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Flash floods hit Rio De Janeiro State, Brazil - almost 9 inches of rain in 24 hours

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:01 UTC
Officials in Duque de Caxias city reported that Tuesday's storm left 150 people homeless and destroyed three houses

Officials in Duque de Caxias city reported that Tuesday's storm left 150 people homeless and destroyed three houses
Southern Brazil has seen further heavy rain and flooding, this time in Rio de Janeiro State where at least 1 fatality was reported.

The floods in Rio de Janeiro come days after at least 12 people died and 9 were missing after severe flooding and landslides in Santa Catarina State.

In Rio de Janeiro State, at least one person died and 3 houses collapsed after severe floods in the Baixada Fluminense Region on 22 December 2020. Flash flooding turned streets to rivers, dragging vehicles along. Infrastructure was severely damaged. The municipalities of Duque de Caxias and Magé were the worst affected, according to local media reports.

Xerém in the municipality of Duque de Caxias recorded 224.2mm of rain in 24 hours to 23 December 2020.


Comment: João Monlevade in the state of Minas Gerais also suffered severe flooding:



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Snowflake Cold

Punishing snow moves into Manitoba, totals skyrocket to 70 cm (27.5 inches) in Alberta town


Yahoo! News
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:11 UTC
Alberta begins to dig out after 40+ cm of snow buries towns

Alberta begins to dig out after 40+ cm of snow buries towns
With the Pacific low tracking further east and pushing snow into northern Ontario, conditions are beginning to ease up on the Prairies. Snow is all but gone in Alberta and it will taper off in Saskatchewan in the overnight hours. However, heavy snow in Manitoba won't subside until Wednesday morning.

Coupled with strong winds, this will make for difficult travel. Saskatchewan will also see some blowing snow Wednesday morning, so caution is advised before venturing out on the roads.

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Attention

Suwanosejima volcano (Ryukyu Islands, Japan) - intense strombolian activity continues


Volcano Discovery
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:08 UTC
Strong glow continues to be active at Suwanosejima volcano
© JMA
Strong glow continues to be active at Suwanosejima volcano
Intense explosive activity of the volcano continues characterized by near-constant eruptions.

Strombolian explosions become stronger than the average size of explosions at the volcano and more frequent at regular intervals of 2 to 4 per hour during the past few weeks.

An explosions generated an ash plumes which reached approx. 1,968 ft-3,937 ft (600 m-1,200 m) altitude and drifted SW.

Some of a lava bombs were ejected as far as 800 m away from the crater.
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Seismograph

Earthquake of magnitude 3.9 hits Bárðarbunga volcano, Iceland


Iceland Monitor
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:03 UTC
iceland
An earthquake of magnitude 3.9 hit Bárðarbunga volcano, under the ice cap of Vatnajökull glacier, yesterday at 11:37 am, mbl.is reports. Its source was at a depth of 1.7 km (one mile), 5 km (3.1 mi) southeast of Bárðarbunga.

Ten seconds before the earthquake hit, a tremor of magnitude 2.8 registered.

Information regarding seismic activity is available on vedur.is.
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Attention

Sheveluch volcano (Kamchatka, Russia) powerful eruption - emissions to 28,000 ft


Volcano Discovery
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:55 UTC
Red circle shows umbrella region formed by explosion at Sheveluch volcano today
© KVERT
Red circle shows umbrella region formed by explosion at Sheveluch volcano today
A spectacular vulcanic explosion occurred from the crater at 12:20 local time today as volcanological observatory KVERT reported.

Plume of ash rose to an altitude of 16,000 ft (4,876 m) and formed relatively large umbrella region in the upper part of the eruption column as can be seen in the image.

A few hours later, at 19:30 local time on today evening, another strong explosion detected by Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Tokyo produced spectacular ash plume rising up to 28,000 ft (8,500 m) altitude and extended about 130 km to the southeast of the volcano.
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Attention

Mount Etna erupts again as lava blasts from the Southeast Crater

Jeff Parsons
Metro (UK)
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:39 UTC
Mount Etna has erupted for a second time
© Angela Platania/REX
Mount Etna has erupted for a second time
Mount Etna's volcanic activity is continuing with a second powerful eruption following the first last week.

As reported by volcanologist Boris Behncke, who is studying Etna, the second eruption consisted of new lava fountaining ocurring at the Southeast Crater.

This new period of activity occurred in the early morning hours of December 22 and could be seen from the nearby village of Tremestieri Etneo.

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Snowflake Cold

Unprecedented December freeze engulfs Russia, Asia, Alaska, Canada and Australia sending global temperature plummeting

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:38 UTC
Ice age

Even in the face of such insurmountable odds, the powers-that-be are continuing to push their anthropogenic global warming narrative.

Record-breaking cold has swept large swathes of the planet of late: from Alaska to the Alps; from India to Iceland; and from Australia to Russia, unprecedented lows have been rewriting the record books.

Currently in Russia, an immense mass of debilitating cold is gripping 80+ percent of the 17.1 million km² transcontinental nation, cold that is only set to expand and intensify as the holiday season nears.

Temperatures across central and eastern areas have plunged more than 20C below the seasonal average as Arctic air rides anomalously-far south on the back of a weak and wavy Meridional jet stream flow. In Russia in particular, 20C below the seasonal average is not to be taken lightly. The mercury is challenging lows of -50C (-58F) and even -60C (-76F), some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

New locust swarms form in East Africa

CGTN America
YouTube
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:02 UTC
East Africa locust swarm
© YouTube/CGTN America (screen capture)
In 2020, East Africa has already seen the worst locust invasion in over 70 years. Now, new swarms are forming and threatening food security on both sides of the Red Sea. See what's happening.


Comment: Plagues of locusts are being reported from all around the world these days. It is likely related to increasingly erratic seasons and extreme weather patterns, which is not a consequence of 'global warming' as parroted relentlessly by the MSM: Global cooling to replace warming trend that started 4,000 years ago - Chinese scientists. See also:

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Arrow Down

Landslide after incessant rainfall at central Philippine mine pit kills 4, 6 missing


Xinhua
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:03 UTC
landslide
Rescue efforts are underway at a mining pit in Cebu province of the central Philippines to find six miners buried by a landslide that killed at least four, the mining company said on Tuesday.

Carmen Copper Corporation (CCC), the operator of the mining site located in Toledo city in the Cebu province, said the disaster occurred in its pit around 4:15 p.m. local time on Monday.

Search and rescue operation began Tuesday morning as the ground was still shaky hours after the landslide, the company said in a statement.

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Wolf

String of coyote attacks on humans in East Bay's Lamorinda area in California rattles some nerves, surprises wildlife officials

Shomik Mukherjee
The Mercury News
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:54 UTC
coyote
Residents of the bucolic towns of Lafayette, Moraga and Orinda have long known to guard their pets and backyards from coyotes prowling in the shadows, behind trees and around garbage bins.

"They howl behind my house every night," said Melodi Dewey, a Lafayette resident. "There's a pack of them on the other side of my fence. I have to keep my dogs from going outside at night."

But Dewey and others in the Contra Costa County area dubbed Lamorinda are warier than ever these days and just as surprised as wildlife officials after a string of coyote attacks this year left three people bitten and injured, the latest one Tuesday behind Diablo Foods in Lafayette.

And what's particularly alarming is that the same coyote is responsible for all three attacks, according to authorities. Lab results showed Thursday the DNA in the saliva around the latest victim's wounds matched the DNA found in previous attacks.

Although California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials have trapped and killed four coyotes in the area within the past couple of weeks, they have not yet caught the culprit in Tuesday's attack and those on Dec. 4 at Campolindo High School in Moraga and in July not too far from Moraga Commons Park.
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