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Bus falls into gaping sinkhole in Pittsburgh

Scottie Andrew
CNN
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:30 UTC
BUS UP
Morning commuters in Pittsburgh got an eyeful Monday when a bus fell backward into a gaping sinkhole, leaving the front half hanging several feet above the road.

The Port Authority bus was stopped at a red light when a rectangular hole in the street opened up beneath it, swallowing the back half of the bus, Port Authority of Allegheny County officials said.

Only the driver and one passenger were on board when the bus fell in. Both were safely able to exit, and the lone passenger was being treated for minor injuries, the Port Authority reported.

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Another 'rare' gigantic jet snapped, this time over the gulf of Mexico - plus a 'pancake' sunset in N. California


Space Weather
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00 UTC
Gigantic Jet

Transient Luminous Event: Taken by Chris Holmes on October 15, 2019 @ Yucatan Peninsula, 35,000ft approximately 35 miles east of the cell.

CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A GIGANTIC JET

When you see lightning, run! That's what NOAA advises in lightning safety brochures. On Oct. 15th, however, pilot Chris Holmes had no place to go when lightning started to crackle in thunderstorms around his aircraft.

"I was flying 35,000 feet over the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatan Peninsula when a super cell started pulsing with light," he says. "It wasn't just ordinary lightning, though. The cell was creating lots of sprites and jets leaping up from the thunderhead." At a distance of only 35 miles, he video-recorded this:

Comment: The growing list of phenomena resulting from our changing atmosphere: For more on what's happening on our planet, check out SOTT radio's: As well as SOTT's monthly Earth Changes Summary - September 2019: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs:



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Bushfires continue to rage in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia

Luke Costin and Natalie Bochenski, AAP
news.com.au
Sun, 27 Oct 2019 18:06 UTC
Firefighters battle an out of control bushfire on the Lakes Way, Darawank, near Forster on the NSW mid north coast.
© Nathan Edwards
Firefighters battle an out of control bushfire on the Lakes Way, Darawank, near Forster on the NSW mid north coast.
At least one home has been lost after multiple bushfires threatened towns on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

The bushfire is easing NSW but it could be a torrid day in Queensland which is still seeing torrid conditions.

One blaze west of Tuncurry, near Forster, jumped a river on Saturday and began spotting across the township that is home to 6000 people.

Less than 10 kilometres further north, another blaze led to emergency warnings for Hallidays Point and Darawank.

Both fires were being fanned north overnight.

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Hurricane Pablo becomes sixth Atlantic hurricane to form in an unusual location

Chris Dolce and Jonathan Erdman
The Weather channel
Sun, 27 Oct 2019 08:15 UTC
Hurricane Pablo
© NASA
Hurricane Pablo, as seen in the eastern Atlantic by NASA’s Terra satellite on Oct. 27, 2019
Hurricane Pablo became the sixth Atlantic hurricane on Sunday morning in an unusual location.

Pablo strengthened into a hurricane at 11 a.m. EDT on Sunday at 42.8 degrees north latitude. That's very near the same latitude as Boston on the U.S. East Coast.

Only one other storm since 1950 has first reached hurricane intensity at a farther north latitude, according to Tomer Burg, an atmospheric science PhD student at the University of Oklahoma. That was an unnamed hurricane in 1971 which formed at 46 degrees north latitude, Burg said in a tweet.

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Cloud Precipitation

Floods kill 7 people in Saudi Arabia


Arabian Business
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:32 UTC
FLOODS
State TV says another 11 people have been injured after heavy rain lashed northeastern parts of Saudi Arabia

Seven people have been killed and 11 injured in floods after heavy rain lashed northeastern parts of Saudi Arabia, Al-Ekhbariya state television reported Monday.

Rescue services in the northeastern city of Hafer al-Batin, about 100 kilometres southwest of Kuwait, said that 16 people were forced to evacuate their homes.

Seven affected by the rain were provided with shelter, it added.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 4 in South Africa

Anelisa Kubheka
IOL
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:14 UTC
lightning
Four people died after being struck by lightning during the weekend's storms in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

This was according to a preliminary report by the Umkhanyakude municipality on Sunday as its disaster management teams were still on the ground assessing the damage.

Spokesperson Mdu Dlamini said the figure could rise as he was made aware of a family home in Jozini that was struck by lightning.

"At this stage we are not sure how many people died at the home belonging to the Dlamini family," he said.

He said in Mkhuze it was reported that a group of five people were walking together when they were struck by lightning. "Two of these people died instantly while the other three are still critical in hospital," said Dlamini.
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U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned by Pentagon Says

Nafeez Ahmed
Vice
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:53 UTC
The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects
uncle sam climate change
© Calvin Shen / Vice
According to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes.

The senior US government officials who wrote the report are from several key agencies including the Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA. The study called on the Pentagon to urgently prepare for the possibility that domestic power, water, and food systems might collapse due to the impacts of climate change as we near mid-century.

The report was commissioned by General Mark Milley, Trump's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the highest-ranking military officer in the country (the report also puts him at odds with Trump, who does not take climate change seriously.)

Comment: Again, that is not the root cause.

It's interesting that some at the Pentagon are at least aware that they ought to be preparing for the worst.

As we can see, however, between now and then, they'll be unable to resist the temptation to interfere in others' affairs and put hegemony before national security.

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Piggy Bank

Global shortage after 'quarter of Earth's pigs wiped out' by swine fever

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:05 UTC
Swine Flu Spread
© Bloomberg
African Swine Fever is killing millions upon millions of pigs all over the world, and this threatens to create a crippling global shortage of protein as we head into 2020. This epidemic began in China last year, and it is now also running wild in North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar and the Philippines. But this crisis is certainly not limited to Asia. According to the Washington Post, so far in 2019 there have also been outbreaks "in Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine." Overall, cases of African Swine Fever have been documented "in nearly 50 nations", and U.S. pork producers are extremely concerned that it could start spreading here too.

African Swine Fever is extremely contagious, there is no vaccine, and there is no cure. Once it starts spreading in a certain area, there isn't much that can be done "other than culling herds and loading carcasses into hazardous waste sites". Literally, we are talking about an unstoppable global plague that is an existential threat to our food supply. Of course many of us don't eat pork, but there will also be an immense strain on supplies of beef and chicken as those that eat pork are forced to turn to other alternatives. This is an exceedingly serious situation, and with each month it is just getting worse.
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Snowflake Cold

October's not over, yet 31 inches of snow has already fallen in Great Falls, Montana - Half a typical year's total

Karl Puckett
Great Falls Tribune
Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:22 UTC
More than 16 inches of snow fell at Showdown Ski Area last week.

More than 16 inches of snow fell at Showdown Ski Area last week.
Three to 4 inches of snow, heavy at times, is expected to hit the Great Falls area Monday morning, followed by near record-breaking cold Tuesday and Wednesday, as the fall of 2019 continues to behave more like December or January.

Just four months into the snow year, more than half of a typical year's worth of snow already has been recorded in the city.

Following Monday's new snow, temperatures will plummet to 30 to 35 degrees below the normal.

"Probably timed with the morning commute, so it's going to be a mess," Christian Cassell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Great Falls, said of the latest round of snow forecast Monday morning.

Comment: Just last month in September: Parts of Montana hit by winter storm dumping 4 FEET of snow!! Drifts of 7 FEET reported

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Cloud Precipitation

120,000 displaced after floods in 4 regions of Ethiopia


Floodlist
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:38 UTC
File photo for illustration. Floods in Ethiopia, 2006
© Bob McCaffrey / Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0
File photo for illustration. Floods in Ethiopia, 2006
The UN reports that over 120,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Ethiopia this month.

In a report of 20 October, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) said that during the month of October, "several flood incidences were reported in Afar, Oromia, SNNP and Somali regions displacing thousands and causing loss of property and livelihoods. Reportedly, some 202,202 people have been displaced across the country, the majority (127,524 people) in Somali region. "

Heavy rainfall from early October caused rives to overflow in Somali region, including the Genale and Wabi Shabelle rivers and related tributaries.
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