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Unusually wild, wintry weather hits Western Australia

Irena Ceranic
ABC News
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:27 UTC
Western Australia cyclone
© BOMA severe weather warning has been issued for the Kimberley region of Western Australia with a tropical low (pictured) expected to form into a cyclone off the north coast on Thursday
A dose of wild, wintry weather has struck WA's south-west as it brims with holidaymakers hoping to make the most of the region's idyllic beaches and campsites.

After a string of typical summer days in the region, a developing low pressure system is bringing a cool change, heavy rain and damaging winds, with gusts of up to 90 kilometres per hour possible today.

"This weather is very unusual for this time of year," Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior forecaster Adam Conroy said.

"It's more typical of a strong winter storm, so it's pretty rare to get one of these systems developing in January.

"This sort of weather will be quite wintry and windy, so given that a lot of people would be out having their summer holidays it's important that they listen to the warnings."

Comment: Australia is experiencing extreme weather these days. See also:

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Winter Storms Indra & Harper - Record cold Boston - Falling iguana alert


Adapt 2030
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:25 UTC
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Winter storms Harper and Indra blend into the same weeks headlines, record cold and more records snows. Boston breaking records back to 1878, now three locations in the northern hemisphere mimic Maunder Minimum climate.

Iguanas will fall from trees last part of January.

More record cold to follow through first week of Feb even down to Cuba.


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Cloud Precipitation

Roads turn white as rare hailstorm hits Lahore, Pakistan


Pakistan Today
Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:04 UTC
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Roads turned white as a rare hailstorm hit the provincial capital and its surrounding areas on Tuesday night.

Giving parts of the provincial capital the feel of a hill station, the hailstorm further added to the prevailing chilly conditions.

While people watched the freak turn of weather with a pleasant surprise, motorists were seen rushing to cover as hailstones the size of small strawberries started meteoring down the sky.

Besides Lahore, adjoining Sheikhupura and the M2 motorway near Kalar Kahar also received heavy hail.

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Storms dumped nearly 8 feet of snow in 7 days at Squaw Valley ski resort in California

Brendan Weber
nbcbayarea.com
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:20 UTC
Squaw Valley
© Squaw Valley Alpine MeadowsSquaw Valley, looking squeaky clean after 6 feet (1.8m) fell there in the last week. Snowfall is already well above average in the Sierras and there’s more to come Sunday and early Monday.
Thanks to Mother Nature's onslaught of recent storms, skiers and snowboarders near Lake Tahoe are shredding across several feet of fresh snow.

Storms that rolled across the Sierra Nevada over the past week dumped nearly 8 feet of snow at Squaw Valley and multiple feet of powder at a host of other nearby resorts.

Check the list below to see how much snow fell across Lake Tahoe ski resorts over the past seven days, as reported by the resorts.
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Rare waterspout reported in Pakistani waters


The News International
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 04:23 UTC
Pakistan waterspout
A WWF-Pakistan trained fisherman operating in the offshore waters of Pakistan reported the occurrence of a waterspout on 21 January 2019.

This rare weather phenomenon was reported by Captain Saeed Zaman who was fishing for tuna about 57 nautical miles from the coastline in offshore waters at Ghora Bari, Sindh coast. He recorded this spectacular waterspout which looked similar to a tornado. This rare weather phenomenon was previously reported by fishermen on 28 February 2016 near Sakoni (off Kalmat Khor), Balochistan.

According to Saeed Zaman, this massive waterspout was coming towards his boat but he managed to move away from it. He shared that he observed a large patch of cloud on the morning of 22 January from which the waterspout could be seen descending. Other fishing boats operating in the area also observed this massive waterspout but they also avoided approaching it.

Contrary to its name, a waterspout is not filled with water but is a column of cloud-filled wind rotating over the ocean's surface. It descends from a cumulus cloud and the water inside a waterspout is formed by condensation in the cloud.

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Snowflake Cold

Ottawa just had its coldest & snowiest winter storm in over 120 years


OttawaStart.com
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 06:09 UTC
Ottawa winter storm
© ASHLEY FRASER / POSTMEDIAA woman shoves along Adelaide Street after Ottawa was hit with a winter storm Sunday Jan. 20, 2019.

The winter storm that, as of Sunday afternoon, is still passing through the region, was the coldest & snowiest Ottawa has seen since before the dawn of the 20th century.

Rolf Campbell, who tweets @YOW_Weather, observed that the storm - with a high reaching minus 18 degrees and two-day snow accumulation in surplus of 25 centimetres - was rivaled only by Feb. 8, 1895, when the max temperature was 17.8 degrees and accumulation exceeded 45 centimetres.

(There was also a snowstorm on Jan. 18, 1934 where it was minus 18.3 degrees, but the accumulation was only 15.2 centimetres.)

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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Europe setting a super freeze trend - 3rd year in a row


Adapt 2030
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:29 UTC
A car covered in snow in Obertauern, Austria
© CHRISTIAN BRUNA/EPAA car covered in snow in Obertauern, Austria. The storms have trapped motorists in their vehicles in Germany and stranded residents and tourists in Austrian alpine villages cut off by blocked roadways.
Third year in a row of extreme snowfall events for Europe. Grand Solar Minimum intensification forecast these amplifications, and these are the totals for 2019, but the real extremes will show around 2020-2021.

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EF2 tornado rips through Alabama town causing major damage


Daily Mail
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 03:34 UTC
Alabama tornado
© APElmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin is seen here talking with first responders after the tornado
Homes, businesses, government offices and churches were among the buildings badly damaged or demolished when tornadoes struck central Alabama over the weekend.

The severe weather hit Saturday and another tornado was reported later that evening at an air base in the Florida Panhandle.

On Sunday, the National Weather Service says its initial surveys indicated there was an EF 1 tornado in Autauga County, and a stronger EF2 twister in Wetumpka, Alabama.

'We suffered a tremendous amount of damage,' Mayor Jerry Willis said at a morning news conference with city and Elmore County officials. 'Something that we've never had here before.'

The familiar steeple of the First Baptist Church of Wetumpka was missing after the storm. And much of a historic Presbyterian church was reduced to rubble.

Officials said at a news conference Sunday morning that at least 25 homes were seriously damaged or destroyed. Also severely damaged were the Wetumpka police station, senior citizens center and recreation center, according to WSFA-TV.

'Thus far we've seen damage indicating wind speeds of 120 to 130 mph,' John DeBlock, of the National Weather Service in Birmingham, said during the news conference.

No deaths or life-threatening injuries were reported.

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Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Moscow winter thunderstorms - Etna erupts - Middle East snows


Adapt 2030
Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:17 UTC
Heavy snowfall created traffic problems in areas of the Kingdom on Wednesday night
© Amjad GhsounHeavy snowfall created traffic problems in areas of the Kingdom on Wednesday night.
Unusual fog, thunderstorms, blizzard and lightning in Moscow and parts of Russia, the front is heading to Kazakhstan. More mixed up jet streams with electrical storms over Malta as Etna on Sicily erupts and a second major snow storm blankets Jordan and Lebanon.


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Lightning strikes have killed at least 25 people since the start of the rainy season in Zambezia, Mozambique


JournalduCameroun.com
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 20:10 UTC
lightning
© Johannes Plenio
At least 25 people have died since the start of the rainy season, being victims of lightning strikes in Zambezia province, central Mozambique.

According to the spokesperson of Mozambique's National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) in the province, Maria Luciano, "so far at least 25 people have been killed by lightning in the province since the rainy season began on October 1, and in the same period the bad weather also destroyed 450 houses, affecting about 2,500 people", Luciano was quoted as saying by state-controlled Radio Mozambique on Friday.

The official said that some affected families have already begun to rebuild their homes and others are waiting for INGC support.
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