A tornado touched down in Choctaw County in the town of Silas, Alabama.
Around 4 pm Wednesday, the tornado hit causing damage to the area. Choctaw County Sheriff Scott Lolley reported there are no deaths or injuries from the tornado but there are a lot of trees and roof damage on the South end of the city.
Medford Taylor a resident of Silas talked about when the storm came through his back yard.
"The wind got pretty strong," Taylor said. "I was in the house by myself watching out the back window and saw it come through the backyard. It didn't hurt the house that much, but it tore all my trees down."
Five homes in the Silas area have reported damage so far.
A group of individuals were treated to the unusual sight of a snow devil whizzing across a snow-covered slope, footage captured by one onlooker shows.
Matt Eichelberger, who captured the footage, told Storyful that his encounter with the meteorological phenomenon occurred on March 16 during a trip to Big Sky, Montana.
Anthony Jackson El Paso Times Thu, 18 Mar 2021 11:14 UTC
The sky turned beige and the wind roared Tuesday as a dust storm roughly 200 miles wide engulfed El Paso and neighboring regions as it lumbered toward northeastern New Mexico and other parts of Texas.
The storm's winds reached upwards of 60 mph in East-Central El Paso, where the weather station at the El Paso International Airport recorded a high of 64 mph gusts, according to Joe Delizio, a meteorologist with National Weather Service El Paso.
"Inside the city, but a little bit to the east, we had stronger winds," Delizio said, explaining there were wind gusts "in the 60s and 70s east of the mountain range."
Conrad Mupesa allAfrica Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:19 UTC
A lightning bolt struck and killed three men and seriously injured one at Mhembwechena business centre in Makonde district last week.
Tongai Gandiwa (32), Stewart Phiri (23) and Shadreck Bvudzijena (age unknown) struck while sitting under a tree and where pronounced dead on arrival at Kenzamba clinic.
Tongai's brother, Shine (30) who sustained serious burns was taken to the same clinic where he was treated.
An international team, led by the University of Cambridge, studied the chemical fingerprints in European oak trees to reconstruct summer climate over 2,110 years. They found that after a long-term drying trend, drought conditions since 2015 suddenly intensified, beyond anything in the past two thousand years.
This anomaly is likely the result of human-caused climate change and associated shifts in the jet stream. The results are reported in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Recent summer droughts and heatwaves in Europe have had devastating ecological and economic consequences, which will worsen as the global climate continues to warm.
Comment: Note that our planet is not only suffering extreme droughts, extreme flooding is also on the rise, and research shows that both of these patterns have occurred before, and it would appear that they're part of a cycle that is linked to ice ages; however, as revealed in the article, it would appear that, this time, it may be even more severe:
Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Washington warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to estimated 12000 ft (3700 m) altitude or flight level 120.
Richard Davies Floodlist Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:25 UTC
Heavy rainfall on 16 March 2021 caused severe flash flooding in the neighbouring cities of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), and Brazzaville, capital of Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
As of 17 March 2021 local media reported evacuations in areas close to the Tsiemé river in Brazzaville after flood water invaded homes. Flooding also caused severe traffic problems in the city.
Local media in DR Congo reported 4 children died in the floods, with several houses swept away in Kisenso municipality in the east of Kinshasa.
The Ndjili bridge collapsed causing severe transport problems, in particular to and from N'Djili International Airport. The collapse of the bridge also left some communities of Tshangu district cut off from the rest of the city.
Comment: Note that our planet is not only suffering extreme droughts, extreme flooding is also on the rise, and research shows that both of these patterns have occurred before, and it would appear that they're part of a cycle that is linked to ice ages; however, as revealed in the article, it would appear that, this time, it may be even more severe:
- Cyclical climate change: Major drought in the Middle Ages and its parallels with today
- Highest flooding in Europe for 500 years, historical records show correlation with abnormal cold
- Melting icebergs key feature of an ice age, scientists find
- Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium, last significant decline recorded during the little ice age
- NASA: Recent "Greening Earth" has had strong cooling effect on land
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