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Paavo Korpela, the Finnish Meteorological Institute weather forecaster on duty, said the midsummer week will be chilly throughout Lapland.
- The cold air arrives from the north to the south, which is why in Lapland can receive rain and even snow. The snow has melted away during the day, says Korpela.
The inclement weather is expected to continue over the next few days and Tuesday night will see the temperatures drop.
The weather is expected to warm up on the weekend, but the thermometer will hover around the ten degree mark.
© Matt CokerEmerging pattern: fewer tornado days in U.S. - but more tornados!
Pilger has a population of about 350 people, according to the 2010 Census. Damage was also reported in Stanton, Nebraska, from that same storm.
Although rare, the phenomenon of simultaneous multiple tornadoes associated with the same severe thunderstorm is not unheard of. However, it is extremely rare for both tornadoes to be so intense and long-lasting. A more common phenomenon is to have so-called "satellite tornadoes" rotating around a main funnel, but in this case, it appears there were two independent, long-lived and powerful tornadoes about 1 to 2 miles apart.
Making this even more unusual, from a scientific standpoint, is that both tornadoes were spinning in the same direction.
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Researchers from the UTA's Institute for Geophysics found that the Thwaites Glacier in western Antarctica is being eroded by the ocean as well as geothermal heat from magma and subaerial volcanoes. Thwaites is considered a key glacier for understanding future sea level rise.
UTA researchers used radar techniques to map water flows under ice sheets and estimate the rate of ice melt in the glacier. As it turns out, geothermal heat from magma and volcanoes under the glacier is much hotter and covers a much wider area than was previously thought.
"Geothermal flux is one of the most dynamically critical ice sheet boundary conditions but is extremely difficult to constrain at the scale required to understand and predict the behavior of rapidly changing glaciers," UTA researchers wrote in their study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
But you will now... because a tornado was spotted in Korea earlier this week.
News of this twister, coupled with freak thunderstorms and torrential rain showers in recent days, has people asking if it's all down to climate change.
The worst flooding in the Balkans in over a century... an unusually heavy hailstorm in Sao Paulo, Brazil... and exceptionally heavy snowstorms in the central United States.
The effects of climate change are being seen across the globe through abnormal weather events... and Korea is no exception... as evidenced by the last few days.
A tornado near Ilsan in Gyeonggi-do province this Tuesday... was the first ever spotted on the mainland.
The twister lasted for at least an hour... leaving a trail of destruction in its path... with at least 21 greenhouses destroyed.
No deaths or injuries have been reported in the rains, which began early Friday and abated only on Sunday, dumping in 50 hours as much rain as is usually seen in the northeastern Brazilian city during the entire month of June. With more rains forecast for the next five days, some people worried that the weather could affect the U.S.-Ghana match on Monday afternoon.
Natal's City Hall declared a flood alert on Saturday and evacuated dozens of residents as a precaution in the Mae Luiza neighborhood in the city's west. News reports showed images of residents wading through knee-deep waters as others pushed cars submerged up to the door handles. Additional reports showed a huge crater cutting across a street in a residential neighborhood.
Did you think summer was here? Snow could fall in Elko County early this week at elevations above 7,000 feet, according to a National Weather Service advisory.
"In what will seem more like spring than almost summer, a strong weather-maker will bring enough cold air and moisture to higher terrain starting late Monday to produce snow showers over parts of northern Nevada," the notice stated.
Most valleys will not see any snowflakes, but northern Elko County - especially the Jarbidge Wilderness and other mountains east of Mountain City Highway - could get a couple inches of accumulation between late Monday and Wednesday.
The Ruby Mountains and East Humboldts also could receive a couple inches of snow.
© Jan-Morten Bjørnbakk/NTB scanpixJimi Bradshaw from Florida plays with snow for the first ever in Tromsø on Monday.
"There have been both sleet and snow showers tonight, and people have even observed snow settling on the ground," Trond Lien, a local meteorologist, told the Tromsø-based Nordlys newspaper. "This is very rare, and I cannot remember the last time it snowed on June 16. It must be a long time ago."
He said he had found reports indicating snowfall in the city during July a century previously, but had yet to find any record of snow in June.
Odd Arne Thomassen, a professional driver, told NRK that he had encountered roughly four inches of snow when driving over Kvænangsfjellet in North Troms on Monday morning.
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A second, 5.6-magnitude quake struck two hours later slightly closer to shore at a depth of 39 kilometres. Cities nearest to the epicentre included Iwaki, Kitaibaraki, Namie and Hitachi, USGS said. The same coastline was struck by a devastating quake and subsequent tsunami in 2011 that killed more than 18,000 people and sparked a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant - the world's worst nuclear accident in a generation.
USGS data magnitude 5.6
USGS data magnitude 5.7
Volcanic tremor under Chaparrastique volcano now reached similar to the pre-eruption of December 2013 measured values.
The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) reports seismic vibration under Chaparrastique volcano has been very intense in the last days. Local observers reported hearing a booming noise about this day at 2:00 am. There have been very little vapor or gas emissions so far. This indicates that the duct system of the volcano is partially obstructed, withstanding the pressure of magmatic fluids, so there is a high probability of eruptive activity, either through the central crater or on its flanks. Eruptions in the last 500 years have been in the VEI-1 to VEI-2 range.
In the last few days the vibration of the volcano reached similar to the pre-eruption of December 29, 2013 measured values. Since February 2014 several hundred microearthquakes have been recorded under the northern flank of the volcano.
MARN informs about the tremor status every hour and new reports here on twitter.
Comment: Indeed, 'climate change' is underway, but it's not quite turning out the way authorities predicted.
Clearly what's happening on this planet at this time goes way beyond carbon footprints and fossil fuel consumption.
Check out the recent episode of SOTT Talk Radio where we discussed 'Earth Changes' and what 'climate change' is really all about.