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Cloud Precipitation

5 children drown and 1 missing in flash floods in northern Vietnam


Thanh Nien News
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:53 UTC
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© VnExpress.Rescuers search for a schoolboy in Nghe An Province on Friday.
Rescue workers in Nghe An Province are searching for a teenager who was swept away by flash floods on his way home from school on Friday.

Nguyen Van Hoa, chief police of Yen Thanh District, said the high school student was reportedly sitting on a rubber tire with two of his friends, trying to row it along a flooded road.

The water was one meter deep and they were swept away by the strong flows, he said.
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Cloud Precipitation

Flash floods kill 11 in Iran


Press TV
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:40 UTC
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At least eleven people have lost their lives in flash flooding across Iran including the capital Tehran.

Head of Relief and Rescue Organization of Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS), Naser Charkhsaz, said on Saturday the fatalities have occurred during the past 48 hours in the provinces of Tehran, Hormozgan in southern Iran, North Khorasan and East Azarbaijan in the country's north, IRIB reported.

Meanwhile, floods triggered by torrential rain killed five people in Pakdasht town in southeast Tehran on Friday, said Hadi Rahmati, the director general of crisis management for Tehran Province.
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Wolf

Wolves kill large guard dogs in Butternut, Wisconsin

Courtney Terlecki
waow.com
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 13:24 UTC
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Spanish Mastiffs
For the past eight years, farmer Paul Canik has been protecting his exotic sheep worth thousands of dollars from wolves with a special breed of guard dog called a Spanish Mastiff.

After eight years, the wolves have killed two of Canik's dogs. The first one was over Mother's Day weekend, and a week ago, the second dog has been killed.

"Those dogs meant the world to us," said Canik.

The dogs were like family to him, and now, Canik has only four dogs left, three of which are puppies that he fears for.

"We had to tie our other three guard dogs up now every night," said Canik. "We tied them up so we don't lose them."

With his guard dogs tied up, the sheep are being left unprotected while Canik searches for anywhere to purchase more Spanish Mastiff dogs.
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Umbrella

Storm brings record rainfall to Southern California

Heather Navarro
NBC Southern California
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:22 UTC
record rainfall in SoCal
© Inland NewsRecord rain totals fell Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 after moisture from former Hurricane Linda brought a storm to SoCal.
After Tuesday's SoCal storm that brought heavy downpour, officials said it was the wettest day of the year.

"That was more rain than was received in nearly the previous seven months," according to a statement by the National Weather Service.

The storm was kicked off by moisture from former Hurricane Linda.

Record rainfall totals hit SoCal including 2.39 inches in downtown LA which shattered the 1968 record, according to the National Weather Service.


Comment: Record rainfall, but still California, a vitally important food producing region, is still experiencing it's worst drought in 500 years. In the event of economic or environmental catastrophe, perhaps we will see 'floods' of desperate migrants there in the near future?

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Snowflake

Winter begins in western US as snow falls in California, Idaho, Utah and Colorado

Brandon Mercer
SFgate
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:25 UTC
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Literally the day after a dire report of the bleakest snow conditions in 500 years for the Sierra Nevada, snow began falling. It's not much and certainly won't matter for the four-year drought, but it's welcome.

The system was forecast to bring rain to the Valley Fire area, and a dusting of snow above 7,000 feet in Northern California, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado.

In Lassen Volcanic National Park, Caltrans closed Highway 89 Wednesday because of snow. The closure was from the southern boundary to the junction with State Route 44.

Already, social media is lighting up with photos of Mammoth Mountain in the Central Sierra getting a good coating of snow earlier this week, and other resorts getting snow overnight into Wednesday. Utah and Colorado also got a good dusting, with snow flurries continuing across the Western United States.
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Cloud Lightning

Flash-flooding in Utah worst natural disaster in state's history

Max Roth
Fox13 Salt Lake City
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:41 UTC
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© National Park Service via AP

This photo released by US National Park Service shows, from left to right: Gary Favela, Don Teichner, Muku Reynolds, Steve Arthur, Linda Arthur, Robin Brum, and Mark MacKenzie. The hikers, six from California and one from Nevada, died when fast-moving floodwaters rushed through a narrow park canyon in Zion Park, southern Utah on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015.
Monday's flash flooding was the most deadly weather disaster to ever occur in Utah. Twelve people are confirmed dead and a child is still missing after flash flooding in Hildale, and another six are confirmed dead with another individual missing after flooding in Zion National Park.

Prior to Monday, that dubious distinction would have fallen to a pair of avalanches in Alta in 1881 and 1885. In each case, 15 people were killed.

The most deadly flooding in Utah happened in 1923 in Farmington and in 1965 in Sheep Creek Canyon near Flaming Gorge.

Utah has also experienced days where more people died in a sudden, violent events. The worst single day's disaster happened in the town of Scofield.
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Windsock

Tornado rips through Kansas, hits houses, trees & powerlines


RT
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 04:12 UTC
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© Jeff Piotrowski / Reuters
A tornado swept through Kansas and continued through to Missouri on Friday, leaving behind ripped roofs and uprooted trees. A flash flood warning remains in effect for parts of Illinois as foul weather continues its path to the east.

Spotted near Paolo, Kansas, at around 7:00pm local time, the tornado has been described by local media as "extremely large and dangerous."

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Radar

Volcano alert level for Mauna Loa, Hawaii elevated

Lynn Kawano
Hawaii News Now
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 21:25 UTC
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The amount of small earthquakes beneath the summit of Mauna Loa has more than tripled recently prompting the U.S. Geological Survey to increase the volcano alert level from "normal" to "advisory". On the color scale, it went from green to yellow.

"Over the past year we've been locating, on average, around 150 earthquakes per month," says Weston Thelen with the U.S.G.S. who says normally, fewer than 40 earthquakes a month are reported.

The last time Mauna Loa erupted, was in 1984. The lava flowed for 22 days. More than 30 years later, the mountain is stirring again.

"Really, we're seeing a persistence in this unrest," says Thelen, "We're not saying that an eruption is imminent, we're not even really certain that there is going to be an eruption." But the shallow earthquakes are occurring in the same areas that preceded the mountain's most recent eruptions.
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Cloud Precipitation

Thailand declares Pattaya a disaster zone following flash floods


channelnewsasia.com
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 19:48 UTC
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© The NationRescue workers use an inflatable boat to take school children home from their flooded school in Rayong province.
Thailand has declared Chon Buri, which includes the popular tourist resort of Pattaya, a disaster zone after it was hit by flash floods this week.

Torrential rain and gusty winds hit the Thai resort for many hours on Wednesday night and Thursday, causing damage to property and chaos to road users, local media said on Friday (Sep 18).

The heavy downpour was a result of a tropical storm Vamco which caused two-metre-high waves and high winds in the Gulf of Thailand.

Pattaya Mayor Ittipol Khunpluem said the disaster declaration would help accommodate state relief and assistance to the area despite the fact that most of the flooding had subsided, the Bangkok Post reported on Friday.


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Bizarro Earth

Apocalyptic images show impact of Chile's 8.3 magnitude earthquake


RT
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:31 UTC
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© Reuters (L) A damaged car lies on debris after an earthquake hit areas of central Chile, in Coquimbo city, north of Santiago, Chile, September 17, 2015. (R) Houses and cars are swept out to sea in Kesennuma city March 11, 2011.
Apocalyptic images showing the impact of the 8.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile and killed 12 are staggeringly similar to photos from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which killed almost 16,000.

The quake was felt as far away as Buenos Aires, Argentina. Authorities issued a tsunami alert for Chile's entire Pacific coast.
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