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Fire

Horseshoe fire: 200-acre brush fire forces mandatory evacuations near San Jacinto, California


NBC Los Angeles
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 21:13 UTC
brush fire juniper flats san jacinto ca sep 2019
A 200-acre brush fire that erupted Saturday in the Juniper Flats area between Perris and San Jacinto forced mandatory evacuations of more than 200 people and is 10% contained as of Sunday morning, authorities said.

It was reported at 5:52 p.m. in the 21000 block of Horseshoe Trail, Riverside County Fire Department spokesman Rob Roseen said.

The blaze was first reported at 10 acres but jumped to 75 acres by 6:40 p.m., Roseen said. Officials said the fire had grown to 100 acres by 8:40 p.m. There was no containment.

"The first arriving engine reported the fire burning in heavy fuels with a moderate rate of spread," he said.

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Cloud Lightning

210,000 lightning strikes recorded in Sweden this year, a six-fold increase on 2017


The Local (Sweden)
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:15 UTC
Lightning strikes the Öresund Bridge on June 15 this year.
© Jonas Ericsson/TTLightning strikes the Öresund Bridge on June 15 this year.
If you thought this summer in Sweden was stormy, you weren't wrong. More than 210,000 lightning strikes have been registered in the country so far this year, a six-fold increase on two years ago.

Erik Engström, a meteorologist at state weather forecaster SMHI told broadcaster TV4 that the high frequency of thunder and lightning came down to warm weather.

"This summer we had a lot of warm, wet air coming in over the country and that's one of the main pre-conditions for storms," he said.
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Arrow Down

Six family members killed by landslide triggered by heavy rainfall in Nepal


The Himalayan Times
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:40 UTC
landslide
Six members of a family were buried to death in a landslide at Thawang Rural Municipality, Rolpa, last night.

The landslide triggered by a heavy rain had struck the house at Chherlowang of Thawang Rural Municiplaity-2, at midnight.

Bodies of Thir Kumari Jhankri Budha, 28, and her son Ashal Budha, 4, were recovered this morning.

According to Ward Chairperson Basant Rokka, bodies of Jaya Budha, 38, his wife Muljyoti Budha, 36 and their daughters Devasti, 9, and Karishna, 2, were dug out of the rubble this afternoon.
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Attention

NOAA sees dramatic increase of ice seal deaths in Bering and Chukchi seas


Anchorage Daily News
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:31 UTC
A dead seal found on a beach near Kotzebue, Alaska, May 24, 2019.
© Raime Fronstin/NPSA dead seal found on a beach near Kotzebue, Alaska, May 24, 2019.
Ice seal strandings have dramatically increased in the Bering and Chukchi seas over the last two years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. Strandings are being reported five times more frequently than they were in years before 2018, the agency said.

Since June 1 2018, NOAA has received reports of 282 dead ice seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas. In 2018, there were 119 ice seal strandings reported, while 163 have already reported this year. NOAA said they typically receive reports of about 29 ice seal strandings a year.

By mid-June this summer, communities along Alaska's western coast were noticing scores of dead ice seals.
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Cloud Lightning

British Columbia sets new record for lightning strikes with 422,000 this year - way above average

Randy Shore
Vancouver Sun
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:05 UTC
LIGHTNING
B.C. set a record for lightning strikes, but enjoyed the quietest fire season in years thanks to timely rainfall.

Environment and Climate Change Canada has recorded 422,000 lightning strikes this year in the province, far above the 18-year average of 266,000. July alone saw 264,344 lightning strikes, said meteorologist Matt MacDonald.

"Leading into the summer people were on edge for another record wildfire season, given how dry it was this spring," he said.

In June, July and August — the meteorological summer — total rainfall was actually below normal in many parts of B.C. and it could have gone terribly wrong for our parched forests. But instead of long, warm spells punctuated by dry lightning storms, electrical activity was accompanied by rain.

Comment: Lightning strikes are occurring in record numbers everywhere:

210,000 lightning strikes recorded in Sweden this year, a six-fold increase on 2017

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Camcorder

RT team nearly attacked by polar bear while making wildlife film in Russia


RT
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:40 UTC
Polar bear
© RT Doc
Journalists from the RTDoc team have narrowly avoided a polar bear attack in the Russian tundra. The ferocious animal appeared right in front of the reporters as they filmed a documentary with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

The crew of RT's documentary channel, RTDoc, was out filming bears and walruses on the remote Chukotka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, when a large polar bear suddenly emerged on top of a slate hill, stunning the reporters. The journalists and their guide tried to fend off the animal as it stood just meters away, making loud noises and banging a spear against the rocks. The tactic seemed to work, as the bear left after a brief but intense standoff.
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Blue Planet

SOTT Focus: Did Earth 'Steal' Martian Water?

Pierre Lescaudron
Sott.net
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:31 UTC
Mars earth plasma discharge
While finalizing the writing of the article titled "Of Flash Frozen Mammoths and Cosmic Catastrophes", I encountered an unexpected anomaly.

The time of the demise of the mammoths is also known as the Younger Dryas, a period of global cooling that lasted from 12,900 to 11,700 years ago (10,900 B.C. to 9,700 B.C.) during which surface temperatures dropped by approximately 7°C.

In theory, such a severe cooling should increase the volume of polar ice and, as a result, reduce sea level. However, during the Younger Dryas, sea levels rose 17 meters over more than a millennium, as illustrated by the graph below.
Sea level VS global temperature (20000BP-Now)
Sea level VS global temperature (20000BP-Now)
If the sea level rose while ice caps were building up, it's possible that the source of the water was external. But where could this water have come from?

Coincidentally or not, most of Mars' Northern hemisphere was once covered with water, and this ocean has mysteriously disappeared. So where did the Martian water go?
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Attention

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Wheat scarcity import-export shell game begins


Adapt 2030
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 06:57 UTC
Wheat harvest
© Andrew Holmes
Australia becomes a wheat importer looking to Canada for supply but Canadian wheat output slashed this year as well. Now other countries that used to rely on Australian exports need to find supply elsewhere. Australian government warning people to brace for huge food price rises, which we see unfold as an example of what the planet will experience in a massive economic contraction as food becomes super expensive and buying habits shift.


Comment: Australia to import wheat for first time in over a decade after the "Worst drought in 116 years"

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Attention

Extreme weather displaced a record seven million in first half of 2019

Lily Puckett
The Independent
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:11 UTC
Stranded passengers in a railway station in Kolkata, India, in May after trains were canceled because of Cyclone Fani
© Rupak De Chowdhuri/ReutersStranded passengers in a railway station in Kolkata, India, in May after trains were canceled because of Cyclone Fani.

Up to 22m people are estimated to be displaced by the end of the year

A record seven million people were displaced by disasters in the first half of 2019, suggesting that mass displacement due to extreme weather events is "becoming the norm," according to a new report.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, which uses data from governments, United Nations humanitarian agencies, and media coverage to create its reports, concluded that nearly twice as many people were displaced in the first half of the year by weather events than by conflict and violence. The report was compiled before Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas - the numbers affected by that storm are still unclear.

IDMC estimates that the number of new displacements associated with weather events will reach 22m by the end of the year, more than tripling the current number, and making 2019 one of the worst years for climate displacement since records began.

Comment: Watch SOTT's monthly Earth Changes Summary for extreme weather events that are occurring worldwide these days.



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Snowflake

Late spring snowfall on the Matroosberg, South Africa - up to 8 inches deep


All4women.co.za
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:24 UTC
snow tent
The chill has set in on the high peaks of the Matroosberg, with up to 20cm of snow having fallen near Ceres!

SnowReportSA predicted that snowfalls would occur in the Western Cape from Thursday.

Although the snowfalls were confined to the higher peaks, some intrepid snow-followers still managed to find some significant snow-covered areas.

According to SnowReportSA, there won't be any further snowfalls over the weekend, but the current snowfall could last up to two days on the ground if the temperatures remain low.

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