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Winter storm dumps up to 2 meters of snowfall in the Alps causing problems, with another meter forecast


En24 World
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:16 UTC
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That it snows in the mountains in December is not at all exceptional. But in recent hours, up to two meters of snow fell in the Alps and that causes problems here and there. There is also an avalanche danger in many places.

Traffic in particular will experience a lot of disruption on Sunday. There are currently no trains running on the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy. Car traffic is also partly blocked.

There are power supply problems throughout South Tyrol, according to the civil defense. Some 1,400 firefighters have been active since Sunday morning. The highest avalanche warning applies in East Tyrol in Austria. That is why avalanches are generated spontaneously, some of them very large, the local authorities warn.

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Southeast Australia experiences summer snow in alpine regions

Shae McDonald
News.com.au
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:44 UTC
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As if 2020 couldn't get any weirder, snow has fallen on parts of Australia in the height of summer.

Victorian ski resort Mt Buller resembled a European winter on Sunday as flurries descended on the chalets and slopes.

Marketing manager David Clark said it was magical.

"Snow at this time of year is not unheard of," he told NCA NewsWire, explaining: "It probably snows a couple of times throughout summer each year.

"But to have it in December, so close to Christmas, was really nice."


Comment: Tasmania wakes up to SNOW on the second day of summer in Australia

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'We got over three feet of snow in 18 hours' - remote West Chilcotin lodge owner in British Columbia

Monica Lamb-Yorski
Williams Lake Tribune
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:07 UTC
Residents living in a remote area of the West Chilcotin spent six days digging out after receiving 90 cm of snow in 18 hours on Friday, Nov. 27.
© Jennifer TolandResidents living in a remote area of the West Chilcotin spent six days digging out after receiving 90 cm of snow in 18 hours on Friday, Nov. 27.
Jennifer Toland said neighbours told her it's the biggest snow fall since the 70s

It took some residents living in a remote area of the West Chilcotin six days to dig out from the winter storm that hit the region on Friday, Nov. 27.

"After we got over three feet of snow in 18 hours, we spent lots of time clearing a trail out," Jennifer Toland who owns Eliguk Lake Lodge Outfitters with her husband Arön told the Tribune.

Their lodge is located along the famous Alexander Mackenzie Grease Trail, at 3,600 feet near the base of the Itcha Ilgatchuz mountain range.
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Cloud Precipitation

Southern Thailand flood death toll reaches 24


Bangkok Post
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:46 UTC
Navy soldiers accompany a villager through knee-deep floodwater, as they arrive to help people in Sathing Phra district of Songkhla on Monday.
© Assawin PakkawanNavy soldiers accompany a villager through knee-deep floodwater, as they arrive to help people in Sathing Phra district of Songkhla on Monday.
Flooding in the southern region has claimed three more deaths, raising the total to 24, as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Monday visited the hardest-hit province, Nakhon Si Thammarat.

The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department on Monday reported a woman drowned in Phrasaeng district of Surat Thani and two women drowned in Sathing Phra district of Songkhla, on Sunday.

The latest deaths raised the toll of the victims to 24, with the region pounded by rain brought by the southern monsoon over the Gulf of Thailand since Nov 25. The floods are the most extensive in recent years.

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Cloud Precipitation

Deadly floods in southern provinces of Iran - at least 7 people killed - 6 inches of rain in a few hours

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 07 Dec 2020 10:27 UTC
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Heavy rain from 05 to 07 December caused more flooding in Iran. Previously 8 provinces were affected by floods in late November.

Quoting disaster officials, local media in Iran reported heavy rain of up to 160mm in a few hours in Dashtestan in Bushehr Province causing severe flooding. The counties of Deylam and Genaveh in the province have also been badly affected.

Flooding and heavy rain was also reported in Fars Province, in particular in the counties of Mamasani, Arsanjan, Abadeh, Kazerun, Khorrambid, Khonj, where Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) have carried out flood rescues and evacuated 185 families. Local media said that areas of Khuzestan and Kerman and provinces have also been affected.

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Attention

Yellow alert issued for Pelée volcano, Martinique


St. Lucia Times
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:05 UTC
Mount Pelée
© Martinique Natural ParkMount Pelée
Martinique officials are urging people not to panic amid a rise to yellow alert for Mount Pelée Volcano.

They say despite an increase in seismic activity, no eruption is expected in the short term.

"No risk, no alert, no concern for the population," the Mayor of Saint-Pierre, Christian Rapha, was quoted by Martinique 1Ere as saying.

He noted that Soufrière in Guadeloupe has been classified in yellow since 1999.

Yellow is the third level of alert on a scale of 5, followed by the pre-alert in orange then the red alert.

Comment: More than 40 volcanoes are erupting right now with 5 major explosions in the last 3 days

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Three suns phenomena appears in Inner Mongolia skies


CGTN
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:48 UTC
Three suns mongolia
Stunning sun dogs appeared in the sky above Xilingol Prairie on Friday, creating an illusion of three suns interlinked by a huge halo.

A sun dog, sometimes called a parhelion or mock sun, are caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in the atmosphere. It typically appears as a pair of subtly colored patches of light above the horizon at the same altitude as the sun.


Comment: Three suns also appeared one month prior in China's Inner Mongolia:



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6.1-magnitude earthquake hits 113 km E of Iquique, Chile


Xinhua
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:05 UTC
Earthquake
© Associated Press
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted 113 km E of Iquique, Chile at 16:47:42 GMT on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 102.25 km, was initially determined to be at 20.3656 degrees south latitude and 69.0755 degrees west longitude.

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Cloud Precipitation

Beirut experiences historic hailstorm, leaving Lebanese city covered in white blanket for hours

Jennifer Bell, Rawad Taha
Al Arabiya
Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:02 UTC
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Lebanon's capital Beirut and the surrounding suburbs experienced what meteorologists named a "historical hailstorm," which covered the capital in a white blanket for hours, causing massive floods and impeding traffic on the major coastal highway.

Al Arabiya English reached out to Elias Saadeh, founder of Lebanon Weather Forecast, who mentioned that Saturday's phenomenon is due to severe supercell clouds. It lasted around an hour, coupled with severe thunderstorms and heavy hailstones.

"This supercell affected only the coastal area around Beirut and its suburbs. A supercell effect is always local. Weather stations in Beirut recorded 50mm of rainfall in a lapse of 25 minutes. This quantity is considered enormous since it is equivalent to pouring 50 liters of water in each square meter in 25 minutes. Moreover, this supercell caused a drastic drop in temperature from 21°C to 13.5°C in a couple of minutes," added Saadeh.

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Waterspout spotted off Italy's Calabrian coast


Yahoo! News
Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:51 UTC
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A waterspout swirled off the coast of Roccella Ionica, Italy, on December 5, footage shared on social media shows.

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