“Mother Nature Hates You”

Taken at about 4 PM. Six Points. OK it’s looking like a storm now.

Taken at about 4 PM. Six Points in TO #ONStorm pic.twitter.com/zM0hKXoeRb

— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) January 25, 2023

Taken at about 2 PM. Six Points. CP24 now claims up to 25 cm of snow on the way. It’s heavier now, roads are sticky but I remain doubtful about final accumulation.

Taken at about Noon. Six Points. They claim up 10 to 20 cm is on its way. My bet is they will be way off as usual. TO has it’s own climate now. 5 cm is more like it.

It is crazy to blame every bad weather event on mankind.

There’s always been an irony in the haughtiness of America’s coastal elites. These people look down on Middle Americans and their cranky beliefs – they ‘cling’ to religion, as Obama infamously said – and yet they themselves hold far wackier views. They think there’s a hundred genders. That racism is the original sin of the United States that will never be washed away. That whites must engage in the self-mortification of checking their privilege. And that climate change is Mother Nature’s punishment of mankind for his hubristic industrial antics. That last one is positively pre-modern. It makes the other religions in the US look perfectly sane.

Buffalo officials had more grim news to report Tuesday morning: The city’s blizzard-related death toll had reached 28, Mayor Byron Brown said during a press conference. And that number, which had risen by eight since yesterday, was expected to rise as more buried vehicles were uncovered.

“Buffalo has been ground-zero for this storm,” Brown said. “The impact for this winter storm was the most harsh in Buffalo of Erie County and of Western New York. These are not normal snowfall conditions.”

As the city remained under a driving ban, emergency crews shifted from rescue efforts to snow removal, with 268 pieces of equipment active to clear main and residential streets. Like the storm a month ago that dumped several feet in a short period, the removal leaned away from plows and more toward front loaders picking up snow and dropping it into dump trucks, which were then bound for four dumping sites spread throughout the city.

🚨#BREAKING: Wild scene from Buffalo as homes are fully covered in ice

📌#Buffalo | #NY

Jaw dropping video shows houses covered in ice homes near the water were encased in ice and dripping with icicles from Powerful winds and strong waves from Lake Erie pic.twitter.com/q9GFeEhE6u

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) December 25, 2022

The bomb cyclone that has brought freezing temperatures and up to six feet of snow to North America has caused at least 50 deaths across the US and Canada.

The US recorded 46 fatalities and four more people died on Christmas Eve after a bus rolled over on icy roads in British Columbia, Canada.

The deep freeze is linked to 18 deaths in the state of New York, particularly in Buffalo where the ‘lake-effect’ – when frigid air moves over warmer lake waters and creates a freezing spray – has been lethal.

The aftermath of mass looting today in Buffalo, NY following a storm: pic.twitter.com/sJPVOYgtj9

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 26, 2022

Toronto and the GTA were spared the worst of it. I went for a visit to Hamilton on Christmas Eve day, the roads were clear and dry but the wind and cold were fierce.

Blizzard London Ontario Canada.
Dashcam footage captures moment of horrific crash on the 401 highway. pic.twitter.com/q2Uafl7MNu

— (@72powpow) December 26, 2022

From Mauser

Approaching 6 feet of snow here in Hamburg! #BuffaloStorm2022 #BuffaloNY #Buffalo #buffalosnow #buffalolakeeffect #LakeEffectSnow pic.twitter.com/NvehaEmFf5

— BuffaloWeather (@weather_buffalo) November 19, 2022

h/t Mauser

WASHINGTON — The serious drought in much of the United States over the past several months is having an impact on the Mississippi River, the second-longest river in the country after the Missouri River.

The Mississippi’s water levels fell so low in some places that they surpassed records set more than 30 years ago.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Houses have been washed into the sea, roofs have been torn off and Fiona knocked out power to almost all of one Atlantic Canadian province and 80 percent of another Saturday, as it made landfall as a big, powerful post-tropical cyclone.

Fiona transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical storm late Friday, but it still had hurricane-strength winds and brought drenching rains and huge waves.

Ocean waves pounded the town of Port Aux Basques on the southern coast of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea. Mayor Brian Button said Saturday over social media that people were being evacuated to high ground as winds knocked down power lines.

To imagine the extent of damage consider that this is just ONE wave, invading and battering just ONE house in Burgeo. The destruction as Fiona dwindles over many, many hours will be considerable. My friend Steve Hiscock and @onthego correspondent with BBS sent me this: #nlwx pic.twitter.com/WNmT37aIqk

— AnthonyGermain (@AnthonyGermain) September 24, 2022

Hundreds of thousands of customers in the Maritime provinces are without power as post-tropical storm Fiona brings intense, hurricane-strength winds and torrential rains to large swaths of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

Fiona made landfall in Nova Scotia shortly after 3 a.m. ET between Canso and Guysborough.

#Fiona has turned this street into a wind-whipped river. The trees on the other side of the street all knocked down over the last few hours. Wind and rain moving with incredible force here in Charlottetown. Gusts in PEI up to 150 km/hr. pic.twitter.com/8b0aGFsCi9

— Katie Nicholson (@KatieNicholson) September 24, 2022

Conditions are like nothing we’ve ever seen. We are logging reports of downed trees and wires but will only be responding to emergency calls. -Dispatcher Kelly ☎️ pic.twitter.com/gX7YPTPDSN

— Charlottetown Police (@ChtownPolice) September 24, 2022

The west is ignoring Pakistan’s super-floods. Heed this warning: tomorrow it will be you

No help from your fellow Mohammedan states?

Some 180,000 residents in Jackson, Mississippi have “indefinitely” lost access to reliable running water after excessive rainfall and flooding.

Rising floodwaters over the weekend breached the city’s main water treatment facility, bringing it to the brink of collapse.

A state of emergency has been declared, and schools, restaurants and businesses have temporarily closed.

The city had already been under a boil-water notice for a month.

A huge megalithic complex and a centuries-old church are among the underwater monuments to have resurfaced in Spain as a severe drought causes water levels to plunge.

After a prolonged dry spell, Spain’s reservoirs – which supply water for cities and farms – are at just under 36% capacity, according to environment ministry figures for August.

In Spain’s western Extremadura region, the receding waters of the Valdecañas reservoir have revealed a prehistoric stone circle on an islet that is normally underwater.

This summer we’ve seen things we never thought we’d see — temperatures of 40C and above in Britain and months of unusually dry weather that have broken records for low rainfall. Many of our rivers and reservoirs are exceptionally low, and millions are subject to a hosepipe ban.

In continental Europe the picture is even starker. In Germany, the Rhine is at such low levels that ships cannot move, and France is send water by tanker to hundreds of places where the taps have run dry.