An arctic front has descended down the middle of North America. Even Dallas, Texas is experiencing bone chilling temps. -15 celsius in Dallas today. Winnipeg is far colder, -35 at night, -28 during the day.
If anybody is smiling it’s the natural gas providers. Lots of business. Some Winnipeg photos below.
IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESIce skating fever is gripping the Netherlands after days of sub-zero temperatures froze lakes, ponds and canals across the country.
Many welcomed the opportunity to don their skates amid coronavirus restrictions.
“This is the perfect reason to go out and have a little fun with the museums and everything being closed,” one woman told Reuters news agency as she strapped on her skates in Amsterdam on Friday.
But officials have urged people to stay close to home and avoid crowds to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Dozens of skaters briefly glided along the surface of Amsterdam’s historic Prinsengracht canal on Saturday.
IMAGE COPYRIGHTEPAIt was the first time since 2018 that skating there had been possible, reports said.
“It’s a once-every-so-many-years experience, so when you get the chance, do it,” one man told the Associated Press news agency.
IMAGE COPYRIGHTEPAElsewhere in the country, people made the most of frozen lakes, ponds and canals before a thaw expected to begin in coming days.
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IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSAt the frozen Nannewiid lake in the north of the country, groups played hockey, parents pulled their children along on sledges, and dogs took to the ice.
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IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESOur correspondent Anna Holligan shared photos of people enjoying the ice in The Hague.
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IMAGE COPYRIGHTANNA HOLLIGAN/BBC“Take advantage of the good weather and the ice, but do it under Covid-19 measures,” Prime Minister Mark Rutte told a news conference on Monday. “You can skate with another person, but what you can’t do is organise big competitions. Unfortunately that doesn’t work.”
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On Thursday Las Vegas had an unusual snowfall. Las Vegas does see snow flurries every couple years but the snow usually melts as soon as it hits the ground. The snow on Thursday was different as in some areas of the Las Vegas valley the snow stayed on the ground for a few hours before it melted away.
Tornado safety measures. If you own a house and you are in the house. The ideas below could really help.
If there are marital problems, and there are no tornadoes happening, a guy could grab a little TV and some refreshments and head down into one of these and wait until peace terms are offered.
The biggest dust storm in living memory rolls into Phoenix on July 5, 2011, reducing visibility to zero. Desert thunderstorms kicked up the mile-high wall of dust and sand.
Fortified by a levee, a house near Vicksburg survives a Yazoo River flood in May 2011. Snowmelt and intense rains—eight times as much rainfall as usual in parts of the Mississippi River watershed—triggered floods that caused three to four billion dollars in damages.
Lightning cracks during an eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010.
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano inspires the formation of a waterspout in this undated photo.
A Lake Michigan lighthouse takes the brunt of a frigid winter in Saint Joseph, Michigan.
A funnel cloud rips through a trailer park near Cheyenne, Wyoming, in this undated photo. The photographer snapped this shot from a quarter mile away before taking cover in his basement.
A waterspout parallels a lightning strike over Lake Okeechobee in Florida. A sister of the tornado, waterspouts are generally less powerful.
Adding insult to injury, this dangerously large hail rode in on the coattails of a tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, in 2011.
A tornado heads toward two cars on a country road near Campo, Colorado.
In a dramatic display of summer atmospheric conditions, lightning marks the end of an impressively long shelf cloud in the Midwestern U.S.
Dark clouds loom over a beach on Grand Cayman Island.
Landslide rubble buries a car in northern India’s Doda district in 2011. The devastating erosion was the result of a downpour that washed soil, rocks, and other debris onto the Doda-Batote highway.
The huge chunks of ice, which measured up to six centimeters in diameter, pelted homes and gardens while torrential downpours flooded the streets, causing widespread disruption.
Several people, including a 7-year-old boy, were reportedly injured by the falling ice.
The below video, which is one of several uploaded on to social media of the extreme weather, shows the sheer mayhem wrought by the gargantuan hailstones as they rained down on a residential garden.
The spectacle of the ice hitting the pond in the middle of the frame is particularly intense.
“I’ve never experienced anything like it before,” said local man Roberto De Angelis.
Mother nature’s power and beauty were on full display in Chicago Monday night when lightning lit up the city’s skyline.
The electric bursts reportedly struck four of the city’s tallest buildings in a rare occurrence of what’s called ‘upward lightning,’ according to the Washington Post.
The phenomenon usually involves tall man-made structure, like skyscrapers, and follows the more common cloud-to-ground lightning strikes.
Upward strikes typically occur after positive charges from a cloud to ground strike leave an imbalance of positive energy on a building or tower, which shoots a bolt into the sky to meet and balance out a mirroring negative charge.
All the buildings struck by lightning were reportedly taller than 1,000 feet
