Earth Changes

Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain hit south west Norway

Floodlist
Fri, 02 Aug 2019 11:15 UTC

Landslide in Jølster, Norway, 30 July 2019.

At least 1 person is missing and over 150 have been evacuated after heavy rain triggered landslides, floods and debris flows in south-western Norway on 30 July, 2019.

The municipalities of Jølster and Førde in Sogn og Fjordane county were the worst affected. Norway's weather warning service, Varom, said that 33mm of rain fell in 1 hour in Vassenden in Jølster and 92mm of rain fell in 1 day in Botnen in Førde. Varom said it is likely rainfall totals were even higher in the mountains in this area.

Lightning bolt kills 6 children in Guinea

Channels Television
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:01 UTC

Six children aged between four and 10 died after they were struck by lightning while making tea under a mango tree in north-eastern Guinea on Wednesday, a witness said.

The storm began shortly before 7:00 pm (1900 GMT) in the town of Siguiri, close to the border with Mali, witness Mamadi Doumbouya, a local resident, told AFP.

He said eight children in total, accompanied by two of their mothers, were under a mango tree at the back of his house.

"I invited everyone to take shelter in my living room. The ladies rushed under my roof but the children stayed behind to make the last cups of tea," he added.

Record lightning strikes in Iceland

Andie Fontaine
Reykjavík Grapevine
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 06:24 UTC

Once an uncommon phenomenon, Iceland has been inundated with lightning strikes since last weekend, and the reported strikes have reached an all new level.

Austurfrétt reports that these lightning strikes were especially prominent in the east, with a greater concentration in the southeast. The site of the Icelandic Met Office shows an incredible concentration of thunder and lightning in the early morning hours of Tuesday in particular.

In all, there were a whopping 1,818 lightning strikes in just the 24 hours following early Tuesday morning. This marks the greatest recorded number of strikes since measurements of them began in earnest in 1998.

The strikes occurring in the east is telling. While thunder and lightning require cold air meeting warm air to happen, unusually high temperatures have covered the country this summer, and the east is traditionally the warmest in the summer.

Comment: There has been a sharp rise in deaths by lightning strikes across Bangladesh recently, with at least 126 people killed in May and June.

In March this year an anomalous lightning storm hit Southern California producing more than 1,200 bursts in five minutes. In December 2018 the sky over New York City lit up with mysterious blue light.

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Microburst confirmed in Boston as severe storms trigger flash flooding in US Northeast

Mark Puleo
AccuWeather.com
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 15:53 UTC

Major cities from Philadelphia to New York City to Boston found themselves flooded on Wednesday evening thanks to a series of thunderstorms that rolled through the Northeast.

In Natick, Massachusetts, a pregnant mother and her 3-year-old son were trapped in their car when the vehicle stalled.

"I saw a few other cars going, so I just thought 'I'm next,' but then it almost felt like a boat as I was floating," the mother, identified as Michelle Lopes said. "I'm eight months pregnant, so I just thought I would sit and wait."

Elsewhere in Natick, trains were halted by flooding on tracks.

The strongest winds were reported at Boston Logan International Airport, where a microburst with 74-mph gusts wrecked travel plans, and in Winthrop, Massachusetts, where a South Boston yacht club was rocked.

Town evacuated as dam threatens to collapse following heavy rains in Toddbrook, UK

BBC
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:46 UTC

Thousands of people are being evacuated from a town because part of a reservoir wall has collapsed in floods.

Engineers are pumping water from the 300-million-gallon Toddbrook Reservoir amid fears it could burst and swamp Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire.

Police have told the town's 6,500 residents to gather at a school, taking pets and medication with them.

A severe flood warning, which means a threat to life, has been issued for the River Goyt, below the reservoir.

Comment: Thousands evacuated after more floods in Amur and Irkutsk, Russia

6.8 earthquake strikes central Chile, interrupting speech by President Sebastian Pinera

RT
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:13 UTC

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Chile around 2:30 pm local time on Thursday. The epicenter was at the depth of about 10 kilometers, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

The tremors were strong enough to be felt in the capital Santiago, some 167 kilometers to the northeast.

Footage on social media showed light fixtures and furniture swaying in apartments.

#temblor en edificio, piso 16. Las Condes. pic.twitter.com/Q16eCdUQlf— kotelo (@kotelo) August 1, 2019

No tsunami warning was issued, and there were no reports of damage or casualties.

Up to 20 inches of snow dumped on ski slopes in New Zealand

Alice Geary
Stuff
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 18:42 UTC

Strong winds and snow drifts forced Mt Dobson skifield to close its access road on Thursday.

It was a "frustrating" morning for Mt Dobson ski field on Thursday after the excitement of 40 centimetres of snow in 36 hours was dampened by strong winds and snow drifts forced the closure of its access road.

"I felt so bad because we did that Facebook post yesterday [saying the snow had arrived] and so many people were sending messages saying 'I'm invoking my powder clause and taking the day off work'," sales and marketing manager Mike Smith said.

"It's defeated us today but that's just life in the mountains unfortunately."

Volcano filmed erupting on the northern Kurile Islands, Russia

RSOE EDIS
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:55 UTC

During our pilot expedition to the northern Kurile Islands, we observed the volcano during 16-20 and 26-27 July 2019: Ebeko's northern crater was very active, almost constantly degassing and producing ash-rich eruptions at irregular intervals of typically few hours.

About half of them consisted in small to moderate, but passive ash venting, while the others were explosions that generated ash plumes of typically 1-2 km height and drifting / slowly dissipating rather long distances (few tens of km) mostly towards the NW.

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Unusual global cold - Is anybody noticing?

Adapt 2030
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 23:08 UTC

With global media focused on a wildfires that occur in Siberia every year, few are putting together the second year in a row for temperature extremes from Spain to the UK or all time record cold & snow anomalies sprinkled across the N. Hemisphere during summer. Its not about the heat or cold so much but how global crops will respond to the changes.

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Comment: The mainstream media has focused almost exclusively on record-breaking hot temperatures this summer....promoting the man-made global warming/climate change narrative...yet it ought to be noted that at the other extreme, many new cold temperature records are also being set across the planet at this time:

Popocatepetl (aka Popo) volcano erupts in Mexico

RT
Thu, 01 Aug 2019 10:36 UTC

Popocatepetl volcano

Mexico's disaster prevention agency (CENAPRED) said over 100 explosions, carrying water vapor, gas, and light amount of ashes emanated from Mexico's Popocatepetl stratovolcano.

The agency's systems also recorded 5 moderate explosions on Tuesday.

These last two emitted incandescent fragments on the northeast slope.