Central Russia is famous for it’s harsh winters, but it also has warm southern European-like summers. Well, at least it used to.
Today’s English-language online Russian news site RT here reports that a “freak summer snow” has struck areas of Central Russia in the cities of cities of Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk just north of Kazakhstan – in the middle of July! Hat-tip Alexander Hamilton at FaceBook.
“Snowdrifts”
Here we are not talking about high up in the mountains, but down in low country. The RT writes:
Snowdrifts piled up on the roads of Russia’s Ural region on Saturday as an abnormal summer snowstorm hit the region, bringing the area into the spotlight once again after last year’s meteorite fall. Siberia also witnessed a downpour of giant hailstones.”
The RT website adds (my emphasis):
Residents of the cities of Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk, located in Russia’s eastern Ural region, were taken aback when it suddenly started snowing in the middle of summer on Saturday.”
Also the Siberian city of Novosibirsk was hit by a heavy hailstorm, captured on video and posted at Youtube (hat-tip: RT):
Has anyone else noticed that the areas hit by abnormal cold and snow in the last six months are also the areas that were heavily glaciated 20,000 years ago? Are ice ages a product of the Polar Vortex?
Good point, you may want to write up an essay proposing that idea.
Yes I have noticed that. I think ages are a product of several things , including the polar vortex. I think the Magnetic field is weakening and causing more cloud to be produced. The strength of storms and the ever increasing number of super cell storms is worrying… I think a huge event is coming and I don’t think it will take long for it to hit…..
What is the history of such events?
Do such events occur during negative PDO/AMO periods
Do such events occur during “mini-ice-age wild-jet-stream” conditions, as Piers Corbyn likes to call them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691237/It-attack-heavens-The-shocking-moment-Siberian-beach-hit-freak-hailstorm-one-hottest-days-summer.html
If you go down to the beach today, it may be worth checking out the weather forecast.
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