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      Huge blizzard hits California and Nevada – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 4 March - 13:30


    A powerful blizzard struck California and Nevada at the weekend, with snowfall of up to 3 metres expected in some higher areas. A stretch of Interstate 80 remains shut in both directions. Even as blizzards eased, more winter storms are expected for much of the region on Monday and Tuesday, the National Weather Service said

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      Boston promised snow – and gave me rain. Can you hear my heart breaking?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 19 February - 11:00

    I was looking forward to a magnificently white winter, with school closures and an otherworldly hush. The weather had other ideas

    I was excited to experience a Boston winter – being in snow country was a genuine attraction of our trip here – and last week looked set to deliver. The headlines were threatening me with a good time (“ predicted to be heaviest snowfall in two years ” and pre-emptive school closures ran in ticker tape across the TV screen). Cars started sporting snowplough attachments, and the yoga teacher ended class not with namaste but with an ominous: “Good luck with the storm.”

    My husband and I were giddy as toddlers. Would there be six inches of snow? Twelve? “When I wake up at 4am,” my husband said gleefully, studying his weather app, “it should already be white.” At the shop he asked, in all seriousness, if we should buy a sledge “before they all sell out”.

    Emma Beddington is a Guardian columnist

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      UK weather: snow threatens travel disruption as temperatures drop

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 6 February - 07:00


    Met Office issues warning with risk of power cuts, travel delays and rural communities becoming cut off

    A band of heavy snow could cause disruption later this week across parts of the UK, with as much as 20cm possible in higher areas.

    Temperatures will drop as the week goes on, with a yellow snow warning issued that covers much of Wales as well as northern and central England, the Met Office said.

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      Weatherwatch: Perth to swelter as heatwave expected to return to Australia

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 5 February - 07:54

    Parts of country will have to endure highs of more than 40C, while South Korea and Japan told to expect snow

    Last week Western Australia underwent a brief heatwave. Perth, the capital city, reached 41.9C (107.4F) on Wednesday, 42.7C on Thursday and 40.4C on Friday. While it is summertime in Australia, three consecutive days with temperatures in excess of 40C marks a considerable deviation from the seasonal average which sits at about 31.5C.

    Temperatures then returned much closer to the seasonal average throughout the weekend, with maximums in the mid to high 20s. However, over the coming days, the heat is expected to return, with temperatures in excess of 40C expected to persist from Thursday to Saturday, before easing again on Sunday. Furthermore, it is not just the maximum temperatures that can cause discomfort, but also the minimum, which, over the course of the second heatwave, will probably be about 25C, around the maximum seen over the previous weekend.

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      How much snow does Mars receive?

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 5 October - 14:13 · 1 minute

    Some of the ice near the South Pole of Mars stays around all year long.

    Enlarge / Some of the ice near the South Pole of Mars stays around all year long. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona )

    Mars is a vast, frozen desert. Nowhere is that more evident than at its poles, which are the coldest regions on the planet. However, it looks like the weather forecast for its harsh winters and slightly more forgiving springs could be different from we thought.

    Like Earth, Mars has a volatile cycle that sees snow and ice levels fluctuate as temperatures plummet in the winter and start to rise again in the spring. Unlike Earth, Martian snowfall includes CO 2 snow and is influenced by different phenomena. Now, a team of researchers led by Haifeng Xiao of Berlin Technical University in Germany is reexamining the change in snowfall over the course of a year at the Martian north pole. Their findings suggest that forces such as sublimation might mean there is more snow in the winter—and less in the spring—than previously thought.

    “We propose to use the shadow variations [of ice blocks] to infer the seasonal depths at high polar latitudes,” Xiao and his team said in a draft manuscript recently published in the Earth and Space Science Open Archive.

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