Heavy rain hits Wadi Rahjan, east of Makkah, today, Monday, in addition to other regions in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and this sparked widespread interaction on social networking sites.
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Heavy rain hits Wadi Rahjan, east of Makkah, today, Monday, in addition to other regions in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and this sparked widespread interaction on social networking sites.
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Restaurant workers are seen salvaging items after Seremban was hit by flash floods earlier today.
Restaurant workers are seen salvaging items after Seremban was hit by flash floods earlier today.
Many of the businesses and residents met by Bernama were devastated after their properties and business premises were inundated by floodwaters.
In Rantau, the flooding was the third this year, after similar incidents on Sept 22 and Oct 1.
A prayer materials and flower shop owner in Kuala Sawah, Rantau, K. Kanniamah, 48, said the flash flood, which hit her area at around 4.30 am, was the worst she had experienced in her 15 years living there.
"As the water reached my ankles, my first thought was of my shop and when I reached it, I saw all my products were destroyed. My losses are estimated at RM15,000," she said.
Restaurant owner D. Logeswary, 35, said the continuous heavy rain which started at midnight was something extraordinary and unprecedented.
Photos and videos shared this morning with our newsroom showed that water levels at the Macal River in San Ignacio continue to rise. Businesses near the San Ignacio Market have secured their establishments and evacuated the area.
Meanwhile, in Bullet Tree Falls Village, the river level is several inches away from the platform of the Salvador Fernandez Bridge.
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Rescue workers in Honduras
Rescue workers in Honduras
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said around half the deaths were in a single town where a hillside collapse buried some 20 houses under thick mud.
Eta made landfall in neighbouring Nicaragua as a hurricane on Tuesday.
It was later downgraded to a tropical storm.
As she was drafting plans and calculating profits, she saw gigantic swarms of locusts like a cloud approaching the fields. All her efforts of waving a piece of cloth to beating steel plates to drive the swarm away failed. Within minutes all the hard labor of months and money she had invested to grow crops were ruined by little monsters.
Residing in Somali province, 50 kilometers (31 miles), north of the regional capital Jijjiga, Mohammed with his six children is looking at a bleak future and starving days ahead.
"They have destroyed my crop. I do not know what to do. We have lost food and battle against desert locusts," she told Anadolu Agency.
She recalls that it was like a giant tornado flying high in the sky. Then they lost heights, starting descending and devastated crops.
The region has seen a second such attack from insects last weekend during the current farming season.
First big snow of the season overachieves in Atlantic Canada
Conditions quickly deteriorated in Nova Scotia on Tuesday, with slick and slushy roads reported in some areas -- including the city of Halifax -- for the afternoon commute home. Between 5-10+ cm of snow piled up before the system made its way into central Newfoundland Tuesday night, catching many off guard as the snow totals well overachieved.
"The higher snowfall totals in Nova Scotia has a lot to do with the exact track of the low pressure system. In this case, the centre of the low was positioned just south enough to bring steady snowfall to the region and remain as snow," says Weather Network meteorologist Jessie Uppal. "Had the positioning of the track shifted a bit further north, we would have seen a lot more rain mixing in."
Snowfall 27 cm as of 7am in #GanderWest. #nlwx pic.twitter.com/C9FmoQekbt
— Rodney Barney (@rcbstormpost) November 4, 2020
Floods struck in late October. Red Cross said a mother and child were swept away by the overflowing Hima river in Kasese District.
Around 1,200 families were displaced in Kasese due to the recent heavy rains and landslides. The affected families have camped at schools and churches for shelter.
As many as 100,000 people were affected in Kasese by severe flooding in the district from 05 May, 2020. Torrential rain on 21 May caused further flooding leaving at least 8 people dead.
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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA) reported on 05 November 2020 that "several neighborhoods in the capital N'Djamena have been flooded after the dam supporting the lower basin of the Chari River gave way in two places. A census of affected people is ongoing, and an inter-agency mission has been deployed to the flooded area to assess the situation and response needs. A Government-led first response has been initiated and the most vulnerable households have received food kits, tarpaulins and mats."
The recent flooding began around 30 October 2020. Local media said that the worst hit areas are in the 9th district between the Logone and Chari Rivers.
Mayor of N'Djamena, Oumar Boukar said whenever the city of N'Djamena sees high rainfall, we see recurring flooding phenomena. Flooding first struck in the city on 20 August when 10 people died and 32,000 were displaced.
The footage was uploaded to Twitter by Nataly Antar, who said the waterspout had neared the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport.
The International Centre For Waterspout Research said the sighting confirmed their forecast.
A waterspout in the area on October 21 moved ashore, onto the remains of the port of Beirut, Storyful reported.
Credit: Nataly Antar via Storyful
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Cold record in November in 'Serra Catarinense', South Brazil.
Thursday, November 5th, marked a record of cold in the Serra Catarinense in the city of Urupema with a temperature of - 3.1°C.
Frost has been recorded in many cities in Santa Catarina, from the west to the Serra Catarinense (High Mountains).
Comment: Plagues of locusts are being reported from all around the world these days. It is likely related to increasingly erratic seasons and extreme weather patterns, which is not a consequence of 'global warming' as parroted relentlessly by the MSM: Global cooling to replace warming trend that started 4,000 years ago - Chinese scientists. See also: