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Thousands displaced in north and west of Myanmar (Burma) as rivers overflow


Floodlist
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:29 UTC
Flooding from the Irrawaddy river in Myanmar
© MOI Myanmar
Flooding from the Irrawaddy river in Myanmar’s state of Kachin.
Flooding has displaced thousands of people in northern and western Myanmar after a period of heavy rain caused rivers overflow.

Kachin State and Sagaing Region

Over 14,000 people have been displaced by flooding from the Irrawaddy river in Myanmar's northern state of Kachin.

According to reports, the worst hit area is Myitkyina, where 2,000 households have been forced to leave their homes. Over 20 relief camps have been set up to accommodate those displaced.

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Intense frost damages citrus production in the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina


Fresh Plaza
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:45 UTC
Frost in Entre Ríos.

Frost in Entre Ríos.
The Argentine province of Entre Rios was affected by an unusual frost this weekend when the temperature dropped to -5º C. The intense cold affected a large part of the region's mandarin and orange production.

The meteorological phenomenon affected the departments of Concordia and Federacion the most.

Entre Rios is a province known for its citrus production. The intense frost affected the W. Murcott, Murcott, and Encore mandarins varieties, as well as various varieties of summer oranges.

It is still too recent to quantify the damages, but according to estimates, the production suffered a major setback.

Source: news.agrofy.com.ar
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Jet3

Bird attacks on the rise throughout the US and Canada

Sandy Fitzgerald
NewsMax
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:51 UTC
Blackbird
© Carlos Osorio/AP
Blackbird eats a beetle.
Alfred Hitchcock may have been predicting the future in his movie "The Birds," with bird-against-human attacks apparently becoming more common as people encroach on their natural habitats, according to wildlife experts.

Red-winged blackbirds appear to be a major culprit, reports The Wall Street Journal, with people reporting that the songbirds have been divebombing or slamming in to them as they jog or walk through their neighborhoods.

"You talk to people about being attacked by birds, and they look at you like you're crazy," Stephen Vedder, of Marlborough, Mass., who has been attacked while jogging at a nearby lake.

Comment: While habitat loss due to human encroachment may be a contributing factor, we must bear in mind this is nothing new and only now are we seeing an increase in these attacks. It's notable that animal attacks of all kinds are occurring, and throughout the world, alongside mass mortality events, weather extremes and other changes to their environment:

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Attention

Rockslide blocks salmon spawning in British Columbia, Canada - Livelihoods and wildlife threatened


The Globe and Mail
Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:00 UTC
rockslide
© The Canadian Press
A rock slide on the Fraser River near Big Bar, B.C., has created a five-metre waterfall that is blocking the passage of salmon.
A rock slide on the Fraser River near Big Bar, B.C., has created a five-metre waterfall that is blocking the passage of salmon.

A major rock slide in British Columbia's Fraser River has prompted new restrictions to recreational and First Nations fishing of chinook salmon, as officials scramble to prevent long-term devastation of the population.

The slide in a remote area near Big Bar, northwest of Kamloops in the Interior, has created a five-metre waterfall that is blocking all but a small percentage of roughly hundreds of thousands of chinook from migrating upstream to spawn.

The measures announced Friday represent an "unquestionably difficult" decision in terms of the impacts on First Nations communities and on recreational fish harvesters, said Andrew Thomson, a regional director with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Comment: See also:

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Ice Cube

Icebreaker headed for North Pole turned back by thicker ice than expected

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:36 UTC
We had expected more melting and that the ice was more disintegrating, says Captain Johnny Peder Hansen

We had expected more melting and that the ice was more disintegrating, says Captain Johnny Peder Hansen
Ice too thick to break through (almost 10 ft thick), and more massive than expected - in the middle of July.
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15 July 2019 - The Norwegian icebreaker "Kronprins Haakon" (Crown Prince Haakon), on a mission to the North Pole for the Institute of Marine Research, was forced to turn back north of Svalbard after meeting considerably thicker and more massive ice masses than expected, which the vessel was not capable of breaking through.

Thick one-year ice combined with large batches of multi-year ice joined together into powerful helmets, and several of these are impenetrable to us, said Captain Johnny Peder Hansen.

The ice is up to three meters (almost 10 feet) thick in the middle of July, and not even the researchers' long special-purpose chainsaws were able to penetrate the ice.
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Sun

Lake discovered 11,000ft high in the Alps following heat wave

Adam Forrest
Independent
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:43 UTC
Mount Blanc
© ( Bryan Mestre / Instagram
Lake discovered high in the Mount Blanc range at the end of heatwave
A mountaineer has captured the formation of an "alarming" lake high in the French Alps after glacial snow melted in the intense heatwave that gripped central Europe in late June.


Comment: Meanwhile in Norway: Mountain passes closed due to snow and cold - In July


Bryan Mestre was shocked to discover the large pool of water at an altitude of 11,100ft (3,400m) in the Mount Blanc mountain range - claiming the unusual sight was a worrying sign.

Scientists have warned that heatwaves in Europe are becoming increasingly frequent, with the intense temperatures linked to climate change.

Comment: Also in this Alps this week: Snowfall for the Alps in July!

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Info

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Empty shelves across the planet but why?


Adapt 2030
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:39 UTC
empty shelves
Store shelves across many parts of our planet seem to be thinning, but not due to storm Barry, its from bad harvest and supply chain woes. From US to Canada, to Kenya and the UK, we see the same excuses and same result, food prices up, and non-availability.

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Snowflake

Snowfall for the Alps in July!

Danielle
Snowplaza.co.uk
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 18:27 UTC
Zermatt

Zermatt
It's mid-July and as we've seen with the heat wave on the Mont Blanc glacier a few weeks ago, the Alps have had their fair share of summer. But temperatures plunged again in the mountains this week, bringing snow to the highest peaks. Check out the webcams and tell us if this doesn't look like ski season come early! (for a list of ski resorts open in summer, click here)

A cold July

The weather god have been busy this year in the Alps, bringing us extreme snowfall in Austria, a random cold snap in May and now this. This last weekend saw chilly temperatures descend over South Germany, North Italy, Switzerland and Austria. In fact, it was so cold that fresh snow fell on more than one mountain summit - enough to make any skier's heart beat a little faster! Ski resorts like the Stubai Glacier took to social media to share their snowfall pictures.


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Arrow Down

Multiple all-time record low temperatures set in NW Russia

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 17:37 UTC
record cold Russia July 2019
Temperatures across the majority of Europe have remained well-below average for July as a string of Arctic blasts continue to pummel the continent. Vast regions are seeing temperature departures of up to 20C below average, sending all-time cold records tumbling.

Northwest Russian is the latest region to see low temperature records fall.

A long-lasting cold advection is bringing temperatures down to -1C (30.2F) at an altitude of 1.5 km which, according to meteonovosti.ru, "happens very rarely in the summer months".

On Friday, July 12, and back down at normal mercury reading altitudes, new record low temperatures were observed across Northwest Russia, including in the regions of Karelia, Leningrad, Vologda and Kostroma:

Comment: See also:

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Boat

Record-high of 377 rivers reporting floods in China

yan
Xinhua
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:23 UTC
Aerial photo taken on July 10, 2019 shows a part of flooded Xiangtan city in Central China's Hunan province
© Xinhua
Aerial photo taken on July 10, 2019 shows a part of flooded Xiangtan city in Central China's Hunan province
China has seen a record high of rivers reporting floods since this year's high-water season began, the Ministry of Water Resources said Sunday.

A total of 377 rivers across the country have reported floods exceeding alarm levels, over 80 percent more than the annual number of such rivers registered since 1998 when severe floods hit China, according to Wang Zhangli, deputy director with the ministry's flood and drought disaster prevention department.

Some 15 small and medium-sized rivers had seen the all-time worst floods, Wang added.


Comment: Floods have affected nearly 20 million people in China

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