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At least 7 killed as powerful snowstorm blasts across huge swath of US


The Associated Press
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:22 UTC
Pedestrians walk through snow and ice in Manhattan on November 15, 2018 in New York

Pedestrians walk through snow and ice in Manhattan on November 15, 2018 in New York
The first snowstorm of the season to hit the New York City area brought several inches of snow, slowing Thursday's evening commute to a crawl, after contributing to at least seven deaths as it swept across the country.

From St. Louis to the South and into the Northeast, snow, freezing rain, and in some parts, sleet, made driving tricky and closed schools Thursday.

In New York City, the wet snowfall and wind gusts Thursday downed numerous tree branches. Police advised people to stay indoors and avoid the roads. Commuters also were advised to avoid the Port Authority Bus Terminal - which is also used by some to travel to New Jersey - due to overcrowding.

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Mid-Hudson Valley hit by early snowstorm with up to 14 inches measured

Ryan Santistevan
Poughkeepsie Journal
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:52 UTC
A rare pre-Thanksgiving snowstorm dumped more snow than expected in the area.
© Daily Voice
A rare pre-Thanksgiving snowstorm dumped more snow than expected in the area.
Mary DeMichael knew it was going to snow. But, listening to weather forecasts throughout the week, she believed only a few inches would fall.

The City of Poughkeepsie resident was expecting the first snowfall of the season would be "something nice," she said.

"It was so awful yesterday, I was slipping and sliding all over the place," she said. "I wasn't prepared for how much snow fell."

Few in the region were.

Dutchess residents spent Friday digging out from a storm that saw snow accumulations more than double expected totals. And though area municipalities say they were prepared to clear the roads, the intensity of the storm Thursday evening created brutal driving conditions for the commute.

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Cloud Precipitation

Floods and landslides in San Martín, Huánuco and Cusco, Peru

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:01 UTC
Floods in San Martin, Peru, November 2018.
© Government of Peru
Floods in San Martin, Peru, November 2018.
Peru's National Emergency Operations Center (COEN) has reported heavy that rain has caused flooding and landslides in the regions of San Martín, Huánuco and Cusco.

San Martín

Several small rivers have broken their banks in San Martín Region and authorities have warned that the Huallaga river is rising and currently at yellow (second) level alert.

Andina news agency reports that one person died in Nuevo Progreso district, Tocache Province, when the Pacota river broke its banks on 13 November.

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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Out of season climate chaos


Adapt 2030
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:37 UTC
These beautiful images captured bison
© Annie Hepp, Texas Parks and Wildlife
These beautiful images captured bison enjoying the first snowfall of the year in Texas
January temperatures in November North America, Central Asia and Russia while Scandinavian countries bake.

Record early snows, record monthly snow totals fall and winter storms cripple eastern Canada.

Crop harvests delayed SE USA and record cold all the way to southern Mexico.


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Snowflake

Fall storm dumps up to 9 inches of snow in Massachusetts


Boston25news
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:07 UTC
SNOW
Some areas of Massachusetts have received more than nine inches of snow in a pre-winter storm that turned to rain overnight to complicate the morning commute.

Highest snow totals:

Princeton 9.5"
Carlisle 9.3"
Billerica 9.2"
Boylston 9.2"

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Cloud Precipitation

Cyclone 'Gaja' makes landfall in south India, kills 11 people

Mayank Bhardwaj
Reuters
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:08 UTC
A fallen pole and a damaged motorbike are seen in a road after cyclone Gaja hit Velankanni, in Nagapattinam district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India, November 16, 2018.
© REUTERS
A fallen pole and a damaged motorbike are seen in a road after cyclone Gaja hit Velankanni, in Nagapattinam district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India, November 16, 2018.
A cyclone made landfall in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday, killing at least 11 people, uprooting trees and knocking down electricity poles after more than 80,000 people were moved out of its path to safety, officials said.

Cyclone "Gaja" made landfall in the early hours of Friday but then weakened as it moved inland, K. J. Ramesh, director general of the state-run India Meteorological Department, told Reuters.

Eleven people were known to have been killed, said an official from the Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authority.

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Tornado2

Double trouble: Twin tornadoes touchdown in Turkey


RT
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:16 UTC
Turkey tornadoes
© Ruptly
The tornadoes descended on the coastal Turkish village without warning on Sunday afternoon.
A serene day at the beach was rudely interrupted by not one but two giant tornadoes that suddenly marauded through a provincial town in southern Turkey.

While the vast majority of the residents and tourists evacuated Salinas beach on Sunday, a few foolhardy photographers stuck around to film the massive sea spouts as they swept across the surface of the Mediterranean sea.
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Snowflake

Heavy snowfall in Turkey - up to 2 feet

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:06 UTC
snow
More than 2 feet of snow in places.

15 Nov 2018 - On the Van-Bahçesaray highway, Traffic has been "negatively affected" by heavy snowfall at the 3,000-meter Karabet Pass.

Video: Heavy snowfall in northern Turkey near the coast with the Black Sea.

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Strong and shallow M6.2 earthquake hits Solomon Islands

Sam Stevenson
Express
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 05:03 UTC
Soloman Islands quake map
© USGS
A map shows where the earthquake hit
The quake, at a depth of 33km (20 miles), was centred 161km (100 miles) east of Kira Kira in the Solomon Islands.

The Solomon Islands, a nation of hundreds of islands in the South Pacific, has many World War Two-era sites.

The earthquake, which struck at 3.26am (GMT), was reviewed to a magnitude 6.2 and a revised depth of 10.6km (6.5miles).

Affected areas include Kirakira, the provincial capital of the Makira-Ulawa Province in the Solomon Islands.

The earthquake's epicentre was 132 km (82.3 miles) west of the city, which has a population of 11,222.

It is located on the north coast of Makira, the largest island of the province.

The area is known for its stunning natural beauty and ample beaches.

Comment: The USGS also registered a strong and shallow (10.0 km depth) M6.3 earthquake hit Southern East Pacific Rise on November 15, 2018.

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Snowflake Cold

Climate scientists admit to critical errors in study of how fast the oceans are warming

Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis
The National Post
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:34 UTC
Northwest Passage Canada
© David Goldman / Associated Press/File
In this July 21, 2017 file photo, researchers look out from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as the sun sets over sea ice floating on the Victoria Strait along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
The findings suffer from too much doubt to definitively support the paper's conclusion, says a study co-author: 'Unfortunately, we made mistakes'

Scientists behind a major study that claimed the Earth's oceans are warming faster than previously thought now say their work contained inadvertent errors that made their conclusions seem more certain than they actually are.

Two weeks after the high-profile study was published in the journal Nature, its authors have submitted corrections to the publication. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, home to several of the researchers involved, also noted the problems in the scientists' work and corrected a news release on its website, which previously had asserted that the study detailed how the Earth's oceans "have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought."

Comment: Volcanic eruptions, rising CO2, boiling oceans, and why man-made global warming is not even wrong

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