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posted by martyb on Friday October 11 2019, @02:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the Brrrr! dept.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/09/winter-storm-aubrey-historic-snow-cold-forecast-central-us/3918343002/

A "potentially historic" winter storm will slam the north-central USA over the next few days with up to 2 feet of snow possible in some areas.

Snow will accumulate from eastern Washington and Montana to Colorado, the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Wisconsin, the Weather Channel said. Record low temperatures are also possible Thursday and Friday across the western USA.

The system will produce severe storms and heavy rain Thursday in the southern Plains and critical-to-extreme fire weather threats from the central and southern Rockies to California, the National Weather Service said.

The size and intensity of this snowstorm are unheard of for October, according to AccuWeather.

[...] A slew of winter storm warnings, watches and freeze warnings were in effect across parts of seven states as the storm ramped up Wednesday, AccuWeather said.

[...] The storm will have two parts, the first of which is targeting the northern and central Rockies and High Plains on Wednesday into Thursday. The second part will bring snow to the eastern and central portions of the Dakotas and western Minnesota by week's end.

"Near-blizzard to full-fledged blizzard conditions are possible across portions of central North Dakota Friday afternoon into Saturday morning," the weather service in Bismarck said. "Expect high impacts and dangerous to impossible travel conditions."

The weather service called it a "potentially historic October winter storm."

Meanwhile, locations in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, and Australia (among others) reported temperatures well over 100°F (38 C)!


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @03:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @03:59PM (#905846)

    Current climate models predict the exact same thing as what to expect during a Grand Solar minimum:

    Shortened growing season

    The food that IS produced is less nutritious, ie wheat contains less protein

    Lack of feed for livestock

    Parasites (i.e. fusarium nivale), which thrived under snow cover, devastated crops.

    Grain storage in cool damp conditions produced fungus (Ergot Blight). Contaminated grains when consumed caused an illness (St. Anthony’s Fire) producing convulsions, hallucinations, gangrenous rotting of extremities.

    Glacier advance swallowed up entire alpine villages.

    Ruptured glacial ice dams produced deadly floods.

    Drastic increase in seismic activity (earthquakes)

    Dramatic increase in volcanic activity

    Hugely increased atmospheric electric charge (fatal lightning strikes, positive lightning, sprites, noctilucent clouds, northern lights) (#gsmElec)

    Wildfires of extreme heat (reference Dobler's Abrupt Earth Changes) (#gsmFire)

    Violent, damaging wind events

    Influenza epidemics.

    Reoccurrence of plagues such as the Black Plague.

    Flooding created swamplands that became mosquito breeding grounds and introduced tropical diseases such as malaria throughout Europe.

    Extreme atmospheric thermal differentials produced killer hailstorms (hailstones that could kill a cow).

    Higher frequency of powerful storms produced major devastations.

    Regions of massive rainfall and flooding

    Limited regions experienced droughts

    http://wiki.iceagefarmer.com/wiki/Grand_Solar_Minimum_Symptoms [iceagefarmer.com]

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Captival on Friday October 11 2019, @10:57PM

    by Captival (6866) on Friday October 11 2019, @10:57PM (#906087)

    And I have even worse news! Literally every place on the entire planet is warming TWICE as fast as every other place! [wattsupwiththat.com]