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Snowflake Cold

Snow blankets China's coldest town - heaviest in 10 years for the season at over 8 inches deep

Zhou Huiying
China Daily
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:40 UTC
More than 20 centimeters of snow accumulated from Saturday morning to Sunday evening in Huzhong district of the Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang province.
© Feng HongweiMore than 20 centimeters of snow accumulated from Saturday morning to Sunday evening in Huzhong district of the Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang province.
Huzhong district in the Daxinganling region of Heilongjiang province, widely known as China's coldest town, received its heaviest snow of autumn so far over the weekend. The local meteorological bureau issued an orange alert on Sunday night.

It was the heaviest snow for the period over the past 10 years, the bureau said.

Accumulated snowfall had reached more than 20 centimeters from Saturday morning to Sunday evening, when it stopped snowing.


Comment: Related: 80% of Russia is buried in snow

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Boat

Two missing in flash flooding triggered by hours of heavy rain in Thailand


Bangkok Post
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:04 UTC
A tunnel linking the Khao Yai and Thap Lan national parks on Highway 304 between Kabin Buri district in Prachin Buri and Pak Thong Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima was 1.8 metres under flood water yesterday morning.
© Prasit TangprasertA tunnel linking the Khao Yai and Thap Lan national parks on Highway 304 between Kabin Buri district in Prachin Buri and Pak Thong Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima was 1.8 metres under flood water yesterday morning.
Forest runoff caused by heavy rain in mountainous areas wreaked havoc on vast parts of Prachin Buri province, inundating the Khao Yai-Thap Lan tunnel and submerging dozens of vehicles at a well-known hotel and tourist attraction there.

Two people were reported missing when the runoff from Thap Lan National Park triggered by hours of heavy rain sent a large amount of water streaming into several villages in Prachin Buri. In Nakhon Ratchasima's Wang Nam Khieo district, a teenager died after being swept away by flash flood.

The sight of the flood-hit tunnel spoke volumes about the flash flood sweeping across the area. The tunnel through a mountain linking the Khao Yai and Thap Lan national parks on Highway 304 between Kabin Buri district in Prachin Buri and Pak Thong Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima was about 1.80 metres under water on Sunday morning.

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Black Cat

Tiger kills fisherman in the Sundarbans, India - 19th such death in the area this year


Timesnownews.com
Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:49 UTC
Tiger kills fisherman in Bengal's Sundarbans [Representative image
Tiger kills fisherman in Bengal's Sundarbans (Representative image)
A 45-year-old fisherman was killed by a tiger in Sundarban National Park in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Friday, a forest officer said.

The incident took place when Shashanka Mondal and two other fishermen from village went to catch crabs in a canal near Sajnekhali range office, he said.

As soon as Mondal got down the boat, a tiger attacked him, killing him on the spot, the officer said.

The fishermen did not possess valid documents required for catching crabs or fish in the protected area, he said.

A total of 19 fishermen have been killed in tiger attacks in Sundarbans since the COVID-19 outbreak, the officer added.

Source: PTI
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Cloud Precipitation

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
© CHONG JUN LIANGTwo 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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Ice Cube

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
Study location
Study location
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
© unknown
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.
© ReutersA 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 McIntoshHuge 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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