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Still more huge November snowfalls in the Alps - up to 5 feet in 72 hours

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:47 UTC
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It has been another weekend of massive November snowfalls in the Alps, with ski areas reporting up to 1.5 metres (five feet) more snow in the past 72 hours.

The most intensive snowfall was in the Southern Alps, along the French/Italian border, although there was snowfall almost everywhere again, as well as more snow in Bulgaria, the Dolomites, Pyrenees and Scandinavia.

The Italian ski centre of Limone reported nearly 1.5m (five feet) of snow and there was 95cm (just over three feet) for Prato Nevoso - where the pictures used in this report were taken yesterday.

Other areas reporting at least 50cm of fresh snow includes Montgenevre, Sestriere, Sauze d'Oulx, Tignes and Isola 2000 in France and Saas Fee in Switzerland - which already had its full 1800 metres of vertical open with a 9km descent - the biggest in the world to open so far.

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Footprints

The struggle is real for farmers this season

Mark Huso
AGWEEK
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 10:34 UTC
Corn in Nelson County, N.D., in November 2019
© Mark Huso
Corn in Nelson County, N.D., in November 2019
In recent years, through social media you can easily find a hashtag for "struggle is real."

I'm certain no other industry can share in that more than the farmers that continue the 2019 harvest. Last month, I shared about the heavy snow much of our region received. Now we deal with the effects, and all are negative.

Before and after. Prior to the snow, our area of northeast North Dakota was looking at a good edible bean harvest. Pinto beans were averaging anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds per acre. After the snow, many yields are 1,000 to 1,800 pounds per acre. Soybeans were also doing well before the snow with yields above 40 and some even 50 bushels. After the snow, with many beans lodged from the storm, snowbanks built up, and water/ice ponding kept yields around 30 bushels and some below that.

Canola has also seen significant yield hits after the snow with plants laying flat on the ground now increasing harvest loss and greatly slowing down harvest efficiency. Sunflowers that have had to stay in the field are suffering now from sclerotinia head rot. Yields are 50% of what the potential looked like.
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Cloud Precipitation

At least six dead as Europe battered by storms, floods and a landslide

Alastair Jamieson & AFP
Euronews
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 09:31 UTC
The A6 bridge near Savona Italy was swept away by a huge landslip on Sunday
© REUTERS
The A6 bridge near Savona Italy was swept away by a huge landslip on Sunday
Six people have been killed following a weekend of storms, floods and a landslide across parts of Europe.

In France and Italy, torrential rain killed four people and left one missing after it caused flooding and a landslide that swept away a motorway viaduct.

Meanwhile, thunderstorms and strong winds in western Greece led to the deaths of two people who were aboard a boat moored next to a pier in Antirio.

Two French departments were still under Meteo France amber weather warnings on Sunday night, while flood sirens sounded once again in waterlogged Venice.

In Greece, the country's meterological service said the extreme conditions would dissipate as the storms moved further east by Monday.

The rain was the latest in a two-week wave of extreme weather in the region.

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Arrow Down

Woman in car swallowed by sinkhole in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jessica Lin
Business Insider
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:56 UTC
A Myvi was swallowed by a sinkhole in the heart of Kuala Lumpur on Nov 25

A Myvi was swallowed by a sinkhole in the heart of Kuala Lumpur on Nov 25
It's not every day a giant hole opens up in the ground to swallow us whole, but it would scare most people to think about the injuries an incident like that could cause.

On Sunday (Nov 25), a woman in Kuala Lumpur was fortunate to escape unscathed, after her yellow Perodua Myvi fell into a sinkhole that opened up in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.

According to Bernama, the 42-year-old woman was driving along Jalan Maharajalela in the direction of Jalan Loke Yew when a sinkhole opened up on the road.

Citing Kuala Lumpur Traffic Enforcement and Investigation head ACP Zulkefly Yahya, the state news agency reported that the ground sunk in at around 11.35pm on Sunday, causing the car to fall in head first.

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Snowflake

Switzerland busts its all-time November snowfall record set back in 1959

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:37 UTC
Switzerland snow
Heavy, early-season snow has buried parts of the mountainous Central European nation of Switzerland, as reported by www.swissinfo.ch — the country's all-time November snowfall record has just been broken, and ski resorts such as Saas Fee and Saas Grund have been completely cut-off.

According to the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, the 1,200km-long Alps, which runs directly through Switzerland as well as seven other alpine nations, received "a great deal of snowfall" over the past few days — such as great deal in fact, that Switzerland's all-time November snowfall record was surpassed on the 17th!

By Sunday, Nov 17th, a staggering 71cm (2.33ft) had accumulated in Santa Maria, located in eastern Switzerland, which busted the country's previous November snowfall record — the 69cm (2.26 ft) set back in 1959,also in Santa Maria.

The heavy, early-season snow is still disrupting road and rail transport with several key passes closed for the foreseeable, according to traffic information service Viasuisse.

Access to ski areas such as of Saas Fee and Saas Grund is impossible. While many roads in canton Graubünden, particularly around Davos, Arosa and Silvaplana, are also blocked by monster snow drifts.

Comment: Record November snowfall in Switzerland affects ski stations and roads - almost 28 inches recorded

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Cloud Lightning

Two dead and one missing after rains of "historic" intensity drench south France


The Local (France)
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:10 UTC
Two people lost their lives and at least one more was missing Sunday after historic rain levels drenched the south of France, provoking major floods that are only now starting to recede, officials said.
floods france
© Valery Hache/AFP
Abandoned cars half submerged on the streets of Le Muy, near Cannes.
The high floodwaters buried cars underwater, turned roads into rivers and even allowed kayakers the chance to paddle down a highway.

One corpse was found in the village of Le Muy, just north of France's Mediterranean coast, close to where a rescue dinghy had capsized on Saturday evening with three members of the fire brigade and three civilians aboard, the local authorities in the southern Var region said. One of the civilians had been reported missing.

Members of the French civil defence take took part in rescue operations in flooded areas such as Le Muy, near Cannes in southeastern France.

The second body, of a man in his 50s, was found in the village of Cabasse in a car, said the local authorities, without giving further details. Meanwhile, another man, in his 70s, was still missing in the village of Saint-Antonin-du-Var after going out during the night amid heavy rain. Searches are continuing.
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Seismograph

With more than 100,000 small to medium aftershocks in Southern California since July experts are wondering when not if the BIG ONE will come


The Big Wobble
Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:03 UTC
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On the 4th of July 2019, Independence day, a magnitude 6.4 quake rocked Surles Valley, in Southern California, two days later a much more powerfull magnitude 7.1 struck the Ridgecrest area just a few miles away from the Surles Valley quake. Since then, more than 100,000 small to medium aftershocks, known as "swarmageddon," have hit the same area, including a mag 5.5, a mag 5.4 and a mag 5.0, which begs the question when not if will Southern California receive THE BIG ONE?

Since 2015, the Pacific Ring of Fire has been rattled by nearly 600 major quakes, (mag 6 or higher), see map here. Incredibly the Californian Coast has recorded just 3 major quakes in the same period and Oregon 2. The odds of this happening must be very high and surely the West Coast has to be long overdue for the big, it has to be!

To some, the "swarmageddon" 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles has brought fear that a bigger threat was coming. To others, as long as they don't feel a shake, it is easy to just put it out of their minds. California has small quakes all the time — a magnitude 3 every other day, on average, according to the LA Times. But not all of them act the same, and some bring more danger than others. As officials install more seismic sensors as part of the state's early warning system, experts are getting an increasingly better look at California's smaller earthquakes. According to The Daily Mail, It's reminiscent of activity near the San Andreas Fault three years ago that had some scientists on edge for a possible large triggered earthquake.

Comment: Also of relevance: USGS seismic data points to 2,000% increase in major earthquakes since 1900

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 17 cows, 2 sheep in Nigeria


THISDAY
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 11:20 UTC
The dead cows

The dead cows
No fewer than 17 cows and two sheep have been killed by lightening in Iba, in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun state.

The incident happened on Friday at Gaa Eleesun, a community mostly inhabited by Fulani herdsmen in Iba.

THISDAY yesterday gathered that the thunderstorm, which struck at around 6:00pm left some residents of the community hospitalised as a result of shock.

THISDAY further gathered that the incident has caused panic among residents of the community.

Some of the villagers said that the strange incident occurred when some Fulani herdsmen had already returned from pasturing.
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Seismograph

Shallow 6.3 earthquake rumbles in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska


Anchorage Daily News
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 09:30 UTC
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake southeast of Adak rumbled the western Aleutian Islands at 3:54 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019.
© Alaska Earthquake Center
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake southeast of Adak rumbled the western Aleutian Islands at 3:54 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019.

An earthquake with a reviewed magnitude of 6.3 rumbled in the Aleutian Islands on Saturday afternoon, according to the Alaska Earthquake Center.

The earthquake at 3:54 p.m. was centered 59 miles southeast of Adak at a depth of 16.1 miles, the center reported. Several aftershocks -- the strongest registering at magnitude 3.6 -- were recorded in the region.

Shaking was felt in Adak, according to citizen reports.

A tsunami was not expected, according to the National Tsunami Warning Center.

Comment: 12 hours earlier: Shallow 6.1 magnitude quake rocks off eastern Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued

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Cloud Precipitation

South Dakota endures historic precipitation in 2019

Erik Kaufman
The Daily Republic
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 22:43 UTC
Flood waters run over Interstate 90, two miles west of Mt. Vernon on Thursday, Sept. 12.
© Mike Deinert
Flood waters run over Interstate 90, two miles west of Mt. Vernon on Thursday, Sept. 12.
State's soak continues in wettest season on record, Mitchell third wettest

South Dakota is in the midst of its wettest year on record and Mitchell has seen its third-wettest year after historic spring and summer rains swamped fields and flooded cities, roads and homes throughout the state.

"I think the story of the year is precipitation," said Laura Edwards, state climatologist for South Dakota. "Statewide we already have the wettest season on record, and we still have five or six weeks to go. That doesn't even count November."

Edwards said South Dakota has received a statewide average of 29.37 inches of precipitation so far this year. The previous wettest season in the state was in 1915, when 27.97 inches of precipitation fell.

Weather statistics from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration indicate the Mitchell area has received 34.09 inches of precipitation so far in 2019, which already ranks it as the third-wettest year for the area. The highest amount of precipitation recorded in Mitchell for a full year was in 1993, when the area received 36.19 inches of precipitation, and in 1908, when 36.14 inches of precipitation was recorded.
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