Earth Changes

Powerful tornado hits Turkey's Antalya leaving two dead

Daily Sabah
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:09 UTC

A tornado that struck Turkey's tourism capital Antalya on Thursday left two people dead, including a 13-year-old child, one person missing and at least 11 more people injured.

The tornado caused damage to many vehicles, agricultural estates and greenhouses in Kumluca and Finike districts.

The injured have been transferred to Kumluca State Hospital and their treatment continues.

"Eleven were injured, including one critically. A university student went missing in Kuzderesi in the Kemer district," Antalya Govenor Münir Karaloğlu told Anadolu Agency.

Arctic air leads to sun dogs in western Michigan

Ellen Bacca
WOOD TV
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:02 UTC

West Michigan woke up to some bitterly cold temperatures Monday morning - the lows were the coldest we've experienced in a full year!

But it also set us up for some amazing displays outside.

Arctic air can physically hold very little moisture, making it exceptional for optical phenomena like sun dogs.

When the sun climbed over the horizon Monday morning, the light erupted in a perfect 22 degree halo, with matching sun dogs on either side of the sun, a sun pillar shooting up from the center, and a hint of a tangent arc on the top of the halo. Kelly Clouse took this shot of the moment over Versluis Lake in Plainfield Township:

Sun dog lights up skies in Caledon, Ontario during extreme cold

Robyn Wilkinson
Caldedon Enterprise
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:51 UTC

Between a total lunar eclipse and cold weather sun dogs, the sky had some extra special imagery to gaze at over the weekend and Monday morning, Jan. 21.

If you turned your eyes to the moon Sunday night, Jan. 20 and into the early morning hours Monday you may have caught a glimpse of the total lunar eclipse or blood moon. During Monday's cold morning commute, a weather phenomenon known as a sun dog or snow rainbow was visible.

Sun dogs are known as parhelion, halos, or "mock suns." They are optical effects caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere, which results in what can appear to be two rainbows on either side of the sun.

Heavy snow hits the Pyrenees - up to 70cm ( 27 inches) of snow in 24 hours

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow.com
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:08 UTC

Formigueres

The Pyrenees are seeing some of their biggest snowfalls for three months.

The French resort of Cauterets reports 50-70cm of fresh snow has fallen in the past 24 hours and other ski areas in the region have reported 30-40cm accumulations so far this morning.

Currently, there are blizzard conditions in many areas and some ski centres are closing their slopes for the day.

"The Cirque du Lys ski area is closed for the day due to strong winds and high avalanche risk following the accumulation of 50 to 70 cm of snow since that night," a Cauterets statement reads.

The new snow follows heavy snow on Sunday/Monday meaning resorts have had up to 65cm (26 inches) of snow in the past 72 hours.

Australian heatwave - Forgotten history

Joanne Nova
JoNova
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:32 UTC

Don't believe your lying eyes - Australian newspaper archives are full of temperatures recorded higher than 121 in the shade which is 50C. All of these temperatures in the map below are found in historic newspaper archives. Measurements done after 1910 are even done with official Stevenson screens, yet the BOM "throws them away". It's true that ones done in the 1800s are often recorded on non-standard equipment, or are just literally "in the shade" under cover. So some of these, perhaps many, are one or two degrees too high. But even if we take two degrees off, how scary is global warming when Australia knew many days of 48C and 49C and some at 50C 120 years ago? The BOM - supposedly so concerned about the State of Our Climate - show little interest in talking about our history or in analyzing it, or even mentioning it.

And modern temperatures are recorded on electronic equipment, sometimes in areas affected by urban heat islands (concrete and cars).

50C temperatures have occurred all over Australia before

Australians have been recording temperatures of over 50C since 1828, right across the country. In 1896 the heat was so bad for weeks that people fled on emergency trains to escape the inland heat. Millions of birds fell from the sky in 1932 due to the savage hot spell.

Comment:
Australia heatwave: Dozens of wild horses found dead at dried-up waterhole

6 miners dead, 1 missing in Agusan Norte landslide, Philippines

Dempsey Reyes
The ManilaTimes
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:49 UTC

Six miners were confirmed dead while one remained missing from a landslide in Agusan del Norte, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) said on Thursday.

Erma Suyo, PDRRMO Agusan del Norte officer, said the incident happened in the border of Santiago and Jabonga towns in the province, in the vicinity of Mount Manpuhaw.

Suyo said her office had no idea about the landslide until a lone survivor was brought to a local hospital and related the incident.

Based on a police report, the miners were identified as Rene Gan-ungunlligan, Ramil Iligan, Casiano Iligan, Tata Salasay, Rex Pening, Jay-I Matanog and one with an alias of Gang-gang. The miners were all from Barangay Hinapuyan, Carmen in Surigao del Sur.

Tropical storm brings torrential rain to parts of Mozambique

Nico Gous
Times Live
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:35 UTC

Mozambican city of Beira flooded

Parts of the Mozambican city of Beira were flooded on Tuesday after tropical storm Desmond made landfall.

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) said Desmond had brought 277mm of rain to the city of Beira - the fourth largest city in the country.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the storm will last about 48 hours.

Brit In Beira, a British mother who blogs from Mozambique, posted in a message on Facebook on Tuesday: "Tropical storm Desmond has brought some epic rain ....

"We are fine, our house has a few leaks but all safe and sound. My heart just breaks for the people's houses that have been completely flooded or washed away. As always in these events it's always the most vulnerable and desperate that suffer the most in the hands of mother nature."

Dead birds found scattered along road in Blue Springs, Missouri

Nathan Vickers and Maggie Holmes
KCTV5
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:29 UTC

A nasty sight along Adams Dairy Parkway has drivers in Blue Springs crying foul.

The route down Adams Dairy Parkway is scenic, filled with artwork, evergreen trees and wildlife.

"You see deer often," Du'an Lightfoot, Blue Spring resident, said.

But Lightfoot was one of many drivers who noticed something unusual on the way home Sunday.

"Riding down the street, I thought it was kind of odd," Lightfoot stated.

Something related to the dozens of starlings his neighbors have spotted this winter.

Unusually wild, wintry weather hits Western Australia

Irena Ceranic
ABC News
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:27 UTC

© BOM
A severe weather warning has been issued for the Kimberley region of Western Australia with a tropical low (pictured) expected to form into a cyclone off the north coast on Thursday

A dose of wild, wintry weather has struck WA's south-west as it brims with holidaymakers hoping to make the most of the region's idyllic beaches and campsites.

After a string of typical summer days in the region, a developing low pressure system is bringing a cool change, heavy rain and damaging winds, with gusts of up to 90 kilometres per hour possible today.

"This weather is very unusual for this time of year," Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior forecaster Adam Conroy said.

"It's more typical of a strong winter storm, so it's pretty rare to get one of these systems developing in January.

"This sort of weather will be quite wintry and windy, so given that a lot of people would be out having their summer holidays it's important that they listen to the warnings."

Comment: Australia is experiencing extreme weather these days. See also:

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Winter Storms Indra & Harper - Record cold Boston - Falling iguana alert

Adapt 2030
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:25 UTC

Winter storms Harper and Indra blend into the same weeks headlines, record cold and more records snows. Boston breaking records back to 1878, now three locations in the northern hemisphere mimic Maunder Minimum climate.

Iguanas will fall from trees last part of January.

More record cold to follow through first week of Feb even down to Cuba.