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Deep sinkhole several meters wide opens in Brussels, Belgium


9News
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:38 UTC
Sinkhole in Brussels, Belgium
© 9News
A sinkhole several metres wide appeared on a busy street in Brussels on Thursday, shutting the road to traffic and worrying local residents.

The hole, caused by a leak in underground water pipes, did not result in any injuries according to local media, but restaurant owner Massut Ozkan said he had to hurry to halt buses and cars heading for the street when the hole appeared.

"We stopped the traffic. I went up to stop all the cars. There were also buses, fortunately they didn't go down the road. We stopped everybody, on both sides of the street. Honestly, we avoided a serious danger. If a big bus or a van had gone by, things would not be the same," he said.

The road has been closed for safety reasons and 200 people evacuated, according to local media.

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Bizarro Earth

'Ginormous'! Hurricane Irma is larger than the entire state of Florida

Michael Bastasch
The Daily Caller
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:32 UTC
Hurrican Irma
© Nasa / Reuters
Hurricane Irma, a record Category 5 storm, churns across the Atlantic Ocean on a collision course with Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, is show in this NASA GOES satellite image taken at 1715 EDT (2215 GMT)) on September 5, 2017
Not only is Hurricane Irma the strongest storm to form in the Atlantic outside the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, it's also larger than entire U.S. states.

Irma is larger than Florida, the very state forecasts show it reaching by the weekend, according to CBS News weather producer David Parkinson.

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Cloud Precipitation

Colossal waterspout seen off the coast of Tropea, Italy


Yahoo! News
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:45 UTC
Waterspout off Italy's coast
A video uploaded to social media captures a spinning waterspout off the coast of Tropea, Italy on Sunday.

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Bizarro Earth

Hurricane Irma presents an extreme storm surge threat to the US and Bahamas

Dr. Jeff Masters
Weather Underground
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:26 UTC
Radar image of Irma from the Puerto Rico radar at 9 pm EDT September 6, 2017.

Radar image of Irma from the Puerto Rico radar at 9 pm EDT September 6, 2017.

After clobbering the Lesser Antilles islands of Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy, Anguilla, and Saint Martin/Sint Maarten early Wednesday morning, Hurricane Irma carried its march of destruction into the British Virgin Islands on Wednesday afternoon, still packing top winds of 185 mph. As of 5 pm EDT Wednesday, Irma had spent a remarkable 1.5 days as a Category 5 hurricane, which is the 7th longest stretch on record in the Atlantic, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach.

Longer-range outlook for Irma: Cuba, The Bahamas, and Southeast U.S.

The 12Z Wednesday runs of our top four track models-the European, GFS, HWRF, and UKMET models-were in strikingly close agreement that Irma will continue on a west-northwest track till Saturday, then arc sharply to the north-northwest. All four model runs placed the center of Irma within roughly 50 miles of Miami on Sunday morning; the latest 18Z GFS was also there. The average track error in a 4-day forecast is 175 miles, but this remarkable agreement among the models lends additional confidence to the NHC forecast track, which brings Irma over or very near southeast Florida on Sunday. All four models move Irma northward along or near Florida's east coast, with landfall in Georgia or South Carolina on Monday.
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Cloud Precipitation

According to Texas A&M expert the rainfall from Harvey shattered every record

Keith Randall,
Watts Up With That
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:20 UTC
Hurricane harvey rainfall
© Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Chris Ginter wades through deep floodwaters on September 6, 2017 in Houston, Texas. Ginter, a Houston resident, has been taking local residents to their flooded homes in his monster truck which can drive through waters up to 4 feet deep.
Hurricane Harvey was billed as a once-in-every-500-year event, and it more than lived up to its billing. It produced rainfall amounts that will re-write the weather books in Texas and the United States, says a Texas A&M University expert.

John Nielsen-Gammon, who is a Regents Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M and also serves as Texas State Climatologist, says Harvey set new standards for historic rainfall and flooding.
"Harvey is head and shoulders above all previous multi-day storms ever recorded in the continental United States," says Nielsen-Gammon.

"I examined 18 different combinations of storm lengths and area sizes, from two days long to five days long, and standard areas from 1,000 square miles to 50,000 square miles. According to the preliminary data, Harvey was the worst in all but one."
Nielsen-Gammon said that the most amazing record is for the five-day total over an area of 10,000 square miles.
"For Harvey to average 34.72 inches over five days across that large an area is ridiculous," Nielsen-Gammon says. "The previous all-time United States record, set in Texas back in 1899, was estimated at 21.39 inches. Harvey exceeded that record by 62 percent."
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Bizarro Earth

Infectious mosquitoes are increasingly moving into regions where they have never been seen before

Donald G. McNeil Jr.
The New York Times
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
Aedes aegypti mosquito
© Credit Marvin Recinos/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads Zika, dengue and chikungunya, has been turning up places where it had rarely or never been seen.
A mounting number of citations on a popular disease-tracking website suggests that mosquitoes may be moving into new ecological niches with greater frequency.

The website, ProMED mail, has carried more than a dozen such reports since June, all involving mosquito species known to transmit human diseases.

Most reports have concerned the United States, where, for example, Aedes aegypti - the yellow fever mosquito, which also spreads Zika, dengue and chikungunya - has been turning up in counties in California and Nevada where it had never, or only rarely, been seen.

Other reports have noted mosquito species found for the first time on certain South Pacific islands, or in parts of Europe where harsh winters previously kept them at bay.

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Solar Flares

Second X-flare in two months signals the Grand Solar Minimum is intensifying

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:56 UTC
Aurora over Finland
© Jani Ylinampa
As our Sun begins its phase change into the Grand Solar Minimum, it will equalize its charge by releasing excess energy through X-Class flares. The X9.2 is the second X-Class flare in two months and with Earths magnetosphere reduced smaller flares have more of an effect electrically in our atmosphere. Now there are bending tails coming off of Red Sprites, Blue remnant plasma flashes above geomagnetic storms and a full intensification of electrification on our skies. This second X-Flare signals an intensity increase entering the grand solar minimum.


Comment: The Electric Universe model is clearly explained, with a lot more relevant information, in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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Bizarro Earth

As hurricanes slam the Southern US, the West is literally on fire

Carey Wedler
The AntiMedia
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 21:19 UTC
Wildfires Western US
© fireweatheravalanche.org
Amid the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and the impending destruction of Hurricane Irma, many Americans may not be aware that the western region of the country is suffering the opposite wrath of mother nature. From southern California to Washington, wildfires are engulfing thousands of acres of land and prompting thousands of evacuations. Many of the states battling the wildfires have been doing so all summer.

On Saturday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency across the state due to the risk of wildfires, and the National Weather Service warned that 26 of the state's 39 counties were at very high or extreme risk. According to the Washington Department of Ecology, "[a]lmost all of WA [was] awash in wildfire smoke" on Sunday. The department noted air quality in many areas had suffered as a result. According to NASA satellite imagery, smoke is also being pushed eastward across the U.S
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Snowflake

Fresh spring snowfall closes roads and schools across Tasmania, Australia

Harriet Aird
abc.net.au
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 13:25 UTC
The snow has taken its toll on sheep farmers, coming during lambing season.
© Rhiannon Shine
The snow has taken its toll on sheep farmers, coming during lambing season.
Continued snowfall in Tasmania has forced the closure of a number of schools and roads across the state.

The weather bureau said the snow came after a front crossing the state brought very cold south-westerly air behind it.

On Friday morning, snow was falling as low as 200 metres, adding to already significant levels of settled snow in parts of the west, Central Plateau and far south.

The Education Department closed government schools in Collinsvale, Franklin, Geeveston and Huonville.

Forecaster Debbie Tabor told ABC Radio Hobart the snow was expected to continue throughout the day.

"We've got snow to around 200 metres, it's only very slowly retreating to around 500 metres this evening," she said.

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Cloud Precipitation

Turks and Caicos Islands struck by Hurricane Irma


The Guardian
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:23 UTC
The powerful category 4 storm made landfall in the British Overseas on Thursday evening and isn't expected to slow down through Friday morning. Pictured is the island of Providenciales

The powerful category 4 storm made landfall in the British Overseas on Thursday evening and isn't expected to slow down through Friday morning. Pictured is the island of Providenciales
Extent of damage unclear after communications cut as category 5 storm continues on path towards Florida

Hurricane Irma has hit the Turks and Caicos Islands as the category 5 storm, which has killed at least 11 people, continues to move across the Caribbean towards Florida.

Waves as high as 6 metres (20ft) were expected on Friday in the Turks and Caicos, where communications went down as the storm hit the islands, leaving the extent of the devastation unclear.

The first hurricane warnings were issued for parts of southern Florida as the US state braced for Irma, while some of those islands hit hardest by the storm prepared for Hurricane Jose, a category 3 storm following in Irma's wake with 120mph (195km/h) winds.

French, British and Dutch military authorities sent aid to devastated Caribbean islands where at least 11 people were dead and thousands left homeless. Warships and planes were sent with food, water and troops after the hurricane smashed homes, schools and roads, laying waste to some of the world's most beautiful tourist destinations.

The French prime minister, Édouard Philippe, said on Thursday that four people were confirmed dead and about 50 injured on the French side of Saint Martin, an island split between Dutch and French control. Homes there were splintered and road signs scattered by the strong winds, while cafes and shops in the seaside town of Marigot were submerged in flood water. Rescue teams had yet to cover the entire area of damage, meaning the death toll could rise.

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