Wild Weather, the Wobble Effect

[Sevan Makaracı]

Massive flooding in Da Nang, Vietnam. 30.10.2025.

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."

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

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Family's Hobart holiday goes from 40C to snow in one weekend

Adrian Van Beek and his family decided to escape the hot Brisbane summer and take a holiday in Hobart but when they arrived, they were hit by opposite extremes.

Hobart's temperatures spiked at 40C last Friday, close to its hottest ever day of 41.8C in 2013.

 "On the first day, we'd planned to go up the mountain, but it was so hot that we couldn't," Mr Van Beek told Nine.com.

Mount Wellington covered in snow after 40C day. 


Mount Wellington covered in snow after 40C day. 

On Monday, Mr Van Beek and family set off to enjoy a cooler day only to get caught in major snow fall and temperatures of -1C on Mount Wellington overlooking Hobart.

"When we drove up we saw there was snow already on the trees and on the grass, and then this cloud just came over us and we couldn't see anything, it was completely white, and 10 minutes later it was snowing," he said.

"We were able to pick up the snow and throw it at each other."

It was Mr Van Beek son's first time seeing snow. (Supplied/Adrian Van Beek)

For their first trip to Hobart, it wasn't what the Van Beek family had in mind.

"We were lost for words," he said. 

 "Our motivation to come down here was that temperatures in Brisbane during summer are hot anyway but excessively hot this year so we thought we'd head south and enjoy the weather down here."

Temperatures of 40C are equally as unseasonal, with an average February high of 22C.

"It was absolutely unexpected," he said.

"I expected it to be cool, but did I expect it to be minus one? No. Did I expect it to be 40C? Absolutely not."

https://www.9news.com.au/national/hobart-heatwave-to-snow-in-24-hou...

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Flooding on Vancouver Island shuts down highways, state of emergency declared in Cowichan Valley

WATCH Flooding seen at the Russell Farms Market near the area of Highway 1 shut down due to flooding

Heavy rainfall across Vancouver Island has caused significant flooding in multiple communities.

The Cowichan Valley Regional District has declared a local state of emergency after intense localized flooding forced evacuations and shut down roads.

Highway 1 between Chemainus and Duncan opened up Saturday just before 11 a.m., after being closed for several hours due to flooding.

The flooding was just south of the Chemainus River Bridge, blocking both directions.

Twenty-three people had to be evacuated in areas of Crofton late Friday night. Evacuations continued on Saturday morning.

“Anytime that residents are displaced from their homes, it’s an emergency,” said Kris Schumacher, the manager of communications and engagement for the Cowichan Valley Regional District. “It was important for us to do it across the region because it was an evolving situation that was happening in a number of different areas.”

The Cowichan Community Centre was opened as a group lodging and reception centre, and hosted around 28 evacuated residents from North Cowichan and the Halalt First Nation. The centre is now closed, and anyone impacted has been moved to different accommodations.

The CVRD says the state of emergency is remaining in place until further notice.

Officials say the centre is ready to re-open if flooding returns.

A business in the impacted area, Russell Farms Market & Garden Centre, is seeing major flooding.

Dyana Lewis lives just down the street from the market, on Mount Sicker Road.

“There was just water absolutely everywhere and it was flowing hard,” said Lewis. “If anybody tried to walk across it, I’m sure they would have just been swept.”

Her house is on a hill, so it was safe from the flooding. Lewis’ barn, however, is on lower ground and saw lots of flooding early in the morning.

“We have a 20-acre hay field and it was completely under water,” she said. “The barn where the horses were standing, they were standing in about a foot of water.”

Many residents are sharing similar stories of the impact the flooding has had on their homes. Highway Rentals owner Bernadette Scudder said that’s why everyone is pitching in to help by providing free sandbags to residents needing them to protect their properties from the water.

“We’ve gotten phone calls from people all day saying ‘do we need a hand, do we need help filling the sand bags,'” she said.

Early Saturday morning Highway 1 at the McKenzie interchange in Saanich saw closures due to flooding in the underpass.

Traffic is now flowing in the area.

Other roadways across the Island that were impacted including:

• Cowichan Valley: Westholme Road, Chemainus Road, Canada Avenue, Mary Street, Tzouhalem Road — closed due to flooding.
• Tofino/ Ucluelet: Highway 4, in both directions,  between Tofino-Ucluelet Hwy and Toquart Bay Road — single alternating lane due to a washout
• Multiple roads leading to Bamfield — impacted after washouts.
• Multiple roads in the Nanaimo area — closed due to flooding.

Many of the routes have been opened back up. The CVRD says flaggers are now in place at any closures in their area.

There were also delays on the Malahat. A fallen tree and a mudslide caused intermittent closures. Around noon the route was clear.

The weather is being blamed on an “atmospheric river”, which are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere that transport most of the water vapour outside of the tropics.

https://www.cheknews.ca/flooding-on-vancouver-island-shuts-down-hig...

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Kazakhstan’s Capital under “State of Emergency” as Severe Week-Long Winter Storm Continues to Ravage the City      January 28, 2020 Cap Allon

Authorities in the Kazakhstan capital of Nur-Sultan have declared a state of emergency after a week-long winter storm continues to pummel the city with strong winds and heavy snow, reports akipress.com.

Deputy Minister of Interior of Kazakhstan, Yuri Ilyin, declared the emergency over the weekend.

Since January 23, a total of 645 people have required rescuing from the snowstorms and accompanying drifts, according to tengrinews.kz. In addition, and over the same period, 133 stranded vehicles have been been dug-out and towed — 106 cars, 9 buses, 18 trucks, and 1 loader.

Transportation links to and from Nur-Sultan were cut on January 27, while all schools in the capital remained closed. A spokesman for city’s International Airport has confirmed that all flights have been cancelled indefinitely, for obvious safety reasons.

Dozens of highways across the Central Asian country have been closed due to the recent severe winter storms, as the lower-latitudes continue to refreeze in line with historically low solar activity, further heavy snowfall is expect in the region over the coming days.

https://electroverse.net/kazakhstans-capital-under-state-of-emergen...

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Deadly Storm Gloria batters Spain and France killing 9 with winds of up to 90 mph (144kmh) and waves up to 13.5 metres (44 feet) high. (spectacular video)

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Nine people have died and four are missing after Storm Gloria continued to batter eastern Spain with high winds, heavy rain, snowfall and huge waves. The storm, which had left 220,000 people in the Tarragona region without electricity on Tuesday, began to shift away on Wednesday and is now battering southern France, however, some north-eastern and Balearic areas remained on orange alert.

A man died of hypothermia in Carcaixent, Valencia on Wednesday, while a woman was killed in Alicante province when her home collapsed. A farmer in Almería died after becoming trapped in a greenhouse during a hailstorm and another man was found dead in a flooded area a few miles inland from Benidorm. Gloria had claimed five other lives between Sunday and Tuesday with winds of up to 90 mph (144kmh) and waves up to 13.5 metres (44 feet) high.
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Source: https://www.thebigwobble.org/2020/01/deadly-storm-gloria-batters-sp...

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Spain – Storm Surge From Storm Gloria Reaches 3km Inland 

A severe storm brought powerful winds, cold temperatures, snow and coastal flooding to wide areas of Spain from 20 January. Media blamed at least 4 deaths on the storm. Satellite images show storm surge swept 3km inland in Tarragona Province, resulting in severe damage to rice paddies and the ecosystem.

Storm surge flooded 3 km inland along Spain’s eastern coast 20 to 22 January 2020. Image: Copernicus EMS

The storm, named “Gloria” by the State Meteorological Agency of Spain, AEMET, produced waves of over 8 metres along the coastline of south-eastern Spain on 20 January.

AEMET reported wind gusts of 115 km/h in Oliva, Valencia, on 20 January and 106 km/h in Barcelona the next day.

Heavy rain was also reported, with Barx in Valencia recording 190.4mm of rain in 24 hours to 20 January. The following day Horta de Sant Joan in Tarragona Province, Catalonia, recorded 227.4mm.

Media reported damaging coastal floods in Valencia, Alicante, Tarragona and Barcelona Provinces.

Images from Copernicus Emergency Management Service show storm surge on the east coast of Spain swept 3km inland, devastating rice paddies in the Ebro river delta south of Barcelona. The mayor of Deltebre, Lluís Soler, estimated around 30 sq km of rice fields have been flooded by seawater and said “the delta is in emergency!”

In Valencia Region, schools were suspended and several roads cut off. The storm also forced the closure of Alicante airport, leading to the cancellation of nearly 200 flights. Unusually cold temperatures were also reported in the south-east, and at least 2 people died as a result of hypothermia.

Strong winds and heavy snowfall affected central and northern parts of the country. One person died as a result of strong winds in Avila Province, Castile and León Region, and another in a vehicle accident on snowbound roads in the Asturias Region.

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Valencia records a record wave of 8.44 meters,  Monday, January 20, 2020

+ TURIA | Exceeds 2 meters to the one registered during the January 2017 storm

The winter storm that affects the Valencian Community has caused, among other effects, high-altitude waves along the coast, which have reached, in the case of the Valencia buoy, 8.44 meters, according to the State Meteorology Agency in this autonomy (Aemet).

This significant wave height "exceeds the historical maximum" recorded in the València de Puertos del Estado buoy, which dated from January 2017, underlines the same source.

It should be remembered that, due to the state of the sea, the port authority of Valencia has decided to close the port from 06.12 hours Also the port of Gandia is still closed, according to the 112 Emergency Service.

http://www.masturia.com/2020/01/valencia-registra-una-ola-record-de...

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Terrifying moment 'Bomb Cyclone' blizzard BURIES Newfoundland in 30 inches of snow as the province asks Canadian military for help digging out the island

• The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador was hit by a massive Bomb Cyclone blizzard this weekend
• St. John's was buried under 30 inches of snow, the most ever recorded by the capitol city
• Social media posts of the Canadian province reveal time lapse footage of streets and literally fading into white 
• Rob Carroll, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said St. John's had experienced a one-day snowfall Saturday of 76.2 centimeters, or 30 inches 
• Newfoundland Premier Dwight Ball asked for the Canadian military's help as residents of the province's capital struggled to tunnel out from buried homes 
• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Bay Roberts also said search teams were looking for Joshua Wall, 26, who remained missing after leaving his home
• Wall lives in Roaches Line, a small community about 70 kilometers, or 44 miles, west of the capital, and was going to a friend's house

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador was hit by a massive Bomb Cyclone blizzard this weekend, leaving its capitol city buried under the heaviest snowfall ever recorded in its history. 

Rob Carroll, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said St. John's had experienced a one-day snowfall Saturday of 76.2 centimeters, or 30 inches, breaking the previous record of 68.4 centimeters, 27 inches, on April 5, 1999. 

A storm system that had slammed the northeastern US earlier in the week with strong winds, snowfall and lake-effect squalls exploded into a 'bomb cyclone' on Friday after tracking into the Atlantic Ocean, AccuWeather reports. The storm then set its sights on portions of Atlantic Canada.

Newfoundland's premier asked for the Canadian military's help as residents of the province's capital struggled to tunnel out from buried homes. Social media posts coming from St. John's reveal time lapse footage of cars and streets literally fading into white. 

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Bassem Elshahat posted a picture of his porch in St. John's at the start of the a 24-hour cycle

An update of the images shows Elshahat's porch starting to disappear, as well as the street beyond

Another update shows the street level starting to level out with the porch. No more steps are visible in the footage

The street level in another update is higher than the porch, and cars are buried

A later view from the porch reveals a surreal image of snow and nothing else but the faint glow of a street light in the distance

A bomb cyclone forms when air pressure drops 24 millibars or more in a 24-hour period. Premier Dwight Ball said he had asked for the federal government's assistance, including mobilizing the armed forces, after the blizzard battered eastern Newfoundland.

Meanwhile, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Bay Roberts said search teams were looking for 26-year-old Joshua Wall, who remained missing after leaving his home in Roaches Line, a small community about 70 kilometers, or 44 miles, west of the capital, to walk to a friend's home.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Bay Roberts said search teams were looking for 26-year-old Joshua Wall, who remained missing after leaving his home in Roaches Line, a small community about 70 kilometers, or 44 miles, west of the capital, to walk to a friend's home

St. John's Mayor Danny Breen said he has lived in the city most of his life and has never seen a storm of this magnitude.

'I've never seen the combination of the amount of snow, the rate of snowfall and the wind speed that we've had here over the past couple of days,' Breen said.

Winds at the St. John's International Airport were recorded at between 120 and 157 kph, or 75 and 98 mph, at the height of the storm.

Early Saturday morning when the snowplow came to clear his street, Breen said, he could hear the vehicle but he couldn't see it because there was so much snow.

He said he is about 178 centimeters tall, or 5-foot-8, and 'the snow in front of my front step is over my head. I can't see either one of my cars in the driveway.' 

Intense snowfall brought St. John's and many other communities to a standstill Friday, then slowed overnight and ended in the capital Saturday morning. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7906205/Moment-blizzard-BU...

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Trump rips New York City sea wall: 'Costly, foolish' and 'environmentally unfriendly idea'

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/478949-trump-rips-nyc-s...

President Trump on Saturday ripped the "sea wall" that was proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect New York City from damaging natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, calling the plan costly, foolish [and] environmentally unfriendly."

"A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway," the president tweeted.

"It will also look terrible. Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!" he added.

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UN warns hunger crisis in southern Africa 'on scale we've not seen before'

A record 45 million people across southern Africa are in need of in urgent need of food aid, the UN has said. The situation is expected to get even worse as the annual cyclone season begins.

A cattle farmer tries to help a cow stand after it lost all its energy due to a drought in the Chisumbanje area, Zimbabwe (picture-alliance/dpa/A. Ufumeli)

An unprecedented number of people in 16 countries across southern Africa are gravely food insecure as climate change wreaks havoc on the region, the UN's World Food Program (WFP) warned on Thursday.

"This hunger crisis is on a scale we've not seen before and the evidence shows it's going to get worse," the WFP's Regional Director for Southern Africa, Lola Castro, said in a statement.

The crisis is impacting 45 million people — many of whom are women and children. The region has been hit hard by repeated droughts, widespread flooding and economic hardship.

Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe are among the hardest-hit.

Many families across the region are already skipping meals, taking children out of school and falling into debt to stave off agricultural losses, the WFP said.

https://www.dw.com/en/un-warns-hunger-crisis-in-southern-africa-on-...

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7889271/UK-weather-Landsli...

Wrecking ball weather: Brutal 80mph winds leave trail of destruction across UK with school and tower block roofs torn off, 10-storey scaffolding brought down and rail chaos - after bedlam of Storm Brendan

• Trees cause issues between Chessington and Motspur Park in London and Marks Tey and Sudbury in Suffolk 
• Flooding between Romsey and Southampton and Swindon and Bristol Parkway is also bringing problems 
• Environment Agency imposed 176 flood alerts and 37 warnings after more than an inch of rain fell overnight 
• Further thundery rain in North and West today with more snow on the way in Scotland and Northern Ireland
• ** Have you taken photographs of storm damage today? Please email them to: [e-mail] ** 

Stormy weather conditions caused chaos across Britain today after 80mph wind gusts and more than an inch of rain left cars smashed, roofs torn off, scaffolding blown over and homes without power.

A tree blocked the line between Chessington and Motspur Park in South London, the line between Marks Tey and Sudbury in Suffolk was shut after a train hit a tree and there was flooding between Romsey and Southampton.

Heavy rain flooded the railway between Swindon and Bristol Parkway causing 45-minute delays on services, and a landslip between Horsham and Dorking resulted in diversions and disruption on South Western Railway.

The Environment Agency imposed 176 flood alerts and 37 warnings across England after more than an inch of rain fell overnight – with 1.2in (30mm) recorded in Hampshire; about a third of its 3.2in (81mm) monthly average. 

Clear-up work in Slough, Berkshire, today after a roof was blown off a building onto the road yesterday evening in high winds

Clear-up work continues in Slough today after a roof was blown off a building onto the road yesterday evening in strong winds

Meanwhile a school in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales was forced to close today after a section of its roof was blown off. Part of the hall roof Maerdy Community Primary School came off and there was also flying debris. 

Where are the train delays in Britain today? 

• All lines blocked between Chessington South and Motspur Park in South London due to a fallen tree
• Trains between Romsey and Southampton Central disrupted after heavy rain flooded the railway
• Damage to the train which runs between Marks Tey and Sudbury in Suffolk caused by trees on the line
• Landslip between Horsham and Dorking means trains may be delayed by up to 20 minutes or diverted
• Heavy rain on the line between Swindon and Bristol Parkway, causing diversions and 45 minute delays In Slough, Berkshire, a huge section of roof was torn off a building and sent crashing into a busy high street. Onlookers sifted through the rubble after the incident but police do not believe anyone was seriously hurt.

It is believed the roof, which appeared to have landed on a van, was ripped off a block of flats housing around 200 residents. Council officers attended the scene, where 50mph winds were recorded, and helped emergency services workers clear the street.

But the stormy weather is now due to ease temporarily - before another spell of wind and rain hits the UK.

The 48-hour period of wild weather began with Storm Brendan hammering Ireland on Monday, causing thousands of homes to lose power, before bringing winds in excess of 120mph to parts of Scotland.

Airlines were forced to divert flights scheduled to land at Gatwick Airport on Monday evening while ferries and railways faced disruption. A second low-pressure front brought further strong gales to the UK yesterday.