Severe blizzards blanket Moscow in decades-worth of snow, causing chaos on roads
Severe blizzards blanket Moscow in decades-worth of snow, causing chaos on roads
The Russian capital has been buried by unprecedented snowfall, causing chaos on roads and closing schools.
50cm of snow is considered a decades worth? That doesn't make sense.
37 0 ReplyYeah, wtf even is this article?
15 0 ReplyYou can read Russia's official announcement: https://tass.com/society/1721653
3 0 ReplyYou can read Russia's official announcement: https://tass.com/society/1715369
1 0 ReplyPropaganda. It's propaganda
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I don’t get it either. I’ve lived in places in the US that got 50-80 cm in a couple of days several times a season.
6 0 ReplyLake effect in Great Lakes region. Here's a few feet for your nitecap.
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Snow is weird. It didn't build up linearly. I saw this whole YouTube video by Tom Scott or someone where they explain how measuring snowfall is such a folly
3 0 Reply50cm for the month of December. This particular storm dropped 8 inches.
2 0 ReplyThe article even says that the storm they got is roughly 1/5th of the standard December snow.
So they got a bit less than 1-week's worth of snow in a day.
"Decades" and 1-week's worth are not the same thing.
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