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Australia's Northern Territory hit with highest daily rainfall in 79 years

Aaron Bunch
Yass Tribune
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:47 UTC
Seventeen times more rain has fallen in Darwin than the same time last year
Seventeen times more rain has fallen in Darwin than the same time last year
Darwin has recorded its highest daily rainfall for October in 79 years as more than a metre of rain pelted down on the city.

It's given the Northern Territory a flying start to the wet season, with 17 times more rain falling in Darwin than the same time last year, the Bureau of Meteorology says.

"The heavens opened in Darwin," senior meteorologist Sally Cutter said.

"It's been a dramatic contrast to the past two wet seasons, which were much drier."

To 9am on Thursday, 177mm of rain was recorded at Marrara in north Darwin and 136.8 was recorded at Royal Darwin Hospital.

Darwin airport received 113mm of rain.

The previous highest daily rainfall for October was recorded in 1969 with 95.5mm.

Before modern record-keeping began in 1941, a 116.6mm of daily October rain was recorded in 1880 at the Darwin Post Office, an observation past longer used.

Comment: Earlier this year Melbourne, Australia recorded the highest March rainfall since 1929.

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First snowfall this year observed in Ukraine's Carpathians


112.international
Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:27 UTC
Snow in Carpathians, October 2020
© Chornohora Mountain Search and Rescue PostSnow in Carpathians, October 2020
Snow fell in the Carpathians on October 14. That's the first case this season. Chornohorsky mountain search and rescue post reported that on Wednesday.

Low visibility, down to 50 meters, was observed at Pip Ivan mountain, due to the thick snow clouds.

The temperature fell to -4 degrees by Celsius. The speed of the western wind made 19-20 meters per second.

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Rare derecho confirmed in Southern New England, only the third one in 25 years

Anthony Macari
10 WJAR
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:06 UTC
Trees downed in Schaghticoke, N.Y., during last week's derecho
© NWS AlbanyTrees downed in Schaghticoke, N.Y., during last week's derecho.
The wind damage and severe thunderstorms on Oct. 7 were part of a rare weather event here in Southern New England: a derecho, and it caused widespread wind damage throughout the area.

It was a Weather Alert Day, and for good reason. A derecho is a prolonged, widespread wind damage event over 250 miles and with wind gusts 58 mph or stronger.

Events like this are rather rare, not only in Southern New England, but the northeast as a whole.

Lines of strong thunderstorms happen consistently in the summer, but most struggle to hold together and cause consistent damage over 250 miles. In October, derechos are even rarer.

In the past 25 years, derechos have only entered Southern New England three times.


Comment: In August this year a powerful derecho storm wreaked havoc across the US Midwest leaving 1.1 million without power.

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Best of the Web: Cars swept away, 9 dead as heavy rain hits Hyderabad, India - 7.5 inches in 24 hours, highest in Oct since 1903


Scroll.in
Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:10 UTC
Vehicles lie partially submerged in floodwater following heavy rains, at Falaknuma, in Hyderabad.
© PTIVehicles lie partially submerged in floodwater following heavy rains, at Falaknuma, in Hyderabad.
In the city's Barkas area, a man was washed away by the turbulent floodwater.

Heavy rain disrupted life in Hyderabad on Wednesday, causing severe waterlogging in several areas and submerging low-lying places. Traffic was also disrupted in several parts of the city.

At least nine people, including children, were killed in Hyderabad late on Tuesday after a wall collapsed due to the rain. The city has been receiving incessant downpour over the last three days. Hyderabad recorded 191.8 millimetres of rain in 24 hours till 8:30 am on Wednesday, according to The Indian Express. This is the highest rainfall that the city has received in month of October since 1903.

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Dramatic waterspouts appear off Greek coast after severe storms

Anna Wichmann
Greek Reporter
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:12 UTC
Waterspouts over open water.
© Wikimedia CommonsWaterspouts over open water.
After unexpected rain storms slammed into the country early Tuesday morning, sharp-eyed weatherspotters were able to capture waterspouts which formed near the island of Thasos and the northern Greek region of Chalkidiki.

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Heavy rain triggers floods and landslides in 8 provinces of Indonesia


Floodlist
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:41 UTC
Floods in Parigi Moutong Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, October 2020.
© BPBD Parigi MoutongFloods in Parigi Moutong Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, October 2020.
Floods and landslides have affected wide areas of Indonesia since 07 October, 2020. At least 3 people have lost their lives. Homes have been damaged or destroyed and hundreds of people displaced.

Java Island

West Java

Flooding since 11 October 2020 has affected around 1,000 households in 6 districts of Garut Regency in West Java Province. The affected districts are Pameungpeuk, Cikelet, Cibalong, Peundeuy, Singajaya and Banjarwangi.

Indonesia's National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) said heavy rain caused an overflow of the Cipalebuh and Cikaso rivers. Around 60 homes were damaged, including 7 severely damaged. Sixty families were displaced in Pendopo Pamengpeuk District.

Homes were also damaged after floods and landslides occurred in Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java Province on 12 October.

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Cloud Precipitation

Southeast Asia flood deaths near 40 as new storm Nangka approaches

Khanh Vu, Prak Chan Thul
Reuters
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:28 UTC
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Nearly 40 people have died in Vietnam and Cambodia and scores more were missing, including rescuers, due to prolonged heavy rain and flash flooding as tropical storm Nangka edged towards the Vietnamese coast on Tuesday.

Heavy rains since early October have caused deadly floods and landslides in several provinces in central Vietnam and displaced thousands of people in western Cambodia, officials and state media said.

The floods are expected to worsen over the coming days, with tropical storm Nangka forecast to dump more rain as it makes landfall in Vietnam on Wednesday.

Nangka, packing wind speeds of up to 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour) will trigger heavy rain of up to 400 millimetres in parts of northern and central Vietnam from Wednesday through Friday, its weather agency said.

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Cloud Precipitation

United Airlines flight makes emergency landing after windshield cracks in hail storm

Alexandra Deabler
Fox News
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:17 UTC
No one was hurt and the flight landed safely.
© Alex LangNo one was hurt and the flight landed safely.
A United Airlines flight made an emergency landing on Monday after a windshield reportedly cracked while going through a hailstorm.

The flight was bound for Washington Dulles Airport, but had to return to Chicago O'Hare International Airport approximately an hour after it took off, according to data from Flight Aware.

Twitter user Alex Lang, a passenger on the flight tweeted out a photo of a cracked windshield in the cockpit, writing the inclement weather caused the damage.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 3 women labourers standing under tree in Maharashtra, India


Devdiscourse.com
Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:11 UTC
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Three women labourers were killed while two others were seriously injured on Sunday after they were hit by lightning in Nagpur district of Maharashtra, police said. The incident occurred in evening after some women labourers took shelter under a tree in Shiva village to save themselves from heavy rains while they were going to their homes, a Kondhali police station official said.

"A bolt from the sky hit the tree and the women, leaving them injured," he said, adding that the injured were rushed to hospital in Hingna town by villagers where three of them died. The deceased are identified as Archana Tatode (35), Sharda Uikey (36) and Sangita Mungbhate (35), he said.

A case of accidental death was registered by Kondhali police.

Source: PTI
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Cloud Precipitation

Floods worsens as Tropical Storm Linfa makes landfall in Vietnam - 15 dead in 7 days


Floodlist
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 11:14 UTC
Track of Tropical Storm Linfa in Vietnam, October 2020.
© Vietnam National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological ForecastingTrack of Tropical Storm Linfa in Vietnam, October 2020.
Tropical Storm Linfa made landfall over Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces in Vietnam on 11 October 2020.

The storm brought further heavy rainfall to central provinces of Vietnam. Ta Long in Qang Tri province recorded 210 mm of rain, and Quang Dien and A Luoi in Thua Thien-Hue both saw 182mm in a 24 hour period to 12 October. Central Vietnam has been plagued by heavy rain since around 05 October, with many provinces seeing severe flooding and landslides.

15 dead after 7 days of floods

Some areas of central Vietnam have seen over 1.5 metres of rain in the last week. In a period from 05 to 11 October, Huong Linh in Qang Tri province recorded 1,520 mm of rain and A Luoi in Thua Thien-Hue 1,888 mm.

As of 12 October, Vietnam's Disaster Management Authority (DMA) reports that severe flooding and landslides in the central region have left at least 15 people dead, with a further 3 lives lost in shipping incidents. Floods and landslides have left 10 others missing since the start of the severe weather spell. Four people are still missing at sea.

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