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Now, Himalayas visible from Saharanpur! UP town wakes up to spectacular view of snow capped peaks!

Earlier this month, people of Jalandhar also witnessed snow-capped mountain peaks of the Himalayas after decades.




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Light Snow and 25 F at Saranac Lake, Adirondack Regional Airport, NY


Winds are from the Variable at 6.9 gusting to 27.6 MPH (6 gusting to 24 KT). The pressure is 1006.1 mb and the humidity is 72%. The wind chill is 17. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:51 am EDT.




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Light Snow and 35 F at Rochester, Greater Rochester International Airport, NY


Winds are West at 12.7 MPH (11 KT). The pressure is 1013.8 mb and the humidity is 67%. The wind chill is 26. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:54 am EDT.




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Light Snow and Breezy and 34 F at Buffalo, Greater Buffalo International Airport, NY

Winds are from the West at 20.7 gusting to 29.9 MPH (18 gusting to 26 KT). The pressure is 1014.8 mb and the humidity is 67%. The wind chill is 22. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:54 am EDT.




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Light Snow and 33 F at Watertown, Watertown International Airport, NY


Winds are from the West at 16.1 gusting to 20.7 MPH (14 gusting to 18 KT). The pressure is 1011.2 mb and the humidity is 75%. The wind chill is 22. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:56 am EDT.




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Light Snow and Breezy and 36 F at Syracuse, Syracuse Hancock International Airport, NY

Winds are from the West at 24.2 gusting to 34.5 MPH (21 gusting to 30 KT). The pressure is 1012.0 mb and the humidity is 50%. The wind chill is 24. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:54 am EDT.




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Light Snow and Breezy and 33 F at Niagara Falls, Niagara Falls International Airport, NY

Winds are from the West at 23.0 gusting to 31.1 MPH (20 gusting to 27 KT). The pressure is 1015.7 mb and the humidity is 70%. The wind chill is 21. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:53 am EDT.




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Light Snow and 29 F at Wellsville, Wellsville Municipal Airport, NY


Winds are from the West at 18.4 gusting to 26.5 MPH (16 gusting to 23 KT). The pressure is 1014.6 mb and the humidity is 69%. The wind chill is 17. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:56 am EDT.




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Light Snow and 31 F at Jamestown, Chautauqua County/Jamestown Airport, NY


Winds are from the West at 15.0 gusting to 25.3 MPH (13 gusting to 22 KT). The pressure is 1017.0 mb and the humidity is 76%. The wind chill is 20. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:56 am EDT.




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Light Snow and 34 F at Ithaca, Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, NY


Winds are from the Northwest at 16.1 gusting to 21.9 MPH (14 gusting to 19 KT). The pressure is 1012.7 mb and the humidity is 59%. The wind chill is 24. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:56 am EDT.




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Light Snow and 31 F at Fort Drum / Wheeler-Sack U. S. Army Airfield, NY


Winds are from the West at 15.0 gusting to 20.7 MPH (13 gusting to 18 KT). The pressure is 1010.3 mb and the humidity is 65%. The wind chill is 20. Last Updated on May 9 2020, 11:56 am EDT.










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Webinar - COVID-19: The continuing rise of pension scams, with guest speaker Margaret Snowdon OBE

With figures (quoted by the FCA in 2019) suggesting that 5 million people could be at risk of falling for a pension scam, and (according to Action Fraud) March seeing a 400% rise in COVID-19 related scams, it is no surprise that pension scams featur...




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Polar vortex brings rare May snow, low temps to US East

Mother's Day weekend got off to an unseasonably snowy start in the northeast Saturday thanks to the polar vortex.




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Cappadocia under snow: A winter fairy tale

As winter tightens its grip in Turkey, Cappadocia's beautiful scenery under a blanket of new pristine snow mesmerizes visitors. (IHA Photo)




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Deep and crisp and living: How snow sustains amazing hidden life

Snow may look pristine but even the freshly fallen variety is teeming with microscopic life. This vast and mysterious ecosystem could have a big impact on Earth




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SnowRunner Review: In for the long haul

It seems a dream heading out in a truck and living your best life, but in this simulation, it’s all about being precise. Is that where the fun is though?




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Prediction tool shows how forest thinning may increase Sierra Nevada snowpack

Thinning the Sierra Nevada forest by removing trees by hand or using heavy machinery is one of the few tools available to manage forests. However, finding the best way to thin forests by removing select trees to maximize the forest's benefits for water quantity, water quality, wildfire risk and wildlife habitat remains a challenge for resource managers.




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Klitschko to defend WBC title against Poland's Sosnowski

WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Poland's Albert Sosnowski in Schalke's soccer stadium on May 29, the Ukrainian said on Tuesday.




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Dust hovers above the Snowy Mountains




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Prediction tool shows how forest thinning may increase Sierra Nevada snowpack

Thinning the Sierra Nevada forest by removing trees by hand or using heavy machinery is one of the few tools available to manage forests. However, finding the best way to thin forests by removing select trees to maximize the forest's benefits for water quantity, water quality, wildfire risk and wildlife habitat remains a challenge for resource managers.




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Snow resorts plough on for bumper ski season despite instructors' doubts

Snow resorts are preparing to open, but the coronavirus pandemic has cast doubt on this year's ski season.




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Snow resorts plough on for bumper ski season despite instructors' doubts

Snow resorts are preparing to open, but the coronavirus pandemic has cast doubt on this year's ski season.




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The polar vortex is bringing snow to the US this weekend, because chaos loves company

It's unusually late for the polar vortex to be this weak, but that's leading to some bizarre weather.




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In just nine days 20 per cent of this Antarctic island's snow has melted

New satellite photos from NASA's Earth Observatory show ice on the cap of Eagle Island has almost disappeared after less than 10 days of extreme heat.




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Snow resorts plough on for bumper ski season despite instructors' doubts

Snow resorts are preparing to open, but the coronavirus pandemic has cast doubt on this year's ski season.




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Indian officials capture rare snow leopard, send it to zoo

Shimla, India (AFP) May 3, 2020
A rare snow leopard captured as it savaged livestock in a remote village in the Indian Himalaya will be sent to a zoo instead of being released, officials said Sunday, triggering outrage from activists. The endangered creature was found on Saturday after it became trapped inside a pen containing sheep and goats in Giu village near the Tibetan border in India's Himachal Pradesh state. "T




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Statement of Department of Justice Spokeswoman Nanda Chitre on Edward Snowden

We will continue to discuss this matter with Hong Kong and pursue relevant law enforcement cooperation with other countries where Mr. Snowden may be attempting to travel.



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Justice Department Statement on the Request to Hong Kong for Edward Snowden’s Provisional Arrest

The U.S. is disappointed and disagrees with the determination by Hong Kong authorities not to honor the U.S. request for the arrest of the fugitive, Edward J. Snowden.



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Raikkonen escapes injury after snowmobile accident

Kimi Raikkonen has escaped with just a sore wrist after an accident in a snowmobile race in Austria on Saturday




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Bridging Transatlantic Differences on Data and Privacy After Snowden


“Missed connections” is the personals ads category for people whose encounters are too fleeting to form any union – a lost-and-found for relationships.  I gave that title to my paper on the conversation between the United States and for Europe on data, privacy, and surveillance because I thought it provides an apt metaphor for the hopes and frustrations on both sides of that conversation.

The United States and Europe are linked by common values and overlapping heritage, an enduring security alliance, and the world’s largest trading relationship.  Europe has become the largest crossroad of the Internet and the transatlantic backbone is the global Internet’s highest capacity route.

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But differences in approaches to the regulation of the privacy of personal information threaten to disrupt the vast flow of information between Europe and the U.S.  These differences have been exacerbated by the Edward Snowden disclosures, especially stories about the PRISM program and eavesdropping on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone.  The reaction has been profound enough to give momentum to calls for suspension of the “Safe Harbor” agreement that facilitates transfers of data between the U.S. Europe; and Chancellor Merkel, the European Parliament, and other EU leaders who have called for some form of European Internet that would keep data on European citizens inside EU borders.  So it can seem like the U.S. and EU are gazing at each other from trains headed in opposite directions.

My paper went to press before last week’s European Court of Justice ruling that Google must block search results showing that a Spanish citizen had property attached for debt several years ago.  What is most startling about the decision is this information was accurate and had been published in a Spanish newspaper by government mandate but – for these reasons – the newspaper was not obligated to remove the information from its website; nevertheless, Google could be required to remove links to that website from search results in Spain. That is quite different from the way the right to privacy has been applied in America.  The decision’s discussion of search as “profiling” bears out what the paper says about European attitudes toward Google and U.S. Internet companies.  So the decision heightens the differences between the U.S. and Europe.

Nonetheless, it does not have to be so desperate.  In my paper, I look at the issues that have divided the United States and Europe when it comes to data and the things they have in common, the issues currently in play, and some ways the United States can help to steer the conversation in the right direction.

[I] "Europe Emerges as Global Internet Hub," Telegeography, September 18, 2013.


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Moving Past Snowden

After a respectful pause in the wake of the Snowden leaks, the United States has moved to refocus on what President Obama has called “one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face.” Announcing the move, Attorney-General Eric Holder confirmed the unprecedented nature of the action: “These represent the first ever charges…

       




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Beautiful Sweaty Snowflakes Dissolve Polar Ozone

Image credit: Purdue University photo/Shepson Lab digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/beautiful-sweaty-snowflakes-dissolve-polar-ozone.php';Snowflakes, we have seen, are beautiful and diverse but they are not inert byproducts of cold




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There are lessons to be learned from these soulful snow monkeys (video)

Watch these beautiful Japanese macaques at Wild Snow Monkey Park who have truly mastered the fine art of relaxation.




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Elusive snowy white giraffes filmed in Kenya

As if giraffes weren't exotic enough, this very rare mother and baby seem outright otherworldly in their absence of color and pattern.




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Buddhist monks are protecting snow leopards from poachers

A new study in the journal Conservation Biology found that snow leopards living near Buddhist monasteries in Tibet are being helped by monks who actively patrol the forests to prevent poachers from killing the endangered cats.




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French ski resort is using helicopters to move snow

"No justification can be possible for this nonsense."




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Why global warming won't curtail big snowstorms

The harshest snowstorms along the Eastern Seaboard will remain as frequent in a warming world.




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A remarkable video of the ever elusive snow leopard

Ever wonder what it would look like to be in the maw of a snow leopard? Wonder no more.




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Photo: Snowy egret is the epitome of elegance

Some birds are charming, others majestic or graceful; the subject for our daily photo has it all.




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Yes, your kid can eat snow

It's safe as long as you teach them some basic guidelines.




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Snow & cold no excuse — a warm climate doesn't increase bicycle ridership

We've all heard it — "this city" or "that city" has more bicyclists because it has warmer weather. Looks like it's time to retire that statement.




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Photo: Carijoa coral is a vision of snowflakes

Our photo of the day delivers a bit of winter reverie from the waters of Australia.




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Baby snow leopard makes its debut at Chicago zoo

This ferociously cute snow leopard cub is poised to paw playfully at your heartstrings.




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Notes from a snowstorm

It's only mid-November and winter has arrived with a vengeance. How do I stay sane?