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8 dead as flash floods hit Kampala, Uganda


Floodlist
Thu, 30 May 2019 18:07 UTC
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© Uganda Red Cross Soc
Uganda Red Cross Society reported on 29 May, 2019 that at least 8 people have died in recent flash flooding in the country.

The fatalities occurred in the areas of Kikajjo, Lubowa and Lufuka in the south of Kampala after heavy rain from 26 May. Uganda Red Cross said that over 500 households were affected in the area, adding:
"The flash floods have had a devastating effect on the lives of people, livestock, businesses, household items and has affected human settlement. Many people have been displaced while others have had to move to neighboring villages for shelter with relatives and close friends. Schools too have been affected and this has an impact on the education of children in the affected areas."
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4 more dead dolphins wash on the Mississippi Gulf Coast - now 93 for the region this year

Lindsay Knowles
wafb.com
Tue, 28 May 2019 17:49 UTC
A third dead dolphin washed ashore Tuesday morning on Front Beach in Ocean Springs.
© WLOX
A third dead dolphin washed ashore Tuesday morning on Front Beach in Ocean Springs.
Four more dead dolphins washed ashore on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tuesday, making a total of 93 dolphins to be found dead on the beaches this year.

All four dead dolphins were found Tuesday. One was found in Long Beach between Richards Avenue and Ocean Wave Avenue. A second dolphin was found in Ocean Springs on Front Beach. Shortly after those two were reported, a third dolphin was found on Front Beach in Ocean Springs, and another in Biloxi.

This is the highest number of dead dolphins that the Coast has seen since 2011. Three dead dolphins were found on Biloxi Beach just two days ago.

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Dead minke whale found on beach in Reykjavík, Iceland


Iceland Monitor
Wed, 29 May 2019 10:23 UTC
Passers-by take a look at the carcass.
© mbl.is/Hallur Már
Passers-by take a look at the carcass.
A beached whale was reported to police in Reykjavík yesterday afternoon, according to mbl.is. At first, the whale was seen floating about 300 m from shore. It subsequently drifted to the shore, where it now lies on the beach in the western part of the city, near the intersection of Eiðsgrandi and Rekagrandi roads. It is now clear that this is a minke whale.

The carcass has a foul smell, and the Reykjavík Public Health Authority is looking for ways to remove it from the shore.

Earlier yesterday, a capsized sailboat was reported in Hvalfjörður fjord. The Icelandic Coast Guard helicopter was immediately sent to the scene. What it found was a dead whale, white belly up. It is likely the same whale as now lies on the beach of Reykjavík.


Comment: Dead whales have also turned up in the last few days on the coast of Scotland and Thailand.

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Powerful earthquake hits El Salvador: Tsunami warning after 6.8 magnitude tremor


Mirror
Thu, 30 May 2019 09:52 UTC
People are being warned to take care as a road is completely destroyed

People are being warned to take care as a road is completely destroyed
Coastal areas are reportedly being evacuated after the earthquake struck off the coast, 40 km south of La Libertad, in the early hours of this morning

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has hit El Salvador with coastal areas being evacuated amid a tsunami threat.

The earthquake struck off the coast, 40 km south of La Libertad, the US Geological Survey said.

Power outages have been reported in parts of the country after the tremor in the early hours of this morning.

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Mississippi River flood is longest-lasting in over 90 years, since 'Great Flood' of 1927

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Wed, 29 May 2019 08:11 UTC
Flood waters from the Mississippi River
© Kevin E. Schmidt, AP
In this Friday, May 3, 2019, aerial file photo, flood waters from the Mississippi River surround Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport, Iowa. Officials in Davenport say the city's public works department has spent over $1 million on flood-fighting efforts and that figure will surely rise as more costs are added in preparation for the potential of future flooding.
Flooding in at least 8 states along portions of the Mississippi River - due to relentless, record-breaking spring rainfall - is the longest-lasting since the "Great Flood" of 1927, the National Weather Service said.

The 1927 flood, which Weatherwise magazine called "perhaps the most underrated weather disaster of the century," remains the benchmark flood event for the nation's biggest river.

Anytime a modern flood can be mentioned in the same breath as the Great Flood is newsworthy: During that historic flood, hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes as millions of acres of land and towns went underwater.

At one point in 1927, along the Tennessee border, the Mississippi rose an astonishing 56.5 feet above flood stage, and in Arkansas, the river ballooned to 80 miles wide, according to the book Extreme Weather by Christopher Burt.


Comment: The record-breaking spring rainfall has devastated crop production in the US Midwest. See also:


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Solar winds spark 'rainbow auroras' northwest of Calgary, Canada


Space Weather
Wed, 29 May 2019 21:03 UTC
Earth is inside a stream of solar wind flowing from a hole in the sun's atmosphere. First contact with the gaseous material on May 29th produced an outburst of colorful auroras over Canada. Harlan Thomas photographed the display northwest of Calgary:

Rainbow auroras NW of Calgary
© Harlan Thomas
"The outburst was filled with amazing hues from blue to pink," says Thomas. "The aurora danced the dance of colors that only it can produce."
Rainbow auroras NW of Calgary
© Harlan Thomas
NOAA forecasters expect solar wind effects to continue for another 24 to 48 hours. Full-fledged geomagnetic storms are unlikely, but intermittent auroras may be seen in northern places where the waxing midnight sun has not yet wiped out the night sky.
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Multiple tornadoes and severe storms plague the US from coast to coast

Doha Madani and Phil Helsel
NBC News
Wed, 29 May 2019 17:27 UTC
tornado wabash county 2019
© Will Woodward / Reuters
Tornado is seen in Wabash County, Indiana on May 27, 2019.
The National Weather Service confirmed tornadoes in Kansas and Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, marking the 13th consecutive day of severe storms.

Severe storms stretched across the nation Tuesday, including tornadoes in Kansas and Pennsylvania, while catastrophic flooding puts other states at risk. It's only the latest outbreak of extreme weather that's been plaguing the U.S. for nearly two weeks.

Tuesday's violent weather marks the 13th consecutive day of such severe storms, coming a day after a series of devastating tornadoes hit western Ohio late Monday. That dangerous streak included an average of 27.5 tornadoes occurring each day.

Storms capable of producing hail, damaging winds and tornadoes have hit from the Central Plains into the mid-Atlantic, according to the National Weather Service. Police confirmed Tuesday evening that a tornado hit southwest of Lawrence, Kansas, in the eastern part of the state.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado emergency for the areas around Kansas City and urged residents to take shelter, advising them to seek the lowest level in the most interior room.
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Rainbow

'Rare' fire rainbow seen at New Jersey Shore

Adam Joseph
6 ABC
Sun, 26 May 2019 17:41 UTC
Fire rainbow at Jersey Shore
© Packy McCormick/Twitter
A rare fire rainbow was spotted at the Jersey Shore on Sunday.

Twitter user @packyM captured the rare site on the beach in Avalon, NJ near 64th Street.

These are neither fire nor rainbows. Technically they are known as a circumhorizontal arc, an ice halo formed by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name.

These appear mostly during the summer and only in particular latitudes. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals gets split into individual colors just like in a prism.

Comment: Twitter user @MeganErber also photographed the strange cloud over Sea Isle beach in New Jersey:
Fire rainbow over Sea Isle beach, NJ
© Via Twitter@MeganErber
Twitter user @PackyM also posted another picture from a friend of a circumzenithal arc over Japan that same day:



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Sun

Japan heat wave kills 5 people, hospitalizes nearly 600

Ron Brackett
Weather Channel
Mon, 27 May 2019 18:20 UTC
Japan heatwave
© KYODO
People cross a street in Obihiro on Sunday. The mercury hit 38.8 degrees in the city in southeast Hokkaido, the highest on record there.
At least five people have died and nearly 600 have been hospitalized as a heat wave grips Japan.

Shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, the temperature hit 103.1 degrees in the coastal town of Saroma on the island of Hokkaido, according to the Japan Times. The Meteorological Agency said that is the highest temperature at any observation point in Japan for the month of May. The temperature in Saroma climbed above 90 again Monday.

Fifty-three of the Meteorological Agency's 926 monitoring posts registered temperatures of 95 degrees or higher on Sunday. In 513 locations in the country, the mercury climbed above 86 degrees, Kyodo News reported. On Monday, 400 posts saw temperatures rise above 86 degrees.

On Sunday, a man died in Shimizu, Hokkaido, and another died in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, because of the heat, Kyodo News reported. At least 575 people nationwide with symptoms of heatstroke have been taken to hospitals.

On Monday, a 42-year-old woman died in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture; an 88-year-old woman died in Hanyu, Saitama Prefecture; and a woman in her 90s was also found dead in a field in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture.

Comment: Three months ago record cold temperatures of minus 24.4 C gripped Hokkaido, Japan.

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Ice Cube

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Buy more stuff the sea levels are down - It's a Climate Emergency


Adapt 2030
Wed, 29 May 2019 18:10 UTC
church of climatology
AOC says we have 12 years to save Earth and only 100 companies spew out 70% of all CO2 but the message is Buy More Stuff as NASA confirms sea levels are declining.

Arctic sea ice follows the Atlantic water temperatures on its 60 year cycle and a look at Alternative View 10 when I presented in the UK but that is now sensitive material on Twitter.


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