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    Jerusalem buried in snow as rare storm pounds Mideast

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    Jerusalem (AFP) - A fierce winter storm shut down much of the Middle East Friday, burying Jerusalem in snow, flooding parts of Gaza and bringing frigid, wet weather to war-ravaged Syria.
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    The hilltop city of Jerusalem was paralysed by its fiercest snowstorm in years, with its mayor calling out the army to help stranded motorists and authorities urging residents to stay indoors.
    "We are battling a storm of rare ferocity," Mayor Nir Barkat said as snow in the Holy City piled up to around 37 centimetres (15 inches) and thousands of homes lost power.
    Main roads into the city, which climb around 795 metres (2,600 feet) above sea level, were closed and police appealed to drivers not to attempt the journey.
    Temperatures in the city were predicted to reach a high of two degrees celsius (35.6 Fahrenheit) during the day and drop below freezing later, with the snowfall that started Thursday continuing into Saturday.
    By mid-morning police had been called to help about 1,500 drivers in the city and on the roads leading to it, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.
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    Israelis build a snowman as they enjoy the snow in Jerusalem, on December 12, 2013 (AFP Photo/Menahe …

    He said about 1,000 stranded travellers were given shelter at the Jerusalem International Conference Centre while hundreds more were taken to a nearby military base.
    Young and old, ultra-Orthodox Jews and secular Israelis camped on mattresses in the conference centre, many of them glued to mobile devices.
    Ramallah and Bethlehem, Palestinian cities near Jerusalem, were also coated in snow and some lower-lying areas suffered flooding from heavy rain.
    The Gaza Strip was lashed by torrential rain for a third day, and its Hamas rulers said that residents had been evacuated from 60 flooded homes since storms hit the coastal territory on Wednesday.
    The severe weather prompted Israel to open the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza to allow in humanitarian aid following a UN request.
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    Ultra-orthodox Jews walk through a snowstorm in Jerusalem, on December 12, 2013 (AFP Photo/Menahem K …

    In Syria, meanwhile, a child and a baby were said to have died from the cold Thursday, and an activist in a besieged rebel-held town said residents were struggling to stay warm with the electricity cut off and no food or fuel allowed in.
    "Normally we face the shelling and fighting, as well as food and fuel shortages. Today we also have snow and extreme cold," Abu Anas said by Internet from the town of Hara.
    "The worst part is that children and the elderly cannot resist the cold as much as the young people can... We feel completely cut off from the world."
    UN Syria airlift delayed again
    The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) had to delay its first planned international aid airlift into Syria a second day but said weather conditions there were improving.
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    The agency hopes to fly in some 40 metric tonnes of aid from northern Iraq.
    Farther east, blizzards left thousands of drivers stranded in Iran.
    "Rescuers have helped some 6,600 people and more than 1,700 vehicles that got stuck in the heavy snow" since Thursday morning, Mahmoud Mozafar, head of the local Red Crescent Society, told the ISNA news agency.
    As residents elsewhere in the region hunkered down and motorists navigated blinding flurries and icy roads, Egyptians took to social media to share rare photos of snow in their normally balmy country.
    "The whole garden was white," Karim Kheirat told AFP by telephone from the new town of Medinati northeast of the capital.
    "It's the first time in my life that I have seen it like this."
    Other suburbs of the capital also saw light snow showers, residents said.
    In the Sinai Peninsula, the storm deposited a blanket of snow several centimetres (inches) thick in the mountainous area around Saint Catherine's monastery for the first time in decades.
    Mokhtar Hussein, who lives in the area, said he had not left his house since Thursday because "the whole town is covered in snow".
    On the Mediterranean coast, gardens, streets and houses in the town of Ras al-Bar were also covered by a layer of white, resident Rania al-Mubashir said.
    The northern coastal city of Alexandria only received light snowfall, but authorities shut the port for the third consecutive day because of the bad weather and strong winds.



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    Biggest winter storm of season takes aim at Northeast, threatening foot of snow

    Around 2-5 inches of snow is expected to drop in parts of the Midwest Friday and will continue through the weekend after another strong weather system strikes. NBC's Dylan Dreyer reports.

    By Henry Austin and Erin McClam, NBC News

    The Northeast braced on Friday for a fierce winter storm that threatened to dump a foot of snow on some places and coat New York and Boston over the weekend with their biggest accumulations of the season.
    Lake-effect snow was already whipping Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., and Erie, Pa., on Friday morning, and 5 to 8 inches of snow was expected to fall later on parts of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Indianapolis was expected to get as much as 5 inches.
    Freezing rain and sleet were expected to cause problems Friday in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, slickening bridges and overpasses.
    The National Weather Service called the whole thing a “complex storm system” stretching from Missouri to the northern tip of New York.

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    Metro-North, the commuter railroad that serves New York, its suburbs, Connecticut and Long Island, warned customers that it might reduce or stop service depending on the weather.
    Pennsylvania pushed two state high school football championship games back by a day, to Sunday from Saturday. And Matthew Brelis, a spokesman for Logan airport, in Boston, told The Associated Press: “At some point, we’ll start calling in more staff.”
    The snow and ice in the Great Lakes region was the result of a low-pressure system colliding with Arctic air. By Saturday, forecasters said, a second and more powerful low churning up the East Coast would take over and produce the heaviest show.
    “This next system is really going to be a very significant storm for a lot of the country,” said Carl Parker, a meteorologist for The Weather Channel. “It’s going to grab up plenty of moisture off the Atlantic, throw it back and into the Northeast.”
    Among the big cities, Boston was expected to be hit hardest hit, as much as 8 inches of snow. New York and Philadelphia were expected to get as much as 5 inches, said Michael Palmer, another Weather Channel meteorologist.
    Areas just inland, from northern New Jersey to the lower Hudson Valley, could potentially see a lot more, he said. Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine could see a foot of snow by Sunday.
    And a mix of rain, snow and ice should coat parts of Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey.
    By Sunday evening, the bulk of the precipitation should be over, moving into Canada and offshore, although few lingering snow showers can't be ruled out, mainly in Maine, Palmer said.
    In the Midwest, the snow and a persistent deep freeze are causing problems for agriculture. Some river shipping channels are frozen and are expected to stay that way, slowing the movement of grain.
    And the combination of snow and bitter cold is slowing the movement by truck of grain and livestock, John Dee, an agricultural meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring, told Reuters.

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    Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

    This story was originally published on Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:19 AM EST

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    Rare Snowstorm Hits the Middle East

    Unusual cold and precipitation affected Jerusalem and surrounding areas

    By Associated Press
    Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013

    The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, two of the holiest sites for Jews and Muslims, are shown covered in snow in Jerusalem, Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

    A powerful winter storm left Jerusalem covered in snow on Friday, forcing police to block access to and from the city as a cold snap drove some Israelis to seek treatment from emergency medics.

    Rare snow also fell in Cairo's suburbs and the port city of Alexandria while a blanket of white covered St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

    In Syria's contested northern city of Aleppo, soldiers and rebels took a break from fighting as a thick layer of snow blanketed deserted streets, cars and buildings and temperatures hovered around zero.

    An anti-government activist said it has been quieter than it has been in more than a year, since the storm began late Tuesday.

    "All the fighters are cold and hiding," the activist who uses the pseudonym Abu Raed said.

    He said residents in the city were relying on diesel or wood heaters although some had only blankets. Snow also fell in Damascus, but was quickly washed away by the rain.

    The weather also delayed for the second day an airlift of urgently needed food aid from Erbil, Iraq, to Qamishli in northeast Syria for displaced families, according to United Nations food agency. As soon as the Qamishli airport opens, WFP will start airlifting over 400 tons of food on two aircraft with 12 return flights between Iraq and Syria, it said.

    Humanitarian agencies opted for air route because roads leading to Syria's northern Hassakeh province have not been safe for convoy due to fighting in the area, the agency added.

    The cold weather was part of a storm, dubbed Alexa, which has been pounding much of Lebanon and parts of northern Syria since Wednesday, pushing temperatures below zero in mountainous areas and dumping snow and heavy rains. The snow has heaped another layer of misery on the already grim existence of many of the more than 2 million Syrians who have fled the civil war raging in their homeland.

    In Lebanon, snow fell on northern and eastern regions where tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are staying, many of them in flimsy plastic tents.

    A Lebanese security official said a three-month-old Syrian baby died Friday in the northern town of Akroum. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the newborn had respiratory problems and the cold spell may have aggravated his condition.

    Syrian refugees struggled to keep tents in place and were seen gathering sticks of wood from nearby fields to use them for heating. Families crammed into damp, muddy tents struggled to keep warm. In some cases, Syrian children came out of their tents to play with the snow.

    Israelis were told over media and public broadcasts on Friday not to enter or leave Jerusalem and some 1,500 people were evacuated from stranded vehicles overnight, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

    Three emergency centers were set up and medics treated 350 people for cold-related symptoms, Rosenfeld said. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said he asked the military for assistance. The airport also stopped flights briefly and several highways and main roads around Jerusalem were closed.

    The weather even featured in talks between visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said he was briefed on the emergency measures.

    Kerry, a former Massachusetts senator, said the snow made him feel "at home."

    "I have heard of making guests welcome and feeling at home. This is about as far as I've ever seen anything go ... giving me a New England snowstorm," Kerry said as he viewed a snow-covered Old City of Jerusalem with Netanyahu.

    In the West Bank and Gaza, U.N. relief teams offered emergency services to the worst-hit communities.

    In Gaza, which was experiencing its first snow in a decade, more than 500 people were evacuated from their homes, according to Hamas spokesman Ihab Ghussein.

    Egypt's state MENA news agency said the country's two Mediterranean ports near the city of Alexandria and two ports on the Red Sea remained closed for the third consecutive day Friday.

    The report quoted the head of the Alexandria port authority, Adel Yassin Hammad, as saying the decision was taken to avoid possible accidents.

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    The world waits to see whether ice breakers can rescue the global warming expedition trapped in this year's massive Antarctic ice.

    Not long ago a host of yachts and research vessels thought to become global warming heroes by transiting the Northwest passage, only to likewise become blocked or trapped when nature's ice machine kicked into high gear.

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    Gullible Green sailors trapped in the Arctic

    Should they sue Sierra Club Canada for predicting an ice-free Arctic in 2013?


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    September 19, 2013 by Dennis Avery, 41 Comments

    Churchville, VA—The naïve advice of ardent activists can kill. Last spring, Paul Beckwith of Sierra Club Canada predicted that the Arctic seas would be ice-free ice this summer. (So did Britain’s BBC network.) This exciting adventure opportunity attracted a variety of yachts, sailboats, rowboats, and kayaks owners to try sailing the fabled Northwest Passage.
    As a former sailboat owner I can understand their excitement, but my heart aches for the agonies they now face. The Arctic sea ice suddenly expanded 60% this fall, after the coldest summer in the modern Alaska temperature record. The passage is now impassable. More than a dozen of the boats are trapped, apparently even including a group of tiny American jet-ski “personal watercraft” that were attempting to cross from the east coast of Russia to the North Atlantic. Arctic observers are now warning that even Canadian icebreakers might not be able to rescue them.

    The Northwest Passage blog reminds us that fall super storms are a potentially deadly fact in Alaska. “It is only a matter time. . . . Give Mother Nature her due time and she will move billions of tons of sea ice and push it up against the Alaska Arctic coast—effectively closing the door to exit the Arctic ice from western Canada. . . . No icebreakers are going to be able to offer any assistance. Mother Nature is mightier than all the icebreakers put together.” Note that the Atlantic exit is already problematic.
    Helicopter rescues on Arctic ice are incredibly expensive, involving hundreds of miles of flying by copters and crews expensively maintained in that icy and sparsely populated region. Additionally, all the lovely boats become write-offs.

    The boaters ignored major warning signs. The planet has not warmed appreciably in at least 15 years. NASA told us in 2007 that the Pacific Ocean had shifted into the cool phase of its 60-year cycle and that fact predicted cooler winters until 2030.
    Most concerning of all is that the costs of an Arctic sailing mistake are horrendous. Wonderfully preserved hulks of sunken explorers’ ships litter the sea-bottom around the Northwest Passage. Some of the vessels that survived the ice were trapped for as long as three winters. At least one sailboat recently froze into the ice near Svalbard. The captain and his boat were buried under the heavy snow, 100 miles from human habitation. (He actually survived to write a book.)
    The risks run by the Arctic boaters are obvious. Modern society is running less obvious risks based on the same sort of naïve advice coming from the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a host of like-minded “saviors of the planet.” What about the poor and elderly Britons and Germans who have frozen to death in their homes because they couldn’t afford the higher costs of gas and electricity imposed by “renewable fuels”?

    What about the millions of Third World mothers and children who die of lung diseases every year as it is politically incorrect to give them access to tiny amounts of kerosene for heating and cooking. The alternative is burning dung and charcoal in indoor, poorly ventilated fires.
    Closer to home, what about the millions of young Americans who can’t get jobs in an economy stalled by overpriced “Green” energy and investor uncertainty over the War on Coal? Inevitably, being gullible carries a price tag. We are just beginning to realize how expensive the naïveté of the environmental movement has become.


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    About the Author: Dennis Avery

    Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., is an environmental economist. He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State. He is co-author, with S. Fred Singer, of "Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years." Readers may write to him at PO Box 202 Churchville, VA 24421; email to cgfi@mgwnet.com.

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