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Snow began falling in Jerusalem Thursday morning in the heaviest December storm since 1953. The winter weather system intensified across the country since beginning Tuesday night.

A snowstorm hit Mount Hermon later on Thursday, after dozens of centimeters of snow have accumulated on the mount since Tuesday. Dozens of millimeters of rain have fallen in the Gush Dan (the Tel Aviv area), Sharon and Galilee regions since Wednesday night.

The wintery weather all over the country is expected to intensify throughout the day Thursday, and Jerusalem will likely take another coating of snow overnight.

Snow in Jerusalem as winter weather intensifies; school canceled – National Israel News | Haaretz

Cold Alaska temperatures will rapidly freeze the Bering Strait this week.

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US temperatures have been averaging 1.5ºF below normal over the last 60 days.

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Montana’s warmest December was 1896, and the coldest shaping up to be 2013.

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29 Mar 1928 – PILTDOWN MAN.

28 Jul 1934 – 100 DEGREES IN ALASKA, HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY OF…

Climate Change and its Effect on  World Food

by Walter Orr Roberts  Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

In February of 1972 earth-orbiting artificial satellites revealed the existence of a greatly increased area of the snow and ice cover of the north polar cap as compared to all previous years of space age observations. Some scientists believe that this may have presaged the onset of the dramatic climate anomalies of 1972 that brought far-reaching adversities to the world’s peoples. Moreover, there is mounting evidence that the bad climate of 1972 may be the forerunner of a long series of less favorable agricultural crop years that lie ahead for most world societies. Thus widespread food shortages threaten just at the same time that world populations are growing to new highs. Indeed, less favorable climate may be the new global norm. The Earth may have entered a new “little ice age”

There are strong signs that these recent climate disasters were not random deviations from the usual weather, but instead signals of the emergence of a new normal for world climates.

www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull165/16505796265.pdf

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

– Barack Obama

The newly-released budget deal between Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan will hike the aviation security fee paid by air travelers by 124 percent, if passed.  Murray and Ryan settled on an agreement that would hit air travelers with a fee of $5.60 per one-way flight — or $11.20 for a round-trip excursion.

Ryan-Murray budget deal hikes air travel security tax 124 percent | The Daily Caller