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Otto sets new record as latest hurricane to form in Caribbean

Jenny Staletovich
Miami Herald
Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:07 UTC
Hurricane Otto satellite
© CNN weather
The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season threw a late season curveball Tuesday: Hurricane Otto off the coast of Central America.

The rare late-season storm strengthened from a tropical storm after it spent much of the afternoon stalled over warm Caribbean waters. In Panama, the storm was blamed for three deaths, including a child, after triggering a landslide and downing tree branches.

National Hurricane Center forecasters said late Tuesday afternoon the storm was located about 375 miles east of Costa Rica with sustained winds of 75 mph and moving west about 2 mph.

Otto sets a new record for the latest hurricane to ever form in the Caribbean, forecasters said, breaking a record set by Hurricane Martha in 1969 by a day.

A hurricane watch and tropical storm watches and warnings were issued up and down the Central American coast, from Nicaragua to Costa Rica.

Otto is expected to strengthen and pick up speed as it approaches the coast on Thursday. Forecasters warn the storm could dump up to 12 inches of rain, with higher totals between 15 and 20 inches in some locations. Life-threatening rip currents could also slam the coast over the next few days.

Comment: If Otto does reach Costa Rica, it will be that country's first hurricane landfall in recorded history (since 1851).

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2016: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Sott.net
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:09 UTC
ECS October 2016
© Sott.netOctober 2016: another '1-in-1,000-year flood event' hits the Carolinas
While all eyes last month were on the most extraordinary build-up to a US election, Earth Changes continued apace.

The curtain-raiser in October 2016 was Hurricane Matthew, which left a swathe of destruction across Colombia, the Caribbean and the US East Coast. The strongest North Atlantic storm in a decade, Matthew was also the strongest storm ever recorded so close to the equator, dumped so much water that it broke rainfall records wherever it went, and cost over $10 billion in damages. Haiti, where over 1,600 people were killed, bore the brunt of it.

Extreme weather is so 'normal' now that South Carolina last month recorded its seventh '1-in-1,000-year' flood event in just 6 years, beating rainfall records set in... September 2016. While much of the US saw record-breaking warm temperatures for October, copious amounts of snow across Russia meant that the northern hemisphere's snow cover extent by late October was second only to that recorded in 1976.

We also have a dozen mind-blowing meteor events in this month's video, a reflection of what we suspect is another end-of-year uptick in 'space visitors'. As we reported at the beginning of the year, fireballs have significantly increased over the last decade, and the skies become especially 'illuminated' during the latter half of each year.

These were 'the signs' in October 2016...


Comment: Update 23 November 2016 - It has come to our attention that the 'meteor over south Wales' @15:14 is being claimed as the creation of some liberal artist, which may or may not be the case.

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Tornado2

Hurricane Otto to threaten Central America on Thanksgiving

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:20 UTC
Hurricane Otto storm track
Otto strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday, killing three people in Panama and prompting hurricane watches for Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as it spun closer to a Thanksgiving Day landfall in Central America.

In Panama, rains and mudslides blamed on the storm killed at least three people, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, Costa Rica ordered the evacuation of 4,000 people from its Caribbean coast.

As of 4 p.m. ET, Otto was maintaining 75 mph winds, making it a Category 1 hurricane. It was located about 235 miles east of Limon, Costa Rica, and moving west at 2 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm, which is the seventh hurricane of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, is expected to speed up Wednesday.

Total rainfall of 6 to 12 inches, with isolated amounts of 15 to 20 inches, are forecast across northern Costa Rica and southern Nicaragua through Thursday, and will likely result in life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the hurricane center said.
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Control Panel

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration adjustments correspond exactly to their confirmation bias

Tony Heller
Real Climate Science
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:48 UTC
Climate
Thermometers show the US cooling since about 1920, but NOAA massively cools the past to create the appearance of a warming trend.

Comment: See also: The coming ice age - Antarctic peninsula has been cooling not warming

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Rainbow

Beautiful white rainbow photographed over Rannoch Moor, Scotland

Richard Hartley-Parkinson
Metro (UK)
Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:43 UTC
The beautiful fogbow which appeared during Storm Angus
© Melvin NicholsonThe beautiful fogbow which appeared during Storm Angus
A photographer has taken a picture of a beautiful white rainbow in the Scottish mountains.

Melvin Nicholson captured a stunning photo of the rare phenomena - technically a fog bow - on Rannoch Moor while out walking yesterday.

A fog bow is a colourless rainbow made up of tiny water droplets that cause fog.

Due to the small size of the water droplets it has very weak colours, with a red outer edge and bluish inner edge.

Melvin said: 'I have never seen a fog bow before and understand that it is very rare.
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Bizarro Earth

Incredible drone footage captures giant cracks left by New Zealand earthquake (VIDEOS)


RT
Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:46 UTC
New Zealand earth cracks
© GNS Science / YouTube
Following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which struck New Zealand's South Island last week, scientists sent a drone to examine the damage left in its wake along the Kekerengu and Papatea fault line ruptures.

The footage shows the extent of the damage caused, and is a sobering watch in light of the latest earthquakes that struck the country Tuesday. The North Island was hit with a 6.0-magnitude earthquake. The South Island also experienced a 5.3 quake a few hours later that may have been an aftershock from the previous week.

The Kekerengu Fault is one of several to have ruptured during the Kaikoura earthquake on the South Island. Scientists estimate the surface rupture to be about 30km (19 miles) long.

The videos were created by GNS Science, a geoscience research company. They sent a drone over both the Kekerengu Fault and the Papatea Fault in the northeast South Island with captivating results, highlighting the damage sustained as well as New Zealand's beautiful landscapes.


Comment: See also:

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Bizarro Earth

Not just bees: Trees are dying off at an alarming rate

Alex Pietrowski
Waking Times
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:00 UTC
tree death, deforestation
In the background of modern life, as people go on debating politics and working for a living, something dreadful is happening to the eco-systems which support us. Major disasters like the ongoing radioactive leak at Fukushima, the apocalyptic fires burning throughout Indonesia, even bee colony collapse disorder, seem to fall out of view in day-to-day life, as we seem to have lost our power and will to directly participate in the stewardship of planet earth.

A new crisis is now happening all around us affecting trees. It appears that millions, hundreds of millions even, of trees are dying in North America and around the world from a basket of reasons, promising to completely and permanently alter the landscape and environment around us.
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Arrow Up

13-year-old escapes 20-foot-deep sinkhole in Lake Elsinore, California

Tony Shin
nbclosangeles.com
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:54 UTC
Sinkhole escape
Teenager nearly swallowed up by a sinkhole
A Southern California teen nearly swallowed up by a 20-foot-deep sinkhole in her front yard fought to crawl from the opening that caved in right under her Monday.

"All of a sudden I just fell down," 13-year-old Lake Elsinore resident Macayla Wittman said.

Surveillance video captured part of the struggle, with Macayla's legs visibly flailing as she fought to escape the well-like hole in her front yard on Pennsylvania street.

She was walking on her front yard when the ground gave way underneath her. But Macayla stopped her fall by grabbing onto the edge of the 3-foot-wide sinkhole.

Seconds later she climbed out shaken, but not hurt.

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Cow

No milk today: Rampaging cow sending man spinning through the air filmed in Nigeria

Thomas Burrows
Daily Mail
Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:21 UTC
The cow flipped the man into the air in front of a shocked crowd in Nigeria
The cow flipped the man into the air in front of a shocked crowd in Nigeria
This dramatic footage shows the horrifying moment a cow gored a man and flipped him into the air.

The video, filmed in Nigeria, showed a man trying to catch the long-horned cow with a rope on a pole, watched by a crowd.

However the cow evaded the rope and instead charged at a bystander.

As he sprinted away, the cow turned its attention to another man trying to run off.

In his desperate efforts to scramble to safety, he stumbled into a ditch and the cow stabbed him with its horns.

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Attention

Another dolphin found dead along shoreline in Nova Scotia, Canada; the third in four days


ctvnews.ca
Tue, 22 Nov 2016 13:57 UTC
Robert Lange of Pictou County snaps a photo of a dolphin that washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
Robert Lange of Pictou County snaps a photo of a dolphin that washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.
Another dead dolphin has washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. - the third in the last four days.

Robert Lange says he was driving home last week when he noticed a pod of dolphins splashing in the Merigomish Harbour.

"The dolphins were swimming very close to shore here and when I stopped and looked closer with the binoculars, there was a pod of maybe a dozen or more swimming very close together," said Lange. "The fins were all out of the water and the tide was very low with the supermoon."

Robert Lange of Pictou County snaps a photo of a dolphin that washed up along the shoreline in Big Island, N.S. on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

One of the animals died that night and another washed ashore the next morning.

The dolphins appear to be trapped by geography. At one end, Merigomish Harbour has a wide opening between Big Island and the Mainland, but it narrows significantly and closes at the other end.

"We assume that these ones were probably chasing a school of fish, and got up here and got out of the channel and into the shallow water and couldn't get back," said Lange.


Comment: See also: Two dolphins dead after stranding in Nova Scotia, Canada

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