Earth Changes
High winds push water in from the lagoon, flooding parts of the city frequently, but Monday's levels were far higher than normal. At its peak, Monday's water level reached nearly 61.5 inches, the highest since December 2008. Water levels were forecast to reach 63 inches above normal levels, which would have been the first time that had happened since December 1979.
"A strong low-pressure system is spinning through southern Europe, spreading heavy rain and strong winds across northern Italy," said weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce. "The strong winds triggered the inundation in Venice as they blew from south to north through the Adriatic Sea."
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off the southern tip of Argentina.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the quake, which hit 324 km south of the resort town of Ushuaia, on the archipelago of Tierra del Fuego.
It occurred in the ocean, in a hazardous stretch of water known as the Drake Passage.
The quake is thought to be shallow and struck at a depth of 10 km, at 2:54 am local time, according to the US Geological Survey.
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Sam Owen, who lives at Eureka, was heading west along State Highway 26 in his tractor when he spotted a strange cloud formation in the distance.
Sam Owen, who lives at Eureka, was heading west along State Highway 26 in his tractor when he spotted the strange cloud formation in the distance.
"I was really weird. I didn't really know what it was until I got a photo of it just as it was reaching down and it just kind of pulled out and all of a sudden it started to suck out what looked like soil or dust into the atmosphere."
According to area Assistant Chief Stanley Bett, the deceased include a 21-year-old woman and a Class Six pupil.
The woman was in the company of three children, one of them being her niece, when lightning struck them outside AIC Church, Kapkirem.
The four were rushed to a dispensary at Lower Solai hospital, where the woman succumbed to injuries.
Comment: Elsewhere in the last few days lightning strikes have also killed individuals in Saudi Arabia, Ghana and Nigeria.
The island was uninhabited, but scientists are worried because it was a refuge for two of the most endangered animals in the world: the Hawaiian green sea turtle and the Hawaiian monk seal.
A paradise for animals
Almost 96% of Hawaii's green turtle population travels to the island chain, known as the French Frigate Shoals, for safe nesting during their breeding season, according to Chip Fletcher, an earth science professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Comment: Nowadays it doesn't take a hurricane to alter coastlines:
- New island forms off northwest England
- Sandy beach that 'vanished' 12 years ago in freak storm suddenly returns overnight in Mayo, Ireland
- 10 new islands formed in the last 20 years
- Bay of Bengal: Disputed island disappears into sea
- Arctic lake mysteriously disappears in Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Comment: For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - September 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs
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Roads are white in Uludag, Turkey. Snowfall in high parts of the city gives drivers a hard time.
On the Bolu Mountain drivers are warned by light boards and traffic teams to keep track of their distance and to comply with speed limits.
Wow! This video tells the real story.

Cows look for grass in the snow in the Vallee de Joux in the Jura on Sunday morning
The eastern Alps were affected in particular, where it snowed to quite low altitudes, the Swiss weather service MeteoSwiss told Keystone-SDA.
Parts of the eastern canton of Graubünden saw 30-70-centimetres of snow at over 1,200 metres above sea level.
A light dusting of the fluffy "white stuff" can be seen Lugnaquilla, County Wicklow, ahead of further cold weather into next weekend.
Currently, we are braced for forecasts as cold as Iceland with the mercury predicted to drop to as low as -5 degrees celcius.













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