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Flash flood hits Pensacola, Florida as foot of rain falls in hours


Fox Weather
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:44 UTC
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Life-threatening flash flooding swept across swaths of Pensacola, Florida early Friday morning as deadly severe thunderstorms dumped several inches of rain and brought a possible tornado, leaving one person dead and parts of the region buried under feet of water.

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SOTT Focus: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - May 2023: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


Sott.net
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:26 UTC
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** Sorry the Earth Changes Summary Video for May is so late - all Sott.net chroniclers were attending a wedding! **

If you thought the unseasonable snow and cold temperatures would end in April, you were wrong. Records continued to be broken in May in both hemispheres, and many countries suffered from heavy floods due to tons of melting snow.

Some snowy events to highlight:
  • Michigan - 26 inches of record snow.
  • West Virginia - 20 inches of record snow.
  • Sierra Nevada, California - 15 inches in 48 hours. (State snowpack over 300% of average)
  • Teller County, Colorado - Heavy unseasonable snow.
  • Spain - Unseasonable snow after an early heatwave.
  • Iwate Prefecture, Japan - Record snow for May.
  • New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory - Record coldest May temperatures.
And flooding events:
  • Alaska - Catastrophic flooding after ice jams and melting snow
  • Emilia Romagna, Italy - Heavy floods take the life of 14.
  • Southwestern Germany - Heavy floods cause closure of rail lines.
  • Lapland, Finland - Worst flooding in 55 years
  • Yemen - Heavy floods leave 24 dead
  • Somalia - Devastating floods trigger the evacuation of 200,000
  • South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo - Catastrophic floods leave 400 dead.
  • Jiangxi, China - 14,000 evacuated after heavy floods
Remember, don't listen to the warm-mongers when we start getting hotter than normal temperatures, it's all caused by El Niño. And don't forget to look up and pay attention to the show provided by the increasing number of meteor fireballs... and don't let any "authority" convince you that they are Martian spacecrafts crashing into Earth!

All that, and more, in this month's SOTT Earth Changes Summary:

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Attention

Man killed in wild bear attack in south Kashmir, India


The Kashmir Walla
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:27 UTC
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A man was killed on Friday after he was attacked by a wild bear at Cheerward village of Kokernag in south Kashmir's Anantnag district.

An official said that a wild bear attacked a man identified as Zameer Ahmad Beigh, son of Muhammad Yousuf Beigh, aged 40/42 at Cheerward village.

He was immediately rushed to the hospital, however, he succumbed to injuries on the way to the hospital, an official said.

Meanwhile, locals appealed to the authorities to capture the wild bear at the earliest.

Comment: On the same day: Unprovoked Arizona bear mauls, kills man drinking his morning coffee

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Best of the Web: Bolivia cold snap brings rare snow to tropical farm region


Reuters
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 12:09 UTC
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Bolivia's largest agricultural region, Santa Cruz, is bracing this week against a surprise wave of snow and ice, causing lasting damage to crops and killing cattle in other parts of the country.

Vast parts of the region, known for producing sorghum, soybeans and wheat, among other foods, have been covered in sheets of snow.

Torrential rains have also caused flooding in the valleys of Santa Cruz, prompting road closure, air evacuations and one confirmed death, according to authorities.

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Storms knock out power to more than 100,000 across the South of US with high winds and at least 8 reported tornadoes

Robert Shackelford
CNN
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:28 UTC
Power outages were reported across the South after severe storms brought high winds and reported tornadoes to the region Wednesday.
Power outages were reported across the South after severe storms brought high winds and reported tornadoes to the region Wednesday.
More than a hundred thousand were without power Wednesday night as severe weather produced tornadoes, high winds and large hail that prompted more than 250 storm reports in the South.

As of 3 a.m. ET, more than 135,000 homes and businesses in the region were in the dark across in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, according to tracking site PowerOutage.us.

There were at least eight tornado reports and 85 reports of hail, according to the Storm Prediction Center.

Almost 10 million people were under severe thunderstorm watch, meaning the risk of hazardous weather was high but where and when the storm will hit are uncertain.

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Cloud Precipitation

Intense hail batters Arkansas lake as severe storms move through region


MSN
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:06 UTC
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Parts of central Arkansas were impacted by large hail as severe thunderstorms rolled through the region on Wednesday, June 14. Video recorded from inside a home in Hot Springs, shows large hail stones battering the surface of Lake Hamilton. The National Weather Service warned of baseball-sized hail and winds up to 70mph across the region.

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Best of the Web: June blizzard atop Pikes Peak becomes terrifying 4-hours for Colorado ranger: 'A day I'll never forget'

Chris Oberholtz
Fox Weather
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:54 UTC
The blizzard forced evacuations due to the heavy snow and winds topping 50 mph.
© Stephen PetersonThe blizzard forced evacuations due to the heavy snow and winds topping 50 mph.
A blizzard Monday at the summit of America's Mountain will be a day one Colorado ranger says he will never forget.

"One of the most stressful days I've had at work in a long time," said ranger Stephen "Pete" Peterson, who captured footage of whiteout conditions in June on Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs. "A day I'll never forget!"

Peterson arrived at the 14,000-foot summit at noon and then, "BAM!" he detailed in a post on social media.

"A major storm erupts, and we're in blizzard conditions within minutes," he said as the storm forced evacuations due to the heavy snow and winds topping 50 mph. "We had 20-30 cars up on and near summit who were all leaving just as the blizzard arrived."

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Seismograph

Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes Tonga region - 2nd major quake in area in 14 hours


wtvbam.com
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:59 UTC
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An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck the Tonga region on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

The quake was at a depth of 100 km (62 miles), EMSC said.

Comment: 14 hours earlier: 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Pacific south of Tonga

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7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Pacific south of Tonga


BNO News
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:38 UTC
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A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake has struck the Pacific Ocean south of Tonga, seismologists say. No tsunami warnings have been issued.

The earthquake, which struck at 7:06 a.m. local time on Friday, was centered in the ocean about 281 kilometers (175 miles) southwest of Tonga, or about 735 kilometers (455 miles) southeast of Fiji.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.2. It struck about 167 kilometers (103 miles) below the seabed, making it a fairly deep quake.
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Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano is spewing 'vog' and may launch dangerous glass shards

Kiley Price
Live Science
Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:22 UTC
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© United States Geological Survey/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesKilauea volcano began to erupt around 4:44 am local time on June 7, 2023 in the Big Island of Hawaii.
In a fiery and ongoing eruption, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began spewing lava on June 7, sending molten rock to the surrounding crater and reaching temperatures as high as 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,150 degrees Celsius), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Kilauea, located on Hawaii's Big Island, is one of the world's most active volcanoes, and has been erupting almost continuously since 1983. The USGS briefly deemed the eruption a code red, the highest risk alert level, but downgraded it to orange the next day "because the initial high effusion rates have declined, and no infrastructure is threatened," the USGS said in a June 8 statement, adding that the lava from the eruption is confined to the Halemaʻumaʻu pit crater within Kilauea's summit.
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