Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below.
Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.
Unbelievable snowfall blankets parts of the Northeast
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Snow blankets north-eastern US, breaks records - Newspaper
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The big freeze follows the deadly storm: Northeast rushes to clear deadly black ice from roads as temperatures drop into the low 20s after up to 42 inches of snow fell leaving 50K without power and at least seven dead across Pennsylvania and NY
A major snowstorm blew through the mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States on Wednesday and Thursday
Some parts of upstate New York were buried under more than 3ft of snow, breaking records across the region
Tens of thousands were left without power as strong wind gusts and blizzard-like conditions took their toll
Some parts of New York City received 8 inches of snow while more than a foot fell in sections of Boston
Snowfall, as much as 7 inches per hour, buries parts of the Northeast
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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GLENVILLE, N.Y. The Northeast’s first whopper snowstorm of the season buried parts of upstate New York under more than 3 feet (1 meter) of snow, broke records in cities and towns across the region, and left plow drivers struggling to clear the roads as snow piled up at more than 4 inches (10 centimeters) per hour.
“It was a very difficult, fast storm and it dropped an unbelievable amount of snow,” Tom Coppola, highway superintendent in charge of maintaining 100 miles of roads in the Albany suburb of Glenville, said Thursday. “It’s to the point where we’re having trouble pushing it with our plows.”