The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!

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
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.
 
Snow in the Sahara desert for the second winter in a row, not seen there for 40 years.

sahara-snow4-2018.jpg


Other beautiful pictures here: _https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/07/cold-snap-brings-snowfall-to-the-sahara-desert-for-the-second-winter-in-a-row/
 
After having spent time on this mountain in the 70's, this caught my attention when it was posted on SoTT:

Mount Washington, New Hampshire, is currently the second coldest place on Earth (and is even colder than Mars)

Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire isn't just cold - at minus 36 degrees with a windchill of 94 below, it's tied for the second-coldest place on Earth, according to a tweet from the observatory. In fact, according to the latest data available from the Curiosity rover on Mars, Mount Washington feels colder than the surface of our celestial neighbor, which was measured at minus 78 degrees.

I know it is a 'windchill' factor, yet if anyone has tried cold adapting at these lower level temps, you don't last long in these types of exposures. It makes me think of the lowering mesosphere that provide for those noctilucent clouds, perhaps dipping down to meet the mountain tops.
 
Thousands of tourists have been left stranded after heavy snow in the Alps cut off towns and villages across Switzerland, France and Italy.

Alps snow strands thousands of tourists in Switzerland 9 January 2018 (Photos - Video)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42623293

In the Swiss resort of Zermatt, more than 13,000 tourists are trapped and some visitors who wanted to leave were airlifted by helicopter.

Skiing is not possible as slopes are closed because of the risk of avalanches.

More than a metre (39in) of snow fell in parts on Monday alone. On Tuesday, a metre more is forecast.

The avalanche risk is set at the rarely used maximum on a five-point scale. This is the highest it has been for almost 10 years.

An avalanche hit a five-storey building in Sestrieres, in the Italian Alps, late on Monday, but the 29 people staying in the building escaped without injury, fleeing through the garage.

French forecasters have described the snowfall as the kind that are only seen "once in every 30 years", with up to 1.8m (6ft) of snow falling in 36 hours in parts of the Savoie area.

A British skier - John Bromell, 39, from Willingham by Stow near Lincoln - went missing on Sunday at the Tignes ski resort in France Alps.

Bad weather prevented a search on Monday, however French police have told the BBC that a helicopter search for Mr Bromell will begin this afternoon.

Despite the fact that they are stranded, the tourists in Zermatt are reported to be in good spirits and the tourist office describes the atmosphere as "relaxed and comfortable".

In the Simplon region of Valais, where Zermatt is located, two metres (6.6ft) of snow fell in a 24-hour period, the Swiss ATS news agency said.

The first downhill training run for the men's World Cup in Wengen in the Bern canton was cancelled on Tuesday.

Organizers said snow and high winds had caused significant damage to infrastructure on the course.

Additional photos:
http://www.scoopyweb.com/2018/01/trapped-in-paradise-tourists-have-few.html


BEIJING: Heavy snowfall in China continued to wreak havoc on Monday, damaging houses, agriculture and power facilities, with authorities saying 21 people have been killed and and millions hit in the last one week.

Heavy snowfall wreaks havoc in China; 21 killed Jan. 8, 2018
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/heavy-snowfall-wreaks-havoc-in-china-21-killed/articleshow/62419717.cms

The provinces that have been badly hit by the weather are Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Chongqing Municipality, the China National Commission for Disaster Reduction said.

More than 3,700 people have been relocated and 14,000 are in need of emergency assistance, said the commission, noting that over 700 houses had collapsed and nearly 2,800 were damaged, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The weather has affected more than 233,100 hectares of farmland, with more than 8,100 hectares destroyed, causing direct economic losses of 5.55 billion yuan ($854 million), it said.

Nineteen expressways in northeast Liaoning province have been closed or controlled since snow started last night, according to local transport authorities.
The snow will result in icy roads, the local observatory said in its forecast.

Liaoning will see temperatures plunge by up to 10 degrees celsius due to the snowfall, it said.

In Xinyang city, central China's Henan province, snowfall from Wednesday to Friday, the worst since local records began in 1951, killed one person and injured three others.

Primary and middle schools in the city have suspended classes since Thursday.

The disaster flattened 26 houses and damaged over 2,000 hectares of crops, causing total economic losses of 219 million yuan ($33.8 million), officials said.

In eastern China's Anhui province, quilts and coats have been distributed to residents to withstand the biting cold, following heavy snow since Wednesday, the worst in Anhui since 2008.

The snow has affected 1.5 million people and damaged over 160,000 hectares of crops, causing total economic losses of 3.5 billion yuan, Xinhua quoted the provincial government as saying.

Meanwhile, the meteorological authority today renewed a yellow alert for a cold front across the country.
 
Town of Temirtau, in Kazakhstan covered in "black" snow:

Panicked residents of a remote region of Kazakhstan have demanded an explanation after snow in their town started turning black.

Frozen flakes fell on the town of Temirtau as their usual white colour but were then coated by a mysterious dark substance in early January.

Town-Kazakhstan-hit-BLACK-snow.html


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5262029/Town-Kazakhstan-hit-BLACK-snow.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
 
It's -68°C in Russia's Yakutia, Let's Go Swimming! (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201801161060797157-russia-yakutia-frost-instagram/

Oymyakon in Russia's Yakutia, known as one of the coldest towns on the planet, has been hit by unusually cold weather, with the temperature reportedly plummeting to —68°C (-90.4°F).

Local emergency services remain on heightened alert in Yakutia where secondary schools were earlier closed due to the record chill, with kids banned from being transported by road from their places of residence.

The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's regional office reported that all utility facilities are operating as normal. Tourists and hunters are advised to wait out the weather where they are.

Biting frosts failed to seriously ride roughshod over the lives of Yakutia’s hardy residents who continue to publish photos on their Instagram accounts showing the funny side of the record freeze. Some people even defied the weather to enjoy open-air bathing, while others preferred to take spectacular photos of the nature and animals.

This week's temperature in Oymyakon reportedly beat the record of February 6, 1933, when a temperature of —67.7 °C (-89.9 °F) was registered at the town's weather station.
 
Hundreds of motorists were forced to sleep in their vehicles as a 'snow bomb' and freezing temperatures brought Scotland to a standstill as the country prepared itself for yet another Arctic storm blast.

White Hell as Arctic Blast Brings Scotland to a Shuddering Halt as More Forecast
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201801171060829281-snow-hell-arctic-halt/

Scores of schools and businesses across the country were forced to close on January 17, 2018, as the northern parts of Britain slithered to a halt in what has been described as the worst conditions in many years struck hard.

The main motorway link between Scotland and England, the M74, became impassable as a fleet of gritters struggled to keep the country on the move while train and ferry links were also seriously disrupted.

Scotland's transport minister Humza Yousaf said the weather was "extremely challenging" and nothing like it had been witnessed for a number of years as resources were being tested to the limit to cope with the horrendous conditions.

As the Met Office issued another amber warning for further snowfalls on January 18, Mr. Yousaf said everything possible was being done to ensure resources are in strategic locations to try and keep Scotland on the move. A number of local authorities have revealed, however, they have already overspent on their winter budgets sparking widespread fears of cuts to services.

In the Highlands, 15,000 children were sent home after 17 secondary schools, 75 primary schools, 54 nurseries and two special schools were forced to close because of the extreme weather conditions. Similarly, Dumfries and Galloway has also given around 4,000 pupils at 26 schools two days off as staff struggled to get to their work.

Hundreds of homes and businesses across Scotland were also left without power as heavy snowfalls brought overhead energy lines crashing to the ground. Scottish Power has issued a warning about more potential trouble to its network in the coming hours as engineers work around the clock to restore energy and heating.

Businessman Nic Read was one of hundreds of drivers forced to sleep in their cars after becoming stuck on the M74 for more than 16 hours during the snow hell. "I was stuck for 16 hours in total, 12 hours in one spot and four hours in another. I tried to sleep in my car but there were patches of vehicles coming northbound and as soon as cars came up the headlights would wake you up," he said.

"When you turn the engine on you're also wondering how much longer will my fuel last. How much heat can I afford to put on. It was quite stressful for everybody," the businessman added, saying hundreds of other people were forced to sleep in their vehicles as well.."

Police Scotland has also issued a warning to drivers not to travel on 17 January fearing further blizzard conditions across the south-west of Scotland, Lothian, Borders and Strathclyde areas.
 
Wow, that story about Scotland really gives one an idea of what kinds of turmoil the descent of an Ice Age might cause. Scary. :scared:
 
A savage 'ice tsunami' in Alaska buried alive a whole herd of musk oxen leaving all but one 'wholly submerged', researchers have found.

The terrifying 'ice tsunami' driven by 100mph winds that buried alive an ENTIRE herd of mysterious musk oxen in Alaska (Photos)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5288529/Horrific-aftermath-terrifying-ice-tsunami.html

With blizzards raging at between 60 to 100mph (128 - 160km/h), the pack of more than 50 were buried alive, leaving only a few tufts of hair poking out.

During the violent storm, these hardy creatures - whose ancestors managed to survive the last Ice Age - descended to the water but were quickly trapped and frozen by the rising tide.

'We looked down out of the plane, and all there was white,' biologist Marci Johnson who works at the US National Park Service told The Atlantic.

'It was just ice. There was normally a group of 50-plus black dots', she said, talking about a lagoon area at the northern coast of the Bering Land Bridge.

'We got a little closer and realized there were little tufts of hair sticking out or a horn sticking out. We were looking at 52 on the ground that had been trapped in the ice'.

During the dramatic event, the water rose rapidly and chunks of sea ice were driven up to a mile inland.

'Accompanied by a fusion of shattered shore ice with plates up to 50cm [1.6 feet] thick and 5m [15 feet] long, the tidal surge trapped at least 52 animals',

'All but one was wholly submerged', they said.

'Known as an ivu or ivuniq in Iñupiaq, the language of indigenous northern-coastal Alaskans, these wind-driven polar ice-override surges pile ice to 4m [13 feet] high'.

'It was in May when the ice thawed that the bodies could be seen better', Dr Berger told MailOnline, having happened three months previously.

Despite their name, these creatures are in fact more closely related to wild sheep and mountain goats than cattle.

Weighing at around 800 pounds (360kg) they are the Arctic's largest land mammal and were extinct in Russia for centuries until 1975.

'Our results illustrate how once unusual, but increasingly frequent Arctic weather events affect some cold-adapted mammals', researchers wrote.

Historical records give details of sea ice trapping 150 narwhals, 170 belugas in southern Beringia and 100 in the eastern Arctic.

Researchers also believe climate change could be harming musk oxen young.

Their research has shown that babies born during rain-on-snow events gave birth to smaller and less healthy babies.

'When rain-on-snow events occur, then basically [a musk-ox mother] doesn't have access to her salad bowl for a long period of time because it's frozen,' Joel Berger from Colorado State University, told the Atlantic.

'When the mother is gestating, if she can't get food, then it has a long-term effect on the well-being of her growing fetus', he said.

'Think about an undernourished kid—if you're born small, then you may be impacted for most of your life.'

Their research showed these events reduced the size of the musk oxen head from birth to puberty at around the age of four.

In the Canadian arctic these rain-on-snow events have become three times more common in recent years.

The US government warned the Arctic showed 'no sign of returning to [the] reliably frozen region of recent past decades.'

Although the ice tsunami was not necessarily caused by climate change researchers believe it was an unusual event.

According to studies by Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2016 was the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.

'Warming patterns are most extreme in the polar regions, particularly in the Arctic', said Dr Berger, writing for the Conversation.

'In 2002 a winter rain-on-snow event on Canada’s Banks Island encased the ground in ice and prevented musk oxen from reaching their food supply. Some 20,000 animals died', he said.

Dr Berger notes that although we know a lot about enormous changes in the polar environments, we know less about how these changes are affecting individual populations.

Researchers measured the size of these creatures using a technique called photogrammetry, which involves making measurements from photos.

They take a number of photos at known distances and angles and use thse shots to develop algorithms and estimate their size.

'By comparing our estimates with data on the growth and size of captive animals, we can explore how factors like winter and summer temperatures, availability and health of vegetation, and rain-on-snow events affect wild musk oxen’s growth and size', Dr Berger said.

'Cold-adapted species have figured out how to survive across thousands of generations.

'To dampen climatic challenges, we humans need to modify our behaviour in a far shorter time frame'
 
angelburst29 said:
A savage 'ice tsunami' in Alaska buried alive a whole herd of musk oxen leaving all but one 'wholly submerged', researchers have found.

The terrifying 'ice tsunami' driven by 100mph winds that buried alive an ENTIRE herd of mysterious musk oxen in Alaska (Photos)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5288529/Horrific-aftermath-terrifying-ice-tsunami.html

With blizzards raging at between 60 to 100mph (128 - 160km/h), the pack of more than 50 were buried alive, leaving only a few tufts of hair poking out.

During the violent storm, these hardy creatures - whose ancestors managed to survive the last Ice Age - descended to the water but were quickly trapped and frozen by the rising tide.

'We looked down out of the plane, and all there was white,' biologist Marci Johnson who works at the US National Park Service told The Atlantic.

'It was just ice. There was normally a group of 50-plus black dots', she said, talking about a lagoon area at the northern coast of the Bering Land Bridge.

'We got a little closer and realized there were little tufts of hair sticking out or a horn sticking out. We were looking at 52 on the ground that had been trapped in the ice'.

During the dramatic event, the water rose rapidly and chunks of sea ice were driven up to a mile inland.

'Accompanied by a fusion of shattered shore ice with plates up to 50cm [1.6 feet] thick and 5m [15 feet] long, the tidal surge trapped at least 52 animals',

'All but one was wholly submerged', they said.

'Known as an ivu or ivuniq in Iñupiaq, the language of indigenous northern-coastal Alaskans, these wind-driven polar ice-override surges pile ice to 4m [13 feet] high'.

'It was in May when the ice thawed that the bodies could be seen better', Dr Berger told MailOnline, having happened three months previously.

Despite their name, these creatures are in fact more closely related to wild sheep and mountain goats than cattle.

Weighing at around 800 pounds (360kg) they are the Arctic's largest land mammal and were extinct in Russia for centuries until 1975.

'Our results illustrate how once unusual, but increasingly frequent Arctic weather events affect some cold-adapted mammals', researchers wrote.

Historical records give details of sea ice trapping 150 narwhals, 170 belugas in southern Beringia and 100 in the eastern Arctic.

Researchers also believe climate change could be harming musk oxen young.

Their research has shown that babies born during rain-on-snow events gave birth to smaller and less healthy babies.

'When rain-on-snow events occur, then basically [a musk-ox mother] doesn't have access to her salad bowl for a long period of time because it's frozen,' Joel Berger from Colorado State University, told the Atlantic.

'When the mother is gestating, if she can't get food, then it has a long-term effect on the well-being of her growing fetus', he said.

'Think about an undernourished kid—if you're born small, then you may be impacted for most of your life.'

Their research showed these events reduced the size of the musk oxen head from birth to puberty at around the age of four.

In the Canadian arctic these rain-on-snow events have become three times more common in recent years.

The US government warned the Arctic showed 'no sign of returning to [the] reliably frozen region of recent past decades.'

Although the ice tsunami was not necessarily caused by climate change researchers believe it was an unusual event.

According to studies by Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2016 was the third year in a row to set a new record for global average surface temperatures.

'Warming patterns are most extreme in the polar regions, particularly in the Arctic', said Dr Berger, writing for the Conversation.

'In 2002 a winter rain-on-snow event on Canada’s Banks Island encased the ground in ice and prevented musk oxen from reaching their food supply. Some 20,000 animals died', he said.

Dr Berger notes that although we know a lot about enormous changes in the polar environments, we know less about how these changes are affecting individual populations.

Researchers measured the size of these creatures using a technique called photogrammetry, which involves making measurements from photos.

They take a number of photos at known distances and angles and use thse shots to develop algorithms and estimate their size.

'By comparing our estimates with data on the growth and size of captive animals, we can explore how factors like winter and summer temperatures, availability and health of vegetation, and rain-on-snow events affect wild musk oxen’s growth and size', Dr Berger said.

'Cold-adapted species have figured out how to survive across thousands of generations.

'To dampen climatic challenges, we humans need to modify our behaviour in a far shorter time frame'

Just for the record the source for this report is The Atlantic magazine (live link given in the Mail article) and the event dates form 7 years ago.

The biologist Marci Johnson spent the daylight hours of Valentine’s Day 2011 in a helicopter, high over the Alaskan coastline, searching for musk oxen.

It was part of her job. Through the winter, she regularly went to check in on animals that she and her fellow researchers had outfitted with radio collars the year before.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/the-ice-tsunami-that-entombed-the-arctics-weirdest-mammal/550808/
 
treesparrow said:
Just for the record the source for this report is The Atlantic magazine (live link given in the Mail article) and the event dates form 7 years ago.

The biologist Marci Johnson spent the daylight hours of Valentine’s Day 2011 in a helicopter, high over the Alaskan coastline, searching for musk oxen.

It was part of her job. Through the winter, she regularly went to check in on animals that she and her fellow researchers had outfitted with radio collars the year before.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/the-ice-tsunami-that-entombed-the-arctics-weirdest-mammal/550808/

It was reported at the time on Sott here: https://www.sott.net/article/226222-US-At-Least-32-Musk-Oxen-Freeze-to-Death-After-Winter-Storm-Produces-Tidal-Surge-Flooding
 
treesparrow said:
angelburst29 said:
A savage 'ice tsunami' in Alaska buried alive a whole herd of musk oxen leaving all but one 'wholly submerged', researchers have found.

The terrifying 'ice tsunami' driven by 100mph winds that buried alive an ENTIRE herd of mysterious musk oxen in Alaska (Photos)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5288529/Horrific-aftermath-terrifying-ice-tsunami.html

Just for the record the source for this report is The Atlantic magazine (live link given in the Mail article) and the event dates form 7 years ago.

Quote from" Aeneas
It was reported at the time on Sott here: https://www.sott.net/article/226222-US-At-Least-32-Musk-Oxen-Freeze-to-Death-After-Winter-Storm-Produces-Tidal-Surge-Flooding

My apologies, for my oversight and lack of attention concerning the date it was first published. I appreciate the correction Treesparrow and Aeneas.

Prior to coming across and Posting that article, I was checking out local news. Due to the recent deep freeze and icy conditions, local weather channels have been reporting on numerous ice jams throughout the area. Of interest, was the Delaware River that feeds into many of our local reservoirs and streams. The ice jam is affecting parts of Pennsylvania and the New Jersey shores. If conditions were right, could you imagine the devastation and impact that even a small 'ice tsunami' would create in any of these areas?

WATCH: Ice jam still poses flood threat along Delaware River Wed. Jan 16, 2018 (Video)
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/ap/state/watch-ice-jam-still-poses-flood-threat-along-delaware-river/article_2057a302-3470-5d92-8779-3e9df67a95b8.html

An ice jam continues to pose a flood threat to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania sides of the Delaware River.
A flood warning is still in effect after the jam caused a rise in the river level in Trenton. The river is about two feet below flood stage Tuesday and is expected to fluctuate near it.

Forecasters say minor flooding is expected along the river in Trenton and Ewing in New Jersey and Yardley and Morrisville in Pennsylvania.

Flooding due to the ice jam along the Delaware River has closed roads in Lower Makefield, including River Road between E. Trenton and Richard roads and Ferry Road at Stafford Place.

Delaware River Ice Jam Causes Flooding, Road Closures Jan 15, 2018
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/yardley/delaware-river-ice-jam-prompts-bucks-co-flood-warnings

Issues are also being reported on the New Jersey side of the river. News12 reports Rt. 29 south is closed near Calhoun Street in Trenton.

A flood warning has been issued along the Delaware River in Bucks County after an ice jam formed Monday morning, authorities said. The National Weather Service predicts minor flooding is possible along the river in the Yardley area after an ice jam has caused a "significant rise."


Sub-zero temperatures last week didn’t just instantaneously turn boiling water to snow. They also quickly froze rivers, ponds and lakes across the Northeast and Midwest. That’s been followed by a “brief and mildly disgusting warm-up” that’s softened all that ice with temperatures 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit above normal and rain. It’s also melted snow, which has run off into rivers and cracked up ice further. And that, my friends, is a recipe for ice jams. Wild roaming hordes of ice chunks from the size of baseballs to an average New York studio apartment have surged down waterways From New York to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Ontario. When these frozen flash floods met with a bend in the river, a narrow strait, or a bridge, the fast-flowing ice jams have knocked trailers off their foundations, surrounded houses, and flooded basements.

Ice apocalypse in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Ontario as ice jams break up and flood entire neighborhoods Jan 14, 2018 (Videos)
http://strangesounds.org/2018/01/ice-apocalypse-in-new-york-pennsylvania-ohio-and-ontario-as-ice-jams-breaks-up-and-floods-entire-neighborhoods.html

Here’s a sample of the ice jams rumbling during the weekend:

* Around 67 barges broke loose on the Ohio River Saturday. At least one of the barges sunk.

* The National Weather Service’s Burlington office shared what happened on the East Branch Ausable River in upstate New York over the course of three hours on Friday afternoon.

* This video was taken just outside of Jay NY on the flats. It shows the start of the ice flow after the ice jammed up at this location. This Ice and Water flow crossed over route 9N, flooded Jersey, Intervale Ave, and Grove Rd in Au Sable Forks before heading on down to Keeseville. Route 9N and Grove Rd were closed due to Ice blocks in the road. Some ice blocks were as thick as 18 inches in this ice flow.

* EAST BRADY: empty foundations where mobile homes were displaced by the river flood / ice floe earlier today along Allegheny River:

* IT’s coming back! Flood waters on the rise again at East Brady, PA RAPiDLY with new ice jam downstream! Just because waters drop for a bit does not mean conditions are safe! Highly variable:

* An ice jam on Sauquoit Creek is effecting a CSX rail bridge in Whitesboro, Oneida County. Ice jams, heavy rain and snow melt are causing localized flooding on roads and bridges today. Drive with caution.

This has been a winter of weird wonders. First it was snow in the Sahara. Then came ice balls on Lake Michigan. Now we’ve got to deal with ice jams.


The waters that rose from the Kennebec River over the weekend and flooded downtown Hallowell and Augusta, Maine were receding by Monday morning. Cars were still underwater Monday morning even as official said the icy flood waters would likely fall below flood stage by early afternoon. The unexpected flood started late Saturday night, after large amounts of rain and snowmelt last week caused large chunks of ice to break free in the river, then form a dam that blocked its flow. At its peak, the Kennebec River in Augusta surged above the 12 foot flood stage, reaching close to 20 feet. By Monday morning, it had receded to 14 feet.

Cars frozen in place along the flooded Kennebec River in Hallowell, Maine Jan 15, 2018 (Photos - Videos)
http://strangesounds.org/2018/01/hallowell-maine-cars-frozen-in-place-kennebec-river-video-pictures.html

* Meanwhile, a front end loader has been brought in to break up some of the ice from the Kennebec in Hallowell, Maine after cars became stuck over the weekend:

* Between 15 and 20 motor vehicles were either completely submerged or had become encased in ice when the Kennebec River overflowed its banks. 24 businesses suffered damage from the flooding, with many of them seeing several feet of water in their basements.
 
Thought this was an interesting video, showing frozen methane bubbles under a lake. Since the C's have talked about the earth opening up, and outgassing events becoming more common, this is pretty startling evidence of that.



Video doesn't seem to want to imbed.

Try here:

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/videos/gallery/viral-photos-showcase-worldfamous-frozen-bubble-phenomena-in-alberta/sharevideo/5715139038001/most_popular
 
H2O said:
Thought this was an interesting video, showing frozen methane bubbles under a lake. Since the C's have talked about the earth opening up, and outgassing events becoming more common, this is pretty startling evidence of that.

They are pretty cool looking when they freeze!! One wonders, of course, how much is coming up from the bottoms of the oceans?
 
Laura said:
H2O said:
Thought this was an interesting video, showing frozen methane bubbles under a lake. Since the C's have talked about the earth opening up, and outgassing events becoming more common, this is pretty startling evidence of that.

They are pretty cool looking when they freeze!! One wonders, of course, how much is coming up from the bottoms of the oceans?

I'm sure you remember the book "Mother of Storms". That story begins with a huge release of methane clathrates on the seabed that spins up non-stop hurricanes. Very scary.
 
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