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Extremely low pressure stops air traffic over northern Norway for first time ever

Atle Staalesen
The Barents Observer
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 20:55 UTC
Norway
© Atle StaalesenFILE PHOTO: No flying over northern Norway early this week.
Extremely low pressure brought down air traffic over northern Norway Airline company Widerøe has in its almost 90 year history never experienced this kind of weather.

The past months have seen extraordinarily rough weather along the north Norwegian coast. Early this week came another extreme. The air pressure dropped to a level not seen in several decades.

According to the Norwegian meteorological institute, the air pressure across major parts of the region was below 940 hectopascal, a level that makes flying unsafe.

The Widerøe company that serves most of the regional routes put almost its whole aircraft fleet on the ground.

Comment: It was only a few weeks ago, on 20th January, that parts of Europe saw the highest atmospheric pressure readings ever recorded.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Record food prices China, summer snow Australia and dragon clouds


Adapt 2030
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:00 UTC
'Dragon head' in cyclone over Iceland
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Crop losses and supply chain bottlenecks have driven up food prices in both China and Australia. China experiencing the highest food prices on record, and surprise summer snow hits Tasmania. Vegetable prices were surging in Australia because of the earlier bush fires. What appears to be a dragon head appears out of the cyclone blasting Iceland.


Comment: Temperature extremes: From a blistering 40C to summer snow at -1C in 24 hours for Tasmania, Australia

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Storm Ciara latest: Six dead across Europe as hurricane-force winds sweep through the continent

Laurie Timmers
Euronews
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:31 UTC
Large waves in Plobannalec-Lesconil, France, as Storm Ciara was hitting western and northern Europe
© Fred Tanneau/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesLarge waves in Plobannalec-Lesconil, France, as Storm Ciara was hitting western and northern Europe.
Six people across Europe have died because of hurricane-force winds brought by Storm Ciara after it reached the UK and northern mainland Europe on Sunday.

Casualties have been reported across the UK, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden and the Czech Republic.

The storm has also caused hundreds of flight and train cancellations, as well as left thousands of homes without electricity.


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Huge snowfalls in the Rockies - up to 5 feet in 4 days

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:00 UTC
Alta ski
There have been some huge snowfalls in Colorado and Utah over the past four days.

Accumulations of up to 1.5 metres (five feet) have been reported with Alta (pictured) and Snowbird in Utah big winners. Breckenridge and Loveland in Colorado also reported over 1.2 metre (four foot) powder accumulations. Most other resorts in the two states have had at least 50cm/20 inches of snowfall and many a lot more.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 9 people in Mozambique


Macaubusiness.com
Tue, 11 Feb 2020 10:41 UTC
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Nine people died and five others were injured by lightning on Sunday at the administrative post of Chire, Morrumbala district, Zambezia province, in central Mozambique, the authorities reported on Monday.

"The victims were inside a church and participating in a religious service" on Sunday, Nelson Ludovico, a delegate from the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) told Lusa.

The survivors were slightly injured, the source added, without giving more details.

With this incident, the number of deaths rose from 45 to 54 during the rainy season that began in October 2019, according to INGC figures.
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Cloud Precipitation

Torrential rain triggers flooding, landslides in São Paulo, Brazil - month's worth of rain in 3 hours


Floodlist
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:46 UTC
São Paulo floods
São Paulo floods
Torrential rain has caused flooding and landslides in the Greater São Paulo area, Brazil.

The state government said some places recorded more rain in 3 hours than normally seen in the entire month of February. According to Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (INMET), Brazil's met agency, Barueri recorded 145.8mm of rain in 24 hours to 10 February. Mirante de Santana in São Paulo City recorded 121.8mm during the same period.

The rain caused the Tietê and Pinheiros rivers to overflow, with levels of the Pinheiros River at their highest for 15 years, according to the Empresa Metropolitana de Águas e Energia (EMAE).

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Supply chain disruptions will explain away food shortages


Adapt 2030
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:30 UTC
Chinese container ship
© MarineTraffic.com/Elbwasser
Supply chains and container goods moving across the world's oceans are beginning to stall. 80% of goods delivered globally are delivered by sea, and of that Asia has 80% of the globe's largest container ports. Container traffic is down 23% in just three weeks. So ask yourself what is delivered via Asian routes to your stores. Record cloudiest days in Russia, Record cold San Diego and Record snow Newfoundland, Canada.


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Violent jet stream helps bring Boeing 747 across the North Atlantic in record time - less than 5 hours

Marko Korosec
Severe Weather Europe
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 15:13 UTC
ba 112
The currently ongoing very dynamic pattern over North Atlantic and Europe resulted in some remarkable records within commercial flights! The Boeing 747 of British Airways (flight BA112) from New York on its way to London most likely set the new subsonic flight speed record of travel time across the North Atlantic.

Due to the exceptionally favorable wind within the powerful westerly jet stream, it arrived in London in just 4 hours and 56 minutes. Normally, the average travel time between New York and London is around 6 hours and 13 minutes. According to Flightradar24, if this data is confirmed, the British Airways now retakes the fastest subsonic New York-London crossing from Norwegian airliner.

See what a violent jet streak can produce over the North Atlantic - a very dynamic pattern and therefore deep cyclones with significant sea waves towards western Europe:

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Most snowfall for January in Cape Breton, Canada since records began 150 years ago

Sharon Montgomery
The Chronicle Herald
Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:51 UTC
Nathan Quinn of Alder Point clears the sidewalk in front of J. Francis Investments on George Street, Sydney, Friday. A record 179.8 cm of snow was registered at the Sydney airport in January, the most since records have been kept dating back to 1870.
© Sharon Montgomery-Dupe/Cape Breton PostNathan Quinn of Alder Point clears the sidewalk in front of J. Francis Investments on George Street, Sydney, Friday. A record 179.8 cm of snow was registered at the Sydney airport in January, the most since records have been kept dating back to 1870.
There has been no snow month like January — at least for 150 years.

Ian Hubbard, an Environment Canada meteorologist, said 179.8 cm of snow was registered at the Sydney airport in January, which is an all-time record.

"Records go back to 1870," he said. "It broke the previous record which was 163.03 cm in 1965."

Five January days registered at least 15 cm of snow and last year only five days registered that amount all winter.

In terms of snow accumulation, records at the Sydney airport from December, January and February, the most snowfall recorded was in 1965 — 426.1 cm. So far this year through December and January there has been 217 cm of snow.
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Winter storm brings up to 15 inches of snowfall in just 8 hours to Minnesota

Joe Nelson
Bringmethenews
Sun, 09 Feb 2020 10:37 UTC
snow fall
A town southwest of Mankato reported more than 15 inches!

It snowed hard for a solid eight hours or so across southern Minnesota and the result is as much of a foot of powder accumulating in some locations. But there's one clear-cut winner with Lake Crystal - just southwest of Mankato - reporting a massive 15.5 inches.

As of 12 p.m., most of the snow has ended outside of some flurries or light snow. Generally, it appears that the Mankato and Rochester areas picked up 7-10 inches while slightly higher totals accumulated in southwest Minnesota, near Marshall.

The metro area (leaderboard for the metro further down in the story) had varying totals, with lower amounts on the north side and higher totals in the southern suburbs.

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