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A sign of the coming times? Snowy owl seen in Central Park, New York after 130 years, a rare spotting of an 'unpredictable' Arctic bird

Ryan W. Miller
USA Today
Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:29 UTC
A snowy owl was seen in Central Park in New York City on Jan. 27, 2021.
© REBECCA DEPORTEA snowy owl was seen in Central Park in New York City on Jan. 27, 2021.
Becky DePorte was about 45 minutes outside the city when she got the text from a friend last Wednesday: A snowy owl was in Central Park.

DePorte - an avid bird-watcher - was then unaware a sighting of the owl hadn't been reported in Central Park in 130 years. At the time, she was in Rockefeller State Park Preserve with a friend who was looking for a pileated woodpecker, a bird she had seen plenty of times growing up in rural Pennsylvania.

"I really didn't care about a pileated woodpecker," she said. So she hopped in an Uber, and "$60 and 45 minutes later, I was back in Central Park running to the ballfield with my camera."

"I was so happy" as she snapped photos of the bird, DePorte added. "It was the best, most unusual spotting I had had."


Comment: Read also: Historic Arctic blasts are about to engulf North America, Europe and Asia simultaneously: Grand Solar Minimum

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Tidal wave crashes into cars in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela

KN News
YouTube
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:21 UTC
big wave
Tidal wave crashes cars in Venezuela, Puerto Cabello - 31/01/2021.

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"Rare" snowfall hits Maui, Hawaii for fourth year in a row

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:01 UTC
snow
The summit district of Haleakalā National Park, Maui was closed on Feb. 3 and 4 due to rare wintry conditions and inches of snow, reports mauinow.com.

Rangers urged the public not to travel to the park, and closed both the road and entrance gate — locals were not permitted to see the snow or ice.


Comment: Snow covers the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii

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Somalia declares state of emergency over locust invasion

Aggrey Mutambo
The East African
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:55 UTC
locusts
© Reuters
Somalia has declared a state of emergency over a locust invasion that is threatening to wipe away crop due for harvest from April.

Somalia already has about three million people facing food shortage.

Said Hussein Lid, Somalia's Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, said the government has identified a large swarm of locusts in the southern federal states of Hirshabelle, South West and Jubbaland.

With the declaration, Somalia is seeking targeted funding and efforts to tame the swarms attacking a region that, according to a situational report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), is already food poor.

Somalia's decision came on Thursday after Mr Lid met representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and ministers from the three southern states of Somalia.

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Avalanches claim the lives of 5 people within a week in the U.S.

Jackson Cote
MassLive
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:42 UTC
Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
© Robert F. BukatyMount Washington in New Hampshire.
Backcountry skiing proved to be a deadly activity for multiple people in the U.S. this week whose lives were taken in separate avalanches.

The body of a skier who had been missing for days was found underneath more than a dozen feet of snow Wednesday evening on a trail near Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the state's Fish and Game Department said in a statement.

In Colorado, three skiers died in an avalanche earlier in the week in an area called Mineral Creek near Silverton. They were publicly identified by the county and town of Eagle as Seth Bossung, Andy Jessen and Adam Palmer.


Comment: Another fatality occurred at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah:



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Helicopters sent in to rescue dozens trapped in floodwaters across Gascoyne, Western Australia

Louise Miolin
abc.net.au
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:48 UTC
Motorists and truckies are trapped on islands between floodwaters.
© Rob MinsonMotorists and truckies are trapped on islands between floodwaters.
Emergency services in Western Australia's north are working to evacuate dozens of people from floods in the Gascoyne region.

Operations were underway today to rescue around 40 people who became stranded in and around Minilya, about 120 kilometres north of Carnarvon.

A tropical low, previously expected to become WA's first cyclone of the season, dumped hundreds of millimetres of rain in the state's north last week, leading to flooding over major roads.

Truck driver Rob Minson was airlifted to safety by an RAC helicopter this morning, more than 36 hours after he became stranded on a patch of dry land along with three others.

"It was basically Gilligan's Island," he said.

"We were in the middle of nowhere."

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Major Arctic outbreak for Central and Eastern U.S

Robert Felix
Ice Age Info
Fri, 05 Feb 2021 01:54 UTC
Blizzard Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories effect from Iowa to the Great Lakes regions. "If you don't need to travel, please stay put," warns the NWS.

Blizzard warnings and temperatures 10-30 degrees below normal, and our government is foolishly fighting 'global warming'?
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A strong cold front moving across the central U.S. today will bring areas of freezing rain, snow, and strong winds to the Midwest through the Great Lakes, says the National Weather Service. Blizzard conditions are expected for north-central Iowa.
Iceage Coming
© Twitter
A major Arctic outbreak will filter into the central and eastern U.S. in the wake of this front with temperatures 10-30 degrees below normal from the northern Plains to the Mid-South.

Winter Storm Impacting the Midwest and Great Lakes.

Heavy snow for the U.P. of Michigan and western Lower Michigan into Saturday.
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Historic Arctic blasts are about to engulf North America, Europe and Asia simultaneously: Grand Solar Minimum

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:35 UTC
Ice earth GSM

According to the satellites, the global lower troposphere cooled rapidly during the past two months (Dec + Jan). Mid-latitude cooling is only intensifying-further during February as record-breaking polar blasts are about to descend into North America, Europe, and Asia simultaneously:

Low solar activity is weakening the jet streams, reverting their usual tight ZONAL flows to unusually wavy MERIDIONAL ones. This reduction in energy is effectively "buckling" those bands of fast-flowing air, with the upshot (in the NH) being the transportation of tropical warmth anomalously-far north, and, conversely, the sinking of polar cold unusually-far south.

North America

Following the record cold and snow that recently buffeted the Northeast, Midwest, and West, North America is now on course for something widespread truly historic.

Comment: See also:

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After Saudi weather warnings issued torrential rain and severe flooding hit


Arab News
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 18:11 UTC
floods
Weather warnings have been issued for several regions across Saudi Arabia lasting until Saturday, the Kingdom's civil defense said on Tuesday.

The authority warned of thunderstorms with light to moderate rain and brisk winds in the capital Riyadh, Makkah, Madinah, the Eastern Province, Qassim, Tabuk, Hail, the Northern Borders Province, and Jawf. It also warned some areas will experience heavy rain that may lead to torrential flows and flooding.

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U.S. coast to coast record-setting storm

Meredith Garofalo
Weather Nation
Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:20 UTC
storm
Destructive mudslides, feet of snow, wind and waves collapsing houses along the shoreline — all part of a powerful storm system that brought impacts coast to coast to close out the first month of the year.

We start in California with a tale of two different types of precipitation. While it was much needed moisture for the Golden State, it also brought hazards for days from the mountains to the beaches. Some cities picked up more than a foot of rain, leading to flooding and mudslides. This prompted evacuations and even rescue missions in Monterey County.

At the same time, mountain snow in the Sierras began coming down at a very fast rate, with final storm totals between six to nine feet. The snow engulfed towns, snarled traffic, and even stranded those brave enough to be out on the roads. From there, the storm system tracked toward the Midwest, with snow amounts measuring more than a foot in some locations from Milwaukee to Chicago to Northwest Indiana.

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