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Cold winter brings out icebreakers ahead of schedule in Finland

Yle
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:11 UTC

Sisu is the fifth icebreaker Finland has deployed this season. She was sent out on Sunday, some two weeks earlier than last year.

Months of bone-chilling temperatures have turned much of the Bay of Bothnia into thick slabs of ice. Finnish icebreaker Sisu is now headed toward the region, and according to the ship's chief officer Patrik Barck, it seems like there will be a lot of ice to deal with this winter.

Sisu is the fifth icebreaker sent out so far this season, which is early compared to last year, when the fifth icebreaker was deployed some two weeks later on 10 February.

In 2017, ice levels on most of Finland's seas were very low, as well.

Lightning bolt kills family of 6 in Madagascar

Prothom Alo
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC

Six people from the same family were "killed on the spot" by a lightning strike in Madagascar over the weekend while sheltering from a storm, officials said Monday.

The relatives -- including a three-year-old child -- were killed in the central village of Bakaro on Saturday.

Another person suffered superficial burns.

"Twenty-five farmers sheltering from rain under a thatched cottage after leaving their rice field were hit by a lightning bolt," said medical inspector William Patrick Rakotondralambo of the Fitsinjovana commune.

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Coldest temperatures of your lifetime descends on the US (EMERGENCY WARNING)

Adapt 2030
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 23:04 UTC

What is considered as the coldest temperatures to blanket half of the US in five generations is intensifying. Temperatures will reach -47F as ground temperatures over the next three days with wind chill down to -70F in parts of the Great Lakes, Midwest Pains states and N.E USA, additionally S.E USA will be at all time record cold as well and the power grid will be at all time draw for home heating. This is an indicator of the Grand Solar Minimum intensifying. Good Luck and make preparations for power outages in this historic cold.

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Up to 2.3 metres (90 inches) of snowfall in 7 days over the Pyrenees

J2Ski
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 19:56 UTC

Fresh +50 cm of snow in Saint-Lary-Soulan, France (the Pyrenees) this morning, January 28.

It has been snowing heavily in the Alps over the weekend and continues to snow in the Pyrenees, where conditions have been transformed over the past week after a two month, mostly-dry, spell.

This time it is the Western Alps and France and Western Switzerland that is seeing the biggest snowfalls, with one area reporting 70cm in the past 24 hours and many at least 30cm.

But it has been snowing again in the Eastern Alps which saw huge accumulations between Christmas and mid-January, resorts in Austria have posted up to 50cm of snow in the last 24 hours.

A week of snow in the Pyrenees is now starting to add up big time with some areas reporting more than 2 metres of snow has fallen there in the past 7 days. La Mongie / Barèges say they've had 2.3 metres (nearly 8 feet) of snowfall since last Monday.

Up to 70cm (28 inches) of fresh snow falls in 24 hours over the Alps

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 19:08 UTC

There's been heavy snowfall again in the Alps, particularly in the past 24 hours.

A fortnight after the three weeks of heavy snow that brought the Eastern Alps (Austria, Germany and Eastern Switzerland) to a standstill, this time it's the turn of the Western Alps, France and Western Switzerland in particular, to get the big dumps.

The biggest 24 hour accumulation reported so far is at the small resort of Cordon in the Northern French Alps with 70cm (2 feet, 4 inches) of snowfall.

Les Marécottes - Salvan in the Swiss Valais region over the border has posted the second biggest at 65cm (2 feet, 2 inches).

Etna volcano burps ash, covering southern snow slopes

Ruptly
Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:36 UTC

Volcanic ash covered the southern slope of Italy's highest volcano, Mount Etna following emissions from the Bocca Nuova Crater the night between Saturday and Sunday, footage filmed near Catania shows.

Images from the area show volcanic ash covering the snow and vehicles leading up to the crater.

2 dead, 1 missing due to floods, landslide in the Philippines

Juliet C. Revita
Sun Star
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:22 UTC

A landslide renders this road at the village of LS Sarmiento in Laak town, Compostela Valley, impassable to vehicles.

Two people died while another is still missing after a series of flooding and landslides brought by the tail-end of a cold front that triggered heavy rains in Davao region, an official of the Office of Civil Defense regional office (OCD 11) said.

OCD 11 Information Officer Leslie Francisco identified those who died as Rommel Gogo, 28, who was buried alive when a landslide occurred in Barangay, Tapia Montevista, Compostela Valley last Saturday, January 26; and Dennis Pesadilla from Barangay Ngan, Compostela, who drowned last Sunday, January 27.

Krisel Hermosora, 12, from Barangay Bayabas, Nabunturan has not been found since she was swept away by strong water current of the Handorumog River.

Landslide following torrential rain buries family house in Bali, Indonesia - two dead

Ni Komang Erviani
The Jakarta Post
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:13 UTC

© Antara/Abriawan Abhe
Search and rescue team search for victims after a landslide hit Mamuju in Gowa, South Sulawesi on Jan. 27.

Two people were killed and 12 others injured after a landslide buried a house in Ban village, Karangasem, Bali, on Sunday, following torrential rain. All the victims were members of the same family.

The dead victims were identified as Ni Ketut Puspa Wati, 28, and Ni Komang Mertini, 19.

The Bali Disaster Mitigation Agency reported that a 6-meter hillside behind the house slumped and buried the house while the family watched television on Sunday evening.

"All the family members were in the house and were trapped inside," the agency's head, Dewa Putu Mantera said.

Rivers at record levels after 620mm (2 feet) of rain in 48 hours in Queensland, Australia

Floodlist
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:24 UTC

Daintree River flood at Daintree, Queensland, January 2019

Torrential rain and swollen rivers have left communities cut off and farmland inundated in parts of northern Queensland, Australia.

According to figures from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) over 620 mm of rain was recorded in Whyanbeel Valley, situated between Port Douglas and Daintree in northern Queensland, in a 48 hour period to 27 January. Several other areas received over 500mm during the same period.

BoM said the Daintree River rose to 12.6m on 26 January, well above major flood stage of 9m and biggest major flooding of the Daintree River since 1901. Roads have been washed out and the river ferry at Daintree damaged. Local authorities warned that some residents in remote areas could be cut off for days.

Lightning bolt kills two children in Zambia

Chris Phiri
Zambia Reports
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:57 UTC

Two girls of same family aged 10 and 12 have been struck to death by lightning while another is battling for her life at Kalulushi General Hospital.

The deceased have been identified as Mercy and Fidess Mugala.

The incident happened on Friday when the three children were playing in the house while it was raining heavily in Kitwe's Kamakonde Township.

The other child whose identity has been withheld suffered burns on both his legs and currently nursing injuries at Kalulushi General Hospital.

Meanwhile, Nkana Member of Parliament Alexander Chiteme has pledged to help the bereaved family with funeral expenses.

Comment: A day later an individual was fatally struck by lightning in Germiston, South Africa.

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Earth Changes

Cold winter brings out icebreakers ahead of schedule in Finland

Lightning bolt kills family of 6 in Madagascar

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Coldest temperatures of your lifetime descends on the US (EMERGENCY WARNING)

Up to 2.3 metres (90 inches) of snowfall in 7 days over the Pyrenees

Up to 70cm (28 inches) of fresh snow falls in 24 hours over the Alps

Etna volcano burps ash, covering southern snow slopes

2 dead, 1 missing due to floods, landslide in the Philippines

Landslide following torrential rain buries family house in Bali, Indonesia - two dead

Rivers at record levels after 620mm (2 feet) of rain in 48 hours in Queensland, Australia

Lightning bolt kills two children in Zambia

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