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Earthquake of 6.5 magnitude rocks Russia's Far East


TASS
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:02 UTC
Russia's Far East
© Yury Smityk/TASS


The press service of the regional branch of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said that no injuries or damages have been reported

An earthquake of 6.5 magnitude was registered off the Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday. Tremors were felt in four settlements in the Russian Far Eastern Kamchatka Region. The strongest tremors of 6 magnitude were felt in the settlement of Ust-Kamchatsk with a population of around 4,000 people, a representative of the local branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Geophysical Service told TASS.

"The earthquake struck at 9:21am local time [0:21am Moscow time]. Its magnitude stood at 6.5. Residents of Ust-Kamchatsk felt it the most with 6 magnitude. Residents of Kozyrevsk and Klyuchi felt tremors of 3 magnitude. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, tremors of 2 magnitude were registered," the spokesman said.

The earthquake's epicenter lay to the south of Ust-Kamchatsk, in 78 and 36 kilometers from the coastline.

The press service of the regional branch of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said that no injuries or damages have been reported.
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Cold weather gives Texas earliest snowfall ever recorded - 7 inches in the Panhandle

Brian K. Sullivan and Christopher Martin
Claims Journal
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 21:42 UTC
These beautiful images captured bison
© Annie Hepp, Texas Parks and Wildlife
These beautiful images captured bison enjoying the first snowfall of the year in Texas
Houston reported its earliest snowfall ever, beating places like New York City and Boston as a cold snap descended over Texas.

George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston set a new record for the first observed snowfall, breaking one set on Nov. 23, 1979, according to a Twitter post from the National Weather Service. Near record-breaking cold has swept into the South, with temperatures in the state 25 degrees Fahrenheit (14 Celsius) or more below average, according to the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

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Snowflake Cold

1.9 meters (over 6 feet) of snow forecast for the Atlas mountains in Morocco


Morocco World News
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:25 UTC
snow
Overcast weather is expected in the Oriental, Saiss, Rif, and Mediterranean regions. The southeast and Atlas region will experience thunderstorms and rain showers.

Snowfall of 1.9 meters is forecast in the high and Middle Atlas. Moderate to strong winds will sweep the eastern and southeastern regions.

The reliefs of the Atlas and southeastern slopes will experience icy cold weather.

The temperature lows today are between 6 and 11 degrees Celsius in the Oriental, the Atlas and Southeastern slopes; between 11 and 16 degrees Celsius in Saiss, Souss, the Atlantic plains, and the northern and southern provinces; and between 16 and 20 degrees Celsius in the far south.
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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: (Moldy crops & delayed harvests) Your food source is quickly diminishing


Adapt 2030
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:50 UTC
snow crop
Late January winter temperatures grip parts of grain growing areas in Canada and USA along with delayed winter wheat planting, massive rains are delaying harvests in the southern part of the US. Farmers report moldy crops and plantings buried in mud.

Record cold extends to southern Mexico with temperatures 25-30F below normal for this time of year.

A new Grand Solar Minimum timeline to crop losses.


Sources
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Cloud Precipitation

Thousands evacuated after floods following days of heavy rain in Argentina

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:09 UTC
floods
Days of severe weather, including heavy rain and flash flooding, has left around 3,000 people evacuated in Argentina, most of them from parts of the capital Buenos Aires.

The heavy rain began on 09 November, 2018. According to WMO figures, Sauce Viejo city in the province of Santa Fe recorded 196mm of rain in 24 hours to 12 November. Reconquista, also in Santa Fe, recorded 169 mm of rain in 24 hours the following day.

Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) in Argentina said that this November has already been one of the wettest on record.

According to national news agency Télam, 1,561 people have been evacuated in La Matanza, a district (partido) in Greater Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province. In addition, 100 people were evacuated in Arrecifes, 37 in Quilmes, 10 in Marcos Paz, 80 in Cañuelas, 8 in Saladillo, 14 in Trenque Lauquen.


Comment: To keep track of the ever increasing number of severe and frequently record-breaking flooding episodes (including associated landslides) across the planet, please visit our pages dedicated to this topic here.

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Attention

Massive snowfall causes deadly traffic pile-up & vehicle explosion in Russia's south


RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:52 UTC
blizzard cars driving snow
Terrifying footage was captured when a car exploded during a massive vehicle collision in the Rostov region, where extreme weather conditions caused a major traffic incident on an expressway linking Moscow with southern Russia.

One person died and at least two others sustained injuries, after some 15 cars collided on the M-4 Don highway following heavy snowfall on Tuesday. The major road incident caused heavy traffic on the border of the Rostov and Krasnodar Regions.
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Nuke

Public panicked after California wildfire tears through nuclear waste site


RT
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:52 UTC
Wildfire
© Reuters / Eric Thayer
The Woolsey fire that engulfed over 90,000 acres in California last weekend may have spread toxic and radioactive substances from a Superfund site, according to activists who believe authorities might be downplaying the risks.

The fire passed through the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a federal Superfund site in the Simi Hills that was the site of the worst nuclear meltdown in US history in 1959. While the California Department of Toxic Substances Control said there was no reason to be concerned of "any risks other than those normally present in a wildfire situation," locals aren't so sure, pointing out that the agency has dragged its feet in cleaning up toxic sites and accusing it of a possible cover-up.

Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles president Robert Dodge castigated the DTSC, pointing out that the site - now owned by Boeing - remains radioactive and polluted despite the agency's promise to clean it up eight years ago. "These toxic materials are in SSFL's soil and vegetation, and when it burns and becomes airborne in smoke and ash, there is real possibility of heightened exposure for area residents."

Comment: Also see: California wildfires: At least 42 dead, 200 missing, 250k evacuated, over 7000 buildings destroyed - Camp Fire becomes deadliest in state's history

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Snowflake

Three unusually early snows make Kansas City weather history

Robert A. Cronkleton
Kansas City Star
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:00 UTC
Kansas City snow
© JOHN SLEEZER The Kansas City Star
If you think winter weather has come early to the Kansas City area this year, you're not wrong.

The first snow came on Oct. 14, when Kansas City had its earliest measurable snowfall in more than a century - .2 of an inch at Kansas City International Airport.

That broke a 120-year-old record. The last time it snowed this early in Kansas City was on Oct. 17, 1898, when 3.3 inches of snow fell, according to the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill.

The average first measurable snowfall date for Kansas City is Nov. 28.

The metro's second snow, 1.3 inches at KCI, came on Thursday.

And on Monday, Kansas City had its third winter storm, which dropped 1 to 3 inches of snow across much of the metropolitan area. KCI reported .5 of an inch of snow.

This is only the third year in the city's 131 years of recorded weather history where it has seen three measurable snow events by Nov. 12. The other two years were in 1898 and 1992, according to the Weather Service.
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Igloo

Listen up Al Gore: Inuit says Polar bear numbers in Canadian Arctic so great they pose a threat to communities

Leyland Cecco
The Guardian
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:13 UTC
polar bear
© Justin Hofman / Barcroft Media
‘Inuit believe there are now so many bears that public safety has become a major concern,’ said one section of the report.
Report bitterly contested by scientists who say threat comes from climate change, which has pushed bears closer to humans - not because the population is growing

Too many polar bears are roaming the Canadian Arctic, and the growing population is posing an increasing threat to Inuit communities, according to a controversial new government report which has been bitterly contested by environmental scientists.

The draft report was prepared by the Nunavut government, and consists of submissions from Inuit community groups across Canada's northernmost territory. Public consultations are set to start on Tuesday before the government unveils the final report later in the year.

Comment: The indigenous community suffers because ivory-tower ideological madness is being privileged over local, real-life knowledge.

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Igloo

'We see a cooling trend' says NASA scientist


Sputnik News
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:51 UTC
Abnormally cold weather in Moscow
© Sputnik/Maksim Blinov
Abnormally cold weather in Moscow.
The sun is headed towards its solar minimum, a time of far less energy output. That could mean cold winters are on their way, according to officials from NASA, the US space agency.

"We see a cooling trend," Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center said in late September. "High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold."

NASA's SABER [Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry] instrument aboard the TIMED [Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics] satellite has been tracking the upper parts of the Earth's atmosphere - those most affected by the sun's rays - since 2001 and is detecting signs that solar output is nearing a low-point.

"The thermosphere always cools off during Solar Minimum. It's one of the most important ways the solar cycle affects our planet," Mlynczak, who is the associate principal investigator for SABER, told Space Weather.
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