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Landslide buries house after heavy rainfall in Buleleng, Bali, Indonesia - kills 4

Landslide
© Antara/Yulius Satria Wijaya
Landslide (File)
Four people were killed when a landslide buried a house in Bali on Jan. 29, following heavy rains in Mengening village, Buleleng regency.

The landslide in Mengening occurred at around 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday, said I Made Rentin of the Bali Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD). The disaster buried a house and its occupants Ketut Budikaca, 33, his wife Luh Sentiani, 27, daughter Putu Rikasih, 9, and son Kadek Dodit Wiguna, 5.

"The landslide was triggered by continuous and heavy downpours," said I Made as quoted by Antara news agency.

On Sunday, two people were killed and 12 others injured when a 6-meter hill collapsed following heavy rains in Ban villagem Karangasem regency, and buried the house that stood in front of it. All 14 victims were members of the same family, which was watching television when the disaster struck.

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Snowflake Cold

Arctic blast grips Sweden as mercury plunges below -39C

Icy pavements in Stockholm in January
© Tomas Oneborg/SvD/TT
Icy pavements in Stockholm in January.
With slushy streets in southern Sweden and a new cold record of the season in the far north, the big freeze shows no sign of letting go of the country any time soon.

Snow was falling in almost all of Sweden on Monday morning and was expected to continue doing so on and off until Tuesday, according to national weather agency SMHI.

"It's not snowing in the far north, where it is cold and clear. Naimakka had the lowest temperature of the year tonight, -39.3C," said meteorologist Linus Dock.

In southern Sweden the mercury was hovering just above freezing with sleet forecast, but could drop to below freezing on Tuesday.

Ice Cube

Cold winter brings out icebreakers ahead of schedule in Finland

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Sisu is the fifth icebreaker Finland has deployed this season. She was sent out on Sunday, some two weeks earlier than last year.

Months of bone-chilling temperatures have turned much of the Bay of Bothnia into thick slabs of ice. Finnish icebreaker Sisu is now headed toward the region, and according to the ship's chief officer Patrik Barck, it seems like there will be a lot of ice to deal with this winter.

Sisu is the fifth icebreaker sent out so far this season, which is early compared to last year, when the fifth icebreaker was deployed some two weeks later on 10 February.

In 2017, ice levels on most of Finland's seas were very low, as well.

Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills family of 6 in Madagascar

lightning
© Johannes Plenio
Six people from the same family were "killed on the spot" by a lightning strike in Madagascar over the weekend while sheltering from a storm, officials said Monday.

The relatives -- including a three-year-old child -- were killed in the central village of Bakaro on Saturday.

Another person suffered superficial burns.

"Twenty-five farmers sheltering from rain under a thatched cottage after leaving their rice field were hit by a lightning bolt," said medical inspector William Patrick Rakotondralambo of the Fitsinjovana commune.

Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Coldest temperatures of your lifetime descends on the US (EMERGENCY WARNING)

US freeze
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
What is considered as the coldest temperatures to blanket half of the US in five generations is intensifying. Temperatures will reach -47F as ground temperatures over the next three days with wind chill down to -70F in parts of the Great Lakes, Midwest Pains states and N.E USA, additionally S.E USA will be at all time record cold as well and the power grid will be at all time draw for home heating. This is an indicator of the Grand Solar Minimum intensifying. Good Luck and make preparations for power outages in this historic cold.


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Snowflake Cold

Up to 2.3 metres (90 inches) of snowfall in 7 days over the Pyrenees

Fresh +50 cm of snow in Saint-Lary-Soulan, France (the Pyrenees) this morning, January 28.

Fresh +50 cm of snow in Saint-Lary-Soulan, France (the Pyrenees) this morning, January 28.
It has been snowing heavily in the Alps over the weekend and continues to snow in the Pyrenees, where conditions have been transformed over the past week after a two month, mostly-dry, spell.

This time it is the Western Alps and France and Western Switzerland that is seeing the biggest snowfalls, with one area reporting 70cm in the past 24 hours and many at least 30cm.

But it has been snowing again in the Eastern Alps which saw huge accumulations between Christmas and mid-January, resorts in Austria have posted up to 50cm of snow in the last 24 hours.

A week of snow in the Pyrenees is now starting to add up big time with some areas reporting more than 2 metres of snow has fallen there in the past 7 days. La Mongie / Barèges say they've had 2.3 metres (nearly 8 feet) of snowfall since last Monday.

Snowflake Cold

Up to 70cm (28 inches) of fresh snow falls in 24 hours over the Alps

snow alps
There's been heavy snowfall again in the Alps, particularly in the past 24 hours.

A fortnight after the three weeks of heavy snow that brought the Eastern Alps (Austria, Germany and Eastern Switzerland) to a standstill, this time it's the turn of the Western Alps, France and Western Switzerland in particular, to get the big dumps.

The biggest 24 hour accumulation reported so far is at the small resort of Cordon in the Northern French Alps with 70cm (2 feet, 4 inches) of snowfall.


Les Marécottes - Salvan in the Swiss Valais region over the border has posted the second biggest at 65cm (2 feet, 2 inches).


Attention

Etna volcano burps ash, covering southern snow slopes

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Volcanic ash covered the southern slope of Italy's highest volcano, Mount Etna following emissions from the Bocca Nuova Crater the night between Saturday and Sunday, footage filmed near Catania shows.

Images from the area show volcanic ash covering the snow and vehicles leading up to the crater.


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2 dead, 1 missing due to floods, landslide in the Philippines

A landslide renders this road at the village of LS Sarmiento in Laak town, Compostela Valley, impassable to vehicles.

A landslide renders this road at the village of LS Sarmiento in Laak town, Compostela Valley, impassable to vehicles.
Two people died while another is still missing after a series of flooding and landslides brought by the tail-end of a cold front that triggered heavy rains in Davao region, an official of the Office of Civil Defense regional office (OCD 11) said.

OCD 11 Information Officer Leslie Francisco identified those who died as Rommel Gogo, 28, who was buried alive when a landslide occurred in Barangay, Tapia Montevista, Compostela Valley last Saturday, January 26; and Dennis Pesadilla from Barangay Ngan, Compostela, who drowned last Sunday, January 27.

Krisel Hermosora, 12, from Barangay Bayabas, Nabunturan has not been found since she was swept away by strong water current of the Handorumog River.


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Landslide following torrential rain buries family house in Bali, Indonesia - two dead

Search and rescue team search for victims
© Antara/Abriawan Abhe
Search and rescue team search for victims after a landslide hit Mamuju in Gowa, South Sulawesi on Jan. 27.
Two people were killed and 12 others injured after a landslide buried a house in Ban village, Karangasem, Bali, on Sunday, following torrential rain. All the victims were members of the same family.

The dead victims were identified as Ni Ketut Puspa Wati, 28, and Ni Komang Mertini, 19.

The Bali Disaster Mitigation Agency reported that a 6-meter hillside behind the house slumped and buried the house while the family watched television on Sunday evening.

"All the family members were in the house and were trapped inside," the agency's head, Dewa Putu Mantera said.