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Heavy snowfall, avalanche warnings in the Sierra, California - receives up to 2 feet of snow in 24 hours

New Snow at Mammoth Mountain

New snow at Mammoth Mountain
The National Weather Service has issued avalanche warnings for the Sierra Nevada Sunday after a winter storm dumped heavy snow on the region.

The Sierra Avalanche Center issued a backcountry avalanche warning for the Lake Tahoe area stretching south into the Sierra along the California-Nevada line from noon Sunday until 7 a.m. Monday.

The National Weather Service says blizzard conditions with gale-force winds could trigger widespread avalanche activity.

Two feet (61 centimeters) of snow was reported at Mammoth Mountain 150 miles (241.39 kilometers) south of Tahoe.



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High avalanche risk in Alps amid heavy snow - 2 dead

Musher Michael Ruopp is pulled by his huskies as he rides on a field near Lichtenstein, Germany, Sunday, Jan.6, 2019.
© Thomas Warnack
Musher Michael Ruopp is pulled by his huskies as he rides on a field near Lichtenstein, Germany, Sunday, Jan.6, 2019.
Authorities warned Sunday of a high risk of avalanches on the northern side of the Alps, after heavy snowfall in recent days created dangerous conditions across parts of southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

A 20-year-old skier died in an avalanche Saturday on Mount Teisen, near the Austrian border, German police said. The woman's five companions were unharmed.

In Austria, public broadcaster ORF reported that a 26-year-old man died Sunday after being struck by an avalanche while skiing near the town of Schoppernau.

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Waterspout and rainbow spotted off Cyprus coast

waterspout
A waterspout and rainbow were spotted off the coast of northern Cyprus on January 5, according to a local resident.

This footage was posted to Facebook by Ersoy Cecer, who said he filmed it close to Karpaz Gate Marina in Yeni Erenkoy, Cyprus, on Saturday.


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Waterspout forms off Santa Cruz, California

WATERSPOUT
A water spout formed off the Santa Cruz coast during Saturday's storm, according to the National Weather Service.

The agency tweeted video of the spout they say was associated with a strong cell moving ashore.

The video was shot by a friend of the office, according to the tweet.


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13,000 people stung in a week by jelly fish invasion in Queensland, Australia

Bluebottle Queensland

Bluebottle invasion sees thousands of Queensland beachgoers stung in a day
A bluebottle jellyfish invasion has seen thousands of beachgoers stung by the creatures in southeast Queensland over the weekend.

More than 2630 people, including children, have been treated for stings since Saturday on the Gold and Sunshine coasts in the state's southeast, as the jellyfish swarm beaches in record numbers.

Almost 1000 people were hurt in a matter of hours on Sunday afternoon, with 476 bluebottle stings treated on the Gold Coast and 461 on the Sunshine Coast. Several of those stung suffered anaphylactic shock.

On Saturday, 1323 people were stung on the Gold Coast alone. And some 13,000 stings have been treated by paramedics in the region over the past week.

Surf Life Saving duty officer Jeremy Sturges said it was an "epidemic".

"I have never seen anything like this - ever," Mr Sturges said.

Comment: Over 3,000 people have been stung by jellyfish on Florida beaches in the past two weeks


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Afghanistan flash flood kills at least 30 villagers

Badakhshan province, far northeastern Afghanistan. MASSOUD HOSSAINI
© MASSOUD HOSSAINI
This Aug. 15, 2016 photo, shows an ariel view of the snow-capped Pamir mountains in the Wakhan district of Badakhshan province, far northeastern Afghanistan.
At least 30 Afghan villagers searching for gold in a riverbed perished on Sunday in a flash flood in northeastern Badakhshan province, provincial officials said.

Along with those killed, dozens were also injured as a landslide and flash flood engulfed the river in the morning in Kohistan district, an area about 68 miles, from Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan.

Nek Mohammad Nazari, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said the villagers had dug deep in the river, which had in the past been mined for gold, when they were caught in the flash flood. The casualty numbers could rise, he said.

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Thousands of hectares of crops affected by snow in Sonora, Mexico

crop snow
The heavy snowfall left by the fifth and sixth winter storms of the season, as well as the extreme cold, generated frost damage in thousands of crops throughout the state of Sonora.

The weather mainly affected the garlic and asparagus crops in the mountains and the north of the state; as well as vegetable and legume crops in the valleys of Yaqui and Mayo, south of Sonora.

So far, the presidents of the Associations of Farmer Unions of Sonora have not specified how many hectares were affected because the damage is still rising. In addition, according to official weather forecasts, the low temperatures will continue the following days and its possible there will be more snowfall.

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Strong winds, heavy snowfall hit Turkey

Turkey's eastern province of Bitlis

Turkey's eastern province of Bitlis
Istanbul and the region of Thrace in Turkey's northwest were hit by heavy snowfall and strong wind which caused flight delays.

Turkish Airlines cancelled its Jan. 4 Salonika and Kosice international flights as well as many of its domestic flights taking off from Istanbul's Atatürk and Sabiha Gökçen airports due to the weather conditions.

Istanbul's higher areas, such as the district of Beylikdüzü, were hit by snowfall on Jan. 3 night along with strong winds.

Following warnings of harsher weather conditions by the Turkish State Meteorological Service, snowplows and salt trucks were waiting ready to intervene in the event of possible icing.


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Snow storm hits 17 Iranian provinces

Seventeen provinces of Iran have been stricken by heavy snow storm over the past 24 hours, Rescue and Relief Organization head Morteza Salimi has said.

Seventeen provinces of Iran have been stricken by heavy snow storm over the past 24 hours, Rescue and Relief Organization head Morteza Salimi has said.
Snow swept across 17 provinces namely West Azarbaijan, Ardebil, Isfahan, Alborz, Tehran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, North Khorasan, Fars, Semnan, Zanjan, Qazvin, Qom, Kordestan, Gilan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, and Markazi, Tasnim news agency quoted Salimi as saying on Friday.

Some 90 rescue teams comprising 320 rescue workers offered relief and rescue service, Salimi highlighted.

Meanwhile, some 4,100 who were stranded in the snow storm received relief services and 656 cars stuck in snow were released, he added.


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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Jet streams pinched - desert snows USA, beach snows Mediterranean

Texas desert snow
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
With the intensification of the Grand Solar Minimum, jet streams are moving to new positions on the planet and breaking off into pockets of cold moving far south. In the USA S.W desert regions massive snows blanket cactus and in Europe heavy snows on the beaches of Italy and Greece along the Mediterranean.


Comment: David DuByne of Adapt 2030 recently had a two part discussion with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron, editors at SOTT.net and authors of Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World.

The news cycle is largely distraction from increasing food prices and societal changes as Earth shifts to a cooler climate. As the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum intensifies, a 400-year cycle in our Sun is affecting crop production, the economy and everyone on our planet. This is a timeline for what you can expect from now to 2030 as the frequency from our Sun changes.

See here for Part 1 and Part 2.

Review of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection. The book is available to purchase here.

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