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Wild weather slams New South Wales, Australia: Flash-floods, towns evacuated, dams on the brink

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A rain bomb is slowly pushing down the NSW coastline, leaving a trail of flash floods and destruction in its wake.

Multiple warnings and evacuation orders are still in place for the NSW mid-north coast amid fears of record flood levels and overflowing levees, with authorities warning the situation could be life-threatening.

Sydney is next in line with some areas predicted to cop more than 150 millimetres of rain on Saturday.

Sydney's waterways are set to become danger zones, with up to four times as much rain from today predicted to fall in the next 24 hours.

Warragamba dam is expected to overflow at the weekend, as the deluge of rain expands from the worst-hit NSW Mid North Coast, to further south including the Hunter Region, Sydney and Illawarra.


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Snowstorm hits Murmansk, Russia

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Snow piles buried cars and streets! Snow storm hits Murmansk, Russia.


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Snow falls on coldest day in Fallas, Spain since 1939 - temperature drops OVER 20ºC in 24 hours

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Snowfall was recorded yesterday in the region in what forecasters have recorded as the coldest day in a Fallas week since 1939.

Temperatures inland fell over 20ºC in 24 hours, resulting in snowfall in parts of Alicante region. Alcoi recorded temperatures just above freezing.

l'Alcoià and El Comtat reported snowfall, with a dusting of the white stuff across the area as well as in the regions mountains.

In an update issued by meteorological agency Aemet, they went on to say that the last time temperatures fell so fast was back in 1939.


Cloud Precipitation

Severe flash floods in Luanda, Angola kill at least 4 people and 3 missing

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© Lusa
Severe flash floods triggered by heavy rain affected areas of Luanda Province, Angola from 16 March 2021.

National Civil Protection and Fire Service quoted by local media said at least 4 people died and 3 people were missing.

Flood waters swept through central parts of the city causing widespread traffic disruption. As many as 554 homes were damaged in districts surrounding the city, including Viana, Cacuaco, Talatona and Belas. Authorities said 1,770 residents have been affected.


Blue Planet

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Global deserts green as Africa's new crop grow zone emerges

Greening Sahara desert
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
New report from NASA shows the Sahara Desert has shrunk by 8% in the last 30 years turning greener, right in the exact areas that will be the worlds new agricultural growing zone. Now the conflict for control over the dams and electricity to power East Africa and the cryptocurrency stable coins that go along with that to build out the new agriculture areas.


Comment: As the Sahara Desert shrinks by a whopping 8%, since 2015 Europe is suffering the worst droughts in two thousand years.


Snowflake

Snow accumulates as blizzard conditions hit Texas Panhandle in mid-March

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Blizzard conditions arrived in the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, March 17, bringing wind gusts up to 60 mph and greatly reduced visibility.

Footage shared by Amarillo-based meteorologist Corbin A Voges shows the snowy conditions on Wednesday morning.

"Crazy weather! We made it to 76° yesterday afternoon and we are accumulating snow just 15 hours later!" Voges wrote in a tweet.

The NWS reported downed power lines and stranded cars on highways as near-whiteout conditions struck some areas.


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Tornado damages homes in Choctaw County, Alabama

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A tornado touched down in Choctaw County in the town of Silas, Alabama.

Around 4 pm Wednesday, the tornado hit causing damage to the area. Choctaw County Sheriff Scott Lolley reported there are no deaths or injuries from the tornado but there are a lot of trees and roof damage on the South end of the city.

Medford Taylor a resident of Silas talked about when the storm came through his back yard.

"The wind got pretty strong," Taylor said. "I was in the house by myself watching out the back window and saw it come through the backyard. It didn't hurt the house that much, but it tore all my trees down."

Five homes in the Silas area have reported damage so far.


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Onlookers stunned by sight of 'snow tornado' in Big Sky, Montana

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A group of individuals were treated to the unusual sight of a snow devil whizzing across a snow-covered slope, footage captured by one onlooker shows.

Matt Eichelberger, who captured the footage, told Storyful that his encounter with the meteorological phenomenon occurred on March 16 during a trip to Big Sky, Montana.


Credit: Matt Eichelberger via Storyful

Windsock

Tuesday's 200-mile-wide dust storm brought 64 mph winds to El Paso, Texas

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The sky turned beige and the wind roared Tuesday as a dust storm roughly 200 miles wide engulfed El Paso and neighboring regions as it lumbered toward northeastern New Mexico and other parts of Texas.

The storm's winds reached upwards of 60 mph in East-Central El Paso, where the weather station at the El Paso International Airport recorded a high of 64 mph gusts, according to Joe Delizio, a meteorologist with National Weather Service El Paso.

"Inside the city, but a little bit to the east, we had stronger winds," Delizio said, explaining there were wind gusts "in the 60s and 70s east of the mountain range."


Arrow Down

Skier killed by avalanche in Val d'Aosta, Italy

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A skier was killed by an avalanche in Val d'Aosta on Wednesday, local sources said.

The avalanche happened in the Flassin area, in the Gran San Bernardo Valley, about 1,800 metres up.

The victim was going down a gully with a companion who witnessed the accident.

There was another group of three skiers in the vicinity who were not hit by the avalanche.