The crew consisted of a locomotive-driven rotary snowplow and 63 men. Time was critical as westbound CPR Train Number 97 was just entering the Rocky Mountains, bound for Vancouver. Half an hour before midnight as the track was nearly clear, an unexpected avalanche from Avalanche Mountain swept down the opposite side of the track to the first fall.

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Over six hours, tornadoes ranging from EF0 to EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale, tore across Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. This onslaught resulted in 23 deaths, and 103 injuries. Somehow, there among all the rubble, you will be stunned at how a tornado completely missed one home in the middle of hundreds of downed trees.

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As it ran into Anticyclone Hartmut dubbed the Beast from the East, Emma's warmer moisture laden air rode over the cold dry air that had been sitting over  Western Europe for a few days. This combination of events led to heavy snowfall amounts of up to 57 centimetres (22 in) in many places, including the UK.

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Surrounding streets were closed including the Gardiner Expressway when, for the first time in its history, the worst fears had come true, the ice that had built up on the CN tower was now beginning  to fall to the ground and onto the parked cars below. Thankfully no one was injured, especially when you consider that if these thick slabs of solid ice were falling from almost three quarters up the tower, that 415meters or 1360 FEET!!

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If anyone would have seen the paralyzing sight of homes totally entombed in close to a meter of ice, they must have been thinking “Let it Go! Let it Go!”. Hoover Beach was the shoreline under the microscope here and a couple of those homeowners commented that they truly had a nightmare of a time with this.

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It was officially termed “Very strong” in the nation’s capital city of Santiago where the majority of the country’s population is centered. During the twentieth century, Chile was rocked by no fewer than twenty-eight major earthquakes, all with a force greater than 6.9magnitude. During the twentieth century, Chile was rocked by no fewer than twenty-eight major earthquakes, all with a force greater than 6.9magnitude.

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Those who were at the Colosseum had the rare opportunity of taking photographs of two rare sites at once; snow in Rome and the largest amphitheater ever built. Schools were closed but I gotta believe that this was done to allow the kids the chance to run and play in this anomaly. According to the UK Met Office, Rome has not had this kind of cold and snow since March of 2013”.

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The smoke from the burning oil wells billowed into the atmosphere and hung among the same water droplets that make up the clouds, so when that rain was released, it carried with it the crude that it blended with, resulting in the black rain. The rain, which fell in southeastern Turkey on February 25th, 1991, this day in weather history, blackened the hands and faces of people caught outside and stained their clothes.

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From February 22nd to 26th, 1982, a legit criteria-satisfying blizzard swept through Prince Edward Island bringing 60cm of snow, 100 kilometre an hour wind gusts and wind chills in the -35 Celsius range.

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February 23rd, this day in weather history:  Typhoon Wutip reached its peak intensity, with 10-minute sustained winds of 195 km/h (120 mph), 1-minute sustained winds of 270 km/h (165 mph), while sweeping southwest of Guam, becoming the strongest February typhoon ever on record along the way.

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