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Sudden 'microburst' causes damage near Rome, New York State

Amy Neff Roth
Utica Observer Dispatch
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:22 UTC
microburst damage at Lake Delta
The blue, blue sky suddenly turned jet black, a crazy wind kicked up and something hit her house hard, said an eyewitness to Sunday's microburst near Lake Delta.

A huge trampoline from her neighbor's backyard had crashed into her house and landed on the roof around 1:30 p.m., said Regina Kekis, who lives on the Town of Rome side of Townline Road. "That wind was ferocious. It came out of nowhere. It was here maybe a minute and a half and it was gone," she said.

Kekis questioned officials' assessment that the damage from what the National Weather Service called a microburst was minor. Her house's siding now has a big gash in it and she can see at least 10 big trees along the road that were pulled up by the roots, she said. Her neighbor's shed was flattened and other area homes were damaged, too, she said.
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Bizarro Earth

Indonesia volcano erupts forcing Bali flight cancellations


Jakarta Globe
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 04:44 UTC
Volcanic ash clouds
Volcanic ash clouds have again disrupted the plans of Bali holidaymakers
Disaster mitigation authorities in West Nusa Tenggara have raised the status of Indonesia's second highest active volcano to "alert" as it continues to spew ash, prompting an Australian airline to cancel all flights to and from Denpasar airport today.

Mount Barujari, Mount Rinjani's cone and a result of eruptions of the main volcano in 1994 and 1995, erupted on Sunday sending hot clouds and debris up to around 10,000 feet, Azhar, chief of the West Nusa Tenggara Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on Tuesday.

Although the status remains at alert, Azhar said, the agency had prepared a number of evacuation scenarios for some 40,000 residents living near the 3,726-meter volcano located in the North Lombok district.

"We will evacuate them immediately to the safest areas in North Lombok, East Lombok and West Lombok," said Azhar as quoted by news portal Okezone.com on Tuesday.

The volcanic activity has prompted Virgin Australia to cancel all of Tuesday's flights to and from Indonesia's most popular tourist destination island of Bali — neighboring Lombok.
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Snowflake

Up to a foot of snow forecast for California's Sierra Nevada as storm moves in

Veronica Rocha and Brittny Mejia
Los Angeles Times
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 22:35 UTC
LA clouds
© Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles TimesLow clouds drift over the Los Angeles Basin and downtown in Los Angeles.
The Sierra Nevada could get up to a foot of snow Monday as a wet storm moves across California's drought-stricken mountains and valleys, bringing rain and cold temperatures.

Described as the first significant storm of the season, snow began accumulating overnight in the northern Sierra Nevada, dusting the parched mountains with about nine inches of powder, said Eric Kurth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

The snowstorm caused unexpected chaos on U.S. 50 and Interstate 80 in El Dorado County, where drivers were required to use tire chains on the slick roads.
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Severe storms, huge hailstones, 'tornado', batter south eastern Australia


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:43 UTC
Australia storm damage
© StrathmertonStandard / Facebook
Storms so severe hit Australia this weekend that the disaster line stretched all the way from Queensland to Gippsland, something unseen in years. The internet was flooded with accounts of sunny weather turning into destructive greyness.

The aftermath of the multiple storms left a trail of havoc from Queensland, through New South Wales and on to Victoria, emergency services said. As of early Sunday morning, Victoria was still under siege.

According to ABC, citing the Victorian State Emergency Service (SES), the New South Wales-Victorian border saw trees uprooted and houses badly damaged.

"It's rare to see a storm line stretch that far. It can happen, you need a very active low pressure trough to extend right through that distance."

Comment: Additional coverage of the storm from The Today Show - 9news.com.au



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Cloud Precipitation

Rare and deadly: Cyclone Chapala expected to bring catastrophic flooding to Yemen


Al Jazeera
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:19 UTC
Cyclone Chapala
© EPAA Nasa photo of Cyclone Chapala moving towards Yemen, followed less than a week later by Cyclone Megh - an unprecedented double whammy!
At least two people killed as rare storm, Cyclone Chapala, destroys homes and forces evacuations on Socotra island.

The first ever cyclone (hurricane) to make landfall on the Arabian peninsula has already started wreaking havoc in Yemeni waters, killing at least three people and injuring about 100 on the island of Socotra as it tracks steadily towards the country's coastline.

Cyclone Chapala, which has formed in the Arabian Sea, destroyed more than 100 homes on the island on Sunday, as it also uprooted trees and sank fishing boats, sources told Al Jazeera.

The US Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC) reports that Chapala is expected to make landfall at about 06:00 GMT on Tuesday morning.

The JTWC reported that the storm system was tracking a path that would take it close to the Yemeni port city of Mukalla, which has a population of about 300,000 people.

"The cyclone is the equivalent of a category 3 hurricane, with sustained winds of 195 km/h, gusting 240 km/h," Al Jazeera's meteorologist Steff Gaulter explained.
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Attention

5.2 earthquake shakes Peshawar, Pakistan


dunyanews.tv
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:39 UTC
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The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman
The earthquake of 5.2 magnitude on Richter scale on Monday jolted several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar and adjacent areas, Dunya News reported.

The earthquake jolts sparked panic among the locals who evacuated the buildings while reciting prayers. As per the Metrological center, today's jolts were of 5.2 magnitude while the US Geological Survey recorded it at 4.9.

The epicenter of the earthquake was Koh-e-Suleman.
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Cloud Precipitation

Several days of torrential rains flood the Masai Mara plains in Kenya, puzzling the wildlife

Sara Malm
Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 17:49 UTC
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Thunderbolt and lightning: As the heavens open once more, the lioness makes her way across the muddy, watery plains
A long drought on the plains of the Masai Mara has been broken by several days of torrential rains, turning the dry Kenyan plains into a veritable sea.

These stunning images taken last week show drought turned to flood on the national reserve in southern Kenya, and lone animals who did not make it to shelter in time.

They include a lioness teetering on a small mound of earth, before 'island hopping' between small patches of land still visible above the giant puddles. Another image shows a forlorn gazelle hunched and exposed to the heavy rains.

The images were taken by British wildlife photographer and guide Paul Goldstein, from Wimbledon, south London.

'Last week the drought in Kenya's Masai Mara was broken. Violently,' Mr Goldstein explains.

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No way of staying dry: The lioness wades through the water which comes up her elbows
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Ice Cube

What global warming?! NASA says Antarctic ice is increasing by 135 billion tonnes a year

Jon Austin
Daily Express, UK
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:46 UTC
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© NASA•GETTYThe amount of ice at the Antarctic is INCREASING not going down, says NASA
A new Nasa study of the Antarctic from space has thrown the case for climate change into disarray after finding that more NEW new ice has formed at the Antarctic than has been lost to its thinning glaciers.

The US space agency research claims an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is "currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from melting glaciers.

Global warming theories have been thrown into doubt after Nasa also claimed current horror predictions into future sea-level rises may not be as severe.

Major studies previously made the case for global warming being a man-made problem, including the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which said that Antarctica was overall losing land ice.

But a Nasa spokesman said: "According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice a year from 1992 to 2001.

"That net gain slowed to 82 billion tons of ice per year between 2003 and 2008."
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Cloud Precipitation

Weekend rains led to 2 million gallons of sewage spilling into Houston bayous

Marcelino Benito
USA Today
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:13 UTC
flooding in Houston
© KHOU-TV, HoustonThe storms that pummeled Houston on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015, spilled more than 2 million gallons of sewage into the bayou system.
The weekend's rains in Houston left the city with a raw sewage problem that collected on downtown streets.

"It's just a horrible stench and I've had to wade through it constantly walking through here," said Steve Sherlund, who lives along Buffalo Bayou.

The storms that pummeled Houston on Halloween caused more than 2 million gallons of sewage to spill into the bayous.

"You never think about sewage," said Brandon O'Quinn. "It's kind of the last thing anybody wants to hear."

The waste water spilled out at four sites across the city, potentially influencing Halls, White Oak, Buffalo, Brays and Sims bayous.

Comment: It's becoming very apparent that earth changes are capable of over-whelming different infrastructures, and without a devoted effort to acknowledge and address the problems there will just be more and worsening instances of failures that, while somewhat benign in this instance, will leave the door open to catastrophic consequences down the road.

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Question

Three 'rare' earthquakes strike near Black Canyon City, Arizona

Arizona Republic
Josh Susong, Dianna M. Náñez and Amy B Wang
Mon, 02 Nov 2015 14:41 UTC
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© U.S. Geological Survey
A string of earthquakes north of Phoenix gave the Valley a rare jolt Sunday night, and the largest - a magnitude 4.1 just before 11:30 p.m. - rattled homes across the region.

The series of at least three quakes generated no reports of notable damage, but left people swaying or stunned from Black Canyon City, closest to the epicenter, to Camp Verde and across metro Phoenix as far as Queen Creek.

In central Phoenix and elsewhere, the largest quake came as one quick rap - a bit like a distant explosion without the sound, or an unexpected bang on the door.
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