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Central US states running 10-20 degrees below normal

Central US states are running 10 to 20 degrees below normal, as far south as Texas.

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US states running below normal temps
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The Temperature Departure image shows the next day forecast temperature departures from normal.

Attention

Three pygmy killer whales die after stranding in St Thomas, Jamaica

People attend to one of the stranded dolphins in St Thomas.
© NEPA
People attend to one of the stranded dolphins in St Thomas.
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is reporting that three of four dolphins that were reported stranded off the coast of St Thomas over the past three days have died. This was despite valiant efforts to save them.

According to NEPA, the dolphins washed up along the White Sand Beach in Holland Bay, St Thomas between Monday and Wednesday morning. The dead dolphins were confirmed to be pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) which is a smaller member of the oceanic dolphin family.

In the first incident on Monday, NEPA said it received reports that three dolphins were stranded on the beach. On their arrival, NEPA personnel discovered that two of the animals had already died. In a statement Thursday, NEPA said several attempts to refloat the third dolphin failed. It was subsequently euthanized. In the second incident on Wednesday morning, NEPA said it received reports of another stranded dolphin. A response team from NEPA, the Veterinary Services Division and the University of Technology responded. However, by the time they got to the location, it was discovered that the animal was already dead.

Comment: Other records of dead or dying cetaceans (and not previously reported on SOTT) have been noted recently on the coast of Alabama and Western Australia.


Attention

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: New greenhouse gasses discovered with heavy snow in both hemispheres

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Snow in Tasmania
Discovery of five new greenhouse gasses in Norway that are thousands of times more potent than CO2, the Grand Solar Minimum continues intensifying and crop insurance payouts in Canada doubling vs 2017. At what point do insurers stop covering losses?

Snow Australia, USA, Canada, New Zealand heavy for the season in both hemispheres.


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Fire

California wildfires triggers evacuation orders for Malibu, Ventura counties

Malibu Wildfire
© Associated Press/Marcio Jose Sanchez
A wildfire comes down from a hilltop Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, near Newbury Park, Calif. The Ventura County Fire Department has ordered evacuation of some communities in the path of the fire, which erupted a few miles from the site of Wednesday night's deadly mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks bar.
The Latest on Southern California wildfires (all times local):

7:25 a.m.

A raging Southern California wildfire has triggered a mandatory evacuation order for the entire beachside city of Malibu.

The fire broke out Thursday northwest of Los Angeles and roared southward, jumping the U.S. 101 freeway early Friday and sweeping into the Santa Monica Mountains.

Malibu has about 13,000 residents and lies along 21 miles (34 kilometers) of coast at the southern foot of the mountain range.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department tweets that the fire is headed to the ocean, punctuating the message with the declaration: "Imminent threat!"

Arrow Down

Sinkhole forces residents out of block of flats in St Albans, UK

Sinkhole forces residents out of block of flats in St Albans

Sinkhole forces residents out of block of flats in St Albans
Residents have been evacuated from a block of flats after a sinkhole appeared next to it.

Emergency services were called to Cedar Court in Cedarwood Drive, St Albans, at 6.35am on Tuesday, after the sinkhole was discovered.

The evacuation was a precaution because of how close sinkhole is to the block in the Hertfordshire city.

Around 20 residents have been affected, a spokesman for St Albans City and District Council said.

The spokesman said: "Council officers from our Building Control and Environmental Services teams have been down on site this morning.

Comment: For more details of the 2015 event in the same area, see: Massive sinkhole near London swallows suburban street, families evacuated.


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3 Truckers feared buried by massive landslide on highway in Kashmir

3 Truckers Feared Buried In Landslide - File Pic

3 Truckers Feared Buried In Landslide - File Pic
Three truckers from Punjab are feared buried under a massive landslide on Srinagar-Jammu highway, officials said on Thursday.

Reports said three persons were on board an apple-laden trawler (registration number PB06AK 4045) when a massive landslide hit the highway at Ramban in Ramban district on Monday morning.

An official said that a rescue operation was launched on Wednesday after the relatives of the missing persons approached them with the claim that their kin might have come under the slide.

"Nothing was found yesterday. We have launched searches in the area again. So far no trace of the three persons has been found. It was a massive landslide and it has left behind huge debris," said DSP Headquarters Asgar Malik.

Reports said that the relatives claimed that the trio had called them from Qazigund on Monday saying they will reach Jammu in the evening on the same day.

They said that their last location has also been traced to Ramsoo area.

Cloud Precipitation

Wet season rice production down in Laos due to flood

Working in the wet rice fields of Laos

Working in the wet rice fields of Laos
Wet season rice production in Laos is expected to be reduced by about 300,000 tons after widespread flooding this year that affected many parts of the country.

The Lao government, especially the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, has encouraged farmers around the country to produce 3.5 million tons of rainy season rice, but authorities expected the harvest to achieve about 3.2 million tons, local daily Vientiane Times on Friday quoted the ministry officials as saying.

A total of 101,000 hectares of wet season rice were impacted by flooding, about 12 percent of the total planted area of 817,800 hectares. Some 66,000 hectares of the rice crop was estimated to have been destroyed by this year's deluge in Laos.

Seismograph

USGS seismic data points to 2,000% increase in major earthquakes since 1900

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Last week we looked at the state of our planet...Two-thirds of all animal and insects extinct by 2020: Dying oceans fish replaced by plastic: One in five of the world's plant species threatened.

Today we will see the incredible rise of major quakes since 1900 and the mindblowing fact these statistics are not mentioned on MSM or even mentioned by our religious leaders, below is the famous quote from Jesus to His disciples...

Luke 21: 10,11. Then he said to them: "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in one place after another food shortages and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and from heaven great signs.

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Major 6.8 magnitude earthquake jolts Norwegian volcanic island in Arctic Ocean

Jan Mayen
© GETTY
An earthquake has hit the Arctic Ocean near Jan Mayen
A strong earthquake has hit by a Norwegian volcanic island called Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean, measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale.

The quake took place 10km deep and 722km from Akureyri, Iceland.There is no yet known information of whether the quake has disrupted the island's volcanic activity.

The earthquake struck at 1:49am GMT and its epicentre was in a remote area of the ocean around 253 miles east of Ittoqqortoormitt in Greenland.

The force caused local waves to appear in the Greenland Sea.

However, the US Tsunami Warning System said it is not expected to cause a tsunami in more populated areas.

The island is mountainous, the largest mountain being the volcano Beerenberg in the northeast.

It is the world's northernmost active volcano that is not underwater.

Comment: USGS seismic data points to 2,000% increase in major earthquakes since 1900


Fire

Tens of thousands of Butte County residents flee fast-moving wildfire in northern California

wildfire butte county california
© ABC7's / Laura Anthony
All of Paradise, a town of about 27,000 people 180 miles (290 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, was ordered to evacuate
The Camp Fire burning in Butte County has torched at least 8,000 acres.Authorities in Northern California have ordered mandatory evacuations in a rural area where a wildfire has grown to 5,000 acres amid hot and windy weather.

Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate a fast-moving wildfire that exploded in size Thursday, threatening several Northern California communities and forcing panicked residents to race to help neighbors who had to drive through walls of flames to escape.

The Camp Fire burning in Butte County has torched at least 8,000 acres as of Thursday afternoon, according to Cal Fire. It was not immediately known if there were injuries or fatalities.

"It's a very dangerous and very serious situation," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told The Associated Press. "I'm driving through fire as we speak. We're doing everything we can to get people out of the affected areas."