Snowfall hits China’s Urumqi – In April
1 April 2015 – (Xinhua/Wang Fei) – The snowfall hit Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Wednesday morning. From 10 o’clock yesterday morning, the sky began to snow...
View ArticleHuge amount of ice on Lake Erie a setback for farming, fishing
The large ice cap still encrusting most of Lake Erie would cover all of Long Island, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, says BuffaloNews.com. It’s two feet thick in many places, and melting...
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St. Lawrence Seaway opens despite 2-ft-thick ice – Video
2 April 2015 – After a one-week delay due to cold weather and heavy ice the St. Lawrence Seaway opened Thursday morning. The CCGS Griffon breaking the ice on Lake Erie. See video below. (Fisheries...
View ArticleHarsh winter looming for Argentina?
Snowy Easter in Rio Turbio and El Calafate – And the Perito Morino Glacier is growing!<!–more– _____________________________This Easter it should be spring, but in many places in the Northern...
View ArticleWinter returns to Romania with a vengeance – On Palm weekend
It has been snowing continuously and extremely heavily for 24 hours in Step Tihuta as a wave of polar air moves across Romania. A blizzard – at the beginning of spring. April winter. Snow is 10 to 15...
View ArticleWinter storm warning for parts of Maine
4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) of heavy wet snow. More in some areas. Happy Easter, Maine! NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CARIBOU ME… APR 4 2015 HEAVY WET SNOW AND WIND EXPECTED TODAY… INCLUDING THE CITIES...
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Record Ice Thickness in Algonquin Provincial Park
“Ontario’s most popular park is at record thickness for this time of year,” says reader Alex Meyer. All lakes in Algonquin Park remain completely ice covered. “Not only that but as much as a foot of...
View ArticleSnowfall warnings for Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick
Blizzard warnings for Quebec, Yukon, Newfoundland, Labrador, Nunavut. April snow showers bring May…? ALBERTA Snowfall warnings for the Blood Res. 148 including Stand Off; Cardston Co. near Cardston and...
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Ship runs aground after hitting ice floe on St. Lawrence Seaway
Look at the size of this monster! What is it? About 9 stories tall? The first ship of the season to travel up the St. Lawrence Seaway has run aground about 26 miles (35 km) southwest of Montreal. A...
View ArticleHeavy snowfall cut South Ossetia off from Russia
4 April 2015 – The Transcaucasian highway, the only road connecting the Russian Federation and South Ossetia, was closed closed on Saturday morning due to heavy snowfall. Traffic was prohibited on the...
View ArticleSnow destroys high-mountain road in Chile
2 Apr 2015 – The Agua Negra border crossing between Argentina and Chile will be closed until April 30. So said Secretary of Institutional Relations, Elena Pellatier, who noted that is because of...
View ArticlePerverse climate “morality”
Obama – “Taking us back to Civil War era emission levels, 150 years ago.” Commentary by Paul Driessen. * * * * * Last week, to pave the way for a new global warming treaty, President Obama promised to...
View ArticleOn Tyranny
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The...
View ArticleMultiple cold records broken in Maine
“Wow! Big Black River, Maine is -20F!” New All Time April temperature at Caribou · Latest its been below zero in Caribou · Also, the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state for...
View ArticleChina braces for big chill
Sleet and snow is forecast for parts of Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, and Hebei, and the cold weather is not expected to begin to lift until Thursday morning. A cold front is forecast to bring...
View ArticleHovercraft obliterates thick St. Lawrence ice
Fighting “one of the coldest years on record.” “A one-metre thick sheet of ice might seem an unbeatable foe but it’s no match for a device that can obliterate it without coming more than an arm’s...
View ArticleUp to 2 feet of snow for California
“Unusually cold spring storm” will bring significant snow to the mountains of northern California, says Weather Service. SPRING SNOW OVER THE MOUNTAINS TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY… AN UNUSUALLY COLD SPRING...
View ArticleCherry Blossoms Latest On Record In Washington DC
First year on record when cherry blossom florets were not active in Washington DC during the month of March, says steven goddard website....
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Blizzard in Mongolia
The livestock have not grazed in five days. Heavy snowfall and blizzard left one dead, 98 people lost, 140 cars and more households covered in snow, and numerous livestock dead nationwide last week....
View ArticleBig freeze on the way for the UK
Severe wintry weather could bring widespread travel chaos on roads and railways and at airports across the country, says the Daily Mail. (I know, I know, we’re supposed to take anything from the...
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