Earth Changes

Sudan floods: Nile water level threatens ancient pyramids as three-month state of emergency declared

BBC News
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:32 UTC

The authorities in Sudan are trying to protect the country's ancient pyramids from flooding as heavy rains have caused the nearby River Nile to reach record-breaking levels.

They have built sandbag walls and are pumping out water, archaeologist Marc Maillot is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.

The site is home to a host of ruins more than 2,300 years old.

Countrywide, floods have killed nearly 100 people and made thousands homeless.

The Nile regularly bursts its banks and farmers rely on the floodwaters to create fertile land, but the extent of this year's flooding is very unusual.

"The floods had never affected the site before," Mr Maillot is quoted as saying.

"The situation is currently under control, but if the level of the Nile continues to rise, the measures taken may not be sufficient."

Comment: South Sudan - 600,000 displaced by floods since July, says UN

Gigantic Jet lightning and sprite halo recorded over Puerto Rico

Spaceweather.com
Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:10 UTC

Tropical waves may not be the biggest storms in the Caribbean, but they produce some of the biggest lightning. On Sept. 5th, Frankie Lucena pointed his video camera at a tropical wave passing just south of Puerto Rico, and this is what he saw.

"I recorded some very impressive Gigantic Jet lightning events and clusters of sprites," he says. "They were huge."

For years, Lucena has been watching sprites and Gigantic Jets leap up from passing storms. Interestingly, he says, weaker systems often produce the strongest upward-directed lightning. "Based on my observations so far, I would say that intensifying tropical waves have the most sprites. Often these systems go on to become hurricanes."

Gigantic Jet lightning and a Sprite Halo from Frankie on Vimeo.

Comment: Last month a rare Type II Gigantic Jet event was recorded over Tropical Storm Laura.

Temperatures plunge by 60 degrees in under 24 hours, bringing snow to Colorado, Montana and Wyoming

ABC News
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:38 UTC

Summer came to an abrupt halt in parts of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday as temperatures reaching into the 90s plunged by around 60 degrees in less than 24 hours, with a powerful surge of cold air from Canada unleashing snow and damaging winds in several states.

The roller coaster weather ripped up trees by their roots, piled up snow that shut down parts of the scenic road through Glacier National Park and knocked out power to tens of thousands. But the temperature drop gave some relief to crews fighting wildfires in Colorado and Montana that had ballooned in hot, windy weather and forced people to flee their homes.

Heat and strong winds also hit California and parts of the Pacific Northwest over the holiday weekend, triggering destructive wildfires.

Snow fell in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, where portions of Interstate 80 closed and forecasters predicted up to a foot in the mountains and temperatures in the teens overnight.

Comment: View videos for Montana: Powerful early snow storm hits parts of Montana on Labor Day

Heavy snowfall has also struck the Black Hills in South Dakota:

Powerful early snow storm hits parts of Montana on Labor Day

kttc.com
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:22 UTC

Labor Day has come and gone, and summer is over. At least, that's how it felt in Montana, when a powerful snow storm left its impact on higher elevations.

The storm forced officials to close Beartooth Pass on Monday, due to extreme conditions. Several inches of snow fell in the area, making some roads impassable.

Heavy snow also accumulated in other areas, including in the city of Red Lodge.

Lightning strikes kill at least 12 people across Jharkhand, India

Sanjoy Dey
Hindustan Times
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 18:34 UTC

Lightning strikes in Jharkhand have killed at least 12 people in eight districts of the state on Monday while torrential rain left many places waterlogged, officials said on Tuesday.

The state disaster management department officials said they were verifying the total death reports so that compensation could be paid to the next of kin of those killed. The Jharkhand government gives Rs 4 lakh to the family of a person killed by lightning.

Three persons were killed after being struck by lightning in Giridih district on Monday afternoon. Giridih police said a 60-year-old woman, who went to bring water from a well in Devri area, died due to lightning strike while a 25-year-old youth and 16-year-old boy were killed in Saria and Birni in the district.

Comment: On the same day a strike killed a young boy in the state of Jharkhand while a day earlier strikes killed 2 farmers and injured 6 others in Maharashtra, a bolt killed two old men in Jharkhand and another bolt caused the death of 2 boys in Andhra Pradesh. Elsewhere, lightning fatally hit 6 people in separate incidents across Sindh, Pakistan on Sept. 5 and an immigrant worker died after being hit in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 3.

Professor Nils-Axel Mörner: 'The approaching grand solar minimum and little ice age conditions'

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC

Nils-Axel Mörner is the former head of the paleogeophysics and geodynamics department at Stockholm University. He retired in 2005 and since has dedicated his days to disproving the IPPC's thermageddon nonsense while also warning of a coming Grand Solar Minimum.

Between 1997-2003, Mörner chaired an INTAS project on Geomagnetism & Climate; the project concluded that we, in the middle of the 21st century, had to be back in a new solar minimum with Little Ice Age climatic conditions.

These conclusions were quite straightforward, writes Mörner, and were included in a Special Issue of PRP: Obviously we are on our way into a new grand solar minimum. This sheds serious doubts on the issue of a continued, even accelerated, warming as proposed by the IPCC project. This quite innocent — and very true — conclusion made the publisher take the quite remarkable step to close down the entire scientific journal. This closing down gave rise to turbulence and objections within the scientific community. But it didn't stop Mörner. He kept publishing scientific works regarding the impending GSM.

Comment: See also:

Woman, 95, dies after being attacked by two pit bulls at her home in Malta

Keith Micallef
Times of Malta
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:13 UTC

A 95-year-old woman has died after she was attacked in her Msida home by two dogs belonging to her nephew, police have confirmed.

The elderly woman, identified by friends and family as Inez Galea, died in the attack on Monday afternoon.

Police said that two pit bulls owned by her nephew and kept in a yard had managed to enter the woman's groundfloor tenement on Antonio Sciortino Street.

Shocked neighbours told Times of Malta they had heard the woman screaming around the time of the attack between 3-4pm.

Her pet chihuahua dog was also mauled to death. Animal welfare officers took the two dogs away from the scene.

'Quite large' M3.3 earthquake felt across several towns in southern England

BBC
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:12 UTC

Carly Jan Smith, 31, in Dunstable, said it was "really strong" and lasted for about two seconds. Her whole room went from "side to side", she said.

The British Geological Survey said it struck just north of Leighton Buzzard.

Bedfordshire Police said there were no reports of injuries, although it had received a large number of calls.

Dr Richard Luckett, of the British Geological Survey, confirmed the quake, saying: "It was very minor on a global scale, but still quite large for the UK.

'Chance of aftershocks'

Comment: It seems our planet is shaking a lot more than usual right now:

Rare 'snake cloud' hovers close to volcano in Indonesia

LV ChanneL
YouTube
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:58 UTC

Superstitious locals worshipped a strange mass of winding clouds resembling a snake hovering close to a volcano.

The amazing 'snake cloud' was seen over the mountains in Wonosobo, Central Java, Indonesia on Friday (September 4).

The dense mass of white cloud appeared to form an elongated wave which looked like the body of a snake.

"Oh lord, please no": September snow is 'big deal' for farmers - US braces itself for record swing in temperatures

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 12:00 UTC

Snow fell for the first time this season in Colorado on Saturday, and there’s more on the way. This picture was taken on Saturday, August 29th.

© Scot Wilson
Snow fell for the first time this season in Colorado on Saturday, and there’s more on the way. This picture was taken on Saturday, August 29th.

Large parts of the United States are bracing for a violent swing in the weather, with a record-busting 16+inches of early-September snow forecast to accumulate.

"It is interesting to be working through record heat to prepare for record cold," said Claudia Ferrell, owner of Berry Patch Farms in Brighton, CO. But, as many solar physicists have long-been warning, next week's forecast serves as just another example of the swings-between-extremes brought on by the historically low solar activity we're currently receiving: Low solar activity is weakening the jet stream, reverting its usual tight ZONAL flow to more of a wavy MERIDIONAL one: this forcing FULLY explains why some northern latitudes (such as Western Canada/Alaska) are experiencing pockets of anomalous heat while the mid-latitudes (CONUS) are dealing with "blobs" of record cold — for more on the science click the links below:

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Bezel Bub

Other comets coming sooner, although not quite as big. E.g. "Leonard" this December https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2021_A1_(Leonard)

Tsidkenu

Tornadoes here in Aus too, as I reported here [Link]

Tsidkenu

Earth Changes

Sudan floods: Nile water level threatens ancient pyramids as three-month state of emergency declared

Gigantic Jet lightning and sprite halo recorded over Puerto Rico

Temperatures plunge by 60 degrees in under 24 hours, bringing snow to Colorado, Montana and Wyoming

Powerful early snow storm hits parts of Montana on Labor Day

Lightning strikes kill at least 12 people across Jharkhand, India

Professor Nils-Axel Mörner: 'The approaching grand solar minimum and little ice age conditions'

Woman, 95, dies after being attacked by two pit bulls at her home in Malta

'Quite large' M3.3 earthquake felt across several towns in southern England

Rare 'snake cloud' hovers close to volcano in Indonesia

"Oh lord, please no": September snow is 'big deal' for farmers - US braces itself for record swing in temperatures

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