Snow covers Taklimakan Desert
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Snow covers Taklimakan Desert
The extreme winter - known as dzud - threatens the health and livelihoods of thousands of Mongolian herders living in the country's remote central and southern provinces.
Hence, as a pre-emptive tactic, the Mongolian Red Cross Society has delivered cash assistance and livestock nutrition kits in target areas to assist them in meeting their immediate needs and save their livestock, which is the main source of livelihoods for the people of Mongolia.
The carcass of a huge dead whale is towed by Italy's coast guard to the port of Naples
The dead mammal was spotted in the sea on Sunday near the popular tourist destination of Sorrento by coastguard divers who were first alerted to the presence of a smaller whale, which has since disappeared into the sea.
The coastguard said it recovered the carcass overnight Tuesday and then towed the whale from Sorrento by sea to the port of Naples, where it will be analysed by marine biologists and other experts looking for a cause of death.
Comment: Dead whales have also been reported during the last few days on the shores of the UK, Bali in Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.
On Wednesday, Jan. 20, Hampton County deputies said they were called to a home on Mullins Ford Road in Brunson regarding a juvenile being attacked by a dog.
When deputies arrived, they said they found the child deceased.
Hampton County Animal Control also responded to the scene, deputies said. The dog was found a short time later, taken by Hampton County Animal Control and was euthanized.
Deputies said the case has been turned over to the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).
An unusually unsettled summer is being experienced in Middle Earth, particularly on New Zealand's South Island where substantial snow has blanketed the mountains over recent days and weeks.
There's a fresh accumulation of pow-pow on the peaks around Queenstown this week, after conditions in the Lakes area allowed for flakes to settle.
Frigid polar air left Antarctica on Sunday, and it has lingered over Australasia ever-since. As reported by odt.co.nz, Weatherwatch says temperatures will continue to be down across New Zealand as a storm near Stewart Island slowly tracks eastwards, dredging up the cold. The forecaster elaborated, adding that temps would hold below average for the remainder of the week, with single-digit highs likely through parts of Otago and Southland.
The Remarkables ski area received 10cm (4 inches) of rare summer snow overnight Tuesday (shown below), with another 15cm (6 inches) in the immediate forecast.
Comment: See also:
- Animals in Kazakhstan freeze to death after temperatures reached 51 below zero
- Global temp plunges 0.26C in a month: "The next ice age has just started"
- Unprecedented December freeze engulfs Russia, Asia, Alaska, Canada and Australia sending global temperature plummeting
- "Outrageous" snowstorm breaks all-time records across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
- Army deployed as record snowfall of 7 FEET blankets parts of Japan
- Mini Ice Age Took Hold Of Europe In Just Months
- Professor Valentina Zharkova explains and confirms why a "Super" Grand Solar Minimum is upon us
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
Comment: Three years ago: Animals are frozen solid as temperatures drop to -56 Celsius in Kazakhstan
Animals including this dog have been frozen solid after temperatures dropped to minus 56C in Kazakhstan
Videos show both a hare and a dog frozen to death amid bitter conditions sweeping across the vast Central Asian nation.
The hare was trapped while climbing through a fence before dying in the arctic conditions and its body had to be pulled free by locals.
The dog appears to have become stuck while walking through a snow-covered field.
Benjamin Trachtenberg recorded a video that shows lines of skiers standing still as the snow devil sweeps through the group. Trachtenberg told Storyful that the snow devil lasted for close to 30 seconds and did not injure the large group.
Certified broadcast meteorologist Tyler Jankoski said on his Twitter post that the weather event can be called a snow devil or a "snownado". According to the World Meteorological Organization, snow devil is "a very rare phenomenon."
Credit: Benjamin Trachtenberg via Storyful
The quake measured magnitude 7.0 and was located 95.8 kilometers (60 miles) below the sea and about 210 kilometers (130 miles) southeast of Pondaguitan in Davao Occidental province, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
In Davao city, President Rodrigo Duterte's hometown, some residents ran out of their houses as the ground shook and power cables and business signs swayed, but there were no reports of damage or injuries. Duterte was in the presidential palace complex in Manila.
Comment: Also very pertinent:
- Earth's rotation is slowing - and scientists say it 'could' cause major earthquakes (uhm, it already is)
- Volcanoes are erupting all over the place right now. Scientists have figured out why: A minute slowdown in the planet's rotation
- USGS seismic data points to 2,000% increase in major earthquakes since 1900
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Floods in Antalaha , Madagascar, After Storm Eloise, 19 January 2021.
Floods in Antalaha , Madagascar, After Storm Eloise, 19 January 2021.
As of 20 January, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that more than 1,000 people have been directly affected in Madagascar and more than 50 houses were destroyed, as Tropical Storm Eloise passed through Antalaha, Maroantsetra, Vavatenina and Toamasina districts. Quoting local sources, OCHA said 1 person was killed in the storm.
The storm flooded 134 houses and destroyed 56, while nearly 100 schools were impacted, including 87 that were damaged and 11 destroyed, OCHA added.
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