Archive for December 24th, 2016
In 1984, the charitable supergroup Band Aid sang: “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time.” In fact, it does snow in Africa at high elevations. Kilimanjaro has long been crowned by a cap of snow and ice, though it has been shrinking. Skiiers travel for natural and manufactured snow in the Atlas Mountains […]
Thanks to a large and powerful storm, Christmas Day will be a day of extremes with blizzard conditions over the Dakotas while record warmth, flooding rain and tornadoes is expected across the South. Record warmth is highly likely with southerly winds ahead of the storm’s cold front. NEXT POST/VIDEO WILL BE TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER. I […]
In the last 24 hours, wind, rain and snow has whipped across the Northern UK and it remains very windy today. Top gusts from Barbara were recorded as follows. Low level: 83 mph on Shetland this morning, 117 mph on Cairngorm. The worst of Barbara was thankfully restricted to the open sea where wave heights of 50.5ft were recorded […]
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