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Rare snow devil sweeps through lines of skiers in Vermont


Yahoo! News
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:19 UTC
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Video of a rare snow devil at Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont, was posted to Twitter on January 18.

Benjamin Trachtenberg recorded a video that shows lines of skiers standing still as the snow devil sweeps through the group. Trachtenberg told Storyful that the snow devil lasted for close to 30 seconds and did not injure the large group.

Certified broadcast meteorologist Tyler Jankoski said on his Twitter post that the weather event can be called a snow devil or a "snownado". According to the World Meteorological Organization, snow devil is "a very rare phenomenon."


Credit: Benjamin Trachtenberg via Storyful
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Strong magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes southern Philippines


The Seattle Times
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:46 UTC
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A powerful earthquake shook parts of the southern Philippines on Thursday night, but authorities said it was too deep to cause major damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake measured magnitude 7.0 and was located 95.8 kilometers (60 miles) below the sea and about 210 kilometers (130 miles) southeast of Pondaguitan in Davao Occidental province, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

In Davao city, President Rodrigo Duterte's hometown, some residents ran out of their houses as the ground shook and power cables and business signs swayed, but there were no reports of damage or injuries. Duterte was in the presidential palace complex in Manila.


Comment: Also very pertinent:

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Tropical Storm Eloise leaves homes destroyed, hundreds displaced in Madagascar

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:02 UTC
Floods in Antalaha , Madagascar, After Storm
© Madagascar Red Cross
Floods in Antalaha , Madagascar, After Storm Eloise, 19 January 2021.
Tropical Cyclone Eloise formed over the Indian Ocean on 17 January and moved towards Madagascar, making landfall close to the coastal town of Antalaha in Antsiranana Province, on 19 January, with maximum sustained wind up to 95 kmh.

As of 20 January, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that more than 1,000 people have been directly affected in Madagascar and more than 50 houses were destroyed, as Tropical Storm Eloise passed through Antalaha, Maroantsetra, Vavatenina and Toamasina districts. Quoting local sources, OCHA said 1 person was killed in the storm.

The storm flooded 134 houses and destroyed 56, while nearly 100 schools were impacted, including 87 that were damaged and 11 destroyed, OCHA added.

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Huge waterspout during extremely cold weather skims over Adriatic near Dubrovnik, Croatia

Mark Thomas
The Dubrovnik Times
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:29 UTC
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A huge waterspout skimmed over the Adriatic near Dubrovnik this afternoon in dramatic form. This amazing video was sent to us by a reader and clearly shows the sheer size and power of the waterspout.

The weather in Dubrovnik over the past few days has been extremely cold with even snow falling on the city as temperatures dropped into the minuses. This latest weather phenomenon certainly catches the eye.

In fact, such waterspouts, tornadoes that form over water, aren't that rare in Dubrovnik but this one today was particularly impressive.

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'Disaster zones' declared in Spain following record breaking Storm Filomena, heavy rains and flooding forecast


Spanish in English
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:31 UTC
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© (UME / Defensa.Gob.es
Personnel from Spain’s Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME) helping to clear streets in Madrid following Storm Filomena.
The Spanish government has classified Madrid and seven other regions struck the hardest by Storm Filomena last week as disaster zones, a category that will provide emergency subsidies and other support measures. Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Asturias, Andalusia, Aragón, La Rioja and Navarra have also been classified as disaster zones.

The precise details of the subsidies and support have not yet been decided, and each region needs to be assessed individually. The authorities in Madrid and in Castilla-La Mancha had been pushing for disaster zone classification.

The news came as the Madrid regional government also warned that rain predicted from Wednesday could bring flooding and further chaos to the capital. 'The rains predicted by AEMET [the state weather agency], although moderate, are likely to cause floods when all the ice begins to melt,' the regional government said.

Comment: Other reports of extreme weather in the past few weeks:

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Woman mauled to death by her dog in Trinidad


Loop
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:18 UTC
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A 56-year-old woman was killed yesterday evening in an attack by her dog.

The deceased has been identified as Gaytrie Chanderpaul, of Andrew Lane, D'Abadie.

Loop News was told that at about 6:45pm on Tuesday, Chanderpaul was about to give her rottweiler a treat, when the dog suddenly attacked her. She was mauled by the animal.

The victim's 32-year-old daughter, on hearing the commotion, rushed to her mother's aid.

Chanderpaul was taken to the Arima Health Facility, however, she succumbed to her injuries about an hour later.

Cpl Metivier is continuing enquiries.
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Massive sinkhole swallows lorries and buildings in Malaysia


EdgeProp.my
Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:40 UTC
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A total of 67 employees from two companies in Bestari Jaya near here were evacuated to a relief centre at SK Rantau Panjang, after a land subsidence occurred in an open area near the premises on Friday evening.

Selangor Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) assistant director of operations Hafisham Mohd Noor said in the incident at about 6.50 pm, there was a 10m-deep fissure over 50,000 sq m of land near Jalan PKPS in Kampung Bestari Jaya near here.

"The JBPM received an emergency call at about 6.51 pm and seven firemen were rushed to the scene.

"Based on preliminary information, Selangor JBPM was told that there was a victim buried in the sediment, however after doing a headcount of workers at two nearby premises, none of the victims were found missing or buried," he said in a statement here yesterday.

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Waterspout hits Wonogiri, Indonesia

KN News
YouTube
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:05 UTC
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Waterspout hits Wonogiri, Indonesia today.

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Coldest air on Earth sends temperatures below -50°C in Siberia, down to -58°C (-72.4°F) at one locality)

Tyler Hamilton
The Weather Network
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:43 UTC
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Severe frost in Siberia - Yakutsk
A lobe of air that broke off of the polar vortex, which is currently blanketing parts of Siberia, is sending temperatures plummeting across parts of Canada.

Canada is no stranger to temperatures below -30°C, but parts of eastern Russia have plummeted below -40°C since the middle of December, courtesy of the bone-chilling polar vortex lingering over Siberia. One of the more chilling temperatures, in Delyankir, just northeast of the coldest, permanently inhabited places on Earth recorded a -58°C on January 18th, 2021.

A lobe of frigid air that broke off of the polar vortex meandered its way down across North America and is sending temperatures tumbling across Canada. This raises the question, will the coldest air in the world soon make an appearance in Canada?

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Rare 'musical note' detected by magnetometers in atmosphere above Norway


Space Weather
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:05 UTC
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A musical note from our atmosphere. Around 05.30 UTC or 06.30 local time magnetic and ground current pulsations on my instruments. Approximately 2 hours long and with a period time of 2 minutes and 14 seconds. Continuous geomagnetic ULF pulsations in the range between Pc4 and Pc5. For the first time this year and sometimes only once a year.It's great to see that our atmosphere can make this happen. This phenomenon can also be seen on other magnetometers for example from Abisco and Kiruna,roughly in the same place of the auroral oval.
High above the Arctic Circle in Lofoten, Norway, citizen scientist Rob Stammes operates a space weather monitoring station. His sensors detect ground currents, auroras, radio bursts, and disturbances in Earth's magnetic field. Yesterday, he says, "I received a musical note from the magnetosphere."

"Around 05.30 UTC on Jan. 18th, our local magnetic field began to swing back and forth in a rhythmic pattern," he says. "Electrical currents in the ground did the same thing. It was a nearly pure sine wave--like a low frequency musical note. The episode lasted for more than 2 hours."

Stammes has received such notes before, but they are rare. "I see a pattern like this only about once a year," he says.

Comment: It would appear that there has been an uptick in rare and unusual phenomena in our skies: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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