Typhoon Kammuri
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Typhoon Kammuri
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The storm arrived in the region late Saturday but ramped up on Sunday, which led to broken records and disastrous travel conditions.
"A typical nor'easter will produce accumulating snow for 10 to 16 hours in any one spot, but this one caused accumulating snow over a large area for more than 24 hours. In parts of New England, it ended up being about 36 hours," AccuWeather Meteorologist Dave Bowers said.
Only one arm and a leg were left intact from 66-year-old Sergey Fadeyev's ravaged body, according to reports.
The 16st beast - which had failed to hibernate for the cold winter - covered the man's ravaged remains with a blanket after its gruesome feast, evidently aiming to come back later, according to locals.
The bear broke in by smashing a window in his house in Irkutsk region of Siberia where temperatures were as low as -45C.
The predator was later found and shot by local hunters, say reports.
San Juan native Pablo Collazo Cortes captured this footage of the weather event, which was spotted by other locals on the same date.
Collazo Cortes told Storyful he took the video as he was walking along the beach. "A waterspout began to form west of where I was, off the coast of the Pinones sector in the municipality of Loiza," he said.
He initially spotted a "first waterspout" that "did not have a complete formation, falling apart in a short time." However, soon after, "the second, much more defined waterspout" was formed, Collazo Cortes told Storyful.
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Families are evacuated after their houses were flooded in Kisumu, Kenya on Dec. 3.
Families are evacuated after their houses were flooded in Kisumu, Kenya on Dec. 3.
Around 17,000 were displaced and 11,000 livestock swept away by strong waters, government's spokesman Cyrus Oguna said. More than half of the country has been affected, according to Oguna.
The rains have helped alleviate the drought conditions across the country that caused a food shortage and added to inflationary pressures, but have damaged infrastructure and farmland. Authorities are assessing the extent of destruction as they plan repairs, according to Oguna.
The rains are above the average amounts recorded in past years, with some areas receiving as much as three their historical average, Kenya Meteorological Department Deputy Director Bernard Chanzu said by phone. The rains are expected to continue through December.
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200,000 people in coastal and mountainous areas have been evacuated
200,000 people in coastal and mountainous areas have been evacuated
At least 200,000 residents have been evacuated from coastal and mountainous areas over fears of flooding, storm surges and landslides.
Some events at the Southeast Asian Games, which opened on Saturday, have been cancelled or re-scheduled.
Operations at Manila airport were suspended for 12 hours starting 11:00 on Tuesday (03:00 GMT).
One Canadian traveller who arrived in Manila from the central island of Cebu on Monday said it was "the most turbulent flight" she ever took.
"I just discovered what airsickness is," Constance Benoit, 23, told the AFP news agency.
Typhoon Kammuri, locally named Tisoy, made landfall in Sorsogon province, and is said to have sustained winds of up to 155km/h (96mph), with gusts of up to 235km/h.
Storm surges of up to three metres (nearly 10ft) are expected, the weather service said
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Typhoon Kammuri swept through the Philippines on Tuesday, ripping rooftops from houses, knocking down power lines and leaving a half-million people huddled in evacuation centers, waiting for the storm to pass. At least 17 people were killed.
Manila's international airport was closed for 12 hours during the storm, resulting in the cancellation of nearly 500 flights. Officials suspended marine traffic in affected areas as Kammuri, packing wind gusts as high as 150 miles per hour, battered the Philippine archipelago for a second day.
By early Wednesday the storm had weakened slightly, officials said, but heavy rainfall was expected to continue. Officials had feared that flooding could deluge Manila, the capital, and its surrounding areas, home to more than 10 million people.
In Albay, a province in southeastern Luzon, the largest and most populous Philippine island, Gov. Al Francis Bichara said fierce winds had caused more damage than the rain.
"Right now there's no electricity, the cables had fallen, but it's calm now," he said, speaking to a Manila radio station.
The army, the police force and emergency service workers were helping to clear roads of debris, said Claudio Yucot, a regional director for civil defense.
Sierra snowpack
A winter storm warning that was in place most of the holiday weekend expired at 10 a.m. Monday. But chain controls remained in effect on most mountain passes, including U.S. Inter-state 80 from Truckee to Kingvale, California.
The weather service reported 29 inches of snow fell at Northstar California ski resort near Truckee over the past 24 hours for a total of 73 inches in a week. Squaw Valley near Tahoe City recorded 28 inches of new snow for a seven-day total of 75 inches.
Christian breaks down what the 2019 flooding has already implied, and asks -- what can we expect from #NoPlant20 ?
Also, farmers are taking tractors into the streets around the world -- but why not in the US? The war on food continues, as banks/credit cards start breaking down your grocery bill by carbon footprint. Are you growing your own food yet? It's time.
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The wall collapsed on houses, killing 17 people in Nadur in Mettupalayam
The wall collapsed on houses, killing 17 people in Nadur in Mettupalayam
The worst affected areas are in the state of Tamil Nadu. Neighbouring Pudducherry and parts of Karnataka state including Bangalore (Bengaluru) have also seen heavy rain. India's Meteorological Department has forecast further rain over the coming days.
In Tamil Nadu, 17 people died after a wall collapsed on a row of houses in Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district late on 01 December, 2019. Tamil Nadu State Disaster Management Authority said 180.3mm of rain fell in 24 hours to 02 December in Mettupalayam.
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