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Igloo

Summer snow storm at Falls Creek, Australia


Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:01 UTC
Summer Snow
© ABC/Audience submittedZoe 9, of Mt Beauty, makes the most of the summer snow at Falls Creek.
It is officially the fifth day of summer, but it snowed overnight at Falls Creek, in Victoria's north-east.

The ski resort received up to six centimetres of snow.

Resident photographer Chris Hocking says the wind chill took apparent temperatures to minus 6 degrees Celsius at times and the ground has turned white.

"We've probably seen four to six centimetres on the ground [and] a little more up high," he said.

"Temps are in sort of mid-winter chill and [it's] just amazing to see the ground turn pretty much white all around the resort."

Mount Baw Baw and Mount Hotham have also had snow. Gina Woodward from Mount Hotham says it is surprising, given temperatures in the north of the state broke heat records last week.

"[It's] pretty cold, minus 1.6C right now," she said.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 5.6 - 42km ESE of Qayen, Iran


US Geological Survey
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:39 UTC
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Event Time
2012-12-05 20:38:12 UTC+03:30 at epicenter

Location
33.520°N 59.570°E depth=5.4km (3.3mi)

Nearby Cities
42km (26mi) ESE of Qayen, Iran
79km (49mi) NNE of Birjand, Iran
123km (76mi) SE of Gonabad, Iran
175km (109mi) SW of Taybad, Iran
503km (313mi) SSE of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
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Cloud Lightning

Updated Philippine death toll from Typhoon Bopha rises: 100 feared dead


The Extinction Protocol
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:12 UTC
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The death toll from a powerful storm that hit the southern Philippines is continuing to rise, as rescue teams headed for affected areas. More than 100 people are now thought to have died after Typhoon Bopha struck Mindanao island on Tuesday, bringing rain and high winds. Tens of thousands were evacuated ahead of the storm, which is now passing over the western island of Palawan. One other person was reported missing on the central island of Leyte after Bopha made landfall on Mindanao's east coast at dawn, bringing driving rain and packing gusts of up to 210 kilometres (130 miles) an hour, he said. In Andap village in east Mindanao, at least 43 were killed in flash floods. Water and mud rushed down mountainous slopes to engulf a school and a village hall serving as evacuation centers. Heavy rain caused rivers to burst their banks in some places.

"They thought that they were already secure in a safe area, but they didn't know the torrents of water would go their way," Compostela Valley Provincial Governor Arturo Uy told local media. A road into the town was blocked by debris, reports said, but the military said it was hoping to get helicopters into the area to assess the situation. Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman said body bags and other emergency supplies would be rushed to affected areas. "The bodies are left lying on the ground in the open in New Bataan and we don't want to risk the spread of disease," she told Agence-France Presse news agency.
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Bizarro Earth

Seismic swarm of 2000 micro-earthquakes near the island of Nisyros - Eruption imminent?


The Extinction Protocol
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:05 UTC
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A seismic swarm of 2000 micro-earthquakes near the island of Nisyros since 24 November could indicate a start of a or coming of a volcanic eruption near Nisyros. The quakes are located between the area of Simi Island (Greece) and the Bozburun peninsula of SW of Turkey. Information is still scanty, but seismic signals from this possible eruption are very similar to those recorded from current volcanic eruptions. If an eruption is taking place, it would form a new submarine volcano near Nisyros. No proof has yet been found to prove that an eruption may be taking place. Some sources think the swarm may be tectonic (as the Aegean sea is very seismically active).

The Volcano Discovery alert will be kept at Green until further evidence is found. The island has a 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) to 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) wide caldera, and was constructed within the past 150,000 years, with 3 separate eruptive stages, ranging from explosive and effusive andesitic eruptions to effusive and extrusive dacitic and rhyolitic activity.
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Bizarro Earth

'Black swan' cyclone could hit northern Australia

Richard A. Lovett
Cosmos Online
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:42 UTC
Black Swan Cyclone
© Bill Bradley / WikimediaCyclone Tracy, which hit Darwin, Australia, on Christmas Day 1974, killed 65 people and destroyed 70% of the city's homes, but is a "mere kitten" compared to a 'black swan' cyclone that could hit the city – and others – in the future.
San Francisco: There is a small but real chance, scientists say, that super cyclones with freak 10-metre storm surges could hit cities such as Darwin, Australia, Tampa, Florida and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Such a storm is an example of what Ning Lin, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, calls a "black swan" cyclone. Something similar, she says, could hit the Persian Gulf, inundating unprepared cities like Dubai - which has never seen a cyclone - with similarly enormous storm surges.

"A black swan is a surprise with huge impact," she said yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California. "For this study, we defined [it] as an event which cannot reasonably be anticipated based on historical records alone."
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Attention

Best of the Web: Connecting the global cooling dots

Alan Caruba
factsnotfantasy.blogspot.co.uk
Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:43 UTC
"The sun is the primary source of heat for the Earth... This is worth keeping in mind when the Secretary General of the United Nations or any other lying politician or alleged scientist tell you otherwise."
ice age
Winter doesn't officially begin until December 21, but winter has a mind of its own as does all of nature. While the United Nations charlatans gathered in Doha, Qatar to try to save its global warming hoax by first calling it "climate change" and then by fashioning a funding mechanism to transfer the wealth of developed countries to those who are not, winter has arrived "early" around the world.

That might just have something to do with the cooling cycle that has been active for the past sixteen years, "inconveniently" blowing a big hole in the global warming lies we've been hearing and reading since the late 1980s.

From IceAgeNow.info, a site by Robert W. Felix, the author of a book about ice ages (the Earth has been through quite a few in its 4.5 billion years), here are some recent news stories:
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Cloud Precipitation

40 dead or missing as 160-mph typhoon hits Philippines


NBC News
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:33 UTC
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© Agence France Presse/Getty ImagesResidents brave heavy wind and rains during Typhoon Bopha on the southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday.
The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year pounded the southern island of Mindanao on Tuesday and about 40 people were dead or missing, media said, after the storm destroyed homes and brought down power and communication lines.

Typhoon Bopha made landfall at dawn, uprooting trees and tearing off roofs. The Weather Channel said the storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 160 mph and was the equivalent of a category five hurricane.

About 40 people were killed or missing in flash floods and landslides near a mining area on Mindanao, ABS-CBN television reported, saying waters and soil had swept through an army post.

A television reporter said she saw numerous bodies lined up near the army base. A military spokesman earlier said about 20 people, including six soldiers, were missing.
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Arrow Down

Two enormous sinkholes swallow roads in Bay Area, California


CBS SF
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:44 UTC
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A storm caused a 20-foot sinkhole to form along Mountain View Drive in Lafayette on December 2, 2012.
Two giant sinkholes formed in separate Bay Area communities during the heavy rain from a powerful storm that passed through the Bay Area over the weekend.

In one instance, a giant sinkhole swallowed two lanes of a street in a residential neighborhood in Lafayette Sunday.

High water levels and a clogged storm drain in Lafayette Creek destroyed a portion of Mountain View Drive Sunday, creating a sinkhole where the road once was, Lafayette City Manager Steven Falk said.

Comment: Here's a video of the other sinkhole in Santa Cruz (more of a landslide really):



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Cloud Lightning

'Very, very big' Typhoon Bopha hits Philippines, killing 27 people and destroying homes

Jethro Mullen
CNN
Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:58 UTC
An intense typhoon thumped into the southern Philippines on Tuesday, destroying homes, setting off a landslide and killing more than two dozen people, authorities said. Typhoon Bopha struck the large southern island of Mindanao, which is rarely in the direct path of tropical cyclones, fueling fears that it could be as devastating as a storm that killed more than 1,200 people there almost a year ago.

Bopha, the most powerful typhoon to hit Mindanao in decades, had top winds of 175 kph (110 mph) as it came ashore over the city of Baganga early Tuesday. Millions of people, many of whom live in remote and unprepared communities, were in the storm's path, Philippine authorities and aid groups said.


Watch: iReporter captures Typhoon aftermath in southern Philippines
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Radar

4.3 magnitude earthquake rattles Slovenia


Austrian Independent
Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:39 UTC
An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale rattled central and eastern Slovenia early on Monday morning. Epicentre of the quake was the village of Gornji Grad, some 30 km north-east of Ljubljana, the local Environmental Agency (ARSO) said.

The quake was powerful enough to be felt across the border in Carinthia according to the Austrian earthquake monitoring organisation which is part of the Austrian Weather Institute (ZAMG).

In a press release ZAMG said the earthquake had been most strongly felt in the Klagenfurt region.

There was no immediate reports of any damage or about anybody injured.
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