24 Hours In 30 Seconds: Timelapse Video Shows Snow Almost Reaching The Roof During A Blizzard In Canada
People in Newfoundland, Canada are still trying to recover from a snowstorm that trapped people in their houses and completely shut down businesses, including grocery stores, for four days. Over the weekend, snowbound Newfoundlanders posted pictures of themselves opening their front doors only to find another door facing them in the form of an imprint on a wall of snow, and revelers snowboarding down the street in the aftermath.
So, how does that much snow pile up that quickly? A time-lapse video taken from a security camera on someone’s porch shows how one neighborhood went from a winter wonderland to an apocalyptic wasteland during the snow blizzard.
Someone’s porch camera shows the blizzard swallowing up a neighborhood
See how high the snow piles up in the full video
Cold spikes and smothering blizzards in North America in recent years have had a lot of skeptics questioning whether climate change is really happening. After all, white winters don’t line up with the claims that we’re getting warmer. But climatologists explain that climate change is more than just linear warming all over the globe, and the melting arctic could be the reason why such extreme weather is making more appearances further south.
The polar vortex is a mass of air that swirls over the arctic. It’s held in place by jet streams, the wind that blows in the atmosphere several miles above the Earth. Temperature and pressure differences usually keep this wind traveling a predictable path, but when the contrast between arctic temperatures and those on the other side of this wall of wind lessens, it weakens. When that happens, the cold weather that should be in the arctic “escapes”.
While some parts of the world will get a weather change to milder winters and less snow, those lying in the path that the polar vortex tends to take when it does fluctuate south are getting just the opposite. Climatologists say weather conditions like this could become more than just historic one-off events in years to come, so if you live in the affected zone, you might want to stock up on canned food.
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My partner the other day was bitching about 6" of snow. I just sent him this video and said, " you think we had it bad?"
Story didn't tell you is that we already had about 100+cm down on the ground already, got anotehr 90cm from this blizzard (not including drifts), and then sunday got anotehr storm that dumped another 20cm on us. Freaking fun times here. I'm still trying to find someone to sell me a flamethrower.
Hang in there you crazy newfies, much love from Nova Scotia
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I live in Northern Michigan where we are no strangers to snow, but I have never seen this much in my life. I wonder, how do you even begin to get yourself out of the house and get shoveled? I can't even fathom the amount of work it takes! If someone has been through this, please tell me your secrets!
I live here. You litterly throw yourself out the door into the snow, or jump out a first or second floor window. Then you spend hours/days picking at it with your shovel . worse is that we got another snowstorm 1 day late giving us another 20cm ontop of that.
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I live in Ireland, we would be a nation traumatised forever if even half that snow fell here. the country grinds to a halt if we get more than an inch, 6 inches would be a national catastrophe.
Ngl at first I thought to myself "oh that's not that bad. We get snow like that in Minnesota!" And then I saw the last 10 seconds where it reached the height of the roof and I was like OPE 😶 nvm
I promise I will never EVER complain about the snowfall here in Michigan again!!!!!
Here in ct we get a whollop or two every few years. Back in 2014 we had a big one where all the streets were waist or more deep. I live in a court off two main roads. They didn't plow us for 4 days. People were trudging out to just get some food. I contacted our town via their email an fb and finally got us plowed out. It is nothing compared to this. Or the one we also had in 1978. But I feel for these people. They could bulldoze the snow out in dump trucks.
Daaaaaaang dude. That would suck. I would probably die if imma be honest.
My partner the other day was bitching about 6" of snow. I just sent him this video and said, " you think we had it bad?"
Story didn't tell you is that we already had about 100+cm down on the ground already, got anotehr 90cm from this blizzard (not including drifts), and then sunday got anotehr storm that dumped another 20cm on us. Freaking fun times here. I'm still trying to find someone to sell me a flamethrower.
Hang in there you crazy newfies, much love from Nova Scotia
Load More Replies... I live in Northern Michigan where we are no strangers to snow, but I have never seen this much in my life. I wonder, how do you even begin to get yourself out of the house and get shoveled? I can't even fathom the amount of work it takes! If someone has been through this, please tell me your secrets!
I live here. You litterly throw yourself out the door into the snow, or jump out a first or second floor window. Then you spend hours/days picking at it with your shovel . worse is that we got another snowstorm 1 day late giving us another 20cm ontop of that.
Load More Replies... I live in Ireland, we would be a nation traumatised forever if even half that snow fell here. the country grinds to a halt if we get more than an inch, 6 inches would be a national catastrophe.
Ngl at first I thought to myself "oh that's not that bad. We get snow like that in Minnesota!" And then I saw the last 10 seconds where it reached the height of the roof and I was like OPE 😶 nvm
I promise I will never EVER complain about the snowfall here in Michigan again!!!!!
Here in ct we get a whollop or two every few years. Back in 2014 we had a big one where all the streets were waist or more deep. I live in a court off two main roads. They didn't plow us for 4 days. People were trudging out to just get some food. I contacted our town via their email an fb and finally got us plowed out. It is nothing compared to this. Or the one we also had in 1978. But I feel for these people. They could bulldoze the snow out in dump trucks.
Daaaaaaang dude. That would suck. I would probably die if imma be honest.
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