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Landslide buries four people in East Java's Pacitan district after torrential rain

Destyan Handri Sujarwoko
antaranews.com
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:19 UTC

Four members of a family in Sidomulyo Village, Kebonagung Sub-district, Pacitan District, East Java Province, are reportedly still trapped under the rubble of a landslide that crushed their house on Friday evening, local residents stated.

Rescue workers comprising members of the local military and police personnel as well as the Pacitan Disaster Mitigation Agency attempted to find the victims on Saturday morning, but they halted the rescue efforts due to the dangers posed by unstable landslide materials.

According to Chief of the Pacitan District Military Command Lt Col Aristoteles Hengkeng Nusa Lawitang, the four missing people were identified as Mesgiman and his wife Sogirah, Inem, and Bogiyem, Mesgiman's parent-in-law.

The victims were at home when the cliff behind their house suddenly collapsed and buried almost all parts of the building.

5 killed as landslide strikes Indonesia's Bali after heavy downpour

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Xinhua
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:09 UTC

© Tribun Bali / Busrah Hisyam Ardans
The process of evacuating victims of landslides in Banjar Sasih, Sukawati Subdistrict, Gianyar, Bali

Five people were killed as landslides struck Bali resort island of Indonesia on Saturday, a senior disaster agency official said.

The natural disaster took place at Batubulan village of Gianyar district, said Nyoman Sanjaya, senior official of disaster management and mitigation agency in Bali.

"One of the corpses has been identified and recovered. Still, the others four remain being buried under the rubble of a house which was destroyed by the landslide," he told Xinhua over phone from Bali.

Heavy downpours were blamed for the natural disaster, said Sanjaya.

Search for the the missing is underway, he added.

Indonesia has been frequently stricken by landslide, floods and flash floods during heavy rains.

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Updrafts and downdrafts crops can't handle the white reindeer

Adapt 2030
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:06 UTC

Photos of the hailstorm circulated on social media.

Albino reindeer born the same week a double headed goat emerges, cows killed by hail maybe in South Africa, crops wiped out in Australia from hail. Potato shortages across the planet as we are supposed to be in the warm planet time, but losses from freezes and out of season weather seasons.

Its about the Earths connection to the Sun, our magnetosphere is weakening allowing jet streams to move out of the normal flow, yet somehow the IPCC wont consider solar activity on our global terrestrial climate system. Bending reality....................

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Thousands in need of food after locusts decimate crops in Turkana, Kenya

Barnabas Bii
All Africa
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 12:50 UTC

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An MP has appealed to the Turkana County government, national government and humanitarian agencies to hasten relief efforts for at least 250,000 people facing starvation after a devastating locust invasion.

A locust swarm invaded Turkana County in June and decimated thousands of acres of food crops and vegetation with Kibish and Turkana North sub counties the hardest hit.

"The pastoralists have no pasture for their livestock that forms main source of food after the vast vegetation was damaged by the pests. Drought resistant crops like sorghum and millet were likewise destroyed by locusts, subjecting many households to severe food shortage," said Turkana North MP Christopher Nakuleau.

The MP said herders have since migrated with their animals to lands near the Ethiopia-South Sudan border in search of pasture and water, where he said, a local militia called Toposa is mobilising to attack herders as competition for scarce resources heats up.

Lightning bolt kills 12 goats and dog in Cyprus

Evie Andreou
Cyprus Mail
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:31 UTC

Twelve goats and a dog, believed to have been struck by lightning, were found dead on Friday in the village of Salamiou in Paphos after their own believed them have gone missing or stolen.

The dead animals were located by their owner on Friday. It is believed they were struck by lightning on Tuesday, when the man had reported to the police that the animals had disappeared from Plaka locality, in Salamiou.

Officials from the state vet services who examined the animals, found they had burn injuries to their coats, caused by lightning.

Temperatures plunge to minus 40 degrees and lower in China's northeast prompting unprecedented weather warning

Alice Yan
South China Morning Post
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:30 UTC

The Chinese city of Mohe witnessed ice fog after temperatures plunged below minus 40 degrees Celsius.

The northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang has been experiencing extreme cold this week, with Mohe, the country's most northern city, recording temperatures of minus 40 degrees.

A cold front reached the province on Monday, causing temperatures in most places to drop by 12 to 20 degrees since then, state news agency Xinhua reported.

An orange warning, the second-highest warning for cold weather, was issued by Heilongjiang Meteorological Bureau on Tuesday for the whole province.

In Mohe, the temperature dropped by 22.1 degrees on Monday, prompting the weather authority to issue the city's first-ever cold weather red warning.

It was minus 41.1 degrees on Tuesday, minus 42.1 degrees on Wednesday and minus 43.5 degrees on Thursday, the Mohe authority said.

The severe weather has brought frost fogs to the city, with visibility of less than 100 metres.

Record rainfall causes severe flooding in Maldives capital

Maldives Independent
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 06:56 UTC

More than 100 homes needed assistance and two families were evacuated Wednesday as a torrential downpour flooded the streets of the capital.

The 223.5 millimetres of rain from 8am to 8pm was a record for the capital island, according to the Maldives Meteorological Services.

The previous record was 200 millimetres on December 11, 1998. The national record was 228.4 millimetres on the southernmost island of Gan on November 24, 2015.

The record rainfall in Malé caused flooding as many roads were inundated with up to two feet of water.

Soldiers and police officers were deployed to set up sandbags and operate pump stations. Volunteers from the local Red Crescent as well as scouts and girl guides joined the relief efforts along with staff from the city council and other offices.

Floodwaters caused damages in 117 homes and the National Disaster Management Centre helped relocate 20 people from two residences. Food and accommodation were arranged for the 11 adults and nine children at the Beehive Hotel.

Unexplained green light appears in sky during thunderstorm in Australia - scientists baffled

Andrew Griffin
Independent, UK
Sat, 08 Dec 2018 13:24 UTC

A strange green light flashing across the sky has baffled local residents and led one expert to say he had seen nothing like it before.

The video was shot in West Australia during an intense thunderstorm. As local resident Leigh Stevens looked on, a strange green light - accompanied by an equally unexplained sound - flashed bright across the sky.

"WTF is that," Stephens wrote. "Taken last night during electrical storm from our back yard."

And experts agreed that the phenomenon was like nothing they had seen before, according to the West Australian, which reported on the strange video.

"It's not something we've ever seen before," Neil Bennett from the Bureau of Meteorology said, according to the newspaper. "We don't think it (the green light) is part of the thunderstorm, we think it's a reflection of something on the ground, rather than coming from the clouds."

The story behind the incredible optical phenomenon photographed in New Hampshire

Matthew Cappucci
The Washington Posts
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 21:54 UTC

Thursday update: Newly obtained photo shows off additional dramatic sky phenomena

After posting the original version of the story, Alex Kotzias wrote in with this incredible photo taken from Cannon Mountain's chairlift. The portrait-mode photo captures two more halo phenomena that were high up out of view in the original photograph: a superlateral arc and a circumzenithal arc. The former curves downwards, while the latter opens up like a bowl. Circumzenithal arcs look like upside-down rainbows wrapping around an imaginary point straight above.

That brings the total number of atmosphere phenomena in Franconia Notch on Saturday to nine! Part of the reason? Diamond dust. Kotzias' photo confirms the presence of tiny ice crystals floating around in the air at ground level. That's what those shimmering white sparkles are. The ice crystal overload means the 22-degree ring can even appear to shimmer down on the ground! And like a diamond, the resulting colors were truly priceless.

North America just had its most extensive November snow cover in at least a half-century

Jonathan Erdman
The Weather Channel
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 15:54 UTC

© Rutgers University Global Snow Lab
Plot of North America November snow cover anomalies from 1966 through 2018. November 2018's record snow cover extent was roughly 1.4 million square miles above the average from 1981 through 2010.

November 2018's North America snow cover set a record for any autumn month in the satellite era.

Last November's average snow cover across North America was an estimated 5.24 million square miles, topping the previous November record of 5.11 million square miles in 2014, according to data from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab (GSL) dating to 1966.

This extent of snow cover was about 861,000 square miles larger than average, over three times the size of Texas.

Only the remaining 10% of The Great Jab lottery are supposed to go through the "cold, dark winter".

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Landslide buries four people in East Java's Pacitan district after torrential rain

5 killed as landslide strikes Indonesia's Bali after heavy downpour

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Updrafts and downdrafts crops can't handle the white reindeer

Thousands in need of food after locusts decimate crops in Turkana, Kenya

Lightning bolt kills 12 goats and dog in Cyprus

Temperatures plunge to minus 40 degrees and lower in China's northeast prompting unprecedented weather warning

Record rainfall causes severe flooding in Maldives capital

Unexplained green light appears in sky during thunderstorm in Australia - scientists baffled

The story behind the incredible optical phenomenon photographed in New Hampshire

North America just had its most extensive November snow cover in at least a half-century

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