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Winter storm blasts Europe; 13 dead amid heavy snow, gusts
Associated Press ^ | January 8, 2019 | Kirsten Grieshaber

Posted on 01/08/2019 9:40:28 AM PST by Olog-hai

Deadly winter weather blasted Europe for yet another day Tuesday, trapping hundreds of people in Alpine regions, whipping up high winds that caused flight delays and cancellations and raising the risks of more deadly avalanches in the mountains.

At least 13 people have been killed in weather-related accidents in Europe over the last week, most of them from avalanches.

In Norway, attempts to find the bodies of four skiers were again put on hold due to poor visibility and heavy snowfall. A 29-year Swedish woman and three Finns, aged 29, 32 and 36, were presumed dead after a 300-meter (990-foot) wide avalanche hit a valley near the northern city of Tromsoe last week.

Romanian police on Tuesday found the frozen body of a 67-year-old man in a car park in the southern city of Slatina after his wife reported he hadn’t returned from work the previous day. Temperatures in Romania plunged to a low of –24°C (–11.2°F) in one area. […]

Dozens of refugees housed in tents in a camp in northern Greece have protested living conditions as temperatures sunk to –20°C (–5°F) in some areas. Even many of Greece’s islands have seen snowfall. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; europe; eussr; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; snow; winter
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1 posted on 01/08/2019 9:40:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like everyone needs to breathe harder, need some Gore-Bull Warming.


2 posted on 01/08/2019 9:43:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve read that we in the northern hemisphere are actually entering another mini ice age.


3 posted on 01/08/2019 9:43:51 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Olog-hai

Next we’ll be reading stories about heat waves in Australia! Oh,the huge manatee!


4 posted on 01/08/2019 9:44:32 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
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To: Olog-hai

Snow and cold weather in winter? Hmmm.....


5 posted on 01/08/2019 9:45:35 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: Olog-hai

I was wondering where all our snow has gone this winter so far. Enjoy.


6 posted on 01/08/2019 9:47:17 AM PST by McGruff
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To: Olog-hai

“Dozens of refugees housed in tents in a camp in northern Greece have protested living conditions as temperatures sunk to –20°C (–5°F) in some areas”

Maybe Syria was not too bad after all.


7 posted on 01/08/2019 9:49:57 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Olog-hai
WHITE MALE global warming.
(Kill all White Males, Christians first.)
8 posted on 01/08/2019 9:50:16 AM PST by blam
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To: Olog-hai

‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past’ – ‘Children just aren’t going to know what snow is’

http://www.climatedepot.com/2018/01/04/flashback-2000-snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-children-just-arent-going-to-know-what-snow-is-uk-independent/


9 posted on 01/08/2019 9:53:13 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: woodbutcher1963

That’s not even cold yet. Heaven forbid it actually gets cold, it’ll wipe them all out.


10 posted on 01/08/2019 9:54:25 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Olog-hai; Charles Henrickson

:: A 29-year Swedish woman and three Finns, aged 29, 32 and 36 ::

Swedes and Finns socializing together? Has the world gone mad?


11 posted on 01/08/2019 9:55:39 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: fwdude
Snow and cold weather in winter? Hmmm.....

And the other day there was some yammering about ice melt in the Antarctic, but no mention of the fact that it is SUMMER there!

12 posted on 01/08/2019 9:56:50 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Olog-hai

BS See:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3718230/posts

Global warming is heating oceans ‘with power of an atomic bomb every second’


13 posted on 01/08/2019 10:02:07 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Olog-hai

Same kind of storms forty years ago used to prove we were entering “THE NEW ICE AGE!”


14 posted on 01/08/2019 10:17:56 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Olog-hai

What no sun for the Panels? What windmills are frozen? Coal that!


15 posted on 01/08/2019 10:18:44 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Olog-hai

Don’t worry

Global Warming will save them.


16 posted on 01/08/2019 11:26:39 AM PST by Revel
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