Category: Snow

Animals Culture One Good Thing Rescue Dog Snow

Here’s what it looks like when a rescue dog saves someone buried in snow

sudshr47 February 23, 2019

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This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.

By now everyone should be well aware that we are incredibly blessed to live in a world where there are dogs. But you can never really have too many reminders, so here’s another.

For your weekly dose of Dogs Are Absolute Angels, we invite you to turn your attention to a video that Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England recently shared on Twitter.

Ever wondered what it would be like to be buried in snow and found by one of our happy search and rescue dogs? (Video version)pic.twitter.com/AefuhGGCeh

— Mountain Rescue Search Dogs England (@SARDAEngland) February 19, 2019 Read more…

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Out of traffic, into a ditch: Why Waze on snowy mountain roads could be a bad idea

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

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Rachael got out of her car, crying as she walked through a foot and a half of snow, looking for a paved road that could take her out of the mountains. 

Instead, she found herself staring into the face of a horse wearing a blanket. 

How did Rachael — in a car with four-wheel drive in an extremely popular tourist destination — find herself stuck on an unpaved road in the snow? Apple Maps. 

Recently, transportation officials and highway patrolmen who manage snowy, mountain roads have a new problem to manage, beyond the usual slick roads: the tendency of real-time navigation apps like Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps to send drivers onto potentially unsafe roads in an effort to find shortcuts or avoid traffic. It got so bad California Highway Patrol was forced to put up a sign.  Read more…

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Culture Los Angeles Snow Web Culture WTF

It snowed in LA and everyone is freaking out

sudshr47 February 22, 2019

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Hold on to your oat milk. It SNOWED in Los Angeles. 

Southern California — known for its year-long sunshine, mild temperatures, desert mountains, and gorgeous beaches — saw snow on Thursday afternoon, and everyone in the Los Angeles area justifiably freaked the fuck out. 

An “unusually chilly storm” from Alberta, Canada brought snow over Las Vegas on Thursday morning, according to the Los Angeles Times. By the afternoon, snow dusted more northern parts of L.A. and Ventura County, stopping traffic as Angelenos reveled in it. Read more…

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Animals Culture Dogs Seattle Snow

Seattle’s gone to the dogs, literally, following record snowfall

sudshr47 February 9, 2019

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So it snowed in Seattle. Like, a lot. And wouldn’t you know it, the city’s canine residents can’t get enough. 

An unusually powerful winter storm dropped over six inches on the Pacific Northwest city Feb. 9 — a “new daily record” according to the National Weather Service, which also happens to report that more snow is on the way. That hasn’t stopped Seattle’s dogs from making the most of the surprise snow day. 

And, thankfully for us, their humans decided to capture a bit of the fun for social-media posterity. 

Snow dogs! This is the most snow I’ve ever seen in Seattle 🌨🐶🐶 pic.twitter.com/lwpQpgMVRD

— Joshua Wittenkeller (@TheJWittz) February 8, 2019 Read more…

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NASA’s beautiful snowflake simulations could help predict inclement weather

sudshr47 March 29, 2018

There’s a lot about snow we don’t know. Where does it come from? Where does it go? What does it taste like? Admittedly there are tentative answers to these questions. But there are yet more complex ones like how exactly, on a microscopic level, snow melts in mid-air. That’s the focus of one project at NASA, the results of which are both practical and beautiful.

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Watch this drag Elsa push a police van stuck in the snow during a blizzard in Boston

sudshr47 March 15, 2018

A drag queen Elsa from “Frozen” single-handedly pushed a police van out of a snowbank outside The Gallows bar in Boston. It only took about two minutes for Elsa to succeed at “letting it go” and then she curtsied to remind us all how much of a queen …

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Climate Extreme Weather Nor Easter Science Snow

Photos reveal nor’easter’s beauty, destruction, and slop along the East Coast

sudshr47 March 8, 2018

The second powerful nor’easter in less than a week lived up to expectations, and then some, from the Philadelphia area northward into New York and Boston. A slow-moving, narrow band of heavy snow parked itself over northern New Jersey for much of the…

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