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Southern Europe flooding update: Evacuations in Macedonia and Turkey

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:11 UTC
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© Strshlen
Widespread flooding in in Macedonia. , Krivogaštani Municipality is a municipality in western Republic of Macedonia.
The heavy rain that swept across southern Europe over the last few days has left 100,000 people in the Republic of Macedonia affected by flooding.

The worst affected areas are the southern, southeastern, southwestern, and central parts of the country.

Agricultural land, electrical infrastructure, roads, and a large number of homes have been severely affected.

As local government officials work to mitigate the immediate damage, World Health Organisation experts are working closely with the national health authorities to determine the support the country needs.

In a statement today, WHO said:
WHO/Europe has joined national disaster response officials in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to respond to the floods that have affected a large population of the country. Experts from WHO and national authorities took stock of the situation at a crisis operations meeting in Kocani city, located in the eastern part of the country.
Albania, Bulgaria and Greece, as well as Macedonia have all been affected by the flooding, which first struck over the weekend of 31 January 2015.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills 7 family members in Zimbabwe

Tatenda Chitagu
NewsDay
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:11 UTC
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National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba in a statement yesterday identified the deceased as Marian Nebvuma (32), her children Fadzai (11) and Gloria Chenjerai (5); and four other family members, namely Claudia (4) and Crywind Mugwinyi (6), Odrey Masunda (4) and Esther Muchagara (5).

Charamba said Marian was in her bedroom hut while the rest of the family were in the kitchen hut when both huts went ablaze and trapped them inside.

She said the victims' charred remains had since been taken to the Silveira Mission Hospital mortuary while burial arrangements were yet to be announced.

The incident happened at around 5pm during a heavy downpour in Mugwinyi village.
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Ice Cube

New Brunswick braces for fourth snow storm in a week; state of emergency declared in Saint John


The Globe and Mail
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 11:38 UTC
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© Dan Culberson for The Globe and Mail
New Brunswick is bracing for another blast of snow after being battered by a third storm in less than a week.

A local state of emergency has been declared in the southern peninsula of Saint John, whose streets are piled high with snow. Environment Canada says more snow is expected to begin Wednesday night in some areas of New Brunswick and will continue well into Thursday.

Snow vs. Snow: How high is it?

So far this year, Saint John has seen more than 160 centimetres of snow. Normally, Saint John has 15 to 20 centimetres accumlated at this time of year. Environment Canada meteorologist Claude Cote said Wednesday night's incoming system could bring 15 to 25 more centimetres to the city.

For some perspective on how much snow that is: Here's how Saint John's recent snowfall compares with one of the city's most famous sons, actor Donald Sutherland. Recently renowned for playing President Coriolanus Snow in the Hunger Games film franchise, Mr. Sutherland is 6-foot-4, yet his hometown's piles of snow would nearly bury him.

Saint John's snowfall is also formidable when compared with the rest of Canada, parts of which saw less snow in a month than Atlantic Canada has seen in three days.

Atlantic Canada's snowy week
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Saint John

Mayor Mel Norton says it was the first time in almost three decades that the city declared a state of emergency, which allows the city to ban on-street parking.

He says the state of emergency will be in effect for up to a week in the city's southern peninsula.

Comment: Listen to SOTT's interview with the authors of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, for an in depth look at the crazy weather we are having here on the planet and the possible human connections.

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Snowflake

Record-breaking 113cm of snowfall in Luleå, Sweden


thelocal.se
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:42 UTC
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© TT
Luleå resident Anitha Andesson enjoying the record snowfall.
The people of Luleå in northern Sweden are used to white winters, but this Tuesday the snowfall hit new heights - or new depths - breaking a record set almost 50 years ago.

As snow continued to fall across Sweden, an impressive snowfall was measured at Luleå airport on Tuesday morning, breaking the town's previous record of 111 cm in 1966.

"This has happened very fast. On January 28th they had 56 cm. In a week they have doubled their snow depth," Alexandra Ohlsson, a meteorologist at SMHI, told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
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Cloud Lightning

Electric Universe: Two 'rare' observations of red sprites over South America - a few days apart

Jason Major
Universe Today
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 18:06 UTC
Red sprites
© P. Horálek/ESO
Red sprites (right) captured from ESO’s VLT platform by Petr Horálek.
At the ESO's observatories located high in the Atacama Desert of Chile, amazing images of distant objects in the Universe are captured on a regular basis. But in January 2015, ESO photo ambassador Petr Horálek captured some amazing photos of much closer phenomena: red sprites flashing in the atmosphere high above distant thunderstorms.

The photo above was captured from ESO's Paranal Observatory. A few days earlier during the early morning hours of Jan. 20 Petr captured another series of sprites from the La Silla site, generated by a storm over Argentina over 310 miles (500 km) away.

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Sprites spotted from ESO’s La Silla observatory by Petr Horálek (left horizon)
So-named because of their elusive nature, sprites appear as clusters of red tendrils above a lighting flash, often extending as high as 55 miles (90 km) into the atmosphere. The brightest region of a sprite is typically seen at altitudes of over 40-45 miles (65-75 km).

Because they occur high above large storms, only last for fractions of a second and emit light in the portion of the spectrum to which our eyes are the least sensitive, observing sprites is notoriously difficult.
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Wolf

Pit bull terrier savages its female owner in Moturoa, New Zealand

Michelle Ong and Helen Harvey
stuff.co.nz
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:21 UTC
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New Plymouth animal control officers capture a dog after another dog was shot for attacking its owner.
A police officer shot a pit bull dog as it savaged its female owner in her suburban backyard yesterday.

The woman underwent surgery at Taranaki Base Hospital yesterday for lacerations to her face and arms.

A family spokesman said the woman was not only distressed about what happened to her, but was equally upset at what had happened to her dogs.

Two other dogs were not involved in the attack but were taken away by New Plymouth District Council animal control officers. Their fate was uncertain last night.
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Attention

Dead whale washes ashore on the Maldives


vnews.mv
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:20 UTC
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© Mohamed Shan
The dead whale that washed on Hulhumale' shore, last night
A dead whale, approximately 70 feet in length, has washed ashore, in the beach area connecting Hulhumale' and Hulhule.

Of a species of found in Maldivian waters, the corpse was rotten and damaged.

While it measures approximately 70-75 feet, discussions are now underway by HDC and the Police whether to bury the corpse or to take it out to open waters, as it lies at the East of Hulhumale'.

Some elderly people who have gathered to witness the event said that this is a sperm whale (the type of whale that produces ambergris). A number of people are now gathering at the beach to take a look at the whale.

Although the area where the whale has been washed ashore is not inhabited, the odor of the rotten corpse is now strong in the area.
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Attention

Thousands of dead starfish found on Pensarn beach in Wales

Suzanne Jordan
newsnorthwales.co.uk
Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:28 UTC
Thousands of of dead starfish have washed up on a beach in Abergele after a period of stormy weather.

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Shocked amateur photographer, Gordon McGookin, initially thought that Pensarn beach was covered in rubbish when he went out for a walk on Sunday.

On a closer inspection, he discovered thousands of starfish and razor clams spread out across 500 metres of sand.

Mr McGookin, aged 39 who lives in Pensarn, said: "I try to get out each day usually walking on the beach. It was Sunday when I spied them, just after the tide had gone out.

"There was thousands of them. I have never seen anything like it before. I was a bit concerned but I guess the recent rough sea and high tides over the last week or two was probably the cause."

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Attention

3,000 waterbirds die at Walker Lake, Nevada

Jeff DeLong
Reno Gazette-Journal
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:14 UTC
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© Reno Gazette-Journal
Canvasback ducks enjoy the water at Walker Lake. Thousands of ducks and other birds have died from an outbreak of avian cholera at the lake.
Thousands of birds have died at Walker Lake from a disease experts say hasn't made an appearance in Nevada in decades.

An estimated 3,000 birds - most of them American coots and ducks - have died in an outbreak of avian cholera since early December in an event that still is unfolding. As many as 10 percent of Walker Lake's ducks may have died.

"It is still an ongoing outbreak," said Peregrine Wolff, veterinarian for the Nevada Department of Wildlife.

The event marks the first time for an outbreak of avian cholera in Nevada since the 1980s, Wolff said.

The highly infectious and quick-killing disease is unrelated to the avian flu that has spread among waterfowl in neighboring states and which experts said last Friday was found in a duck in Nevada's Lincoln County late in January. Avian cholera poses no threat to people or dogs.
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Pineapple

'Pineapple Express' organizing for heavy rain in California - as much as 20 inches in some areas

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Mon, 02 Feb 2015 02:41 UTC
WUWT contributor Dr. Ryan Maue writes on his Twitter feed:
Can't ask for better setup for enormous rainfall totals over NorCal & now linto Bay Area in 5+ days
Looking at the model output below, I tend to agree, if the pattern holds. It sets up Northern California for the perfect orographic lifting enhancement in the Sierra Nevada mountain range that will not only provide a bounty of liquid precipitation, but a significant boost to the well below normal California snowpack.
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Most or northern California will get some benefit from this "super soaker" storm:

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The Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts show some parts of Northern Calfornia getting as much as 20″, along with many mountain areas getting 5″ or more.

Comment: There have been reports of flooding all over the world in the past month. Is California next? See the map below for flooding reported in the month of January of this year.



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