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Record rainfall hits Turkish city of Edirne, one dead


Daily Sabah
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:08 UTC
Flash floods inundated the city late Tuesday and yesterday.
Flash floods inundated the city late Tuesday and yesterday.
The worst rainfall in decades hit Edirne, a Turkish city bordering Greece, late Tuesday, causing floods. An elderly man that went missing in the floods was found dead in floodwaters around his house.

Floodwaters engulfed the city late Tuesday and early yesterday, closing streets to traffic, while traffic on roads connecting Edirne to other cities were barely moving due to high water levels. Homes on the first floors of apartment buildings and the entrance of an emergency room of a hospital were among those sites flooded in the city. Workers struggled to evacuate floodwaters and clear debris yesterday while bulldozers were dispatched around the city to save people trapped in their houses engulfed by floodwaters.

Meteorology experts said it was the worst rainfall since 1953 in the city, citing Edirne received 128.5 kilos of rainwater per square meter in one day.

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Ecuador - 9 dead after landslides in Morona Santiago Province

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:03 UTC
Aftermath of a landslide in Limon Indanza Canton
© Secretaría de Gestión de RiesgosAftermath of a landslide in Limon Indanza Canton, Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador, November 2018.
Heavy rain and landslides in Morona Santiago Province, Ecuador, have left at least 9 people dead and 8 injured. Authorities say 6 homes were destroyed.

The landslides struck in Limon Indanza Canton on 24 November, 2018. Further heavy rain has fallen since.

Around 150 people have been evacuated to temporary shelters by Ecuador's National Risk and Emergency Management Service (SNGRE).

Heavy rain has been reported elsewhere in the country. Ecuador's Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (Inamhi) said that Quito has recorded 238.4 mm of rain so far this month, making November 2018 one of the wettest in recent years.

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Sydney floods: One dead as month's worth of rain falls in single morning


Sky News
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 05:34 UTC
Sydney floods
© NSW policeMorning commute earlier this morning in Sydney, NSW.
Heavy wind and rain have cancelled flights, deluged roads and left thousands without power in Australia's biggest city.

A motorist has died and flights have been cancelled as a month's worth of rain fell on Sydney on Wednesday morning.

Severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall have lashed Australia's biggest city, deluging railway stations and leaving more than eight thousand people without power.

There was chaos on Sydney's roads as the storm struck only hours before the city's morning rush hour.

Several stranded motorists were plucked from rising floodwaters.

Two police officers were seriously injured when a tree fell on them as they assisted a stranded driver.

Police called on motorists to stay off the roads due to the "horrendous weather".

New South Wales state Assistant Police Commissioner Michael Corboy said: "We are asking all road users to reconsider the need to be on the roads throughout what will be a severe rain event today."

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said Sydney received more than 10cm of rain within a few hours, with the city usually experiencing an average of 8.4cm for the whole of November.


Comment: See also: Thundersnow, bushfires, heatwaves, dust storms: What is going on with Australia's weather

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned that a "second phase is now beginning", bringing with it "storms and intense rain".



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Tropical Storm Usagi hits southern Vietnam - Longest and heaviest ever recorded rainfall in Saigon history


VietNamNet Bridge
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:16 UTC
Ho Chi Minh City floods
© Dtinews/VNAHuynh Tan Phat Street in Ho Chi Minh City is deeply submerged on the evening of November 25
Many areas in HCM City and some neighbouring southern provinces have been submerged due to heavy rains as Typhoon Usagi weakened into tropical pressure over the weekend.

Torrential downpours that lasted pretty much the entire day caused serious flooding in many districts including District 4, 7, Binh Thanh, Binh Tan, Go Vap by 10pm on Sunday. Electricity was cut in these areas to ensure safety.

According to a report from the HCM City's Department of Transport, 39 streets had been deeply submerged by Sunday afternoon.

"The high floods have caused accidents and knocked down trees," the report said. A tree fell onto Nguyen Van Tan, 60, while he was driving a motorbike on Nguyen Van Linh Street in Binh Chanh District. He died in hospital soon after that due to serious injuries, the report said.

Heavy rains and strong winds have also been reported in some other southern provinces including Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Ninh Thuan, and Khanh Hoa.


Comment: It was reported that rainfall of more than 350 mm (14 inches) fell around Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon) causing widespread flooding and travel disruption.

According to Le Dinh Quyet from the Southern Hydro-Meteorological Center, the bout of rain caused by Usagi was the longest and heaviest ever recorded in Saigon history.

See also: Falling tree kills man as severe floods again hit Saigon, Vietnam

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Seven killed, thousands displaced in flash flooding in Iraq - Death toll reaches at least 25 (UPDATE)


Al Jazeera
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:36 UTC
Some 3,000 Iraqis were left homeless after floods hit the Shirqat region. 23 November 2018
Some 3,000 Iraqis were left homeless after floods hit the Shirqat region. 23 November 2018
At least seven people, including children, have been killed and thousands have been forced to flee their homes after heavy rains triggered flash floods in northern Iraq.

Officials told the dpa news agency on Friday that the seven people were killed when floods hit the al-Houreya village in Salahuddin province.

Ali Dodah, the mayor of Shirqat, a town 260km northwest of Baghdad and around 80km south of Mosul, said rains had flooded houses and farms with "some 3,000 people now homeless".


Comment: Update: The Gulf Times on the 26th November reports:
At least 21 people have died and nearly 180 have been injured after heavy rains accompanying sweeping floods battered Iraq over two days, the Iraqi Health Ministry said yesterday.

Women and children were among the dead, the Health Ministry said.

While some drowned, others died in car accidents, were electrocuted, or were trapped when their houses collapsed.

Local media reported that as many as 300 homes have been badly damaged by the floods, especially in Nineveh and Kirkuk provinces. The country's north has borne the brunt of it, and the UN office in Iraq said that the downpour had forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

An estimated 10,000 people in Salahaddin province and 15,000 people in Nineveh are in desperate need of help, including families living in displacement camps, the UN said.

In the Al-Sharqat district in Salahaddin, about 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, thousands of homes were left totally submerged by the rains.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi announced in statements earlier that he was establishing a "crisis cell" of security forces and local authorities to co-ordinate a response.


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Eleven provinces in Iran hit by flood, 4 gone missing


Tehran Times
Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:06 UTC
Four have, unfortunately, gone missing in floods
Four have, unfortunately, gone missing in floods hitting 11 provinces across the country over the past three days, Rescue and Relief Organization head Morteza Salimi said on Sunday.
Provinces of Isfahan, Ilam, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan, Fars, Kermanshah, Gilan, Lorestan, Mazandaran, and Sistan-Baluchestan are inundated by flood, YJC quoted Salimi as saying.

Some 307 received relief services in the aforesaid provinces, Salimi, said, adding that sadly 4 individuals have gone missing in the northern province of Gilan.

Salimi went on to say that in seven provinces including Ardebil, Isfahan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Zanjan, Fars, Qazvin and Markazi are covered with snow as well.

Eleven rescue and relief teams have been dispatched to the areas affected by snow storms, he concluded.


Comment: Just 2 weeks prior: Flash floods hit 10 provinces of Iran

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Cyclist is swept to his death by flash flood in São Paulo, Brazil as record rainfall hits the city

Janet Tappin Coelho
Daily Mail
Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:33 UTC
Horrific moment cyclist is swept to death by flash flood in Brazil
Horrific moment cyclist is swept to death by flash flood in Brazil
This is the horrific moment a cyclist is swept to his death in flash floods in Brazil as witnesses form a human chain in a desperate bid to save him.

Marcelo da Silva, 43, was trapped with his bike in swirling waters as a torrential downpour hit São Bernado do Campo, a suburb of São Paulo, on Friday afternoon.

Footage shows him clinging to his bike even as horrified onlookers scream at him to let it go.

He tries to stand but the force of the water knocks him over and drags him under before strong currents rushing down the main street pull him further away.

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Falling tree kills man as severe floods again hit Saigon, Vietnam


VN Express
Sun, 25 Nov 2018 14:04 UTC
Thunderstorms uproot a tree
© VnExpress/Pham DuyThunderstorms uproot a tree on Nguyen Van Linh Street in Binh Chanh District, crushing a motorbike driver.
A falling tree killed a man as heavy rains triggered by storm Usagi caused severe flooding in Saigon.

A big tree with diameter of one meter on Nguyen Van Linh Street in Binh Chanh District to the west of the city was uprooted and fell on a man passing by, knocking him unconscious.

The man, whose name has not been revealed, was hospitalized, but succumbed to his injuries later.

Storm Usagi weakened into tropical depression Sunday afternoon, but HCMC suffered severe flooding and saw big trees uprooted.


Comment: See also this report of the results of another storm just a week prior to the one noted above : Death toll from central Vietnam typhoon-triggered flood rises to 14

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Thundersnow, bushfires, heatwaves, dust storms: What is going on with Australia's weather?

Kate Doyle
ABC
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:02 UTC
australia dust storm snow fire
© Barrier Daily Truth/supplied/AAPA week of crazy weather. From left: dust storm in Broken Hill, the Snowy Mountains near Khancoban, and bushfires along Lemon Tree Passage Road near Newcastle.
Every Australian state and territory has been impacted by wild weather over the past few days.

In South Australia, 40,000 properties were left without power and several homes were damaged as wind gusts of over 100 kilometres per hour hit on Wednesday night.

Victoria also saw severe thunderstorms, with the State Emergency Service reporting it had received over 750 calls for assistance by Tuesday night.

On Thursday morning, South East Queensland was hit with a band of gusty storms, storm warnings were issued for the Northern Territory, and parts of Tasmania were on flood watch and damaging wind warnings were issued.

In New South Wales, a dust storm travelled across the state from west of Broken Hill to Sydney.

Comment: Weather everywhere is increasingly erratic and intensifying: For more, check out SOTTs' monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs



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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Atmospheric compression events - Deserts blooming - Both hemispheres break record cold


Adapt 2030
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:25 UTC
Saudi Arabia desert blooming
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Atmospheric compression events occurring in all corners of the Earth. One of the end results is that deserts across the planet are blooming, no where more so than the Middle East and North Africa, fields of green carpet the landscape as far as the eye can see in drone shots, carpets of flowers are an endless tapestry of color and some of these flood events turn deserts into inland seas. Australia record cold and two months of rain in two hours, record cold USA, and the ferocity of colliding jet stream fronts is now visible in temperature anomaly maps.


Comment: For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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