10/5/13, "Great Plains digs out of heavy snow, storm debris," AP, Pierre, SD, Chet Brokaw, via SF Gate
"Chad Hoffman clears snow from the entrance to his apartment building in
Rapid City, S.D,, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013....Rapid City had 21 inches, but 31 inches was
recorded just a mile southwest of the city."
"Breaking nearly century-old early autumn snowfall
records, a storm system smothered South Dakota's scenic Black Hills in
South Dakota with up to three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow,
leaving residents the challenge of digging out."...photo: Rapid City Journal, Chris Huber
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Source for 2013 UN IPCC prediction of less snow:
9/27/13, "IPCC Climate Change Report Expresses Extreme Confidence In Human Cause Of Global Warming," AP, Karl Ritter via Huffington Post
""Our
assessment of the science finds that the atmosphere and ocean
have
warmed, the
amount of snow and ice has diminished, the global mean sea
level has risen and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have
increased," said Qin Dahe, the other co-chair of the working group."...(parag. 15)
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