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Cold blast hits Australia's east coast as temperatures are forecast to plunge as low as -4C with SNOW in four states – and the icy weather is here to stay all week

• Canberra predicted to have subzero minimum temperature of -4C on Friday
• Snow has fallen in four states as Antarctic blast of cold air sweeps the east coast
• Blizzard conditions forecast for the Alps, motorists advised to put tyre chains on 
• Sydney and Melbourne for cold, windy and at times wet weather 

A cold blast of wintry weather is set to hit Australia's east coast with antarctic winds bringing snow to at least four eastern states by Wednesday. 

A wet and windy day was forecast for much of the southeast of the nation with snow and hail in alpine areas caused by a cold front sweeping across the country.

A low pressure trough is also affecting Tasmania and southern parts of Victoria with both states experiencing snowfalls overnight.

Victoria's Mount Baw Baw had decent snowfalls on Monday morning and there is more to come over the next few days

One operator in Mount Hotham said on Twitter on Sunday that they had received 25cm, and advised people to fit tyre chains to all vehicles. 

Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster for New South Wales Zhi-Weng Chua said snow was expected from today through to Wednesday in elevated areas of NSW and the ACT including the Snowy Mountains and Tablelands districts to about 1000m.

'A strong low-pressure system south of Tasmania is bringing air from the Antarctic region up to New South Wales,' he said. 

A Weatherzone forecast model shows cold air sweeping over southeastern Australia for Wednesday. A low pressure system south of Tasmania is sucking Antarctic air as far north as New South Wales

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More than FIVE MILLION are left without power across Ohio after 'rapid-fire' tornadoes ripped roofs from homes, with 51 twisters touching down across eight states overnight

• Tornadoes first touched down in the city of Trotwood, just outside Dayton, at about 11pm on Monday night 
• National Weather Service described tornado as 'extremely dangerous' and told residents to remain in shelters 
• Photos showed widespread damage with severely damaged homes and buildings and downed power lines
• There were reports of houses being cut in half and others were completely flattened during the storms 
• As of Tuesday morning, five million people are without power in Ohio alone, according to local authorities  

More than five million people have been left without power in Ohio alone after 51 tornadoes were reported across eight states overnight. 

Residents of Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, are still not in the clear as severe weather is forecast to continue through Tuesday and into Wednesday.

A rapid-fire line of apparent tornadoes tore across Indiana and Ohio and were packed so closely together that one crossed the path carved by another.

The storms strew debris so thick that at one point, highway crews had to use snowplows to clear Interstate 75.

At least half a dozen communities from eastern Indiana through central Ohio suffered damage, according to the National Weather Service (NWS), though authorities working through the night had reported no fatalities as of early Tuesday. 

There were at least 35 people in and around Dayton who went to hospitals with injuries, most of them minor, according to Elizabeth Long, a spokeswoman for the Kettering Health Network.

'We've had injuries ranging form lacerations to bumps and bruises from folks being thrown around in their houses due to the storms,' she said.

Montgomery County Sheriff Rob Streck also confirmed that 'there's been no real serious injuries' despite the significant damage in the area. 

More than five million people have been left without power in Ohio alone after 51 tornadoes were reported across eight states overnight. This aerial photo shows damage at the Westbrooke Village Apartment complex in Trotwood, Ohio

Residents of Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, are still not in the clear as severe weather is forecast to continue through Tuesday and into Wednesday. This photo shows another aerial view of the Westbrooke Village Apartment building in Trotwood, Ohio 

The sheriff asked residents to avoid any areas with damage from the storms. 

'There are multiple locations that have sustained extensive damage and the roads in those areas need to be kept clear so that emergency personnel can get through to help those in need,' a statement reads. 

According to the sheriff, there are also 'potentially dangerous situations with power lines down, unstable trees and possible gas leaks'.

Dayton Fire Chief Jeffrey Payne also said that it was 'pretty miraculous' that there have been only minor injuries. 

Payne attributed the good news to people heeding early warnings. Residents say sirens started going off around 10.30pm Monday ahead of the storm.

Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley urged residents to check on neighbors, especially those who are housebound.

The power response will require a 'multi-day restoration effort,' utility Dayton Power & Light said in an early morning tweet. The company said 64,000 of its customers alone were without power.

In a tweet, the city of Dayton urged residents to conserve water after the storms cut power to water plants and pump stations. 

'Due to the widespread power outages we are asking all Dayton and Montgomery County customers to conserve water,' the city tweeted.

'We have lost power to both water plants and pump stations. First Responders are performing search and rescue operations and debris clearing.'

City Manager Shelley Dickstein later issued a boil advisory for residents. The advisory affects 'all water customers in Dayton and Montgomery County'.

The city also said that generators are being rushed in.  

Multiple schools in the area were closed or had delayed starts Tuesday.

Towns just outside Dayton, Ohio, took some of the heaviest hits. 

In Vandalia, about 10 miles directly north of Dayton, Francis Dutmers and his wife were headed for the basement and safety Monday night when the storm hit with 'a very loud roar'.

'I just got down on all fours and covered my head with my hands,' said Dutmers, who said the winds blew out windows around his house, filled rooms with storm debris, and took down most of his trees. 

But he and his wife were not injured and the house is still livable, he said. 

The NWS tweeted Monday night that a 'large and dangerous tornado' hit near Trotwood, Ohio, eight miles northwest of Dayton. 

Several apartment buildings were damaged or destroyed. Emergency crews started going door-to-door in the middle of the night and into Tuesday morning to help anyone trapped by debris in Indiana and Ohio. 

Police scanners indicated that dozens of people trapped in their homes and needed help. 

Madison County Emergency Management spokesman Todd Harmeson said least 75 homes were damaged in Pendleton and the nearby community of Huntsville. 

Seven people were reported injured in the storm in Pendleton. No fatalities were reported in the area.

Madison County authorities said roads in Pendleton, about 35 miles northeast of Indianapolis, are blocked with trees, downed power lines and utility poles. 

Pendleton High School is open as a shelter.

The NWS said a survey team will investigate damage in Madison County and possibly in Henry County. Another team may survey damage in Tippecanoe County. 

Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us
May 26, 2019

The last 12 months have been the wettest in all of U.S. history, and this has created absolutely horrific conditions for U.S. farmers.  Thanks to endless rain and historic flooding that has stretched on for months, many farmers have not been able to plant crops at all, and a lot of the crops that have actually been planted are deeply struggling.  What this means is that U.S. agricultural production is going to be way, way down this year.  The numbers that I am about to share with you are deeply alarming, and they should serve as a wake up call for all of us.  The food that each one of us eats every day is produced by our farmers, and right now our farmers are truly facing a nightmare scenario.

More: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/crop-catastrophe-in-the...

US like a 'war zone' after 500 tornadoes in 30 days

The US has been battered by twisters, with a 40-year record broken as 12 days in a row pass with at least eight tornado reports.

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A street in Dayton, Ohio, is left decimated

America has been hit with 500 tornadoes in the last 30 days, with Tuesday breaking a 40-year record by marking the 12th day in a row with at least eight tornado reports, according to US forecasters.

Severe weather has been sweeping across the US Midwest, injuring hundreds and destroying buildings, prompting claims areas of the country have been left "like a war zone".

Some 55 twisters are estimated to have touched down on Monday across eight states stretching eastward from Idaho and Colorado.

Kansas City was badly hit by a large and dangerous tornado on Tuesday, with 12 people being treated at hospital and Kansas City International Airport temporarily suspending flights.

The remains of an Ohio school

Travellers and employees had to shelter in car park tunnels to avoid the worst of the storm.

Overnight, a swarm of twisters swept through Indiana and Ohio and left one person dead and at least 130 injured.

Roofs have been blown off, houses knocked off their foundations, trees uprooted and vital power lines have collapsed.

Francis Dutmers from Vandalia, which is around 10 miles from Dayton in Ohio and was one of the worst hit areas, said he hid with his wife in their basement before the windows on his house exploded and their rooms filled with debris.

Image: Trucks end up piled on top of each other in Missouri earlier this month

"I just got down on all fours and covered my head with my hands," he said.

In Celina, Ohio, 82-year-old Melvin Dale Hanna died when a parked car was thrown into his house, the mayor Jeffrey Hazel confirmed, adding: "There's areas that truly look like a war zone."

Weather warnings are stretching across to the east coast with parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York City on alert.

Dr Patrick Marsh, warning coordination meteorologist at the national weather service's storm prediction centre, tweeted there had been 500 filtered eyewitness tornado reports during the past 30 days.

He said: "Only four periods in the official database ever exceed 500 *observed* tornadoes in 30 days: 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2011."

Human sightings remain an important tool in detecting tornadoes, as the radar technology used by US meteorologists is not able to always "see" twisters. A network of storm spotters are used across the country to monitor numbers.

"We are flirting in uncharted territory," Dr Marsh told The New York Times.

"Typically, you’d see a break of a day or two in between these long stretches, but we’re just not getting that right now."

Referring to the 55 tornadoes on Monday, Dr Marsh said outbreaks of 50 or more tornadoes are not uncommon. It has happened 63 times in US history, with three instances of more than 100 twisters.

Image: A destroyed neighbourhood in north Dayton, Ohio, this week

However, he added Monday's weather was unusual because it stretched over a wide geographic area and the amount of other twister activity in recent weeks.

The extreme weather is the result of high pressure over the south-east and an unusually cold trough over the Rockies. This has forced warm, moist air into the central US, triggering the dangerous storms.

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new levee breaches along the swollen Arkansas and Mississippi rivers have prompted evacuations in Dardanelle, Arkansas, and Quincy, Missouri.

A levee along the swollen Arkansas River breached early Friday. Residents in about 160 homes in Dardanelle, Arkansas, were urged to evacuate. Residents in three towns were urged to evacuate after a levee breached in Missouri. Officials say flooding will not be over anytime soon.

New Levee Breaches in Arkansas, Missouri Prompt Evacuations. Picture by AP

A breach early Friday on the Holla Bend levee in Dardanelle, home to about 4,700 people and located 60 miles northwest of Little Rock, prompted Yell County officials to go door-to-door to encourage residents in about 160 homes to evacuate.

“Emergency management reported flooding along the Durgens Creek in Lewis County. Water is expected to flow south into West Quincy. Move to higher ground now. Act quickly to protect your life,” the National Weather Service office in St. Louis said in a flash flood warning that was issued for the area.

Even as the Arkansas River slowly begins to recede in some areas after record-levels, officials say flooding will not be over anytime soon.

Nathan Spicer, emergency management specialist in Little Rock — where the river is expected to crest at 28 feet on Monday — told the city board the rain will prolong the flood’s effects.

“This flood event could last for two, three weeks, maybe a month,” Spicer said, according to a report by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.

The Arkansas River is expected to crest Friday near Fort Smith, Arkansas, at 40.8 feet, well above the previous record of 38.1 feet there but less than the 42.5 feet that had been expected.

“It will be over 40 feet for several days,” Michael Biggs, chief of the hydraulics and technical services branch for the Little Rock District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, told the Democrat Gazette. “That’s better than 42.5 feet.“

On Thursday, President Donald Trump declared an emergency in several Arkansas counties to provide assistance for emergency protective measures.

Melody Daniel, the state’s emergency management spokeswoman, told CNN more than 500 Arkansas homes have been directly impacted by flooding.

Flooding across the region has forced Amtrak to suspend service between St. Louis and Fort Worth, Texas, until June 7.

Oklahoma

In neighboring Oklahoma, more than 2,400 people have been evacuated and more than 1,000 homes have been flooded by this long-lasting event.

Officials announced Thursday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will gradually decrease the outflow of water from Keystone Dam through Monday, which should alleviate some flooding, the Tulsa World reported.

Authorities in the Tulsa region continue to warn people drawn to the river out of curiosity to stay away.

“What it’s going to cause and what it has caused is the attempt to rescue somebody. We’re going to have a first responder put their lives in harm’s way to save you because you chose not to listen to a very simple warning and put your life at risk,” Sgt. Shane Tuell with Tulsa police told KTUL.

Tuell noted that even if “the water” or a “sinkhole doesn’t get you,” the water is unsanitary and could cause illness. “There are snakes that have been displaced and are not very happy,” Tuell added.

Meanwhile, according to a new annual report, 7.3 million homes at risk of hurricane storm surge on the US East Coast. Get prepared and be ready for this new burst of extreme weather.

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Severe weather, including rare snowfall reported in Queensland, Australia

A deepening Tasman low combined with a strong high in the Great Australian Bight, bringing windy and cold conditions to New South Wales and Queensland, Australia on June 3, 2019. A rare occurrence of snow was reported in near the NSW-QLD border at Eukey, just south of Stanthorpe.

Severe weather warnings were issued for a 1 000 km (620 miles) stretch of the coast, including Sydney, NSW and people urged to stay indoors amid heavy rain and gale-force winds.

Near-freezing temperatures and snowfall were reported at Eukey, just south of Stanthorpe. This is near the New South Wales - Queensland border, about 220 km (136 miles) SW of Brisbane.

While snow is rare in Queensland, it does happen from time to time, mostly near the border, BOM said. The last significant snowfall there was back in 2015.

"Snowfall in Queensland, driven by colder air from the south, was an unusual occurrence in a state with a sub-tropical to tropical climate, but in the south of the state, particularly near the New South Wales border, it's quite mountainous and in the elevated areas it can get quite cold," BOM Meteorologist Lachlan Stone told BBC.

BOM reported a very cold morning across the Darling Downs and Granite Belt, QLD with a few new May records set on May 31. Stanthorpe registered -6.9 °C (19.5 °F), Applethorpe -6.1 °C (21 °F), Oakey -4.4 °C (24 °F), Dalby -3.6 °C (25.5 °F). Warwick was at -4.9 °C (23.1 °F), close to its record -5.3 °C (22.4 °F) set in 1965.

Up to 5 cm (1.9 inches) were reported in the Blue Mountains region on June 3, NSW, forcing authorities to issue travel warnings and close a number of roads.

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A tree fell onto the overhead line between Eindhoven and Helmond, 4 June 2019. (Photo: ProRail/Twitter)

The thunderstorms that crossed the Netherlands on Tuesday night caused damage throughout the country. Dozens of reports were received, most regarding fallen trees or roofs being blown from houses. One person was hospitalized after a tree fell on a moving car, NOS reports.

Veiligheidsregio IJsselland received around a hundred damage reports, the safety office said on Twitter. Most of the reports made in this region came from Deventer, Zwartsluis and Vollenhove. Campsite Oldenhof in Vollenhove was hit hard by the storm. Guests were forced to spend the night in the main building. A fairground attraction was damaged in Deventer, and an asbestos roof from a shed blew onto the track. A tree landed on two moving cars in Zwartsluis. The people in the cars were checked over by paramedics, one was taken to hospital.

The stormy weather also hit Rheden in Gelderland hard. The fire brigade responded to multiple reports of roof tiles being blown off houses, the brigade said on Twitter. "Residents are talking about a whirlwind", a spokesperson for the fire brigade said to Omroep Gelderland. The roof of a trailer also blew off, making the home uninhabitable.

"It really scared me. I have three sons. The glass was smashed in, there is glass everywhere", a Rheden resident said to the broadcaster. "I have no words. It looked like a tornado. It was a tornado." Another resident told Omroep Gelderland that he suffered a lot of damage to his house. "It was a fierce storm. A big gust of wind, and all the roof tiles came off. Also the facade is damaged and the tiles went through the car window." There is, however, a sliver lining. "The tree I had been quarreling over with the municipality for five years: it's finally down."

Eindhoven also had problems with fallen trees. A tree ended up on a car containing a woman and three young children, according to NU.nl. As far as is known, no one was hurt. 

The storm also caused a lot of problems on the track. Overhead lines were damaged by lightning strikes and trees fell on the rails. At 7:20 a.m. on Wednesday, NS reported seven problems on the track, six of which seem to be storm related. No train traffic is possible between Apeldoorn and Deventer due to broken overhead lines. NS expects that it will take until at least 1:30 p.m. to resolve this problem. And no trains are running between Eindhoven and Weert and Eindhoven and Venlo because ProRail is still removing trees from the tracks. 

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Op de Rijksweg tussen #Belfeld & #Reuver zijn ten gevolge van de #storm een viertal grote bomen omgewaaid. De weg is volledig afgesloten. Samen met @BrwBeeselReuver en de hoogwerker van @BrandweerVenlo gaan we de bomen verwijderen!

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Stormschade in regio: vooral omgewaaide bomen en afgebroken takken: Door de storm die zaterdagmiddag opstak, moest de brandweer op verscheidene locaties in de regio aan het werk. De schade die de hevige wind veroorzaakte, betrof vooral omgewaaide bomen… http://dlvr.it/R0Xrrz 

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Bomen op auto’s en woning na valwind in Zwartsluishttp://bit.ly/2IfypXO 

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De stormschade tot nu toe in #Helmond (foto’s door oa @IkHeetBram, Pim Verkoelen en Bianca Krikke)https://www.deweblogvanhelmond.nl/actuele-onderwerpen-helmond/de-st...

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#Stormschade (boom), Mr. D.J. van Heusdestraat (#Gouda) http://www.112groenehart.nl/?p=22140 

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Stormschade of wateroverlast in Ede: dit moet je doen - https://indebuurt.nl/ede/gemeente/stormschade-of-wateroverlast-in-e...

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There are currently 21 wildfires burning in Alberta. Seven of them are burning “out of control.”

Smoke billowing from the destructive fires – Chuckegg Creek Wildfire (692,000 acres) and Jackpot Creek Wildfire (61,000 acres) – has spread far beyond Alberta, reaching the US East Coast and Europe within a few days.

After dangerously engulfing Edmonton and Calgary during the weekend, smoke of these monster wildfires reached the eastern US on June 3, 2019:

And was as far as the UK and a good part of Europe on June 4, 2019:

The journey across the Atlantic Ocean has already started on June 2, 2019 as shown by these satellite images:

But how exactly does smoke travel this far?

Small particles of smoke that come from the fires can stay in the air and move through the Earth’s atmosphere — all the way around the globe. The smoke sits more than a mile above the Earth’s surface, but can move down through strong winds called jet streams and have an impact on air quality.

The smoke of the Alberta wildfires has reached Europe on June 4, 2019. Image: Suomi NPP OMPS aerosol index

That’s an amazing speed… And new way to rapidly propagate a range of health issues, including respiratory problems, and aggravate lung and heart issues.

150 lakes in the Tahoe Basin are still frozen, and it's June

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With the Sierra Nevada wrapped in the claws of winter through May, the mountain range is blanketed in a hefty snowpack. Many mountain lakes are still frozen solid even though it's the first week of June and the summer tourism season is kicking off. In the Tahoe Basin specifically, an estimated 150 lakes are solid or covered in thick sheets of ice with their edges just beginning to melt.

"The rangers I have who are in the high country have pretty much concluded anything over 7,000 feet in elevation is still frozen," says Don Lane, supervisory recreation forester for the U.S. Forest Service's Lake Tahoe unit. "Lake Tahoe is at 6,200 feet, and the lakes above it in the mountains are all ice."

This isn't typical, at least in recent decades. "I've seen it happen only a few times over the past 40 years," he says.

Usually by June, many lakes have mostly thawed from a few warm spells in May, but this year, unseasonably cool winter-like storms battered the Sierra through May. It even snowed on Memorial Day. Into the first week of June, storms are continuing to develop over the mountains, keeping the snowpack and the lakes chilly.

"Here we are into June now, and we're still experiencing these storms," says Lane. "When I'm looking out the window now, I see blue sky but also these big roiling clouds over the mountains."

ALSO: It's almost summer, and it looks like winter in Tahoe

The list of frozen lakes is long, but notable ones include Marlette and Spooner on the Eastern Shore, and Incline and Watson on the North Shore. To the west in Desolation Wilderness, there are roughly 130 high-country lakes, including the Echo Lakes and Aloha Lakes areas.

"Even as we speak, up at Echo Summit, they're still struggling with 6 to 8 feet of snow," he says. "Everywhere you look, all around the lake, there are walls of snow at this moment. And here we are into June."

Many of these lakes are popular spots for late spring and summer hiking excursions, but Lane says the frozen conditions can be dangerous.

"There are people who will occasionally try their luck at walking across the ice and then all of a sudden it becomes brittle and cracks," he says.

Lane also advises against swimming in icy lakes. Just this week, he received a call from a Tahoe visitor who tried exactly that.

"He called to say, 'I was up at Eagle Lake in the Emerald Bay Area and I broke the ice to try to go swimming," Lane explains. "Then he asked, 'Can you tell me how cold the water is?' I told him that since water freezes at 32 degrees, he should be able to figure out roughly what the temperature was."

Tahoe resident Anthony Capaiuolo was at Fourth of July Lake and Emigrant Lake at 8,500 feet near Kirkwood in May, and says conditions were safe for him and his friends to ski across.

"There was just a bit of melting on the edges, and I imagine it's still something like that," says Capaiuolo, a videographer and photographer for First Tracks Productions. "We had such a gray spring. We didn't get as much sun on the lakes as we would in a typical spring. We got more snow especially up high, and with all that snow, it kept things from melting out."

US Farms Are Facing Their Worst Crisis In A Generation...And Now Here Comes Another Monster Storm Fri, 06/07/2019

The combination of the wettest planting season in U.S. history, a catastrophic trade war with China and economic conditions that are brutal for small farms has produced a “perfect storm” for U.S. farmers. 

Farm bankruptcies have already risen to the highest level in 7 years, but many expect that they will soon surge to all-time record highs.  Due to the incredibly wet weather, millions upon millions of acres of prime U.S. farmland will not be planted with crops at all this year.  And millions of acres that do get planted will yield a lot less than usual because of the wretched conditions.  Meanwhile, the U.S. will export far less corn and soybeans than usual this year due to our trade conflicts with China and Mexico.  With much less international demand, U.S. farmers are going to have an increasingly difficult time trying to make a profit on anything they are able to grow. 

In the end, thousands of farmers will not be able to recover from this crisis and will be forced out of the industry for good.

So we can definitely say that this is the worst farm crisis in a generation, but the truth is that this crisis is far from over.

By the time it is over, we may look back and say that this was the worst farm crisis that the U.S. has ever seen.

The biggest problem for farmers so far in 2019 has been endless rain and flooding.  Farmers kept waiting for a break in the weather that never came, and at this point the number of acres that have not been planted with crops is “unprecedented”…

Rain and flooding that began in March have kept farmers from planting a major portion of their crops during the normal mid-April to mid-May season in states like Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio and Michigan. As of Sunday, 39% of soybean acres have been planted in the 18 largest producing states, compared with an average 79% over the past five years, Agriculture Department figures show. Sixty-seven percent of corn acres are in the ground, vs. an average 96%. Such delays are unprecedented, Newton says.

What this means is that the amount of food that America’s farmers will produce this year is going to be way, way below normal.  For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled “Due To Cataclysmic Flooding, Millions Upon Millions Of Acres Of U.....

And to make matters worse, another monster storm is going to move through the middle of the country this week.

In fact, we are being told that some areas could see “a foot or more of rain”…

However, there is the potential for some areas of the Interstate 10 and 20 corridors to receive a foot or more of rain from the multiple-day event that may last through the weekend.

Rainfall of this magnitude will trigger street and poor drainage area flooding, initially. Motorists should be prepared for road closures, substantial delays and the need to alter their routes. To drive through flooded roadways is extremely dangerous.

For some farms, this will be the final nail in the coffin.

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Rescue in floods in Splügen, Switzerland today, June 12th.

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One dead, five injured as panels collapse at Churchgate station, Bandra skywalk in Mumbai

At Churchgate station, six aluminium panels that make up the Mahatma Gandhi mural on the east façade of the station’s building fell on three pedestrians.

Updated: Jun 13, 2019 00:44 IST

A 63-year-old man died and five others were injured in two separate rain-related accidents at Churchgate and Bandra on Wednesday. Strong winds and rainfall swept the city under the influence of Cyclone Vayu .

At Churchgate station, six aluminium panels that make up the Mahatma Gandhi mural on the east façade of the station’s building fell on three pedestrians around 12.20pm.

“While two of them sustained minor injuries, the senior citizen, Madhurkar Narvekar, was injured on his neck,” said a Western Railway (WR) official, who did not wish to be named. “He was rushed to GT Hospital but succumbed to his injuries within an hour,” the official said. Narvekar was on his way to work in Colaba.

In a similar incident in Bandra, three women were injured after four loose aluminium panels placed on the skywalk at SV Road fell on the road at 1.24 pm.

Malisa Najarat, 30; Sulakshana Vaze, 41; and Tejal Kadam, 27; were taken to the nearby Holy Family hospital and are reported to be stable. Heavy rains in Mumbai were caused by Cyclone Vayu – which was expected to pass around 250km off the city’s coast and head towards Gujarat.

The monsoon is yet to set in.

Officials said the strong winds caused the accidents, and have initiated action. “Winds in the city reached a maximum speed of 74-km per hour. The incidents could be likely because of that,” said an official from BMC’s disaster management cell.

“Today’s incident may be due to the strong winds and cyclone, but the bridge was always a threat. I had written to the MMRDA, H West Ward and municipal commissioner, and highlighted the poor condition of the bridge, but no ground work was initiated,” said Vinod Roshan D’Souza, a social activist from Bandra.

The WR has ordered an inquiry into the incident by senior safety officials, commercial officials and divisional engineers. “If the panels prove to be a threat to passengers’ safety, they will be removed,” said a senior WR official, who did not wish to be named. The panels were put up only seven years ago, in 2012.

A report by the H West (Bandra) ward, said, “Four loose aluminium composite panels of the skywalk fell. Following the incident, the private agency appointed by the bridges department started removing other loose panels.” The skywalk was constructed by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and handed over to the BMC in 2017.

Trees, branches fall
There were 75 incidents of tree and branches falling in Mumbai, amid strong winds and rainfall on Wednesday. According to the disaster management cell of BMC, 24 of these were in the city, 15 from eastern suburbs and 36 from western suburbs. No injuries were reported. Meanwhile, four accidents of wall collapse were reported in the eastern suburbs.

Six aluminium panels on the east façade of Churchgate station fell on three pedestrians on Wednesday.(Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

India's sixth biggest city is almost entirely out of water

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Srini Swaminathan, who took this photograph of Chembarambakkam reservoir from a plane, told CNN: "I have been living here since 1992 and have never seen anything like this before."

New Delhi (CNN)The floor of the Chembarambakkam reservoir is cracked open, dry and sun-baked. About 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) away, in Chennai, India's sixth largest city, millions of people are running out of water.

Chembarambakkam and the three other reservoirs that have traditionally supplied Chennai are nearly all dry, leaving the city suffering from an acute water shortage, said Jayaram Venkatesan, an activist in the city.
Due to an inability to collect sufficient rain water combined with low groundwater levels, the Tamil Nadu state government has been struggling to provide water to residents.
With the reservoirs dry, water is being brought directly into Chennai neighborhoods in trucks. Every day, hundreds of thousands of residents have no choice but to stand in line for hours in soaring summer temperatures, filling dozens of cans and plastic containers.

M. Senthilsaravanan, another hotel owner and resident, said: "In (the) Chennai area, hotels and restaurants have shut down because we are not getting sufficient water and there is high demand."

With supplies strictly rationed, many wealthier families have taken to relying on expensive private water tankers.

India's ongoing water crisis

Chennai is the latest casualty of a countrywide drought that has left 600 million people dealing with high to extreme water shortages, according to a 2018 report by Niti Aayog, a policy think tank for the Indian government.

India grows bigger, hotter, and drier
One hundred million people, including those in the large cities of Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad, will soon be living in zero groundwater cities, according to the Niti Aayog report.

Complicating the issue are the devastating effects of climate change. Monsoon rains have been more erratic and droughts more common, threatening farmer's harvests. This could cripple livelihoods across the predominantly agricultural country, where 80% of water is used to irrigate thirsty crops such as sugar cane and rice.

Indian residents stand around with plastic pots filled with drinking water at a distribution point in Chennai on June 19, 2019.

At least 184 people have died in India’s Bihar as the state remains in the midst of a punishing heatwave that’s affecting much of the country, bringing with it droughts and hundreds of cases of heatstroke.

The country is experiencing its lowest rainfall before monsoon season in over six decades and is in its third week of a heatwave, set to become one of the longest on record.

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Colorado blasted with nearly two FEET of snow on the first day of Summer - the latest it has snowed in more than 90 YEARS - while huge 'derecho' storms hit over 50 million people across 14 states leaving three dead

• A deadly weather system called 'derecho' killed three people this weekend 
• 'Derecho' is Spanish for 'straight' in English, and used in weather terminology to refer to a large group of thunderstorms the bring widespread wind damage
• 'Derecho' storms span a straight line for a continuous path of at least 250 miles
• Michael Birge, 38, of Kentucky, a 48-year-old woman in Illinois, and Levi Mayberry, 22, of Missouri, were all killed by downed trees
• Steamboat Springs, Colorado accumulated 20 inches of snow on Friday 
• Weather watches, warnings and advisories have continued through Sunday 

The latest snowfall in nearly 100 years hit Colorado on Friday, as 14 states were blasted with severe thunderstorms and wind damage from a derecho that left three dead.

Nearly two feet of snow fell on the first day of Summer, a few hours west of the capital of Colorado in Steamboat Springs where elevations reach 7,000 feet.

While unseasonable snowflakes blanketed parts of the Centennial State, a deadly weather system referred to as a 'derecho' struck 1,000 miles of the US, from the Midwest to coastal South Carolina. 

At least 3 people were killed in Kentucky, Missouri and Illinois by downed trees due to the storms, The Weather Channel reported.

'Derecho' is Spanish for 'straight' in English, and used in weather terminology to refer to storms like Friday's deadly system.

It's a large grouping of thunderstorms the come along with widespread wind damage, spanning a straight line for a continuous path of at least 250 miles.

On Friday, derecho quadrupled that, covering 1,000 miles. 

Europe is cooking! Alert as a deadly heatwave has spread across continental Europe with temperatures hitting above 40 deg C (104 deg F)

38 deg C,(101°F) in the shade at the home of The Big Wobble today, (it actually reached 38.7C) in North Holland, it was like walking into an oven as the humidity enhanced the heat.

Europe is cooking!

Meteorologists placed more than half of France, including around the capital, on alert for high temperatures Monday as a heatwave was expected to spread across continental Europe this week. National weather agency Meteo France predicted the hot weather could produce temperatures of up to 104 degrees across the country just as the summer tourist season shifts into high gear.
The French weather agency set the heat warning level at orange - the second-highest intensity on its four-level categorization system for potentially dangerous conditions requiring public "vigilance."
In Paris, charity organizations patrolled the streets to provide homeless people with water, while local authorities organized air-conditioned public places where people could seek shelter from the heat. French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer, deciding it was too hot to study, ordered national exams taken by students heading to high school postponed from Thursday and Friday to next week. International soccer federation FIFA could face implementing heat precautions at the Women's World Cup, which France is hosting.
The precautions include holding cooling breaks during matches and postponing games if the heat is too intense.

My back yard in Alkmaar, it resembled an oven today

Women's World Cup matches are scheduled every day this week, except Wednesday and Sunday. Luckily, most were set to be played at night.
France introduced a heat watch warning system after a long, deadly heatwave in August 2003.
The highest temperatures in more than half a century eventually were estimated to have caused 15,000 heat-related deaths, many of older people left in city apartments and retirement homes without air conditioning.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that vigilance was the watchword for the week. "As you know, at times like these, sick people, pregnant women, infants and elderly people are the most vulnerable.
So we must be vigilant with them and have prevention measures in place in order to intervene as quickly as possible," Macron said.
French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said Monday that "everything is ready" in retirement homes, hospitals and transportation systems.
"Yet when people are fragile, even when everything is organized, there's always a higher mortality rate," she warned.
Meteorologists said hot winds from the Sahara Desert brought the scorching weather to Europe. Similar heat is expected in Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. In Germany, temperatures above 100 degrees are possible in some places on Wednesday, topping the country's previous June record of 100.8 degrees set in Frankfurt in 1947.
Rescue services urged people to look out for young children, the elderly and those with compromised immune systems who are at particular risk in high temperatures.
Parts of northeastern Germany are also at high risk for forest fires.
Authorities in the eastern state of Brandenburg, which circles Berlin, say the risk of forest fires is at the highest level in the coming days.
Scientists say measurements show that heat waves in Europe are becoming more frequent.
Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said: "monthly heat records all over the globe occur five times as often today as they would in a stable climate."

Source: https://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/06/europe-is-cooking-alert-as-dea...

European Heat Wave Shatters June Records in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland and Austria As Heatwave Is Set To Continue

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The all-time June high-temperature record was topped in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, yesterday.
Germany recorded its highest-ever June temperature on Wednesday, as much of continental Europe contends with a major heat wave.
The German Weather Service said the mercury hit 38.6 degrees Celsius (101.5 Fahrenheit) at 2:50 p.m. local time in Coschen, on the country's border with Poland.
The previous record stood at 38.5 Celsius (101.3 Fahrenheit), which was measured in 1947 in Buhlertal, which lies close to France.
The longevity of the previous record -- 72 years -- shows just how unusual and intense the current heat wave is in Europe.
Any sign of quick relief is not on cards either.
Climate scientists have warned that heat waves such as this one are becoming more frequent and increasingly severe because of the climate crisis.
Meteo-France, the French national weather authority, said the frequency of such events is expected to double by 2050.
Temperatures exceeding 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) are forecast in a number of major cities across the continent, with meteorologists warning that higher humidity could make it feel even hotter.
A bubble of high pressure in the upper atmosphere (jet stream) is pulling hot weather from North Africa.

According to the Weather Channel, fifty-one German reporting stations set new June heat records on Wednesday.
An all-time June record high was also set in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, when Doksany hit 38.5 degrees Celsius (101.3 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the Associated Press.
The previous June record high in the Czech Republic was 38.2 degrees Celsius (100.8 degrees Fahrenheit), set on June 22, 2000.
Poland also set a new all-time record high for the month of June on Wednesday. Radzyń recorded a high of 38.2 degrees Celsius (100.8 degrees Fahrenheit), according to Polish meteorological service MeteoPrognoza. 

According to Météo-France, five locations set new June record-warmest low temperatures, including Nice, whose low temperature dropped to only 26 degrees Celsius (78.8 degrees Fahrenheit) Wednesday morning.
Clermont-Ferrand, France, topped out at 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday afternoon, setting an all-time record high for any month of the year.
Averaged throughout all of France, the high temperature on Wednesday was 34.9 degrees Celsius (94.8 degrees Fahrenheit), the country's hottest June day on record, besting the previous record of 34.3 degrees Celsius (93.7 degrees Celsius) from June 30, 1952. 

Several locations in Switzerland also set all-time record highs for any calendar month, including Säntis, Scuol and Davos, according to MeteoSwiss. 

For perspective, Berlin is about the same latitude as Calgary, Canada, and Paris is a similar latitude to the border between Montana and Canada.
The heat will continue into this weekend across parts of the continent.
Paris is likely to soar into the 90s each afternoon through Saturday. Madrid, Spain, could heat up into the mid-100s from Thursday through Sunday.
In France, the highest fully reliable June temperature is 41.5 degrees Celsius (106.7 degrees Fahrenheit) on June 21, 2003, at Lezignan-Corbieres, according to Etienne Kapikian (Meteo-France). The hottest temperatures in France are expected Thursday and Friday, when a few daytime readings in southern parts of the country may approach 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
That's also not far from the all-time record high for any time of year of 44.1 degrees Celsius (111.4 degrees Fahrenheit), set on Aug. 12, 2003. 

Source: https://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/06/european-heat-wave-shatters-ju...

Freak summer hailstorm buries Mexican city under five feet of ice

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 It’s summer in Guadalajara, one of Mexico’s most populous towns, which made what happened there over the weekend all the more surprising.

Sunday morning, residents woke to their roads, yards and even cars buried under more than three feet of icy slush from a freak hailstorm that had blanketed the city.

 Residents play on top of ice after a heavy storm of rain and hail that affected some areas of ​​Guadalajara, Mexico, on June 30. (Fernando Carranza/Reuters)

On Twitter, Jalisco Gov. Enrique Alfaro said Civil Protection personnel quickly began cleanup, digging vehicles out from beneath the sea of hail and pumping out floodwaters once it had started to melt.

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“I’ve never seen such scenes in Guadalajara,” Alfaro told AFP.

“Then we ask ourselves if climate change is real. These are never-before-seen natural phenomenons,” he said. “It’s incredible.”

In some places, the hail was up to five feet deep, AFP reported.

Residents in the mountainous area, which sits about 350 miles west of Mexico City, reported damage to nearly 200 homes and businesses, according to AFP, and some 50 vehicles were swept away by the heavy ice and rain. No injuries or casualties were reported, Alfaro said..."

Vehicles buried in hail are seen in the streets. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images)

Trucks are buried in ice. (Fernando Carranza/Reuters)

Assam flood situation serious, over 62,000 in 8 districts affected

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The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said 145 villages are under water and 3,435 hectares of crop areas have been damaged.

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Tropical Storm Barry floods New Orleans as Mississippi River is set to rise to highest level in more than 90 years and mandatory evacuations are ordered for at least 10,000 people as Gulf Coast braces for 'dangerous' hurricane conditions

• Storm in Gulf of Mexico has officially become Tropical Storm Barry, and is expected to become hurricane
• The storm dumped as much as eight inches of rain in three hours over parts of New Orleans on Wednesday  
• Major flooding and potential storm surge prompted Louisiana Gov Bel Edwards to declare state of emergency
• New Orleans' historic French Quarter was also significantly flooded by the storm along Royal Street
• The Mississippi River is forecast to crest at highest level since 1927 this weekend - more than 90 years
• Mandatory evacuation issued 6am Thursday for as many as 10,000 people in Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana
• Storm is set to deposit between 10 to 15 inches of rain on Gulf Coast from west Texas, through Louisiana coast
• New Orleans has been hit by devastating storms before, including 2005's Hurricane Katrina which killed 1,833

Tropical Storm Barry continued to bear down on the Gulf Coast Friday, flooding parts of New Orleans and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for at least 10,000 people in parts of Louisiana as it was expected to become a hurricane by the weekend.

Just before 11am Thursday morning, the storm officially became a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

The NHC says the storm's maximum sustained winds Thursday morning are near 40mph with additional strengthening expected during the next day or two. A tropical storm warning is now in effect for the Louisiana coast from the mouth of the Pearl River to Morgan City.

'There is a danger of life-threatening storm surge inundation along the coast of southern and southeastern Louisiana, where a Storm Surge Warning is now in effect,' the NHC tweeted shortly after 11am. 

The slow-moving storm was located about 95 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River, the center said. 

While the storm did not yet have hurricane-strength winds, officials warned the heavy rainfall and storm surge it would bring could threaten low-lying New Orleans, which already has been hit by flooding after eight inches of rain fell on the metro city within three hours on Wednesday.  

New Orleans' historic French Quarter was significantly flooded by the storm along Bourbon and Royal streets.  

The center warned New Orleans residents that if the storm becomes a hurricane, it could potentially bring a coastal storm surge into the mouth of the Mississippi River capable of raising the river's height to 20 feet above sea level - the highest crest in more than 90 years and high enough to overflow some sections of the levee system protecting the city.

That warning prompted Louisiana Gov Bel Edwards to declare a state of emergency on Wednesday. 

'The storm system will likely produce storm surge, hurricane force winds,' he said at a news conference. 'No one should take this storm lightly.'  

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Just before 11am Thursday morning, the storm officially became Tropical Storm Barry, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC)

Tropical Storm Barry is the second named tropical storm of the year, and ultimately the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019 as it heads closer to land

The Hurricane Center warned New Orleans residents that if the storm becomes a hurricane, it could potentially bring a coastal storm surge capable of raising the Mississippi River's height to 20 feet above sea level - the highest crest in more than 90 years and high enough to overflow some sections of the levee system protecting the city

Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for at least 10,000 people in parts of Louisiana (partially submerged vehicles in New Orleans on Wednesday) ahead of Tropical Storm Barry that could turn into a hurricane by the weekend

The storm has already dumped as much as eight inches of rain in just three hours over parts of metro New Orleans on Wednesday 

The Hurricane Center warned New Orleans residents that if the storm becomes a hurricane, it could potentially bring a coastal storm surge into the mouth of the Mississippi River capable of raising the river's height to 20 feet above sea level, high enough to overflow some sections of the levee system protecting the city

National Guard troops are in place across the state, the governor said.  

Some residents and visitors prepared to flee New Orleans on Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry closed in and officials warned of 'extreme rain' and flooding.

City officials urged residents to shelter in place rather than evacuate.

Forecasters issued a storm-surge warning of up to 6 feet for a stretch of Louisiana coastline south of already-sodden New Orleans stretching from the mouth of the Atchafalaya River to Shell Beach. 

Rain was an equal danger, given that the lower Mississippi River, which runs through New Orleans, has been above flood stage for six months.

The lower Mississippi is forecast to peak at 19 feet on Saturday, the highest it has been since 1950, according to the National Weather Service.

'The more information we get, the more concerned we are that this is going to be an extreme rain event,' Gov Edwards said Thursday afternoon.

'If Tropical Storm Barry becomes a hurricane, it would be the first time we've had the hurricane hit the state with rising rivers,' he added. 

Edwards said National Guard troops and high-water vehicles would be positioned all over the state.

'The entire coast of Louisiana is at play in this storm,' the governor said. 

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19.9 million people affected by floods, 34 000 homes collapsed and 1.7 million ha of crops damaged, China

Thessalonica, GREECE:  7-16-2019  Approximately 100 people had injuries, 23 people needed more intensive medical care. The material damages were also great, houses destroyed and streets full of debris are the results of the devastation provoked by lightning.

Subway storm surge: Viral video shows flash flood at Court Square station in LIC that nearly sent man onto tracks.   Thursday, July 18, 2019 / 12:45 PM

A straphanger recorded a freak flood at the Court Square-23rd Street station’s E train platform during Wednesday night’s thunderstorm outbreak that nearly sent a fellow commuter hurtling into an oncoming train.

The rush of water burst on July 17 through a construction wall, knocking a man to the ground and nearly washing him onto the tracks as a train was pulling up to the platform.

Posted to Twitter by Subway Creatures at 8 a.m. on Thursday, the video amassed over 13,000 views in just a few hours. According to the moderator of the Twitter account, the person who submitted the video wished to remain anonymous.

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Firefighters battling blaze at entrance to Jerusalem

07.18.19

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Dozen firefighting teams, four planes dispatched to the scene; train line from Ben-Gurion Airport to capital briefly suspended, Route 1 highway from Tel Aviv also closed sporadically

The fire comes a day after an extreme heatwave sent temperatures soaring into the 40s across much of the country, causing wildfires in multiple locations

Firefighters were battling Thursday to control a fire that broke out in the afternoon in the area of the Lifta nature reserve at the entrance to Jerusalem

A dozen firefighting and rescue teams and four firefighting planes were deployed to the scene.

The firefighters were able to stop the fire from spreading toward Route 1, the central highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, but have yet to control the fire.
The blazes broke out in the Haifa region and Wadi Ara in the north; Modi'in, Petah Tikva, Kfar Sava and Kfar Yona in central Israel and in Ashdod in the south.

The fire at the entrance to Jerusalem

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First blackouts, then a heatwave and now FLOODING: Severe storms and heavy downpours leaves New York streets underwater less than 24 hours after the temperatures hit 100F

• Heavy rain caused flooding in streets and subway stations across Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey on Monday night 
• Footage filmed by bystanders captured a woman wading through knee deep water in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg 
• In other parts of Brooklyn, parked cars were nearly completely submerged by floodwaters 
• Subway stations also experienced rains pouring through and onto the platforms
• A flash flood warning had earlier been issued by the National Weather Service
• The hellish storm comes after New Yorkers experienced sweltering 100 degree temperatures over the weekend that resulted in widespread blackouts 

A severe storm has brought flash flooding and torrential rains to New York just after a brutal heatwave plagued the city and caused chaos due to power outages. 

Heavy rain caused flooding in streets and subway stations across Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey on Monday night.

Footage filmed by bystanders captured a woman wading through knee deep water in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg.

In other parts of Brooklyn, parked cars were nearly completely submerged by floodwaters. Full garbage bags and traffic cones could also be seen floating down streets following the hellish storm. 

Heavy rain caused flooding in streets and subway stations across Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey on Monday night

In parts of Brooklyn, parked cars were nearly completely submerged by floodwaters after the rain subsided 

Cars submerged underwater as Brooklyn street is flooded

Subway stations also experienced rains pouring through and onto the platforms. 

There was significant flooding on highways in Queens, including the Long Island Expressway and Francis Lewis Boulevard. 

Neighborhoods in Brooklyn affected by the severe floods included Park Slope, Borough Park and Williamsburg. 

Parts of Staten Island were also heavily affected by floodwaters and downed trees and heavy hail was reported in New Jersey. 

A flash flood warning had earlier been issued by the National Weather Service. 

New York City Speaker Corey Johnson said the Department of Environment Protection was sending personnel out to clear catch basins. 

'Street debris gets swept on top of sewer grates and blocks water from entering. Personnel will rake and clear the tops of the basins and flooding should subside,' he tweeted. 

One woman in Queens didn't wait for authorities and was spotted removing debris with a traffic cone to help reduce the flooding. 

HEAT WAVE USA

Police ask criminals to wait until the end of the heat wave before resuming their activities

July 23, 2019

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The east coast and the southern United States were hit by strong heatwaves this weekend, and it seems that high temperatures have inspired several police departments across the country, which have cracked messages to say the least surreal .

"WE'LL MEET ON MONDAY, WHEN IT WILL BE MORE FRESH"

" To carry out a criminal activity by this heat is very dangerous. Stay at home, turn on the air conditioning, watch the third season of Stranger Things, have fun with FaceApp, do karate in your basement. We meet again on Monday when it will be cooler . "This is the content of the message to the least strange that Internet users were able to read this weekend on the official Facebook page of the police Braintree , which was disabled following the buzz generated on social networks.

Questioned by CNN about this unusual request, the police department of this city of 35 000 inhabitants located in Massachusetts , confirmed that his page was not pirated and that his own agents were indeed at the origin of this release , inviting criminals to curb their impulses during this hot weekend. In recent days, the thermometer was close to 39 ° C in this part of the country, and the high humidity made any physical activity supported outside particularly painful, even dangerous.
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Paris: up to 41 ° C Thursday

23/07/19
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The heatwave will be intense in Paris and Ile-de-France with 40 to 41 ° C possibly reached on the capital this Thursday. This Monday, level 3 heat wave has been activated in Paris and Ile-de-France.

A new heatwave has been rife on the country since yesterday. It will be " very difficult bearable " and " as strong and almost as extended as the one in August 2003 ", according to the weather channel, with local tips reaching 42°C.

This heat wave is linked to the rise of a Saharan air that causes an outbreak of the thermometer. In Paris, the heat will be stifling.

The heat wave this week is the second of this summer 2019. At the end of June, a record of absolute heat in France was reached with 46 ° C in Herault. In Paris, the temperature had reached "only" 36.5 ° C because of the north-east wind which had "limited" in extremis the intense heat wave that was undergoing the north-west of the country, with for example 42 ° C surveyed in Maine-et-Loire ...

Unprecedented temperatures smash all time heat records in Europe as the mercury climbs past 40 deg C (104 deg f) with higher heat yet to come

Credit The Sun.

The Netherlands is preparing for the third tropical day in a row.
On Thursday it is expected to be even hotter than in recent days with temperatures to hit an all-time record of 40 degrees C (104 deg F).
Due to the extreme heat, the KNMI has announced code orange; according to the weather institute, the code orange warning is in place at least until Saturday evening.

Meanwhile, the temperature in Belgium struck 39.9 degrees C (103.82 F), smashing the country's previous high of 36.6 degrees C (97.88 F) in June 1947 in records dating back to 1833, according to David Dehenauw, the head of forecasting at the Royal Meteorological Institute.
It was set to be even hotter on Thursday.

Germany's weather service said a new record of 40.5C - just 0.2C higher - had been set in Geilenkirchen, near the Belgian and Dutch borders.
The new German record was still to be confirmed, it said, warning that it could get even hotter on Thursday.

The highest temperature recorded in Paris, 40.4C in 1947 - is expected to be surpassed on Thursday.

Luxembourg is on red alert for the south and the capital - with temperatures possibly climbing higher than 40C on Thursday.

In the UK, temperatures are predicted to exceed 35C and could be the highest ever recorded

Source: http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/07/unprecedented-temperatures-smas...

HEAT WAVE FRANCE JULY 25 2019

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The hottest day ever in Paris is challenging for our hardware ????.
We already had to stop all our dev' computers but the temperature is still soaring. We still have to face a couple of hours with this situation. We keep our fingers crossed ?? and hope you manage to stay cool enough where you are ??.

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FRANCE REGION THE NEW SAHARA DESERT

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Massive wildfires continue to rage in Siberia, emergency declared in several regions 

Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations vowed to deploy additional forces and hardware to Siberia to fight the massive fires on Monday. “An emergency situation has been declared across the whole Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions, as well as certain parts of Buryatia,” the ministry said.

To curb the blazes, these three regions need at least 15 thousand personnel on the ground, Deputy Emergencies Minister Evgeny Zinichev said. The official criticized the statements of local officials who argued against fighting the fires despite the large areas affected and the massive smoke buildup in at least 500 Siberian cities and villages.

“There are fires not attended by men, since they can be reached only by air. Yet we have hundreds of settlements engulfed in smoke, the citizens are calling for help, and any economic reasons must not affect delivery of this help,” Zinichev said.

An online petition demanding a state of emergency be declared throughout all Siberia was launched, and it received over 400,000 signatures in just a week. The Emergencies Ministry apparently listened to their pleas for help.

Satellite image of the wildfires in the Irkutsk, Buryatia and Yakutia regions captured on July 28. © planet.rssi.ru

The fires began in Siberia earlier this month, primaril affecting wooded, unpopulated areas. The fires, however, are accompanied by thick plumes of smoke that have engulfed major Siberian cities such as Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk. Apart from posing a direct health risk, the smoke has already disrupted the work of several airports duty to the almost total lack of visibility.

The city of Novosibirsk is seen engulfed in smoke amid raging wildfires on July 27, 2019. ©  Aleksandr Kryazhev

Local authorities were reluctant to actually extinguish the fires, citing a 2015 order by the Ministry of Natural Resources that allows wildfires to be left unattended if they do not threaten settlements and the cost of fighting them surpasses the estimated damage. The wildfires and controversial rules on how to (not) extinguish them have also garnered the attention of Russian legislators who have vowed to make the ministry review the order.

The same argument was repeated by Krasnoyarsk Governor Aleksandr Uss on Monday. The official said that wildfires are “regular natural occurrences” that have always happened throughout history, and it is “pointless, and sometimes harmful to fight” them.

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Bridge collapses as hailstones and floods bombard North Yorkshire

North America's strange and bizarre summer continues: A new record low is broken as Minnesota drops to 37 degrees F, (2.5 deg C)

Photo Max Brickman

The crazy weather affecting the US in 2010 continues when a new daily low-temperature record was set in International Falls, where the mercury dipped to 37 degrees F, (2.5 deg C), breaking the record (38 degrees) set back in 1898.
The low temperature recorded in Minnesota on Tuesday morning is around 20 deg F cooler than it should be this time of the year.
Temperatures in the area don’t typically reach the 30s until late September, early October.

Just 10 days ago, a  dangerous and deadly heatwave gripped more than half of the U.S.
Tens of millions baked in record-setting high temperatures with heat advisories or warnings from the Midwest to much of the East Coast.
A very rare July "cold front", ended the gargantuan heatwave, which raised a few eyebrows.

2019 has already been declared the worst agricultural disaster in modern American history with catastrophic flooding, continued through March to the beginning of July.

Anchorage, Alaska hit 89 degrees F, (32 deg C), in July to break the all-time highest temperature ever recorded: Campbell Creek hit 91 degrees F, (33 deg C)
Meanwhile, as Alaska has been suffering the heatwave for weeks now with temperatures reaching 92 deg F, (33.5 deg C), massive fires in remote areas are burning out of control.
Plumes of smoke from the fires can be seen from space.
Alaska alone has lost 1.6 billion acres to wildfires this year.

While the continental United States recorded its wettest 12-month period in recorded history this year, historic flooding and record-shattering rainfall amount landed May 2019 as the second-wettest month in the United States according to a report by Accuweather.

Many farmers are facing bankruptcy this summer as many farms have been to waterlogged to plant crops.

Source: www.thebigwobble.org/2019/07/north-americas-strange-and-bizarre.html

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Heat-related illnesses have claimed 11 lives and sent nearly 6,000 others to hospitals in Japan as the mercury rose following the end of rainy season, according to the government on Tuesday.

The heatwave saw 5,664 people taken to hospitals, 1,199 of whom displayed severe symptoms requiring at least three weeks of treatment, and 1,792 requiring shorter treatment for less serious symptoms.

On Tuesday, temperatures continued to soar, and the agency and weather officials warned people to take preventative measures against heatstroke and other heat-related illnesses, Xinhua news agency reported.

Tajimi in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, saw the mercury rise to 37.1 degrees Celsius, while Kumagaya in Tokyo's neighbouring prefecture of Saitama and Kyoto saw temperatures rocket to 36.8 degrees Celsius.

In Tokyo, the daytime high was logged at 35.4 degrees Celsius. Temperatures across Japan are expected to stay above 25 degrees Celsius overnight.

In the week to last Sunday, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said 52.6 per cent of the people hospitalised were aged 65 and above.

Aichi Prefecture saw the most people rushed to hospital with 393 cases, followed by Osaka Prefecture with 388 cases. Tokyo, meanwhile, saw 299 people rushed to hospital suffering from heat-related medical conditions.

Across wide swathes of Japan from north to south, temperatures were forecast to remain upwards of 36 degrees Celsius through Wednesday, weather officials said.

600 people killed, over 25 million affected by flooding in India, Bangladesh, Nepal & Myanmar

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At least 600 people have been killed and over 25 million others affected by flooding due to the torrential monsoon rains in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Myanmar, the UN has said.

At that 600 people have reportedly been killed in monsoon-related incidents, he said.

Haq said that according to the UN’s humanitarian personnel, “more than 25 million people have been affected by flooding due to the torrential monsoon rains in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Myanmar, with more than half a million people displaced, our humanitarian colleagues tell us”.

In India, UNICEF is working with the state governments to provide multi-sectoral planning and coordination support in the three worst-affected states of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

The UN agency said that while many areas remain inaccessible due to damage to roads, bridges and railways, the most urgent needs for children are clean water, hygiene supplies to prevent the spread of disease, food supplies and safe places in evacuation centres for children to play.

In India, more than 10 million people have been affected across Assam, Bihar, parts of UP and other north-eastern states, including more than 4.3 million children.

As the situation develops, these numbers are only likely to increase.

In Assam alone, almost 2,000 schools have been damaged by floodwaters. While parts of India have been suffering from heavy rainfall and flooding, other parts are still reeling from the aftermath of severe heat and water deficit, affecting almost half of the country.

In Bangladesh, it is estimated that over four million people have been affected and the UN is helping to assess needs to determine the necessary response and is also supporting the government in the areas of water and sanitation as well as health.

In Myanmar, waters in some areas have receded, allowing some of those who had been uprooted to return home, but over 40,000 people remain displaced.

“The governments in all four countries are leading the response with support from the UN, aid agencies and the private sector,” Haq said.

Last week, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said heavy rainfall, flooding and landslides across Nepal, India and Bangladesh have killed at least 93 children and put the lives of millions more at risk.

UNICEF estimated that more than 12 million people, including about five million children, have been affected.

“Millions of children have seen their lives turned upside down by the torrential rainfall, flooding and landslides,” UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia Jean Gough said.

In Nepal, an estimated 68,666 people are temporarily displaced, including 28,702 children. A total of 88 people have died, including 47 children (15 girls and 32 boys).

In Bangladesh, monsoon rains continue to affect most of the country, particularly the central-northern and south-east regions.

Over two million people have been affected by flooding, including around 700,510 children. An estimated 367,341 houses have been damaged or destroyed and 1,866 primary and community schools have been damaged by floodwaters.

Cox’s Bazar home to more than a million Rohingya refugees – has been hit by excessive rain this month.

“Across the region, we are seeing the devastating impact of extreme weather events on children and families. As weather events become more extreme, unpredictable and erratic, it is children who are paying the heaviest price,” said Gough.

“Such events can cause death and devastation and can also contribute to the increased spread of major killers of children, such as malnutrition, malaria and diarrhoea.

“And as these extreme climate events increase in frequency and magnitude, the risks to children will likely outpace global capacity to mitigate them as well as to provide a humanitarian response,” it said, adding that floods threaten children’s survival and development, with direct impacts including injuries and death by drowning.

Meanwhile, health-focused relief and development organisation Americares said its chapter in India, Americares India, is organising medical teams to treat survivors of the monsoon rains that have inundated South Asia.

Beginning next week, Americares India will organise medical teams in three districts in Assam and two districts in Bihar, where continuous rains and contaminated water have heightened health concerns.

The teams, operated in partnership with local health care organisations, will provide medical care and dispense medications as needed. Americares also plans to deliver hygiene kits.

“With homes and roads submerged in several feet of standing water, we expect to see an increase in infections. Our medical teams will focus on providing primary care and basic first aid for the most vulnerable survivors, including pregnant women, children and the elderly,” said Americares India Managing Director Shripad Desai.

Americares India, based in Mumbai, provides emergency medical and humanitarian aid in response to floods, cyclones, earthquakes and other disasters.

RUSSIA AUGUST 2019

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In Russia, while the North-East of Siberia is experiencing exceptionally high temperatures and a very serious drought caused by gigantic fires, Moscow has experienced its freshest month of July since 1979. and next Monday, the maximum temperature It will be hard to reach 10°C in the Russian capital, a lower value of 14°C to the seasonal normal!

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Russia In the city of Tulun, Irkutsk region, men are already fishing from the second floor balcony. The city is experiencing a second flood in a month.

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All time maximum temperature record shattered at the Summit station on the top of the Greenland ice sheet (3202 m). Previously the record was 2.2 °C, set in 2012 and 2017, broken on Thursday (Aug 1st) with 2.7 °C and then shattered the next day with 4.7 °C! This is nearly 20 °C warmer than average. Source: TV 2 VEJRET via Bjarki Gyldenkærne Dalsgarð - thank you!

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More than 12 BILLION tons of ice melts in Greenland in just ONE DAY amid record-breaking scorching temperatures

• Melted glacier water gushed under a bridge in Kangerlussiauq in Greenland  
• The Greenland ice sheet lost 12 billion tons of ice on Wednesday due to heat
• That would be the equivalent of four million Olympic swimming pools 
• This day alone was responsible for global sea levels rising by 0.5mm 
• The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest in the world 
• By the end of the year it could lose 60 - 70 billion tons of ice experts believe
• July was anticipated to be the hottest month in recorded history 

Shocking footage from Greenland shows melted glacier water gushing under a bridge after 12 billions tons of ice was lost in one day.

The grayish-white flood was filmed crashing into the surrounding channels of land and racing under a bridge in Kangerlussiauq on Thursday.

It's believed that the melted ice is the equivalent of around four million Olympic swimming pools, according to CNN. 

It was caused by soaring temperatures across the globe this year, which in July led to more than 197 billion tons of sea ice melting. 

Greenland temperature melts 10 billion tons of ice in one day.

Gushing waters flood under a bridge in Greenland (above) after more than 12 billion tons of sea ice melted in 24 hours

The floods of water (above) were revealed from aerial views of the surrounding area shot for the 'Into The Ice' Documentary

A NASA satellite image shows melt water in northwest Greenland (above) near the ice sheet's edge, on Wednesday when 70 billion tons of sea ice was lost from the Greenland ice sheet alone

Typically the melt season begins at the end of May and lasts until the end of August, this year it started in early May and could on for longer.

Data from temperatures in July is still being analysed but could be have been the hottest in history, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Programme. 

The previous record high in July 2016. 

The Greenland ice sheet, which is the second largest in the world, could lose around 60 to 70 billion tons of ice by the end of the year.

This season's melt in Greenland has already contributed to around a half millimeter rise in global sea levels. 

Similar footage of the water filmed by Laurie Gibbett had been watched over 3.73 million times and retweeted by more than 53,800 accounts as of Friday.

Gibbet, of the Council on Foreign Relations, described the scenes she witnessed on Thursday as a 'roaring glacial melt.'

AMAZON - BRASIL AUGUST 7 2019

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Attention - huge feather of smoke going south of Brazil. Severe burned occur in the Amazon, and may occur until the fall of soot in Rio Grande do SUL

The next sunset and dawnthe air must be very polluted, rain can occur in the next cold and hot front that advances between this Thursday and Friday.

In addition to the fires that occur in the Amazon, in the serra between Rio Grande do sul and Santa Catarina, some fires occur on the afternoon

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Tornadoes Tear Through Southern Luxembourg, Amsterdam: Storms Injure Nearly 2 Dozen

The storm caused major damage in the Luxembourg town of Pétange, where the mayor told the Luxembourg Times that roofs had been ripped off of about 100 homes.

Seven people were taken to the hospital, at least one with serious injuries, the news outlet reported.

Photos posted to social media showed extensive damage

Mayor Pierre Mellina said officials were arranging hotel rooms and other accommodations for those displaced by the storm. The government had also activated a crisis response team and a French rescue unit had arrived to provide assistance.

Tornadoes are unusual but not unheard of in the small European country of only about 600,000 people, sandwiched between Germany, Belgium and France. A cold front moving across Europe brought thunderstorms to the region that spawned the tornado, weather.com meteorologist Jonathan Belles said.

Photos and videos posted from Amsterdam showed a brief tornado. While the storm surprised residents, there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage.

Weather Underground meteorologist Bob Henson said tornado observations in Europe have become more reliable and numerous in recent years. A 2014 study based on the European Severe Weather Database shows an average of 300 to 400 tornadoes a year since reliable records began in 2006, Henson said.

The most frequent month for European tornadoes is July, with June and August running second.

In Germany, 15 members of a soccer team sustained minor injuries by a lightning strike.

and in India:

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Monsoon floods in India kill at least 100, displace thousands

August 9 2019

More than 300,000 people displaced as Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra states are hit by devastating floods.

Floods have killed at least 100 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across much of India with the southern state of Kerala being the worst hit, authorities said

With rains predicted to worsen in the coming days, the federal government ordered military teams to form rescue units and airlift food to stranded villages across Kerala.

At least 48 people have died since Thursday in floods in Kerala, where the beaches and hill resorts are a major international tourist magnet, state police spokesman Pramod Kumar told the AFP news agency.

In neighbouring Karnataka, at least 24 people have been killed with nine people missing. The western states of Maharashtra and Gujarat have also been badly hit by annual monsoon storms.

Media reports said at least 27 people have lost their lives in Maharashtra, with several major roads closed by the flooding.

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Deadly typhoon hits eastern China, one million evacuated

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At least 13 people were killed and 16 others missing as Typhoon Lekima lashed eastern China Saturday, downing thousands of trees and forcing more than a million people from their homes.

Waves several metres high hit the coastline as the storm made landfall in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai.

Thirteen people were killed and 16 missing in a landslide triggered by torrential rains brought by the storm, national television reported.

The tragedy occurred in the municipality of Wenzhou, around 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of Shanghai, CCTV said.

"Torrential rains caused a landslide on a mountain that blocked a river below," it said.

The resulting "dam" created a lake which swept downstream when it burst.

More than a million people were evacuated from their homes ahead of the storm, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Some 110,000 people were housed in shelters.

The monster storm made landfall in the early hours in Wenling City, packing winds of 187 kilometres per hour (116 miles per hour), and was expected to churn up the east coast towards Shanghai, Xinhua added.

Footage broadcast on CCTV showed a torrent of muddy water surging through the streets and emergency workers rescuing a man trapped under rubble and fallen trees.

One street in Yueqing city, part of Wenzhou, was shown completely flooded.

China issued a red alert as the storm approached on Friday, before downgrading the level to orange as winds eased on Saturday morning.

Lekima has been downgraded from a super typhoon to a typhoon as it headed northwards inland.

More heavy rain was forecast for the Shanghai area and the neighbouring provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with authorities warning of possible flash floods, mudslides and landslides caused by the downpours.

In Zhejiang province alone, nearly 300 flights were cancelled, and ferry and rail services were suspended as a precaution.

Around 300,000 people were relocated in Shanghai, where the high-speed maglev train that links the city to one of its airports was suspended.

Shanghai Disneyland was also closed for the first time since the amusement park opened in 2016.

Lekima had earlier swept past the northern tip of Taiwan on Friday, where nine people were injured, thousands of homes lost power temporarily and more than 500 flights were cancelled.

Last September, Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into mainland China where authorities evacuated more than two million people, after it left a trail of destruction in Hong Kong and Macau and killed at least 59 people in the northern Philippines.

*World Weather* Lightning flashes detected within 500 km of the North Pole - at 85°N and 126°E early on August 11th (UTC). This is an exceptionally rare event. Report: US National Weather Service Fairbanks Alaska - AUGUST 2019

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Hat-trick! Krosa will be the third storm to hit Japan in only 10 days after super typhoon Lekima hit late last week and typhoon Francisco made landfall on Aug 6

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• Tropical Storm Krosa will be the third storm to hit eastern Asia in 10 days. 
• Lekima first hit Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands as a super typhoon late last week.
• Francisco made landfall in southern Japan as typhoon Tuesday, Aug. 6, local time, with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph

A severe tropical storm may make landfall in western Japan on Thursday, bringing torrential rains, violent winds, and rough seas. The Meteorological Agency estimates that Krosa was situated 220 kilometres southeast of Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture at 3 p.m. on Wednesday. The agency says the storm is moving north-northwest, producing sustained winds of 108 kilometres per hour and gusts of 144 kilometres per hour. The agency says Krosa may approach the western regions of Kyushu and Shikoku. It adds that the storm may sweep through western Japan on Thursday.

Rainfall for the 24 hours through noon on Thursday is expected to reach 900 millimetres in Shikoku, 600 in Tokai, and 500 in Kinki, and northern and southern Kyushu. For the 24 hours through Friday noon the numbers are 600 to 800 millimetres in Tokai, 400 to 600 in Shikoku and Kinki, and 200 to 300 in northern Kyushu and Chugoku. The overall precipitation may exceed 1,200 millimetres in some areas. Krosa is also expected to bring strong winds to the Pacific side of western Japan through Thursday, with speeds of 108 kilometres per hour for Shikoku and 97 kilometres per hour for northern and southern Kyushu. Gusts are expected to reach 144 to 162 kilometres per hour. The seas are already rough. Expected wave heights through Thursday are 10 meters along with the coastal areas of Shikoku and 9 meters along the shores of northern and southern Kyushu, Kinki and Tokai. People are advised to stay on the alert for violent winds, high waves, and storm surges, as well as mudslides, floods, and swollen rivers.

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A total of 56 wildfires burning out of control in parts of Greece as smoke from the Evia fire covers Athens and strong winds fan the flames

FIRES CANARY ISLANDS - SPAIN REGION

AUGUST 19 2019

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 FIRE OUT OF HUMAN CAPACITY OF ACTION.

Federico Grillo, emergency chief of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, said: "The human being is not able to face firestorms like the ones we are having."
These statements reflect in a very graphic way the virulence of this fire: Ravenous and infernal.

That was last night. A hell. Various nuclei of the Tejeda caldera, hamlets of the Agaete Valley, El Risco de Agaete and the municipal capital of Valleseco were evicted.

The data until 08:00 were the following:

-6,000 hectares that could reach 8,000 today.
-70 perimeter kiometers
-60 population centers evacuated.
-8-000 people evacuated.
-8 municipalities affected.
-20 roads cut

What has hurt the Grancanarians the most has been the arrival of the Tamadaba front, a very well preserved pine grove, one of the most beautiful and most important natural landscapes in the Canary Islands.

We are facing a type of fire that technicians call "hungry" or "convective", hence those large columns of smoke called pyro-clusters whose origin is similar to storm clouds and that we have seen from anywhere on the island. The flames reach 50 meters. It is the type of fire most feared by the emergency teams.

-Pirocumulus from Sardina above the Pinar de Tamadaba. Magnificent shot of Ysse.

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Regina and Saskatoon see record-breaking low temperatures

A large low-pressure system caused record-breaking low temperatures in Saskatchewan — and in northern British Columbia (pictured), where it snowed on the weekend. 

A blast of cold air from the Arctic brought record-breaking low summer temperatures to central Saskatchewan on Sunday.

In Regina, the temperature reached a low of 2 C, breaking the record of 2.8 C set in 1901. In Saskatoon, the mercury dropped to 0.7 C, breaking the record low of 2.2 C set in 1940.

North Battleford broke the longest-standing record. Temperatures dropped to 0.5 C, breaking the record low of 1.7 C set all the way back in 1895.

According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECC), the cause for the drop was a large low-pressure system that was sitting over northern Saskatchewan that sucked cold air down from the Arctic. The plummeting temperatures even brought snow to areas of northern British Columbia and Alberta.

Clear skies helped drag the temperatures down over central regions of the province.

Terri Lang, a meteorologist with ECC, explained that cloud cover usually acts like a blanket, trapping heat. Without that blanket, Lang said it allowed temperatures in those areas to sink.

Temperature drops like this are rare, but not unprecedented. Especially for Saskatchewan. Lang said this drop isn’t the sign of a trend.

“It’s the nature of where we are. We’re one of the places in North America that’s really far away from water,” said Lang.

Water helps moderate temperature, and since Saskatchewan is not near any major lakes or oceans, Lang said temperatures are at the mercy of weather systems.

“So we can get the really hot stuff from the south, we can get the really humid stuff from the southeast, and we can get the real cold stuff from the north,” said Lang.

The nights are also getting longer, which allows the cold air to get deeper. This, as Lang explained, is unfortunately a sign that summer won’t be around much longer.

“We’re turning that corner, I think, into the end of summer and coming into fall, which is a tough realization,” said Lang.

The likelihood of crops being damaged by the brief temperature drop is low. Cory Jacob, a crops extension specialist with the province’s Ministry of Agriculture, said lighter frosts at these temperatures are not as severe as the heavier ones, which happen in the -4 to -5 C range.

“This would be minor damage, in our opinion, if any,” said Jacob.

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Eyes on an extreme ice smasher headed for the ArcticWednesday, August 21st 2019, 3:45 pm - This storm is about two months early for the Arctic.

Poland, Slovakia Lightning Kills at Least 5, Injures 150  

Three people remained missing Friday morning and rescuers were still combing the area looking for other victims, according to the Associated Press.

"A large group of random people has been hit," Jan Krzysztof, chief of the mountain rescue service, said. "Many people, including children. Burnt, with broken legs, wounds all over their bodies."

Four of the dead were struck on a popular hiking trail to the summit of Giewont, a peak in southern Poland's Tatra mountains, the BBC reported. Officials think a lightning bolt may have struck a nearly 50-foot-tall metal cross and then traveled along a metal railing.

"We heard that after (the) lightning struck, people fell," Krzysztof said. "The current then continued along the chains securing the ascent, striking everyone along the way. It looked bad."

The fifth person killed was struck in neighboring Slovakia. The victim was a Czech tourist who fell hundreds of yards down a mountainside after being hit.

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