Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect
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"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued - weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Artic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity."
From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for February 4, 2012:
The wobble seems to have changed, as the temperature in Europe suddenly plunged after being like an early Spring, Alaska has its coldest temps ever while the US and much of Canada is having an extremely mild winter. India went from fatal cold spell to balmy again. Has the Earth changed position vs a vs Planet X to cause this? [and from another] Bitter cold records broken in Alaska - all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy's Law intervenes [Jan 30] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaska Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded "global warming" for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.
There has been no change in the wobble pattern, the wobble has merely become more severe. Nancy noted a Figure 8 format when the Earth wobble first became noticeable, in early 2005, after Planet X moved into the inner solar system at the end of 2003. The Figure 8 shifted along to the east a bit on the globe between 2005 and 2009, (the last time Nancy took its measure) as Planet X came closer to the Earth, encountering the magnetic N Pole with a violent push earlier in the day. But the pattern of the Figure 8 remained essentially the same. So what changed recently that the weather patterns became noticeably different in late January, 2012?
The N Pole is pushed away when it comes over the horizon, when the noon Sun is centered over the Pacific. This regularly puts Alaska under colder air, with less sunlight, and thus the historically low temps there this January, 2012 as the wobble has gotten stronger. But by the time the Sun is positioned over India, the N Pole has swung during the Figure 8 so the globe tilts, and this tilt is visible in the weather maps from Asia. The tilt has forced the globe under the hot air closer to the Equator, warming the land along a discernable tilt demarcation line.
The next loop of the Figure 8 swings the globe so that the N Pole moves in the other direction, putting the globe again at a tilt but this time in the other direction. This tilt is discernable in weather maps of Europe, again along a diagonal line. Depending upon air pressure and temperature differences, the weather on either side of this diagonal line may be suddenly warm or suddenly cold. The tilt and diagonal line lingers to affect much of the US and Canada, but the Figure 8 changes at this point to be an up and down motion, pulling the geographic N Pole south so the US is experiencing a warmer than expected winter under a stronger Sun. Then the cycle repeats, with the magnetic N Pole of Earth pushed violently away again as the Sun is positioned over the Pacific.
From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 6, 2013:
Would the Zetas be able to let us know what is causing the early break-up of the Arctic Ice, the ice seems to have taken on a swirling pattern at the same time, would this be wobble related? [and from another] http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/Canada+Arctic+cracks+spectacular+event/8185609/story.html The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500 kilometres long and as much as 70 kilometres across – opened up from Alaska to Canada’s Arctic islands as the massive ice sheet cracked as it was pushed around by strong winds and currents. It took just seven days for the fractures to progress across the entire area from west to east. [and from another] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80752&src=iotdrss A high-pressure weather system was parked over the region, producing warmer temperatures and winds that flowed in a southwesterly direction. That fueled the Beaufort Gyre, a wind-driven ocean current that flows clockwise. The gyre was the key force pulling pieces of ice west past Point Barrow, the northern nub of Alaska that protrudes into the Beaufort Sea.
The Figure 8 formed by the N Pole during the daily Earth wobble has shifted somewhat to the East, due to Planet X positioned more to the right of the Earth during its approach. This was anticipated, and well described in ZetaTalk, the Earth crowding to the left in the cup to escape the approach of Planet X, so the angle between these two planets would change slightly. This shift of the Figure 8 to the East is due to the push against the Earth’s magnetic N Pole occurring sooner each day than prior. Thus instead of occurring when the Sun is high over the Pacific, over New Zealand, it is now occurring when the Sun is high over Alaska. All the wobble points have shifted eastward accordingly.
This has brought a lingering Winter to the western US, and a changed sloshing pattern to the Arctic waters. Instead of Pacific waters being pushed through the Bering Straits into the Arctic when the polar push occurs, the wobble is swinging the Arctic to the right, and then later to the left, creating a circular motion in the waters trapped in the Arctic. Since the Earth rotates counterclockwise, the motion also takes this path. This is yet another piece of evidence that the establishment is hard pressed to explain. They are attempting to ascribe this to high pressure and wind, all of which are not new to the Arctic, but this circular early breakup of ice in the Arctic is new.
Howard
2 Derechos Spawn 8 Tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana (Jun 30)
The first derecho formed around 2 p.m. Monday in Iowa and sped across northwest Illinois into Wisconsin over the next five hours, packing winds of more than 55 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
The second derecho also formed in Iowa, but a little more to the south and six hours later, heading almost straight east toward Chicago, the weather service said. The winds were clocked at more than 60 mph with gusts up to 70 mph.
This second wave produced eight tornadoes that touched down in northern Illinois, including one between Plainfield and Romeoville, the weather service said. No injuries were reported, but hundreds of trees were downed and nearly 200,000 customers lost power.
A derecho is a wind storm that stretches more than 240 miles and is punctuated by wind gusts of more than 55 mph. They are relatively uncommon and a double derecho is even rarer, though another one did occur here as recently as 2010, according to weather service meteorologist Ricky Castro.
What makes Monday's double derecho even stranger is that the second wave was stronger than the first. It's generally the other way around.
"Usually, the first one stabilizes the atmosphere and makes it less likely for thunderstorms to occur," Castro said. But this time, "the first derecho was less intense and the second one was violent and spawned tornadoes."
The National Weather Service said brief EF-1 tornadoes landed late Monday near Earlville, about 80 miles southwest of Chicago; near Romeoville and Plainfield in Will County; near Lisbon in rural Kendall County; three tornadoes were near Grant Park in Kankakee County. In Indiana, one tornado was confirmed in Lowell and another near DeMotte.
Sources
http://abc7chicago.com/weather/nws-8-tornadoes-confirmed-in-chicago...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-onetwo-punch-...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/07...
http://www.weather.com/news/derecho-and-severe-storms-cause-damage-...
Jul 3, 2014
lonne rey
Early signs of autumn 'already appearing in natural world'
Sycamore seeds are well developed and hawthorn berries are already red, says National Trust
After an early spring and summer, the year is now racing towards autumn ahead of schedule, conservationists have said.
As the year reached the half-way mark, the National Trust said wildlife seemed to have come through the wettest and stormiest winter on record and nature had hurtled "helter-skelter" through the seasons since.
Now signs of autumn are already in the hedgerows and woods, National Trust naturalist Matthew Oates said.
"Looking at this year, where does it want to be? It raged its way through winter, then we went into an incredibly early spring, and then it rushed helter-skelter through spring without stopping for breath," he said.
"We're ahead still, remarkably ahead, birds have largely stopped singing, a lot of butterflies are very early and are still coming out early," he said, pointing to early arrivals of high summer butterflies including chalk hill blues and purple emperors.
And he said: "There are really strong signs of autumn already here, like the beech nuts, it's an amazing beech mast year and the nuts are incredibly well developed."
Source
Jul 3, 2014
jorge namour
Bad weather in Spain, Madrid violent hailstorm Whitening: blocked traffic [PHOTOS and VIDEO]
Thursday, July 3, 2014,
A strong hailstorm has hit the capital of Spain, Madrid, in the early hours of the afternoon (between 15 and 16). The event was so violent as to whiten the streets causing disruption of some major thoroughfares, such as the M-40 motorway huge town that surrounds the city, and the M-11. Even the flights arriving at and departing from Madrid airport at Barajas, have been delayed. At least 4 planes had to postpone the landing due to adverse weather conditions, while several areas of the airport were flooded. The underground line 7, has had to suspend some races between the stations of Cartagena and Las Musas, always to flooding (the races were re-established after 30 minutes).
The hail struck with violence especially the eastern half of the city, particularly in the districts of San Blas, Barajas (where the international airport), Vicalvaro, but also Hortaleza and Fuencarral. The streets were literally whitewashed, to the bewilderment of Madrid who have immortalized the event with photos and video, promptly loaded on social networks. Below is a gallery of pictures from Twitter under the hashtag # granizada, a term which in Spanish means precisely hailstorm.
http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/07/maltempo-in-spagna-violenta-grandina...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD8kt2C2Ojc
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&...
Also Hail grandinata ad Almazán in Spagna [FOTO e VIDEO]
http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/07/le-impressionanti-immagini-della-vio...
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Jul 3, 2014
Howard
Manitoba Declares Rare Province-wide State of Emergency (Jul 4)
The Canadian province of Manitoba has declared a provincial state of emergency amid rising concerns on flooding and has requested military assistance.
Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said Friday he has asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper to have Canadian Armed Forces soldiers on the ground in Manitoba by Saturday to assist with flood relief efforts.
"We need to be able to take action to protect the safety, health and welfare of Manitobans," said Selinger.
"Declaring a provincial state of emergency will allow us to take steps quickly to protect people and property in the area."
Canadian Forces personnel will work to reinforce the dikes along the Assiniboine River between Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg, where 200 homes are at risk.
They will also help raise the dikes along the Portage Diversion — a 29-kilometre channel that directs some of the flood water from the Assiniboine north to Lake Manitoba.
The regional municipalities of Portage la Prairie, Cartier, St. Francois Xavier and Headingley are the biggest areas of concern. They are being advised to prepare for flood levels more than 30 centimetres (12 inches) higher than those of 2011.
A command centre is being established near Portage la Prairie to assist with liaison efforts between the military and the affected communities, Selinger said.
Floodwaters began washing across a road in Brandon on Friday even though the crest isn't expected to reach the city until this weekend and then Portage la Prairie by July 11.
Steve Topping with Manitoba Water Stewardship called the rate at which the water is flowing "unprecedented."
"Things are ramping up very quickly. This is a fast moving event and we have very good hydrometric gauges that are providing us 24/7 information," he said.
Manitoba is bracing for water flow levels between 48,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) and 52,000 cfs on the Assiniboine River downstream of Portage la Prairie.
The high water levels are expected within the next week and are forecast to remain high for a period of at least three weeks.
The flooding is being caused by torrential rains last weekend in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
A total of 43 communities in Manitoba and 75 in Saskatchewan are under states of local emergency. Water from Saskatchewan is now flowing into Manitoba, deepening the problem in that province.
Some 565 people have already been forced from their homes in Manitoba due to flooding.
Selinger said the province will work to produce a half-million sandbags — in addition to the two million it already has in stock — to protect the areas most at risk as the crest moves closer.
Sources
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-flooding-province-d...
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/rare-province-wide-s...
Jul 4, 2014
Howard
Multiple Tornadoes, Large Hail Reported in Saskatchewan (Jul 5)
Saskatchewan man shares breathtaking video of massive tornado near Outlook, Saskatchewan on July 5. Although at first it appears to be coming straight for him, it rumbles by without causing damage, although it later destroyed a nearby farm. It grows significantly larger just before the end of the video. (Caution: Audio contains multiple F-bombs.) Source
The agency issued tornado warnings for numerous areas in southern and central parts of Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba Saturday afternoon, and said there were tornadoes reported near Outlook and Kenaston.
Ray Derdall and his son Carson were working outside their property 20 kilometres north of Outlook Saturday afternoon when a black funnel cloud dropped down. They had almost no time to react.
"Within about 10 seconds, it was right on top of us," Ray said.
"It's so loud and dirty and dusty. You don't know what's going on, you can't see your nose."
Ray ran to the closest shelter - his workshop - while Carson made it to the steel Quonset and crawled under a combine cutter.
"I was just waiting for the whole quonset to lift off and I thought maybe it would suck me out," a visibly shell-shocked Carson recalled. "I thought I was going to die."
Then, less than five minutes after the tornado hit, it was over. Carson emerged unscathed from the battered Quonset to find his father wriggling out from underneath one of the walls that used to hold up the workshop.
Neither was injured, but it became apparent almost immediately that almost everything on their property was destroyed.
"It was just a direct hit. It took a 100-year-old barn that we were fixing up. It took the Quonset and it took the shop. It took the windows out of the house," said Derdall.
"It even sucked the comforters off the beds through the windows and out of the house."
Derdall said miraculously, neither he nor his son were injured.
Shannon Bestland, meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the agency was receiving multiple calls about funnel clouds touching down in south-central Saskatchewan as far south as Regina Beach.
“There are so many, we can’t count them right now,” she said Saturday afternoon.
Baseball-sized hail were also reported in some areas of Saskatchewan, she said.
SaskPower tweeted that tornadoes have caused outages at Davidson, Hanley, Kenaston, Rosedale and surrounding areas.
Derdall said it was his first experience with a tornado, other than seeing them on TV.
"You think it will never happen to you."
Sources
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/photos-and-videos-da...
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/tornadoes-reported-in-parts-of-saskatc...
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Tornadoes+cause+havoc+Saskatchew...
Jul 6, 2014
jorge namour
The super-typhoon Neoguri approaches to Okinawa with winds of 250 km / h: "Supervision maximum" ---- JAPAN
Monday, July 7, 2014
PHOTO LINK: http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/07/super-tifone-neoguri-inizia-ad-impre...
A powerful typhoon, the eighth season of the renamed Neoguri, and 'expected in Okinawa, far south of Japan, between late this evening and tomorrow morning with a load of torrential rains and winds of up to 250km per hour. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is assessing the level of alert in the evening to announce the imminent arrival of the perturbation, moving from south to north, it might be more 'serious of its kind in decades. The issuance of an alarm of "high level", if agreed, would be for the first time since the new system 'was introduced in August 2013. According to the agency, the typhoon will become' more 'always strong in the move towards north, while at the speed 'wind' of about 75 meters per second, while the displacement of the disruption 'of 25km/ora. During a meeting of the government on the situation, the Minister for Disaster Management, Keiji Furuya, who canceled a trip to the U.S. for an event on disaster prevention on the sidelines of a UN meeting, urged the prefectures and municipalities to take the necessary steps and to advise on time, where necessary, evacuations. The government has set up a unit 'link in the middle of Emergency Management Office of the Prime Minister. "It is one of the most looming 'big typhoons ever had in July," he admitted in a press conference Satoshi Ebihara, Head of Section of the JMA weather forecast: in 1959 the Typhoon Ise-wan I cause' 5,000 victims. "And 'required the utmost vigilance," he added, citing the heavy rains and winds, as well as' high waves up to 14 meters. The rainfall may reach a record number of 200 mm in the 24 hours is Okinawa archipelago. Meanwhile, a front of torrential rain is hitting the southern island of Kyushu, where in some areas were measured more 'than 350 millimeters of water. Extraordinary levels that would drive the JMA, to advise extreme caution due to landslides and floods. Also because 'Neoguri will be' on Kyushu tomorrow afternoon.
http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/07/super-tifone-neoguri-si-avvicina-ad-...
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METEOWEB Saturday, April 5, 2014,
Something very big is beginning to move over the
large strip of very hot water, flowing at a depth of about 150 meters along a route east west.
his wave can be observed on the surface by a slight increase in height of the sea surface, about 8 cm, and a significant increase in surface water temperatures over a large area for hundreds of miles
is causing a significant increase in the "thermocline" throughout the Western and Central Pacific, where there is a considerable warming of surface waters, up to 150 meters depth, with values truly exceptional, reaching values of +24 ° C to +25 ° C.
Jul 7, 2014
Howard
11 Tornadoes Reported As Storms Rake Iowa (Jul 6)
While trees and property suffered, there were no immediate reports of serious injuries or deaths in the outbreak of tornadoes.
Trained storm spotters had reported at least 11 tornadoes touching down across the state at press time Sunday evening, according to the National Weather Service bureau in Johnston.
Spotters logged tornadoes in Jewell, Geneva, Reinbeck, Dysart, Traer, Lincoln, Winterset and Newton. More than one tornado was reported for some locations. Weather service meteorologists will investigate storm damage to confirm the reports today.
"We've got a storm survey team that's going to be going out to just to kind of asses what kind of damage occurred," said Brad Fillbach with the National Weather service. Fillbach said the teams would assess in several counties including Jasper, Tama and Grundy.
Sunday's first funnel cloud twisted near Jewell at 5:55 p.m., quickly turning into a tornado by 6 p.m. Small trees were damaged.
Another tornado touched down near Geneva in Franklin County for about three minutes, storm spotters said.
Spotters reported two tornadoes near Reinbeck in Grundy County.
One home about a mile west of Reinbeck sustained major structural damage, and another across the street had damage to its roof, Chief Deputy Tim Wolthoff of the Grundy County Sheriff's Office told the Associated Press. Both of the homes were occupied, but no one was injured.
Four tornado reports came in from Tama County in a 30-minute span. The first twister landed near Dysart at 8:04 p.m. Another reached the ground near Traer three minutes later. At 8:16 p.m., a storm spotter reported a tornado near Lincoln. The fourth twister was reported at 8:35 p.m., again near Traer.
The Lincoln and Traer tornadoes reportedly carried a lot of debris.
Benton County Emergency Management officials reported a tornado near Keystone at 8:56 p.m.
A tornado was spotted in Jasper County near Newton shortly before 9 p.m. Another tornado touched down near Kellogg in Jasper County about 9:10 p.m.
Sources
http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2014/07/07/11-tornadoes-rep...
http://www.kwwl.com/story/25951119/2014/07/06/severe-weather-possib...
Jul 8, 2014
KM
http://www.inquisitr.com/1340307/japan-supertyphoon-stronger-than-h...
Japan Supertyphoon Stronger Than Hurricane Katrina, Headed For U.S. Military Base
A supertyphoon taking aim at Japan is seen as the biggest storm in years, and could end up being more powerful than even the destructive Hurricane Katrina.
Supertyphoon Neoguri is expected to reach Okinawa sometime early on Tuesday, generating winds that could reach more than 100 miles per hour. The storm is eventually expected to reach a Category 5, the highest on the scale measuring typhoons.
Directly in the path of the Japan supertyphoon is Kadena Air Base, the largest U.S. military base in the region. Authorities at the base said they are taking every precaution to stay safe.
“I can’t stress enough how dangerous this typhoon may be when it hits Okinawa,” Brig. Gen. James Hecker, the Commander of the 18th Wing, said Sunday on the base’s Facebook page. “This is the most powerful typhoon forecast to hit the island in 15 years.”
The Japanese Meteorological Agency said the supertyphoon may bring a slew of dangers to Okinawa.
“In these regions, there is a chance of the kinds of storms, high seas, storm surges and heavy rains that you’ve never experienced before,” a JMA official told a news conference. “This is an extraordinary situation, where a grave danger is approaching.”
The Japan supertyphoon is expected to hit the mainland with a bit less strength, but forecasters said it still has the potential to do great damage.
This week, astronaut Reid Wiseman helped capture the scale of the Japan supertyphoon. He took a shot from high above the earth’s surface, showing the swirling storm system taking up the entire view.
Jul 8, 2014
lonne rey
'Snow' in July! Hailstorm blankets suburban street as torrential downpour brings flash floods to the south - but relax, it's going to be dry and sunny today
Heavy downpours and hail caused flash flooding in Bournemouth today as summer storms affected parts of Britain.
The Met Office has issued a yellow 'be aware' warning for heavy rain for large parts of eastern England, eastern Scotland and Northern Ireland with the rain set to continue into tonight before easing off.
But not everywhere has been experiencing a deluge with Brighton remaining warm and sunny today as sunbathers took to a sunbasked Brighton beach.
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Jul 9, 2014
Howard
More on yesterday's destructive tornado in upstate New York...
Powerful Tornado in Upstate New York is State's Second-Deadliest (Jul 8)
The tornado that carved a destructive path in upstate New York on Tuesday night was the second-deadliest in the state since at least 1950 — and may be among the most powerful locally recorded, meteorologists say. Four people were killed, including a mother and her 4-month-old baby, when the tornado touched down around 7:15 p.m. in Smithfield, east of Syracuse. Officials said homes were ripped from their foundations, debris was scattered across several surrounding counties and about 40,000 were still without power Wednesday afternoon.
While New York might see four or five tornadoes a year, they aren’t often classified as an EF-2 or higher on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which ranks a twister’s strength. The National Weather Service was continuing to assess the damage, but said the latest tornado could be at least an EF-2 — categorized by winds of 113 mph to 157 mph. Madison County last saw a tornado, an EF-2, in 2009. The deadliest in the state occurred in 1989 in Orange County, where nine elementary schoolchildren were crushed by a falling cafeteria wall. Tuesday’s tornado pulled one home from the ground and dropped it hundreds of feet away on another house, police said. “This is one for the books,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Evans.
Source
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/powerful-tornado-upstate-new-yo...
Jul 10, 2014
Mark
Extremely Rare Summer Typhoon Hits Japan and is One of the Largest Ever
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2687017/Typhoon-Neoguri-swe...
Typhoon Neoguri sweeps through Japan leaving three people dead including 12-year-old boy killed by landslide
Three people have now died in a powerful storm which is sweeping through Japan, forcing rivers to burst their banks and triggering a landslide which killed a 12-year-old boy.
Half a million people were told to evacuate on Monday under the threat of Typhoon Neoguri, which had winds of up to 155mph and waves almost 50ft high.
First feared to be a 'super typhoon', Neoguri was downgraded to a tropical storm by the time it made landfall but has left a trail of devastation in its wake.
A spokesman for the island's government said it had experienced its heaviest rainfall in half a century.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said 'violent winds' had dissipated but 'rain is still a concern in many places'.
The official said: 'There are some places that may get as much as a month's worth of rain over the next 24 hours.'
Two to four typhoons make landfall in Japan each year, but this storm is one of the largest ever to hit Japan during the summer, when they are extremely rare.
Jul 10, 2014
KM
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/brisbane-hits-coldest...
Brisbane hits coldest temperature in 103 years
If you are lucky enough to be reading this from the comfort of your blankets, it might be best to stay there, as Brisbane has hit its coldest temperatures in 103 years.
Not since July 28 1911 has Brisbane felt this cold, getting down to a brisk 2.6C at 6.41am.
At 7am, it inched up to 3.3C.
Matt Bass, meteorologist from BOM, said the region was well below our average temperatures.
“If it felt cold, that’s because it was, breaking that record is pretty phenomenal for Brisbane,” Bass said.
“The average for this time of year is 12C, so Brisbane was about 9C below average, it is pretty impressive really, to have the coldest morning in 103 years is a big record.”
The coldest place across the state was Oakey which got down to -6.1C, which was the coldest temperature for the town since 2011.
Brisbane wasn’t the only town hitting landmark temperatures with Clermont breaking its coldest record two days in a row.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/video/id-FyaWxpbjpWyt_oYxftfItlQ2vixc... Snap for Queensland
Jul 13, 2014
lonne rey
Alps get summer snow as wet weather to stay
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140710/in-pictures-french-alps-get-summer-...
Holidaymakers in the Alps in recent days would have been forgiven for thinking they had come in the wrong season after the region was hit by some very unseasonal snowfalls. There was bad news for sunseekers too with the sun set to stay away for much of July.
Jul 13, 2014
lonne rey
Coldest Antarctic june ever redorded
07/09/2014
Original link in French
http://www.meteofrance.fr/web/comprendre-la-meteo/actualites?articl...
The austral winter is installed in the Antarctic. June there was even unusually cold. At the station Météo-France base Dumont d'Urville, there was an average temperature of -22.4 ° C, 6.6 ° C lower than normal *.
June 2014 is the month of June and the coldest since records began in 1956, and the second coldest month all together months (after September 1958 with -23.5 ° C). The daily minimum temperature record for June was also beaten with -34.9 ° C recorded 3 (previous record: -33.4 ° C).
Other elements make an unusual month in June 2014 in the Antarctic. Accustomed to strong winds even if the station is not located in a corridor of katabatic winds (see below), the wind there was particularly low: the average is less than 36% of normal (22.2 km / h against 35.3 km / h). June 2014 and is the second least windy month since the beginning of the measurements (21 km / h in 1978). Gusts have exceeded 120 km / h on only one occasion (127 km / h 17) against 6 usually. The 100 km / h was reached on 5 occasions, against just over 11 times usually.
Jul 13, 2014
KM
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_07_13/Snow-falls-in-South-Urals-...
Snow falls in South Urals in mid-summer
Heavy rain in the town of Zlatoust in Russia’s South Urals on Sunday, July 12, suddenly gave way to a blizzard in a rare twist of weather for the summer season.
"It wasn’t just rain and snow, but real snowfall with snowflakes as white as during winter. T melted quickly, of course. A fantastic sight," ITAR-TASS quotes an eyewitness, Valery Semyannikov, as saying.
In some areas of the Chelyabinsk region, snow lay 5-10 cm thick.
It’s the first ever mid-summer snowfall in the South Urals.
The Chelyabinsk weather service predicted "wet and windy weather with moderate to heavy rain throughout the region, thunderstorms and soft hail in the east and ice hail in the mountains."
Jul 13, 2014
jorge namour
The great paradox of the summer 2014 while the Mediterranean and Italy came the cold air, extreme heat wave invests Norway
Friday, July 11, 2014
The configuration baric that these days dominates the scenery weather / climate on the old continent has features that have little to do with the summer season. Thus, while over central and west-central basin of the Mediterranean air masses circulate relatively cold extraction sub-polar sea, which are leading to a sharp drop in thermal values, especially between France and Italy, more north on Northland Norwegian inflow of very hot air from the sub-tropical latitudes of the Atlantic, is causing an exceptional heat wave, with the fall of dozens of record heat. It really seems a paradox to see temperatures of +34 ° C on the north of Norway, as in many Italian cities the thermometer struggles to exceed +22 ° C in the daytime. On all the while stand +34.0 ° C recorded in Møre og Romsdal. But the highest temperature ever touched on Norwegian territory are registered Hjeltnes +34.4 ° C, where the heat has become unbearable due to the high latitude. Remarkable well established +32.5 ° C in Narvik, where he seems to have been destroyed even the previous record of heat. This exceptional heat wave that is hitting hard the territories of north-central Norway is originated by the influx of air very warm and relatively humid, sub-tropical ocean to die, that the sub-tropical latitudes of the Atlantic, and more specifically from tract overlooking the Azores, back in the direction of the Norwegian Sea and Scandinavia, leading to a dramatic heated.
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Impressive hailstorm devastated the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, causing deaths and injuries
Sunday, July 13, 2014,
Yesterday afternoon an impressive hailstorm, with large grains, as large as oranges, was struck at the gates of the city of Novosibirsk, the capital of the region of Novosibirsk in the Russian Federation and the Western Siberian Federal District, and the third largest city of Russia .
Already in recent days, with a specific article, we had talked about the intense heat wave that was taking place in several areas of central and western Siberia, where did you deal with daily temperatures well above the average for the period, with peaks reach the wall of the first +35 ° C +36 ° C in the shade, even approaching the threshold of +38 ° C +39 ° C in the south of Asiatic Russia.
The storm system, between 07:15 and 07:30 PM (local time), going back to nord-nord/est struck at Novosibirsk, bringing heavy rain and hail, with grains of medium and large size, which were preceded by the advent of strong and turbulent winds,
The super hailstorm has also taken aback dozens of swimmers who had decided to spend Saturday evening along the banks of the river Ob ', take the opportunity for a refreshing swim against the heat and the heat which has become oppressive.
The arrival of the storm and hail, with grains as large as oranges,
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Jul 13, 2014
Howard
Courtesy of Khan.
Burrard Inlet And English Bay Turn Blood Red (Jul 12)
ZetaTalk Newsletter: September 25, 2010
"Per the Zetas, there will be no confusion, as when the red dust from the tail of Planet X starts to arrive in earnest, it will be during the last weeks and will be unmistakable."
ZetaTalk Prediction 1/15/1996: A second countdown sign is a fine red dust, unmistakable as it cannot be confused with any other natural occurrence. Ponds and rivers turn red, the blood color mentioned in the Bible's book of Revelations, with this iron ore dust giving the water a brackish taste. This countdown sign comes almost in step with the rapid slowing in rotation, This occurs a day or so before rotation stops.
Sources
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/heat-wave-hits-metro-vancouver-1.1910070
http://globalnews.ca/news/1444861/algae-bloom-turns-burrard-inlet-b...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/07/11/red-algae-burrard-inlet-eng...
Jul 14, 2014
Howard
Polar Invasion Spawns Colorado Storms, Turning Lawns White With Hail (Jul 14)
While the storm that whitened lawns in parts of Colorado on Monday was the result of the polar air shoving its way south into a typically warm and moist July air mass, it wasn't a snowstorm.
Instead, it was hail that blanketed the ground in Berthoud, Colorado, on Monday. Several other Colorado communities also found themselves caked in accumulating hail as thunderstorms raked the state.
The thunderstorms formed along a front separating the unseasonably chilly polar air over the Upper Midwest from monsoonal moisture over the Southwest and the typical heat and humidity normally present over the South in mid-summer. Disturbances in the upper atmosphere and lift from winds blowing westward into the Rocky Mountains have further enhanced the thunderstorm activity over Colorado.
Berthoud is a city in Larimer and Weld counties of north-central Colorado. The two counties have had a combined 54 severe thunderstorm warnings issued by the National Weather Service so far in 2014, according to data compiled by Iowa State University. Of those 54 warnings, 53 have been issued since the beginning of May.
Source
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-severe/polar-invasion-colorado-...
Jul 15, 2014
Gerard Zwaan
From twitter
Unique! The netherlands is the warmest place in Europe pic.twitter.com/V6v8XGMbIc
source: https://twitter.com/weermanrobert/status/490503015313727488/photo/1
Jul 19, 2014
jorge namour
Bad weather, violent storms in France: Huge hail, and it's coming on Italy ... [PHOTOS]
Saturday, July 19, 2014
As widely expected, the weather in the afternoon today hath been dogged with particular violence of England and France, where even now you are experiencing severe thunderstorms. Particularly violent hailstorms in France, where the grains than 5-6cm in diameter in the inland areas of the country (see photo accompanying this article). They are the same storms that will come in the next few hours on the north of Italy, therefore utmost attention to possible extreme events tomorrow - Sunday 20 - to the north.
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Iran will rewrite a new page in history climate: the smashed +53 ° C to Gotvand, set a new world in 2014 max
Saturday, July 19, 2014
The high temperatures reached in recent days southern Iran
As we had budgeted in recent days, the heat has really made "fierce" in various places and cities of the Middle East, where the thermometer has crossed the fateful threshold of +50 ° C in the shade, with several peaks up to +51 ° C +52 ° C reached in the south of Iran.
Right on Iranian territory were reached, in recent days, the highest temperatures recorded on the Asian continent since the beginning of 2013. Iran has managed to overcome even extreme temperatures over 50 ° C, usually between May and the first days of June, you can reach in southern Pakistan, in the region of Baluchistan. Among the higher temperatures, above all, the incredible stand +53.0 ° C Gotvand, which represent nothing less than the highest temperature reached and extreme outside of the note "Death Valley" (the famous depression in the heart of the California desert Eastern Europe), which is still the world record holder for heat, with its undefeated +53.9 ° C, the highest temperature ever reached the highest on Earth since the beginning of 2014.Ma is not over here. Because in addition to the new record hot world of 2014, with net Gotvand +53.0 ° C, always yesterday was touched upon the record of the higher minimum, with +40.6 ° C marked in Hoeyniyeh, which also touches the the average daily temperature higher than ever archived on Earth, with an average estimated at +45.5 ° C.
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Exceptional thermal contrasts in Kazakhstan, from 40 ° C in the south-west to +0 ° C in the north-east
Saturday, July 19, 2014,
These days, Kazakhstan, great giant of Central Asia, is a country literally split in two, in terms of weather / climate. In fact, while the western sector of Kazakhstan is under the effects of an intense heat wave of Mobile, to the east colder air that slips from central Siberia is causing a dramatic drop in temperatures, with values close to 0 ° C even. These days we find maximum temperatures up to +39 ° C +40 ° C in the south-west of Kazakhstan, while further east, in Balaskin in the north-east, this morning there was an unusually cold summer. These strong thermal contrasts should persist in the coming days, between the west and the east Asian country.
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Jul 20, 2014
Howard
Rare Tornado, Violent Storms Kill 2 in France, Hundreds Evacuated (Jul 20)
The tornado hit a campsite in the town of Saint-Just-d’Ardeche, pulling down trees and destroying caravans and tents on Sunday afternoon.
A 42-year-old Frenchman died when a tree fell on him as the tornado hit. Five others were left injured although their conditions are not believed to be life-threatening.
Captain François Degrange, from the local police told AFP that trees had been brought down over a three to four kilometer radius.
“I have never seen that in my career before,” he said.
In a separate incident a woman was also killed by a falling tree at a campsite at Saint-Paulet-de-Caisson in the neighbouring Gard department.
According to Midi-Libre newspaper a baby was also injured as the storms hit and had to be rushed to hospital.
Hundreds of campers in the region have had to be evacuated.
Nine departments in eastern France remained on alert for storms on Sunday evening, while other areas of north eastern France were on alert for heavy rain and floods.
Source
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140720/storms-and-mini-tornados-leave-two-...
Jul 20, 2014
lonne rey
Emmental floods reaches historic high
http://origin.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/emmental-flood-reaches-hi...
Torrential rains in the Emmental region caused the Emme river to overflow its banks on Thursday, causing massive flooding in the area. Statistically, this level of flooding takes place just once in 300 years, the environment ministry reported.
The rain began early Thursday morning, with more than 100 litres per square metre falling within hours
Jul 25, 2014
lonne rey
First Tornado in Suffolk County in Over 64 Years Rips Through Revere
http://www.nobomagazine.com/2014/07/28/first-tornado-in-suffolk-cou...
REVERE – Extreme weather rolled into the North of Boston region on Monday morning, spawning a tornado that ripped off roofs, uprooted trees, and shattered windows in the coastal community.
“It’s really a miracle that no one sustained more serious injuries,” said Revere Mayor Dan Rizzo. “This clearly was an unexpected incident that took all of us by surprise.”
“This was the first tornado on record not only in Suffolk County but in Revere,” said City Councilor and lifelong resident Ira Noveletsky. “The City and all agencies who responded did so in an extraordinary effort. We are cleaning up and we will prevail.”
Jul 30, 2014
Kris H
I'm not sure if this video is recently recorded or not, but is supposedly another spiral like the Norway spiral. It says this was filmed in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Aug 3, 2014
jorge namour
Impressive sand storm in Washington State [PHOTOS]
Wednesday, August 13, 2014,
An imposing, impressive sand storm occurred in the western area of the State of Washington and north Idaho Tuesday evening local time, an event which heralded extreme storms, lightning and heavy rain.
According to authorities, the sandstorm or "haboob" has reduced visibility to zero in the counties of Adams and Whitman, which has caused many accidents. About 10,000 households were left without electricity in Idaho.
The winds reached 80 km / h, pushing a wall of sand and dust while before advancing behind a strong storm.
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Aug 13, 2014
Howard
Central North America Temperatures Fluctuating Wildly in 2014 (Aug 16)
The jet stream that controls the flow of air across North America has seen periods of fluctuation not normally seen in summer.
Instead of a zonal flow of air from west to east off the Pacific Ocean that keeps temperatures more consistent this time of year, the jet stream is seeing more of a wavy pattern that has allowed cooler Canadian air to sink south and stymie any chance of a hot summer in northeast Ohio.
In January, February and March, the temperature averaged a significant 6.8 degrees colder than normal during the three month period.
In April, May and June, the temperatures returned to more normal conditions, but were only one degree warmer than usual.
Now as we head into the latter part of summer, we have seen more disruptions to the jet stream over North America.
Thus, monthly temperatures have fallen below normal averages for July and for the first half of August.
Chatham-Kent and Windsor-Essex Ontario both shattered records early this morning for the coldest August 15 ever recorded.
In Windsor, the record low reached 9.6 C (49 F), the coldest it has ever been on this day since records began in 1866. In Chatham-Kent, the temperature dropped to 6 C (43 F), breaking the record of 8.3C (47 F) set in 1962.
“We had a very cold airmass. The cold air mass radiated under clear skies and we got down to very cold temperatures,” says Environment Canada Warning Preparedness Meteorologist Peter Kimball.
“Now We are rebounding now with temperatures up to 24 C (75 F) and then tomorrow, 26 C (79 F).
It’s also been cooler than normal for the past few weeks in Toronto.
On August 13, the city seemed to be under a chill: People across the city donned fall coats or sweaters as temperatures peaked at 18.4 C. With a low of 11.5 C, the mean temperature for the day was a measly 15 C.
In fact, Toronto broke a record for coldest daytime high: the previous record was 19.4 set in 1963 and 1979 (records from Pearson only go back to 1940).
After near-normal temperatures for the months of May and June, July did indeed prove to be cooler than normal for the city.
In Toronto, preliminary data from Environment Canada shows that the average temperature – taking in account both the highs and lows – for July was 20.2 C, which is below the normal median temperature of 21.5.
Sources
http://www.wkyc.com/story/weather/2014/08/13/2014-temperature-to-no...
http://blackburnnews.com/chatham/chatham-news/2014/08/15/summer-pol...
http://globalnews.ca/news/1506354/toronto-breaks-temperature-record...
Aug 16, 2014
lonne rey
August frost across parts of Wisconsin
The first frost of...summer? Thursday started frosty across parts of Wisconsin. In today's blog we look at unseasonably cold temperatures
Typically we talk about the first frost occurring in September, or even October. Not the case this year. Temperatures dipped to the low 30s across parts of northern Wisconsin Thursday morning. The surface temperature and dew point map below is from just after 6am Thursday morning. Land o' Lakes near the Wisconsin-Michigan border dipped to 32 degrees!
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Aug 17, 2014
lonne rey
Two to three feet of hail crippled parts of Mexico City Sunday
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/08...
A hailstorm of mammoth proportions hammered sections of Mexico City Sunday. Several feet of hail piled up, making some city roads impassable.
“Roads such as the North Loop [el Periférico Norte] were flooded by hail and flooding, so municipal and Federal District workers labored for hours to clear them, Notimex reported,” wrote CNN Mexico.
Mexico news organization Azteca Noticias called it a “historical hailstorm”
Aug 20, 2014
KM
http://www.thelocal.it/20140820/day-of-fear-as-five-tornadoes-hit-i...
'Day of fear' as five tornadoes hit Italy
Published: 20 Aug 2014 09:41 GMT+02:00
Updated: 20 Aug 2014 09:41 GMT+02:00
A series of five tornadoes swept through northern Italy on Tuesday, prompting flights to be diverted and causing millions of euros worth of damage.
The tornadoes hit around the port city of Genoa, with some eyewitnesses stating they came close to hitting the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship.
Flights to the city’s airport were diverted and those leaving delayed, while trains were also interrupted and roads closed, La Repubblica reported.
Damage is said to amount to millions of euros, with roofs ripped off buildings in the Prà neighbourhood and the seafront strewn with sun loungers hit by the stormy weather.
In Genoa’s Pegli neighbourhood 100mm of rain fell in just an hour, while footage shot by witnesses shows raging streams.
Locals can be heard responding to the “day of fear”, asdescribed by YouReporter, as they watch the tornadoes from afar. “It’s incredible” one person can be heard saying, while others remark on the huge size of one of the tornadoes and another on its impressive nature.
Aug 21, 2014
Howard
Sudden Dust Storms Sweep Over California and Arizona, Leaving Injuries and Damage (Aug 21)
Strong winds brought down trees, one of which fell on a man inside a car in Palm Springs, California, and he was rushed to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Desert Sun.
"All of a sudden the wind just kind of picked up. There was a whole bunch of dust everywhere and the tree came down on the guy," Jhorel French, a neighbor who helped the injured man, told the Sun. "It was a crazy loud noise from the tree hitting the truck. It was nuts."
The haboobs were the product of a gust front that kicked up dust in the dry terrain, leading to an overturned semi near Imperial, California, and multiple reports of downed trees and power lines along the way, said weather.com senior meteorologist Jon Erdman.
Visible satellite imagery showed an upper-level low in the shape of a pronounced comma over the Lower Colorado River Valley, coupled with deep moisture, triggered a massive blow-up of thunderstorms from the mountains of San Diego County and the northern Baja Peninsula into the Mojave Desert.
Wind gusts peaked at 40 mph in Palm Springs and 48 mph in the Coachella Valley during the event, according to National Weather Service data.
Sources
http://www.weather.com/news/haboobs-dust-storms-southwest-20140822?...
http://www.desertsun.com/story/weather/2014/08/21/blowing-dust-stro...
Aug 22, 2014
Derrick Johnson
Wild Weather: U.S. Hit by 'Most Unusual Year' for Temperatures
By Miguel Llanos
If you haven't seen anything like this year's weather, well, neither has anyone else.
This year is on track to set a temperature record that climate researchers say is unique since the first time stats were taken in 1900.
A typical year in the U.S. would see near-average temperatures or a spike in either extremely cold or extremely warm temperatures. But this is the first year in which both cold and warm temperatures have ranged far outside the norms, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
Through July, at least, "this is the most unusual year on record" when it comes to that data, Deke Arndt, the NCDC's chief of climate monitoring, told NBC News. "We haven't seen this much extreme warmth entrenched alongside this much extreme cold for this long since at least 1900."
These abnormal temperatures aren't necessarily records for heat or cold. What's unusual is the persistence of temperatures above or below average. It's a trend that goes back to the start of the year and is tied to the now infamous "polar vortex" that started with cold winter Arctic air coming in as the jet stream dipped south.
"It's indicative of how 'stuck' the pattern has been this year — consistently cool in the East and consistently warm in the West," said Nick Wiltgen, a forecaster at The Weather Channel.
What Arndt calls "bipolar" conditions even led to July temperatures that for the U.S. overall were near average. "So the very cool conditions in the Midwest and warm conditions in the West really canceled each other out," he said
Cooler air from Canada is pushing against the jet stream, causing it to dip farther down, creating a U-shaped path across the U.S. "That ridge out West keeps it warm and that trough in the East keeps it cool," NBC meteorologist Dylan Dreyer explained in a recent report about the odd conditions.
Arndt agrees. "The big cold-air outbreaks in the Great Lakes and Midwest early in the year started the pattern" of cooler temperatures east of the Rockies, he said. "And those were reinforced several times during the spring, and dramatically in July."
"The western warmth has been persistent all year," he said, and California is heading for a record warm year as it suffers in a decade-long drought.
The "bipolar" conditions have had at least one major contribution to the U.S. economy.
"In the northern plains, it's unusual for very cool conditions and very dry to exist simultaneously in the summer," said South Dakota state climatologist Dennis Todey. And that combo has helped push U.S. corn production to record levels.
"We've had more outbreaks of Canadian air," he said, "which tends to be dry and less humid."
The conditions might not last much longer — at least for the Atlantic states.
The Climate Prediction Center, like the NCDC part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, expects above-average temperatures to settle in along the Atlantic coast this fall.
California, on the other hand, should continue to wither in its drought.
A weak El Nino, a periodic cycle that can trigger rains, is predicted by late fall, notes CPC forecaster Anthony Artusa.
But "for California to see much relief, that would almost require a pretty strong El Nino," he said, "and we just don't see that happening right now.
Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/wild-weather-u-s-hit-mos...
Aug 31, 2014
Howard
Summer Snow in Southern Alberta (Sept 3)
Snow was falling at a moderate to heavy pace this morning over the foothills as a small, but potent mid-level storm system tracked along the U.S./Canada border just to the south.
Steady snow fell along Highway 22 about 200 km south-southwest of Calgary at an elevation around 5,000 feet.
Sunshine Village Ski area in Banff also received snow.
Sources
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/anderson/snow-into-the-...
http://www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/weather/news/Weather/14/09/03...
Sep 4, 2014
Howard
Dramatic images of the monstrous storm clouds that produced powerful winds, hail, flooding and over a million lightning strikes in one hour in southern Ontario on September 5.
Severe thunderstorm watches and warnings -- as well as heat warnings --were put in place by Environment Canada.
About 46,000 hydro customers in Ottawa and the Outaouais were left without power and numerous trees and power lines were down throughout the city as severe thunderstorms moved through the region on Friday.
The fire department said crews responded to multiple storm-related calls, including fallen trees, snapped hydro lines, house fire and a water rescue. A number of residential streets were also flooded.
Environment Canada warned that damaging wind gusts, large hail and torrential rainfall and isolated tornadoes are also a risk into Saturday.
New record for southern Ontario - over 1 million lightning sources in an hour!
Sources
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/streets-flooded-trees-downed-a...
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/heavy-rain-dark-clou...\
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pictures-of-storm-clouds-downe...
http://metronews.ca/news/ottawa/1146546/thunderstorm-floods-downs-t...
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Sep 6, 2014
Howard
Worst Flooding in Decades Across India and Pakistan (Sept 6)
At least 110 people were killed by downpours in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and Punjab.
About 100 people also died in Indian-administered Kashmir, as the floodwaters washed away houses and triggered landslides, officials said.
The region is suffering from its worst flooding in two decades.
On Thursday, a bus carrying about 50 members of a wedding party in Indian-administered Kashmir was swept into a gorge, killing dozens. The bride and groom were among those feared dead.
The full extent of the region's death toll is not clear.
On Saturday, Omar Abdullah, chief minister of the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir, told local media that "close to 100 lives" had been lost.
However, local media reported that up to 120 people in the state had been killed in the floods, including at least 14 killed by landslides.
Mr Abdullah said that the army had been requisitioned to help in rescue efforts.
"Now that the rain has eased, we hope that water levels will start going down," he said.
More than 2,000 people have been marooned by the floods and required rescue in the past five days, the Times of India newspaper reported.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Kamal, a spokesman for Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, said that 100 people had died in Pakistani-administered Kashmir when the roofs of their homes collapsed.
Forty people were killed by the floods in Pakistan's Punjab province alone, Dawn newspaper reported.
Much of the city of Lahore was submerged by floods, with houses levelled by the rain, the newspaper added.
Source
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29093254
Sep 6, 2014
Stra
Flooding in south Italy: Puglia devastated by the floods
There is talk of rain accumulations of awesome, awesome, scary, almost 1000 mm 5 in just 5 days. The data detection Falcare located in the hinterland, he recorded 840 mm! The data are to be confirmed, but it gives an idea of the scale of the disaster that is affecting the area. Even this morning, for example, of Vico del Gargano fell 114 mm of rain.
Some sources mention record rain that hasn't been seen in 80 years. A thousand tourists evacuated; since monday the amount of rain was the same that it usually falls in an entire year! Millions of damage; one person died.
Source: bit.ly/1lPX6Mz
Sep 8, 2014
Howard
Phoenix Hit With Massive Dust Storm, Followed By Record Flooding (Sept 6-8)
And today was the wettest day in the city’s recorded history, breaking a 75-year-old record for rainfall.
It was only 9:30 a.m. on Monday when the rainfall record was broken, with Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport reporting 3.29 inches of rain since midnight, according to Phoenix’s local CBS affiliate. That surpassed the previous daily record of 2.91 inches, the most rain since Phoenix began record-keeping in 1895. As of publication, more than 4 inches of rain had fallen so far in Phoenix.
The rare heavy rainfall led to flooding that inundated freeways and stranded drivers on the side of the road. Portions of the I-10 were completely inundated as drivers attempted to cross flooded roadways. Law enforcement in La Paz, Arizona, reported multiple cars were stuck in the high water. Roadways around the Phoenix area were closed as waters proved too high for cars to safely pass through.
Sources
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/08/3564434/phoenix-wacky-w...
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/flood-arizona-phoenix-no...
Sep 9, 2014
KM
https://www.azpm.org/p/home-featured/2014/9/8/43706-brewer-declares...
UPDATE: 2 Deaths Reported in Tucson Floods; State Emergency
Story by AZPM Staff
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
Two women have died in separate incidents because of heavy floods in the Tucson area.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office said this afternoon a 76-year-old woman drowned after trying to cross a wash near Oracle Junction, north of Tucson.
The department got a call from the woman's husband reporting their vehicle had been trapped in a wash. The woman was swept by the current. Her husband made it out.
Earlier Monday, a woman's car was swept away by floods on the east side of town. Tucson Fire Department spokesman Barrett Baker said rescue units responded to a residential area near 22nd Street and Kolb Road at around 9:30 a.m. When they arrived, the car was submerged and couldn't be reached. The water was 10 to 15 feet high, Baker said.
Several roads were closed throughout Tucson because of heavy flooding, including Overton Road at the Canada Del Oro Wash, Limberlost at the Agua Caliente Wash, Wentworth Road at Tanque Verde Creek, Avra Valley Road at the Brawley Wash, Tanque Verde Road at Conestoga Avenue, and Silverbell Road between Avra Valley Road to Sasco Road.
County officials said people should proceed with caution in other roads around town, including Sahuarita Road between Houghton Road and Wentworth Road, Old Spanish Trail at the Rincon Creek, and Valencia Road between Camino Verde to Viviana Avenue.
Pima County said in a media release earlier today it would dismiss county employees on a staggered schedule starting at 3:15 p.m. Monday. Employees were divided in groups, releasing those who live the furthest from work first.
County libraries in Tucson also announced they would all be closing at 5 p.m.
Rain storms also hit the Phoenix area early Monday, flooding major freeways, and causing many water rescues in the area. Mayor Greg Stanton declared a state of emergency for the city.
Sections of Interstate 10 and 17 in west Phoenix were closed.
The National Weather Service recorded 2.99 inches of rain in the city by about 7 a.m., breaking the old record of 2.91 inches set in 1933.
Sep 9, 2014
Mark
British winters have been 'more volatile' in the last 10 years than in the last 100
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/british-winters-have-been...
British winters have become more volatile over the past decade compared to the previous century, with weather extremes becoming particularly pronounced in the month of December, a study has concluded.
A see-saw pattern of fluctuations in the atmospheric pressure over the North Atlantic has in recent years become more varied during the first few weeks of winter, causing the December weather in particular to fluctuate dramatically between mild, wet and stormy, and cold, frosty and snowy, scientists found.
An analysis of a phenomenon known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which is a north-south variation in barometric pressure between Iceland and the Azores, has shown that out of 115 years of observations, three out of the five all-time “highs” and two out of five record “lows” for the month of December have occurred in the past 10 years.
When the NAO is in the positive phase, with a marked difference in barometric pressure between Iceland and the Azores, strong westerly winds predominate, sending mild, wet and often stormy winter weather to the British Isles.
When the NAO is in the negative phase, the westerly airflow is weaker, often leading to colder, Arctic air flowing over Britain, bringing frosty or snowy weather from the north and east.
Sep 10, 2014
Howard
Summer Snowstorm Continues for 3rd Straight Day in Calgary (Sept 10)
The snowstorm began on September 8 when temperatures dropped by 25°C over a 24 hour period.
Emergency responders and utility workers have been scrambling to deal with power lines downed by snow-laden tree branches. They expect work to continue into Thursday, and the cleanup could take days or even weeks.
Approximately 30,000 homes and businesses have already lost power from the snowfall over the last two days. Nearly a hundred traffic lights are also out, adding to the city’s congestion with road conditions remaining icy.
Heavy snow has caused power lines to fall and branches or even entire trees to snap.
The Calgary Board of Education (CBE) said many schools were open to students despite the power outages, but some parents say their children were turned away upon arrival.
"We had approximately 60 facilities without power for at least a portion of the day," said the CBE in a release. "As of 3:45 p.m. there were still 19 schools without power.
The snowstorm that has blanketed southern Alberta over the last few days has also flattened grain crops just as farmers were getting ready to harvest them.
Ken Friesz, who farms about 2,000 hectares near Indus east of Calgary, says his wheat and barley are flat on the ground and the canola isn't much better.
A travel alert has been placed on the city as flights are being delayed or canceled entirely.
Wind chill values in northern Alberta are expected to drop to minus 12 degrees C on Wednesday night, but temperatures are expected to warm up well above freezing levels beginning Thursday, reaching 20°C by the end of the weekend.
Sources
http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2014/09/meanwhile-calgary-summer-snowsto...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-snow-knocks-out-power...
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/chilly-temperatures-...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-snow-bad-news-for-far...
Sep 11, 2014
K Tonkin
Record earliest snowfall in Rapid City, South Dakota.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=unr&story...
The photos at the bottom are of my own yard and garden area, which got >10 inches (>25 cm) in 24 hrs. Overnight last night it was 22 degrees F (-5 C).
Just a reminder, for us there is still one week of summer left!!!!
Sep 12, 2014
K Tonkin
Followup to previous post with official info:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=unr&story...
Black Hills snow is earliest on record
Sep 12 - Snowfall over the Black Hills on September 11 was the early snowfall of an inch or more at several stations. Some of the measurements are also close to the greatest September monthly totals:
Fort Meade: 1.0", which is the earliest snowfall > 1.0"; previous was 2.5" on Sep 12-14, 1903
Lead: 4.5"; 1.5" fell on Aug 24, 1910
Mount Rushmore: 8.1", which is the earliest snowfall > 1.0"; previous was 4.2" on Sep 16, 1965 & 1.5" on Sep 16, 1980; also the second highest September snowfall behind 8.3" in 1965
Pactola: 5.8", which is the earliest snowfall > 1.0"; previous was 2.0" on Sep 16, 1965; also the second highest September snowfall behind 6.0" in 1955
Rapid City NWS: 1.6", which is the earliest snowfall > 1.0"; previous was 2.8" on Sep 15, 1903; also the second highest September snowfall behind 4.8" in 1927
Spearfish: 2.5",which is the earliest snowfall > 1.0"; previous was 3.0" on Sep 12, 1949
Gillette: 2.0", which is the second earliest snowfall > 1.0"; earliest is 3.0" on Sep 9, 1962
Sep 14, 2014
SongStar101
Here is the overview of the chill!
The big chill comes early – record winter blast hits Northern Plains
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/12/the-big-chill-comes-early-rec...
Massive early cold wave – Nearly an inch of snow at Rapid City. This is the earliest recorded snowfall going back to 1888.
Sep 14, 2014
jorge namour
Hurricane Odile has descended on northwestern Mexico: winds of 205 km / h
Monday, September 15, 2014,
http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/09/luragano-odile-minaccia-baja-califor...
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Odile The hurricane made landfall on the Mexican peninsula of Baja California with winds reaching 205 km piecewise times. This was reported by the National Hurricane Center in Miami Usa, specifying the center of the hurricane touched land at around 21:45 local time on Sunday (6:45 this morning in Italy) near Cabo San Lucas. A meteorological station located in the area has experienced sustained winds of 144 kilometers per hour and gusts to 187 kilometers per hour. Currently Odile is moving north-northwest at 28 kilometers per hour. On the night residents and tourists have traveled as a precaution in shelters and in the conference rooms of the hotel. According to forecasts, the storm will bring heavy rain and high waves, which could cause landslides and flooding. Luis Felipe Puente, the national coordinator of the Mexican civil protection agency, said that the authorities have set up 164 shelters for 30 thousand people in the State of Baja California Sur. "We will be affected, do not put your lives at risk," he warned the population of the State Governor Marcos Covarrubias. After reaching the last category 4 hurricane on the scale of dangerousness, Odile has weakened and been downgraded to category 3 At least 22 flights were canceled due to bad weather and some tourists camped in the international airport of Los Cabos, which suspended all links yesterday afternoon. A hurricane warning is in effect from Punta Abreojos to Loreto and the Mexican authorities have declared the highest alert for all areas that are on the road to Odile. All the ports of Lower California were closed.
Meanwhile, in the central Atlantic Ocean, 1,345 km to the northeast of the Leeward Islands, Hurricane Edouard is moving toward the northwest at 24 kilometers per hour. The hurricane brings with sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour, but it should remain confined in the sea and there are no risks to the mainland.
http://www.meteoweb.eu/2014/09/luragano-odile-si-abbatte-nordovest-...
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Sep 15, 2014
lonne rey
Victim of thunderstorms, Ales (France)was severely damaged by flooding
http://www.midilibre.fr/2014/09/20/gard-orages-et-inondations-des-s...
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Firefighters with the help of helicopters, conducted on the night of Friday 19 to Saturday, September 20, two saved and twenty eight rescued in Ales (Gard), where heavy rains caused floods causing no casualties.
In the city and surrounding streets were flooded, cut roads and landslides occurred, said the CODIS, referring to people in need in their homes or their vehicles. According ERDF, quoted by the Prefecture, about 6,000 homes were without power Saturday morning.
And, according to Mayor Max Ales Roustan, "600 cars finished in the water." Reached by telephone, he added: "It is catastrophic".
"The intensities that night exceeded 50 mm per hour. Around Ales, the totals reached 150 to 170 mm in less than six hours"
Sep 20, 2014
Howard
Dramatic time-lapse video of a new classification of cloud formation established in 2009 filmed in the skies above Lincoln, Nebraska on July 17, 2014.
Sep 23, 2014
Howard
Dramatic images a rare "roll cloud" that sprawled across Venice, Florida on Tuesday morning, September 23.
Sep 26, 2014
KM
http://www.weather.com/news/canada-north-dakota-montana-record-heat...
Record Heat: 90s Bake Southern Canada, North Dakota, Montana
By Jon Erdman Published: Sep 26, 2014, 10:56 AM EDT weather.com
Actual high temperatures on Sept. 25, 2014.
When you think of 90-degree-plus record heat in late September, I'll bet Canada doesn't pop in your head first.
Contours of actual highs on Sept. 25, 2014 with record heat circled in Montana, North Dakota and southern Canada.
Highs Thursday soared into the 90s as far north as southern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba, smashing daily temperature records.
Estevan, Saskatchewan topped out just under 94 degrees. The provincial capital of Regina had its warmest day of the year (91.6 degrees F or 33.1 degrees C). Eight other Canadian cities soared above 90 degrees in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Record highs were set as far north as Thompson, Manitoba (79.7F or 26.5C), just under 500 miles north of Winnipeg.
South of the border, both Williston, North Dakota, and Miles City, Montana (97), sweated through their record hottest day so late in the season, according to weather historian Christopher Burt and senior meteorologist Stu Ostro.
Rapid City, South Dakota (92), reached the 90s two weeks after their earliest snowfall on record.
Interestingly, parts of Canada were hotter than locations in Texas and Florida.
Laredo, Texas, and Fort Myers, Florida, each topped out at 92 degrees, a tad cooler than Estevan, Saskatchewan, and Brandon, Manitoba (93.2F).
Jet-stream pattern leading to upside-down temperature regime.
This upside-down temperature pattern -- Canada warmer than Texas and Florida -- isn't nearly as uncommon as it sounds.
Quite often in the winter months, after an intrusion of Arctic air settles in the central and eastern U.S., the jet stream will buckle well northward into Alaska and western Canada.
Particularly when winds blow down the slopes of the Rockies, temperatures in the Canadian Prairies and U.S. High Plains can quickly become warmer than still shivering parts of the Gulf Coast and Florida.
Sep 28, 2014
jorge namour
Flooding in the South of France, Montpellier underwater "exceptional phenomena" [PHOTOS]
Monday, September 29, 2014,
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PHOTOS LINK:
http://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2014-09-29-20h25...
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
http://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2014-09-29-22h16...
https://translate.google.com.co/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&...
MAP: http://viajesalalcancedetodos.com/2014/02/05/montpellier/
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Sep 29, 2014
lonne rey
Flooding in the south of France
http://www.midilibre.fr/2014/09/30/intemperies-sur-montpellier-les-...
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Some 300 mm of rainfall - or 300 liters per square meter - fell Monday within hours of Montpellier, a record since the earliest records dating back to 1957
Pictures
http://www.midilibre.fr/2014/09/29/intemperies-dans-l-herault-vos-i...
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&a...
Sep 30, 2014
Mark
DRIEST SEPTEMBER ACROSS THE UK AND ONE OF THE WARMEST
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2775020/Green-pleasant-land...
Britain's green and pleasant lands have been transformed to scorched earth as the country records the driest September since records began in 1910.
This month is also likely to finish in the top five warmest, with UK mean temperatures significantly above the monthly average and today reaching a summery 23C in some areas.
According to figures released today, this September was even warmer than August across parts of the UK. The Central England Temperature of 15.3C was 1.2C above the mean for 1981-2010, making the month - rarely - warmer than August, said weather historian Philip Eden.
It was the warmest September since 2006, and in the last 100 years only three were warmer, two had the same mean temperature, while 95 were cooler.
Parts of the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire have completely dried up due to lack of rainfall, leaving a rocky scar across the arid countryside. And Hollowell Reservoir, in Northamptonshire, is running at just 50 per cent of its normal level, reduced to little more than a trickle of its former glory.
According to Met Office figures some areas of the UK have had less than 20mm of rainfall for the whole of September, just 20 per cent of the normal amount of rainfall for the month.
But forecasters warn 'change is afoot' with a much wetter and windier picture for the beginning of October, although it is likely to remain warmer than normal.
Oct 1, 2014