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America sinks into the sea: New properties - and even graves - are banned on vanishing island in Alaska as authorities tell residents it's not a case of if their home will disappear but when

• Kivalina, a coastal village located on an island that separates the Chukchi Sea, is getting smaller with every storm
• The town of 403 residents, located 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, could be underwater by 2025, according to engineers
• This is a result of climate-change caused erosion -  the island is six to ten feet above sea level, which continues rising
• Since, the town's days are numbered, money has not been invested into it to improve residents' lives
• Most residents want the town relocated but there is uncertainty surrounding where to, when and who would pay for it

An Alaskan town where there is no room left for new properties or even graves has its days numbered as a result of climate change.

The barrier reef surrounding Kivalina, a coastal village located on an island that separates the Chukchi Sea, is getting smaller with every storm, The Los Angeles Times reported.

The town of 403 residents, located 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, where beaches are disappearing and ice is melting, could be underwater by 2025, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.  

One of Kivalina 's main drags shown above. The tiny village on the Chukchi Sea suffers from climate-change-caused erosion. It is in such dire straits that no one will invest to improve the quality of life there

This is not due to rising sea levels but because the island has eroded - it is six to ten feet above sea level, which continues rising. The island used to be more than 400 feet above sea level.

Once protected from early winter storms by a natural barrier of sea ice, Kivalina has been ravaged in recent decades by erosion because climate warming prevents ice from forming until later in the winter.

A defensive wall was built along the beach in 2008, however, it could not prevent an emergency evacuation in 2011 following an enormous storm.

Since Kivalina's days are numbered, money has not been invested in it to improve residents' lives, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Kivalina residents have moved bodies from the village graveyard to prevent them from washing away. 

Currently, 80 per cent of residents do not have toilets and rely on homemade ones, they have to carry water from tanks in town, costing 25 cents for five gallons, and the school of 154 students is overcrowded. 

Most residents want the town relocated but there is uncertainty surrounding where to and who would pay for it.

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Three major hurricanes pictured over the Pacific for the first time EVER and it could be thanks to this year's mega-El Nino

• Storms Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena all passing over Pacific simultaneously
• It is the first time three major hurricanes have been over the Pacific
• All three hit Category 4, the second most severe category, this weekend
• None of the storms are expected to make landfall, forecasters say

Three major hurricanes are simultaneously making their way across the Pacific Ocean for the first time in history.

Hurricanes Ignacio, Kilo and Jimena were pictured together by NASA and astronauts from the International Space Station this weekend as they straddled the Pacific from Mexico to Hawaii.

It is the first time that three storms classed as Category 3 or higher, meaning they have the potential to cause major damage, have been pictured together at the same time. 

For a time overnight Saturday and into Sunday, all of the storms reached Category 4, before Ignacio, which is sitting just to the west of Hawaii, weakened back to Category 3.

Three major hurricanes have been pictured simutaneously pass over the Pacific Ocean for the first time in history, meteorologists said

The storms, named Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena, all reached Category 4 overnight Saturday, the second-highest hurricane category, before Kilo and Ignacio weakened

Ignacio is (center) expected to cause waves of up to 20ft and heavy rainfall as it moves to the north of Hawaii today, but is not expected to make landfall

Hurricanes Kilo (far left, just out of shot) Ignacio (center left) and Jimena (center) are pictured over the Pacific this weekend

Meteorologists said the presence of all the storms at the same time was likely down to this year's El Nino event, which is expected to be much stronger than usual. 

Ignacio is now expected to weaken further and could become a tropical storm by tomorrow as it moves to the north of Hawaii, threatening a six meter swell and winds of up to 40mph.

Fierce monsoons knock out power to nearly 40,000 Phoenix-area residents

• Tens of thousands of Phoenix-area residents and businesses, including a food bank, were without power more than 15 hours
• The fierce storm knocked down trees, damaged buildings and toppled a tractor-trailer on a freeway
• The area's two major utilities reported 37,800 customers had no electricity late Tuesday morning - down from 70,000 after Monday evening's storm

Tens of thousands of Phoenix-area residents and businesses, including a food bank, were without power more than 15 hours after a monsoon storm knocked down trees, damaged buildings and toppled a tractor-trailer on a freeway.

The area's two major utilities reported that 37,800 customers still had no electricity late Tuesday morning - down from 70,000 immediately after Monday evening's storm.

The severe weather began moving through the area around sundown and swept across central Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe with lightning, winds of up to 65 mph and up to 1.5 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service. 

Flooding temporarily closed some roads and freeway ramps, while high winds knocked over a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10, sending it crashing onto the hood of a car. Dozens of traffic signals remained dark during Tuesday morning's rush hour.

'Last night Mother Nature did a number on our city,' Mayor Greg Stanton said.

Fire officials said that in a two-hour period, they received more than 400 calls for help - the number they normally receive in an entire day. Rescuers responded to a house fire started by lightning, motorists stranded in flooded streets, car crashes and other problems, but there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries. 

Salt River Project said it expected to restore power to most of its affected customers by Tuesday afternoon. Arizona Public Service Co. said it would be gradually restoring power to many customers through Tuesday but small pockets of customers may take longer.

'We don't want people making plans based on restoration today,' APS spokesman Damon Gross said. 'It's a lot of work, and it's in multiple locations.'

Several schools were closed Tuesday because they had no electricity.

The main warehouse of St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance lost power, and the nonprofit borrowed refrigerated trucks to move Thanksgiving turkeys and other perishables to a smaller warehouse and to recipient agencies. 

As dripping water began to puddle on the floor of freezers Tuesday morning, workers used forklifts to move pallets of chilled and frozen food into trucks backed up to a loading dock. Some dairy products were being left behind, partly because of expiration dates.

'We're going to lose stuff because it's too hot, but we're going to save as much as we can,' said spokesman Jerry Brown. 'This is a race against time.'

At the Phoenix Zoo, workers used chain saws and cranes to cut up and haul away dozens of trees toppled by wind. Some fell into exhibits for camels, flamingos and other animals, but none was injured, officials said.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport suspended takeoffs and landings for more than an hour and temporarily halted part of a shuttle train's operation Monday night. One gate at Terminal 3 was closed for cleanup and repairs after the top layer of part of a concourse's roof was blown off, resulting in water damage, airport spokeswoman Julie Rodriguez said.

The Federal Aviation Administration's website showed there were no significant delays Tuesday morning.

Strong rain and wind storms are common in Arizona during the state's monsoon, a regular season that usually runs from June 15 to Sept. 30. They typically strike in the late afternoon or early evening and often are accompanied by giant walls of blowing dust. 

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A NASA computer model simulates the astonishing track and forceful winds of Hurricane Sandy. On Saffir-Simpson scale, this wasn't a "major" storm at landfall. (William Putnam/NASA/GSFC)

Excellent Science Word of the Day: "Paleotempestology."

It's the study of prehistoric storms. The word pops up near the end of the new paper in Nature describing "Grey swan tropical cyclones" (Nature, as always, favors the British spelling of "gray"). My colleague Chris Mooney describes this new research on the E&E blog.

The paper has some jaw-dropping calculations, most notably that it is not inconceivable that in the hotter climate at the end of this century, a mega-storm could ride up along the shallow waters of Florida's Gulf Coast, take a sharp turn into Tampa Bay and (boosted by something called "Kelvin Waves"*) produce as much as a 36-foot storm surge at the head of the bay.

That would be, to say the least, a sub-optimal situation. Put it in 72-point type: Megastorm Threatens Bern's Steak House.

Of course, such a Tampa-blasting mega-storm isn't likely to happen. Nor is it likely that a monster storm will careen into the Persian Gulf and clobber Dubai -- another scenario entertained by the authors of the new paper. They are using computer models and the historical record to try to get an estimate of how frequently three vulnerable cities (the third is Cairns, Australia) could be hit by anomalously huge storms in the coming decades. These are places where the geography and bathymetry (lots of shallow water in particular) could amplify the devastation. In the case of Tampa, the authors can envision a low-probability, high-consequence event in which the bay essentially dumps its contents on the city and surrounding areas like a tipping bathtub.

Climate change is factored in, and that obviously amplifies the uncertainty. But there's a deeper point here: The future might include events with which we are totally unfamiliar.

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Monsoonal floods are wreaking havok on northeastern India’s Assam state between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Up to now, this biblical flooding has killed at least 21 people and 800,000 others had to flee.

The apocalyptic floods, triggered by rivers that overflowed their banks, have ravaged about 2,200 villages in northern India.

About 168 relief camps have been contructed for 50,000 evacuated residents. The others are staying at relatives or friends.

21 persons have been killed by the biblical floods but this number could increase substantially.

In some cases, people are living with one meal a day and struggle to find dry places for cooking or harvesting firewood.

People are being forced to drink turbid floodwaters.

Almost all inhabitants of Majuli Island had to leave. That makes about 120,000 people, plus cattle and poultry.

Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in the region.

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Flooding in Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai. - RUSSIA
This is after the typhoon Goni

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Baseball-Sized Hail Pummels Parts of Italy

Baseball-sized hail came smashing down near Naples, Italy on Saturday in a storm that injured several people and animals in addition to causing damage to vehicles, crops and more.
The storm hit the city of Pozzuoli just outside the popular coastal destination of Naples.
According to Jonathan Erdman, senior meteorologist for weather.com, the storm was brought on by a vigorous southward plunge of the jet stream that carved into western Europe sending a potent upper disturbance into the Italian peninsula Saturday.
That instability then charged up thunderstorms over the Mediterranean Sea, which swept into Italy. "The satellite signature was classic for a severe thunderstorm, or cluster of storms." Social media posts recorded hail near Lake Como in Northern Italy as well as the in the Naples area.

"Baseball size hailstones fall from thunderstorms at speeds of at least 75 mph, so it's no wonder you can see the magnitude of smashed windshields and structural damage," said Erdman.
Weather Underground Weather Historian Christopher Burt writes that Europe's most destructive hailstorm struck Munich, Germany, on July 12, 1984.
An estimated $2 billion in damage resulted from the baseball-size hail, including damage to 70,000 homes.
NOAA estimates hail causes about $1 billion in damage to crops and property each year in the U.S. Some individual hailstorms striking cities can inflict over $1 billion in damage alone, such as one that hit St. Louis on April 10, 2001.

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Streets were flooded in Estevan and surrounding areas Saturday. 

Thunder showers in Estevan Saturday brought rainwater that flooded streets and backed up sewers.

According to Environment Canada, 137 millimetres of rain fell on the city in 24 hours.

The agency issued thunderstorm warnings around 11 a.m. CST. The warning lasted about three hours.

It said the storm began in the Lampman area and was moving southwest through Estevan towards the Canada-U.S. border.

Estevan's Emergency Measures Coordinator Helen Fornwald said no one in the community had been forced to evacuate their homes.

However, Fornwald said she had heard that a number of people had sewers back-ups. City crews were out Sunday repairing dig sites, she said.

Woodlawn Avenue S. and the road leading to the Humane Society have been closed for repairs due to damage caused by the flash flood. They are set to reopen later this week.

Sand storm sweeps through Akkar, north Bekaa - LEBANON MIDDLE EAST

Sep. 07, 2015

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Described unprecedented

A sand storm hit the northern district of Akkar and areas in the north Bekaa, causing residents to call on the authorities to collect garbage dispersed by the strong winds

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reports these crazy dust storm in Nicosia, Cyprus this afternoon - thank you!

Israel blanketed in haze: Dangerous pollutants in the air

Published: 09.08.15

Israelis woke up to a morning of yellow skies and exhausting heat, with the country being covered by a massive Middle Eastern sand storm; Environmental Protection Ministry warns against physical activities outdoors.

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The sand storm in Tel Aviv

Thick haze

Sand storm in Syria

Heavy haze hung in the air throughout Israel on Tuesday morning, as the Environmental Protection Ministry warned the public of the high levels of pollution as a result of a dust storm, which has swept through the Middle East.

High concentrations of breathable particles were measured in the early morning hours in areas ranging from the Golan Heights to Jerusalem. The haze will continue to spread across Israel throughout the afternoon hours, leading the ministry to issue a warning against conducting physical activities outdoors.

The Environmental Protection Ministry has cautioned anyone suffering from heart or lung conditions, as well as senior citizens, children, and pregnant women, from conducting strenuous physical activity outdoors. The warning additionally stated that students should avoid conducting physical activities outside of the classroom, cautioning that in severe cases, the pollution could lead to death.

Dr. Levana Kordova, scientific manager at the Environment Ministry's Air Monitoring Center, explained that, "In the next few hours, the haze will cover all of Israel. We will continue to track and monitor developments. For sensitive populations, short term exposure to such dense clusters of particulates can cause a stroke, heart attacks, and even death. The storm comes in addition the existing high heat and high humidity."

According to Dr. Kordova, "Schools should avoid exerting the students, and sports classes should be held in indoor halls."

The ministry explained that the tiny particulates make their way into our lungs, to the area in our bloodstream where our body conducts the oxygen to carbon dioxide exchange, leading to various possible medical conditions.

We aren’t alone; several of our neighboring countries were already hit with the system on Monday. Different areas of Syria suffered the effects of the sand storm, which was severe in its scope and intensity, and caused decreased visibility across the country. Syrian official state media outlet Sana managed to break away from its reporting on the civil war to cover the storm.

Pictures published in local media showed people wearing masks and pieces of cloth on their faces in an attempt to prevent the particles from entering their lungs.

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LEBANON- Sandstorm affect the area of ​​Tyre

The sandstorm hit the area of ​​Tyre carrying red dust not seen in the region before, leading to the high temperatures and poor visibility, prompting citizens to lighting lamps while driving their cars.

September 8, 2015 Almeria Spain Flash Flood:

The small town of Adra, in the Almeria province of southern Spain, has been the worst affected by the rains. Its streets have been turned into fast-flowing currents of water that swept away cars and trucks.

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Deadly sandstorm: "Unprecedented" in Lebanon's modern history kills 8 in middle east

Downtown Jerusalem as the deadly sandstorm engulfed swathes of the Middle East

A monster sandstorm engulfed the Middle East killing eight people today and causing hundreds to be hospitalised with breathing problems
Large parts of Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Cyprus were shrouded in a thick cloud of dust from the sandstorm
Eight people were killed, including six in Syria, and hundreds have been hospitalised for respiratory problems
In Israel a few hundred patients, mostly sufferers of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease caused by smoking and asthma -- were hospitalized on Tuesday after suffering from inhalation of particles during the unusually heavy dust storm around the country.
At Ziv Medical Center in Safed, chronically ill patients suffered shortness of breath and needed oxygen inhalation.
Emergency room director Dr. Yosef Nevia said that such unusual weather -- in which the dust was so intense that it was hard to see anything from a distance -- was very dangerous to people with respiratory problems, heart conditions, pregnant women and children.
He urged such individuals not to go outdoors and not to exert themselves physically when such a thing happens.
Dust particles in the air may cause high blood pressure, difficulty breathing and the allergy-related production of phlegm.
There may also be cough, headache, asthma attacks and a burning sensation in the eyes,
On Tuesday, more than 255 people suffered from serious side effects from the dust storm, Magen David reported.
The first-aid and ambulance organization said it treated 145 people with shortness of breath and asthma attacks, 30 people who fainted and more than 80 people whose hearts were overburdened by the particles.

Earthwind map showing the the sandstorm today

In Lebanon a sandstorm lashed several regions in the Bekaa, North and South on Monday and Tuesday, landing scores of people in hospitals and bringing visibility to extremely low levels.
The Meteorological Department at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport described the storm as "unprecedented" in Lebanon's modern history, OTV said.
The National News Agency said the Red Cross transferred at least 35 people suffering respiratory distress to hospitals in the northern region of Akkar.
In northern Bekaa, a woman identified as Jumana Ali al-Laqqis died of a severe asthma attack at the Baalbek state-run hospital, NNA said.
"Dust encircled homes in the regions of al-Bireh, al-Qobaiyat, Jabal Akroum, Wadi Khaled, Khirbet Daoud all the way to Akkar's coast," the agency said.
In the Bekaa, the sandstorm hit the city of Hermel and the area adjacent to Akkar and Dinniyeh, causing low visibility and an accumulation of garbage on streets and in irrigation canals.
Dozens of residents were transferred to hospitals in the region.
The storm also lashed Baalbek and the neighboring areas, reducing visibility to near zero and causing a surge in temperature.

Grave danger imminent! Nearly 200,000 asked to evacuate as Japan is sandwiched between a hurricane and a typhoon

Authorities in central Japan Thursday (Sep 9) ordered tens of thousands to flee their homes after torrential rains flooded rivers and triggered landslides, with one person missing after a mudslide buried houses.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued special downpour warnings for Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures, north of Tokyo, urging vigilance against mudslides and flooding.
"This is a scale of downpour that we have not experienced before.
Grave danger could be imminent," meteorologist Takuya Deshimaru said at an emergency press conference.
Parts of central Tochigi have been deluged with almost 60cm of rain since Monday evening. Authorities in Tochigi ordered more than 90,000 residents to evacuate, while another 80,000 were advised to leave their homes, public broadcaster NHK said.
The meteorological observatory in Tochigi said the Kinugawa river, which also runs through Ibaraki, overflowed early Thursday. In Tochigi's Kanuma city, a local official said rescuers were searching for a missing person believed to be buried in mudslides.
"We don't know details of the person yet," he said. NHK reported it was a woman in her 60s buried after mudslides destroyed houses.
Her husband was rescued soon after, it said.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning to Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures on Thursday due to extremely high risks of sediment disasters in the Kanto region.
The emergency warning for heavy rain was issued to Tochigi Prefecture at 12:20 a.m. and to Ibaraki Prefecture at 7:45 a.m. Typhoon No. 18 changed to an extratropical cyclone, triggering torrential rain that brought 405.5 millimeters of rainfall in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, and 325.5 millimeters in Kanuma in the prefecture during a 24-hour period until midnight Wednesday.
Evacuation directives were issued to more than 2,600 people in Tochigi, Sakura and other cities in Tochigi Prefecture late Wednesday as water levels rose in rivers with an increased risk of landslides.

170,000 flee homes after floods hit Japan, Fukushima nuclear plant safety at risk

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Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave homes across Japan after Tropical Typhoon Etau ripped through the country. Military helicopters plucked residents from the roofs of their homes.

Lashing rain pounded the country for a second day, and the Kinugawa River has burst through a flood barrier, sending a tsunami-like wall of water into Joso, about 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, AP reported.

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 California wildfire expands to nearly 15,000 acres 0:20

Driven by high winds and soaring temperatures, a wildfire in California more than tripled in size Thursday, swelling to more than 14,000 acres, fire officials said.

The so-called Butte Fire, located east of the town of Jackson southeast of Sacramento, was a little more than 100 acres shortly after it broke out at around 2:26 p.m. Wednesday, and grew to around 4,000 acres by Thursday.

The Butte Fire burns in wooded areas east of Jackson, California. The fire swelled from 4,000 acres to more than 14,000 acres Thursday. NBC News

Over the day, and as temperatures soared, the fire grew to 14,700 acres, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also known as Cal Fire, said.

The fire had been 20 percent contained earlier Thursday, but by the evening it was only 10 percent contained, Cal Fire said.

The fire was "extremely active" Thursday, making substantial runs up a canyon and fueled by hot winds and high temperatures, a Cal Fire spokesman said.

At least six homes have been destroyed. There were mandatory evacuation orders for part of a subdivision and part of the town of Pine Grove, the department said. It was not immediately clear how many people were ordered to leave their homes.

A reporter for KCRA captured dramatic video of the fire as they drove near the blaze after it jumped a road and scorched a hillside Thursday, sending clouds of ash and smoke over the highway.

French Riviera: lightning, flood and storm-

Côte d'Azur - FRANCE

News - Published Sunday, September 13, 2015 by The Weather Channel- LA CHAINE METEO

Very strong thunderstorms broke out this morning in Provence French Riviera. Floods were reported. The winds exceeded 100 km / h. It's in the Nice region as the weather was most violent.

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The Var and Alpes-Maritimes have been a deluge in the early morning. As expected, violent storms erupted on these two departments placed special release by us. These storms are linked to violent air mass conflict between the hot air rising from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic cooler air. The violence of the current weather is increased by water still warm sea (abnormality of + 3 ° C).

One month and a half of rain in four hours

Between Le Luc en Provence, Fréjus, Cannes and Nice, torrential rain fell in a short period of time. He fell from 90 to 135mm of water between 5 and 9:00 this morning, the equivalent of a month and a half of rain in the space of just four hours.

Stormy winds

The passage of storms, the wind is unleashed. It is located in Sospel on the heights of Menton, the wind blew stronger with a flurry 117 km / h. A Nice Rimiez, a gust to 112 km / h was measured. In Menton, the strongest gust reached 98 km / h.

Very intense electrical activity, some flooding

Under these storms, electrical activity was very intense, with a flash every 2 to 3 seconds in the Nice region. According Keraunos the French Observatory of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, more than 25,000 lightning strikes were recorded in the PACA region between 2:30 ET 8:30 on Sunday, after the lightning 110,000 already recorded yesterday in France. Significant runoff are reported and some flooding in the Var and Alpes-Maritimes. The floor of the A8 is flooded in places. Nice Nord exit was even temporarily closed. On the secondary network, many runoff are observed.

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Japan flooding: 2.8 million advised to evacuate

At least 27 people have been injured across 10 prefectures since floods inundated parts of eastern Japan after a tropical storm, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said.

Rescue operations continued in the city of Joso, one of the worst-hit areas, although floodwaters are receding, it added.

A total of 2.8 million have been advised to evacuate, the agency said.

Flood Emilia: in Farini (PC) flood wave 15 meters! Gutted houses [SHOCK PHOTOS] - ITALY

Flood in Emilia: the hill town of Farini literally ravaged by the flood of the river Nure
14 September 201

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A height of three meters is the highest level of criticality for the country, but tonight the flood wave - according to official data of the hydrometer of Farini that henceforth no longer working and can not transmit data - is almost 15 meters (14.5) at 06:00 am. You could think of a calculation error, were it not for the pictures of entire buildings gutted even the upper floors with the obvious signs of the flood wave that has invaded the homes up to the third floor.

If Farini today had been inhabited as a century ago, we would be talking of a disaster with hundreds of victims. Fortunately there was no one in those houses. Here are the pictures:

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16 Dead After Southern Utah Flash Floods; Four Still Missing

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Flash flooding in southern Utah has killed at least 16 people since Monday night; four others remain missing. 

Twelve of those deaths are in the small Utah border community of Hildale after a flash flood swept through the town.

Forty miles to the north, the Associated Press reports that four people were killed by flash flooding in Zion National Park and three remain missing.

The situation in Hildale has shocked the community. Flooding started overnight and "obviously caught these people off guard," Hildale assistant fire chief Kevin Barlow told The Associated Press. "Witnesses say they were backing out of it trying to get away from it and it still swept them in."

According to the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City, the deadliest single flash flood on record in Utah prior to Monday'... 1923 flood near Farmington, claiming seven lives.

Incredible Alps: Glacier breaks suddenly, gigantic avalanche [VIDEO]

Alps a frightening phenomenon: the glacier breaks and causes an enormous avalanche recovery from some hikers Swiss

15 September 2015

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Swiss Alps in recent hours has happened a rare and frightening: a piece of the glacier of the Wetterhorn, at almost 3,700 meters above sea level, was split probably because of great heat and caused an enormous avalanche valley of Grindelwald in Switzerland, near the border with Piedmont. The images were collected by two escursionistii Swiss, Hans Buhler and his wife Marianne, who reported having "heard a roar: we thought in a plane, then we saw the white mass that swooped down. We shoot, then I got away. "

The event, according to the explanation given by glaciologists of Bern, has been caused by the particular shape of the glacier, in constant motion, he pushes his butt on a ledge from which then precipitate fragments . But this time the phenomenon has been enormous, as evidenced by the images.

Updates in CA as the fires are still ongoing.

California wildfires burn hundreds of homes, change lives

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(CNN)It's a painful sight, even for a veteran firefighter.

Bob Cummensky peered over a devastated section of Middletown, California, where home after home was gobbled up by the Valley Fire.

"It's such a beautiful area and it's changed forever," he told CNN affiliate KOVR, pointing to the scorched landscape.

Nearly 600 homes have gone up in flames since the blaze roared to life over the weekend. Another 9,000 are threatened, according to Cal Fire.

One person has died in the Valley Fire: a 72-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis who couldn't get out of her house, fire officials said.

Now at 67,000 acres, fire crews are gaining ground, but slowly. Containment is at 15%.

'I didn't expect to see everything gone'

Tammy Moore was at work when the Valley Fire tore through Cobb, California, leveling the home she's owned for 15 years.

"(It is) so much worse than I thought it would be," Moore said. "Even though I expected it to be bad, I didn't expect to see everything gone."

Many others in Northern California had similar horror stories.

Official: 'We don't see an end in fire season'

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2015 US fire season numbers to date

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/16/us/california-wildfires/index.html

Making progress

Even without the help of the weather, firefighters have been gaining ground.

The 67,220-acre Valley Fire is 30% contained.

The Butte Fire at 71,780 acres is 40% contained.

Just In - The #ButteFire in Amador & Calaveras counties is now 71,780 acres & 40% contained.

— CAL FIRE PIO Berlant (@CALFIRE_PIO) September 16, 2015

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Firefighters gain ground on California wildfire that destroyed 585 homes

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Property losses from a deadly Northern California wildfire, the most destructive this year in the western United States, climbed on Tuesday to at least 585 homes and hundreds of other structures that have gone up in flames.

Lake County sheriff's deputies began escorting some evacuees back to their properties to briefly tend to pets or livestock that were left behind.

But authorities said conditions in fire-ravaged areas remained unsafe, with downed power lines and other hazards. Residents whose homes remained intact would not be able to reoccupy their houses for at least another couple of days.

An estimated 13,000 residents remained displaced by evacuations, while the blaze, dubbed the Valley Fire, still posed a potential threat to some 9,000 buildings in the fire zone, roughly 50 miles (80 km) west of Sacramento, the state capital.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Doug Pittman said Monday night that the fire's latest advance was mostly toward hillsides and mountains away from heavily populated areas. But the fire was reported especially active on Tuesday near the small mountain town of Loch Lomond and the Aetna Springs resort.

By Tuesday evening, the blaze had devoured more than 67,000 acres (27,0000 hectares)of timber, brush and grass left parched by four years of drought and weeks of extreme summer heat.

MAKING HEADWAY

As darkness fell across Northern California containment of the fire, a measure of how much of its perimeter has been enclosed within buffer lines carved through vegetation by ground crews, stood at 30 percent, up from 15 percent earlier in the day, Cal Fire said.

Water-dropping helicopters and airplane tankers grounded by thick smoke during the first days of the fire returned to the skies as visibility improved on Monday and Tuesday.

Temperatures have also cooled and winds have eased since the fire's peak on Saturday and early Sunday, when flames raced unchecked over 40,000 acres in just 12 hours.

The speed of the blaze caught area residents off-guard, forcing many to flee in chaotic evacuations through gauntlets of fire as surrounding houses and trees went up in flames.

Roughly half of Middletown, a town of about 1,500 residents, was left in ruin, with twisted, blackened debris strewn over charred foundations of buildings reduced to ash. A row of burned-out cars stood next to what remained of a flattened apartment house, and the charred hulks of more vehicles filled a lot where an auto mechanic shop once stood.

Four firefighters were hospitalized with burns they suffered in the early hours of the blaze. More than 2,300 personnel were on the fire lines as of Tuesday, Cal Fire said.

The 585 homes known destroyed represents the greatest property loss from a single wildfire among the scores of conflagrations that have raged across the drought-stricken U.S. West so far this year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.

Although the damage has yet to be quantified, the Valley Fire could become the largest insurance loss for a Northern California wildfire since a 1991 Oakland firestorm, said Mark Bove, a senior research meteorologist for New Jersey-based Munich Reinsurance America.

By comparison that calamity destroyed 3,200 buildings, with an industry-wide insured loss of about $3 billion, he said.

A separate blaze raging since Wednesday in the western Sierras near the former gold mining town of Jackson has destroyed 233 homes and 175 outbuildings, with some 10,000 people displaced by evacuations there, officials said. The so-called Butte Fire was 40 percent contained.

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Incredible in Malta: violent storm, car swallowed by the raging sea [VIDEO SHOCK]

20 September 2015

Bad weather, the mistral wind up to 90km / h in the Sicilian Channel: strong storms lash Malta and the stormy sea drag some drive from the quay

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The bad weather that is hitting hard the South Italy, does not spare the island of Malta whipped by strong winds from the north / west.

The mistral wind reached 90km / h causing real storms on the coasts. The sea has engulfed several cars, swallowing them off, as we can see in the images of the video sent to MeteoWeb The mistral wind will intensify further in the night and tomorrow morning.

2015-09-20 08:23:24 3.7 Central Mediterranean Sea [Sea: Malta] depth 10 EARTHQUAKE

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Turkey’s touristic Bodrum hotspot floods under heavy rains, 8 injured

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An amazing video showing the moment a river in southern India came back to life after 20 years of drought has gone viral. The video clip uploaded to YouTube on September 16 is already approaching 100,000 views. According to to the Mirror, the amazing incident happened in the Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh state in southern India. The river shown in the video is the little known Kalavapalli River which according to locals last saw water over 20 years ago. The area through which this river flows has been facing a severe drought for the past 20 years. However, thanks to a bout of rainfall near the source of the river, the river has started flowing again.

This video was captured during the moment the river started flowing again.

The excitement of the people who came to watch the river flow again is evident in the video as they are seen shouting and rejoicing the arrival of water. An entire generation has seen the river bed perennially dry and for several children in the area, the Kalavapalli river never existed as a river. In fact, for many children in the region, the dry riverbed served as playgrounds.

The Anantapur district is located in the semi-arid region of Andhra Pradesh where the annual rainfall rarely exceeds 300mm. The drought that the area has been facing for the past two decades only added to the misery of the people living in the area. Lack of governmental help and infrastructure meant that the district earned the dubious distinction of being one of the least developed districts in India. While the fortunes of the people living here may not change in the foreseeable future, the arrival of water in the Kalavapalli river has given a new lease of life for the people of the region who had given up all hopes of seeing the river flow again. Pertinent to note here is the fact that the river started flowing even as the annual monsoons started retreating across the rest of India.

Elsewhere in India, the retreating monsoon showers caused havoc in western India after landslides and floods caused traffic disruptions and accidents. Rail traffic on the busy Mumbai -Pune rail route had to be stopped when a section of the railway track was washed away by flash floods that hit the area. Strangely, several other areas in India are still facing a drought situation and have received little or no rainfall this monsoon.

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Skopelos devastated by biblical flooding – updated photos

The central Aegean island of Skopelos was swamped by torrential rains on Tuesday and Wednesday morning resulting in unprecedented flooding.

As shown in this updated series of pictures… Cars piled on top of each other, like fallen dominos, and others washed into the sea. As if a tsunami had hit this Greek island. Prayers.

And as you know Greece is in a bad economical situation. Hopefully will they get the help they need to reconstruct.

For other pictures read: Skopelos smashed by massive storm, flooding and my first post about this biblical nature disaster.

Source: http://strangesounds.org/2015/09/skopelos-floods-pictures.html

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This year no hurricanes have been yet recorded in the Western Atlantic.

And that has never been seen since 1914.

Hurricane drought in the western Atlantic. First time since 1914. What is going on?

According to scientists, two factors working against hurricane development, wind shear and dry air. And these have been quite prevalent from the Gulf of Mexico into much of the Caribbean all summer long.

In contrast, nine hurricanes have swept through the eastern Pacific… Is El Niño to blame?

Meanwhile zero hurricanes have been recorded in the adjacent western Atlantic.

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California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Overnight, Thousands Of Fish Dead

As CBS reports, the Mountain Meadows reservoir also known as Walker Lake, a popular fishing hole just west of Susanville, ran dry literally overnight, killing thousands of fish and leaving residents looking for answers.

The unprecedented emptying of the lake has stunned locals: residents say people were fishing on the lake last Saturday, but it drained like a bathtub overnight.

The reservoir before:

and after:

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Massive 'ocean' found under Chinese desert

Thursday, September 17, 2015, 6:24 PM - Researchers have found a body of water containing ten times the amount of water in all five of the Great Lakes in an ocean hidden under northwestern China's Tarim basin, one of the driest places on Earth.

The basin in Xinjiang, China is approximately the size of Venezuela and is home to the largest desert in the country.

While the water in the basin is too salty to drink, it's believed the reservoir may be helping to slow climate change. Still, there is a downside to the discovery.

Professor and lead author in the study Li Yan told the South China Morning Post that if all the carbon in the reserve was released into the atmosphere it could be catastrophic.

“It’s like a can of coke. If it is opened all the greenhouse gas will escape into the atmosphere," Li told the Post.

“This is a terrifying amount of water. Our estimate is a conservative figure — the actual amount could be larger."

Li had been searching for missing carbon around the Tarim basin, a phenomenon that has eluded researchers for years. It was those efforts that led them to a giant aquafier housing the water.

Calculations suggest there could be as much as a trillion tonnes of missing carbon on the planet, leading researchers to speculate their could be more water reserves hidden under other deserts around the planet.

Rare cyclone wreaks havoc across Mediterranean

OCTOBER 2 2015

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Corsica: photos from weather

News - Published Friday, October 2, 2015 by The Weather Channel - LA CHAINE METEO

The Mediterranean hurricane, the "médicane" currently affecting Corsica causing mudslides and flooding.

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The sectors of Ajaccio, Aleria and Corte are strongly affected by the effects of Hurricane Mediterranean that is present on theisland since Thursday evening. The Tour of Corsica is also disturbed by the torrential rains that covered the mountain roads in recent hours.

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Rains not seen for 200 YEARS: Two dead, 22 million on flood watch and New Jersey homes already consumed by high tides in bombardment of weekend storms dubbed a 'slow-motion disaster'

• National Weather Service spokesman called the storms hitting the East Coast a 'once-in-200-years rainfall event'
• Around 22 million Americans are on 'flood watch' on the East Coast
• Rains closed roads, waterlogged crops and showed little sign of letting up
• Parts of North and South Carolina have had more than a foot of rain
• More than 15 inches of rain have fallen in Myrtle Beach, SC, since Friday
• The Greenville-Spartanburg Airport in South Carolina recorded 2.3 inches of rain Saturday, smashing the previous record of 0.77 inches from 1961
• Two deaths in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Spartanburg, South Carolina have been linked to the storms
• One woman was hit by a falling tree while another drowned in her car 
• Flood watches and warnings also are in effect in Delaware and parts of New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia 
• The search continues for 33 crew - 28 Americans and five Poles - on board a ship that went missing near the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin
• Joaquin regained potentially catastrophic Category 4 status Saturday and is speeding up as it moves away from Bahamas but is expected to pass US

A record-setting 'once-in-200-years rainfall event' left 22 million Americans on the East Coast on flood watch as rains have closed down roads, waterlogged crops and showed little sign of stopping.

Meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weather Bell Analytics told NBC New York: 'It's going to be a slow-motion disaster'.

North and South Carolina have been hit the worst, with up to 12 inches of rain falling in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday night alone, and two deaths have been reported so far in the states.

President Barack Obama issued a state of emergency in South Carolina on Saturday and state emergency officials said flash flood warnings were issued for numerous counties and that some homes had already been evacuated, including in the coastal county that includes Myrtle Beach.

More than 15 inches of rain have fallen over the popular beach area since Friday, with more expected, the National Weather Service in Wilmington, North Carolina, reported.

South Carolina could get more rain in three days than it normally gets during the entire fall.

A few hours before high tide, wind-driven waves crash into a fishing pier in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Friday

Tony and Sandy Mathena, from Raleigh, North Carolina, make a quick retreat up the steps to The Isles Restaurant & Beach Club as high tide come in at the west end of Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina

A man walks his bicycle through high water at the City Market in downtown Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday

Climate catastrophe in Cannes - FRANCE

News - Published Sunday, October 4, 2015 by The Weather Channel - LA CHAINE METEO

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The storms of the October 3, 2015 are the most violent ever seen. Located between Cannes and Nice, they have maintained several hours, spilling impressive amounts of water. The violence of the rains (200 mm within hours) partly explains the terrible human toll and material.

We note an increase in thunderstorm waves since the early 2000s on the French Riviera, and particularly since 2005. But the 3 October 2015 pulverized the other episodes of storms that have already occurred in the past in Cannes.

This episode of bad weather is the third since 12 September 2015

Cannes flooded . Torrential rain hits Cannes

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Terrifying moment massive tornadoes tear through Chinese cities as Typhoon Mujigae batters the country's southern coast killing at least six

• Tornadoes spawn by Typhoon Mujigae lashed southern China on Sunday
• Powerful winds have killed at least six and injured more than 200 in China
• Huge tornadoes left trees uprooted, cars overturned and houses destroyed
• Chinese media bill the impacts as 'scenes from Hollywood disaster films' 

Huge tornadoes prompted by Typhoon Mujigae yesterday ripped through several cities in the province of Guangdong, southern China.

Videos taken by local residents show swirling columns of wind more than 330 feet high sweeping through residential areas and farmlands in the cities of Foshan, Panyu and Shanwei, picking up houses and cars like toys.

The tornadoes were brought by Typhoon Mujigae, which made landfall at around 2pm on Sunday on China's southern coast, reported People's Daily Online. At least six were killed and more than 200 were injured in howling winds of up to 112 miles per hour.

Shocking: Video shot by a local resident shows a tornado lashing suburban Shunde city, China, on Sunday

Battered: Coastal cities in Guangdong province were heavily flooded after Typhoon Mujigae struck on Sunday

High waters cause parts of Hwy. 12 to collapse into ocean

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The high waters caused parts of Highway 12 (at the Outer Banks) to fall into the ocean. The rising flood waters caused significant damage in Kitty Hawk. There's no time frame as to when the highway will be fixed and re-opened.
Highway 12, locally known as Beach Road, is the main road for access to the beachfront on the Outer Banks. Over the last few days, Eastern North Carolina has seen high tides and severe rainfall which has caused damage to the area.
"We had a dune that was constructed right along the road, but unfortunately with this system, the waves just washed the dune out," Department of Transportation representative for Dare County Jennifer Heiss said.
After the high levels of water knocked out the dunes, the road collapsed because the water eroded the sand underneath.

Monte Adams has owned his home in Kitty Hawk for the last 24 years. He says the beachfront area is completely changed.

“See those waves, they used to be beach at least 100 to 75 yards and in the last two to three years it’s kind of turned into this," Adams said.

Cold settled on the north-east of Europe

News - Published Thursday, October 8, 2015 by The Weather Channel- LA CHAINE METEO

The cold settled fairly early this year on the north-east of Europe and Russia. This cold arctic air flows between origin a powerful anticyclone installed in Scandinavia and a deepening depression over Russia.

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To -13 ° C in Finland

On Tuesday morning, there was almost widespread and sometimes severe frosts in Sweden and Finland with -5 ° C on the Helsinki Airport and up to -13 ° C in northern Lapland. Frosts earned more regions in the south with the first frosts observed in Vilnius in Lithuania but also to nord'est Poland. Moscow has also experienced its first frost under cover

n the coming days this cold air will plunge a little more south to Ukraine and Romania. The Western Europe will remain spared with temperatures that remain close to the seasonal normal for this weekend.

First snow in Moscow planned.

First snow in Moscow planned.

Under the influence of a depression centered on the Ural cold, moist air will concern the Moscow region in the coming days. The temperatures should be low enough to see it snow by the weekend. It could even temporarily hold the ground early in the day. Note that this weather situation is not exceptional even if the snow is most common at the end of October or beginning of November in Moscow.

Spectacular first snowfall of the season underway in
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The cold advancing from the north / east to Europe: first spectacular seasonal snowfall in Moscow
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Spectacular snow in Moscow VIDEO

In Moscow with snow 0 ° C and at night the temperature will drop below zero: begin the first great wave of cold winter in Eastern Europe, will last at least five days and bring temperatures up to -7 / -8 ° C in the lowland plains of Russia European. In Moscow it will snow for at least 6 consecutive days, so intense especially weekend and early next week. Tonight the city has run whitewashed the first thin white veil of the season 2015/2016.

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Punch drunk: Japan awaits devastation as the season's 23rd typhoon bares down on Hokkaido

A powerful typhoon bearing down on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has forced authorities to order the evacuation of thousands of residents.
Thousands of residents in northern Japan have been ordered to evacuate as a powerful typhoon bears down on the island of Hokkaido.
Local authorities issued evacuation orders for Nemuro city on the coast and neighbouring areas, as Typhoon Choi-Wan approached from the east, the Hokkaido daily reports.
About 170 flights have been cancelled and scores of train services suspended, the paper says.
The season's 23rd typhoon, still several hundred kilometres east of Japan, had maximum sustained winds of 108kph and gusts of 162kph, the Japan Meteorological Agency says.

This simulated 3-D flyby using GPM's radar (Ku band) data on Oct. 6, showed several areas where Choi-Wan was dropping rain at a rate of over 66 mm (2.6 inches) per hour. Credit: NASA/JAXA/SSAI, Hal Pierce

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Severe Weather Europe

First E Europe arctic blast of the fall: Cheboksary, Russia yesterday. Source: vk.com/clubmeteo

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Insane: Torential rain floods Tacoma stadium in minutes

Insane Flooding at Tacoma, Washington High School Stadium
A round of rain that swept through Tacoma created a massive waterfall down the steps of Stadium High School and flowed right into Stadium Bowl below.

A stadium in Washington state suddenly turned into something resembling a lake following heavy rain Saturday.
Heavy rainfall flowed through the steps of Tacoma’s Stadium High School and into the nearby Stadium Bowl, ABC affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle reports.
Video posted on YouTube showed the football field almost entirely covered in water.
"I looked out my window and it was almost like a river coming down 2nd Street,” Angela Rapada told KOMO-TV.
“I was like 'Oh my God! I bet you the Stadium Bowl is just crazy right now.'"

Bad weather in Rome: the Aniene overflows in Tivoli, 4 people locked in a shed - ITALY

The Aniene is overflows due to persistent rains

14 October 2015

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Four people are locked in a shed near Tivoli, near Rome, because dell'esondazione dell'Aniene due to the rains. Firefighters are on site to help people get out of the structure now isolated.

Weather alert, dramatic situation: first victim in Lazio, others missing, is a disaster [LIVE]

Weather alert: disastrous floods in the regions of the center, between Lazio and Abruzzo. Arrive dramatic news

14 October 2015

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The bad weather is to argue against very violent on Italy: are moments of anxiety and apprehension in Northern Tuscany but especially between Lazio and Abruzzo, where heavy rains are causing serious consequences. Continues to pour in Pisa (178mm daily at the time) and the situation of the city, already on the edge it gets worse by the minute. But, as we said, the most critical situation is in central Italy, in the area of ​​Marsica, the provinces of L'Aquila and Frosinone, on the border between Lazio and Abruzzo. Have fallen well 199mm of rain in Guarcino, 114mm in Ferentino, 107mm in Avezzano, 97mm in Olevano Romano, 91mm Alatri, 63mm in Genazzano, 62mm in Sora, 50mm in Isola del Liri. CONTINUE...

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Flash floods cause chaos in California as 5ft-deep mud engulfs cars and traps people inside homes north of Los Angeles

• Floods swept mud and rocks across Interstate 5 trapping hundreds of cars 
• Firefighters rescued people who clambered on vehicle roof to escape water
• People trapped in homes as downpour hits towns north of Los Angeles 
• Up to 1.5ins of rain fell in just hours as violent storm makes it way east 

Flash floods in California have caused mud and rocks to sweep across major roads outside of Los Angeles, stranding hundreds of vehicles and trapping people in their homes.

Violent storms brought huge downpours at Fort Tejon - 75 miles north of LA - bringing the freeway to a halt as 5ft deep mud engulfed cars.

Firefighters rescued people who clambered on top of their car to escape the sudden flow of water, but there are no reports of injuries or deaths.

Flash floods in California have caused mud and rocks to sweep across major roads outside of Los Angeles, stranding hundreds of vehicles and trapping people in their homes

Violent storms brought huge downpours at Fort Tejon - 75 miles north of LA - bringing the freeway (Interstate 5 pictured) to a halt as 5ft deep mud engulfed cars

Up to 1.5ins of rain fell in just hours, with the storms expected to shift slowly eastward through Friday. Pictured, flooding at Lake Hughes

Interstate 5 came to a standstill while a number of other roads have also been closed because of the floods.

Robert Rocha, 37, said he was driving home from work when the storm arrived at Lake Hughes. He said: 'It was getting pretty hairy out there.'

'I've never seen it rain that hard in such a short period of time, the hail and wind — it was coming down hard. The debris was just intense — chunks of wood and rock flowing everywhere.

WHITE RAINBOW: rare appearance in Scotland

News - Published Friday, October 16, 2015 by The Weather Channel - LA CHAINE METEO

A Scots captured image a weather phenomenon uncommon in early October: WHITE RAINBOW

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Richard Toulson walking her dog one morning when he saw an amazing celestial phenomenon in the Scottish companion near Dumfries, in Collochan Valley: an arc reminiscent of a white rainbow sky.

A fog bow is similar to a rainbow, except it appears as a bow in fog rather than rain.

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The rainbow that lost its colours: Dog walker spots amazing rare FOG BOW on his morning hike through Scottish countryside

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Deadly Floods in Honduras – 7 Killed in Comayagua

At least 7 people have died in floods in Honduras since heavy rain began to fall on 17 October.

Elsewhere in Central America, flooding has also been reported in Guatemala, Belize and Nicaragua.

Honduras

Heavy rain has been affecting parts of Honduras since 17 October 2015, triggering floods, landslides and rivers to overflow.

COPECO, (Comisión Permanente de Contingencias), the disaster management agency in Honduras, issued red alerts for several areas along the Ulúa river, including Potrerillos, Pimienta, San Manuel and Villanueva in Cortés; El Progreso, Negrito and Santa Rita in Yoro; and also some areas in Atlántida.

Yellow alerts were issued for for the town of El Rosario, in the department of Comayagua, and lower level green alerts for some areas of the departments of Choluteca, Valle and Francisco Morazán.

Local media report that at least 7 people have died in floods in Comayagua department. As many as 2,000 people have been left homeless in Siguatepeque and the local authorities there have declared a state of emergency.

Rainfall

Amapala in Valle department saw 119 mm of rain fall in 24 hours on 17 October. La Esperanza, Intibuca department, recorded 61 mm, during the same period, according to WMO figures. Further rainfall has been forecast for the next 24 hours, although this should be less intense.

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Uruguay Floods Worsen as Yaguarón and Uruguay Rivers Overflow

Levels of the Uruguay and Yaguarón rivers have continued to rise in northern parts of Uruguay, forcing more people from their homes.

Heavy rainfall from 14 October 2015 had increased river levels. Yesterday, areas of Uruguay and neighbouring parts of Argentina and Brazil saw yet more heavy rainfall and increased flooding could be on the way.

Thousands remain homeless in Porto Alegre and surrounding areas in the Brazilian state of Rio Gr.... More rain has since fallen in the area and could prolong the floods in the state. Bagé municipality in the south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul saw 108 mm of rain in 24 hours between 19 and 20 October, according to WMO figures.

Over 600 Displaced in Uruguay

Last week, SINAE, the disaster management agency in Uruguay, reported that 183 people had been displaced by flooding in the northern departments of Artigas, Salto, Rivera and Tacuarembó.

In their latest assessment, SINAE report that the number of displaced and staying in shelters has now increased to 649 in total after river levels increased further.

Rivers have overflowed in the departments of Paysandu, Artigas, Cerro Largo, Rivera and Salto, which is thought to be the worst affected area and where 416 people have been displaced.

Three highways – routes 24, 29 and 44 – have been blocked or damaged.

Rainfall Levels

According to WMO figures for a 24 hour period between 19 and 20 October 2015.

Tacuarembó – 95 mm
Salto – 58 mm
Paso de los Toros – 76 mm

Uruguay’s meteorological department (INUMET) figures show at least 10 locations have seen over 50 mm of rain in a 24 hour period to 07:00 on 20 October 2015.

Image: SINAE

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‘Tinderbox’: 20% of California’s forests might die – research

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Too much even for Siberia: Worst blizzard in 10yrs turns Omsk into huge snowball (PHOTOS)

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You might say it’s nothing special for Siberia, but those who know – namely weather forecasters – believe it could be the most significant snowfall in 10 years.

Imagine parking your car safely outside your house in the evening only to find it gone the next morning. The streets and vehicles have nearly disappeared under the blanket of snow, with over 40cm falling overnight. All one can currently see in Omsk is snow, snow and nothing else.

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Two conductors escape from derailed train after it submerges in Texas floods... and state's residents brace for MORE RAIN from remnants of Hurricane Patricia

• Union Pacific train carrying gravel derailed in floods south of Dallas
• Two crew members aboard were able to escape and swim to safety  
• Train was near Corsicana, which has received more than 18 inches of rain
• Deluge comes as remnants of Hurricane Patricia mix with another storm
• Large swaths of Texas under watches and advisories for floods 

A train was submerged under floodwaters in Texas as the state was battered by rain ahead of the first effects of Hurricane Patricia.

No injuries were reported in the derailment, where two conductors were able to escape from their downed train before being picked up by emergency workers in Navarro County, south of Dallas.

Some areas of the state have already seen more than 20 inches of rain as precipitation from one storm system, with much of central and southern Texas under flash flood watch until Monday.

Rain has been worst so far in Navarro County, where a Union Pacific train locomotive and several of its cars derailed around 3.30am after water from a nearby washed over the tracks.

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A freight train derailed on Saturday near Corsicana, Texas, about 50 miles south of Dallas, after a creek overflowed and washed away the tracks

The Union Pacific train locomotive and several of its cars derailed around 3.30am on Saturday as floods took over many areas of Texas

Two train conductors were able to swim to safety after they derailed because water had washed over the tracks during widespread flooding in Texas

The train, carrying gravel, derailed when traveling near the town of Corsicana, Texas, which has received more than 18 inches of rain

Torrential rains are battering Texas as a recent storm system mixes with remnants of Hurricane Patricia that are moving up from Mexico

'A Navarro County rescue team was able to get in and pull them to safety, they are back safe on dry ground'.

The cars were carrying gravel, which is not believed to pose any threat, though officials are monitoring concerns about leaked fuel.

The recent flooding comes as remnants of Hurricane Patricia work their way east and north towards Texas to join a storm already in the region as it moves east toward Louisiana.

Patricia has since been downgraded to a tropical storm and tropical depression after making landfall on the western coast of Mexico, but the storm is causing torrential rains and flooding in Mexico as it moves north.

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The Amazon drained forest: Incredible pictures show devastating effect of drought ravishing Brazil in area’s worst dry spell for 100 years 

•  Brazil's Amazonian rainforest has suffered its worst drought in 100 years, leaving many key lakes dried out
•  Whole communities in the Amazonian regions of the country have been left struggling without water
•  Boats have been left stranded in the Puaquequarauna lake, due the low levels of the Rio Negro

Boats have been left stranded in the Puaquequarauna lake, due the low levels of the Rio Negro, near the Amazonian city of Manaus. There, houses sit isolated in the middle of the large deserted landscape, with only small pools of water remaining for locals to live off. 

The crisis has left the Rio Negro, a crucial tributary of the Amazon River, in ruin. Now, whole communities face a battle to rebuild their lives. 

The shocking drought comes just a few months after the same region suffered bad flooding after a deluge of rain left several cities in states of emergency. 

Not going far: Several young men try to steer their canoe down a small strip of water in the middle of the barren landscape

Docked in the dry: One large boat lies stranded on the dry Puraquequarauna lake, due the low levels of the Rio Negro