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Chile widens state of emergency as raging wildfires leave at least 13 dead

Guardian
Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:53 UTC

A firefighter works as a wildfire burns parts of

Chile's government has declared a widened state of emergency amid wildfires that have killed at least 13 people and consumed about 14,000 hectares (35,000 acres), as the South American country endures a summer heatwave across southern and central swaths of the country.

The interior minister, Carolina Toha, said on Friday morning the government had declared a catastrophe in the region of Biobío, joining its neighbouring region Ñuble, which President Gabriel Boric announced on Thursday evening, allowing the deployment of soldiers and additional resources.

Eleven people, including a firefighter, had died in the Biobío town of Santa Juana, local authorities said.

The agriculture minister, Esteban Valenzuela, also reported an emergency-support helicopter in the southern region of La Araucanía had crashed, killing the pilot and a mechanic.

Indonesia - Floods in south Sulawesi leave 2 dead, hundreds of homes damaged

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:50 UTC

Flood rescue in Parepare, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, February 2023.

More heavy rain has caused havoc on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Disaster authorities report at least 2 people have lost their lives, one person is missing and thousands have been affected after floods in South Sulawesi Province. Flooding has also affected areas of Borneo Island in recent days.

Sulawesi Island

Hours of heavy rain late on 01 February 2023 triggered flooding in the city of Parepare. Flooding affected the districts of Ujung, Bacukiki, West Bacukiki and Soreng. Disaster authorities in the city reported the overflow of the Jawi-Jawi river in the Tegal area of the city in Ujung District. Flood waters in areas close to the river were around 1 metre deep.

70 people trapped by masses of snow in Austria - up to a meter of snowfall within 24 hours

Timur Kirez
Anadolu Agency
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 10:58 UTC

Heavy snowfall in Austria have cut off 70 people from the outside world and caused traffic chaos, local media reported on Friday.

Due to the tense avalanche situation in the Austrian province of Styria, several roads had to be closed Thursday night, according to daily Kronen Zeitung.

It also said numerous vehicles got stuck on the roadway due to snow. In the meantime, traffic jams of 10 kilometers (six miles) in length occurred.

According to the reports, 80 centimeters (34.5 inches) of fresh snow fell within 24 hours. On Friday morning, several smaller avalanches are said to have already gone off.

Cloud of smoke and gas erupting from volcano of Ebeko on Paramushir Island, Russia

JustAs it is
YouTube
Sat, 04 Feb 2023 10:08 UTC

Footage filmed on Russian Sakhalin Region's Paramushir Island on Wednesday shows cloud of smoke and gas erupting from Ebeko volcano's Korbut crater.

The report on the official website of Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring warned about remaining danger for flights in the Ebeko volcano area from January 31 to February 1.

Volcano of Ebeko is a complex stratovolcano with several vertex craters located seven kilometres from Severo-Kurilsk on the Vernadsky Ridge.

The volcano has been regularly erupting ash since October 2016. The last one was recorded on 1st of September 2022. At that time, the height of ash column reached four kilometres.

Video source: Ruptly

Upper Midwest, Northeast bracing for arctic blast bringing sub-zero temps, 'life-threatening' wind chills as new polar vortex system moves in

Elizabeth Pritchett
Fox News
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 22:22 UTC

© FOX Weather
Wind Chill Warnings and Advisories have been issued for most areas across the Northeast in early February 2023

Wind chill warnings and advisories are active in upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania, far north New Jersey and all of New England

New England is preparing for some of the coldest air it's seen in five years as a "dangerous" polar vortex quickly moves into the Upper Midwest and Northeast, bringing sub-zero wind chills and plunging temperatures, FOX Weather reports.

Places like Chicago and Des Moines, Iowa, will be the first to experience the bitter cold Friday morning as morning temperatures are forecast to be in the negative single digits. Other areas in the Midwest, like Northern Minnesota, could even see temps in the negative 20s or 30s.

The highs across the Midwest will struggle to make it out of the single digits Friday afternoon.

Wind chills are expected to be even worse, with feels-like temperatures dropping all the way to negative 50 in some areas. FOX Weather reports frostbite and hypothermia can form on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes in this type of "dangerous cold."

Snow turns Australian Alps into winter wonderland in the middle of summer

Mikaela Ortolan and Fatima Olumee
abc.net.au
Fri, 03 Feb 2023 12:40 UTC

Up to 5cm of snow fell at Perisher and Thredbo.

Parts of Victoria and New South Wales have shivered through the morning with snow falling in alpine areas while their northern counterparts in Queensland continue to endure a heatwave.

The overnight wintry blast left a light dusting of snow across the Victorian Alps including at Mount Hotham.

Chamber of Commerce president Steve Belli said while it was an incredible sight, it was not too unusual for snow to fall in February.

"[The weather] is a little bit unpredictable these days. You never know what's going to happen ... but it's Mother Nature, you've just got to work in with it," he said.

Man killed by pack of dogs in Tucumcari, New Mexico

Jamie Burch
abc7amarillo.com
Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:11 UTC

A Tucumcari man was attacked by a pack of dogs,

According to New Mexico State Police, Stanley Hartt, 64, was attacked about 8 p.m. Tuesday by five dogs, all mixed breeds, while walking on 11th Street near Gamble.

Hartt was pronounced dead on scene.

"One of the five dogs was euthanized by a Quay County Sheriff's deputy following the attack," said the sheriff's office.

Achieving net zero in the graveyard of the failed green religion

Viv Forbes
Climate Change Dispatch
Wed, 01 Feb 2023 21:17 UTC

According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands and hills with solar clutter and wind machines, and then slaughter all of our cattle... global climate will become serene - not too warm, not too cold.

Wild weather will cease, and there will be no more droughts, floods, cyclones, or snowstorms and no more plant and animal extinctions.

But the records written in the rocks tell a far different story about climate changes. Even when nature was in full control, it was not a serene place.

Long before the first steam engine puffed along the first railway, the Earth was periodically battered by natural disasters - earthquakes, tidal waves, pole shifts, magnetic reversals, volcanic eruptions, wild weather, and droughts.

Huge areas were covered by suffocating continents of ice, desert sands, massive flows of mud and lava, beds of salt, and thick coal seams. Thousands of species disappeared including dinosaurs, mammoths, and Australia's megafauna.

Modern humans are not immune to the threat of extinction, but it will not come from today's warm, moist atmosphere or from the gas of life, carbon dioxide.

It will probably come from the next glacial climate cycle of this era, where long bitter glacial eras are separated by short warm periods. These global weather cycles are triggered by changing orbits in the solar system.

As ice storm continues in the South, parts of the Northeast brace for brutal wind chills not felt in decades

Aya Elamroussi, Joe Sutton and Taylor Ward
CNN
Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:07 UTC

As hundreds of thousands remain without power in Texas on Thursday amid frigid temperatures and icy roads, the Northeast is bracing for a blast of bitterly freezing air that forecasters say could be the coldest felt in decades.

Texas has been bearing the brunt of a dangerous ice storm that dumped several rounds of sleet and freezing rain, causing life-threatening road conditions in surrounding states including Oklahoma, Arkansas and the Memphis area in Tennessee.

On Wednesday, Texas reported a third person had died during the storm after losing control of her truck on an icy road north of Eldorado. One person was killed in Austin in a 10-car pileup, and another person died after their car rolled over in the Dallas-area city of Arlington, officials said.

And while Thursday is expected to bring some relief from the deadly storm as temperatures slowly rise, the piling of multiple layers of ice and sleet has snapped tree branches and limbs and led to power outages for nearly 400,000 homes and businesses in Texas as of Thursday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. That means thousands of people likely don't have proper heating or hot water as ice coats the ground.

Avalanche kills two skiers in Japan's Nagano region

Imogen James
BBC
Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:06 UTC

The bodies of two men caught in an avalanche on Sunday have been found in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

Extensive searches took place after the incident, which happened on the east slope of Mount Hakuba Norikura.

Japanese authorities have not revealed their identity but confirmed they were from a group of five foreign skiers.

Local police said they believed the men were off-piste skiing separately from the rest of the group when the avalanche took place.

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Earth Changes

Chile widens state of emergency as raging wildfires leave at least 13 dead

Indonesia - Floods in south Sulawesi leave 2 dead, hundreds of homes damaged

70 people trapped by masses of snow in Austria - up to a meter of snowfall within 24 hours

Cloud of smoke and gas erupting from volcano of Ebeko on Paramushir Island, Russia

Upper Midwest, Northeast bracing for arctic blast bringing sub-zero temps, 'life-threatening' wind chills as new polar vortex system moves in

Snow turns Australian Alps into winter wonderland in the middle of summer

Man killed by pack of dogs in Tucumcari, New Mexico

Achieving net zero in the graveyard of the failed green religion

As ice storm continues in the South, parts of the Northeast brace for brutal wind chills not felt in decades

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