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MADRID: Spain deployed 250 soldiers on Sunday to help rescue thousands of people trapped in their vehicles by heavy snow overnight on a highway near Madrid, officials said.
Spanish army called in as snow traps thousands on roads Sunday 7 January 2018
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The army’s emergency unit UME said it sent two companies of specialist soldiers and 95 vehicles to free over 3,000 vehicles that became stranded on the AP6 highway linking Madrid and the northwestern city of Segovia. “The vehicles were removed one by one. There were cars with babies inside that did not have water or food,” said UME spokesman Aurelio Soto.
Videos posted on Twitter by emergency services showed soldiers and police battling snow drifts as they used shovels to clear snow from around trapped cars.
About 70 kilometers (45 miles) of the highway in the center of the country were blocked by snow just as families were returning home after the end of the Christmas holidays.
Motorists took to social media to complain that they had been trapped on the road since Saturday night without anything to eat and no heating, amid freezing temperatures.
“It was really distressing because it was many hours of waiting. It was a really difficult situation. There were people who had no heat because their car battery ran out.”
Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna said the government had opened an inquiry to see if the toll road operator that runs the AP6 highway — Iberpistas, a subsidiary of Spain’s Abertis — “had fulfilled all protocols” for a snow storm.
The minister said many other roads were covered by snow but these were closed and cleared without drivers being trapped in their vehicles for so long. He urged people not to use their cars in areas affected by he snow storm “unless it is strictly necessary.”
Spain’s weather office issued alerts for 37 provinces on Sunday because of the risks posed by the heavy snow, strong winds and rain.
Syracuse's snow streak finally ends, 66 hours and 19.3 inches later
http://www.syracuse.com/weather/index.ssf/2018/01/syracuses_snow_streak_finally_ends_66_hours_and_19_inches_later.html
For 66 straight hours, the National Weather Service's hourly logs showed snow at Hancock International Airport. Sometimes it was light snow, sometimes heavy snow, sometimes blowing snow, but always snow.
Until 11:54 p.m. Saturday, when the log read simply "overcast."
All told, 19.3 inches of snow fell in three days. That's a little over half of a typical month of January.
You're living through the coldest start to January in Syracuse in 114 years
http://www.syracuse.com/weather/index.ssf/2018/01/this_is_the_coldest_start_to_january_in_syracuse_in_114_years.html
The first week of January has been the coldest such period in Syracuse since 1904. It's also the fourth-snowiest start to the new year on record.
The average temperature for the first seven days of 2018, including today's morning low and forecast high, is 7.3 degrees. That's just 0.1 degrees warmer than the same period in 1904, which remains the coldest kickoff to January since records began in 1902.
(If today's high falls just 2 degrees shy of the forecast of 18, this week would end up even colder than 1904.)
Along the way, Syracuse set a new record low for New Year's Day of minus 15, and tied today's record low of minus 11.
The normal average temperature for the first week of January is 24.3 degrees.
Normal snowfall for the first week of January is 7.3 inches.
Spanish army called in as snow traps thousands on roads Sunday 7 January 2018
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1220831/world
The army’s emergency unit UME said it sent two companies of specialist soldiers and 95 vehicles to free over 3,000 vehicles that became stranded on the AP6 highway linking Madrid and the northwestern city of Segovia. “The vehicles were removed one by one. There were cars with babies inside that did not have water or food,” said UME spokesman Aurelio Soto.
Videos posted on Twitter by emergency services showed soldiers and police battling snow drifts as they used shovels to clear snow from around trapped cars.
About 70 kilometers (45 miles) of the highway in the center of the country were blocked by snow just as families were returning home after the end of the Christmas holidays.
Motorists took to social media to complain that they had been trapped on the road since Saturday night without anything to eat and no heating, amid freezing temperatures.
“It was really distressing because it was many hours of waiting. It was a really difficult situation. There were people who had no heat because their car battery ran out.”
Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna said the government had opened an inquiry to see if the toll road operator that runs the AP6 highway — Iberpistas, a subsidiary of Spain’s Abertis — “had fulfilled all protocols” for a snow storm.
The minister said many other roads were covered by snow but these were closed and cleared without drivers being trapped in their vehicles for so long. He urged people not to use their cars in areas affected by he snow storm “unless it is strictly necessary.”
Spain’s weather office issued alerts for 37 provinces on Sunday because of the risks posed by the heavy snow, strong winds and rain.
Syracuse, N.Y. -- The snow started in Central New York just before 6 a.m. Thursday, and finally took a break just before midnight Saturday.
Syracuse's snow streak finally ends, 66 hours and 19.3 inches later
http://www.syracuse.com/weather/index.ssf/2018/01/syracuses_snow_streak_finally_ends_66_hours_and_19_inches_later.html
For 66 straight hours, the National Weather Service's hourly logs showed snow at Hancock International Airport. Sometimes it was light snow, sometimes heavy snow, sometimes blowing snow, but always snow.
Until 11:54 p.m. Saturday, when the log read simply "overcast."
All told, 19.3 inches of snow fell in three days. That's a little over half of a typical month of January.
Syracuse, N.Y. -- If you like your winters cold and snowy, this month has been perfect.
You're living through the coldest start to January in Syracuse in 114 years
http://www.syracuse.com/weather/index.ssf/2018/01/this_is_the_coldest_start_to_january_in_syracuse_in_114_years.html
The first week of January has been the coldest such period in Syracuse since 1904. It's also the fourth-snowiest start to the new year on record.
The average temperature for the first seven days of 2018, including today's morning low and forecast high, is 7.3 degrees. That's just 0.1 degrees warmer than the same period in 1904, which remains the coldest kickoff to January since records began in 1902.
(If today's high falls just 2 degrees shy of the forecast of 18, this week would end up even colder than 1904.)
Along the way, Syracuse set a new record low for New Year's Day of minus 15, and tied today's record low of minus 11.
The normal average temperature for the first week of January is 24.3 degrees.
Normal snowfall for the first week of January is 7.3 inches.