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Huge waterspout filmed off Salerno, Italy


BBC
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:50 UTC
Massive waterspout in Salerno
Massive waterspout in Salerno, Italy.
A huge waterspout has been captured on video moving from the sea and hitting Italy's south-western city of Salerno.

Eyewitnesses said the whirling column of air and water lifted containers in the city's port area. There were no reports of any injuries.

The rare phenomenon was observed at about 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT), officials say.

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water and quickly dissolves over dry land.

Footage of Tuesday's waterspout has been widely shared on social media, with some users describing the vortex as "incredible".

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Flamingo takes wrong turn migrating to Saudi and ends up in Siberia


The Siberian Times
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:30 UTC
The bird got so cold while flying over Kemerovo
© Lyudmila KarabanovaThe bird got so cold while flying over Kemerovo region it fell down right in front of a car.
The flamingo was on its annual migration, but lost the rest of its flock.

Experts believe it took a wring turn after flying from Kazakhstan to the Arabian peninsula, a distance of some 3,400 kilometres.

Instead the young bird got so cold it 'froze in the air' and crash landed on a road in the Novokuznetsky district of Kemerovo, some 1,300 km in the wrong direction.

Locals picked up the forlorn bird and warmed it in the car before giving it a temporary home beside a bathroom radiator.


Comment: See also these similar reports since 2011: Lost flamingo that was heading for Saudi Arabia turns up in Siberia instead

Flamingos migrating to Caspian Sea in mortal danger - lost in Siberia

Four lost flamingos fly north for the winter and turn up in Siberia

Flamingos Drop From Siberian Sky: Locals Mystified

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Cloud Precipitation

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Atmospheric compression events - Deserts blooming - Both hemispheres break record cold


Adapt 2030
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:25 UTC
Saudi Arabia desert blooming
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Atmospheric compression events occurring in all corners of the Earth. One of the end results is that deserts across the planet are blooming, no where more so than the Middle East and North Africa, fields of green carpet the landscape as far as the eye can see in drone shots, carpets of flowers are an endless tapestry of color and some of these flood events turn deserts into inland seas. Australia record cold and two months of rain in two hours, record cold USA, and the ferocity of colliding jet stream fronts is now visible in temperature anomaly maps.


Comment: For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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Snowflake Cold

Harsh winter scenes plague Canada and it's only November

Andrea Bagley
The Weather Network
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:00 UTC
snow
Record breaking snowfall, record setting low temperatures, -50 wind chills, impossible driving conditions amid freezing rain and ice. Sounds like the heart of the winter season doesn't it?

In reality, ALL of these harsh winter conditions have plagued different parts of the country this fall, leaving little to no areas untouched.


Will this be a sign of what's to come this winter or will Mother Nature start to loosen its frosty grip? More on what's happened (keep in mind we had to limit this to just a few main events because the wintry scenes have been endless) and what lies ahead this winter, below.
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Snowflake Cold

Qinghai-Tibet Plateau receives biggest early winter snow since records began 57 years ago - 7 inches measured

Liangyu
Xinhua
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:24 UTC
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Continuous snow has swept Qinghai Province in northwest China since the start of November, accumulating record high precipitation in the region's 57 years of history of meteorological records.

Snow accumulation between Nov. 2 and 7 has reached 18 cm on the ground in Dulan County, Haixi Mongolian Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, where the height above mean sea level averages 3,180 meters.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "roof of the world," is an important region to monitor climate changes with the weather and the glaciers as indicators.
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Michigan snow totals already starting to mount up - maximum of 34 inches measured

Mark Torregrossa
MLive
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:13 UTC
Snowfall so far in 2018-2019
© NOAA/National Snow AnalysesSnowfall so far in 2018-2019 cold season as of November 19. 2018
A few weather systems with Michigan on the cold side of the storms and some lake effect snow have made most of Michigan have above normal snowfall so far in the early part of this cold season.

The eastern Upper Peninsula has the most deviation from normal snowfall amounts. Sault Ste. Marie has already shoveled 26.7 inches of snow. This is 17.7 inches more than normal to this date.

Marquette is on the fast track to 100 inches of snow, with 34 inches of snow already falling in this early part of the cold season. Marquette is 15 inches above snowfall normal today.

Here's a rundown of how much snow has fallen as of November 19, 2018 and the departure from normal.
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Sunniest autumn on record for the Netherlands


DutchNews.nl
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:07 UTC
Sunset over Amsterdam.
© DutchNews.nlSunset over Amsterdam.
After the sweltering summer, the autumn of 2018 is set to enter the history books as the sunniest in the history of the Netherlands. Several places set new records for autumn sunshine on Sunday with 12 days of the season to go, NOS reported.

Meteorologists define autumn as the period between October 1 and November 30. Southern Limburg has been the brightest place this autumn so far, with 465.4 hours up to now, though this is not a local record. Almost all central and western areas have set new records already this autumn, including the central weather station at De Bilt, which clocked up 2000 hours of sunlight for the year to date.

Comment: Interestingly, this past winter saw the darkest months on record for some parts of Europe: And for more on the changes our planet is experiencing, check out SOTTs monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs



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Snowy owls expected to show up again this winter in USA - 8th consecutive season in an unusual sequence


Daily Reporter
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:10 UTC
Snowy owl
Snowy owl
After multiple sightings last winter, including some in Hancock County, snowy owls are again being seen in Indiana, according to the Indiana Audubon Society.

The all-white arctic owl only visits Indiana during cyclical "irruptions" occurring every four to five years, but often the year following an invasion, such as occurred last winter, can produce an "echo effect," bringing another smaller invasion of owls southward, the organization says in a news release.


Comment: This standard explanation of cyclical irruptions has broken down for the last 7 winters, when exceptional numbers appeared every year. See the links below covering the time period which amply demonstrate this point. Some other environmental and/or climate factors seem to be involved.


Snowy owl numbers fluctuate year to year based on their primary prey — lemmings, giant mouse-like rodents — whose population also oscillates based on food supplies and weather conditions in the arctic. When populations spike, the owls respond with higher than normal breeding, with some nests containing ten or more eggs. The subsequent invasions later that fall result in not so much a food scarcity, but because of the abundance of food earlier that summer. Young owls tend to leave the arctic each winter, resulting in the larger-than-normal invasions.

Comment: A sample of the many reports for the last 7 seasons:

Winter 2017-18: Highest number of snowy owls ever recorded of 139 in 2017-18 winter across Indiana

Record number of 280 snowy owls counted in Wisconsin this winter

Winter 2016-17: At least 65 Snowy owls invade Bruce County, Ontario

Winter 2015-16: 30 Arctic Snowy owls arrive in Wisconsin; earliest date ever reported and record numbers

Winter 2014-15: An above average winter for sightings of snowy owls in Northeast America

Snowy owl sightings on the rise across the upper US

Winter 2013-14: Huge Snowy Owl invasion becomes official in Canada and U.S.

Winter 2012-13: Mysterious snowy-owl migration one of biggest on record

Winter 2011-12: US: Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration

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Series of 4 waterspouts seen off Auckland's North Shore in New Zealand


tvnz.co.nz
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:05 UTC
waterspout
© Jo Ottey
A large waterspout has formed off a beach on Auckland's North Shore today.

Stunning video of the weather phenomena were sent to 1 NEWS by Graeme Gilby.

In the video people can be heard exclaiming in awe of what they're seeing over the water.

Mr Gilby said the "amazing sight" formed off Takapuna Beach around 6:15pm.

"At first I thought it was a mighty big whale. It was wicked," Mr Gilby said. "It was quite a way out to sea".

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Cloud Precipitation

Red alerts for torrential rain reduced to orange after morning of flooding chaos on the Costa Blanca, Spain

Tom Thirkell
Euro Weekly News
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:38 UTC
Alicante province was inundated this morning
© Bomberos DipuAlc/ N332/ Mastral projectAlicante province was inundated this morning
THE RED alert, advised by the Spanish met office AEMET, for torrential rainfall on the Costa Blanca has ended and has been replaced by a less severe orange level threat as the worst of today's weather subsides.

This morning, the province of Valencia and much of the province of Alicante were placed on a red, severe threat to life, level of advisory ahead of treacherous weather conditions arriving to Spain's east coast.

This red level warning was deescalated after 3pm on Monday afternoon, with an orange, medium risk to life, advisory enforced in its place.

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