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Seven dead as wildfires sweep across Algeria


Dhaka Tribune
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:17 UTC
Some fires erupted near houses, forcing inhabitants to flee [Screengrab/ Social media]

Some fires erupted near houses, forcing inhabitants to flee [Screengrab/ Social media]
Algeria is the latest Mediterranean country to be hit by wildfires, after blazes hit Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.

Wildfires fanned by blistering temperatures and tinder-dry conditions have killed at least seven people in Algeria, the interior minister said Tuesday, adding the fires had criminal origins.

Photographs posted on social media show huge walls of flame and billowing clouds of smoke towering over villages in the forested hills of the Kabylie region, east of the capital Algiers.

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Climate change propaganda: Unchecked gas emissions will make Earth 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter by 2040, experts at United Nation's IPCC warn

Eric Ng
South China Morning Post
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 16:00 UTC
zhengzhou flood
© Reuters
An aerial view shows a flooded road following heavy rainfall in Zhengzhou, Henan province, last month. A UN report warned that climate change will lead to more intense rainfall and flooding in many parts of the world.
Global temperatures are expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius or more in the next two decades from pre-industrial levels unless "immediate, rapid and large-scale" reductions in greenhouse gases are achieved, climate experts have warned.

Failure to stem the rot could render the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees by the next decades "beyond reach," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body, said in a report on Monday. Human activities have raised temperatures by 1.1 degrees since 1850. The Paris climate agreement of 2015 seeks to limit the threshold of 1.5 to 2 degrees by 2100.

"Climate change is already affecting every region on Earth, in multiple ways," Panmao Zhai, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group, said in a statement. "The changes we experience will increase with additional warming."

Comment: If only there were a worldwide global reset of human culture and society that could rework from the ground up how we live on this planet. That would save the planet, for sure.

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India - Hundreds of villages flooded in Uttar Pradesh, 9 people dead

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:48 UTC
Flooding in Uttar Pradesh, India, August 2021.
© Government of Uttar Pradesh
Flooding in Uttar Pradesh, India, August 2021.
Disaster authorities in India report over 400 villages in the state of Uttar Pradesh have been flooded after several rivers broke their banks.

As of 09 August 2021, India's Disaster Management Division (DMD) said "Due to excess rainfall in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, excess water was released in River Chambal from District Dholpur, which led to flood like situation in Districts Jalaun and Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh on 06.08.2021 onwards."

Since then heavy rain and swollen rivers have combined to affect other areas districts including Ballia, Budaun, Gonda, Etawah, Prayagraj and Baghpat among others.

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Attention

Indonesia Mount Merapi: Volcanic eruption on Java island unleashes clouds of ash and smoke into the sky


The Pigeon Express
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:55 UTC
eruption
Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupted on the densely populated island of Java, spewing smoke and ash high into the air and sending streams of lava and gasses down its slopes.

The volatile volcano unleashed clouds of hot ash at least seven times on Sunday, as well as a series of fast-moving pyroclastic flows - a mixture of rock, debris, lava and gasses - said Hanik Humaida, who heads the city of Yogyakarta's Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.

The rumbling sound could be heard several kilometres away. No casualties have been reported.

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Attention

1,000+ earthquakes rattle Yellowstone in July - the most in a single month since 2017

Stacy Liberatore
Daily Mail
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:57 UTC
Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park sits in the northwest region of Wyoming and is home to bursting geysers, steam vents and bubbling pools. At 3,472 square miles, the park is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined
A swarm of more than 1,000 earthquakes ripped through Yellowstone National Park in July, which officials are calling a 'doozy' of a month.

This was the most seismic activity in the region since the Maple Creek swarm of more than 1,100 quakes shook the park in June 2017.

Although some may fear this increase in activity may mean 'the big one [earthquake] is near,' the US Geological Survey (USGS) says the earthquakes were not caused by magma, but rather groundwater moving through pre-existing faults.


Comment: Is this an attempt to be reassuring?


The University of Utah Seismograph Stations, responsible for the operation and analysis of the Yellowstone Seismic Network, located 1,008 earthquakes in the park, with a whopping 764 beneath Yellowstone Lake.

Comment: Despite the attempts to downplay what's happening at Yellowstone, it's concerning that activity is increasing, and to record levels, and this alongside an uptick in seismic and volcanic activity elsewhere on the planet:

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Cloud Precipitation

Devastating flash floods hit downtown Omaha, Nebraska

Zach Williamson
3newsnow.com
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:05 UTC
FLOOD
It didn't take long for the storm to make its impact Saturday night. Heavy rains turned into devastating flash floods.

"Fifteen years and I've never seen anything like it," Rowhouses at Soma resident John Thomas said.

The streets in the Old Market area turned into rivers. The worst damage was between 14th and 11th streets on both Jones and Leavenworth streets.

"I had a birds-eye view from the ninth floor watching all of this," Old Market Lofts resident Richard Berkland said. "I've never seen rain that fast coming down to an area that can't absorb the water."

"We were just hosting an event here and the light started to flicker," Vintage Ballroom operator Rebekah Pasqualetto said. "We knew it was raining but we didn't know how bad it was, so once the light started to flicker, we came outside and saw the river at the intersection."

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Cloud Precipitation

80,000 people evacuated from China's Sichuan province as extreme rains trigger floods


RT
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 08:54 UTC
china sichuan flood
More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from their homes by the authorities as Sichuan is hit by extreme rains, triggering floods, with nearly half a million people impacted across six cities.

On Monday, the authorities in Sichuan, China, told state-run news agency Xinhua that water levels across the province were dangerously high, prompting the evacuation of 80,794 people.

The authorities said that more than 440,000 people had been impacted by the rains , with extreme rainfall being seen across the state. The highest recorded rainfall was in Qingshen in Quxian County, where 575mm (23in) of rainfall was recorded in just two days.


Comment: As noted above, floods have been ravaging China for weeks now - with one region seeing a year's worth of rain in just 2 days - however this kind of weather pattern is not limited to China, or even Asia: Elsewhere on the planet historic heat and drought is fostering devastating wildfires: For more on the extreme weather and other unusual phenomena occurring on our planet, check out SOTTs monthly documentary Earth Changes Summary - July 2021: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs



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Cloud Precipitation

Torrential downpours flood rail lines, roads and businesses in Glasgow, Scotland


STV News
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 10:42 UTC
A car abandoned by its owners under Drumchapel railway bridge.
© PA
A car abandoned by its owners under Drumchapel railway bridge.
Torrential rain across Scotland has closed railway lines, flooded streets and led to one car being abandoned after it was submerged in water.

A yellow weather warning for thunderstorms is in place for most of Scotland on Saturday and Sunday, with the Met Office warning it may cause flooding and power cuts.

The torrential downpours are set to continue across Scotland with a warning in place up until midnight on Sunday.

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Fire

Siberian wildfire smoke reaches North Pole in historic first


The Moscow Times
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:27 UTC
Satellite images captured “only a small part” of the smoke stretching 3,200 kilometers east to west and 4,000 kilometers north to south
© MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Satellite images captured “only a small part” of the smoke stretching 3,200 kilometers east to west and 4,000 kilometers north to south.
Smoke from wildfires burning across Russia's largest and coldest region has reached the North Pole for what is believed to be the first time in known history last week, according to satellite observations.

The European Union's Copernicus satellite monitoring service has said that the forest fires in the Siberian republic of Sakha (Yakutia) — fueled by hot weather and a 150-year record drought — have already emitted a record 505 megatons of carbon dioxide with several weeks remaining in the fire season.

"This week, wildfire smoke has traveled more than 3,000 km (1,864 mi) from Yakutia to reach the North Pole, a feat that appears to be a first in recorded history," NASA's Earth-monitoring tool MODIS said Saturday.

The thick smoke had blanketed vast swathes of Siberia before reaching the North Pole, sparking evacuations, concerns over deteriorating air quality and orders to clear fire trails of dead wood and fallen trees around endangered settlements.

Smoke has been detected in 1,300 towns and settlements in the Krasnoyarsk region west of Sakha alone, emergency officials said Saturday.

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Italy wildfire: 400 people flee raging 'dramatic' blaze as fireball engulfs skyline

Lottie O'Neill
Daily Star (UK)
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:10 UTC
More than 400 people have been evacuated

More than 400 people have been evacuated
Hundreds of tourists and residents have been evacuated as wildfires continue to rage in Italy.

More than 400 people have fled from their homes, hotels, and campsites in the seaside district on the Adriatic coast on Sunday, according to fire crews.

Clips of the flames approaching a cafe on social media show thick plumes of smoke billowing through the streets.

A helicopter and firefighting plane have been deployed to aid crews working to douse flames raging on the ground.

The fire is bringing down houses and blocked traffic on state road 16.

Ten hectares of pine forest in Vesuvius Park have gone up in smoke.

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