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Record-breaking winds batter coastal cities of Croatia

Aljazeera.com
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 18:39 UTC

Gale-force winds topple trees, cause power cuts and damage buildings along the Adriatic coastline

Unusually strong gale-force winds swept through Croatia's Adriatic coastline on Saturday, toppling trees, knocking out power, damaging cars and shattering windows.

The northeasterly bora wind is a cold, dry wind which blows down from the mountains on the eastern side of the Adriatic Sea.

Land, air and sea traffic were disrupted and several small wind-driven fires erupted on the central Dalmatian coast. One firefighter was slightly injured while tackling a blaze.

Croatia's weather bureau said that wind speeds in the region of the Adriatic port of Split reached 177 kilometres/hour (breaking the previous record) overnight, with gusts up to 191km/h recorded in the port town of Makarska. There were no reports of major injuries.

The areas most affected included the coastal cities of Split and Dubrovnik (winds touched 158km/h), where firefighters worked all day to clean up the debris from falling trees, overturned vehicles, and wind-swept roof tiles.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Bent jet streams push passenger jet to record speed

Adapt 2030
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:29 UTC

Virgin Atlantic's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner broke speed records.

Another indication Earth's Jet Streams are being affected by the Eddy Grand Solar Minimum is a commercial aircraft full of passengers set a new speed record as the jet stream above the US pushed tail winds allowing the jet to break the sound barrier.

Dragon aurora, auroral jet upper atmospheric lightning, winter typhoon Pacific, record warm in Scotland and 120 mph Bura winds across eastern Mediterranean. Strangely behaving jet streams are an signal the magnetosphere is weakening.

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4 dead after heavy rain hits Luanda, Angola

Floodlist
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 14:18 UTC

Bridge connecting Bairro Popular/ Palanca neighbourhoods in Luanda collapsed

Heavy rain in Angola's capital Luanda has left at least 4 people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed.

Angola News Agency ANGOP said that the heavy rain fell from late 21 February until 22 February. The rain caused a bridge to collapse as well as destroying hundreds of homes.

Four people are thought to have died when houses collapsed. Two deaths were reported in Kilamba Kiaxi municipality, and the two others Ingombota district.

Heavy rain and flooding regularly affects Luanda and surrounding areas between February and April. Last year 6 people died, over 90 homes were destroyed and 545 families displaced in March.

101km/h winds batter Malta, blowing fish out of the sea and damaging buildings

Time of Malta
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 06:54 UTC

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Residents brave storm to collect piles of fish blown ashore
Malta residents have been filmed taking fish from the road after winds of about 100km/h hit the country on Sunday.

Updated Sunday 7.20pm with Enemalta information

Gale-force winds lashed Malta early on Sunday morning, uprooting trees, demolishing walls and damaging power lines, but no injuries were reported, a police spokesman told Times of Malta.

The winds, which reached gusts of up to 101 km/hour, caused damage to electricity networks and forced road closures across the whole island. Authorities advised people to stay indoors while Malta Public Transport warned of delays on all its routes.

Civil Protection Department officials were called out to 300 separate sites to clear roads, remove dangerous walls and evacuate people from flooded residences.

Comment: Extreme winds have been causing havoc in many areas of the globe this week:

Super Typhoon Wutip becomes the strongest February typhoon in West Pacific Ocean

Keoni Everington
Taiwan News
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:15 UTC

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Himawari-8 infrared image of Super Typhoon Wutip taken at 7:00 am EST Saturday, February 23, 2019. At the time, Wutip was a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds--the strongest February typhoon on record.

'Taiwan's Shield' expected to fend off Super Typhoon Wutip

Wutip is the first super typhoon recorded by the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) for the month of February since 1911, but forecasters believe "Taiwan's Shield" will hold up yet again and prevent it from impacting the country directly.

As of 2 a.m. this morning, Super Typhoon Wutip had a radius of 220 kilometers, and was located 2,350 kilometers east-southeast of Taiwan's southernmost tip of Eluanbi moving north-northwest at a speed of 8 kilometers per hour (kph). Wutip was packing maximum sustained winds of 183 kph and gusts of up of to 226 kph.

Over the weekend, Guam avoided the brunt of the storm as it veered to the southwest of the island, only coming within 165 miles at 8 p.m. on Saturday. Heavy rain and strong winds were reported on Guam that day, but other than a few downed signs and tree limbs, no structural damage was incurred, reported The Guam Daily Post.

Snow and gale force winds sweep across Greece

Greek City Tmes
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:56 UTC

‘Oceanis’ Storm Buries Northern Greece in Snow

Temperatures dropped by around 10 degrees Celsius as the cold front "Oceanis" settled over Greece on Saturday, bringing icy cold weather that has disrupted both road and sea transport.

Gale force winds of 8-9 Beaufort, with gusts reaching up to 10 on the Beaufort scale, have led to the cancellation of all scheduled ferry departures from the ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio on Saturday afternoon, as well as hydrofoil ferries to the Saronic Gulf ports. Also closed are the Rio-Antirrio, Kyllini-Kefallonia and Kyllini-Zakynthos ferry links.

A scheduled journey from Volos to the Sporades islands in the Aegean was cancelled on Saturday and the Keramoti-Kavala-Thassos, Alexandroupolis-Samothrace ferry lines were closed.

Two engineers die in Kishtwar landslide, Kashmir

The Tribune (India)
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 19:22 UTC

Two engineers engaged with the Pakal Dul hydroelectric project in Kishtwar district were killed by a landslide on Friday evening.

The incident occurred around 40 km from the district headquarters near the Ikhala area in the Dachan tehsil of Kishtwar. A rescue operation was launched by the authorities and the bodies were recovered.

The deceased have been identified as senior mechanical engineer Gurmeet Singh, a resident of Jammu, and electric engineer Vijay Gupta, a resident of Udhampur.

Mystery as 36ft-long humpback whale is found dead near the mouth of the Amazon river

Janet Tappin Coelho
Daily Mail
Sun, 24 Feb 2019 18:43 UTC

A 36-feet long humpback whale has been found dead in the Amazon jungle, miles from its natural habitat.

Experts in Brazil have been left baffled as to how the ten-tonne animal came to be lying in the woodland area around 50ft (15 meters) from the sea.

The marine mammal was discovered last Friday in the middle of the undergrowth on the island of Marajo off the Araruna Beach, at the mouth of the Amazon River.

Scientists believe the creature died at sea and may have landed in the wooded area after rough seas and high tides threw it inland, far from the ocean.

A team from Semma went to the region to inspect the remains, believed to be a 12-month old calf, and to gather information which could help to explain how the aquatic creature crash landed in the jungle.

Texas freshwater turtles are dying and state officials don't know why

S. M. Chavey
San Antonio Express-News
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:32 UTC

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is investigating several occurrences of dead or dying turtles at locations around Texas. The department has documented about 60 deaths

© Carl Franklin‎
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is investigating several occurrences of dead or dying turtles at locations around Texas. The department has documented about 60 deaths

Dozens of turtles across Texas have been found dead or dying in the past four months and experts don't know why.

Since Texas Parks and Wildlife staff first noticed the occurrences in November, they've documented about 60 deaths among four different species of freshwater turtles in Fort Worth, Houston and Jasper, department spokeswoman Aubry Buzek said.

The affected turtles have usually been found alone, either near the shore or out of the water, Stephanie Garcia, another department spokesperson, said. Those still alive are lethargic and seem reluctant to move or escape when approached. Their eyes appear to either be swollen or caked closed with exudate, she said. Testing has shown they are terminally septic, meaning their bodies are fighting severe infections that have spread through the bloodstream.

HUGE 100ft sinkhole appears after 'earth tremor' reported in Montenegro

Katie Harris
Daily Express (UK)
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:02 UTC

An enormous sinkhole has appeared after an earth tremor in north-eastern Montenegro.

The 100-foot-deep hole in the snowy ground appeared near a water reservoir outside the town of Rozaje. It opened up moments after a slight earth tremor. Stunned residents insisted they had never seen anything like it before.

Ibrahim Halilovic, who lives nearby, told local media: "Nothing has ever happened like this in these parts in all the 91 years I have been around.

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Earth Changes

Record-breaking winds batter coastal cities of Croatia

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Bent jet streams push passenger jet to record speed

4 dead after heavy rain hits Luanda, Angola

101km/h winds batter Malta, blowing fish out of the sea and damaging buildings

Super Typhoon Wutip becomes the strongest February typhoon in West Pacific Ocean

Snow and gale force winds sweep across Greece

Two engineers die in Kishtwar landslide, Kashmir

Mystery as 36ft-long humpback whale is found dead near the mouth of the Amazon river

Texas freshwater turtles are dying and state officials don't know why

HUGE 100ft sinkhole appears after 'earth tremor' reported in Montenegro

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