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Heavy rain leads to flash floods around Singapore

Ang Qing
The Straits Times
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:58 UTC
Two people approach a stranded driver
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Two people approach a stranded driver from a house at Gambir Walk with water scoops, during heavy rain on Nov 2, 2020.
Heavy rain led to flash floods lasting for about half an hour at three locations in Singapore on Monday afternoon (Nov 2).

National water agency PUB said in a Facebook post that there were flash floods around 3pm in Upper Paya Lebar Road, Lorong Gambir and Mount Vernon Road.

It had advised people to avoid these and eight other locations, including MacPherson Road, Balestier Road and Sims Drive, as water levels and canals rose to 90 per cent due to the rain.

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Arctic sea-ice extent now greater than at nearly any time in the last 10,000 years according to 3 new studies

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:26 UTC
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Also, today's sea surface temperatures are at least 4°C colder than they were just a few thousand years ago, when the Arctic was sea-ice free for all but a couple of months a year.

Three new studies expose the lie that today's temperatures are the warmest on record.

For years scientists have been using biomarker evidence to reconstruct Arctic sea ice history. According to three new studies, modern (20th-21st century) Arctic sea ice is now at its greatest extent since the Holocene began.
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Snowflake Cold

Hello winter my cold friend


Cold Climate Change
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:40 UTC
snowy road
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The unsustainable, corrupt, and brittle man-made global warming story is unraveling. Climate maniacs predicted a snowless world years ago. However, we have reports this week that the Northern Hemisphere snow mass is already 300 gigatons above the 1982-2012 average.

This week hundreds of all-time cold records fell across North America. No heat, only frigid, deepening, and dangerous cold. The United States (Lower-48) just set its coldest temperature ever recorded this early in the season. Denver obliterated its all-time low-temperature record in weather books dating back 148 years. It is snowing in Hawaii! Winter is coming in hard and strong, with the cold reaching all the way to Mexico. For the city of Chihuahua the thermometer dropped to -1C.

"The ongoing cold is off the charts, with an air mass more typical of December or January than late October," The Washington Post admits. Arctic blast brings minus -29 degree (-33.9) cold to Montana as snow and ice plastered the central U.S., toppling records far and wide. Readings plummeted to some 40 degrees F below average for this time of year.

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Umbrella

At least 7 dead as Typhoon Goni batters Philippines


Telangana Today
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 12:40 UTC
A man looks at his flooded house in Albay province after Typhoon Goni hit the Philippines.
© Reuters
A man looks at his flooded house in Albay province after Typhoon Goni hit the Philippines.
The strongest typhoon of the year also triggered deadly landslides that buried a number of houses in the southern part of the most populous island of Luzon, officials said.

At least seven people were killed as Typhoon Goni pounded the Philippines Sunday, ripping off roofs, toppling power lines and causing flooding in the hardest-hit areas where hundreds of thousands have fled their homes.

The strongest typhoon of the year also triggered deadly landslides that buried a number of houses in the southern part of the most populous island of Luzon, officials said.

Goni was a "super typhoon" when it made landfall on Catanduanes Island before dawn, packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 225 kilometres (140 miles) per hour.

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Snowflake Cold

80% of Russia is buried in snow

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Sun, 01 Nov 2020 11:47 UTC
snowy
While far-western Russia has been enjoying unusual "warmth" of late, central and eastern regions - so the majority of the transcontinental nation - have not been so fortunate.

On October 30, "very cold weather was established" in north Siberia, reports hmn.ru. Unusually chilly lows of -20C (-4F) were suffered in Salekhard which resulted in hard frosts. Even during the day, highs in the region only climbed to -12C (10.4F) — readings that are some 16C below the seasonal average.

"The temperature was even lower in the east of Siberia," continues the hmn.ru article. And after a belated start to fall, it appears the season has now been skipped altogether. In Norilsk, for example, thermometers approached bone-chilling lows of -30C (-22F) — numbers not out of place in the depths of winter.

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Ice Cube

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Largest hail ever as civilization timeline re-written again


Adapt 2030
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:02 UTC
Giant hail in Tripoli
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Add a thousand years to what we know about dairy and cheese production in Harappa 4500 years ago, as new research tells us that scholars still know little about our global civilization's past. Largest ever recorded hail falls in Libya. Federal Reserve begins giving every citizen in the USA a digital wallet for cryptocurrency as PayPal debuts cryptocurrency for 350 million customers. So many shifts coinciding.


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Ice Cube

South-east Queensland hit by very dangerous thunderstorms as hail up to 14cm pummels the region


ABC News
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:54 UTC
Huge hail stones lined up on a handrail at a house at Willowbank, west of Brisbane
© Maddison McIntosh
Huge hail stones lined up on a handrail at a house at Willowbank, west of Brisbane.
Hail up to 14 centimetres has been reported at Forestdale, south of Brisbane, as parts of south-east Queensland were pummelled by a series of very dangerous and "life threatening" thunderstorms this afternoon.

Hail storms also battered southern Sydney and parts of the New South Wales south coast were warned about flash flooding as an "unstable" weather system moved across the state.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued warnings for people in parts of Queensland's Wide Bay, Burnett, Darling Downs and Granite Belt regions earlier this afternoon.

The BOM warned the situation was volatile and continuing to change quickly

The areas likely to be hit hardest stretch from the Queensland border to north of the Sunshine Coast and communities further inland.


Comment: World's largest hail record may be challenged by exceptionally large 8+ inches hailstones that hit Tripoli, Libya on Oct 27

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Umbrella

Tropical Storm Zeta leaves 6 people dead, millions in the dark

Ron Brackett
The Weather Channel
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:22 UTC
Tropical Storm Zeta

Tropical Storm Zeta
More than 2 million homes and businesses were still without power Thursday evening after Zeta, which came ashore Wednesday in Louisiana as a strong Category 2 hurricane, wreaked havoc across seven states Thursday.

The storm ripped off roofs, knocked down power lines and trees and flooded streets as it roared through Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia early Thursday. Heavy rain and winds also pounded eastern Tennessee and the Carolinas throughout the day.

At the height of the outages, more than 2.6 million homes and businesses were without power. In Georgia alone, more than 550,000 customers remained without electricity as of 5:30 p.m. according to poweroutage.us., after the number reached more than 1 million earlier. Alabama had more than 414,000, and Louisiana was reporting about 444,000 outages. More than 300,000 remained without power in North Carolina and South Carolina reported more than 125,000 customers without electricity. More than 55,000 outages were reported in Virginia.

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Snowflake Cold

26-year October cold record broken in Delhi, India

Bhavi Mandalia
Pledge Times
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:02 UTC
Delhi record cold
Winter has knocked in North India including Delhi. Scientists from the Meteorological Department of India (IMD) said the national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 12.5 degrees Celsius on Thursday. October has not seen such a low temperature in the last 26 years. This was observed due to the light layer of clouds and the slow wind.

According to IMD, the normal minimum temperature at this time of the year is 15-16 ° C. Kuldeep Srivastava, head of IMD's regional forecasting center, said, the last low temperature in Delhi in October was recorded in 1994. On October 31, 1994, the city's minimum temperature was recorded at 12.3 degrees Celsius. On October 31, 1937, the city recorded its lowest temperature of the month - 9.4 degrees Celsius.

Senior IMD scientist said that the absence of cloud cover was the reason for the temperature being below normal at this time of the year. He said, the main reason behind this is that we did not have much cloud cover, due to which the surface cools rapidly. The minimum temperature is likely to be around 12 ° C in the next two-three days.
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Philippines orders evacuation as world's strongest 2020 typhoon approaches

Neil Jerome Morales
Reuters UK
Sat, 31 Oct 2020 03:37 UTC
Infrared satellite image of Super Typhoon Goni
© RAMMB/CIRA/Colorado State University
Infrared satellite image of Super Typhoon Goni at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, October 30, 2020, when it was a category 5 storm with 180 mph winds.
Philippine officials on Saturday ordered evacuation of thousands of residents in the southern part of the main Luzon island as a category 5 storm that is the world's strongest this year approaches the Southeast Asian nation.

Typhoon Goni, with 215 kph (133 miles) sustained winds and gusts of up to 265 kph (164 mph), will make landfall on Sunday as the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines since Haiyan that killed more than 6,300 people in November 2013.

Pre-emptive evacuations have started in coastal and landslide-prone communities in the provinces of Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, while Albay provincial government would order residents in risky areas to leave their homes, Gremil Naz, a local disaster official, told DZBB radio station. "The strength of this typhoon is no joke."

Typhoon Molave last week killed 22 people, mostly through drowning in provinces south of the capital Manila, which is also in the projected path of Goni, the 18th tropical storm in the country.

Authorities are facing another hurdle as social distancing needs to be imposed in evacuation centres to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The Philippines has the second highest COVID-19 infections and deaths in Southeast Asia, next only to Indonesia.

Comment: Goni put on an extremely impressive bout of rapid intensification beginning at 0Z October 28, strengthening by 145 mph - from a 30-mph tropical depression to a 175-mph super typhoon, in 54 hours reports Yale Climate Connections.

According to Sam Lillo, only five storms in the global tropical cyclone database have achieved a 145-mph increase in 54 hours or less: Typhoon Vera in 1959 in the northwest Pacific; Hurricane Linda in 1997 in the northeast Pacific; Cyclone Zoe in 2002 in the southeast Pacific; Hurricane Wilma in 2005 in the Atlantic, and Hurricane Patricia in 2015 in the northeast Pacific.

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