France – Snow and ice alert for 11 departments
Orange weather alert for 11 depts in north-west and central France because of heavy snowfall early Monday. 17 Jan 2016 – The affected departments around Normandy, Brittany and the Loire valley are the...
View ArticleLuxembourg roads closed after trees collapse under snow
16 Jan 2016 – Heavy snowfall on Friday caused a number of roads in Luxembourg to be blocked. The CR102 road between Keispelt and Schoenfels was still closed on Saturday as a precaution after trees...
View ArticleContinuous heavy snowfall in Kosovo and Albania
17 Jan 2016 – In the North of the country chains must be used because the snow has passed about 50 cm (almost two ft) thickness. As a result of heavy snow chains must be used in the region of Korca, in...
View ArticlePotential MONSTER snowstorm for D.C area
“BIG heads-Up, says reader. “MONSTER of a storm. Historic. Massive – I am sure there are a few more superlatives – on the way for the east coast and mid-Atlantic.” “How does 4 ft of snow for the WV...
View ArticleIce freezes windmills in Sweden
Helicopters a new weapon against ice Glaciated rotor blades are the scourge of wind turbines in cold climates, as the ice can bring the blades to a stop. A helicopter company in Constance has developed...
View ArticleSnowfall Wreaks Havoc in Ukraine – Video
The heavy snowfall forced the international airport to cancel over a dozen flights this week. 19 Jan 2016 – Heavy snowfall is wreaking havoc in Ukraine’s port city of Odesa. At least two homeless...
View ArticleMoscow has already DOUBLED normal January snowfall
And it’s only the 19th! Russia’s weather center issued an orange weather warning on Tuesday as heavy snowfall threatened to disrupt traffic in Moscow. The Hydrometeorological Center of Russia said...
View ArticleHeavy snowfall across Greece
More than 2 feet of snow in some areas. Traffic in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas conducted only with snow chains. 20 Jan 2016 – Problems have been reported on Athens-Thessaloniki motorway,...
View ArticleHeavy snowfall in northern Japan – Residents evacuate
Four feet (120 cm) of snow is expected in areas of Hokkaido by Wednesday morning, according to local media. 19 Jan 2016 – Snow began falling across eastern and western Japan on Monday, causing huge...
View ArticleJapan – Heavy snowfall cuts power to more than 50,000
Some 232 cm (7½ ft) of snowfall in the Sukayu hot spring resort in Aomori. 19 Jan 2016 – Vast quantities of snow has fallen on northern Japan, cutting power to more than 50,000 households and prompting...
View ArticleMongolia experiencing dzud (mass death of livestock)
Snow covers 90 percent of Mongolia with conditions getting more severe, ReliefWeb reports. 20 Jan 2016 – The country has experienced very low temperatures and heavy snowfall since early-November 2015,...
View ArticleSouth Korea – Record power demand brought on by severe cold
South Korea’s power demand soared to an all-time high on Tuesday as the country was hit by a severe cold wave, the government said Tuesday. Electricity demand hit 82.12 million kilowatts as of 11 a.m.,...
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Underwater volcanoes melting Arctic Ice, says geologist
Massive amounts of heat pulsing from the earth _______________________________________________________________ Powerful deep Arctic Ocean geological heat flow forces are melting the ice, says geologist...
View ArticleIndia – Twang valley covered with a thick blanket of snow
21 Jan 2016 – Bomdila and Tawang have witnessed snowfall in Arunachal Pradesh with temperatures dipping to subzero level, informs a Facebook entry. The Bomdila-Tawang road was covered with more than...
View ArticleChina – 90 percent of country gripped by extreme cold
Temperatures drop to the lowest they’ve been in 30 years. 21 Jan 2016 – An extreme ‘cold wave’ has hit most of north and east China, with low temperatures and frost expected to last for around a week...
View ArticleSevere cold on Korean Peninsula
Some pedestrians in Pyongyang walked backward to avoid facing into the biting wind. In Pyongyang, the average temperature on January 19 was -14 ° C, eight degrees below normal for the end of January....
View ArticlePotentially historic snowstorm, says Washington Post
A high-impact snowstorm for the region is nearing inevitability and there is some chance it will be historic, paralyzing travel and disrupting normal routines. Every major computer model is now...
View ArticleTennessee, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina declare states...
More than 3,000 flights have reportedly been canceled for Friday and Saturday ahead of the expected storm, according to the flight-tracking website flightaware.com....
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Panicked Shoppers Ransack Grocery Stores
Aisle after aisle of empty store shelves Hours before a massive snowstorm is due to it the northeastern United States, shoppers worried about spending days snowed indoors have hit grocery stores hard...
View ArticleBlizzard Watch for New York City
The National Weather Service issued a blizzard watch for the five boroughs today, in effect from Saturday morning through Sunday afternoon. About four to eight inches of snow is expected in and around...
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