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Snow in North Iceland in early September is not unheard of but snowfall of two to three meters overnight at this time of year—when the sheep are still in highland pastures—is highly unusual.
Two to three meters (7-11 feet) of snow overnight! That’s a small taste of what the mammoths experienced.
Armed with long sticks as used to look for people buried in avalanches, farmers in North Iceland have succeeded in finding hundreds of sheep. The search continues but hope grows fainter by the minute.
Although not all have survived, most of these amazingly hardy creatures were alive after days in icy graves.
To make it even more difficult, foxes are attacking the trapped sheep, often leaving them brutally injured.
The association of breeders speaks of unprecedented disaster.
Farmers say they have never experienced anything like this in their lifetime and hope they never will again.
Oh I'm sure they'll experience it at some point or another. Though fluke events like this don't happen very often. Though I'm not gonna run out of the gates and say this storm is going to set any precedent for anything
It's a real phenomenon and is pretty much unprecedented for this early in the year (at least in recorded history). One can only hope that the same thing will overlay the rest of the Northern Hemisphere as we go deeper into autumn and winter. 2-3 meters of snow overnight sounds awesome .
It's a real phenomenon and is pretty much unprecedented for this early in the year (at least in recorded history). One can only hope that the same thing will overlay the rest of the Northern Hemisphere as we go deeper into autumn and winter. 2-3 meters of snow overnight sounds awesome .
Shhhh, nobody supposed to know this is happening because we all need to hear the "warming" stories. lol
It's a real phenomenon and is pretty much unprecedented for this early in the year (at least in recorded history). One can only hope that the same thing will overlay the rest of the Northern Hemisphere as we go deeper into autumn and winter. 2-3 meters of snow overnight sounds awesome .
Well, don't count on it. The Arctic sea ice is supposed to nearly all disappear 5 days from now
It sounds like drifting, rather than straight fallen snow. One figure only mentions 15-20 cm of fallen snow. With all respect to the farmers (and sheep of course) 13000 isn't a heck of a lot. A big snowstorm in NZ during the 90s, saw over a million dead sheep, with drifts way deeper than 11 ft.
Shhhh, nobody supposed to know this is happening because we all need to hear the "warming" stories. lol
Kidding aside, I think it would be better if we heard more about incidences like this (or even hear them mentioned at all) in the mainstream outlets like CNN and Fox.
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Well, don't count on it. The Arctic sea ice is supposed to nearly all disappear 5 days from now
That's funny, but even if it disappeared, it could come back by wintertime . "Now you see it, now you don't" will be the new motto for sea ice .
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It sounds like drifting, rather than straight fallen snow. One figure only mentions 15-20 cm of fallen snow. With all respect to the farmers (and sheep of course) 13000 isn't a heck of a lot. A big snowstorm in NZ during the 90s, saw over a million dead sheep, with drifts way deeper than 11 ft.
Well, another factor is that Iceland has far less people and sheep than New Zealand. Also, from the video footage that I've seen it looks like more than 15-20 cm, and it's typical procedure to tell the general accumulation and then the drift height (i.e. 20 cm, drifting as high as 50 cm). Plus, even if it is drifting it is still an extreme event for this time of year, and rare/unprecedented/whatever you want to call it. If they had snowstorms like this with any frequency there would be no talk of the event being unprecedented. From the horse's mouth, the Icelandic Review:
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Snow in North Iceland in early September is not unheard of but snowfall of two to three meters overnight at this time of year—when the sheep are still in highland pastures—is highly unusual.
Coupled with blackouts across the region, from Blönduós in the west to Þórshöfn in the east, due to icing of power lines and we’re looking at an unprecedented situation.
[...] Farmers say they have never experienced anything like this in their lifetime and hope they never will again.
So, the impression from this article is that the early September snowfall is rare (and outside of any living person's experience), but the snowfall combined with the impact to the power lines makes the overall event unprecedented.
I don't have a problem with it being a record snowfall, but the 7-11 ft overnight sounds a bit dubious. Big snow/rain /heat etc stories are always interesting, but this reeks of sensationalism.
So thats towards the end of "winter". This is happening in Iceland before technically Fall started.
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lol
. "Now you see it, now you don't" will be the new motto for sea ice 
