UPDATE: HEAVY SNOWFALL BRING CHAOS TO UKRAINE AND RUSSIA!!! more than 200 deaths in one week!!!

Updated: Monday, 17 December, 2012 at 05:32 UTC
Description
On Sunday, Dec. 16, hundreds of vehicles were trapped on the roads of western Ukraine due to severe snowstorms. According to various mainstream and citizen media reports, the situation was critical, as many of those stuck inside their cars were running out of food, water and gasoline, while the weather was not getting better. Boris Pelekh, whose relatives spent hours freezing inside a bus not far from Lviv, has been posting short dispatches on the situation on Facebook. In his first and second updates, posted in the morning of Sunday, he was urging his readers to share information about the emergency - and more than 3,000 Facebook users did. Some ten hours after the first updates, Pelekh wrote that the bus and other cars nearby were finally dug out of the snow, and his relatives were on the way to the nearest town. Pelekh's mother told him that the villagers had taken in the children from the cars, to warm them up, while their parents had stayed behind; some ended up suffering frostbite and were eventually taken to a hospital. Facebook event thread, which was set up by the “Common Cause� Civic Movement, the situation on certain segments of the blocked routes appears to be under control and people seem to have been evacuated from their trapped vehicles. Facebook user Oleg Prots, who knows one of the volunteer rescuers currently at work in an affected area, is asking netizens not to spread panic.
[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

read this data from mayan 2012
[link to www.mahdi-alumma.com]

Snow Storm in Romania on Saturday, 15 December, 2012 at 11:48 (11:48 AM) UTC.

Description
Heavy snow stranded drivers for hours in icy winds on the night from Wednesday (December 12) to Thursday (December 13) with the army trying to get people to safety. Hundreds of people remained stuck on roads in the north-east of the country with 7 counties badly affected by the storm. "We were stuck until the army came," said one passenger. "I suffered hypothermic shock. We stayed in the car, after that we tried to walk, but I felt very bad," the woman added. "We couldn't pass, so we tried this way to get towards Roman (a town in north-east part of Romania), but it's not possible," another passenger said who had been stuck in the snow for hours. Fifty villages remained isolated in Dolj county and 40 schools were still closed on Thursday. "He (girls father) is still isolated. His mobile phone battery is dead. He has been isolated since Sunday. It's not possible to reach him, the snow is too deep. There are also three more people who couldn't come down to the village," said one woman about her father. Dozens of villages also remained isolated also in Iasi county. Extremely low temperatures are expected in the coming days, up to minus 14 F in parts of the country and minus 7 F in Bucharest.
[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

this is very complicated... can you resume it please? Thank's!

Any idea if this kind of weather pattern will come to central europe?

Extreme Weather in Bulgaria on Wednesday, 12 December, 2012 at 18:02 (06:02 PM) UTC.

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Updated: Sunday, 16 December, 2012 at 18:21 UTC
Description
Icy streets and sidewalks in a number of Bulgarian cities and towns have sent Sunday hundreds of people to hospitals. 90 people have been examined over the course of the day in the Emergency "Pirogov" Hospital in the capital Sofia. 22 of them have been admitted for emergency surgeries on broken arms, ankles and shoulder blades. Over 100 people have been examined in the ER in the Danube city of Vidin, 56 in the northern city of Pleven, and 13 people with broken arms and legs were admitted in the hospital of the Danube city of Ruse. The warmer temperatures in the aftermath of the polar cold during the past week and the overnight rain, mixed with ice and sleet, have caused treacherous conditions on many roads and are impeding traffic and even public transportation, particularly in the regions of Veliko Tarnovo, Pleven, Blagoevgrad, Lovech and Vratsa. In the capital Sofia, the streets and boulevards used by public transportation and its stops have been treated since Saturday night with 80 special machines. Steep roads remain problematic, particularly in the Vitosha and Lyulin districts as well as neighborhood streets, which remain untreated for the time being. The icy conditions will continue Monday, the national weather service warns.
[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]

i don't know...

Well, Bulgaria isn't that far away, and if the weather comes from the east - like it also did in the last two or three winters - it's pretty likely it'll arrive here soon. :-/

Hundreds of cars trapped – Snow piled up to their roofs.

By Robert On December 17, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Snow up to 10 feet deep (3 meters) blocks Ukrainian highway.

Witnesses told Xinhua that they saw hundreds of trapped cars with snow piled up to the car roofs. The trapped were seeking help from nearby villages for food and heating.

The snow caused a traffic jam that extended to about 14 miles (20 km) on a highway linking the Ukrainian capital and the Hungarian border as of late Sunday, authorities said.

The section of highway involved – between Buh and Brody districts – was blanketed by snow as deep as three meters, said the Emergencies Ministry.

A woman stuck in the traffic jam gave birth in her car before emergency crews arrived. She and her baby were later sent to a local hospital.


“Heavy snow causes 20-km-long traffic jam in Ukraine,” said the headline on Xinhua. I think that headline far understated the situation.

[link to news.xinhuanet.com]
Argiris Diamantis.


“A traffic jam of 20 km may not seem spectacular, but 3 meters of snowfall sure is,” says Argiris. I’ll be watching the Dutch television tonight to see if they have this item.”
[link to iceagenow.info]

thanks for weather reports 5

didn't this happen 2 years ago, too?

Thank's!

haarp

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"G-d" is a mighty equalizer! And he'll also take care of "Russia" too!

You'll see!!

When big storms hit, we stay close to home if possible. Not always necessary, but occasionally the wind will make the roads disappear under snow drifts, and highways are closed if deemed dangerous by the authorities, so it's easy to get stranded away from home, even if your 4WD vehicle could make it through.

Last evening, with howling winds and snow being blown all over the place, was amazing to behold, and the winds this morning roared with volume like going out onto the tarmac to get into a plane with engines running. (PNW USA)

From the sound of it, with so many stranded in the Ukraine, the wind must have blown power lines over the roads, or caused snow drifts that made the roads impassable. Shame that so many people were caught in it. Was it much stronger than expected?

Hope they get home safely.

18 deaths in Ukraine now! [link to expresso.sapo.pt]

ban the snow

remember 10 months ago?
Eastern Europe was particularly hard hit. Ukraine’s Ministry of Emergencies reported that at least 131 people had died during a cold snap that has lasted more than a week in which night temperatures have dropped well below freezing. Hundreds have been treated for hypothermia or frostbite.

[link to www.nytimes.com]



Now ,that's a banner

Good morning Luis!




Is this the start of the mini ice age that is spoken of?


Sounds horrible, praying for those poor people.

Snow is very heavy, it can squish the living fuck out of people...

could you please just post relevant passage? that was a whole lot of BS to wade thru.

portland here...seeing vehicles covered in snow this morning. :) pretty cold! not as cold as ukraine tho, poor people...

the house is toasty but i still have my hot water bottle on my feet.

Real comedy can never come fast enough.

A cold wave killed dozens of people in Ukraine and Russia. The temperatures in Siberia arrived at 50 degrees, according to official sources.

In Ukraine, 19 people died due to cold in the last 24 hours, where temperatures on average are at 20 degrees below zero, bringing to 37 the death toll in the country since the beginning of the month, said Health Minister .

In Russia, "six people died of cold in the last 24 hours" and asked about 200 medical assist-ence, of which over 100 were hospitalized, according to the agency Ria Novosti.

Temperatures in Russia are in freefall since last week. In Moscow this morning was 19 degrees below zero, but in the Russian Far East, in Magadan, the thermometer dropped to 51 degrees to negative, which forced the closure of several schools. [link to www.tvi24.iol.pt]

Storm Forecast
Valid: Wed 19 Dec 2012 06:00 to Thu 20 Dec 2012 06:00 UTC
Issued: Tue 18 Dec 2012 22:34
Forecaster: PUCIK
No threat levels have been issued.

SYNOPSIS and DISCUSSION

A large arctic anticyclone resides over Russia, filled with very cold airmass. Most of Europe is covered in modified polar, rather dry and stable airmass. A mid-level ridge will slowly translate from Atlantic towards the continental Europe, singaling WAA / warm front passage over Western Europe. This front is tied to a large, deep cyclone over the Atlantic. Short-wave trough associated with the cyclonic vortex will affect NW Iberia during the late evening / night hours with slight possiblity of electrified DMC thanks to enhanced low-level moisture in the southerly flow. Nevertheless, weak lapse rates will likely preclude any significant instability build-up.

More prominent convective activity is forecast over the Eastern Mediterranean region. Very deep cyclonic vortex along with surface cyclogenesis over the Aegean Sea will contribute to the favourable forcing over the region. Surface cyclone will translate towards Southern Turkey during the Wednesday. A belt of enhanced mid-level lapse rates will spread around the vortex, nosing towards the Aegean Sea. This will contribute to at least marginal latent instability release. A severe weather potential will exist over Southern Turkey, but mostly east of our forecast region where stronger southerly flow should be observed. Therefore, we go without a Level 1 atm.
[link to www.estofex.org]