Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect

[Sevan Makaracı]

Giant waves crash over seawalls during a storm

in the suburbs of Taipei, Taiwan. 21.10.2025

"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 Arctic regions, with the violence of storms increasing in number and ferocity."

ZETATALK

Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect - Earth Changes and the Pole Shift

[Juan F Martinez]

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

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

http://strangesounds.org/2019/06/india-heatwave-death-toll-hundreds...

[jorge namour]

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

June 19, 2019

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/19/india/chennai-water-crisis-intl-...

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

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

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

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

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

India's ongoing water crisis

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

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

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

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

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/one-dead-five-injured-as...

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

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

Updated: Jun 13, 2019 00:44 IST

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

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

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

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

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

The monsoon is yet to set in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[jorge namour]

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

https://www.facebook.com/severeweatherEU/photos/a.1423656947857402/...

[Juan F Martinez]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-07/us-farms-are-facing-their...

[SongStar101]

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

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/frozen-lakes-high-sierra-Taho...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[KM]

http://strangesounds.org/2019/06/alberta-wildfires-smoke-europe.htm...

The wildfires in Alberta, Canada are so huge that their smoke has reached Europe

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

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

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

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

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

But how exactly does smoke travel this far?

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

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

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

[Gerard Zwaan]

DOZENS OF DAMAGE REPORTS AFTER HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS

By Janene Pieters on June 5, 2019 - 07:39

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Brandweer Belfeld@BrwBelfeld

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

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11:39 PM - Jun 4, 2019

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de Stentor Deventer@ds_Deventer

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

2:11 PM - Mar 10, 2019

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Henry Wallinga@henrywallinga

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

6:24 AM - Jun 5, 2019

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De weblog van Helmond@weblog_Helmond

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

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6:46 AM - Jun 5, 2019

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Meijel24@Meijel24

Code Oranje: Veel stormschade na noodweer in Meijel (Foto's) https://meijel24.nl/2019/06/05/code-oranje-veel-stormschade-na-nood...

1:19 AM - Jun 5, 2019

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112GroeneHart@112Hart

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

12:33 AM - Jun 5, 2019

RFGTweet@RFG112

#Stormschade zeermoeilijkestraatnaam #Gouda

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12:15 AM - Jun 5, 2019

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indebuurtede@indebuurtede

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

8:02 PM - Jun 4, 2019

Source: https://nltimes.nl/2019/06/05/dozens-damage-reports-heavy-thunderst...

[KM]

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Severe weather, including rare snowfall reported in Queensland, Australia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Juan F Martinez]

Storm chaser captures rare upside down lightning

Dan Robinson captured slow motion footage of rare upside down lightning. The lightning was filmed across parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Illinois over the course of one month.

https://www.floridatoday.com/videos/weather/2019/04/12/storm-chaser...