Earth Changes and the Pole Shift
Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect
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"We warned at the start of ZetaTalk, in 1995, that unpredictable weather extremes, switching about from drought to deluge, would occur and increase on a lineal basis up until the pole shift. Where this occurred steadily, it has only recently become undeniable. ZetaTalk, and only ZetaTalk, warned of these weather changes, at that early date. Our early warnings spoke to the issue of global heating from the core outward, hardly Global Warming, a surface or atmospheric issue, but caused by consternation in the core. Affected by the approach of Planet X, which was by then starting to zoom rapidly toward the inner solar system for its periodic passage, the core was churning, melting the permafrost and glaciers and riling up volcanoes. When the passage did not occur as expected in 2003 because Planet X had stalled in the inner solar system, we explained the increasing weather irregularities in the context of the global wobble that had ensued - weather wobbles where the Earth is suddenly forced under air masses, churning them. This evolved by 2005 into a looping jet stream, loops breaking away and turning like a tornado to affect the air masses underneath. Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, droughts had become more intractable and deluges positively frightening, temperature swings bringing snow in summer in the tropics and searing heat in Artic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity."
From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for February 4, 2012:
The wobble seems to have changed, as the temperature in Europe suddenly plunged after being like an early Spring, Alaska has its coldest temps ever while the US and much of Canada is having an extremely mild winter. India went from fatal cold spell to balmy again. Has the Earth changed position vs a vs Planet X to cause this? [and from another] Bitter cold records broken in Alaska - all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy's Law intervenes [Jan 30] http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/30/bitter-cold-records-broken-in-alaska Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in the weather station just at the critical moment. While the continental USA has a mild winter and has set a number of high temperature records in the last week and pundits ponder whether they will be blaming the dreaded "global warming" for those temperatures, Alaska and Canada have been suffering through some of the coldest temperatures on record during the last week.
There has been no change in the wobble pattern, the wobble has merely become more severe. Nancy noted a Figure 8 format when the Earth wobble first became noticeable, in early 2005, after Planet X moved into the inner solar system at the end of 2003. The Figure 8 shifted along to the east a bit on the globe between 2005 and 2009, (the last time Nancy took its measure) as Planet X came closer to the Earth, encountering the magnetic N Pole with a violent push earlier in the day. But the pattern of the Figure 8 remained essentially the same. So what changed recently that the weather patterns became noticeably different in late January, 2012?
The N Pole is pushed away when it comes over the horizon, when the noon Sun is centered over the Pacific. This regularly puts Alaska under colder air, with less sunlight, and thus the historically low temps there this January, 2012 as the wobble has gotten stronger. But by the time the Sun is positioned over India, the N Pole has swung during the Figure 8 so the globe tilts, and this tilt is visible in the weather maps from Asia. The tilt has forced the globe under the hot air closer to the Equator, warming the land along a discernable tilt demarcation line.
The next loop of the Figure 8 swings the globe so that the N Pole moves in the other direction, putting the globe again at a tilt but this time in the other direction. This tilt is discernable in weather maps of Europe, again along a diagonal line. Depending upon air pressure and temperature differences, the weather on either side of this diagonal line may be suddenly warm or suddenly cold. The tilt and diagonal line lingers to affect much of the US and Canada, but the Figure 8 changes at this point to be an up and down motion, pulling the geographic N Pole south so the US is experiencing a warmer than expected winter under a stronger Sun. Then the cycle repeats, with the magnetic N Pole of Earth pushed violently away again as the Sun is positioned over the Pacific.
From the ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 6, 2013:
Would the Zetas be able to let us know what is causing the early break-up of the Arctic Ice, the ice seems to have taken on a swirling pattern at the same time, would this be wobble related? [and from another] http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/Canada+Arctic+cracks+spectacular+event/8185609/story.html The ice in Canada’s western Arctic ripped open in a massive “fracturing event” this spring that spread like a wave across 1,000 kilometres of the Beaufort Sea. Huge leads of water – some more than 500 kilometres long and as much as 70 kilometres across – opened up from Alaska to Canada’s Arctic islands as the massive ice sheet cracked as it was pushed around by strong winds and currents. It took just seven days for the fractures to progress across the entire area from west to east. [and from another] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80752&src=iotdrss A high-pressure weather system was parked over the region, producing warmer temperatures and winds that flowed in a southwesterly direction. That fueled the Beaufort Gyre, a wind-driven ocean current that flows clockwise. The gyre was the key force pulling pieces of ice west past Point Barrow, the northern nub of Alaska that protrudes into the Beaufort Sea.
The Figure 8 formed by the N Pole during the daily Earth wobble has shifted somewhat to the East, due to Planet X positioned more to the right of the Earth during its approach. This was anticipated, and well described in ZetaTalk, the Earth crowding to the left in the cup to escape the approach of Planet X, so the angle between these two planets would change slightly. This shift of the Figure 8 to the East is due to the push against the Earth’s magnetic N Pole occurring sooner each day than prior. Thus instead of occurring when the Sun is high over the Pacific, over New Zealand, it is now occurring when the Sun is high over Alaska. All the wobble points have shifted eastward accordingly.
This has brought a lingering Winter to the western US, and a changed sloshing pattern to the Arctic waters. Instead of Pacific waters being pushed through the Bering Straits into the Arctic when the polar push occurs, the wobble is swinging the Arctic to the right, and then later to the left, creating a circular motion in the waters trapped in the Arctic. Since the Earth rotates counterclockwise, the motion also takes this path. This is yet another piece of evidence that the establishment is hard pressed to explain. They are attempting to ascribe this to high pressure and wind, all of which are not new to the Arctic, but this circular early breakup of ice in the Arctic is new.
SongStar101
Scorching Death Valley May Have Just Reached a New Global Heat Record [130F/54.C]
https://www.sciencealert.com/death-valley-tops-130-f-setting-possib...
If that National Weather Service (NWS) measurement holds up, it will have been the hottest August temperature recorded there by 3 F (1.7 C), the hottest temperature recorded in Death Valley National Park in at least a century, and one of the hottest temperatures ever recorded anywhere in the world.
The mercury hit 130 F at 3:41 pm PDT, in the midst of a heatwave that has triggered power outages and wildfires across the American Southwest, as The Los Angeles Times reported.
Does the 130 F reading represent the world temperature record? Depends on who you ask. The World Meteorological Organization reports that the highest temperature ever recorded was 134 F (56.7 C) on July 10, 1913, at the same site: Death Valley's aptly named Furnace Creek Ranch.
But Christopher Burt, investigating the claim for The Weather Underground in 2016, cast doubt that the 134 F recording was accurate.
Another measurement, taken in 1931 in Kebili, Tunisia, was also higher than this year's, at 131 F (55.0 C). But there are also doubts about that claim, as The Washington Post noted.
The next universally agreed-upon record temperature was 129.0 F (53.9 C) in Death Valley on July 1, 2013. This new measurement, if confirmed, tops that.
Other local records were set across the southwest Sunday, including in two of America's largest cities: Los Angeles and Phoenix. This has been a particularly brutal summer in Phoenix, where the average temperature in July was 99 F (37.2 C), another record, according to KTAR News.
All these records arrive as global climate conditions rapidly deteriorate.
For instance, the Arctic is ablaze with wildfires for the second year in a row, which scientists worry means we have entered a global "fire regime" that even pessimistic climate change models didn't anticipate arriving until around the 2050s, according to The Post.
Originally published on Live Science.
Aug 20, 2020
SongStar101
California wildfires reach historic scale and are still growing
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Governor appeals for firefighting help nationally as tens of thousands are displaced; Trump declares ‘major disaster’
“I can’t sit at home and watch what’s going on. I have to do something,” said chief counsel Bruce Crane, 61, who was a firefighter in the 1980s. Back then, he and his colleagues thought a 50,000-acre fire was big, so the current 314,207-acre fire across Napa, Lake, Solano and Sonoma counties is “just mind-bogglingly huge,” Crane said.
The heat wave and lightning-sparked barrage of California wildfires continues to escalate, with one of the blazes now ranking as the second-largest fire in state history, while another also occupies a spot in the top five. The fires have claimed hundreds of homes and threaten tens of thousands more, forcing more than 100,000 to flee amid a coronavirus pandemic that vastly complicates evacuation decisions.
Cal Fire is directing a force of 13,700 firefighters battling the blazes, Crane said. That includes pilots dropping water or fire retardant, and 250 teams using chain saws, shovels, bulldozers and hand tools to cut wide dirt paths through the landscape to remove vegetation, he said.
“You want to make a mini road of bare dirt right next to the advancing fire. The fire will hit that mini road of bare dirt and run out of fuel,” Crane said. “That’s great unless you have a strong wind and then the wind will blow embers” across the dirt lanes, he said.
Beyond Cal Fire’s immediate force, specialists from the U.S. Forest Service, the California National Guard, and county and local fire departments also are pitching in, Crane said. And about 80 fire engines have arrived or are on the way from out of state to help.
“We’ve got a large fighting force, but you just can’t have enough for this large of an incident,” Crane said. “The governor has thrown a lot of money at Cal Fire; he’s really given us a lot of support, but this is unprecedented.”
Although firefighters have seen a letup in the high winds and heat that plagued Central and Northern California for much of the week, another round of thunderstorms that will deliver little rain but lightning that could start even more blazes is anticipated beginning early Sunday and lasting through Tuesday.
The fires have been blamed for at least six fatalities.
President Trump declared a “major disaster” in California on Saturday and ordered federal aid to areas affected by wildfires since Aug. 14.
The president has clashed publicly with the Democrat-led state and has repeatedly suggested that he might not put federal money toward wildfire measures there, faulting California as not adequately clearing its forest floors.
Aid related to the major disaster declaration could include “grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster,” a White House news release said.
Federal funding also could go toward “hazard mitigation measures” across the state and toward government and nonprofit entities for “emergency protective measures” in seven counties: Lake, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma and Yolo.
In seven days, the California blazes have charred nearly 1 million acres, according to Cal Fire, more than tripling the area burned during a typical fire season (a little more than 300,000 acres). The area burned is larger than Rhode Island.
The largest set of blazes in the state, known as the LNU Lightning Complex, had spread to a staggering 314,207 acres across Napa, Lake, Solano and Sonoma counties by Saturday morning. It was only 15 percent contained, and firefighters reported that “extreme fire behavior” is making battling the blaze difficult.
The size of the blaze puts it behind only the Mendocino Complex Fire of 2018, which burned about 459,000 acres, on the state’s list of largest fires on record since 1932. The fire complex, composed of several blazes burning in proximity, has destroyed 480 structures and threatens 30,500 more, according to Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency.
California wildfires send evacuees scrambling toward another threat...
Blazes burned through Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the state’s oldest and home to treasured redwood trees that are between 800 and 1,500 years old. California State Parks wrote that the park, which officials closed, suffered “extensive damage.”
A second large set of fires, known as the SCU Lightning Complex, now ranks as the third-largest blaze in state history, at 291,968 acres. This beats the Rush Fire of 2012, which burned about 272,000 acres.
More than 500,000 acres have been charred within a 100-mile radius of San Francisco, which is twice the land burned during the entire 2019 California fire season, according to climate scientist Daniel Swain of the University of California at Los Angeles.
The size of the blaze puts it behind only the Mendocino Complex Fire of 2018, which burned about 459,000 acres, on the state’s list of largest fires on record since 1932. The fire complex, composed of several blazes burning in proximity, has destroyed 480 structures and threatens 30,500 more, according to Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency.
California wildfires send evacuees scrambling toward another threat...
Blazes burned through Big Basin Redwoods State Park, the state’s oldest and home to treasured redwood trees that are between 800 and 1,500 years old. California State Parks wrote that the park, which officials closed, suffered “extensive damage.”
A second large set of fires, known as the SCU Lightning Complex, now ranks as the third-largest blaze in state history, at 291,968 acres. This beats the Rush Fire of 2012, which burned about 272,000 acres.
More than 500,000 acres have been charred within a 100-mile radius of San Francisco, which is twice the land burned during the entire 2019 California fire season, according to climate scientist Daniel Swain of the University of California at Los Angeles.
All of the top 10 fires in state history have occurred since 2003.
Here are key figures on the latest blazes:
California has seen a significant uptick in large-wildfire activity because of a combination of climate change, land-use practices and other factors. Large fires have also increased across other parts of the West, which climate studies tie to human-caused climate change that alters the timing of precipitation, makes summers hotter and vegetation drier, and leads to more days with extreme weather that enable fires to spread rapidly.
Many of the fires began when a heat wave and rare outbreak of thunderstorms produced more than 20,000 lightning strikes. The resulting fires — and “complexes” of many small fires — have merged into major conflagrations in parts of the state.
More than 100,000 people have been asked to evacuate, and they face difficult decisions about where to go. In the past, they might have stayed with friends or relatives, but now they need to calculate the risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus.
The blazes have spread smoke all the way to the Great Plains and have made air quality in parts of the Golden State deteriorate to the point where it ranks as some of the dirtiest air worldwide. Small particles in smoke can enter people’s lungs, harming those with asthma and other preexisting conditions.
The fires and their speed and thick smoke have presented a new terror amid a global pandemic — poor air quality and concerns about evacuating masses of people to crowded shelters, and that some might not heed the warnings.
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Bay Area wildfire live updates: LNU Lightning Complex Fires burn 341,238 acres, 17% contained
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Complete Bay Area updates on evacuations, road closures, school closures due to the fires.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A record-breaking heat wave combined with thousands of lightning strikes has sparked hundreds of wildfires around Northern California, burning homes and prompting evacuations.
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Aug 23, 2020
Starr DiGiacomo
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8655793/Man-47-killed-woma...
Chimney smashes through roof in high winds to kill man, 47, and injure woman, 28, as Britain faces up to threat of 70mph Canadian Vortex winds this week
PUBLISHED: 09:00 EDT, 23 August 2020 | UPDATED: 16:02 EDT, 23 August 2020
The chimney broke off the two-storey neighbouring house and slammed into their bungalow in Knight's Fold, Bradford, at 5.06am during high winds and rain.
The woman was rushed to hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Officers said inquiries are ongoing to establish the cause of the incident
The neighbours, including three children, emerged from their cottage unscathed.
The tragic incident took place as the country braces itself for more high winds - reaching speeds of 70mph - which are set to batter the UK later this week.
Forecasters have warned that a 700 mile-wide 'Canadian low pressure vortex' hits on Tuesday and Wednesday while the first frost of winter is forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend.
The new torment will see strong winds for more parts of Britain than Ellen, forecasters say, with the South and Midlands bearing the brunt.
A resident on the road said it was 'windy and rainy' last night and 'maybe the chimney was loosened and just fell off'.
'It's such a horrible thing to happen in your sleep. Just a freak accident.'
Awais Asghar, who works in a nearby corner shop, told the BBC: 'A chimney collapsed straight on to their roof and straight through and unfortunately the man passed away. He was a regular customer of mine. They were a nice couple.'
West Yorkshire Police have launched an investigation into the cause of the incident and a file is being prepared for the coroner.
Det Insp Claudine Binns, of Bradford District, said: 'This has clearly been a tragic incident in which a man has lost his life and a woman has received some serious injuries.
'Work is ongoing to make the building safe and we are in the early stages of a full investigation with the local authority to determine exactly how this fatal incident took place.
'The victim's family will be rehoused and authorities are working to support them in any way we can.'
A 700-mile wide Canadian Vortex is making its way across the Atlantic bringing high winds of up to 70mph to Britain
Child is killed and another seriously injured after they were hit by a falling tree in 60mph winds
A child has died after being hit by a falling tree in strong winds while another is seriously injured in hospital.
Kent Police received reports midday on Friday of children being injured in a woodland near the town of Sittingborne.
Officers declared one child dead at the scene and the other was airlifted to a London hospital with serious injuries.
The tragedy occurred as a yellow weather warning was in place by the Met Office - with winds of up to 60mph.
A spokesman said: 'Kent Police was called to a report two children had been injured by a falling tree near Parsonage Lane, Bobbing.
'Officers attended alongside South East Coast Ambulance Service, the air ambulance and Kent Fire and Rescue Service.
'One child was declared deceased at the scene and another child was airlifted to a London hospital with serious injuries.
'Kent Police is preparing a report for the coroner.'
The Met Office has already issued yellow warnings for 70mph gusts for the South, Midlands and Wales for Tuesday and Wednesday, caused by the new storm shown on weather maps as a 700 mile-wide 70mph 'Canadian low pressure vortex' heads to the UK.
MeteoGroup said the storm has potential to be named and warned of gusts faster than 60mph, with more parts hit by severe winds than during Storm Ellen.
The Environment Agency warned of more floods.
Met Office forecaster Marco Petagna said: 'Another deep area of low pressure looks like affecting the UK on Tuesday and Wednesday, with another wet and very windy spell likely.
'Even once the deep area of low pressure moves off the scene, there are signs of especially windy weather into Friday.
'It looks particularly unsettled in a changeable week ahead.'
Cool 16-21C highs are due over the next week, with another bout of gales hitting into Friday - and the Met Office even forecast frost chilling the Bank Holiday weekend. Frost is most likely in the North.
Autumn does not officially begin until next Tuesday, September 1.
Large waves and spray on coasts is predicted, along with possible disruption to some bus and train services.
'There's reasonable scope that the warning area might need to be extended further north,' Met Office meteorologist Steven Keates told MailOnline. 'For late August it is unseasonable. I think it's fair to say it is down a notch from Storm Ellen, but nonetheless windy enough.'
Parts of the UK have enjoyed a brief spell of sunshine today - with temperatures peaking at 73F (22C) - before Northern Ireland, Wales and central England were plunged into grey cloud cover and heavy showers.
MeteoGroup forecaster Paul Mott said: 'There's certainly the chance the storm will be named, especially with potential for the strongest winds to be more widespread than Storm Ellen, and with so many people being on holiday.
'Peak wind gust speeds similar to Elllen are a risk, with 60mph or a bit higher possible in the West.
'The low pressure is coming from just south of Newfoundland. It will be unpleasant when it arrives.
A Met office spokesman added: 'A spell of strong winds is likely to develop across the southwest of England and Wales on Tuesday morning, before spreading east across other parts of England and Wales overnight, clearing into the North Sea on Wednesday afternoon.
'Gusts of wind are likely to exceed 50mph for quite a few places, with exposed coasts and hills seeing gusts in excess of 60mph.
'While not exceptional, winds this strong are unusual for August, with possible transport disruption and impacts on outdoor activities.'
Storm Ellen brought high winds to the UK last week, with speeds up to 79mph recorded at Capel Curig, north Wales.
Met Office chief meteorologist Paul Gunderson added that it was a 'very lively' storm for August.
'With this spell of unsettled weather coinciding with trees in full leaf and a peak in the camping season, wind-related impacts are more likely at lower wind speeds compared to other times of year,' added deputy meteorologist Dave Oliver.
Beachgoers were seen swimming, building sand castles and lounging behind tents and wind-breaks in Lyme Regis, Dorset
Temperatures are expected to reach 73F (22C) today and there will be a brief spell of sunshine - before cloud rolls in
Aug 24, 2020
Starr DiGiacomo
https://americantruthtoday.com/politics/2020/08/27/hurricane-laura-...
Hurricane Laura Pounds Louisiana Coastline
August 27, 2020
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast with ferocious wind and torrential rain and unleashed a wall of seawater that could push 40 miles inland as the Category 4 storm roared ashore Thursday in Louisiana near the Texas border. At least one person was killed.
Laura battered a tall building in Lake Charles, blowing out windows as glass and debris flew to the ground. Police spotted a floating casino that came unmoored and hit a bridge. But hours after the hurricane made landfall, the wind and rain were still blowing too hard for authorities to check for survivors.
Gov. John Bel Edwards reported Louisiana’s first fatality — a 14-year-old girl who died when a tree fell on her home in Leesville.
Hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate ahead of the hurricane, but not everyone fled from the area, which was devastated by Hurricane Rita in 2005.
“There are some people still in town, and people are calling … but there ain’t no way to get to them,” Tony Guillory, president of the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, said over the phone from a Lake Charles government building that was shaking from the storm.
Guillory said he hoped the stranded people could be rescued later in the day, but he feared that blocked roads, downed power lines and floodwaters could get in the way.
“We know anyone that stayed that close to the coast, we’ve got to pray for them, because looking at the storm surge, there would be little chance of survival,” Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser told ABC’s Good Morning America.
More than 600,000 homes and businesses were without power in the two states, according to the website PowerOutage.Us, which tracks utility reports.
The National Hurricane Center said Laura slammed the coast with winds of 150 mph (241 kph) at 1 a.m. CDT near Cameron, a 400-person community about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of the Texas border. Forecasters had warned that the storm surge would be “unsurvivable” and the damage “catastrophic.”
They predicted a storm surge of 15 to 20 feet in Port Arthur, Texas, and a stretch of Louisiana including Lake Charles, a city of 80,000 people on Lake Calcasieu.
“This surge could penetrate up to 40 miles inland from the immediate coastline, and floodwaters will not fully recede for several days,” the hurricane center said.
Hours after it arrived, Laura weakened to a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph). The storm was 65 miles (105 kilometers) southeast of Shreveport and moving north. Damaging winds extended outward as far as 175 miles (280 kilometers), according to the hurricane center.
Dick Gremillion, the emergency director in Calcasieu Parish, said authorities were unable to get out to assess damage.
“The wind is still over 50 mph. It’s going to have to drop significantly before they can even run any emergency calls. We also need daylight,” Gremillion said in an interview with Lake Charles television station KPLC.
More than 580,000 coastal residents were ordered to join the largest evacuation since the coronavirus pandemic began and many did, filling hotels and sleeping in cars since officials did not want to open large shelters that could invite more spread of COVID-19.
But in Cameron Parish, where Laura came ashore, Nungesser said 50 to 150 people refused pleas to leave and planned to endure the storm, some in elevated homes and even recreational vehicles. The result could be deadly.
“It’s a very sad situation,” said Ashley Buller, assistant director of emergency preparedness. “We did everything we could to encourage them to leave.”
Becky Clements, 56, did not take chances. She evacuated from Lake Charles after hearing that it could take a direct hit. With memories of Rita’s destruction almost 15 years ago, she and her family found an Airbnb hundreds of miles inland.
“The devastation afterward in our town and that whole corner of the state was just awful,” Clements recalled. “Whole communities were washed away, never to exist again.”
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Pete Gaynor urged people in Laura’s path to stay home, if that’s still safe. “Don’t go out sightseeing. You put yourself, your family at risk, and you put first responders at risk,” he told “CBS This Morning.”
FEMA has plenty of resources staged to help survivors, Gaynor said. Edwards mobilized the National Guard to help, and state Department of Wildlife crews had boats prepared for water rescues.
Forecasters expected a weakened Laura to cause widespread flash flooding in states far from the coast. An unusual tropical storm warning was issued as far north as Little Rock, where forecasters expected gusts of 50 mph (80 kph) and a deluge of rain through Friday. The storm was so powerful that it could regain strength after turning east and reaching the Atlantic Ocean, potentially threatening the densely populated Northeast.
Laura hit the U.S. after killing nearly two dozen people on the island of Hispaniola, including 20 in Haiti and three in the Dominican Republic, where it knocked out power and caused intense flooding.
It was the seventh named storm to strike the U.S. this year, setting a new record for U.S. landfalls by the end of August. The old record was six in 1886 and 1916, according to Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.
Aug 28, 2020
SongStar101
Winter 2020 – New Zealand’s Warmest Winter On Record
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2009/S00002/winter-2020-nzs-warme...
New Zealand has just experienced its warmest winter on record, according to official NIWA climate data.
NIWA’s Seven Station Temperature Series, which began in 1909, shows the 2020 winter was 1.14C above average, just nudging out winter 2013 from the top spot, which was 1.08C above average.
This year’s result also means seven of the 10 warmest winters on record in New Zealand have occurred since the year 2000.
Seventeen locations observed record breaking mean winter temperatures, with an additional 53 locations ranking within their top four warmest winters.
NIWA forecaster Ben Noll says the winter warmth can be attributed to several factors:
The highest recorded winter 2020 temperature was 25.1C on August 30 in Timaru. This was the highest temperature recorded there during winter since records began in 1885 and the equal 4th warmest winter temperature on record for New Zealand as a whole.
The lowest temperature was -12.3°C, observed at Middlemarch on 14 June.
Of these locations the most anomalously warm (i.e. largest deviation from average) was Farewell Spit, where mean daily temperatures of 13.0°C were experienced. This is 2.8°C more than the winter average and the warmest on record since records began there in 1971.
Furthermore, mean maximum (i.e. daytime) temperatures at this location were 3.1°C warmer than average, while mean minimum (i.e. night-time) temperatures were 2.3°C warmer than average (these are also the largest anomalies in their respective categories).
Kaikohe had its second wettest winter on record, with 935mm of rain recorded for the season, which was 187% of normal. Records began in 1956.
At the opposite end of the scale, Reefton had its second driest winter on record with just 291 mm of rain recorded over three months – or 54% of normal. Records began in 1960. Much of the middle and upper South Island observed below or well below normal rainfall totals.
It will come as no surprise that the highest one-day rainfall occurred in Northland in mid-July. Kaikohe and Whangarei received 262 and 251 mm respectively on July 17. This is the highest one day rainfall amount observed for both locations during winter. Kaikohe records began in 1956 and Whangarei in 1943.
Sep 9, 2020
Derrick Johnson
Utah declares state of emergency after wind storm knocked down thousands of trees
Gov. Gary Herbert declared a state of emergency in response to Tuesday’s historic windstorm, which killed one person and caused significant damage from Salt Lake City to Logan.
Herbert made the announcement Wednesday, after touring parts of Salt Lake City’s hard-hit Rose Park neighborhood. Such a declaration will let the state access federal funds.
Rose Park was one of many areas in northern Utah that sought to restore order Wednesday, after the storm leveled thousands of trees and cut the power to more than 170,000 homes and businesses.
When asked how much money might be pumped into the cleanup effort, Herbert said, “it’s a lot,” and noted officials are still assessing how much.
Salt Lake and Davis counties, along with seven municipalities, have already made emergency declarations, Jess Anderson, the state’s commissioner of public safety, said Wednesday after Herbert’s tour.
As of Wednesday night, 80,000 homes and businesses were still without electricity as Rocky Mountain Power crews jumped from outage to outage. The company has no estimate on when service will be restored to all its Utah customers — but it could be “days" for some. And the outages left many schools from Ogden to the south end of Salt Lake County closed for a second day.
In the Salt Lake City area, winds gusted in the range of 20 to 40 mph. But that’s a far cry from the hurricane-force gale with gusts up to 99 mph that hit the area on T.... The winds also killed a man in South Salt Lake.
Truck driver Donald Hardy, 61, was making a delivery at Industrial Injection at 2858 S. 300 West. The winds caught his truck door and slammed it into his face, according to South Salt Lake Police spokesperson Danielle Croyle.
“We’re not sure exactly what happened," Croyle said, “but he fell backward and hit his head.”
Hardy and his wife had sold all their belongings and lived on the road over the past 18 months.
“It’s a pretty sad situation,” Croyle said.
Spencer Hall, spokesperson for Rocky Mountain Power, called it a “historic 40-year storm.” He said all local crews are working on restoring power and a team from Iowa should arrive Thursday to help.
The areas most heavily affected by power outages in Salt Lake County are Millcreek, the Avenues in Salt Lake City and the northeast section of the city, South Salt Lake, Murray, Holladay and northern portions of Taylorsville.
Hall said there are about 250 workers out in the field. On Tuesday, the focus was on connecting transmission lines, hub stations and other backbone pieces. On Wednesday, the work shifted to residential repairs, which will be prioritized by groups that can bring on as many customers as possible with one repair.
According to Christine Kruse, a meteorologist in the Salt Lake City office of the National Weather Service, the Wasatch Front experiences one or two isolated storms like what happened Tuesday every year, “but it’s rare for it to be of this magnitude and this widespread.”
Wind speeds in Centerville were actually slightly higher during a similar storm in December 2011 — 102 mph vs. 99 mph on Tuesday — “but that was much more limited."
She said Tuesday’s destructive winds came as a result of a “very cold air mass over the central part of the United States, and then on top of that, the weather disturbance that was creating these strong winds was strengthening overhead. So there were 60 to 70 mile an hour winds coming out of Wyoming into Utah. That’s exceptionally strong.”
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Sep 10, 2020
SongStar101
Okay this is sudden! 99F to Snowfall in 24hrs, earliest snowfall on record.
September snow blankets parts of four states; more than a foot in some spots
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Seventeen inches of snow in Wyoming, the earliest snowfall on record for New Mexico and the earliest flakes in decades for parts of Colorado — these are just a few of the astonishing weather reports coming out of a record-setting September week.
On Wednesday morning, snow was falling over parts of Colorado and 5 million people remained under winter weather alerts across portions of the Northern and Central Rockies. Those in the Denver area woke up to 1 to 4 inches of snow coating trees and grassy surfaces.
A few more inches of snow was possible, mostly at the highest elevations, before the snow was expected to end by afternoon.
In addition to parts of Colorado and New Mexico experiencing their earliest snow on record, the weather had whiplashed in just days from record-setting temperatures near or exceeding 100 degrees, to the sudden winter blast.
Rapid City, South Dakota, set a U.S. record for the fastest turnaround between 100 degree temperatures and measurable snow, after it hit 102 degrees F on Saturday, only to then see an inch of snow on Monday. This two-day gap broke the record for shortest amount of time between those two weather observations, the previous record being Ardmore, South Dakota, in September 1929 when a similar event took place over the course of approximately three days.
Rapid City also topped the list for greatest temperature drop. After setting an all-time September high on Saturday, the temperature dropped more than 70 degrees in two days, also setting a record for earliest first freeze on Monday.
With 2 to 5 inches of snow blanketing Boulder, Colorado, the area saw more snow on Tuesday than Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia saw all of last year, combined.
Here are the top snowfall totals for each state:
Wyoming: Casper 17 inches
Montana: Red Lodge 15.5 inches
South Dakota: Terry Peak 15 inches
Colorado: Alamosa 14 inches
New Mexico: Canon Plaza 5 inches
In addition to the snow, temperatures 30 to 40 degrees below average will lead to numerous record lows and record cold highs Wednesday and Thursday morning. Highs on Wednesday across the Rockies and Plains will only get into the 40s and 50s, and lows Thursday morning will dip back down into the 20s and 30s.
This chill in the air won't last long, however, with temperatures expected to rebound to the 70s by Friday and 80s by Saturday in Denver
Sep 10, 2020
Tracie Crespo
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Sep 20, 2020
Juan F Martinez
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Sep 29, 2020
Starr DiGiacomo
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Strange Weather Phenomena Hits Saudi Arabia within 24 hrs. 175 Sheep Dead by lightning. 02 Oct 20
Oct 4, 2020
Derrick Johnson
France sends in the army while rescue teams hunt for survivors in Italy as torrential rain and winds from Storm Alex leave at least two dead and up to 20 missing while landslides devastate buildings and roads
The army has been deployed in France and rescue teams are hunting for survivors in Italy after torrential rain and winds from Storm Alex left two dead and 20 missing.
Breil-sur-Roya, a French village close to the Italian border, was a scene of devastation with houses buried in mud and turned-over cars stuck in the riverbed.
In northwestern Italy the 'historic' flooding destroyed a section of a bridge over the Sesia river.
'There are very many people of whom we have no news,' Castex said.
On the Italian side of the border several villages were also still cut off, and many roads blocked.
A 53-year-old firefighter died during a rescue mission in the Aosta Valley, and a 36-year-old man died after his car was swept away by a river in Piedmont.
French rescue efforts were concentrated on the Roya valley where around 1,000 firefighters backed up by helicopters and army units resumed their search hoping to find survivors, and giving assistance to people whose homes were destroyed or inaccessible
Storm Alex barrelled into France's west coast on Thursday bringing powerful winds and rain across the country before moving into Italy, where regions across the north suffered an onslaught on Saturday.
'What we are going through is extraordinary,' the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region said Bernard Gonzalez.
'We are used to seeing images of such disasters on other continents, sometimes with a lack of concern, but this here is something that affects us all,' he said.
France has declared the region a natural disaster zone.
Local authorities gave shelter to some 200 people overnight, while food and thousands of bottles of water were being airlifted into remote villages cut off by the storms.
Gonzalez called on the families of the missing people not to give up hope.
'Just because their loved ones haven't been able to get in touch doesn't mean that they have been taken by the storm,' he said.
Many landline and some mobile phone services were disrupted, with some villages using satellite phones to communicate with rescue services.
Despite forecasts of more rain, rescue efforts were to continue throughout Sunday, Gonzalez said.
'The helicopter procession will continue all day long,' he said, adding however that the prospect of more heavy weather was 'a worry'.
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8803777/Army-deployed-Fran...
Oct 5, 2020
Juan F Martinez
Delta has rapidly strengthened into a Hurricane. It'll continue to get stronger with even a Major Hurricane (Category 3+) possible Tuesday into Wednesday. The northern Gulf coast, especially Louisiana, needs to monitor for landfall on Friday.
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Oct 6, 2020
Juan F Martinez
Hurricane Delta 'rapidly intensifies' to Category 4 storm, takes aim at Cancun before US Gulf Coast — Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle may be impacted by the storm
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Oct 6, 2020
KM
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Two killed as massive forest fires rage in Syria
Wildfires across parts of the country have so far killed two people and forced many to flee; Lebanon and Israel also hit by blazes.
Syrian state television on Saturday morning broadcast scenes from the affected areas, where firefighters were working to extinguish the blazes.It said hundreds of hectares had burned in the countryside of Syria’s coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces, and in the central Homs province.
The health ministry said two people died in Latakia province on Friday as a result of the fires, and that 70 people in the area were taken to hospital suffering from breathing difficulties.
Dozens of fires were burning, including “45 in Latakia and 33 in Tartus”, Syria’s Agriculture Minister Mohammed Hassan Qatana told a radio station on Friday.
“For the first time in its history, Syria is witnessing this [large] number of fires in a single day,” Qatana said.
The Latakia fire brigade said they were “facing the largest series of fires seen in Latakia province in years”.
Official news agency Sana said fires burned homes in the coastal city of Banias in Tartus province, as well as in Qardahah, President Bashar al-Assad’s hometown in Latakia.
Fires heavily damaged a building in Qardahah used as a storage for the state-owned tobacco company, part of which collapsed. The town’s local hospital was also surrounded by flames, according to local media reports.
State news agency SANA quoted Bassem Douba, director of the forestry department in Latakia’s agricultural department, as saying that dozens of people were evacuated from their homes in several villages. Those people sought refuge in central Latakia and Tartus, he said.
At least four firefighting teams were dispatched from the capital, Damascus, to assist in putting out the blazes. Some residents helped them by carrying water in buckets and pouring them on the flames.
The fires raging across Syria’s north, for the second time in months, were triggered by a heatwave that is unusual for this time of the year. They will likely cause considerable financial damage amid a deep economic crisis crippling the country.
Syria is currently suffering from an acute shortage in fuel ahead of the winter months, while power cuts have become more frequent across a country ravaged by more than nine years of war.
Among those affected by the devastating fires are landowners and farmers who rely on the agriculture sector to get by.
Images circulated on social media portrayed citrus and olive trees engulfed in flames in villages on the outskirts of Latakia.
Fires in Lebanon, Israel
Next door in Lebanon, meanwhile, there have been more than 100 fires across the country since Thursday, according to George Abu Musa, head of operations for the country’s civil defence.
“The situation is crazy, there are fires everywhere,” Abu Musa told the AFP news agency. “We have mobilised 80 percent of our personnel and almost all our centres in Lebanon,” he said.
There have been no reports of casualties in Lebanon.
Abu Musa said most of the blazes had been extinguished but some were still burning in the mountainous Chouf region in the south, and in Akkar in the north.
Military helicopters were assisting firefighters in “hard-to-reach” areas, he added. He was unable to identify the cause of the blazes but said wind and high temperatures were helping them spread.
Dozens of fires hit Lebanon in mid-October last year, amid unusually high temperatures and strong winds.
The government faced heavy criticism and accusations of ill-preparedness over its response to the 2019 blazes.
Days after Lebanon’s 2019 fires, mass protests broke out, triggered by proposed tax hikes but quickly transforming into months-long demonstrations against the ruling class, deemed by protesters as inept and corrupt.
Separately on Friday, authorities reported several fires across northern and central Israel and the occupied West Bank as temperatures soared, forcing thousands to evacuate.
Israeli police said in a statement firefighters and police forces evacuated 5,000 people as the fires spread for a second day on Saturday.
Oct 12, 2020
KM
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East Troublesome Fire Explodes To 170,000 Acres: ‘Really Unheard Of’
East Troublesome Fire
“We prepare for the worst. This is the worst of the worst of the worst,” Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin said.
There are concerns the fire could merge with the Cameron Peak Fire, which has burned over 200,000 acres.
“It is a potential, and certainly this year has been one of those years where those low potential events seem to be happening with high frequency,” Noel Livingston, incident commander, said Thursday night. “And, you know, a fire of this size, moving this far in October is a very low potential event in terms of what we would expect, and it’s occurred.”
“I don’t want to say you can’t happen right now. It doesn’t appear that it’s going to,” Livington said.
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Livingston called it “an amazing amount of fire spread” in a Thursday morning briefing.
“Obviously yesterday was a significant fire day,” said the fire manager. “We saw about 20 miles of fire growth through the afternoon and into the night, which equates to about 100,000 acres of additional fire activity.”
“That’s really unheard of for a fire in this part of the world, in timber,” Livingston said Thursday evening.
Livingston said the East Troublesome Fire’s growth on Wednesday can be explained by several factors: strong winds, excessively dry conditions, low relatively humidity and beetle-kill trees among the fuels in the high elevations the wildfire spread through.
Colorado’s largest wildfires:
Oct 24, 2020
KM
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Rain causes flooding and tree falls in SP
The city of São Paulo suffered from heavy rains this afternoon. Firefighters answered 44 calls for floods, 40 for falling trees and 4 for landslides, according to information updated at 18h02. One of the trees hit a person on the street Aratangi, in Cachoeirinha, but there is still no information on the victim’s health status.
The capital of São Paulo entered into a state of attention for flooding from 2:12 pm, according to data from the CGE (Center for Management of Climate Emergencies). In the North Zone, heavy rain dragged cars that were inside a car wash and piled vehicles, according to information from Globo News.
Another large tree fell on top of a residence in the Santana neighborhood. “The north zone was very affected by the rains, especially the area of Avenida Engenheiro Caetano Álvares, close to the Marginal Tietê”, said the Fire Department Captain, André Elias, in an interview for Globo News. “But there is no person at risk of life, injured or missing. We are only helping those who are stranded.”
Also according to the CGE, the Casa Verde and Sé neighborhoods went on alert due to the overflow of the streams Mandaqui e Saracunarespectively, but the status it was closed at 16:30. The Ipiranga Stream left the alert at 5:10 pm.
At 5:20 pm, the CGE decreed the end of the state of attention in all regions. Heavy rains also hindered traffic in the late afternoon: according to information from CET (Companhia de Engenharia de Trafico), the northern part of São Paulo, where the Marginal Tietê is located, registered 18km slow at 5:40 pm. In the city center, 13km of slowness.
The dark sky was registered by some residents and the click was shared on social networks.
Flooding points
According to information from the CGE, there were 20 active flooding points in the city of São Paulo. In the north, the Freguesia do Ó neighborhood had a flooded street. At Casa Verde, two of the three floods recorded by the CGE were classified as “impassable”. The points are on Quirinópolis Street and Praça Delegado Amoroso Neto.
In Santana, the CGE recorded two other points with the flow of cars interrupted by the rains: on the avenues Cruzeiro do Sul and Zaki Narchi. In the Cathedral, Praça da Bandeira was impassable.
Flooding in the neighborhoods of Lapa and Vila Mariana also prevented the circulation of cars in the region: on Rua Barão do Bananal and on Avenida Vinte and Três de Maio, respectively. Butantã, Pinheiros and Ipiranga also suffered flooding because of the rains.
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Oct 24, 2020
KM
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All-time November snow records broken for parts of the Canadian Prairies
A strong low-pressure system brought blizzard conditions, heavy snow and freezing rain to parts of the Canadian Prairies on November 7 and 8, 2020, shutting down roads in Saskatchewan and Alberta and setting new all-time November snow records. While heavy snow fell in western parts of Saskatchewan, its eastern regions experienced freezing rain. Several more cm of snow is expected through the end of the week.
The town of Kindersley in Saskatchewan recorded 47.6 cm (18.7 inches) of snow on Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, setting a new 48-hour snowfall record.
Kindersley recorded 11.6 cm (4.5 inches) on Saturday; and 35.8 cm (14 inches) on Sunday, breaking the previous 24-hour snowfall record of 21.3 cm (8.3 inches) set on March 17, 1974.
"To put the weekend's snowfall in perspective, the nearly 48 cm that recently accumulated is more than Kindersley saw in November, December, January and February 2019," Brittany Warner of West Central Online reports.
"Those four months totaled 43.8 cm (17.2 inches) combined, approximately 4 cm (1.5 inches) less than what fell this weekend."
Bigger and Leader have also broken November 2019 snow totals with 21.1 cm (8.3 inches) in Bigger in 48 hours -- which is 6 cm (2.3 inches) more than the entire November 2019 -- and 23.1 cm (9 inches) in Leader. In November 2019, Leader recorded a total of 12.8 cm (5 inches).
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Between 15 and 20 cm (5.9 - 7.8 inches) was recorded in the city of Regina, and nearly 30 cm (11.8 inches) in Saskatoon. Saskatoon's current 24-hour snow record is 36 cm (14.1 inches) set on January 7, 2007.
Pamela Goulden-McLeod - Saskatoon director of emergency management
Prince Albert recorded 37 cm (14.5 inches) of snow, Codette 33 cm (12.9 inches) and Limerick 31 cm (12 inches).
Rosetown reported 16.8 cm (6.6 inches) over the weekend, just a bit more than it recorded during the entire November 2019.
Winter storm and blizzard warnings have all been dropped by Monday, but travel is still not recommended, the Weather Network reports.
Bitter wind chills will span much of the Prairies on Monday afternoon in the wake of the departing system.
"So a good reminder that if you are traveling today with those bitter wind chills, make sure you have an emergency kit with you because some roads could still be closed or very treacherous," says Weather Network meteorologist Jaclyn Whittal.
On January 14, 2020, Kindersley broke its daily all-time coldest temperature record with -37 °C (-34.6 °F). The previous record was -34 °C (-29.2 °F) set in 2005. Interestingly, the town's warmest January 14 was set in 2008 with +5.7 °C (42.2 °F).
Nov 10, 2020
Tracie Crespo
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North Carolina Flooding Blamed for Seven Deaths; Roads and Bridges Washed Out; Dozens Rescued
By Ron Brackett
At least seven deaths have been blamed on the flooding.
An 11-year-old child was found drowned after going missing near a creek in Rolesville, about 16 miles northeast of Raleigh, the Wake County Sheriff's Office reported.
Three people were found dead and two people were unaccounted for after floodwaters inundated a North Carolina campground, according to a news release from officials in Alexander County, North Carolina.
Crews saved 31 people when the South Yadkin River flooded the Hiddenite Family Campground, the Mooresville Fire chief told WBTV. The campground is in the Alexander County community of Hiddenite, about 60 miles northwest of Charlotte.
The body of one person was found inside a camper, Alexander County Sheriff Chris Bowman said at a briefing Thursday afternoon. Rescuers later reported finding the body of two other victims.
Bowman said another person died in the storm when their car ran off the road into floodwaters. Overall in Alexander County, 50 roads were damaged and four bridges washed away.
Trooper C.B. Saunders of the North Carolina Highway Patrol said two people died in a crash on Wilkesboro Highway outside of Statesville Thursday morning, the Statesville Record & Landmark reported. The Highway Patrol said the pickup was going too fast “for the wet conditions of the roadway and hydroplaned,” according to the Charlotte Observer.
In Charlotte, flooding forced a school to evacuate near David Taylor Drive, according to the city's Fire Department. More than 140 people were rescued. No injuries were reported.
Video tweeted by the Fire Department showed cars in the school's parking lot submerged up to their windows. Students and faculty were being sheltered under tents set up nearby, WBTV reported.
Flooding also closed city streets and shut down Interstate 85 at Little Rock Road, the Charlotte Observer reported. The Fire Department said crews were responding to multiple reports of flooding across the city.
First responders rescued at least 35 people throughout Mecklenburg County, according to Charlotte Agenda.
Extensive damage also was reported across Iredell County, which surrounds Statesville, North Carolina.
Several roads and bridges washed out, according to social media posts from the area. Three people had to be rescued from a flooded home.
Neighboring Catawba County declared a state of emergency, County Commission Chairman Randy Isenhower said, “due to excessive rain causing flooding, power outages, road closures and hazardous conditions.”
Dozens of schools delayed the start of classes or shifted to online only classes because of the flooding. Schools in the eastern part of the state closed early after the rains reached them.
A number of roads were blocked by high water or debris in Winston-Salem and Greensboro, WFMY reported.
Trees were down across several streets in Winston-Salem, according to WXII, which also reported that a retaining wall had collapse on Meadowlark Drive.
The Winston-Salem Fire Department evacuated 38 people from the Colonial Estates apartments when floodwater rose around the building, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Firefighters also used inflatable boats to move people from the Creekwood Apartments.
Across the state, more than 16,400 homes and businesses lost electricity, according to poweroutage.us.
The weather was blamed for multiple car crashes in Raleigh, where Walnut Creek also overflowed, flooding neighborhood streets, WRAL reported.
In Wilson County, east of Raleigh, first responders have conducted at least 20 water rescues since Wednesday, Gordon Deno, the county's emergency management director, told the Wilson Times. Deno said no injuries were reported.
A four-mile stretch of southbound Interstate 95 was closed near U.S. 264 in Wilson, according to the state Department of Transportation.
U.S. 301 was closed in both directions near W. Tarboro Road in Nash County.
Across the state line in South Carolina, several people had to be rescued from flooded homes in York County.
From 9 a.m Wednesday to 9 a.m. Thursday, more than 8 inches of rain fell in some locations, the National Weather Service reported, including 8.78 inches in Fayetteville in Cumberland County and 8.6 inches in Rocky Mount in Nash County. In Wilson County, 7.66 inches fell in Wilson.
Tropical moisture from Eta has surged northward at the same time a cold front is moving through the Eastern states, according to weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. This collision has resulted in a widespread area of rainfall across the East since Wednesday. Some of the most intense rainfall and worst flooding has occurred from Virginia into North Carolina, especially Thursday morning.
Nov 13, 2020
Starr DiGiacomo
https://weather.com/news/news/2020-11-16-high-winds-power-outages-m...
Hundreds of Thousands Still Without Power From Midwest to Northeast After Deadly Windstorm
At least one person was killed as the strong cold front moved across the country on Sunday and early Monday. The front also prompted a rare tornado warning for parts of New York City.
The National Weather Service recorded 299 reports of wind damage.
More than 475,000 customers had no electricity as of 8 a.m. Monday, according to poweroutage.us. That was down from nearly 800,000 homes and businesses late Sunday. Michigan reported the most outages Monday with more than 200,000. Ohio had more than 108,000.
The wind was blamed for one death in Ohio. A falling tree hit a 63-year-old woman Sunday in Harrison Township, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said. The woman was pronounced dead at Miami Valley Hospital, the Springfield News-Sun reported. Wind gusts up to 66 mph were measured at Dayton International Airport, about 6 miles away.
In nearby Jefferson Township, Shawn Ramey and her husband were without power for nearly 10 hours.
“All of a sudden you can hear like a rumble and then it was like, wait a minute. This wind is really really up," Ramey told WHIO-TV. “The lights started flickering and then the power went out, so we have been waiting."
Utility crews in lower Michigan, where more than 340,000 homes lost power, were hoping diminished winds Monday would help them get a handle on the outages.
“Today’s weather will be breezy, but much better than Sunday, which will assist in restoration,” Guy Packard, Consumers Energy vice president of electric operations, told the Detroit News.
Monday was the first day of open season for deer hunting in Michigan, and officials warned hunters to be aware that trees could still fall and power lines might be down.
Across Lake Erie, downed trees and power lines blocked roadways in Pennsylvania. Trees fell on Interstate 90 and Interstate 79, according to Erie News Now.
The prolonged high wind drove water out of Lake Erie into homes along Kelso Beach in Millcreek Township. Water rescue teams helped 15 residents and five dogs to safety, Erie News Now reported.
The cold front led to a rare tornado warning for the New York City area. The NWS issued the warning at 8:40 p.m. for the Bronx, Yonkers and New Rochelle.
The New York City region gets only about one tornado warning a year on average, according to weather.com meteorologist Ari Sarsalari. There have been two warnings this year. The other was in April. The last observed tornado in NYC was in 2012.
High winds caused scaffolding to collapse in Manhattan.
Tornado warnings also were issued for Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Bergen, Fairfield and New York County, WNBC-TV reported.
Wind gusts of 60 to 65 mph were reported across New Jersey, according to WNBC.
The wind toppled power poles across Route 120 in Carlstadt, New Jersey, the Police Department reported. The road was expected to be closed in both directions for 24 hours.
A gust of 75 mph was reported in Greenwich, Connecticut, WNBC reported
In New Haven, the high winds knocked over the city's holiday tree. Many of the branches were cracked and some of the lights were damaged, WVIT-TV reported.
Downed power lines trapped a person in a car in Avon, WVIT reported. Firefighters and a utility crew were able to free the person.
Nov 16, 2020
Juan F Martinez
This is unreal. Cat. 4 #Iota made landfall just 12 miles south of where Cat. 4 #Eta did less than 2 weeks ago. This is just devastating for Nicaragua. — Meteorologist Dave Nussbaum
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Nov 18, 2020
Gerard Zwaan
Unseasonal ice storm hits central Russia, key systems collapse in the Far East
Posted by Teo Blašković on November 19, 2020 at 16:31 UTC (6 hours ago)
Categories: Earth changes, Featured articles, Severe weather
Unseasonal ice storms hit many parts of Russia on November 18 and 19, 2020, causing power outages, traffic chaos, and the collapse of key infrastructure systems in the Far East.
An overnight storm accompanied by strong northerly winds and ice rain -- described by The Siberian Times as 'weather apocalypse' -- caused the collapse of key systems in the Russian Far East on November 19, 2020, leaving at least 120 000 people without electricity.
Vladivostok and most of the Primorye region were turned into frozen land, the paper reported, adding that hundreds of power lines were cut by wet snow and ice.
The weather caused flight delays and traffic chaos after many roads and several bridges were shut down. Schools and kindergartens were also closed.
A huge concrete slab fell on a car in Vladivostok, with the car owner evading it by a miracle.
Unseasonal freezing rain started in the central parts of the country late November 18, affecting capital Moscow and its region, as well as Kaluga, Smolensk, and Tula.
Moscow airport reportedly canceled about 30 flights due to freezing rain.
The ice zone will move to the east tomorrow, November 20, so the freezing rains will reach the Volga-Vyatka region by the evening, Oreanda reports.
Authorities are urging residents to take extra care and stay home if possible.
Featured image credit: VKontakte
Source: https://watchers.news/2020/11/19/unseasonal-ice-storm-russia-collap...
Nov 19, 2020
Juan F Martinez
Believed to be the biggest weather-related cargo loss in history — The container ship ONE Apus arrived at the Japanese Port of Kobe on Tuesday December 8 after losing nearly 2,000 containers after encountering 52-foot waves during a storm 1,600 nautical miles northwest of Hawaii.The cargo loss is believed to be the biggest weather-related cargo loss in history. December 8, 2020
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Dec 9, 2020
KM
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Unseasonal, record-breaking storm hits Nunavut, Canada
A powerful storm hit Nunavut, Canada, on Sunday, December 27, 2020, bringing record wind gusts of up to 135 km/h (84 mph) and heavy snow. Meteorologists said it was unusual for such a storm to occur this late in December, affecting much of the territory.
The storm brought winds of up to 135 km/h (84 mph), which was record-breaking, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
"It was like an all-day thing. The wind was so strong," Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor said.
"Many shacks and cabins are gone. Many, many snowmobile windshields are gone. Some injuries we have heard of so far," Pangnirtung resident Sky Panipak stated, adding that one person sustained injuries and had to be taken to a southern hospital.
Meteorologist Sara Hoffman reported that out of 25 communities, 23 were affected by the storm. "It's pretty unusual for a storm like that this late in December. We don't typically see that."
Hoffman noted that her team is looking into whether Sunday was a record-breaking day for such a storm in the territory.
Dec 30, 2020
Juan F Martinez
Deadly storm with hail, Sucre, Bolivia, January 4, 2021
Vía Red Uno de Bolivia (Digital TV)
Jan 6, 2021
Juan F Martinez
Jan 7, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
Historic snow engulfs capital Madrid just 2 days after Spain registered its coldest temperature on record
Posted by Teo Blašković on January 9, 2021 at 12:17 UTC (10 hours ago)
Categories: Blizzards, Extreme cold, Featured articles, Ice & snow
A powerful winter storm named Filomena by the Spanish Meteorological Agency -- AEMET -- is affecting the Iberian Peninsula, bringing record cold temperatures, heavy rain, and historic snow. Capital Madrid was one of several Spanish regions on red alert, a historic occurrence, due to heavy snow. The storm is expected to weaken and move northeast by Sunday, January 10, 2021.
Snow and ice started accumulating on Thursday and Friday, January 7 and 8, seriously affecting travel conditions across portions of the peninsula.
Late Friday afternoon, the Directorate General of Traffic in Spain reported 360 roads have been impacted by the storm, dozens of secondary roads were also closed while other roadways now require chains on tires or prohibit truck traffic.
For capital Madrid, Filomena is the worst storm in 80 years. Residents who ignored official warnings were caught by surprise as they have not seen snow there for at least 10 years.
Winters in Madrid are normally dry and quite mild and the last time it snowed like this in Madrid was back in March 1971. Many streets across the capital are impassable because the plows practically do not exist there.
Madrid Barajas International Airport had all incoming and outgoing flights suspended on Friday, leaving hundreds of passengers waiting for the weather to clear up.
Heavy rainfall, strong winds, and rough seas with huge waves forced the evacuation of 65 people from a ferry that ran aground while trying to approach a dock in the Gran Canaria island.
At least 3 people have been killed, as of 16:00 UTC today. Two people traveling in a car drowned after a river in Malaga burst its banks while a homeless person froze to death in the city of Calatayud.
Madrid’s airport remained closed on January 9 and the Community of Madrid remains on red alert due to the extreme risk of snowfall and the danger it poses.
Many roads throughout the region are still waiting for snowplows, causing heavy traffic to build up as drivers ignored pleas from the community to stay at home, EuroWeekly reports.
Hundreds of stranded lorry drivers who had to pull up overnight as conditions worsened are still stranded on the roads.
Madrid Police officials said a number of trucks have been abandoned, with their drivers taken to hospitals suffering the early onset of hypothermia.
On Wednesday, January 6, Spain registered its coldest temperature on record when the mercury in Catalan Pyrenees station dropped to -34.1 °C (-29.4 °F), breaking the previous record set on February 2, 1956.
The storm is expected to weaken and move northeast by Sunday, January 10, 2021.
Featured image: Madrid's Barajas Airport closed due to heavy snow. Credit: Meteo Tenerife
Source: https://watchers.news/2021/01/09/h%20istoric-snow-madrid-coldest-te...
Jan 10, 2021
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"Unlike anything they're accustomed to seeing!" An intense winter storm is rapidly developing over southern Canada, forecast to move into the Midwest of the United States and reach the Southeast states by Friday with another waiting in the wings and set to follow
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An intense winter storm is rapidly developing over southern Canada, forecast to move into the Midwest of the United States and reach the Southeast states by Friday. The severe wind event will spread across the Northern and High Plains tonight into Thursday, followed by an Arctic cold blast towards Florida and the East Coast by the coming weekend according to Severe Weather Europe.
Extreme winds wreaked havoc all over southern Alberta on Wednesday as a wind warning was in full effect. The windy weather started in the early morning hours and carried into the rest of the day. Hundreds of Lethbridge residents experienced power outages. There were also downed trees, damage to several buildings and debris flying around the region. "I see there's a lot of shingles ripped off, I went for a walk - a short walk to take those pictures - and then coming back, I had to walk right into the west wind and it was brutal," said Brent Kunz, a Taber resident. Kunz added that despite living in a windy region, the weather conditions he and his family experienced on Wednesday were unlike anything they're accustomed to seeing.
The powerful windstorm has left many homes in the dark around Metro Vancouver Wednesday morning. About 100,000 customers had been without power in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Southern Interior after strong winds caused extensive damage, according to BC Hydro. The hardest-hit areas are Abbotsford, Victoria, and Vernon.
Yet another winter storm event is setting up over the Upper Midwest on Thursday and Friday, associated with a strengthening upper trough emerging from southern Canada. A High Wind Warnings have been issued over Montana and portions of the Northern and Central Plains of the United States. Severe damaging winds are likely to develop across a broad swath along and especially behind the moving cold front rapidly spreading south-southeast through Wednesday night according to Severe Weather Europe.
Jan 14, 2021
Juan F Martinez
Mongolia is in the grip of one of its most extreme winters on record, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), with temperatures forecast to plunge to -50 °C (-58 °F). The severe cold has killed more than 500 camels in the central region, threatening livestock and leaving many herder families vulnerable.
The extreme weather, called dzud, threatens the livelihoods and health of thousands of Mongolian herders residing in the country's remote provinces.
As a pre-emptive action, the Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS) has sent financial assistance and livestock nutrition kits in target areas to help them in meeting their needs, as well as to save their livestock-- the main source of livelihoods for Mongolians.
On January 12, 2021, local media reported that the frigid temperatures killed more than 500 Bactrian camels in the central province of Uvurkhangai.
"The camel is said to be the most tolerant livestock of dzud and drought. However, even camels are dying in our soum this winter," an elder herder said at a meeting between authorities and herders.
Local herdsmen added that dozens of small livestock animals have been perishing almost every day.
https://watchers.news/2021/01/22/mongolia-one-of-most-extreme-winte...
Jan 24, 2021
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Apocalyptic floods in Paraguay, Indonesia and Germany (videos)
In Paraguay, 10 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain over the last few days.
Some central areas saw 500mm more than normal during January.
The level of the Paraguay River Asunción has risen 1.98 metres over the last 7 days.
Recent flooding in East and Central Java Provinces of Indonesia have affected around 25,000 people. At least 1 was reported dead and several other missing.
Flood water was up to 1.3 metres deep in some areas.
A tiny community in western Germany was cut off Wednesday by the flooded Rhine River, while authorities cautioned that continued rain and melting snow could cause further problems in many regions.
Shipping traffic on the Rhine in the Cologne area has been stopped.
Flood warnings for multiple other rivers, primarily in western and southern Germany.
Any floods in your area? Bew ready or get prepared!
https://strangesounds.org/2021/02/floods-paraguay-indonesia-germany...
Feb 5, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
Major snowstorm hits Netherlands, Germany and UK
Posted by Teo Blašković on February 8, 2021 at 10:20 UTC (11 hours ago)
Categories: Featured articles, Severe storms
Dutch authorities declared a rare 'code red' emergency for the entire country on Sunday, February 7, 2021, as a severe snowstorm, named Darcy by their meteorologists, hit parts of western Europe. This was the first major snowstorm to hit the Netherlands since January 2010. The storm also affected parts of Germany, disrupting road, rail, and air traffic, and the United Kingdom. Dozens of people were injured, with some of them severely.
Darcy dropped temperatures to -5 °C (23 °F) on Sunday and brought heavy snow to the region.
Most of the Netherlands received from 5 to 10 cm (2 - 4 inches) of snow, and locally up to 30 cm (12 inches) or more.
Eindhoven airport in the country's south was shut down while Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport delayed or canceled dozens of flights.
All trains were canceled in the country, including international services to Germany, France24 reports. At least 80 car accidents were reported on Sunday alone.
The German Weather Service (DWD) issued an extreme weather warning ahead of the storm, saying emergency crews across the country have been put on standby.
Darcy brought dense snowdrifts and limited visibility, causing major disruptions in parts of the country, including Hamburg and Hanover.
The city of Muenster was among the hardest-hit places with so much snow on the streets that ambulances could no longer drive.
Police officials said hundreds of accidents took place on German roads on Sunday. In North Rhine-Westphalia, a total of 222 car accidents were registered since Saturday.
Police in NRW closed several motorways after they froze and turned into an ice rink.
DWD issued its highest warnings for parts of NRW, Lower Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt. Black ice was also forecast for parts of NRW, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia, and Saxony.
The country saw up to 30 cm (12 inches) with up to 40 cm (16 inches) expected in northern regions overnight Monday, February 8.
Darcy also brought strong winds and snow to southeast England on Sunday.
The UK Met Office has issued amber weather warnings for snow, suggesting widespread travel disruptions and possible power cuts in parts of London, the east and south-east of England, for Sunday and Monday morning.
Most of Europe is in for a significant cold, and heavy snow in parts of the continent, in the days ahead. If models prove right, the cold will last through the end of February.
Widespread overnight frosts are expected, with freezing temperatures expected during the daytime, too.
Models
Featured image credit: Europe at 11:45 UTC on February 8, 2021. Credit: EUMETSAT/Meteosat-11
Source: https://watchers.news/2021/02/08/snowstorm-darcy-netherlands-german...
Feb 8, 2021
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https://watchers.news/2021/02/09/record-cold-temperatures-hit-canad...
Record cold temperatures hit Canadian Prairies
Polar vortex continues to bring piercing cold to the Canadian Prairies -- Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta -- since Sunday, February 7, 2021. According to Environment Canada, 22 cold weather records were smashed throughout the three provinces, while the Northwest Territories recorded the coldest temperature for the whole country in nearly four years with -51.9 °C (-61.4 °F).
On Sunday, the coldest temperature was in Uranium City, where the mercury hit -48.9 °C (-56 °F), breaking the previous record of -40 °C (-40 °F) set in 2019.
In Alberta, the coldest temperature was in Fort Chipewyan, where the mercury plummeted to -47.3 °C (-53.1 °F), smashing the past record of -45.6 °C (-50 °F) in 1936.
Edmonton International Airport was close to setting a daily temperature record with -43.8 °C (-46.8 °F). The previous record set on the same day was -43.9 °C (-47 °F) set in 1994.
In Manitoba, the Roblin community set a new record of -42 °C (-43.6 °F), beating the past record of -40.6 °C (-41.08 °F) in 1972.
Canada also logged its coldest temperature in almost four years as the Northwest Territories confirmed a reading of -51.9 °C (-61.4 °F).
Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang told CTVNews that the last time such cold temperatures were recorded in Canada was in March 2017, when the mercury hit -54.7 °C (-66.5 °F) in Mould Bay.
"The spinning up of the cold air up around the North Pole deepens and strengthens in the winter because of the lack of sunshine," said Lang. The polar vortex contains Arctic air that sits over the poles for most of the winter, which falls into Canada when the weather systems break down heading into spring.
"Across [the] Prairies, we're just getting some of that cold air that's coming down because the jet stream has looped far enough south. This is what happens every winter, and it’s what gives Canada its cold weather."
"It's going to be here for a while," Lang added. "Once that really deep, cold air settles in, it's kind of hard to move out. It's very dense, it's very heavy, so it's really hard to get it out of there."
The remnants of the polar vortex will stay between Alberta and Manitoba for the week and then move into some regions of British Columbia as the wind chill makes the weather even colder.
Feb 10, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
Relentless wintry weather to bombard much of US into next week with a new winter storm every 2-3 days
Meteorologists warn that one of the busiest winter weather patterns in decades will continue to bombard much of the nation with a host of impacts into next week.
Several weather systems are lining up with the likelihood to bring more snow and ice to the Midwest and Northeast through the end of next week.
Winter storm every 2-3 days
Winter storms could arrive every two to three days amid the tumultuous pattern, which is due in part to a major buckling of the jet stream. The river of high winds aloft plunged southward over the central United States then swung up along the Atlantic coast in recent days, setting the path for storms to ride along. That active storm track will be fueled by the collision of Arctic air sprawling across the middle of the nation and milder air holding its ground in the Southeast.
Two systems will come into play during the next storm late this week into this weekend, including on Valentine’s Day in the Northeast.
One storm was already sweeping across Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and northern Kansas with light to moderate snow on Friday. This storm and its snow will continue to shift eastward across the Midwest during Friday night and Saturday.
Meanwhile, a secondary storm is expected to push northward up the Eastern Seaboard this weekend.
“Both weekend systems are forecast to remain weak with the snow portion of the precipitation on the nuisance end of the spectrum,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist John Feerick said. “But even a light amount of snow and especially a thin coating of ice can lead to dangerous travel conditions.“
Look how cool freezing temperatures can be:
In general, 1-3 inches of snow is expected from eastern Wyoming to the to the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, but heavier amounts of 3-6 inches will occur across eastern Wyoming, southwestern South Dakota and Nebraska, where up to 8 inches are predicted.
“Chicago is another spot where heavier snow on the order of 3-6 inches can occur from Friday night to Saturday due some enhancement from Lake Michigan,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Courtney Travis said.
A few additional pockets of 3-6 inches of snow can develop around the Great Lakes as well.
Farther to the east, most of the moisture associated with the storm pushing northward along the Atlantic Seaboard may stay out to sea.
Snowfall accumulations of 1 to 3 inches are expected from part of northern Virginia to Maine Saturday into Sunday, but as with any storm, pockets of somewhat heavier snow can develop with the risk of a few places ending up with 3-6 inches.
“Snow over much of this zone may be intermittent, where the rate of snow varies and even stops for a time,” AccuWeather Senior Storm Warning Meteorologist Brian Wimer said.
Some areas struck by a major ice storm that cut power and led to treacherous travel late this week could once again get more ice from this storm.
Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Pittsburgh and Boston are in the zone where a wintry or icy mix is forecast from Saturday to Sunday.
“There is a risk of 0.25 to 0.50 of an inch of ice to build up in parts of Virginia and West Virginia with the storm this weekend,” AccuWeather Meteorologist Randy Adkins said.
“If that amount of freezing rain occurs, then trees and power lines may be coming down,” Adkins added.
As the storm finishes up in New England on Sunday, the next winter storm will already be producing a large swath of snow over portions of Texas a.... That storm is then forecast to head northeastward next week.
A light wintry mix, including some ice, is likely to persist from southern New England to the southern Appalachians and Piedmont areas of the Southeast from Sunday into Monday. That will occur even after the weak storm pair leaves the East ahead of the next storm’s arrival.
“This means that icy conditions may continue in between storms from part of the interior South to the Northeast states this weekend into early next week,” AccuWeather Lead Storm Warning Meteorologist Joe Bauer said.
“This light precipitation can be every bit as dangerous to drive and walk on as a major storm, and motorists and pedestrians should be on the lookout,” Bauer added. you remember?
Since that south-central U.S. storm system is likely to be stronger than the weekend system, heavier precipitation, including snow and ice, is expected to unfold. However, it may be a complex setup with not just a snow or rain scenario.
Over a large part of the mid-Atlantic and New England regions, only a shallow layer of cold air may be in place. That means that a period of sleet and freezing rain is more likely, instead of just rain or snow.
“There could be significant icing from parts of eastern West Virginia and northern Virginia to portions of northern Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York state and central and southeastern New England Monday night into Tuesday,” Rayno said, adding that the biggest snowfall would likely occur north of the New York State Thruway and into parts of northern New England.
The storm predicted to shift northeastward from the South Central states will be weakening as it moves into the Ohio Valley on Monday night. Cold air may put up more of a fight in the Northeast as a result.
“Buckle up!” Rayno said, “because this will be a busy weather pattern right into next week. And there could be another weather system we’re tracking from the Northwest to the South Central states during the middle to latter part of next week.“
So yes, the weather is going crazy in the US, and actually in most parts of the world.
Source: https://strangesounds.org/2021/02/wintry-weather-usa-forecast-video...
Feb 13, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
Ice, snow, bitter cold hits millions as major storm pummels swaths of U.S. – State of emergency in Texas
More than 140 million Americans in 26 states were under some sort of winter advisory heading into Monday as a major winter storm swept through the southern Plains.
The storm, which has already caused power outages and a number of pileups on icy roads, was expected to travel up the Northeast through Tuesday, bringing heavy snow, ice and freezing temperatures, the National Weather Service said.
Six inches to a foot of snow was forecast to stretch from the mid-Mississippi to Ohio Valleys, across the lower Great Lakes and into northern New England, according to the service.
It also warned about more power outages and significant travel disruptions across much of the southern Plains, as well as “bitterly cold air” that can result in “dangerous or life-threatening wind chills.“
At least parts of all 254 counties in Texas were under either a winter storm watch or winter storm warning over the weekend. As of 5:45 a.m. ET, 1.5 million people in Texas were experiencing power blackouts.
The weather was affecting operations at airports across the area, with more than 760 flights canceled at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, amid a holiday weekend.
The first winter storm watch in a decade was issued for Brownsville, Texas. At 3,360 days, they had the longest streak of any National Weather Service office without one.
A police officer in Schulenburg, Texas, was responding to an accident caused by icy conditions, when another car lost control on the ice, striking the police cruiser on Feb. 13.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the flow of electric power in the state, said it was experiencing record-breaking electric demand due to the extreme cold temperatures that have gripped Texas.
In a statement Sunday night, President Joe Biden declared an emergency in Texas and ordered federal assistance to aid state and local response efforts.
The extreme cold dips far into Texas with more than 60 daily record low temperatures on Monday and again on Tuesday in the central U.S., NBC meteorologist Janessa Webb said.
“Records could be smashed by a couple of degrees, which is impressive for lows,” she added. “There will be slow improvement in the cold Wednesday through Friday. The cold is really concentrated in the middle of the country, with the coasts being no more than 5-10 degrees below average.“
Webb said Dallas and Houston will stay under winter storm warnings until Monday night, with snow accumulations of up to 4 inches and 2 inches respectively.
Texas governor Greg Abbott, along with Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt and Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, have activated National Guard units to assist state agencies with tasks including rescuing stranded drivers.
Winter storm warnings will be in effect until Tuesday in Memphis, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Cleveland, which will see up to 12 inches of snow.
Be ready for the big freeze! That is actually breaking records around the world.
Source: https://watchers.news/2021/02/15/powerful-blizzard-causes-whiteout-...
Feb 15, 2021
Juan F Martinez
"Kemah, TEXAS, Galveston County. Just 5 min from me. I haven't had power since 1:30 am!" — Coral Artidello
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Feb 16, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
Libya sees first snow in 15 years as cold snap hits parts of northern Africa and Middle East
Posted by Julie Celestial on February 18, 2021 at 20:50 UTC (1 hour ago)
Categories: Ice & snow, Severe weather
The Green Mountain in northeastern Libya saw its first snowfall in 15 years this week as a cold wave swept through parts of the southern Mediterranean region, northern Africa, and the Middle East, including Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
The rare snow started falling on Monday, February 15, which brought delight to residents as they enjoyed the wintry scenery.
Mohammed Saleh, a resident from Bayda, believes that the snowfall is an omen for peace in Libya. "We hope the snowfall will be a good sign for our homeland by unifying our institutions and unifying our country and for people to return to one another and love each other."
He continued, "As we see now, the children, people, and families that came to this area, the area of Sidi Mohamed Al-Hamri."
Ali Al-Shairi, another Bayda Resident, captured the winter wonderland and said he was "surprised by the number of families who came here to take pictures in the snow."
According to the Libyan National Meteorological Center, temperatures below freezing point were recorded in several cities on Monday, including Al-Bayda, Yefren, Nalut, Al-Marj, Green Mountain, and the Nafusa Mountain.
In neighboring Egypt, the cold snap brought freezing rain, strong winds, and mist. While the spell had no remarkable impact on road traffic, officials closed a number of ports in Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheik. Fishing activities were also suspended, as a precautionary measure.
Ice pellets were reported in Alexandria, Beheira, and Port Said, with some parts slicked with snow, according to the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA).
Heavy snow was experienced as well over parts of the Middle East, including Syria, Lebanon, and Israel since Tuesday, February 16, paralyzing citizens' daily lives.
Local media said the snow has already blocked some of the roads in Syria, including in capital Damascus, and disrupted traffic on Wednesday, February 17. Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported snow as high as 15 cm (6 inches) in Um Houran area in Dahir al-Jabal.
Featured image credit: @MedWave Shipping Libya
Source: https://watchers.news/2021/02/18/libya-sees-first-snow-in-15-years-...
Feb 18, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
At least 2 400 cold temperature records broken or tied in the U.S. from February 12 to 16, 2021
Posted by Teo Blašković on February 18, 2021 at 22:13 UTC (7 minutes ago)
Categories: Extreme cold, Featured articles, Severe weather
At least 2 400 preliminary daily cold temperature records, including cold maximums and minimums, were broken or tied at longer-term sites (75+ years of data) in the United States from February 12 to 16, 2021. The cold snap peaked from February 14 to 16. Another winter storm will affect a large area from Friday, February 19 -- from the Lower Mississippi Valley into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
Over just the past week, much of the Lower 48 has been punished with record-breaking cold and unusually heavy snow and ice, NWS Weather Prediction Center said.
From the Pacific Northwest across the Rockies and into the Southern Plains and Midwest, the snowfall has been measured in feet. Ice and snow continue to plague Texas and the Northeast.
In the NCEI database, approximately 30% of available U.S. sites set cold maximum records, and about 20% set minimum records.
Analyzed temperatures were 22 to 28 °C (40 - 50 °F) below average over a large portion of the central and southern Plains.
At the peak of the cold, more than 5 million homes were without power, most of them in Texas (4.3+ million). More than 30 people have lost their lives.
Credit: NOAA
Some of the records on February 15 and 16 include:
-38.8 °C (-38 °F) at Hibbing/Chisholm, MN on February 15. The previous record was -35.5 °C (-28 °F) set on February 15, 1939.
-36.1 °C (-33 °F) at Valentine, NE on February 15. The previous record was -33.3 °C (-28 °F) set in 2007.
-33.8 °C (-29 °F) at North Platte, NE on February 15. The previous record was -30.5 °C (-23 °F) set in 1881.
-35 °C (-31 °F) at Lincoln, NE on February 16. The previous record was -27.7 °C (-18 °F) set in 1978.
-34.4 °C (-30 °F) at Hastings, NE on February 16. The previous record was -25 °C (-13 °F) set in 1979.
-33.3 °C (-28 °F) at Sioux City, IA on February 16. The previous record was -31.6 °C (-25 °F) set in 1936.
73% of CONUS was covered in snow as of midnight CST, February 16, making it the greatest extent on record in the database which dates back to 2003.
Here are some snowfall totals over the past two days for the winter storm that entered Texas and Oklahoma Tuesday morning, February 16.
"Some very impressive numbers for what has been an extraordinarily active pattern over the past week," NWS WPC said.
On February 14, U.S. saw the largest area covered by issued Winter Storm Warnings in the Lower 48 states since at least 2005.
~1.6 million km2 (994 193 mi2) beats the previous number 1 day over the past 15+ years of 1.2 million km2 (745 645 mi2) on February 1, 2011.
A major winter storm will continue to bring significant impacts from the Mid-Atlantic to Northeast U.S. today, February 18, with significant ice accumulations and heavy snowfall expected.
Well below normal temperatures will exist throughout the central third of the country into the weekend.
Featured image: Temperature anomaly U.S. on February 15, 2021. Credit: NWS
Source: https://watchers.news/2021/02/18/2400-cold-temperature-records-brok...
Feb 18, 2021
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More than 7 700 households without water supply as record snow hits Hokkaido, Japan
Heavy snow has been falling intermittently in Hokkaido, Japan, since Tuesday, February 23, 2021, with Iwamizawa city recording its second-highest snowfall of 2.05 m (6.7 feet) on Thursday, 25. It resulted in disruptions in the city, particularly in train services and even the water supply in the neighboring Bibai city, where more than 7 700 households have been affected.
Heavy snow has been piling up in Hokkaido, especially in the Sorachi region, since Tuesday.
Iwamizawa city was blanketed by 2.05 m (6.7 feet) of snow as of Friday morning, the second-highest snowfall in the area since the start of statistics. The figures were just 3 cm (1.2 inches) shy of the record 2.08 m (6.8 feet).
The snow led to travel and water supply disruptions in the area. Hundreds of train services were suspended, while the neighboring Bibai city lost access to water.
Officials believe that the accumulated snow broke the aced water pipe that connects the dam to the water purification plant, according to local media.
As of Thursday evening, 7 700 households were affected.
The local meteorological observatory said the winter-like conditions will continue until Saturday, February 27.
https://watchers.news/2021/02/26/record-snowfall-water-supply-hokka...
Feb 26, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
Severe flooding damages roads, hundreds of houses in northern Morocco
Posted by Julie Celestial on March 2, 2021 at 16:11 UTC (17 hours ago)
Categories: Floods, Newsflash
Heavy rains triggered severe flash flooding in the city of Tetouan in northern Morocco on Monday, March 1, 2021, leaving 275 houses damaged, as well as dozens of vehicles and infrastructure.
The dramatic situation in Tetouan made rounds on social media. Roads and infrastructure were damaged, as well as around 275 houses and dozens of vehicles.
According to local media, many routes were closed as roads were impassable.
Up to 100 mm (3.9 inches) of rain was recorded in a nine-hour period to Monday afternoon, which also caused rivers and drainage channels to burst.
Prior to the severe weather, the directorate of meteorology issued a number of orange-level notices to warn citizens of heavy rains.
Further rainfall warnings were issued for the provinces of Al Hoceima, Chefchaouen, Fahs-Anjra, M’Diq, and Fnideq.
Featured image credit: NDNews Weather/YouTube
Source: https://watchers.news/2021/03/02/tetouan-flood-morocco-march-2021/
Mar 3, 2021
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Deadly floods sweep through Kinshasa and Brazzaville in Congo and DR Congo
Severe flash flooding hit the neighboring cities of Kinshasa in DR Congo and Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo after heavy rains on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. At least four people died, while several houses and infrastructure were damaged.
Heavy downpours triggered severe flash flooding in Kinshasa and Brazzaville, resulting in fatalities and damaged homes.
As of Wednesday, March 17, local media reported evacuations in areas near the Tsieme River in Brazzaville after floodwaters swept through homes and paralyzed the city.
In DR Congo, torrential rains caused dikes to break, sending waters to many houses. Four children died in the floods and several houses were swept away in Kisenso Municipality, east of the city.
The Ndjili bridge collapsed, causing major transport problems from and to N'Djili International Airport. The incident also cut off some communities of Tshangu District from the rest of Kinshasa.
According to residents, many of them lost valuables as flooding invaded their homes. The deputy mayor of Masina added that flooding also infiltrated markets. In several neighborhoods, flooding caused the collapse of walls.
https://watchers.news/2021/03/17/deadly-floods-sweep-through-kinsha...
Mar 17, 2021
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Evacuations in NSW due to potentially record and life-threatening flooding, Australia
Residents across New South Wales, Australia, have been ordered to evacuate on Friday, March 19, 2021, after severe flooding-- described by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) as "potentially life-threatening"-- swept through the state. Severe inundations are already occurring along major rivers, with some expected to surpass record levels overnight.
"We are seeing very intense, very heavy, potentially life-threatening rainfall happening on the mid-north coast right now," the BOM stated. "We're seeing rainfall totals of over 100 mm (4 inches) falling in about an hour. That is very dangerous rainfall."
Residents in low-lying areas along the lower Macleay River are the latest to be urged to evacuate by Friday evening. People in low-lying areas in Kempsey were also warned that they may need to flee as waters are expected to severely flood the CBD overnight.
Other residents told to evacuate were those in some properties in Kings Point, the Macksville CBD, Bulahdelah, North Haven, Dunbogan, Camden Head, Laurieton, and Port Macquarie. In Nambucca, heavy rains have caused a landslip, while roads have been washed away further south in Port Stephens.
Severe flooding is already taking place along several major rivers, with the Hastings and Wauchope expected to exceed record levels overnight.
Multiple warnings and evacuation alerts are in force for the NSW mid-north coast. More flood warnings are in place across a dozen rivers, including in greater Sydney and the far west area.
On Saturday, March 20, Sydney is expected to bear the brunt of the severe weather as the system moves south.
"We might see quite a significant flash flooding and we've got a flood watch current for both the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers," said Justin Robinson, a flood forecaster in NSW with the BOM.
"We're likely to see a spill from Warragamba Dam and that will then impact those communities downstream."
During the past 24 hours, the State Emergency Services (SES) attended to at least 57 flood rescues and responded to more than 1 300 calls for help.
Heavy downpours are expected to continue into next week and may bring the heaviest rainfall since February 2020. Inland NSW is also forecast to be drenched by another system in the coming week.
https://watchers.news/2021/03/19/evacuations-in-nsw-due-to-potentia...
Mar 20, 2021
KM
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/out-of-control-grass-fire...
'Out of control' wildfire that caused evacuations in southern Alberta contained, alerts cancelled
Images from the grassfire east of Claresholm, Alberta this afternoon.
Two wildfires east of Highway 2 caused evacuations in southern Alberta during Sunday afternoon’s wind storm.
An emergency alert was issued for parts of southern Alberta after two wildfires began east of Highway 2. RCMP evacuated the Village of Carmangay due to one fire, describing the blaze as “out of control” and spanning 11 to 16 kilometres across. The village, located about 60 kilometres north of Lethbridge, has a population of 242.
An evacuation centre was opened at Claresholm Community Centre. The Town of Claresholm reported the blaze around 1:45 p.m.
Carmangay Mayor Stacey Hovde, speaking by phone from the village, said he believed the blaze started about 20 kilometres west, but the distance had closed to 10 kilometres a couple of hours later.
“I can see the fire. I can see the smoke,” he said.
Hovde said that on Saturday night, a separate fire destroyed the Grange Hotel in Carmangay, which had stood since 1905, adding no injuries were reported.
“We’re having a heck of a 24 hours,” he said.
Highway 520 east of Claresholm was closed Sunday afternoon in both directions because of the fire. Highway 2 south of the town reopened around 4:10 p.m. after an overturned semi-trailer forced the road to close.
Around 7 p.m., the emergency alert was cancelled because the fire had been contained, ending the Carmangay evacuation.
Vulcan RCMP said the Municipal District of Willow Creek was working on a re-entry plan for residents who were evacuated.
“There were injuries sustained as a result of the fire and all injured persons are being treated for their injuries,” Vulcan RCMP said in a release.
Over 5,000 hectares were damaged by the blaze. RCMP helped manage three semi-rollovers and two other collisions as a result of the high winds, in addition to assisting fire crews with the wildfires. As of 8 p.m., all highways in the area had been reopened.
The second grass fire, on the Blood Reserve, west of Lethbridge, forced the evacuation of approximately 15 homes in the Fort Whoop-Up area on the east end of the Blood Reserve and caused temporary closures of a “significant portion” of Highway 509, according to the Blood Tribe.
An emergency shelter for the fire was set up at the Standoff multi-purpose building. The emergency alert was no longer in effect by 7 p.m., as emergency crews held the fires and were working on hot spots and flare-ups into the evening.,The blaze was brought control shortly before 9 p.m., the Blood Tribe said in a statement.
Southern Alberta was under a wind watch, with a southwest wind gusting to 120 km/h in wind-prone areas, according to Environment Canada.
The wicked winds were part of a system that also prompted a wind warning and a snow squall watch for Calgary.
Environment Canada said strong, westerly winds gusting up to 100 km/h were moving from the Rockies into Calgary.
The wind could be strong enough to cause damage to buildings, particularly singles and windows, the agency said. They advised drivers to watch for changing road conditions due to the winds. Signs, garbage and other material blew through several city streets and parks Sunday afternoon.
A cold front was also expected to bring pockets of intense snowfall to southern Alberta on Sunday night and Monday morning. Environment Canada said snow and wind could combine to create near-zero visibility at times.
Snow squalls can be unpredictable and can cause weather conditions to vary considerably even across short distances.
“Changes from clear skies to heavy snow within just a few kilometres are common,” Environment Canada’s alert read.
“Visibility may be significantly and suddenly reduced to near zero.”
The advisories follow a special weather statement issued for Calgary and other parts of Alberta Saturday evening, warning Sunday’s warm afternoon temperatures could drop by 15 degrees due to the “potent” cold front.
The front could also bring with it rain showers, flurries and weak thunderstorms.
In southwestern Alberta, areas along the eastern slopes of the Rockies could see upwards of 20 centimetres of snow by Tuesday morning.
Calgary, meanwhile, had a forecasted snowfall of two to four centimetres.
Mar 29, 2021
KM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9484549/Huge-wildfire-rage...
Huge wildfire rages on Table Mountain forcing hundreds of University of Cape Town students to evacuate - as academic library burns and historic 300-year-old mill is destroyed
A wildfire is raging on the slopes of South Africa's Table Mountain, forcing hundreds of students to evacuate on Sunday.
Runaway flames set several University of Cape Town buildings ablaze as firefighters used three helicopters to water-bomb the area.
More than 100 firefighters were sent to battle the blaze and two were hospitalised for treatment after sustaining burns, officials said.
More than 100 firefighters were sent to battle the blaze and two were hospitalised for treatment after sustaining burns, officials said
The blaze was still burning and helicopters were still dropping water as the sun began to set on Sunday evening
The fire began early on Sunday near a memorial to Cecil Rhodes, located on Devils Peak, another part of Cape Town's mountainous backdrop, before spreading rapidly up the slopes.
Capetownetc.com reported that the university's library had been reduced to 'ash and dust' and that the 200-year-old Mostert's Mill windmill at Mowbray had also been destroyed.
The Jagger Library was nearly 200 years old and housed an original illustration of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book as well as drawings, maps and transcripts of stories from the indigenous peoples of the Cape within its collection.
Built in 1796 Mostert's Mill was the oldest surviving and only complete windmill in South Africa.
Capetownetc.com reported that the university's library had been reduced to 'ash and dust'. Pictured: Firefighters try to extinguish the flames in the library
The fire began early on Sunday near a memorial to Cecil Rhodes, located on Devils Peak, another part of Cape Town's mountainous backdrop, before spreading rapidly up the slopes
Pictured: Fire fighters battle the blaze that destroyed the nearly 200-year-old Jagger Library on Sunday after a bushfire raged out of control
Heavy smoke could be seen from miles away and some roads were closed on Sunday.
Table Mountain National Park, which spreads over much of the city's unbuilt area, called on social media for hikers to leave the area and for motorists to remove cars parked in the vicinity.
A first alert went up shortly before 9 am (0700 GMT), the city said.
The University of Cape Town said in a statement that all students had been evacuated from campus by emergency support staff
The university, ranked among the best on the continent, is largely built on the slopes of Devil's Peak and is situated close to where the fire started.
Social media footage showed students milling around on the main road, amid billowing smoke fanned by strong winds.
In another video, tweeted by the local government, flames are seen raging inside an old building lined with columns as smoke plumes rose from its roof.
City officials said they have not asked residents in the popular Rondebosch suburb and surrounding area to evacuate.
'The situation is being monitored and staff will go door-to-door in the event that evacuation is required,' officials said.
Residents have been cautioned to be on alert, Charlotte Powell, spokeswoman for the city's disaster risk management center, said in a statement.
'At this stage, there's no cause to evacuate, but we ask that residents adhere to the following: close all windows to prevent draft and reduce heat, damp down your garden using a hose or irrigation system,' Powell said.
Apr 19, 2021
Juan F Martinez
South Texas — heads up!
Posted FB ZTF Carlos Juan Semidey, 4/28/2021
https://www.facebook.com/carlosjuan.semidey/posts/515088263232587
Apr 29, 2021
Juan F Martinez
Apr 29, 2021
Juan F Martinez
Peculiar formations seen above Nebraska, May 4. Wild Weather the Wobble Effect.
@LegionWitch via Twitter Severe Weather Turkey
https://t.me/ZetaTalk_Followers/2044
May 7, 2021
Juan F Martinez
Level 14 gale force winds destroy buildings in Wuhan, Hubei, China May 10th 2021.
https://t.me/ZetaTalk_Followers/2109
https://youtu.be/qGWsPVMwlmM
May 11, 2021
Juan F Martinez
Storms within storms, central United States.
https://t.me/ZetaTalk_Followers/2609
https://www.facebook.com/MrTwisterChaser
May 31, 2021
Juan F Martinez
"First time I've ever seen mammatus clouds with such a purple hue to them. They were like this for almost 10 minutes. Photo was taken about 20 minutes after sunset just South of Pecos Texas on 05/28/2021" ~Cody Untermeyer
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=201251495193677&set=gm.1654...
Jun 7, 2021
Gerard Zwaan
Major summer storm hits Greece with a month's worth of rain in just 40 minutes
Posted by Julie Celestial on June 14, 2021 at 13:11 UTC (7 hours ago)
Categories: Featured articles, Severe storms
A major summer storm hit Greece, particularly the municipality of Attica, on Friday, June 11, 2021, bringing extremely heavy rain, lightning, and hail. A month's worth of rain fell in 40 minutes, causing traffic disruption across Athens and power outages to wide swaths of the city.
"The rainstorm, which produced what is usually a month’s worth of rain in Greece in just 40 minutes, caused major traffic jams across Athens, and even left large swaths of the city without power," the Greek Reporter reports.
Meanwhile, an intense hailstorm hit Psychiko, Agia Paraskevi, and many areas in the northern suburbs.
The severe weather caused power outages in Agia Paraskevi, Nea Ionia, Psychiko, Papagou, and Chalandri. Traffic lights were shut, mainly in Kifissia, according to authorities.
A new atmospheric disturbance is forecast to reach northern parts of the country on Monday, June 14. Rains and thunderstorms are possible in Central and Eastern Macedonia, Thrace, and the islands of the Eastern Aegean.
From Monday noon onwards, heavy rains are likely in Thrace, Thessaly, Eastern Sterea, Macedonia, Crete, and Eastern Aegean.
There is a chance of hail mainly in the northern and eastern regions, as well as the mountainous areas of Western Greece.
Featured image credit: Daily Weather/YouTub
Source: https://watchers.news/2021/06/14/major-summer-storm-hits-greece-wit...Jun 14, 2021
Mario Valencia-Rojas
More sky phenomenon just like the Zetas mentioned. Another spiraling Swirl observed this time across Vanuatu to many people surprise.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/4483202628418354/permalink/5562572243...
Jun 18, 2021