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Rainbow

Alabama photographer captures 'upside-down rainbow'

Tom Smith
Times Daily
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:41 UTC
Circumhorizontal arc over AL
© Johnny Raper
Johnny Raper was spending Wednesday afternoon at the Rockpile Recreation area near Wilson Dam in hopes of photographing bald eagles that sometimes visit there.

He got the photo of the bald eagles, but he also got a picture of something he had never seen before - a circumhorizon arc or as Raper calls it "an upside-down rainbow."

"I had been watching a juvenile eagle up in a tree waiting and watching for it to fly to get a photo," said Raper, of Florence. "I turned around to watch a pelican in the river and when I turned back to look at the eagle, there was this cloud with all these colors.

"I had never seen anything like it before, and I grabbed my camera and started trying to take photos. It was there maybe five minutes, I got three photos and it was gone," Raper said. "It was amazing. So glad I got to see it and got a photo."

According to Andy Kula, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Huntsville, a circumhorizontal arc is an "optical phenomenon" cause by ice crystals in the clouds.
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Cloud Grey

Spectacular mammatus clouds form over Sydney


SBS
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 16:38 UTC
Dramatic backlit mammatus clouds over Sydney.
© Jemma Wlasichuck, FacebookDramatic backlit mammatus clouds over Sydney.
An unusual cloud formation has covered skies in parts of Sydney as NSW was again hit by wild weather.

Social media has lit up after an unusual cloud formation was seen around Sydney on Wednesday.

Known as mammatus clouds, the formation is most often associated with thunderstorms.

"Never seen anything like it," one Twitter user wrote.

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Bizarro Earth

Trumpeting sounds heard in the skies of southwestern Quebec, Canada


Sott.net
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 15:43 UTC
Strange sounds stock
On January 2, 2019, YouTube user 'Saba rah' posted video footage of strange sounds she heard in the skies of Pierrefonds, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She reports that she's heard the sound before, 'but this time was really intense'.

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Snowflake

Snow on saguaros: Desert cities in US Southwest see freeze


Daily Mail
Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:16 UTC
The Empire Mountains emerge from cloud cover
© Mike Christy/Arizona Daily StarThe Empire Mountains emerge from cloud cover after the second round of winter storms brought snowfall to the surrounding metro Tucson area and southeast Arizona, Jan. 2, 2019, south of Vail, Ariz.
The weather was flipped Wednesday throughout much of the U.S. West, with snow falling on cactuses in the Arizona desert and Anchorage seeing balmy weather - at least by Alaska standards.

In Phoenix, the overnight low was 30 degrees for the first time in five years and more cold temperatures were expected Thursday. The Tucson area saw as much as 6 inches of snow.

"It was pretty magical," said Jessica Howard, a resident of the Tucson suburb of Vail who took her 8- and 5-year-old children to play in the snow. "My social media feeds are like 100 percent snow pictures right now."

Snow dusted cactuses and mountains in southern Arizona and covered the Grand Canyon in the north.


Comment: Related article: Pajarito Ski Resort in New Mexico receives 3 feet of snow in 24 hours

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Question

Dozens of dead birds found on road in Amarillo, Texas


MyHighPlains.com
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:48 UTC
dead birds
Dozens of birds are found dead near at the corner of 45th and Coulter.

Amarillo Animal Management and Welfare said they have picked up birds at that location.

The City of Amarillo said the birds might have flown into power lines or cables near the electrical station at the intersection.

Xcel Energy Spokesperson Wes Reeves said they do not have any evidence of birds impacting their facilities at that intersection, and there have been no service interruptions related to animal contact in that area in recent weeks.

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Cloud Precipitation

Death toll in Philippines floods, landslides rises to at least 122 (UPDATE)


Al Jazeera
Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:48 UTC
A destroyed house after a tropical depression
© Robert BalidoyA destroyed house after a tropical depression hit Daet, in Camarines Norte
Authorities warn number of victims to increase as thousands are forced from their homes by the bad weather.

The death toll from flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rains due to a tropical depression in the eastern Philippines has jumped to at least 68, officials have said, warning that the number of fatalities will climb even higher.

Fifty-seven of the victims were reported in the eastern region of Bicol, located south of the main island of Luzon, civil defence officials said on Monday. Eleven others died in the nearby region of Eastern Visayas.

Twelve people were also injured in various accidents in the two regions most affected by the rains even days before the tropical depression - known locally as Usman - made landfall in Eastern Samar province on Saturday.


Comment: Update:The Philippine Star on January 3 reports:
The death toll from Tropical Depression Usman in Bicol, the Visayas and Southern Tagalog has reached 87, with 20 others missing, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported yesterday.

NDRRMC spokesman Edgar Posadas said the figures are still subject to validation by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)'s Management of the Dead and the Missing (MDM).

Posadas said Usman also directly affected 45,348 families or 191,597 people from 457 barangays in Bicol, Eastern Samar and the Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon (Calabarzon) region, as well as in Mindoro-Marinduque-Romblon-Palawan (Mimaropa).

Vice President Leni Robredo visits Barangay
Vice President Leni Robredo visits Barangay Patitinan in Sagñay, Camarines Sur yesterday to check the extent of damage in the area following a landslide.

Update: The Gulf Today on January 3
reports:
The death toll from landslides and floods in the eastern Philippines has climbed to 122 as emergency teams reach isolated areas and recover more bodies, officials said Thursday.

According to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, DPA, quoted civil defence and disaster risk reduction officials as saying that nearly 30 people were still reported missing in the affected areas in the eastern regions of Bicol and Eastern Visayas.

The tropical depression was the last and deadliest cyclone to hit the Philippines in 2018. Previously, Typhoon Mangkhut was considered the deadliest, killing more than 80 people in September.

Nearly 25,000 people were displaced by the landslides and floods, the national disaster risk reduction office said.

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Attention

Three rivers suddenly turn blood red in Malawi and Indonesia


Strange Sounds
Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC
red river malawi
Signs of the End of Times? Two rivers turn blood overnight in Malawi and Indonesia.

The source of Linthipe River in Dedza turned blood red on Wednesday, December 19, 2018, shocking residents living along the river.

Shocked residents of Nthandizi and Airfield in Dedza said the blood like flow was noticed at around 2pm.

"As usual, we came to this place to wash our clothes besides drawing water for home use. But to our surprise we saw that blood like stuff was flowing in the river. This scared us and we called some people to witness the bizarre phenomenon," one woman said.

Comment: As noted above, the cause of these rivers suddenly turning red could be due to algae, contamination from a mine or even deliberate industrial pollution, but the question remains why so many waterways across the planet are suddenly being affected in this way? Could it be related to the ground becoming increasingly unstable, changes in the properties of the water or is it just increased negligence from manufacturers? For more on Earth Change related speculations, see: Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth and also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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Cloud Precipitation

CO2 claim of global warming empirically falsified

Kenneth Richard
Principia Scientific International
Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:01 UTC
hydrological cycle
Climate models postulate that increasing CO2 concentrations will intensify the Earth's water cycle.

This intensification is believed to eventually result in dangerous (3°C and up) global warming. Observational evidence has thus far falsified these IPCC-endorsed claims.

Comment: See also:

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Cloud Precipitation

2018 was wettest year on record in over 2 dozen cities in the East, Midwest, including Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh

Jonathan Erdman
The Weather Channel
Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:26 UTC
Statewide ranks of January-through-November precipitation in 2018. States shaded in dark green had the wettest first 11 months of any year in records dating to 1895.
© NOAA/NCEStatewide ranks of January-through-November precipitation in 2018. States shaded in dark green had the wettest first 11 months of any year in records dating to 1895.
Over two dozen cities in the East and Midwest had their wettest year on record in 2018, stretching from North Carolina to South Dakota.

On Dec. 15, Reagan National Airport's year-to-date precipitation total eclipsed the previous record-wet year in the nation's capital, which had stood for 129 years, since Benjamin Harrison took office as president.

After topping the record, they would tack on almost 5 inches of additional rain in the latter half of December.

Washington D.C. set a record-wet November, fifth-wettest September, fourth-wettest July and sixth-wettest May, according to National Weather Service records dating to 1871. Only January, March and October were drier than average in 2018 in the nation's capital.

Comment: See also: Record rainfall was the story of 2018 weather in West Virginia

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Cloud Precipitation

Record rainfall was the story of 2018 weather in West Virginia

Jake Flatley
Metro News
Tue, 01 Jan 2019 20:16 UTC
RAINFALL
Fans of rain certainly enjoyed 2018 in West Virginia.

Record-breaking rainfall was the story of the year in the state weather wise.

"This year has been unusually wet," Andy Chilian, WSAZ Meteorologist, said. "For example for Charleston, this is the wettest year on record. And the records go back in the late 1890s."

Chilian said Charleston broke its 2003 record of 61 inches of rain by more than five inches. Yeager Airport in the capital city measured 66.56 inches of rain on the final day of the calendar year.

2018 broke the yearly record for rainfall for a lot of places in the state while one month broke the monthly record.

Comment: See also: 2018 was wettest year on record in over 2 dozen cities in the East, Midwest, including Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh

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