Snowfall in Zakopane, Poland.
In the capital of the Tatra Mountains there are already several centimeters of snow and it is still snowing.
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Snowfall in Zakopane, Poland.
In the capital of the Tatra Mountains there are already several centimeters of snow and it is still snowing.
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Trees downed in Schaghticoke, N.Y., during last week's derecho.
Trees downed in Schaghticoke, N.Y., during last week's derecho.
It was a Weather Alert Day, and for good reason. A derecho is a prolonged, widespread wind damage event over 250 miles and with wind gusts 58 mph or stronger.
Events like this are rather rare, not only in Southern New England, but the northeast as a whole.
Lines of strong thunderstorms happen consistently in the summer, but most struggle to hold together and cause consistent damage over 250 miles. In October, derechos are even rarer.
In the past 25 years, derechos have only entered Southern New England three times.
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Vehicles lie partially submerged in floodwater following heavy rains, at Falaknuma, in Hyderabad.
Vehicles lie partially submerged in floodwater following heavy rains, at Falaknuma, in Hyderabad.
Heavy rain disrupted life in Hyderabad on Wednesday, causing severe waterlogging in several areas and submerging low-lying places. Traffic was also disrupted in several parts of the city.
At least nine people, including children, were killed in Hyderabad late on Tuesday after a wall collapsed due to the rain. The city has been receiving incessant downpour over the last three days. Hyderabad recorded 191.8 millimetres of rain in 24 hours till 8:30 am on Wednesday, according to The Indian Express. This is the highest rainfall that the city has received in month of October since 1903.
According to residents, the incident took place near the Aabe Hayat police station. "The children were playing on the streets when the dogs suddenly attacked them," a neighbour said.
He added that the boys had sustained severe injuries and died on the spot.
Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has taken notice of the incident and summoned a report from the city commissioner immediately.
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Waterspouts over open water.
Waterspouts over open water.
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A new study finds temperatures in the deep sea fluctuate more than scientists previously thought.
A new study finds temperatures in the deep sea fluctuate more than scientists previously thought.
In a new study in AGU's journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers analyzed a decade of hourly temperature recordings from moorings anchored at four depths in the Atlantic Ocean's Argentine Basin off the coast of Uruguay. The depths represent a range around the average ocean depth of 3,682 meters (12,080 feet), with the shallowest at 1,360 meters (4,460 feet) and the deepest at 4,757 meters (15,600 feet).
They found all sites exhibited a warming trend of 0.02 to 0.04 degrees Celsius per decade between 2009 and 2019 — a significant warming trend in the deep sea where temperature fluctuations are typically measured in thousandths of a degree. According to the study authors, this increase is consistent with warming trends in the shallow ocean associated with anthropogenic climate change, but more research is needed to understand what is driving rising temperatures in the deep ocean.
Comment: Since 'man-made global warming' has been thoroughly been debunked by this point, another more likely reason for the warming in the depths could be related to the thousands of underwater volcanoes. Taken together with the uptick in various other kinds of unusual and extreme kinds geological activity, it would appear that they may share a similar cause:
- Largest underwater eruption ever recorded in the Indian Ocean
- Global warming... in the deeps: Tremendous geothermal heat source is melting Antarctic ice sheet from below
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
- MindMatters: The Holy Grail, Comets, Earth Changes and Randall Carlson
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Schweitzer Mountain tweeted several photos of fresh snowfall on the mountain.
"Let's just say, we're all a little excited up here today," the resort tweeted. "So good to see you, Winter!"
Gotta love a nice snow storm on October 13! Only 45 days to go till ski season! #snow#skiing pic.twitter.com/0QXRwy1Xws
— Schweitzer Mountain (@SchweitzerID) October 13, 2020
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Floods in Parigi Moutong Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, October 2020.
Floods in Parigi Moutong Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, October 2020.
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West Java
Flooding since 11 October 2020 has affected around 1,000 households in 6 districts of Garut Regency in West Java Province. The affected districts are Pameungpeuk, Cikelet, Cibalong, Peundeuy, Singajaya and Banjarwangi.
Indonesia's National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) said heavy rain caused an overflow of the Cipalebuh and Cikaso rivers. Around 60 homes were damaged, including 7 severely damaged. Sixty families were displaced in Pendopo Pamengpeuk District.
Homes were also damaged after floods and landslides occurred in Tasikmalaya Regency, West Java Province on 12 October.
Heavy rains since early October have caused deadly floods and landslides in several provinces in central Vietnam and displaced thousands of people in western Cambodia, officials and state media said.
The floods are expected to worsen over the coming days, with tropical storm Nangka forecast to dump more rain as it makes landfall in Vietnam on Wednesday.
Nangka, packing wind speeds of up to 100 km per hour (62 miles per hour) will trigger heavy rain of up to 400 millimetres in parts of northern and central Vietnam from Wednesday through Friday, its weather agency said.
Comment: In August this year a powerful derecho storm wreaked havoc across the US Midwest leaving 1.1 million without power.