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Snowfalls of 10-20cm (around 4-8 inches) were reported in the region's capital Urumqi and the cities of Shihezi and Changji on Saturday.
Residents found the surface of the snow was covered with a layer of dust but white underneath, a phenomenon some compared with tiramisu.
"Since last Friday, many places in Xinjiang have been hit by gales measured at force seven or above," He Qing, director of the Xinjiang Meteorological Administration, told the Xinhua news agency.
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Government personnel in Karo regency clean debris from a landslide that hit a hot springs resort in Semangat Gunung village on Sunday.
Government personnel in Karo regency clean debris from a landslide that hit a hot springs resort in Semangat Gunung village on Sunday.
The bodies of all the victims were moved to Amanda Hospital in Berastagi, Karo, where seven of the injured students are also being treated. The remaining two injured students were sent to Efarina Hospital.
Karo Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) head Martin Sitepu said five of the seven deceased victims had been identified. They were Emelita Ginting, Mones, Emiya Tarigan, Sartika Teresia Pinem and Sindy Simamora. All were students of Prima Indonesia University (Unpri) in Medan.
Martin said the 16 students were spending the night at the Daun Paris Raja Berneh hot springs resort when part of a cliff in the area collapsed at about 6 a.m. local time following heavy downpour in the region the night before.
JEA said the car was spinning around in circles in the sinkhole when they arrived at the scene.
The driver wasn't hurt, but was shaken up.
"Next thing I know I just heard something go 'bam,' and the car just went up and under and started spinning," Tyrone Oakes said.
He said he climbed out of the driver's seat and on top of his car until the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department was able to pull him out of the hole.
"I was sitting on top of my car. They handed me the lifeline long pole, told me to jump, when I jumped I didn't feel the bottom," he said.
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Flash flooding in Yabu, Madinah on November 30, 2018.
Flash flooding in Yabu, Madinah on November 30, 2018.
Civil defense teams have been deployed in preparation to respond to any flooding.
Heavy rain has caused flooding across the Kingdom in recent weeks with a number of fatalities and disruption for transport.
The General Authority of Meteorology and Environmental Protection said Friday further torrential rain was forecast for several regions of the Kingdom.
They include Tabuk, Madinah and its coastal areas, Al-Jouf, the Northern Border Region and Hail. Thunderstorms are also expected in the Makkah area, including its coastal areas, as well as in the southwestern highlands.
Maj. Abdulaziz bin Farhan Al-Shammari, a civil defense spokesman in Tabuk, said they were working on clearing recent floodwaters in inundated areas, valleys and coastlines throughout the province.
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Seismic signals originating off the coast of the small French island of Mayott were detected at seismology station ranging from Chile to New Zealand.
Seismic signals originating off the coast of the small French island of Mayott were detected at seismology station ranging from Chile to New Zealand.
Snowfall totals across New York and New England have surpassed one to two feet in many areas, while some places in ski country and the snowbelts off the Great Lakes are pushing three to four feet or more.
This record and near-record November snowfall has been caused by the same general weather pattern that led to record rainfall in parts of the Mid-Atlantic into eastern New England. Basically, storm systems keep on coming, riding along the jet stream that has parked itself over the region.
In addition to a stream of coastal storms this cold season, other low-pressure systems have kept the precipitation coming, as well. There have now been eight significant low-pressure systems affecting the eastern United States over the past month:
Tiakur, Tanimbar Islands
A deep 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck in eastern Indonesia Saturday night, US seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued.
The quake hit in the sea in southwest Indonesia, about 130 kilometres (80 miles northeast of the city Tiakur at 10:27 pm (0127 GMT), at a depth of 140 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey.
The national disaster agency said the quake was felt weakly in Tiakur for about three to five seconds.
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One of two pilot whale carcasses found washed up near Mallacoota on Thursday in the second whale beaching in Victoria's east this week.
One of two pilot whale carcasses found washed up near Mallacoota on Thursday in the second whale beaching in Victoria's east this week.
The two whale carcasses, one of which is up to 6 metres long, were found on Thursday washed up on Big Beach, east of Mallacoota.
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and Parks Victoria has responded.
The discovery comes after 27 pilot whales and one humpback whale were found beached on Rame Head beach at Croajingolong National Park two days ago.
Flash floods wash away cars in Turkish holiday resort of Bodrum
Heavy rainfall swept cars down the streets and left them either submerged or stacked. The downpour was preceded by a waterspout, seen to form under a thunderstorm and drift towards the beach. The following rain went on into the night.
Bodrum Mayor Mehmet Kocadon emphasised that citizens were warned in advance of the heavy rain risk: "It was a very interesting situation. It was like a monsoon rain. ... There are a lot of floods. Bodrum centre, there is a great disaster around. Bodrum is currently experiencing a historical disaster."
Comment: Elsewhere in the same country two days earlier: Record rainfall hits Turkish city of Edirne, one dead
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