Weather and wildlife...
Texas weather: Thousands of cold-stunned turtles rescued
"Around 4,700 turtles have been saved from the deadly US winter storm by a rescue centre in Texas. The freezing conditions have left the reptiles cold-stunned and in danger of drowning."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-56110340

Roger

Global temperature anomally at 0 degrees C..
Seems a slight change can have huge affects?
SST'S at 0..3 C anomally.
Best thing is to stop saving turtles and let nature take it's course..imo.

If they are put back to sea they will die eitherway ,,,Why interfere with nature?.

More on Texas weather:
"Power is returning in the state and temperatures are set to rise but some 13 million people are still facing difficulties accessing clean water."

Texas weather: President Biden to declare major disaster
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56129833

Roger

Snow, Snow, Fake fake snow..."was actually “fake” and “government generated” as part of a sinister plot instigated by shadowy “elites”, presumably intentionally plunging Texas into its present state of chaos."

Fake snow? Conspiracy theory claims Texas weather ‘government-generated’
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/fake-snow-conspiracy-theory-claims-151311503.html

More anti-fact madness?
Roger

A potentially historic severe weather outbreak could occur tomorrow with the risk of damaging hail and some strong to violent tornadoes. Have your safe plan ready! https://t.co/RERuEuCLgY

— KeviShader (@KeviShader) March 16, 2021

High risk yet again! This is a big deal folks. pic.twitter.com/tt3sMYEgf8

— XelArtz (@xel_artz) March 25, 2021

all kicking off nicely in Alabama

LARGE TORNADO ON THE GROUND FLINGING DEBRIS VIOLENT TORNADO @NWSBirmingham #ALwx pic.twitter.com/YPgRmgTog0

— Brandon Copic (@BrandonCopicWx) March 25, 2021

That warm air creating the high tornado risk has also pushed up in to the north east of the US. Temperatures into the high 70s in New York today...

https://news.yahoo.com/york-weather-breaking-70s-102400707.html

I love watching US forecasts. They are so informative and well presented.

looks like a tornado but it wasnt

Severe thunderstorm at Pensacola Beach early this morning… video from Holly Cook pic.twitter.com/XkGUf4PJyA

— James Spann (@spann) April 10, 2021

Place to be tomorrow evening and early Thursday is Iowa, southern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Some serious convective weather forecast for this broader region. Set up looks not too dissimilar to that which brought that incredible derecho event to parts of eastern Iowa last August. 

Hopefully nothing half as severe as that event but still, I wish I was there! 

Very interesting stats for Death Valley for July with 4 rain days and one Trace.  It been a wettest July since I been recording while they got the usual over 50C heatwaves.  Most striking is how many days of rain fell in July than in mid winter there so that odd one and exceeded 1 inch easily.  Flash floods warning sent out.  I only now record Nicosia and Death Valley while here stopped in 2012 as it gone very boring and more boring ever now.

https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-McKinley/forecasts/6194

Some informative info on Conditions on Mt McKinley..also a link for current conditions/ temps for Alaska and NWT

I can't imagine that anybody ventures up to the summit this time of year. Next Sunday is forecast to be -40C with a wind of 115 km/h giving a wind chill of -70C !

Some cold conditions heading into Alberta this Christmas weekend..lows down to -30°C in Edmonton and Calgary..with highs of around -26°C..

Not only that but some less prone areas of the Pacific NW USA could (unusually) see a White Christmas.

If you really want snow then parts of the Sierra Nevada in th3 coming days are expected to receive 10 feet of it: https://us.cnn.com/2021/12/22/weather/atmospheric-river-california-snow-travel-forecast/index.html 

Calgary Expected a daytime max of -28c tomorrow wow!

Meanwhile my cousins in Seattle, Washington State). - Have received up to 10cms of snow today - this was taken this morning 0800 Seattle time and apparently the snow started as sleet around 13:00 on Xmas Day. Apparently SEATTLE is experiencing the longest coldest/snowiest spell in over a decade. Quite rare given Seattle is coastal and the December average is around +5c. Daytime maxes are not expected to climb above -6c tomorrow (27th). So a white Xmas for Seattle and I anticipate Vancouver as well.

Photos taken this morning from Seattle - My cousins garden I wanted to share.

Also- there is more snow is in the forecast as well.

Driveway:

Meanwhile on the east coast of USA many places up the eastern Seaboard -DC/BALTIMORE,PHILI and perhaps NYC are still waiting to see their first fall of snow of the winter season.

Thunderstorms just to the SE of Lake Michigan at the moment, heading towards Detroit.

Wonder what producing strong convective activity. I know that these occur when Arctic airmass blows over the Great Lakes in Autumn and early Winter in the same way it does over the North Sea, but this current system seem to be a warm occlusion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59800032

Colder than here and more interesting over there meanwhile Death Valley will see maximums of 11C daytime and -1C forecast this coming weekend while many days are 12-14C which is much colder than UK and very interesting there.   

Question: 

Is that straight snow line, south of The Great Lakes real?