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Snowflake Cold

Arctic temperatures, snow and flooding sweep across the U.S.

Kate Reilly and Christine Rapp
NBC News
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:45 UTC
Snow falls from a tree as a person clears a sidewalk along Cherokee Parkway in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 12.
© Matt Stone / USA TodaySnow falls from a tree as a person clears a sidewalk along Cherokee Parkway in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 12.
60 million people from the Northern Plains through the Southeast are under cold weather alerts this weekend and will face dangerously cold wind chills.

Wintry weather is sweeping across parts of the United States this weekend, bringing with it brutally low temperatures.

Sixty million people from the Northern Plains through the Southeast are under cold weather alerts, including Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, Huntsville and Myrtle Beach.

Dangerously cold wind chills are expected to hit these areas, with the National Weather Service issuing some alerts that run into Monday morning.

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Snowflake Cold

Heavy snowfall of 50 centimeters and freezing temperatures hit multiple provinces in Türkiye


TurkiyeToday.com
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:17 UTC
Palandoken Ski Resort in Erzurum is known for being the ski center that opens the season earliest and closes it the latest in Türkiye. Erzurum, Türkiye, December 12, 2025.
© AAPalandoken Ski Resort in Erzurum is known for being the ski center that opens the season earliest and closes it the latest in Türkiye. Erzurum, Türkiye, December 12, 2025.
Following warnings issued by the Turkish State Meteorological Service, a cold air system accompanied by precipitation has affected large parts of the country, bringing snowfall to numerous provinces, particularly in eastern and northern regions.

Several settlements were cut off due to heavy snow, while the season's first snowfall was recorded in some provinces.

Erzurum experiences heavy snowfall

In Erzurum, snowfall that had previously been limited to higher elevations spread to the city center in the early morning hours. Snow depth reached up to 50 centimeters in some areas, and air temperatures dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius ( minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit).

The snowfall caused disruptions to traffic, prompting municipal and highway maintenance teams to conduct snow removal and de-icing operations.

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Tsunami

Floods leave over 2,000 dead, missing in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, nearly 4 million affected


Anadolu Agency
Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:25 UTC
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Death toll from severe weather in Indonesia rises to 995 with 226 missing, while 640 dead in Sri Lanka with 211 still unaccounted for

Severe floods and landslides in Indonesia and Sri Lanka left over 2,000 people dead and missing as of Saturday, official data showed.

Unprecedented floods, landslides, storms, and cyclones have caused widespread devastation across South Asia and Southeast Asia. Indonesia has been hit the hardest, followed by Sri Lanka.

Indonesia's national disaster management agency said so far 995 people are dead and 226 are missing on Sumatra and over 5,000 injured as rescue operations are underway.

More than 3.2 million people have been affected by devastating floods and landslides in the flood-hit provinces of North Sumatra, West Sumatra, and Aceh.
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Binoculars

Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper from eastern Siberia turns up in Alameda, California

Deborah Crooks
Alameda Post
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:10 UTC
A rare, golden-toned sharp-tailed sandpiper walking in the mud at Elsie Roemer as the author first saw a bird she didn’t recognize.
© Bruce MastA rare, golden-toned sharp-tailed sandpiper walking in the mud at Elsie Roemer as the author first saw a bird she didn’t recognize.
A few days after I moved to Alameda, I set out on an exploratory walk of nearby Crown Beach. As I continued south on Shoreline Drive, past the bowling alley and apartments buildings and onto the sliver of a trail between a row of houses and the San Francisco Bay, my jaw actually dropped at the sight of hundreds of shorebirds—marbled godwits and western sandpipers, avocets and black-necked stilts, willets and black-bellied plovers—who were dabbling in the mudflats between the beach and Bay Farm Island bridge. A lifelong bird lover, I felt as if I had discovered gold.

What I'd discovered was the Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary, which to the many migratory shorebirds who flock here each winter, and the bird-loving humans who watch them, is as good as gold. I loved the place so much that my husband and I got married on its south platform in 2012! Flash forward to this fall, when I happened upon something else special there, a rare and golden-toned sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata).
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Attention

'It's just crazy': Man dies after rare deer attack in Marinette County, Wisconsin

Nina Sparano
nbc26.com
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:13 UTC
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A rare wildlife incident is under investigation in Marinette County after a deer attacked an elderly married couple in the Town of Stephenson earlier this week.

According to the Marinette County Sheriff's Office, deputies were called to a home Tuesday afternoon after reports that a deer "went after" the couple while they were in their yard.

The husband later died, but authorities say they do not believe his death was directly caused by injuries from the encounter with the deer.

The names of the victims have not been released.

A neighbor who lives across the street from the couple said she was home at the time and noticed emergency activity in the area.

"I was sitting here, and I heard sirens, and then they stopped," neighbor Sandy Zahorik said. "They were down on the corner and had the road blocked off."

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Cloud Lightning

Rains, lightning kill 14 in Malawi in 2 weeks

Jamal Jamal
Anadolu Agency
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:42 UTC
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Lightning has killed 14 people in Malawi during the past two weeks, while 8,000 homes have been destroyed as the Southeast African nation continues to receive torrential rains, disaster management officials said on Friday.

Wilson Moleni, commissioner for the state-run Department for Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA), told reporters in the capital, Lilongwe, that the deaths and destruction have been reported in various parts of the country.

"But since the country is still receiving heavy rains, there is a likelihood that the number of those dead will increase with time," Moleni said.

He said his organization is working "tirelessly" to provide humanitarian support to those rendered homeless by the rains across the country.
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Tsunami

Prehistoric Lake Manly returns to Death Valley after record rainfall

Julia Gomez
USA TODAY
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:41 UTC
A small Lake Manly has formed near Badwater Basin. The hike to the water is about one mile and is just a few inches deep.
© Savannah M. Sanford/NPSA small Lake Manly has formed near Badwater Basin. The hike to the water is about one mile and is just a few inches deep.
An ancient lake has reemerged after Death Valley National Park experienced record-breaking rainfall this fall.

From September to November, Death Valley, located in California and Nevada, received 2.41 inches of rain, making it the national park's wettest fall, according to a news release on the park's website. In November alone, the park received 1.76 inches of rain, breaking the previous record of 1.7 inches set in 1923.

Due to the rains, Lake Manly, which dates back to the Ice Age, has formed once again in the Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America, which lies 282 feet below sea level. But the lake isn't very deep.

"The lake, colloquially known as 'Lake Manly,' is much smaller and shallower than the one that formed after the remnants of Hurricane Hilary passed through the park in 2024," the national park said. "The water is about a mile from the Badwater parking lot and in most places would not rise above the tops of your shoes."


Here's what to know about the record-breaking rains.
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Seismograph

New 6.7-magnitude earthquake hits Japan - tsunami advisory issued


The Indian Express
Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:34 UTC
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Another 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Japan on Friday (December 12), just days after a powerful 7.5-magnitude quake struck the same region and left at least 50 people injured.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued a tsunami advisory, warning that waves up to one metre high could reach parts of the northern Pacific coast.

Damage and injuries weren't immediately clear.

Friday's quake followed a 7.5 magnitude earthquake earlier this week in the north that caused injuries, light damage and a tsunami in Pacific coastal communities.

At least 34 people were injured in that earlier quake on Monday off the coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan's main Honshu island.
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Tsunami

Southern Brazil hit by extratropical cyclone - 3.8 inches of rain in just 6 hours


Merco Press
Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:49 UTC
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Heavy rainfall triggered by an extratropical cyclone battering Southern Brazil caused widespread flooding on Tuesday, turning streets into rivers and hillsides into waterfalls across Florianópolis, São José, Palhoça, and Biguaçu.

The Epagri/Ciram meteorological agency reported that Palhoça recorded the highest volume of rain over six hours, with 97.2 millimeters, followed closely by Biguaçu (86.2 mm).

The extreme weather caused major transportation and infrastructure issues. Widespread flooding was reported, blocking major roads, including sections of the BR-101 in Palhoça and Biguaçu. In São José, the Itaguaçu shopping tunnel was completely blocked due to high water volume.

In central Florianópolis, a partial collapse of two uninhabited houses occurred. The access road to Morro da Cruz became a literal "waterfall," with overflowing storm drains.

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Tsunami

Cyprus swamped by floods as storm batters holiday island leaving streets underwater and cars floating away

Ava Solieri
Sun (UK)
Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:53 UTC
Northern Cyprus images show the water has turned roads into rivers
© Kıbrıs GazatesiNorthern Cyprus images show the water has turned roads into rivers
FIERCE weather has battered several areas across the holiday island of Cyprus, with dams overflowing and landslides triggered.

Severe flooding in the north of the island has swamped roads turning them into rivers.

Cars were spotted nearly covered by the flooding caused by Storm Byron and people could be seen struggling as the water rose to waist height.

Residents living in Nicosia, were urged by mayor Mehmet Harmanci to exercise extreme caution as streams in the capital began to overflow.

The flooding horror has forced the closure of a central road connecting the general hospital and a school.

Harmanci said the water levels were dangerously high and could not be reduced at this time.

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