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From summer drought to a rainy harvest, Alberta weather has dealt farmers a tough hand

CBC News
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:46 UTC

The summer drought created lower yields for Alberta farmers, who are now racing against the clock to get their crops off the field.

© Shannon VanRaes/Bloomberg
The summer drought created lower yields for Alberta farmers, who are now racing against the clock to get their crops off the field.

When Alberta farmers needed rain, the weather was dry as a bone.

Now that harvest season has arrived and they need dry weather, the sky has brought forth showers.

"(Crops) are considerably less than what they would be on a normal year," Christi Friesen, who has a grain farm near Peace River, Alta., told CBC's Edmonton AM on Wednesday.

Friesen grows canola, barley, oats and wheat. Because of the drought that persisted through the summer, some of her crops yielded less than 25 per cent of normal, she said.

Barley, for example, normally comes in at more than 100 bushels per acre. "We're lucky to hit 30 this year," she said.

Early snowfall at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

Yahoo! News
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:45 UTC

The first snow of the season dusted mountains in southern Oregon's Crater Lake National Park on Saturday, September 18, park officials said.

"Visitors were treated to dramatic skies and ever-changing shades of blue on the lake to go along with brisk gusty winds," Crater Lake National Park wrote on Facebook Sunday morning. "Today's forecast is for one more day of glorious rain and snow."

Lava shoots up from volcano on La Palma in Spanish Canary Islands

Borja Suarez
Metro (US)
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 15:42 UTC

Lava and smoke are seen followng the eruption of a volcano in Spain

Lava and smoke are seen following the eruption of a volcano in Spain

A volcano erupted on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma on Sunday, sending fountains of lava and a plume of smoke and ash into the air from the Cumbre Vieja national park in the south of the island.

Authorities had already begun evacuating the infirm and some farm animals from the surrounding villages before the eruption, which took place on a wooded slope in the Cabeza de Vaca area at 3:15 p.m. (1415 GMT), according to the islands' government.

Immediately after the eruption, the municipality urged residents in a statement to "exercise extreme caution", and stay away from the area and off the roads.

The population of nearby villages were told to go to one of five centres to be evacuated, and soldiers were deployed to help.

Iceland's volcanic eruption the longest in half a century

PHYS.ORG
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:57 UTC

The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19

It will be six months on Sunday that the volcanic eruption currently mesmerising spectators near Reykjavik first began, making it the longest Iceland has witnessed in more than 50 years.

The first lava began spewing out of a fissure close to Mount Fagradalsfjall on the evening of March 19 on the Reykjanes peninsula to the southwest of Reykjavik.

And the ensuing spectacle—ranging from just a slow trickle of lava at times to more dramatic geyser-like spurts of rocks and stones at others—has become a major tourist attraction, drawing 300,000 visitors so far, according to the Iceland Tourist Board.

Iceland's sixth volcanic eruption in 20 years is already longer than the preceding one in Holuhraun, in the centre-east of the island, which lasted from the end of August 2014 until the end of February 2015.

Early snowfall in the Alps on 19 September

Sciare che Passione - Skimania.it
YouTube
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:11 UTC

Webcam Cervinia - Matterhorn

First snow ❄️ in the alps 19/9/21, Cervinia, Pila and Val Thorens.

US Wildfires: World's largest tree wrapped in protective blanket in Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest

ITV
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:32 UTC

World's largest tree wrapped in fire-resistant blanket due to wildfire fears

Firefighters are attempting to save the world's largest tree from wildfires in the US by wrapping it in aluminium foil and starting their own fires to burn away flammable material.

The famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias is under threat from wildfires burning in California's rugged Sierra Nevada.

The world's largest tree by volume, The General Sherman, in Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest, was wrapped in protection against the possibility of intense flames.

Several key buildings and other sequoias were also wrapped.

The aluminium wrapping can withstand intensive heat for short periods.

10 dogs attack, kill three-year-old in Nigeria, outraged residents shoot them all

TOPE OMOGBOLAGUN and TONY OKAFOR
Punch
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:53 UTC

Ten dogs belonging to the Proprietor of Global Growth Academy, Amokpo, Umuanunwa, Nteje in the Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State have reportedly pounced on and killed a three-year-old child on the school premises.

The incident was said to have happened around 7.10am on Wednesday, September 15, when the victim, identified as Obinna Ude, was taken to the school by his uncle, Chima Ude, for enrollment.

According to a resident of the community, the three-year-old strayed off while his uncle was filling forms and perfecting the enrollment documentation.

The 10 dogs, on sighting the child, broke out of their cage, pounced on the boy and mauled him.

Alabama streets flooded amid severe weather - 4.7 inches of rain in 24 hours

AccuWeather
Sat, 18 Sep 2021 10:13 UTC

Streets in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, were flooded on

Streets and yards in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, were filled with flood water on Saturday when Tuscaloosa County was under a flash flood warning, which occurs when flash flooding is either eminent or already occurring.

Several cars were stuck in the flood water after trying to drive through it, according to the Tuscaloosa County Emergency Management Agency. One person was trapped in their car, the agency reported.

The University of Alabama also reported via social media that the campus had experienced some flooding and warned drivers to avoid campus. By 3 p.m., however, the university announced that all streets on campus were cleared but still warned drivers to be cautious, as more rain throughout the evening could potentially lead to more flooding.

Flood waters were so deep on some streets that residents were even able to swim in it, as one resident in the area captured a video of and shared to Twitter. The Willowbrook Trailer Park in Northport, Alabama, was also flooded.

Man dies after attack by dogs in Kashmir, India

Kashmir Images
Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:47 UTC

A 33-year-old man from Sopore, who was grievously injured in a canine attack some 12 days ago, succumbed at home Saturday evening.

Reports said the victim Shabir Ahmad Dar, son of Ali Mohammad Dar, a resident of Sangrampora in Sopore, was attacked by dogs at Main chowk Sopore on September 06, 2021.

He was brought to SMHS Hospital in Srinagar from SDH Sopore. After treatment, he was discharged from the hospital. However, today evening he succumbed to his injuries, locals said.

'Surprising' and 'statistically significant' cooling trend over Continental Antarctica

P Gosselin
NoTricksZone
Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:30 UTC

East Antarctica, which covers two thirds of the South Pole, has cooled a whopping 2.8°C over the past 4 decades; West Antarctica approximately 1.6°C. ..only tiny Antarctic Peninsula saw statistically insignificant warming.

German climate website Die kalte Sonne posted its 64th climate video here and examined a new paper on Antarctica by Zhu et al (2021): "An Assessment of ERA5 Reanalysis for Antarctic Near-Surface Air Temperature"

The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) released its latest ERA5 reanalysis dataset in 2017 and Zhu and his researchers compared the near-surface temperature data from ERA5 and ERA-Interim with the measured data from 41 weather stations.

They found that the temperature trend from ERA5 is consistent with that from observations. The result: a cooling trend dominates East Antarctica and West Antarctica while a warming trend exists in the Antarctic Peninsula. Note that the regions of east and West Antarctica combined are vastly larger than the tiny Antarctic Peninsula.

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Earth Changes

From summer drought to a rainy harvest, Alberta weather has dealt farmers a tough hand

Early snowfall at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

Lava shoots up from volcano on La Palma in Spanish Canary Islands

Iceland's volcanic eruption the longest in half a century

Early snowfall in the Alps on 19 September

US Wildfires: World's largest tree wrapped in protective blanket in Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest

10 dogs attack, kill three-year-old in Nigeria, outraged residents shoot them all

Alabama streets flooded amid severe weather - 4.7 inches of rain in 24 hours

Man dies after attack by dogs in Kashmir, India

'Surprising' and 'statistically significant' cooling trend over Continental Antarctica

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