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Blackout from lightning claims 4 lives in Iran's flooded Khuzestan Province


Radio Farda
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:07 UTC
Heavy torrential rainfalls hit across the southern city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province on Monday, flooding the streets.

Heavy torrential rainfalls hit across the southern city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan province on Monday, flooding the streets.
A blackout caused by lightning and the failure of the hospital's emergency power system claimed the lives of four elderly women in the intensive care unit of Khomeini hospital of Ahwaz, the capital of the oil-rich Khuzestan Province.

The women had been hospitalized for respiratory problems caused by air pollution, another problem the province has been plagued with. The emergency power system failed to work when a fuse was struck by lightning.

After hours of heavy rain buildings and houses started flooding in several cities including Ahwaz, Abadan, and Karun on Monday evening. According to the Director General of the Weather Forecast Organization of Khuzestan Province Abadan has experienced 104mm of precipitation in a few hours today.

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3 churchgoers killed, dozens injured by lightning bolt in Malawi

Owen Khamula
Nyasa Times
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:58 UTC
lightning
A lightning strike killed at least 3 people and injured dozens more at a church on Sunday in Ntcheu.

The lightning struck a church building at Tsangano in Ntcheu in the afternoon.

Ntcheu police officer-in-charge Aubrey Nyirenda has confired of the three deaths due to the lightning.

"Some of the casualties are admitted to Tsangano health centre," said Nyirenda.
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Snowflake Cold

-44º temperature reported overnight in Colorado...and that's not a wind chill

Breanna Sneeringer
Out There Colorado
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:39 UTC
Antero Reservoir Reached Down to -44ºF on Tuesday Morning

Antero Reservoir Reached Down to -44ºF on Tuesday Morning
Winter is almost officially here, Colorado.

Temperatures plunged around the state Tuesday morning, with -34 degrees reported in Waverly (5,321′), -32 degrees in Cowdrey (7,917′), -22 degrees in Tabernash (8,333′), and -18 degrees in Dillon (9,111′). It was even colder at Antero Reservoir, where early morning temperatures dipped down to a teeth-chattering -44 degrees at 8,942′ of elevation.
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Attention

Ice Age Farmer Report: Nations scramble for food - Shortages blamed on "Nationalism"


Ice Age Farmer
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:20 UTC
corn in flood
As food prices rise, some nations are scrambling to secure food for their people. Meanwhile, calls for more "global governance" to mitigate risk of food shock are accompanied by media pieces that outright blame nationalism, Putin, and Trump for global food shortages -- VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED, they deal in deliberately crafted, devious propaganda, but it needs to be analyzed. Start growing your own food today.

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Snowflake Cold

Part of Upper Peninsula, Michigan approaching 10 feet of snow already - Snowbanks tower over sidewalks

Mark Torregrossa
MLive
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:20 UTC
Snowbanks are five feet high along the sidewalks near Negaunee.
© Linda Carilli
Snowbanks are five feet high along the sidewalks near Negaunee.
The snow keeps mounting up over most areas of the Upper Peninsula. Many long-time residents are saying they've never seen this much snow so early in the season.

Officially meteorological winter started on December 1. So, while many are saying winter hasn't even started, at least to meteorologists winter is underway.

A Facebook page for the Twin Lakes area in the Upper Peninsula's shows the dedicated weather observer's daily snowfall measurements.

So far in the Twin Lakes, MI area, 116″ of snow have fallen. Twin Lakes is at the southern base of the Keweenaw Peninsula.

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Sun

Strange Sun effects detected by world's highest weather stations

Maddie Stone
Science Alert
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:00 UTC
everest
© Adisorn Fineday Chutikunakorn/Getty Images/Moment)
Data from a network of newly installed weather stations atop Mount Everest shows that the mountain experiences some of the most intense sunlight on the planet.

As alpine mountaineers are all too aware, the sun can be brutally fierce atop snow-capped peaks.

Preliminary data from the weather stations on Mount Everest suggests this effect is amplified to an astounding degree at the top of the world, creating what could be some of the most intense illumination anywhere on Earth's surface.

This epic lighting does more than give hikers nasty sunburns. In a warming world, it might be hastening ice melt atop the world's highest mountains and impacting glaciers in ways scientists do not fully understand.


Comment: The world isn't warming: Global cooling to replace warming trend that started 4,000 years ago - Chinese scientists


Comment: SpaceWeather.com has also been monitoring conditions on our planet and recently reported that atmospheric radiation is at its highest ever, and cosmic rays are also at a 5 year high; this is likely related to the Sun, which is thought to be entering a "grand" solar minimum, and recently broke records for the number of spotless days. It's worth noting that increased cosmic rays causes increased cloud cover, that, in turn, reflects the Sun's light leading to overall cooling.

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Cloud Precipitation

More than 10,000 evacuated from floods in Malaysia

Trinna Leong
The Straits Times
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:03 UTC
Personnel from the Johor Fire and Rescue Department yesterday helping to move people with disabilities
© JABATAN BOMBA DAN PENYELAMAT MALAYSIA NEGERI JOHOR
Personnel from the Johor Fire and Rescue Department yesterday helping to move people with disabilities, as well as children, from the Skudai and Tebrau areas to relief centres. Of the nearly 100 centres set up in Malaysia, 85 of them are in Johor.
Malaysia's annual monsoon season continues unabated and Johor is facing the brunt of it, with some areas struggling with flood waters up to 2.5m deep.

As of yesterday afternoon, the number of people evacuated in Johor state had more than doubled to 9,348, from 3,934 on Sunday.

Over two-thirds of the state's victims are from Kluang, Segamat and Kota Tinggi, the three most severely hit areas.

Engineer Lor Wei Keong, 43, was stranded atop his four-wheel drive along Jalan Kota Tinggi-Mersing for two hours before he was rescued by an amphibious boat.

"The water level was only halfway up my vehicle tyres, and I thought I could go," he told the New Straits Times daily. "Unfortunately, the vehicle was trapped in the rising flood water, which was gaining speed as well."

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Cloud Precipitation

5 killed by floods in Kampala, Uganda

Juliet Norah
communalnews.com
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:41 UTC
Red Cross volunteers are assisting with relief and recovery efforts in Uganda
© UGANDA RED CROSS
Red Cross volunteers are assisting with relief and recovery efforts in Uganda
Five people were killed by floods in Kampala, Uganda over the weekend, among them a marine officer on a rescue mission. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire said that the body of the marine police officer, Sgt Godfrey Mwondha an officer with Uganda Police Force, was found in Mbuuya Katoongo swamp which is often used as a washing bay.

Police said that Mwondha was trying to save a person named Ssekitoleko of Biwologoma, Kira Division who was drowning. The bodies of the two were retrieved on Sunday morning in Nakawa Division in Kampala. The third person was a woman identified as Joweria Tumusiime, a resident of Zana Lufuka, who was also washed away by the raging flood waters. She worked with Nippon cleaning services. The bodies of the three were taken to city mortuary awaiting post mortem.

Comment: Floods kill at least 12 people in western Uganda as country is battered by torrential rain

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Tornado2

3 people killed as severe weather, tornadoes hammer Deep South

Richard Gonzales
NPR
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 04:14 UTC
Tornado damage in Deep South
© Brad Kemp/AP
The remains of a tornado-damaged building in Alexandria, La., on Monday, after storms went through the Deep South and killed three people.
Three people were killed by apparent tornadoes, one in Louisiana and two in Alabama on Monday, local authorities reported. Severe thunderstorms and high winds are expected to pummel areas of the Deep South overnight, according to meteorologists.

There were few details on the extent of the damage in Vernon Parish in western Louisiana where downed power lines and trees blocked roads and impeded rescue crews, according to Deputy Chief Calvin Turner of the sheriff's department, who said a local church fellowship hall also was demolished and some homes were damaged.

Another tornado was reported in nearby Alexandria, La., which tore off the roof of a church school, but no deaths or injuries were reported.

Two people died, identified by local officials as a husband and wife, and several others, including a child, were injured in Town Creek in northern Alabama.

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Seismograph

More than 1000 earthquakes detected on Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland

Jelena Ćirić
Iceland Review
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 12:57 UTC
Iceland earthquake swarm
Over 1,000 earthquakes and aftershocks have been detected in a wave of seismic activity on the Reykjanes peninsula which began yesterday morning. Nine of the earthquakes measured between a magnitude of 3.0 and 3.7. According to the Icelandic Met Office, there are no signs of volcanic tremor.

The earthquake swarm began around 7.00am on Sunday morning, with an earthquake of magnitude 3.5 measured at 8.00am. The activity calmed down around noon yesterday but began increasing again around 8.00pm. The largest earthquakes measured occurred just after that time, reaching magnitudes of 3.6 and 3.7. A third of magnitude 3.4 occurred 20 minutes later.

Three other quakes over 3.0 have occurred since 11.00pm last night. The seismic activity has continued into today, with earthquakes felt by residents in the capital region and as far away as Akranes.

Comment: Last month another earthquake swarm raised concerns for big volcanic eruption in Iceland.

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