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Rare waterspout stuns weather watchers in the skies over Llandudno, Wales

Zara Whelan
Daily Post
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 11:24 UTC
The tornado was seen snaking along the shoreline at Llandudno
© Alex BullockThe tornado was seen snaking along the shoreline at Llandudno
Onlookers caught a glimpse of a mini tornado on Friday morning as the region is set to be battered by heavy rain .

The twister stunned spectators just after 9am near West Shore in Llandudno .

A large funnel could be seen forming on the water behind Parc Llandudno retail estate before snaking along the shoreline. It then proceeded to dump water on the Victorian town.

Many eyewitnesses took to social media to share what they saw.

One onlooker wrote: "I knew I'd seen a twister!! God thought I was seeing things! I was driving up the A470 around 9.15 towards Black Cat and saw it in my mirror!"
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Severe thunderstorm hits Feodosia, Crimea illuminating spectacular waterspout


Sott.net
Sat, 08 Sep 2018 06:05 UTC
Crimea waterspout
© Twitter/Kirill BakanovLightning illuminating a spectacular waterspout off Feodosia, Crimea, Russia on Sept. 6th 2018.
A severe thunderstorm hit parts of Crimea on September 6, 2018, dumping heavy rain, hail and producing a spectacular waterspout around Feodosia, reports InMeteo.

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Arrow Down

At least 12 killed in Ethiopia landslide triggered by heavy rain


Press TV
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:39 UTC
This undated photo purportedly shows residents gathering at the site of a landslide in Ethiopia's south.
This undated photo purportedly shows residents gathering at the site of a landslide in Ethiopia's south.
Heavy rains triggered a landslide in southern Ethiopia on Tuesday, killing 12 people and "severely injuring" another four, state-affiliated media said.

The victims were killed when the landslide crushed three houses in the Dawro Zone of the Horn of Africa country's SNNP Province, the Fana Broadcasting Corporation said.
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Cloud Precipitation

10,000 hit by floods in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico

Richard Davies
FloodList
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:17 UTC
Floods in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, September 2018.
© Government of Piedras Negras / CoahuilaFloods in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, September 2018.
Flooding in the city of Piedras Negras in Coahuila state, northern Mexico on Tuesday, 04 September affected more than 10,000 residents.

According to local authorities, the floods also affected around 2,500 homes. Around 20 people were forced to evacuate and stay in temporary accommodation. Roads in the area also suffered damage. No injuries or fatalities were reported however.

Local Civil Protection said that more than 150mm of rain fell from late Monday 03 September to early Tuesday 04 September. The heavy rain caused the Arroyo (creek) "El Soldado" to break its banks, as well as some surface flooding in the city's streets. The city, with a population of around 250,000 in the wider metro area, is situated on the border with Texas, USA, along the Rio Grande river.There were no reports of the Rio Grande overflowing.
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Ice Cube

Icebreaker encounters most difficult ice conditions in 15 years in the Arctic

Kathrin Stephen
High North News
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 10:06 UTC
The Swedish icebreaker Oden on its way to the North Pole in August 2018.
© Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Mario HoppmannThe Swedish icebreaker Oden on its way to the North Pole in August 2018.
A Swedish icebreaker on the way to the North Pole has encountered heavy ice conditions and had to stop just before the North Pole.

The Swedish icebreaker Oden embarked to the North Pole from Svalbard last week but encountered difficult ice conditions not seen in one and a half decades.

The captain of the Oden icebreaker described the ice conditions as the most difficult in the past fifteen years.

The pack ice the ship encountered north of 80° was very dense, piled together through a months-long northward ice drift in the Central Arctic Ocean, meereisportal.de reports.

Overall, however, the Arctic's summer sea ice extent is again very small; the Oden hit the ice edge only at 82°N.
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Seismograph

Series of strong earthquakes shake Panama, Ecuador & Chile


RT
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 04:17 UTC
south america quakes
© usgs.gov
A series of powerful earthquakes has struck the South American east coast, with Panama, Chile and Ecuador all suffering jolts of between 5.6 and 6.2 magnitude within less than an hour of each other.

Panama was hit by a 5.6-magnitude earthquake at 1:47am GMT. According to the US Geological Survey, its epicenter was located at a depths of 10km, some 15km from the small town of Yaviza.

Less than 30 minutes later, at 2:12am GMT, a powerful 6.2-magnitude jolt hit central Ecuador, some 94km (58 miles) south of the city of Ambato at a depth of 112km (69 miles).

So far, at least one person has been injured, Ecuador's authorities said, noting some damage to homes and reported landslides on roads. Power outages are also being reported. The jolts were felt as far away as the capital, Quito, and the city of Guayaquil. According to the Ministry of Risk Management, the jolts were felt the strongest in Cumanda, Chimborazo province.

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Snowflake

As ice and snow return, summer's over in Nunavut, Canada

Jane George
Nunatsiaq News
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:57 UTC
This map from the Canadian Ice Service shows sea ice conditions in the western part of High Arctic islands on Sept. 4.
© CISThis map from the Canadian Ice Service shows sea ice conditions in the western part of High Arctic islands on Sept. 4. The dark blue shows a low concentration (less than 10 per cent) of ice, while white shows a high concentration (100 per cent). At this time of the year, the Arctic ice cover is the highest it has been since 2014, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said Sept. 5. That's although the minimum ice extent is expected to be one of the 10 lowest in the satellite record, the NSIDC said.
"It was a cold summer"

Snow has now fallen across Nunavut's more northerly communities, from Kugluktuk to Qikiqtarjuaq, after a summer that also brought cool temperatures and heavy ice conditions to some parts of Nunavut.

So, if you were planning on snorkelling through the Northwest Passage, as one group plans to do in 2020, or taking a cruise ship through the storied Northwest Passage, this year might not have been a good choice.

"if you're trying to get somewhere, and ice is in the way, it's been a very bad year," said Gilles Langis, a senior ice forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service.

It remains unclear if ice played a role in the grounding of the Ioffe Akademik on Aug. 24. The cruise ship was not sailing where it was supposed to be due to ice, according to an account by the journalist and author Ed Struzik, who was on board.
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Snowflake Cold

Global cooling: Anomalous cold across vast expanses of Siberia and a foot of snow in mountains of Khakassia

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:00 UTC
snow
33 cm (more than a foot) of snow in Khakassia. In Yakutia -10°C.

4 Sep 2018 - Anomalously cold weather - pre-winter weather - across a vast expanses of Siberia. Night frosts and solid precipitation in the form of groats and wet snow from Taimyr to Altai and from the Urals to Kolyma.

West of Yakutia the temperature dropped to -10°C. In the mountains of Khakassia heavy snow fell. The meteorological station "Nenastnaya" recorded 33 cm of snow!

"Nenastnaya Station is near Priiskovoye city (Khakassia)."

Thanks to Martin Siebert for this link

Comment: See also these reports for the last 7 days from across the northern hemisphere which currently is still 17 days away from the Autumnal equinox on the 23rd of September:

As ice and snow return, summer's over in Nunavut, Canada

After summer fails to show, snow is earliest since 1982 in Yellowknife, Canada

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: UK extreme cold late summer as Atlantic ocean temperatures change

Global cooling: Heavy snowfall in summer over the Alps for second weekend in a row - Up to 8 inches in 24 hours

Snowing for the 3rd day in the past 5, atop Pikes Peak, Colorado

Early snow at Big White ski resort in British Columbia

Early snowfall in East Kazakhstan

Global cooling: Colorado gets snow in early September

Global cooling: Turkey hit by summer snowfall

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Seismograph

7.8 earthquake recorded near Suva, Fiji


Earthquake Today
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:21 UTC
eaqrthquake suva fiji
© USGS
A major earthquake with magnitude 7.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 101 kilometers (63 miles) from Suva in Fiji. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:49:14 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 608.59 km (378 miles). Exact location, longitude 179.3315° East, latitude -18.4935° South, depth = 608.59 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Suva in Fiji (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000h9e2, pt18249001, at00pen5a4. Id of event: us2000h9e2. Global time and date of event 06/09/18 / 2018-09-06 15:49:14 / September 6, 2018 @ 3:49 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, Fiji (c. 876 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Suva (c. 77 400 pop), 47 km (30 miles) from Levuka (c. 8 400 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suva, Levuka.

Earthquakes 7.0 to 7.9 may cause serious damage. There are an estimated 15 major quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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Doberman

Woman dies of heart attack while being mauled by pit bull terrier in Proctor, Missouri

Matthew Sanders
abc17news.com
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:22 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK


Authorities later killed the animal

A woman died of a heart attack Saturday in Morgan County after being attacked by a dog.

Sheriff Norman Dills said the death happened in the Proctor area when a 61-year-old woman was attacked by a dog she was caring for and suffered the fatal heart attack. The dog attacked a man who came to check on the 61-year-old woman and he had to be taken to a hospital to have surgery for the wounds, Dills said.

He had been released from the hospital by Wednesday, Dillon said.

The incident took place inside a home and the dog, a pit bull that was acting aggressively when first responders arrived, was killed by authorities, Dills said.
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