Infinite Unknown

- Suffering of the lambs: Thousands freeze to death in snow as forecasters warn of more to come (DailyMail, March 26, 2013)

Tags: Environment, Global News, Snow, Weather, Winter

- The MAN-MADE blizzard: Nuclear power plant causes freak snow storm in Pittsburgh (Daily mail, Jan 24, 2013):

Pittsburgh was coated in a layer of snow last night – but not from Mother Nature.

A nuclear power plant was responsible for the incredible swath of snowfall from clear skies, as warm, moist air from the power plant combined with the unusually frigid temperatures.

The snow began falling around 5pm last night, and ended around midnight, marking an event that only occurs every few years.

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Tags: Environment, Global News, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Pittsburgh, Snow, Snowstorm, U.S., Weather, Winter

YouTube Added: 18.01.2013

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Snow

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- Snowpocalypse Russia: ‘Snow tsunami’ swallows streets, cars, buildings (PHOTOS) (RT, Jan 18, 2013:

Unrelenting snowfalls have caused unprecedented chaos in Russia. Over the past week, the country has seen scores of traffic accidents, flight delays and, in some cases, the complete isolation of some remote settlements and towns.

On Friday, Moscow was on a verge of traffic collapse as more than 10 inches of snow fell on the city, which is more than half of January’s average.

Thousands of passengers were stranded overnight in the capital’s major airports, as several dozen flights were delayed.

Muscovites woke up and found their cars, driveways and houses buried under a thick layer of snow, with city workers unable to get to smaller streets.

Moscow’s Yandex app showed traffic at level 10, the highest possible, as strong winds created blizzard conditions and built imposing snow drifts.

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Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global News, Russia, Snow, Winter

YouTube Added: 17.01.2013

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The sleet and snow that fell on January 15 2013 in White County Arkansas was not normal.

Background levels in this area are 35cpm.

The sleet and snow was showing an alert level above 100cpm.

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Tags: Arkansas, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Snow, U.S.

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- Winter Hot Zones (EnviroReporter, Jan 12, 2013)

Tags: Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Snow, U.S., Winter

Added On October 30, 2012

As Sandy made landfall Monday evening, parts of Virginia and West Virginia were hit with heavy snow and strong winds.

Tags: Environment, Global News, Hurricane, Hurricane Sandy, Snow, U.S., Weather

- Snow depth reach 6 meters in eastern Turkey / PHOTO (worldbulletin.net)

- Snow depth reach 6 meters in eastern Turkey (Arabs Today, Feb. 12 2012):

As many parts of Turkey hit by cold weather and snowfall, snow depth reached 6 meters in eastern Turkish city of Bitlis.
Bitlis where have been taking non- stop snowfall since one week, layer of snow reached tremendous dimensions.
According to Turkish meteorological authorities snow drift reached 640 cm across the Bitlis. Daily life nearly stops in beautiful eastern Turkish city. City also get most snowfall among Turkey’s other cities.
Meanwhile, hundreds of village’s road totally closed of excessive snowfall which put many people in hard condition. Bitlis municipality took extra measure to struggle incredibly high snow drift.
Snow paralyzed life in many provinces across Turkey and led to the closure of many schools and roads last week.

Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Cooling, Global News, Snow, Turkey, Winter

- Emergency food flown into stranded European towns (Idaho Statesman, Feb. 13, 2012):

BUCHAREST, Romania — Military planes and police helicopters flew in tons of emergency food to snowbound villages and ships in the Balkans on Monday, after blizzards so fierce that some people had to cut tunnels through 15 feet (4 meters) of snow to get out of their homes.Since the end of January, Eastern Europe has been pummeled by a record-breaking cold snap and the heaviest snowfall in recent memory. Hundreds of people, many of them homeless, have died in the bitter cold and tens of thousands have been trapped by blocked roads inside homes with little heat.

Authorities declared a state of emergency Monday in eastern Romania, where 6,000 people have been cut off for days. About a dozen major roads were closed, 300 trains canceled and more than 1,000 schools shut down.

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Tags: Blizzards, Climate Change, Environment, EU, Europe, Global News, Government, Military, Politics, Romania, Snow, Snow storm, Winter

Google translation (Original article in Italian below.):

- Bad weather: Coldiretti, code red for agriculture in Tuscany (Libero, Feb. 9, 2012):

Florence, February 9 – (Adnkronos) – blizzard comes and farmers tremble. Sale in Tuscany concern for agricultural production already ‘put to the test by a week of freezing temperatures. The worsening weather conditions expected over the weekend and announced the arrival of the dreaded snow storm and icy Baltic carry the warning level on the code red.

” We are very worried – admits Tulio Marcelli, Regional Chair Coldiretti Tuscany – Snow and ‘definitely a problem, but the cold may’ be a very dangerous factor for agricultural production. In general, for many crops on our land as olive trees and vines from frost damage to equipment and will be visible and measurable only at the vegetative growth, therefore, to date, and ‘difficult to make an analysis of some of the entity’ of the damage. The sudden drop in temperature, for a period so ‘long, can’ do much harm.”

Meanwhile Coldiretti Tuscany (info at www.toscana.coldiretti.it) certifies already ‘some situations scattered’ throughout the region of strong critical ‘where the production of seasonal vegetables grown in open fields (see sprouts, cabbage, artichokes and in general, leafy vegetables like lettuce, radicchio, endive, borage, spinach, chicory) and ‘lost with rates of up to 50%, the cold has also affected the product already’ harvest and during storage.

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Tags: Agriculture, Blizzards, Climate Change, Environment, Food, Global Cooling, Italy, Snow, Snow storm, Tuscany, Winter