Another Three Avalanche Deaths In The Alps; Indian State Suffers Coldest April Day On Record; The Arctic Was Warmer In The 1920s + "We Have 2 Years To Save The World," Says UN Climate Change Executive

"The Polar Sea is Warming Up and that Great Ice Cap Is Slowly Melting Away," reads a 1922 'American Weekly' insert.

Another Three Avalanche Deaths In The Alps

A major search and rescue operation is under way after another avalanche hit the Ötztal Alps in western Austria.

Three people have been killed, and a fourth has been taken to hospital, so report Austrian news outlets.

Following the heavy snows of recent weeks, the danger of avalanches across the Alps is very high, said Bernd Noggler, head of the local emergency services.

Rescue teams, dog teams and the Alpine police to the Ötztal slip, added Noggler, which measured 180m (600ft) by 80m (260ft) and occurred close to the Italian border in the province of Tyrol.

Police say 17 members of a Dutch ski group were in the area at the time, along with four local mountain guides. Four of the Dutch group were buried by the avalanche — two died before they could be rescued, a third died few hours later in hospital.

Earlier this week a 19-year-old German hiker died when he became caught up in an avalanche near Lake Achensee to the north-east of Innsbruck. Before that, three perished at Petit Combin, Switzerland when a big slide took out a helicopter (linked below).

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Indian State Suffers Coldest April Day Ever Recorded

On Thursday, a number of locales in the eastern Indian state of Odisha experienced their coldest-ever April days, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD) data.

The likes of Angul, Titlagarh, Sambalpur, and Hirakud were among those to log their lowest-ever maximum temperature in the month of April, in books dating as far back as the 1920s.

As per the IMD data:


Titlagarh's 24C (75.2F) smashed the previous record of 28.5C (83.3F) set on April 4, 2008 (with books dating back to 1952);

Sambalpur's 25.7C (78.3F) equaled the previous low set April 7, 2018 (books also to 1952);

Hirakud's 26.1C (79F) bested the 'old' low set just last year, on April 22, 2023 (data since 1973);

And Angul's 26.7C (80.1F) beat the previous record by 1C, set April 6, 2008 (books extending to 1921).

You'll note that each of the previous records were set relatively recently, jarring with the AGW Party's theory of 'forever hotter'. What this actually supports is the recent IITM study that found 'cold wave days' (when the temp reaches 10C or lower, or is 4.5C below an area's average) are increasing across India, from 2-to-5 cold wave days per decade between 1951-2011, to almost 5-15 days in the last decade (ending 2021).

Extreme cold waves are increasing across India “despite global warming”, contends the study (more here).