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Park Service closes Yellowstone road – Underground heat is melting the asphalt

The National Park Service has closed Firehole Lake Drive in Yellowstone National Park  because  geothermal heat has melted the asphalt. Yellowstone Road Melting – Credit: National Park Service “Extreme...

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Goodbye summer? – Arctic blast to hit eastern U.S. next week

Washington Post calls it a “Poor man’s polar vortex.” A cool mass of air will drop from the Arctic regions to Canada and then to the upper Midwest in the coming days, according to the National Weather...

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Ice on Lake Superior in July

The mainstream media tries to pretend that ice remained on Lake Superior “only” into June. “How about July?”asks reader E Stephens. “We should name icebergs still floating in Lake Superior in July...

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Katla Volcano – Glacial flood outburst, increased seismicity

No signs of impending eruption. “There are indications that a small glacial outburst flood is occurring in the river Múlakvísl, which originates in Mýrdalsjökull glacier, where the volcano Katla is...

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Antarctica – Coldest June on record

Coldest June since records began – Think you’ll see this anywhere in the MSM? The French government has a station on Terre Adéliein Antarctica, where they’ve been recording temperatures since 1956....

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Heavy snowfall in the Alps this week

More weather that is not supposed to happen. 11 July 2014 – “Although summertime snowfall high up in the Alps is not an unusual occurrence, snowfall down to 6000 feet elevation IN JULY is something...

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Brisbane – Coldest  in 103 years

Not just the coldest for this date, but the coldest ever recorded. Temperatures still dropping. The weather bureau says the state’s capital dropped to 2.6 degrees Celsius just before 7:00am (AEST) on...

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Brisbane – Vegetable prices expected to soar

Earlier today, I posted about Brisbane being the coldest in 103 years. But I missed an important part of the article, says reader Kelly McKay. Further down in the report it mentions… “Meanwhile, the...

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Freak summer blizzard and hail hit Siberia, Urals – Video

Exchanging swimsuits for snow boots. Heavy rain in the town of Zlatoust in Russia’s South Urals on Sunday, July 12, suddenly gave way to a blizzard. “It wasn’t just rain and snow, but real snowfall...

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Manali, India – Coldest summer season in decades

Winter-like conditions in peak summer months. Residents living close to the Pir Panjal mountain ranges in Western Himalayas are surprised to be experiencing the coldest summer months in decades. The...

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Coast Guard rescues mariner after sailboat becomes trapped in Arctic sea ice

13 July 2014 – “A man attempting to sail his 36-foot sailboat through the Northwest Passage was rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Saturday after his boat became trapped in Arctic sea ice...

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Record cold in Winnipeg – Coldest July 13th since 1884

“It’s not the kind of record you want to be hearing about in the middle of July,” says Matt Carty of AM680 CJOB. Yesterday’s high of 15.7 degrees Celsius was the coldest July 13th in Winnipeg since...

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Record cold for Midwest and Plains

Parts of the Midwest and Plains will feel more like September and October this week as temperatures in many areas plunge 10 to 30 degrees below average. Temperatures Tuesday morning could dip to record...

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Barrow Sea Ice Webcam

This photo speaks for itself. I don’t think I’d want to take a sailboat out here. Barrow, Alaska, Sea Ice – 15 July 2014 Barrow sea ice webcam: http://seaice.alaska.edu/gi/observatories/barrow_webcam  

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Record lows in five Saskatchewan communities

Here are the communities that saw record low temperatures yesterday (14 July 2014). Notice that all of the previous record lows have been set within the last 20 years. Assiniboia 6.9C (44.4F) – Breaks...

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Serbia –“Coldest in living memory”

“Like the end of the Eemian interglacial period” “Here in Serbia the summer is coldest is in my living memory,” writes Marijana. “It’s more like autumn than summer, It’s been a tornado in town of...

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Huge Arctic Sea Ice Story Lurking, says meteorologist

“For the first time in over a decade, the Arctic sea ice anomaly in the summer is forecast to be near or above normal,” said meteorologist Joe Bastardi back in May. “Once it flips, this red herring of...

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Gigantic 262-foot hole gouged into the ground in Siberia

One Russian ‘expert’ blames global warming (gullible warming). An urgent expedition will leaves tomorrow to probe this unusual – and rare – geographical occurrence,a giant crater that has appeared in...

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Descending into the abyss – Video

Black ski run on bikes! – I’m thinking you’d have to be nuts to do this even in a ‘good’ year! “Not sure if you saw mountain bike event that goes every year in France, where you could see the...

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Record-breaking low temperatures in Kansas City

It’s interesting how these two articles try to downplay the record-breaking nature of the cold by stressing how “crisp” it is, and how “pleasant” it is, and how “nice” it is. The thermometer dropped to...

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