Wild weather - who's in it??

[macdoc]

Given this monster is affecting both sides of the Atlantic and a good chunk of the Eastern Seaboard and central Canada.
Thought it deserved it's own thread.

It is a nasty swath of ice storm that hit us.

My backyard is has an altered horizon - blitzed.



near by



more here

https://picasaweb.google.com/1134087148 ... directlink

But we are FAR from the worst.



http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommuni ... hotos.html

and there are thousands without power ....some for days and facing more days yet with climate down to well below freezing.

DEVELOPING

UPDATED Tens of thousands still have no power

tens of thousands of people today, it also means scrambling to find warmth — sometimes with dangerous results — following an ice storm that has knocked out power for days in both Canada and the U.S. Dec 25 video

and it headed east leaving thousands without power there

Storm heads for Eastern Canada as thousands still in dark


Thousands of people in New Brunswick are being forced to celebrate Christmas in the dark after a weekend ice storm, while parts of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia brace for more wintry weather this week.

NB Power says more than 30,000 customers are still without power, but crews are working through Christmas Day and into next weekend to repair downed power lines.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns ... -1.2476192

and it is wild weather across the Atlantic....with rain tho

Some of those hit by power cuts over Christmas could be without electricity until the end of the week after storms left 1,000 homes in England flooded.

The Energy Networks Association said late on Christmas Day that 24,000 properties in the South and South East were still without power.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25515310

Here is the villain in both cases

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/25511818

Interesting times....

[macdoc]

Half a million...yikes...

Ice storm leaves 500K without power in US, Canada
20 hours ago


Ice storm leaves 500K without power in US, Canada
Trees frozen in ice cripple a section of power lines on Maplehurst Drive in Belgrade, Maine, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. From Michigan to Maine, hundreds of thousands remain without power days after a massive ice storm _ which one utility called …more
Repair crews worked around the clock to restore power to nearly half a million customers who faced a cold and dark Christmas in parts of the central and northeastern United States and into eastern Canada after a weekend ice storm. At least 24 deaths have been linked to the storm.
It appears the bad weather isn't ready to take a break. The U.S. National Weather Service said more snow is forecast to roll into the Great Lakes and Midwest by Wednesday morning.
In Canada, five people were reported dead from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning. Police said two people in Ontario died after using a gas generator to heat their blacked-out home northeast of Toronto. Police in Quebec said carbon monoxide poisoning was believed to be the cause of three deaths in a chalet on the province's North Shore. Earlier, five people were killed in eastern Canada in highway crashes blamed on severe weather conditions.
In the U.S., the nationwide death toll from the storm reached at least 14 on Tuesday, when a 50-year-old man in Knox, Maine, was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes from a generator. It was the second reported death attributed to fumes from a generator during the storm. Police in Michigan also attributed two deaths in a traffic collision that happened Monday to the storm.
As temperatures plunged into the low single digits (below minus 15 Celsius) in Toronto —where nearly 80,000 customers remained without power late Tuesday—authorities reported a dramatic jump in calls for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, responding to 110 calls in a 24-hour period. Officials said they typically see 20 such calls a day.

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-ice-storm- ... anada.html

[JimC]

Nasty!

Keep safe, Northern hemisphere Ratzians!

[pErvinalia]

What exactly is an "ice storm"? Is it blowing chunks of ice instead of snow?

[JimC]

What exactly is an "ice storm"? Is it blowing chunks of ice instead of snow?

I think it's a very low temperature storm that covers trees and electricity wires with layer upon layer of ice, then branches and wires break...

[Audley Strange]

Winter! Who the fuck would ever have predicted winter conditions? Craaaaaazy.

[pErvinalia]

At least we know now that global warming is a one-world government scientific conspiracy..

[FBM]

War mare and coal dare don't get along.

[MiM]

At least it's beautiful to look at. All we have here is a dreary grey +4 C with rain. No snow, no ice.

[Svartalf]

Yahoo weather says it's 7, I'd have sworn it was 12 and found strange all the winter clothed people around me on such a fine day. (yeah, we even have blue sky, after Dirk Storm washed it)

[mistermack]

Whether the weather be cold,
or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather,
whatever the weather,
whether there's weather or not.

[cronus]

I blame the DSLR. Apparently winter happened in the historic past too but no one recorded it.

[mistermack]

A farmer just said on the BBC News, that we've had a mild autumn, and it's been good for farming.
The grass has continued to grow, and they've needed less feed for the animals.

Good old global warming. It's not all bad news. There's a big upside that never gets mentioned.

[Svartalf]

Wait till we get blizzards in the late winter

[Rum]

We have a 'yellow, amber, red' weather warning system in place these days in the UK. Of course nobody actually knows what these mean except the weather people themselves so every time one of these pops up they have to explain the whole system over again which kind of defeats the objective I would have thought.

Anyway overnight we have an 'amber alert' in place. More heavy rain and storm force winds on top of recently flooded land and disruption.

Looks like a breezy wet couple of days!