“The snow this year has already reached one and a half times the climatic norm,” said Pyotr Biryukov, deputy mayor for residential issues. “There hasn’t been such a winter in 100 years.”
The capital has seen 216 centimeters (85 inches) of snow fall since the beginning of winter, Biryukov said.
Average snowfall in Moscow is 152 centimeters a year. Biryukov said the city saw 26 centimeters in the 24 hours preceding his Tuesday afternoon news conference and has seen 36 centimeters since the beginning of February.
The heavy snowfall that struck the city Monday quickly led to chaos on the roads.
Moscow traffic police said Tuesday that they had counted more than 3,000 minor traffic accidents in the previous 24 hours, far exceeding the daily average for the city.
Snowfall is set to continue for the rest of the week.
And it’s not just Moscow that’s struggling to cope.
About 1,500 residents of the Ivanovsk region were left without electricity after heavy snowfall knocked out power lines and substations, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
26 towns and villages affected by blackout
In all, 26 towns and villages were affected by the blackout, which occurred because power lines snapped under the weight of the snow.
About 300 heavy trucks were caught overnight in a traffic jam on the A107 highway, also known as the Small Ring Road, near the Moscow region village of Shishkin Les, police said.
“Within a few hours [of the snow starting], there were about 200 trucks on Kievskoye Shosse and 100 on Varshavskoye Shosse,” a police spokesman said Tuesday afternoon, Interfax reported.
The trucks were helpless in the heavy snow and ice, and traffic didn’t start moving again until the area had been swamped with grit and sand, meaning many were stuck until 3 a.m.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/heaviest-snowfall-in-a-century-hits-moscow/4751 02.html
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We need some over here. The qualifying matches for the Iditarod are being cancelled because of a lack of snow
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/sports/warm-weather-forces-changes-ahead-of-iditarod-race.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
Heavy snowfall also in Kabul, Afghanistan. The warmist BBC has the story, up to 3 meters of snowfall in mountain areas. Watch the video closely and see how far away from the North Pole the Jet Stream (Circumpolar vortex) in Asia is now. That is a typical Little Ice Age weather pattern (but the BBC doesn’t mention that).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/21361541
Heaviest Snowfall in Many Years Hits Polish-Slovakian Border
Due to heavy snowfall the state of emergency was imposed at the Polish-Slovakian Border, near to Orava. Last night it was seen 75 cm of snow! More than 1200 residents of the region were left without electricity after heavy snowfall knocked out power lines and substations.
http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1356,title,Zima-na-Slowacji-znow-atakuje-stan-wyjatkowy-na-Orawie,wid,15314821,wiadomosc.html
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They had to reroute the Yukon Quest because of too much snow at the summit.
“They had so much snow up on top of the summit, and with the winds they’ve had in the last few days, it’s made the conditions completely impassable for snow machines and by extension, the sled-dog teams.”
http://yukon-news.com/sports/32119/
Interesting this initial concentration of heavy winters in parts of Europe and Asia, probably related with the movement of the magnetic NP.
I believe that as the present cooling period (new LIA possibly full ice age) deepens we will have a gradual “equilibration” of precipitation in all continents.
That Co2 sure is one busy chemical. During the summer it creates the ‘hottest’ day ever in 4.6 billion years, each and every day. Then in the winter, it is causing thousands to die, and the worst winters in 100 years across EurAsia. Wow. Like the 1% within the cult of mad Moh, that trace chemical is an extremist element, very very very busy indeed.
Feb 2013 is already the warmest Feb in history.