An extremely cold winter, or an 'ice age' as it was named by the citizents, in Crimea this year.
Winter in Crimea was extremely cold this year. Heavy snowfalls, snow piles, kilometer-long traffic jams and destructive storms on the South Coast of Crimea.
The situation has shown that local authorities were not prepared for such manifestations of this year’s winter, although long before that weather forecasters predicted unprecedented cold.
Crimea was one of the first regions in Ukraine that sounded the emergency alarm, fearing for the lives of the homeless. For them, in every city of the Crimean opened heating points, where you can stay warm around the clock, getting hot tea, sandwiches and porridge. But even such emergency measures did not protect Crimea from the victims.
The sudden temperature decrease , windsquall, whose speed reached 30-35 meters per second, sleet, snow - all these factors led to the fact that transport of the Crimea was almost completely paralyzed.
In the northern Crimea, on the highway "The Armenian-Simferopol", the drivers spent two days in traffic - Ministry of Emergency Situations and the State Traffic Inspectorate provide them with fuel and food provision night and day, while trying to eliminate the jam. The wind, constantly brought snow from the field mixed with the ground, did not allow this to be done quickly.
Better than any thermometer weather in Crimea can be determined by the sea. And if it is frozen it is means that cold has reached its peak. This time this is precisely what is happened...
The Kerch’s ferry crossing has stopped working.
Before the Black Sea was covered with ice, a serious storm had started, which reached 6-8 degrees. On January 26-27th and February 6-8th, it just kicked Alushta’s cost, "swallowed up" part of the beaches and blew apart some of the buildings on the southern coast. The concrete plates torn up, the pavement slabs rose up and there were broken lights and damaged trees on the cost of Yalta.
In the Strait of Kerch were 126 ships blocked by ice. 120 of them - are foreign. In addition, in the Azov Sea were more than a hundred Russian ships blocked also. A lot of a navel teams were in need of assistance. Part of the cargo ships were ice’s captivity for 3-4 weeks long. The crew’s products and fuel have finished. According to the sailors, the situation is very serious, but Russia abandoned them into trouble and does not come to help. Vegetables, drinking water, coffee and tea had been delivered by the Crimean rescue helicopter Mi-8.
- Hail Ukraine! – Sailors rejoiced.
The storm wind “licked off" the slate from the roof of the three schools in Simferopol. Evpatoria’s "PrivatBank’s " metal roof was torn off by the wind , which now looks like an turned over page, which was hanging over the windows.
Due to the severe frosts in the Crimea, the winter crop death forecast has deteriorated. 3 and half billions hectares will have to be replanted. Apricots and peach trees will most probably not even give fruit, and we expect half the grapes we have planned
Here you can see much more photos.
A lot of them a really beautiful. Some of them are very scary but in the same time are very beautiful.
Crimean citizens made a video about ‘ice age’ in Yalta.
Even a young swan felt into an ice trap in Evpatoria.
I was very glad when I saw that swam was rescued.
I took information from here:
http://crimea.vgorode.ua/news/99779/
http://an.crimea.ua/news/articles/materiali/krim-lednikoviy-period/
Winter in Crimea was extremely cold this year. Heavy snowfalls, snow piles, kilometer-long traffic jams and destructive storms on the South Coast of Crimea.
The situation has shown that local authorities were not prepared for such manifestations of this year’s winter, although long before that weather forecasters predicted unprecedented cold.
Crimea was one of the first regions in Ukraine that sounded the emergency alarm, fearing for the lives of the homeless. For them, in every city of the Crimean opened heating points, where you can stay warm around the clock, getting hot tea, sandwiches and porridge. But even such emergency measures did not protect Crimea from the victims.
The sudden temperature decrease , windsquall, whose speed reached 30-35 meters per second, sleet, snow - all these factors led to the fact that transport of the Crimea was almost completely paralyzed.
In the northern Crimea, on the highway "The Armenian-Simferopol", the drivers spent two days in traffic - Ministry of Emergency Situations and the State Traffic Inspectorate provide them with fuel and food provision night and day, while trying to eliminate the jam. The wind, constantly brought snow from the field mixed with the ground, did not allow this to be done quickly.
Better than any thermometer weather in Crimea can be determined by the sea. And if it is frozen it is means that cold has reached its peak. This time this is precisely what is happened...
The Kerch’s ferry crossing has stopped working.
Before the Black Sea was covered with ice, a serious storm had started, which reached 6-8 degrees. On January 26-27th and February 6-8th, it just kicked Alushta’s cost, "swallowed up" part of the beaches and blew apart some of the buildings on the southern coast. The concrete plates torn up, the pavement slabs rose up and there were broken lights and damaged trees on the cost of Yalta.
In the Strait of Kerch were 126 ships blocked by ice. 120 of them - are foreign. In addition, in the Azov Sea were more than a hundred Russian ships blocked also. A lot of a navel teams were in need of assistance. Part of the cargo ships were ice’s captivity for 3-4 weeks long. The crew’s products and fuel have finished. According to the sailors, the situation is very serious, but Russia abandoned them into trouble and does not come to help. Vegetables, drinking water, coffee and tea had been delivered by the Crimean rescue helicopter Mi-8.
- Hail Ukraine! – Sailors rejoiced.
The storm wind “licked off" the slate from the roof of the three schools in Simferopol. Evpatoria’s "PrivatBank’s " metal roof was torn off by the wind , which now looks like an turned over page, which was hanging over the windows.
Due to the severe frosts in the Crimea, the winter crop death forecast has deteriorated. 3 and half billions hectares will have to be replanted. Apricots and peach trees will most probably not even give fruit, and we expect half the grapes we have planned
Here you can see much more photos.
A lot of them a really beautiful. Some of them are very scary but in the same time are very beautiful.
Crimean citizens made a video about ‘ice age’ in Yalta.
Even a young swan felt into an ice trap in Evpatoria.
I was very glad when I saw that swam was rescued.
I took information from here:
http://crimea.vgorode.ua/news/99779/
http://an.crimea.ua/news/articles/materiali/krim-lednikoviy-period/
