In some areas the snow has already exceeded 30 inches.
Winter hits full-force. The eastern half of France is under code orange for snow, and in some areas the snow has already exceeded 30 inches.
Residents of the town of Saint Etienne were surprised and unprepared for the snow.
Their streets became impassable, and cars remained snowbound at the entrance to the city.
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Earth Changes
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Smoke billows from the Mount Etna, Europe's tallest active volcano, Sicily, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.
Smoke billows from the Mount Etna, Europe's tallest active volcano, Sicily, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2013.
The eruption Saturday did not force any evacuations, but a highway was closed for half an hour as a precaution. Authorities also briefly closed two of four air corridors serving the nearby Catania airport but air traffic was not interrupted.
Etna erupts occasionally. Its last major eruption occurred in 1992.
Source: Associated Press
- The incredibly rare jellyfish was discovered off the coast of Queensland, Australia, by an aquarist who was releasing a rescued sea turtle at the time
- The creature, called a Crambione Cookii, was last seen by American scientist Alfred Gainsborough Mayor off the coast of Cookstown, Queensland, in 1910
- Not much is known about the mysterious creature, which measures more than two feet long and has a powerful sting
The incredibly rare Crambione Cookii has not been seen since 1910 but has been recently spotted off the coast of Queensland, Australia, where it was captured.
Not much is known about the mysterious species, which measures 50cm long and has a sting so powerful that it can be felt in the water surrounding the creature.
The incredibly rare Crambione Cookii has not been seen since 1910 but has been rediscovered off the coast of Queensland, Australia, where it was captured
Sinkhole swallows Minivan in Maunawili, Hawaii
Photographs from the scene showed the rear tire of a minivan stuck inside the road on Aloha Oe Place in Maunawili. Hawaii News Now was told that a water main break may have been to blame for the incident.
The van was pulled out of the ground using a tow truck at around 8:45 p.m.
Earlier on Thursday, another sinkhole was reported in the area fronting Salt Lake Elementary, and road repairs may have an impact on traffic in the area as parents seek to drop their children off at school.
Board of Water supply said they had no reports of any outages in the Salt Lake area, and the cause of the sinkhole there remains unknown.
- Security camera captures house completely destroyed by tornado
- Blue house is seen torn off the ground and disappearing
- Last weekend's Midwest storms destroyed hundreds of homes
This is the shocking moment when a powerful tornado completely destroyed a home as it swept through Illinois last week.
The incident was captured by a security camera at a service station in Diamond, in the Midwestern state, which was ravished by a series of powerful storms on Sunday.
The blue house's demise is shown in a 30-second video which shows it swept off the ground by the tornado, leaving nothing but a pile of debris where it once stood.
Across the American Midwest, eight people died, dozens were injured and hundreds of homes were destroyed when at least 60 tornadoes hit the region last weekend.
At least 16 of these wreaked havoc in the state of Illinois, ABC 7 Chicago reported.
States of emergency had to be issued in seven Illinois counties in the wake of a series of the storms that flipped over cars and uprooted trees.
In Diamond county, where the video was filmed, about 220 homes and buildings were damaged from Sunday's tornado.
The EF-2 tornado had reported winds between 111 mph and 135 mph.
'Volunteers have been coming in from all over the state and you'll see them and it's heartwarming and we're grateful for them,' Diamond Mayor Teresa Kernc told ABC 7.
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2013-11-23 07:48:32 UTC
2013-11-22 19:48:32 UTC-12:00 at epicenter
2013-11-23 08:48:32 UTC+01:00 system time
Location
17.097°S 176.562°W depth=377.1km (234.3mi)
Nearby Cities
322km (200mi) WNW of Neiafu, Tonga
438km (272mi) E of Lambasa, Fiji
469km (291mi) NNW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga
542km (337mi) ENE of Suva, Fiji
628km (390mi) SW of Apia, Samoa
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Perhaps you've been wondering why the alarmists have been so shrill lately? It's not because the climate is overheating, to the contrary it's beginning to cool - and so their sham is about to be blown out into the open for everyone to see.
Evaluated data from the Austrian ZAMG meteorological institute now unmistakably show that the Alps have been cooling over the last 20 years and longer, "at some places massively" thus crassly contradicting all the loud claims, projections, and model sceanrios made earlier by global warming scientists.
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Austrian meteorological data show that European Alps have been cooling, at times massively, over the last 20 years.
Austrian meteorological data show that European Alps have been cooling, at times massively, over the last 20 years.
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Seeking the cause: Nelson City Council environmental team leader Neil Henderson collects dead fish for testing.
Seeking the cause: Nelson City Council environmental team leader Neil Henderson collects dead fish for testing.
The deaths are unexplained but seem to have affected just the one species, with Fish & Game field officer Lawson Davey suspecting a chemical spill into Saltwater Creek, which joins the Maitai beside the Queen Elizabeth II Dr bridge.
Nelson City Council communications manager Angela Ricker said yesterday that, based on the good health of other species in the river, the public health risk was "probably low". The council was taking a cautionary approach.
Rain records are falling like, well, rain, around Arizona on Friday, the start of a what is expected to be a very wet weekend.
More than an inch of rain has dropped on Sky Harbor Airport, the most in a single day since 1973. The previous mark was a half-inch. The airport rain gauge hadn't measured any rain since Sept. 9. Rain began falling Thursday night.
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a flood watch, which will be in effect until 11 p.m. Heavy rain has already forced closure of southbound Loop 303 from Peoria Avenue to Camelback Road. Motorists had already been trapped in flooded areas before 7 a.m.
Snow and whiteout conditions were reported on State Route 87 north of Flagstaff. Thursday, Yuma broke a 129-year-old single-day mark with more than a third of an inch. Forecasters said the storm system from the West could last 18 hours.
More than an inch of rain has dropped on Sky Harbor Airport, the most in a single day since 1973. The previous mark was a half-inch. The airport rain gauge hadn't measured any rain since Sept. 9. Rain began falling Thursday night.
The National Weather Service in Phoenix has issued a flood watch, which will be in effect until 11 p.m. Heavy rain has already forced closure of southbound Loop 303 from Peoria Avenue to Camelback Road. Motorists had already been trapped in flooded areas before 7 a.m.
Snow and whiteout conditions were reported on State Route 87 north of Flagstaff. Thursday, Yuma broke a 129-year-old single-day mark with more than a third of an inch. Forecasters said the storm system from the West could last 18 hours.
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Reportedly the reservoir caught fire because of the lightning that struck it. The incident happened at 13:20 (local time).
Managing director of Iran's Oil Terminals Company (IOTC) Seyyed Pirouz Mousavi said that the fire was fully put out by 14:35 (local time), by the experts of Iran's oil industry.
