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Alaska State Troopers identified the victim as 40-year-old Erin Lee of Fairbanks. Officials say she was a skier that got caught in the avalanche.
Just after 12 p.m. on Saturday, AST received a report of an avalanche. Lee was taken to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Next of kin has been notified.
European rail freight is heavily impacted by the landslide, as it disrupts traffic though Europe's most heavily used freight line: the Rhine-Alpine corridor. According to reports from the site, freight traffic diverts through the left bank of the Rhine using the Bingen route. However, this is not enough since long-distance trains are excluded from this diversion, a situation that also affects the bustling Genoa-Rotterdam route.
Comment: It's likely that this landslide is correlated with the extreme flooding and drought that Europe has seen in recent times, as well as being part of an overall uptick in geologic and seismic events that's also seems to be correlated with the rise in landslides and sinkholes.
However, it's particularly concerning that Europe's busiest freight line is now out of service, because, over in Egypt, the Suez Canal, which is a critical shipping lane for the distribution of goods is also out of service due to a ship becoming stuck:
- Suez Canal: Efforts resume to free Ever Given container ship as shipping jams force boats to consider turning around
- Huge landslide hits residential area after large amounts of precipitation in southern Norway, 10 hurt, 26 unaccounted for
- Croatia sees gaping sinkholes emerge in area ravaged by December 2020 earthquake
On Thursday 11 March 2021, a large landslide occurred on the banks of an abandoned and flooded open case coal mine site at Knappensee in eastern Germany [...]This bank had been undergoing work recently and was a site with known geotechnical problems. The unslipped areas in the image above have little or no vegetation, suggesting engineering works since the last growing season. [...]
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Floods in Franklin County, Tennessee, March 2021.
Floods in Franklin County, Tennessee, March 2021.
State authorities said that severe weather crossed Tennessee on 27 March, bringing two rounds of heavy rain, high winds, flash flooding and tornado warnings. "The mostly localized impacts of the severe storms included flooding of homes and businesses, scattered structures damaged, closed roads, downed trees, and power outages," the government of Tennessee said.
NWS Nashville reported 8.65 inches (219.71 mm) of rain in Franklin between 27 and 28 March and 7.01 inches (178 mm) at Nashville International Airport.
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Lightning is much less common in colder parts of the planet — the chill is less conducive to the humidity required for electrically charging ice crystals in clouds. In this new effort, the researchers found that for one cold region, the number of lightning strikes has been increasing dramatically as average air temperatures rise due to global warming. Notably, prior research has shown that temperatures are rising approximately three times faster in the Arctic than in the rest of the world.
Comment: Our planet is experiencing an overall worldwide cooling trend, with a "Super" Grand Solar Minimum upon us according to some scientists.
Comment: In recent years there has been record lightning all over the world, including: New Zealand, France, British Columbia, Sweden, Iceland and the world record longest lightning flash of 440 miles was confirmed over northern Argentina.
The electrical nature of our weather and changing atmosphere is becoming more apparent:
- 'Superbolts' detected above atmosphere are over 1,000 times brighter than normal lightning
- Novel atmosphere phenomenon 'STEVE' makes ANOTHER appearance over Finland
- Very rare noctilucent clouds appear over Argentina
- Rare Type II Gigantic Jet event recorded over Tropical Storm Laura
- Recently discovered atmospheric electrical phenomenon 'Green Ghost' captured over West Texas
- Extremely bright 'jellyfish' sprites easily visible with naked-eye over Colorado
- Changing atmosphere: Red sprites and a blue jet seen above Europe's stormy skies
In response to the Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD), a complete of 54 districts are actually engulfed by a forest hearth that's emitting smoke into the airspace of the Himalayan Nation that has resulted in a dip within the Air High quality Index (AQI).
As per the MFD, Chitwan, Parsa, Bara and Makwanpur are severely affected. All through Friday afternoon, the AQI of Kathmandu remained hazardous with Pm 2.5 index standing at 303.89 mg/m3.
The flights, each home and worldwide, have been both stored on maintain, diverted, and in some instances, have been cancelled because the Worldwide Airport in Kathmandu was compelled to be closed for about 4 hours as a result of a drop in visibility.
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Cumulonimbus incus: The anvil shape forms when the rising cloud reaches the tropopause
Cumulonimbus incus: The anvil shape forms when the rising cloud reaches the tropopause
It's very cold, obviously; at high altitude it is well below freezing.
But would you be surprised to learn it is sometimes below even -100C?
Indeed, scientists have just published research showing the top of one tropical storm cloud system in 2018 reached -111C. This is very likely a record low temperature.
Comment: That we are experiencing a significant shift in conditions on our planet can be seen in the numerous, varied and unusual phenomena in our skies:
- Gigantic jet photographed piercing the sky in China
- Our cooling atmosphere: Curious circular clouds appear over Swiss Alps alongside an iridescent cloud
- STEVE makes unusual summertime appearance, record breaking solar minimum update
- "The Dunes": NEW type of aurora discovered, and the unexpected physics behind it
- Earth's rotation is slowing - and scientists say it 'could' cause major earthquakes (uhm, it already is)
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
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Prior to Friday's tornado, the most recent EF4 tornado occurred in the 2011 Super Outbreak, which brought hundreds of tornadoes to the Deep South.
Less than 0.5% of tornadoes in Georgia reach "violent" strength, those of EF4 or EF5 magnitude. EF4 tornadoes hit Georgia roughly once in a decade. Most violent tornadoes have occurred early in the year and in the northern portion of the state.
In all, the state has seen more than 2,000 tornadoes since 1950.
Friday's tornado struck the west-central Georgia community of Newnan, a town of more than 40,000.
Falling ash from the Pacaya volcano forced the closure of Guatemala's only international airport for almost 24 hours
The 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) volcano that lies 25 kilometers to the south of Guatemala City has been erupting for 50 days, damaging plantations in the path of the lava.
Pacaya is expelling ash up to 500 meters from its crater, located 2.5 kilometers southwest of the cone, the vulcanology institute said in a statement.
Falling ash was registered in the El Rodeo and El Patrocinio communities, the institute said, adding that "the volcanic activity is considered at high levels."
The activity has produced a lava flow 2.2 kilometers long on the west flank of the volcano.
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Lava flows down from the crater of Mount Merapi, March 27.
Lava flows down from the crater of Mount Merapi, March 27.
An avalanche of rocks spilled down Mount Merapi's slopes before dawn and clouds of hot ash shot 200 meters (656 feet) into the air as the mountain groaned and rumbled, said Hanik Humaida, the head of Yogyakarta's Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.
The volcano unleashed hot clouds of ash at least eight times since the morning as well as a series of pyroclastic flows — a mixture of rock, debris, lava and gasses — that had reached nearly 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) down its slopes, Humaida said.
The 2,968-meter (9,737-foot) high volcano is on densely populated Java island near the ancient city of Yogyakarta. It is the most active of dozens of Indonesian volcanoes and has repeatedly erupted recently.
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