing down in the Barents Sea, it is increasing. See map showing ice growth.
Barents Sea ice
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Equal coldest start to winter on record for Adelaide, Australia

Sarah Scopelianos
abc.net.au
Wed, 31 May 2017 10:27 UTC
ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.
© Spence Denny ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.
Did you think the first day of winter felt a little nippy? Well, if you were in Adelaide it wasn't all in your head because the city has shivered through its coldest start to the season with the temperature dropping to just 2.9 degrees Celsius.

Duty forecaster Paul Bierman confirmed the city had its equal coldest June 1 on record, a temperature not seen since 1943.

"The minimum temperature at Kent Town got down to 2.9 degrees at 6:44am this morning. It has already started to warm up slightly, we're up to 3.3 degrees," he said just before 8:00am.

He said a cold front that moved across the state earlier in the week combined with overnight light winds and clear skies to produce the chilly morning.

"[We're going to have] very cold mornings right through until at least next Sunday ... around 3 or 4C," Mr Bierman said.
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Unusual rains and record snowfall continues as cosmic rays increase

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Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:21 UTC
Galactic cosmic rays
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There has been a steady progression of events with unusual rains or snows in record amounts which are out of season from Asia to North America. Now there is coldest start to winter in Adelaide Australia in the last 103 years , June skiing in Vermont and snow still falls in Idaho. The progression of unusual events is caused by increasing cosmic rays, which will continue to increase through solar cycle 25 and so shall our increasingly strange weather.


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