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Sweden: Storm 'Berit' leaves 80,000 without power

Swedish storm
© Johan NIlsson/Scanpix
Some 80,000 households remained without electricity in southern Sweden on Monday morning in the wake of the weekend's storm.

The low pressure front which caused the storm has passed Scandinavia, with its epicentre now close to St. Petersburg in Russia as it continues its march eastwards.

Winds battered several areas of southern Sweden with heavy rains in places.

"The wind is still hard locally," said SMHI's duty meteorologist Thomas Fyrby to the TT news agency early Monday.

The major power companies continued the battle to repair their battered power grid on Monday with the worst affected being Eon's subscribers in the far south, mainly in Skåne, where around 60,000 lacked power.

"I dare not say when all this will be repaired," said Jan-Erik Olsson at Eon's press office.

Bizarro Earth

Papua New Guinea - Earthquake Magnitude 6.4

PNG Quake_281111
© USGS
Earthquake Location
Date-Time:
Monday, November 28, 2011 at 12:26:48 UTC

Monday, November 28, 2011 at 10:26:48 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location:
5.532°S, 153.680°E

Depth:
50.4 km (31.3 miles)

Region:
NEW IRELAND REGION, PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Distances:
137 km (85 miles) SSE of Taron, New Ireland, PNG

220 km (136 miles) WNW of Arawa, Bougainville, PNG

815 km (506 miles) WNW of HONIARA, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

2433 km (1511 miles) N of BRISBANE, Queensland, Australia

Nuke

Cesium from Fukushima Plant Fell all Over Japan

workers/fukushima
© Daisuke Tomita/AP
Radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have now been confirmed in all prefectures, including Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,700 kilometers from the plant, according to the science ministry.

The ministry said it concluded the radioactive substances came from the stricken nuclear plant because, in all cases, they contained cesium-134, which has short half-life of two years.

Before the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, radioactive substance were barely detectable in most areas.

But the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's survey results released on Nov. 25 showed that fallout from the Fukushima plant has spread across Japan. The survey covered the cumulative densities of radioactive substances in dust that fell into receptacles during the four months from March through June.

Bizarro Earth

US: Rare Storm System Track Circa NOV 2004 Aims Southern California This Week

Rare Storm
© The WeatherSpace.com
TWS' Southern California Weather Authority has issued a Special Weather Statement for an inside slider storm system that could potentially be interesting for the Southwestern United States on Thursday and Friday.

The SCWXA Special Weather Statement (viewed here) went into effect this morning at 7:45 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. The statement outlines a concern for strong winds and possibly a storm system combined in a rare flow into Southern California.

TWS Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin calls the event a once in a decade event and is watching it closely. "The storm system is going to come in from the north, through the interior of the country," said Martin. "This means that it will generate cold air with it across the Great Basin and shove that southward in the form of Santa Ana Winds. Furthermore, this storm system will bring moisture into it from the Pacific so we are looking at a rare combo of Santa Ana Winds and Thunderstorms across the Southland."

Cloud Lightning

Canada, British Columbia: Extreme Weather, Flooding Batter Metro Vancouver

rain, floods
© Wayne Leidenfrost/PNG
Heavy rain causes a traffic hazzard for drivers along 12th Avenue in Vancouver.
A rainfall warning remained in effect in Metro Vancouver and much of British Columbia into Saturday. Extreme weather is expected to batter most parts of the province throughout the weekend according to warnings issued by Environment Canada.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre issued extreme avalanche warnings for several places including The Kootaney Boundary, Whistler Backcountry and the South Coast Inland. Parks Canada has issued a statement cautioning people to stay away from back country slopes. Skiers and snow boarders are urged to stick to designated trails.

The main cause of the turbulence across the province is a very strong Pacific system wrapped across the North-central coast of B..C combined with an intense warm front that is spreading copious moisture across the province, said Environment Canada meteorologist Greg Pearce.

The full brunt of this weather system is being felt by the Central Coast and North Vancouver where wind speeds are expected to reach speeds of up to 110 kilometres per hour.

Cloud Lightning

Canada: Gale-force winds slam southern Alberta

Calgary enacts Municipal Emergency Plan
calgary windstorm
© Brian Brennan
Blown over trees on Second Avenue northwest come dangerously close to power lines.
Gusting winds, hitting as high as 130 km/h in some areas, are wreaking havoc in southern Alberta Sunday.

Gale-force winds, which hit 68 km/h in Calgary at 3 p.m. according to Environment Canada, have triggered the city's Municipal Emergency Plan.

Winds in the city reached up to 91 km/h earlier in the afternoon.

Officials have shut down the downtown core to traffic and pedestrians and have suspended LRT services in that area.

Sgt. Kevin Cain of the Calgary police said windows at TD Square downtown have been blown out, roofing material and debris is flying off downtown buildings and a roof was ripped off at a home in the 100 block of Slopes Grove S.W.

Radar

US: 6th Earthquake in 4 Days Recorded in Oklahoma

Earthquake
© redOrbit
Another small earthquake has been reported in Oklahoma.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a 3.2 magnitude quake struck just before 6 a.m. Sunday about 27 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. The Logan County Sheriff's Office says no damage was reported

On Saturday, a 2.4 magnitude tremor was recorded at about 7 a.m. about 50 miles northeast of Oklahoma City near Sparks.

Sunday's earthquake is the sixth in the area since Thursday, when a 3.7 magnitude quake was recorded near Prague. Three more were recorded Friday.

A 5.6 magnitude quake, the strongest ever recorded in Oklahoma, shook the state Nov. 5. That quake damaged dozens of homes, buckled a highway and caused other damage.

Geologists say earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.5 to 3.0 are generally the smallest felt by humans.

Arrow Down

So much for Global Warming scare: Arctic ice shrank during Little Ice Age and now in longest decline seen over past 1,450 years

Image
© Francois Lenoir/Reuters
The sun shines low in the sky just after midnight over a frozen coastline near the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen in this April 26, 2007 file photo.
Research published in a top scientific journal says Arctic sea ice has declined more in the last half-century than it has any time over the last 1,450 years.

The study, which gives the most detailed picture ever of the northern oceans over the previous millennium-and-a-half, also concludes the current decline has already lasted longer than any previous one in that period.

"When we look at our reconstruction, we can see that the decline that has occurred in the last 50 years or so seems to be unprecedented for the last 1,450 years," Christian Zdanowicz of the Geological Survey of Canada said Wednesday.

"It's difficult not to come up with the conclusion that greenhouse gases must have something to do with this," added Mr. Zdanowicz, one of the co-authors of the report in Nature.

Fish

US: Massive Estero Bay fish kill a mystery

fish kill,estro bay
© Brian Hirten/news-press.com
Katie McFarland, an FGCU marine biology graduate student, prepares a dead mullet for testing.
Florida - It's a mystery: Something is killing mullet in Estero Bay, but nobody knows what.

Katie McFarland, an FGCU graduate student, first saw large numbers of dead mullet floating in the bay and washed up along the shoreline Friday.

Saturday morning, McFarland took another trip onto the bay to take water samples and saw hundreds of mullet between FGCU's Vester Field Station and New Pass.

Cloud Lightning

Death Toll Reaches 17 in Sri Lanka Storm, 33 Missing

storm Sri Lanka
© skywatch-media.com
Heavy rains along with gusting winds that lashed the southern coastal areas of Sri Lanka Friday killed 17 people and left 33 fishermen missing, the National Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said today.

The DMC officials said 17 people have been confirmed dead and 30 fishermen who ventured out to sea are missing.

Another three people are missing in Monaragala and Anuradhapura districts after heavy rains overflowed reservoirs and streams.

The DMC figures as of this morning reported 33,957 people belonging to 8,359 families have been affected due to the adverse weather condition prevailing in the country.

Matara District of Southern coast has sustained the most damage from the gale force winds, the Assistant Director of DMC, Pradeep Kodipilli said.