Faro was plunged back into tornado chaos on Sunday, only four days after being hit by similar extreme weather in the dockland area.

This time the swirling column of wind reaching speeds of 180 km/ hour hit the city near the entrance of town, uprooting trees, destroying cars, walls and other structures.

Eye-witness John Slaughter described "a very loud noise" as the extreme phenomenon struck "which sounded like machine gun shots" (due to the splitting of window frames and breaking of glass).

Mr Slaughter was in a restaurant near Faro Beach - the same place hit last Wednesday - and said that "most people started running for the exits screaming and many others tried to hide.

"People including myself immediately thought it was a terrorist attack".

Elsewhere a gypsy community in the area known as Cerro do Bruxo had its makeshift housing torn apart while serious damage was suffered at fuel stations, greenhouses and businesses further inland.

Faro firefighters registered around 50 significant incidents.

The tornado went on to affect other areas: Olhão - particularly the area of Pechão - Tavira, Castro Marim and Vila Real do Santo António, but it was in Faro and Olhão that damage appears to have been worst.

Our Earth splits in two as giant fissure appears in the desert of Saudi Arabia By Strange Sounds - Mar 6, 2018 1

Giant cracks are opening all around the world. While terrifying landslide and fissures are perforating the ground in Peru, another large and unexplained geological event split the Earth in two over at least 200 meters in desertic Saudi Arabia.


The deep crack is still growing. It was discovered on February 27, 2018, in Al-Majma'a Governorate, north of Riyadh.

The severe weather conditions in Britain have uncovered an ancient forest which usually lies hidden under sand.

The woodland in Redcar and Cleveland, dates back 7,000 years and is very rarely visible, but the extreme weather has shifted the sand - meaning that the ancient tree stumps and felled logs can now clearly be seen on the shore.

Although only a stretch of around 400 yards has emerged, since Storm Emma the forest runs for several miles along the coastline.

Hartlepool lifeboatman Garry Waugh, who has lived in the area all his life, said: 'I last saw the forest when I was ten years old. That was around 40 years ago. There was a school trip and we were taken down to see it.

Hundreds of livestock are feared dead as the effect of Storm Emma on farms starts to become clear in north-west England.

Defra is facing calls from industry leaders and local representatives to release emergency funding to subsidise the cost of fallen stock disposal in Cumbria.

But the department told the NFU no government money is available to support collection costs.

MP Rory Stewart, who represents the Penrith and The Border constituency, described conditions as "some the worst in living memory" and said the case for Defra support was clear.

A volcano which was featured in the 1967 James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice" shot smoke and ash thousands of meters into the sky Tuesday, prompting the cancellation of flights to and from a nearby airport. The eruption is likely to continue for some time.

It was the first time in about seven years such explosive activity occurred at the 1,421-meter-high volcano straddling Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures, according to the Meteorological Agency. No injuries were reported, local authorities said.

Shinmoedake, located in a largely rural area some 985 km from Tokyo in Kyushu, had been erupting on a smaller scale since March 1. At the time, only access to the peak was restricted.

Due to the recent activity, officials restricted access to the entire mountain, and the danger zone may be expanded Thursday to a 3 kilometer radius from the crater.

Susan Crockford: Polar bears are flourishing, making them phony icons, and false idols, for global warming alarmists
One powerful polar bear fact is slowly rising above the message of looming catastrophe repeated endlessly by the media: More than 15,000 polar bears have not disappeared since 2005. Although the extent of the summer sea ice after 2006 dropped abruptly to levels not expected until 2050, the predicted 67-per-cent decline in polar bear numbers simply didn't happen. Rather, global polar bear numbers have been stable or slightly improved. The polar bear's resilience should have meant the end of its use as a cherished icon of global warming doom, but it didn't. The alarmism is not going away without a struggle.

Part of this struggle involves a scientific clash about transparency in polar bear science. My close examination of recent research has revealed that serious inconsistencies exist within the polar bear literature and between that literature and public statements made by some researchers. For example, Canadian polar bear biologist Ian Stirling learned in the 1970s that spring sea ice in the southern Beaufort Sea periodically gets so thick that seals depart, depriving local polar bears of their prey and causing their numbers to plummet. But that fact, documented in more than a dozen scientific papers, is not discussed today as part of polar bear ecology. In these days of politicized science, neither Stirling nor his colleagues mention in public the devastating effects of thick spring ice in the Beaufort Sea; instead, they imply in recent papers that the starving bears they witnessed are victims of reduced summer sea ice, which they argued depleted the bears' prey. There are also strong indications that thick spring-ice conditions happened again in 2014-16, with the impacts on polar bears being similarly portrayed as effects of global warming.

Wolves have recently been spotted close to farms and even in villages in Lääne County. The animals are driven closer to human settlements by hunger, as the African swine fever has significantly reduced the number of wild boar. On Saturday, wolves attacked a dog in the village of Pürksi.

ERR's "Aktuaalne kaamera" newscast reported on Monday evening that the hunting licenses granted by the state to shoot four wolves in Lääne County's Padise area weren't enough according to Hugo Peterson, who is coordinating the hunt for the animals.

While only four licenses were granted for Padise, at the same time there were 16 more licensed kills in Lääne and Rapla County. There are still too many wolves in the area, and they are apparently getting bolder.

Almost one-fifth of Europe's wood beetles are at risk of extinction due to a widespread decline in ancient trees, according to a new report which suggests their demise could have devastating knock-on effects for other species.

The study says 18% of saproxylic beetles - which depend on dead and decaying wood for some of their lifecycle - now exist on a conservation plane between "vulnerable" and "critically endangered".

Another 13% of the insects are considered "near threatened" and their disappearance could have a disastrous impact on biodiversity and ecosystems, according to the new red list released by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Australia is set for the coldest winter on record, an amateur weather forecaster has claimed.

Temperatures and snowfall could reach shocking levels compared to previous years, said David Taylor, who runs the East Coast Weather Facebook page.

Mr Taylor, who has correctly predicted major weather events in the past, said that the icy conditions would impact huge areas of the country.

'It will be slightly cooler than normal in the north but the real cold will be in the southern states and southeast Queensland,' he told The Cairns Post.

Passengers at Nanchang Changbei International Airport in China were forced to flee in terror as powerful winds wrenched the roof cladding off the terminal building. Debris rained down on cars below during the dramatic episode.

The roof at the entrance to the airport's Terminal 2 collapsed as gusts reached speeds of 109kph (67 mph) following a torrential downpour at approximately 3:30pm local time on Sunday.

"It really felt like the end of the world, so frightening. The wind was so strong that it seemed like it would break the glass," one netizen said, as cited by the Hong Kong Free Press.

The damage was largely superficial and the main structure was not impacted. Flights were briefly suspended but returned to normal scheduling once the tempest had subsided. There were no reports of injuries.

Nanchang Changbei International Airport opened in Jiangxi province in 1999. It serviced roughly 10.9 million passengers in 2017. Footage shared widely on Chinese social media shows panic-stricken passengers fleeing from the falling debris.