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Heavy snowfall kills 4 children in Afghanistan

Shadi Khan Saif
Anadolu Agency
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:16 UTC
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At least 15 people, including women, children, also injured in snowstorm, landslide in central Bamyan province

Heavy snow and avalanches killed at least four children in Afghanistan's central Daikundi province, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

Officials told Anadolu Agency that the incident took place in the Keti district in the central highlands when religious school students got trapped in a pile of snow.

According to Assadullah Sarwari, the provincial head of disasters management authority, the children were heading to their winter class in the Islamic seminary. A rescue and relief team was sent to the area, Sarwari told Anadolu Agency.
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Record-breaking storm with 135 km/h winds blasts Nunavut, Canada

Emma Tranter
National Observer
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:02 UTC
The aftermath of a blizzard in Pangnirtung, Nunavut
© THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Sky Panipak
The aftermath of a blizzard in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, is shown in this recent handout photo. A Dec. 27 blizzard that saw winds reach 135 kilometres per hour tore apart cabins and ripped windshields from snowmobiles in Pangnirtung. One person was flown to a southern hospital with injuries.
Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor couldn't see out his windows on Sunday.

That's when a record-breaking blizzard hit the Baffin Island community of about 1,500, shaking houses and crushing cabins.

Environment and Climate Change Canada says Sunday's storm brought record wind gusts and heavy snow to communities across Nunavut. In Pangnirtung, winds reached 135 km/h that day.

"It was like an all day thing. The wind was so strong," Lawlor said.

Sky Panipak, who also lives in Pangnirtung, posted a photo to Twitter of one resident's home where the front steps were torn clean from the door.
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Cloud Precipitation

Moment runner is swept off pier in northern Spain by huge wave during storm Bella

Imogen Braddick
The Sun (UK)
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:20 UTC
The moment the 28-year-old was swept off the pier by a huge wave

The moment the 28-year-old was swept off the pier by a huge wave
This is the shocking moment a runner was swept off a Spanish pier by a huge wave during Storm Bella.

Oinatz Arretxe, 28, was left with broken bones after he was washed off a wall while jogging with colleagues in the city of Orio, Basque Country.

In the footage, two people are seen running across the pier when a huge wave suddenly crashes over them.

The wave swept Arretxe off the wall and he plummeted four metres to the boardwalk below, El Mundo reports.


Comment: More footage of the massive waves in the area:



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Fire

57,000 wildfires this year in the US - About 10 million acres burned

Yelena Dzhanova
Insider
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 13:20 UTC
A law enforcement officer watches flames launch into the air as fire continues to spread at the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020.
© Josh Edelson/AFP
A law enforcement officer watches flames launch into the air as fire continues to spread at the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020.
As 2020 winds to a close, firefighters are still struggling to contain three active California wildfires.

These three wildfires are part of the more than 57,000 that occurred this year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, which tracks wildland fires.


As of December 23, these tens of thousands of wildfires have scorched more than 10.3 million acres, a record-high in at least a decade. Burned acres in the United States has not reached double-digit million figures in the last 10 years, according to the agency.

Last year, about 4.5 million acres were burned down because of about 49,000 wildfires.
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Umbrella

Major flooding in summer caused by super storm closed 64 roads across Queensland, Australia - 4 inches of rain in an HOUR

Sahar Mourad
Daily Mail
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:35 UTC
A total of 64 roads have been closed off due to flooding from heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours

A total of 64 roads have been closed off due to flooding from heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours
More than 60 roads across Queensland have been closed off due to major flooding caused by a super storm which saw some some regions collect 100mm of water.

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast wet and wild weather for the east coast of Australia with increased rainfall in Queensland, New South Wales, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.

The rain has caused major headaches for those trying to travel along 64 different roads in Queensland, which have flooded from a trough which moved up from Northern NSW.

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Arrow Down

Huge landslide hits residential area after large amounts of precipitation in southern Norway, 10 hurt, 26 unaccounted for


Devdiscourse.com
Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:08 UTC
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Ten people were hurt, one of them critically, and 26 people remained unaccounted for after a landslide in southern Norway swept away more than a dozen buildings in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. The landslide struck a residential area in the municipality of Gjerdrum, some 30 km (19 miles) north of the capital Oslo.

A photo taken by a rescue helicopter showed a large crater with destroyed buildings at the bottom of it. "This should have been a New Year's weekend where we should have had peace and quiet and maybe should have worried most about COVID-19 and not whether we have missing persons from a landslide," Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg told broadcaster TV2.

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Footage shows massive multiple-vortex waterspout off Israel

Amelia Ward
Lad Bible
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:58 UTC
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Because 2020 hasn't given us quite enough apocalyptic vibes, a man has captured some pretty terrifying footage of a huge multiple-vortex waterspout, swirling over the surface of the sea. Watch it below:


The incredible natural phenomenon was filmed by Gilad Raz in Caesarea, Israel on 17 December and it shows the waterspout swirling over the ocean, edging its way towards the coast.

The waterspout is made up of a single smaller vortex in the centre of the structure and a large hollow one that spun around it making it look even more ominous.

One user commented on the video, saying: "Multiple vortexes are not something that you see every day."

Another one said: "This is incredible!"

Comment: Another video here: Huge waterspout filmed at Sdot Yam Beach, Israel

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Snowflake Cold

Record cold hits the Russian Arctic coast

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:26 UTC
ICED
Mainstream media outlets are quick to report record Arctic heat but they tend to fall silent when record cold descends, meaning the folks that lap up MSM content are only-ever privy to one side of the story (no wonder they think the world is ending).

Not only do record cold temperatures go largely unreported by western news sources, but the record heat isn't even properly explained.

Much was made of the 38C reported on June 20 in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk, with WMO spokesperson, Clare Nullis, quick to leap on the reading: "[it] comes amid a prolonged Siberian heat wave and an increase in wildfire activity" and that "climate change isn't taking a break because of COVID-19." However, after conferring with Roshydromet, the Russian agency responsible for reporting Eastern Siberia's weather, to see exactly how unusual this event was, Nullis was told that this region "has very, very cold extremes in winter but is also known for its extremes in summer."
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Snowflake Cold

Cold-temperature record smashed in Utsjoki, Finnish Lapland

Aleksi Teivainen
Helsinki Times
Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:26 UTC
Finnish Lapland
© Vesa Moilanen – Lehtikuva
THE MERCURY in thermometers dropped to its lowest level this winter late on Sunday in Utsjoki, the northernmost municipality in Finland.

The roughly 1,200-resident municipality saw the temperature plunge to -41.1°C at around 11pm on Boxing Day, a reading that broke the previous cold-temperature record of the winter by 10 degrees, according to YLE.

The mercury dropped below -35°C also at several other weather stations in Finnish Lapland.

The cold weather, however, is forecast to give way to higher temperatures in the coming days due to a warm-weather front arriving from the south. The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) is forecasting that temperatures will hover five to 10 degrees below the freezing point in eastern and northern parts and on both sides of the freezing point in central and southern parts of the country between Monday and Wednesday.
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Arrow Down

Landslide during heavy rain claims 13 lives at mine in Papua New Guinea

Harlyne Joku
Asia Pacific Report
Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:16 UTC
MINE
A huge landslide has buried a long hut with 13 people asleep inside at the foot of the Tolukuma gold mine in Papua New Guinea's Central province.

The community from Saki village, Tolukuma, experienced the massive landslide yesterday morning between 4.30 am and 6 am amid heavy rain.

They were surprised to see that the long house built for visitors from nearby villages who come and reside there while panning for gold had disappeared.

"We have sent a message to the Central Provincial Disaster Office to assist with a chain saw and excavator to dig and cut through the trees, logs and dirt to uncover the house and search for the people buried by the landslide," Saki village spokesman Cyril Samana told the PNG Bulletin by phone.

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