Snow has been falling for days on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, and in some areas snowdrifts have reached the fourth and even fifth floors of residential buildings. Cars have been trapped beneath the white blanket, and residents inside their apartments.
After several powerful Pacific cyclones, the region received more than 120% of its average monthly precipitation in just a few days. There is so much snow that buildings are literally buried, and people are leaving their apartments through windows.
Officially, this is the heaviest snowfall in the past 146 years. Cities are paralyzed, schools are closed, and streets are impassable. Emergency services, the military, volunteers, and students are all involved in the cleanup, everyone.
This is a clear example of how extremes are becoming more frequent: not “the winter we used to have,” but short periods with enormous amounts of precipitation. Lower averages, more shocks. Nature doesn’t ask whether we are ready.
To the author of the blurb preceding the awesome photos, the AGW climate change bullshit has been thoroughly debunked as just another globalist elites’ set of lies to steal our tax dollars and donations from the terminally ignorant.
Further more, your assetion, “This is a clear example of how extremes are becoming more frequent: not “the winter we used to have,” but short periods with enormous amounts of precipitation …,” is defeated by your admission that this sort of storm comes around once every 130 years or so. “Officially, this is the heaviest snowfall in the past 146 years. …”
So please climb down off the AGW fearmongering machine and let normal sometimes be amazing. Reality, where weather happens in the most unpredictable ways, as it has increasingly the father along we are from the “Little Ice Age.” Kamchatka is in Russia, where winters are always brutal. Lighten up and just tell us wow, check these photos of just another perfectly normal, if rare in its ferocity, storm.