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Tsunami

River in flood-hit Chad's capital surges to record level


Reuters
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:29 UTC
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The Logone river in Chad's capital has risen to its highest level in 30-40 years, the authorities said on Wednesday, threatening further turmoil to a country that has been battling devastating nationwide floods for weeks.

West and Central Africa's annual monsoon has swept parts of the region with above-average downpours this rainy season, triggering widespread floods. Chad is the worst-hit with 1.9 million people affected across much of the country as of Oct. 5, according to the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA.

By Wednesday morning, the Logone river had swelled even higher than forecast, hitting 8.18 meters. "This is a record not seen for at least 30 to 40 years," said the head of the National Meteorology Agency, Sakine Youssouf.

Prime Minister Allah Maye Halina chaired a meeting of the national flood management committee on Wednesday to agree an action plan to respond to the floods, which he said had hit eight of the capital N'Djamena's 10 districts and 17 out of 23 of Chad's provinces.


Comment: Thunderstorms are bringing unprecedented greening to the southern Sahara desert

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Doberman

Dogs fatally attack a man behind a building in Albany, New York

Michael Hill
ABC News
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:05 UTC
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A 59-year-old man was killed in a "horrific" attack by a pack of dogs in a back yard next to a house where two dozen of the animals were kept, police said Thursday.

Officers responding to a call found eight or nine mixed-breed pit bulls attacking James Provost of nearby Schenectady at about 6 p.m. Wednesday. One of the officers fired his weapon to stop the attack, killing one dog and dispersing the others, Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins said at a news conference.

Provost was declared dead at the scene. A caretaker helped round up the surviving dogs, which were taken to an area shelter. Their fate will be determined by a judge, Hawkins said.

Hawkins said investigators were still trying Thursday to piece together key details. They didn't know why Provost was in the yard or how he got there, miles from his home. And they didn't know why the dogs' owner, who lives elsewhere, kept 24 mixed-breed pit bulls at the house in a modest section of Albany. Fifteen of the dogs were puppies.

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Cloud Precipitation

Hail, heavy rains lash UAE - stunning waterfalls form in mountainous areas


Khaleej Times
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:49 UTC
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A hailstorm, accompanied by heavy rains, has hit parts of UAE. A yellow alert had earlier been issued by the nation's Met Department earlier on Thursday.

Fujairah is experiencing heavy rains, causing water to pool on roads. Cars can be seen wading across the shallow floods, spraying water as they drive past. Authorities across the emirate have also geared up, helping residents on the road by directing traffic.

In a video shared by Storm Centre, heavy rains can be seen as the person recording greets others driving by. Watch the video below:

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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rainfall as remnants of storm Kirk sweep across France and Belgium


Euronews
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:21 UTC
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The worst of the low pressure system seems to have passed, but officials remain alert as further rainfall and high water levels remain.

One person has been killed as low pressure system, formerly storm, Kirk swept across France, according to local media reports. The Isle de France region saw severe flooding and record high water levels, as did the Alpes-Maritimes region.

The departement Seine-et-Marne in Isle de France was most severely impacted by the heavy rainfall, flooding houses and blocking several roads. A red flood alert announced on Thursday remains in place there as further rainfall and potential flooding is expected in the coming days.

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Northern Lights shimmer over UK in stunning photos

Simon King, Ian Aikman and Hafsa Khalil
BBC
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:07 UTC
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© REUTERSAngel of the North, Gateshead
The Northern Lights have splashed vivid colour across UK night skies once again, with stunning images captured all across the country.

The lights, also known as aurora borealis, were expected to be seen only as far south as the Midlands, but on Wednesday night, according to BBC Weather was the strongest and most widespread showing of the phenomenon in the UK since May.

As solar activity weakens, it might still be possible for those in some Northern areas to see the lights on Friday, but elsewhere, the chances are low.

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Bizarro Earth

Greening: Rare, heavy September rainfalls have brought back lakes in the Sahara!

P.Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:50 UTC
North Africa seems to be greening as a result of climate change, which mostly occurs naturally.

Satellite photos and studies have shown that the Sahara desert has been shrinking over the past 40 years, e.g. read here and here.

The latest news is from the southeastern Moroccan desert, which is among the driest around the world, where it is reported to have gotten up to 100 mm of rain within a 24 hour period in September. Hard hit were villages 400 miles from the capital city of Rabat, including Tata, reports Al Jazeera here.
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Tsunami

River Lambro overflows its banks after torrential rain in Milan, Italy


ansabrasil.com
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:09 UTC
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The Seveso river's anti-flood storage tank was activated while the Lambro river overflowed its banks early on Thursday due to torrential rain in Milan and in the Lombardy region.

Local authorities said an estimated 35-40 millimetres of rain had fallen since 3 in the morning in Italy's financial capital.

The park around the Lambro river was flooded and two communities living in the area were evacuated.

The weather is expected to improve in the afternoon, according to forecasts.

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Cloud Lightning

Best of the Web: Tornadoes, floods as Hurricane Milton carves path of destruction in Florida - 3 million without power - at least 10 dead, 45 tornadoes reported


Al Jazeera
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:20 UTC
A car is stranded after Hurricane Milton
© Miguel J Rodriguez Carrillo/AFPA car is stranded after Hurricane Milton made landfall in Brandon, Florida, on October 9, 2024
Hurricane Milton has left a trail of destruction in Florida as it whipped up tornadoes and brought torrential rains and raging winds that destroyed homes and knocked out power for millions of people in the US state.

While the National Hurricane Center said on Thursday that the storm, which made landfall on the state's western coast hours earlier, had weakened to a Category 1 hurricane, it was still hurtling through Florida with wind speeds of 150 km/h (93mph).

Milton made landfall at about 8:30pm (00:30 GMT) on Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 195km/h (121mph) near Siesta Key, Florida.

The storm is expected to maintain hurricane strength as it crosses the Florida peninsula and emerges into the Atlantic on Thursday, forecasters said, despite it running out of steam.

At least 19 tornadoes ripped across the southern part of Florida, hundreds of miles from the centre of the storm, as it neared land.

More than 3 million people in Florida were left without power power as of 3:58am (07:58 GMT), according to Poweroutage.us, which tracks supplies, with the state's west coast worst affected.


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NDTV.com reports:
Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after cutting a destructive path across Florida that spawned tornados, killed at least 10 people and left millions without power, but the storm did not trigger the catastrophic surge of seawater that was feared.

Governor Ron DeSantis said the state had avoided the "worst-case scenario," though he cautioned the damage was still significant. The Tampa Bay area appeared to sidestep the storm surge that had prompted the most dire warnings.

US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a White House briefing the government had reports of at least 10 deaths from Milton, adding it appeared they were caused by tornados.

In St. Lucie County on Florida's east coast, a spate of tornados killed five people, including at least two in the senior-living Spanish Lakes Communities, county spokesperson Erick Gill said. Search-and-rescue teams there are combing through hard-hit areas, including a mobile-home park.

There were 19 confirmed tornados in Florida as of 8 pm Wednesday, about the time Milton made landfall, DeSantis said. Some 45 tornados were reported throughout the day, mostly in the central and eastern parts of the state, the National Weather Service said.


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Arrow Down

Car swallowed whole by huge sinkhole in Bucharest, Romania


Spotmedia.ro
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:20 UTC
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A car fell into a huge pit that appeared on a street in Bucharest, which collapsed under the weight of a garbage truck (belonging to the waste management company URBAN).

The cobblestone street collapsed out of the blue on Wednesday morning in the Orhideelor area of Sector 6.

The images are impressive with the car completely fallen and the garbage truck partially submerged in this pit.

The firefighters are intervening to secure the area where the asphalt collapsed.

"We are intervening to secure the area at an event that occurred on Orhideelor Road in the Capital. The event involves a parked car and a garbage truck passing through the area at the time the pavement collapsed.

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Doberman

Newborn dies in dog attack in Torrance, California

Paige Austin
Patch.com
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:04 UTC
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A newborn baby died after being bitten by a dog in Torrance Tuesday afternoon.

The unidentified baby was just a month old, according to the Torrance Police Department, which is investigating the dog attack, said Lieutenant F. Ahmad.

Paramedics were called to a home on the 2700 block of Martha Avenue at about 12:35 p.m. Tuesday, the Torrance Police Department announced Wednesday.

"The Torrance Fire Department arrived and discovered that a dog had bit a one-month-old
child," Ahmad announced in a written statement. "The Torrance Fire Department responded and transported the child to the hospital."

The baby was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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