Earth Changes

Beast from the East brings snow & ice as much of UK hit by severe Winter weather

Ellie Cambridge
The Sun (UK)
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:49 UTC

A1M Motorway in County Durham is currently grid locked with traffic queuing for miles

SNOW and ice warnings cover nearly all of the entire UK today as the Beast from the East II looms.

An arctic blast from Greenland has left the country shivering as snow was dumped overnight and leaving treacherous conditions on the roads.

Temperatures fell to -15C in some spots, with yellow warnings issued for most of the country today by the Met Office.

It comes as another Beast from the East is set to arrive next week, with snowstorms and extreme temperatures expected to batter Britain in the cold blast.

Woman dies after shark attack at beach near Waihī, New Zealand

Catrin Owen, Sharnae Hope and Andre Chumko
Stuff
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:40 UTC

Witnesses have described harrowing scenes at a Bowentown beach, near Waihī, in western Bay of Plenty, after a shark attacked a woman while she was swimming.

Despite emergency services performing vigorous CPR on the victim, who was in her early 20s, she died at the scene.

A rāhui has been placed around the area by local iwi as whānau gathered to mourn at a Coastguard building at the Bowentown end of Waihī Beach on Thursday night, where the victim's body was believed to be laying.

As the night came to a close, a group of locals and holidaymakers lit candles and had drinks in memory of the victim on the beach itself.

Very rare noctilucent clouds appear over Argentina

Spaceweather.com
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 05:35 UTC

They're back. Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), recently missing, are once again circling the South Pole. And, in an unexpected twist, they've just appeared over Argentina as well.

"This is a very rare event," reports Gerd Baumgarten of Germany's Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, whose automated cameras caught the clouds rippling over Rio Grande, Argentina (53.8S) on Jan. 3rd:

Comment: Another unusual sighting occurred in our changing atmosphere this week: Novel atmosphere phenomenon 'STEVE' makes ANOTHER appearance over Finland

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Hospital in Naples evacuated after huge sinkhole opens up

The Local Italy
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:33 UTC

Witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion at dawn as a large chasm appeared outside the Ponticelli Ospedale del Mare in eastern Naples.

There were no injuries reported at the site, where firefighters say the sinkhole "affected an area of about 500 square meters" and has swallowed up several cars which were parked outside the hospital.

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6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes near Isangel, Vanuatu

Huaxia
Xinhua
Fri, 08 Jan 2021 06:23 UTC

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted 146 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu at 05:01:04 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 117.74 km, was initially determined to be at 20.735 degrees south latitude and 169.8807 degrees east longitude.

Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits off New Zealand's Kermadec Islands

Kirill Kurevlev
Sputnik International
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:11 UTC

The Kermadec Islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean approximately 800-1,000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and are uninhabited, except for the permanently manned Raoul Island meteorological station. The islands are part of New Zealand, though not subject to any region.

A powerful earthquake occurred on Friday in the sea near New Zealand's Kermadec Islands at a depth of 222.3 km. The magnitude of the tremor is 6.3, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

According to reports, the earthquake kick was registered at a distance of about 935.0 km northeast of the settlement of Ngunguru, New Zealand.

No possibility of a tsunami has been reported at the moment.

Comment: A couple of days ago a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the same Kermadec Islands region.

Cold wave freezes parts of China

CCTV Video News Agency
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:39 UTC

A strong cold wave has swept multiple places across China on Wednesday, with some regions seeing heavy snow and thick fog.

Beijing freezes as temperature sinks to lowest since 1969

Channel News Asia
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:21 UTC

Temperatures in Beijing fell to the lowest level since 1966 this week.

Temperatures in the Chinese capital plunged to their lowest for more than five decades on Thursday (Jan 7), as Beijing was hit by gale-force winds and bitter conditions.

On Thursday morning the mercury dropped to minus 19.6 degrees Celsius, breaking a previous cold weather record set in 1969.

The cold reading was the lowest since 1966, when temperatures in the city fell to minus 27.4 degrees Celsius.

Thousands took to social media to complain about the city's weather, with the hashtags "How cold is this winter?" and "Beijing's temperature reaches the lowest since 1966" both trending topics on Weibo and garnering a collective 240 million views.

"I heard the wind shouting at me: I want to kill you," wrote one.

Comment: 20 weather stations in China reach or break lowest temperatures recorded for December, affecting 80% of the country

205 roads blocked by heavy snow in Himachal Pradesh, India - up to 30 inches deep

The Tribune (India)
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:04 UTC

A man removes snow from a car after the town

The tribal areas and other higher hills of the state received fresh snowfall while lower and middle hills witnessed widespread rains disrupting normal life. As many as 205 roads were closed due to heavy snow in the state.

The minimum and maximum temperatures rose marginally even as the sky remained heavily overcast and icy winds, accompanied by showers, blew across the region. The local Met office has warned of dense fog at isolated places in lower and middle hills in Una, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra and Mandi districts till January 9 and predicted rain and snow at isolated places in middle and high hills on January 8, followed by dry weather.

Novel atmosphere phenomenon 'STEVE' makes ANOTHER appearance over Finland

Spaceweather.com
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:16 UTC

Last night, STEVE visited Finland. The purple ribbon of light, which is not an aurora, appeared over Utsjoki in the Finnish Lapland. "This is very unusual," says Rayann Elzein, who photographed the apparition.

"I've been chasing auroras in Arctic Finland for nearly a decade, and this is only the second time I have seen STEVE here at 70 degrees N," says Elzein.

Comment: STEVE (Strong Thermal Velocity Enhancement) is a relatively recent discovery, first spotted and photographed by Canadian citizen scientists around 10 years ago. It looks like an aurora, but it is not. See also:

Discoveries like STEVE are just the tip of the ice berg when it comes to the unusual phenomena that reflects the shift occurring on our planet - and even further afield:

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Earth Changes

Beast from the East brings snow & ice as much of UK hit by severe Winter weather

Woman dies after shark attack at beach near Waihī, New Zealand

Very rare noctilucent clouds appear over Argentina

Hospital in Naples evacuated after huge sinkhole opens up

6.1 magnitude earthquake strikes near Isangel, Vanuatu

Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits off New Zealand's Kermadec Islands

Cold wave freezes parts of China

Beijing freezes as temperature sinks to lowest since 1969

205 roads blocked by heavy snow in Himachal Pradesh, India - up to 30 inches deep

Novel atmosphere phenomenon 'STEVE' makes ANOTHER appearance over Finland

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