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Death toll from central Vietnam typhoon-triggered flood rises to 14

Shi Yinglun
Xinhua
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:10 UTC
FLOODS
Floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Toraji over the weekend in Vietnam's central Nha Trang city have killed 14 people and left two others missing, according to local authorities on Monday.

Due to heavy rain and floods, many areas were still inundated including roads to the city's airport, local daily newspaper Sai Gon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberation) quoted the municipal People's Committee as reporting.

Flash floods and landslides also destroyed 12 houses, injured several people and triggered a breach of a reservoir. According to local online newspaper VnExpress, the municipal authorities told some 90,000 students to stay home from school on Monday.

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Spring snow blankets lower South Island, New Zealand with more on the way


RNZ
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:17 UTC
Snow at Arthurs Point near Queenstown on Monday morning.
© DEBBIE JAMIESON/STUFF
Snow at Arthurs Point near Queenstown on Monday morning.
Snow has fallen to 400 metres in lower parts of the South Island and thunderstorms could be on the cards for the top half.

MetService duty forecaster Bill Singh said an unstable southerly flow is the culprit behind the snow.

"As we move towards the day, the snow level is expected to rise to about 600 metres," he said.

"There has been a warning out for central Otago, inland Clutha and Southland for snow ... to [fall] to 800 metres where between 30 to 40 centimetres of snow is expected to accumulate."

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Thousands are urged to evacuate as erupting 'Volcano of Fire' spews lava in Guatemala

AP and Julian Robinson
Daily Mail
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:55 UTC
Thousands have been urged to evacuate after an increased eruption of Guatemala's 12,300ft 'Volcano of Fire'. Images captured overnight show huge amounts of lava and ash spewing out

Thousands have been urged to evacuate after an increased eruption of Guatemala's 12,300ft 'Volcano of Fire'. Images captured overnight show huge amounts of lava and ash spewing out
Thousands of people have been urged to evacuate after an increased eruption of Guatemala's 12,300ft 'Volcano of Fire'.

Dramatic pictures show glowing lava spewing from the summit of the volcano, located among the departments of Escuintla, Chimaltenango and Sacatepéquez in the south-central part of the country.

Disaster coordination authorities have asked ten communities to evacuate and go to safe areas.

This morning, David de Leon, spokesman for the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction, said monitoring of the volcano's activity yesterday showed the intensity of the eruption was being maintained.
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When the scientific consensus is corrected by a skeptic

Abe Greenwald
Commentary Magazine
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
climate protest
A group of international scientists is walking back major claims they'd made in the journal Nature about the rate at which the earth's oceans are warming. A newly published note from the study's co-author, Ralph Keeting, makes it plain that these researchers still believe the oceans are warming at an alarming rate, but they now acknowledge that procedural mistakes "that came to our attention" created an unacceptably large margin of error in their results.

That "came to our attention" line conceals the most important aspect of the story. These scientists work out of Princeton University, the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, and various international institutions that make up the much lionized "scientific consensus" on climate change. And they had their landmark study debunked by an independent global-warming skeptic of no institutional standing named Nicholas Lewis.

Comment: See also:

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Flash floods have claimed 30 lives in Saudi Arabia over the last month

Northeast Live
YouTube
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:03 UTC
Saudi Arabia hit by unprecedented rains and floods

Saudi Arabia hit by unprecedented rains and floods
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that flash floods have claimed at least 30 people across the desert nation over the past month.

The government has issued warning as situation is expected to get worse.

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Boat

Enormous waves wipe away balconies in Tenerife, Canary Islands


Pirate FM
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 20:11 UTC
giant wave
© RTVC
Giant wave
Enormous waves are battering buildings on the north coast of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands.

According to local reports 39 people have been evacuated from their homes, although fortunately nobody has been injured.

Footage uploaded to social media by Nelson Acosta shows the gigantic waves sweeping out of the sea and crashing into the side of a high-rise building, brushing away the railings from concrete balconies.

The turbulent sea has also battered the southern coast of the island according to Huffpost Spain, where the windows of a hotel restaurant were reportedly broken while several people were dining.

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Snowflake

Heavy snow brings traffic to a halt in eastern Turkey - up to 31 inches measured


Rudaw
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:51 UTC
snow
Three days of heavy snowfall has brought life to a standstill in Kurdish areas of Turkey.

"We are waiting for the roads to be reopened. Winter has come and we are stuck on the roads," said one driver in Kars province putting chains on his tires.

Nearly 80 cm of snow has fallen in Kars and 50 cm in other provinces.

And it is still coming down.


Comment: See also this report from 3 days earlier: Heavy snowfall in Turkey - up to 2 feet.

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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Real reason winter Avery formed so early - our sun is changing


Adapt 2030
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 19:04 UTC
Snow piles up on bicycles outside the transit terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, after a snowstorm on Thursday

Snow piles up on bicycles outside the transit terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, after a snowstorm on Thursday
The real reason for Winter Storm Avery in Autumn breaking thousands of snow and cold records is that our Sun is changing as it always does on its 400 year cycle called a Grand Solar Minimum.

This affects global grain yields and food prices. If you think New York's old snow record was one inch and the new record is 6.2 inches, that's not CO2 its a new effects from our Sun on our magnetosphere and cloud patterns around Earth.

From record rains, to record snow and cold, this is the new era we are entering and I try to explain it the best I can using the Avery Winter Storm to show cause and effect.


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Rainbow

Circumhorizontal arc seen over Northland, New Zealand


1 News Now
Sun, 18 Nov 2018 18:33 UTC
Circumhorizontal arc over Northland, NZ
© Natalie Richards
MetService has lended its expertise to explain a beautiful rainbow-like phenomena seen over the town of Paparoa in Northland yesterday.

Natalie Richardson was passing through with her mum yesterday when they noticed the phenomena in the sky, saying it was slowing changing colour for about 15 minutes.

"Thought the country should know because it's amazing! Never seen it before!" she said.

MetService meteorologist Tui McInnes said the rainbow was in fact a phenomena called a Circumhorizontal Arc.

"Basically what happens is sunlight enters the cloud and ice crystals in the cloud refract the light and form a rainbow," she said.
Circumhorizontal arc over NZ
© Natalie Richards
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Attention

Dead humpback whale washes up near British Columbia ferry terminal


CTV News
Sat, 17 Nov 2018 17:50 UTC
A dead humpback whale washed up
© ANDREA JACOBS/TSAWWASSEN FIRST NATION / PNG
A dead humpback whale washed up on the shore in Tsawwassen Friday.
Officials are trying to determine the cause of death for a young humpback whale that washed up near a major ferry terminal in B.C.

The carcass of the mammal was discovered in shallow waters near the BC Ferries terminal in Tsawwassen Friday morning.

The whale was reported to authorities, triggering a response from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Tsawwassen First Nation.

"We'll look at the body condition, see if the animal's emaciated," said Paul Cottrell, the local marine mammal coordinator for the DFO told CTV Vancouver.

"It's really important to figure out what's happened to this animal and why it's died and make sure if there's an anthropogenic cause - human cause - what that is."


Comment: Two days earlier a young killer whale was found dead on Nootka Island in the same province.

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