Earth Changes
At approximately 8:30 a.m. there were approximately 20,500 Nova Scotia Power customers without electricity.
The website for Nova Scotia Power's listed 13,967 customers affected by 248 outages as of 1 p.m.
Cape Breton had the largest outages, with more than 9,000 customers without electricity in Sydney, N.S.
Estimated restoration times vary from Sunday afternoon to late evening.
Nova Scotia Power spokeswoman Andrea Anderson said the outages were caused by the region's first snowstorm of 2021, which blew across most of the province on Saturday and ended overnight.
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A satellite view of Tropical Cyclone Imogen over north-west Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria coast.
A satellite view of Tropical Cyclone Imogen over north-west Queensland and the Gulf of Carpentaria coast.
However, the Bureau of Meteorology expects the category one cyclone to weaken and be downgraded to a tropical low again later on Monday. However, severe weather warnings remain in place.
Tropical Cyclone Imogen formed about 7pm on Sunday and crossed the Gulf of Carpentaria coast just to the north of Karumba, about 530 kilometres west of Cairns, about 9pm on Sunday.
It generated sustained winds near the centre of 75km/h with wind gusts up to 100km/h. A wind gust of 105km/h were recorded near Normanton on the southwestern flank of the cyclone.
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MetService recorded 1686 lightning strikes over two hours until 3pm today, including a "humongous cluster" near Dannevirke.
MetService meteorologist Tuporo Marsters expects more strikes this afternoon and evening.
"She's climbing. Most of them are right through the middle of the North Island, and the Canterbury region, close to Timaru, has had a bundle of sparks go off, and inland Dunedin."
Four bodies were discovered on Friday and Saturday, and another three on Sunday. The first victim to be found was named as Eirik Grønole, 31.
Several people remain missing following the hillside collapse that sent mud into the village of Ask on Wednesday.
Rescuers are working to find survivors, but chances of this are fading.
Police said the latest body was recovered near where two others had been found, but they gave no further details.
Five of the victims have been identified, including a 40-year-old man and his two-year-old daughter.
Another 10 people were injured.
The king and queen of Norway visited the site of the landslide on Sunday.
A powerful tremor hit 243 kilometres from Adak, Alaska, with the epicentre of the quake situated at a depth of 17 km, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
No tsunami warning has been issued by the authorities. There also have not been any reports about victims or damages caused by the quake.
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Comment: See also:
- Provisional world record for high air pressure set in Mongolia as majority of Asia hit by historic cold
- 20 weather stations in China reach or break lowest temperatures recorded for December, affecting 80% of the country
- 'Bomb cyclone' breaks records off Alaska - lowest ever sea level pressure for the state - 51 foot wave recorded
- Huge New Year's snowfalls at ski resorts in Japan - one gets over 7 feet in 3 days
- Parts of Japan see record low temperatures down to -32C° (-25.6F°)
However one, Geto Kogen, has reported 220cm (over 7 feet) falling in three days, including 105cm in the past 24 hours alone.
The latest big falls come a fortnight after the country's ski areas reported up to three metres (10 feet) of snowfall in seven days in the lead up to Christmas.
According to SnowJapan.com, which published the Geto Kogen figure above, Nozawa Onsen (Pictured on New Year's Day) reported 76cm (2.5 feet) of snowfall in 48 hours over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Niseko to the north reported an identical total as part of 1.2 metres (four feet) more snowfall in the past week. Appi Kogen has had 158cm (over five feet) of snowfall in the same period and other areas have reported similar big falls.
Bomb cyclone off the Aleutian Islands
That's only because of where the storm is centered: over uninhabited islands and ocean in the very far western Aleutian Islands, said Rick Thoman, a climate scientist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
"Kind of like a tornado in a cornfield versus in the center of a city," he said.
The storm, which has been described as a "bomb cyclone," has already set records for the lowest sea level pressure ever recorded in Alaska and is considered the "deepest" cyclone in the state since record keeping began in the 1950s, according to climatologist Brian Brettschneider.
Early Thursday afternoon it was windy in Adak, but not remarkably so, said Barbara Tolliver, who operates a hunting lodge with her husband on the island.
Comment: Huge landslide hits residential area after large amounts of precipitation in southern Norway, 10 hurt, 26 unaccounted for