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12 dead, 400,000 affected after heavy rain, floods in Odisha, India


NDTV
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 09:22 UTC
Residents shift from a flooded village near the banks of river Bhargavi in Odisha’s Khordha district on Saturday.
© PTIResidents shift from a flooded village near the banks of river Bhargavi in Odisha’s Khordha district on Saturday.
Fear of flood looms large in the Mahanadi river system in Odisha following heavy rainfall in its upper catchment areas in Chhatisgarh and a rise in the water level of Hirakud Dam, a senior official said.

Five more people lost their lives in rain-related incidents in the state on Friday, raising the deaths to nine, while 415,817 people in 10 districts are affected, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC), PK Jena, said.

Forty of the 64 sluice gates of the Hirakud Dam, built across the Mahanadi near Sambalpur in Odisha, were opened by the authorities on Friday to discharge excess water.

The flood in the Mahanadi river system is likely to affect coastal districts such as Puri, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur and Nayagarh, another official said.

Many other rivers are in spate submerging low-lying areas and snapping road connectivity.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Winter forecast high food prices and cancelled credit cards


Adapt 2030
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 08:03 UTC
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Just as food prices spike banks are cutting credit card limits and the N. Hemisphere settles in for the coldest winter in a century with crop losses sending grocery bills upward. Australia highest snowfall total ever recorded in a non-alpine area. Russia pummeled with summer snow drifts and record cold temperatures. Grand Solar Minimum ON !


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Rare waterspout filmed off Southwold coast in Suffolk, UK

Max McLean, Richard Brown
Cambridgeshire Live
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 11:39 UTC
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A waterspout caught the attention of tourists and residents this weekend after it was spotted moving across the sea.

The weather phenomenon was filmed by Lisa Wroe, 49, from Flint in Wales, while on holiday on the Suffolk coast.

She had been visiting Southwold when the phenomenon was caught on camera.

"I was sat near the pier and it went very dark in the distance and started thundering," Ms Wroe told the PA news agency.

"I noticed out to sea what looked like smoke on the horizon. On closer inspection I realised the sea was being churned up directly underneath this long pointed 'arrow' coming out of the sky.

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Rare waterspout filmed in County Kerry, Ireland

Barra Best
BBC
Sat, 29 Aug 2020 11:31 UTC
WATERSPOUT
© Gloria Jean Keller
"The people were running to the pier shouting 'look at that, look at that'."

A photographer and her family were treated to a rare sight while travelling from County Kerry to Connemara in County Galway.

A waterspout formed while they were waiting for a ferry at Tarbert Ferry terminal in County Kerry on Thursday.

"It was fascinating," said Gloria Jean Keller.

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Three people killed as wild storm lashes Victoria, Australia leaving thousands without power

Chanel Zagon, Luke Cooper and Olivana Lathouris
9news
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 07:36 UTC
Storm damage in Victoria, Australia
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A disastrous storm has ravaged Victoria killing three people, including a four-year-old boy, as it ripped through the state overnight.

The boy, identified as Ayan Kappoor, was killed when a gum tree fell onto him in Blackburn South.

He was taken to the Royal Children's Hospital with critical injuries, but died overnight.

Two others were killed in separate incidents in the deadly storm which left behind a trail of destruction that will take months to clean-up.

A 59-year-old man was killed when a tree crushed his car last night in Belgrave, east of Melbourne.

Victoria Police confirmed the Tecoma man had been leaving a shopping centre car park at the intersection of Terrys Avenue and Ena Road after 6pm when his vehicle was hit by the tree.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Food prices and cargo theft skyrocket


Adapt 2030
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:55 UTC
Photo from 23 Aug 2020: Kurush, Dagestan, Russia
Photo from 23 Aug 2020: Kurush, Dagestan, Russia
There is a direct relationship between high food prices and cargo theft. With the UK having its lowest crop yields in 40 years, summer snowdrifts in Russia, the global food landscape looks well under the rosy forecasts in the beginning of 2020. Are you ready for trucks to stop arriving at your supermarkets?


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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 10 children in remote Uganda town

Rodney Muhumuza
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:58 UTC
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Ten children have been killed in a lightning strike in a remote Ugandan town near the Congo border, Ugandan police said Friday.

The children, whose ages ranged from 9 to 16, were sheltering from the rain in a grass-thatched house when the lightning struck Thursday evening. They had been playing soccer in a nearby field, said Josephine Angucia, police spokeswoman in Uganda's West Nile region.

Four other children were injured, she said.

Deadly lightning is commonly reported in the East African country during the wet seasons.

In some cases, children have been struck while in their classrooms. Many classroom blocks, especially in rural areas, are not equipped with lightning diverters.

Source: AP
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Hurricane Laura smashes parts of Louisiana and Texas, killing 6 and leaving widespread wind damage

Jason Hanna, Madeline Holcombe and Theresa Waldrop
CNN
Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:16 UTC
An aerial view of a neighborhood outside Lake Charles.
An aerial view of a neighborhood outside Lake Charles.
Hurricane Laura's ferocious winds produced more damage than its storm surge as it pummeled portions of Louisiana. The storm left six people dead in Louisiana, including at least four from falling trees.

Laura came ashore as a Category 4 storm early Thursday near the Texas border, tearing off roofs while knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.

Laura, later downgraded to a tropical storm, was about 35 miles south of Little Rock, Arkansas, with sustained winds of 40 mph as of 7 p.m. CT Thursday. But it made landfall around 1 a.m. with sustained winds of 150 mph, devastating southern Louisiana communities for miles.

While there were widespread reports of wind damage, some communities were also beset by storm surge. US Coast Guard aerial video showed flooding in Cameron along the coast.

"There's a lot of damage. People are going to need a lot of help around here," Paul Heard, who survived the ordeal in Lake Charles, told CNN.

Heard left his house just as the storm was pulling part of the roof off around 1 a.m., taking shelter in his car, he said. As he watched from 25 feet away, he "could see my roof was heaving up and down several inches."


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Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in North Korea - damages buildings, snaps trees and floods roads

Kim Tong-Hyung
The Sydney Morning Herald
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:53 UTC
Satellite image released by NASA shows Typhoon Bavi near South Korean island of Jeju on Tuesday.
© NASASatellite image released by NASA shows Typhoon Bavi near South Korean island of Jeju on Tuesday.
North Korea was on high alert as typhoon Bavi made landfall early on Thursday, dumping heavy rains and uprooting trees after skirting the coast of South Korea overnight, damaging homes and other buildings, flooding roads and toppling.

Neither country immediately reported casualties as the storm passed by the North's capital.

Bavi had maximum winds of 115km/h and was passing near Pyongyang after making landfall in a western coastal region of North Korea that is a major source of farming and fishing, South Korea's weather agency said. It was forecast to weaken to a tropical storm in the next 12 hours.

The North's Korea Central TV showed footage of snapped trees and utility poles and flooded roads while also reporting damages to houses and public facilities in North Hwanghae and South Hwanghae provinces, where the typhoon made landfall. Roads were also flooded in the city of Nampo, which is closer to Pyongyang.

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Category 4 Hurricane Laura makes landfall in Louisiana with 150mph winds


The Guardian
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:00 UTC
A satellite image shows Hurricane Laura reaching the coasts of Louisana and Texas
© Rammb/NOAA/Nesdis/AFP/GettyA satellite image shows Hurricane Laura reaching the coasts of Louisana and Texas.
Hurricane Laura, the most powerful hurricane to strike the US this year, has made landfall in south-west Louisiana as an extremely dangerous category 4 storm, raising fears it could swamp low-lying coastal communities with ocean water.

The National Hurricane Center said early on Thursday the storm had struck Cameron in Louisiana, close to the Texas border, with maximum sustained winds of 150mph.

Forecasters said the storm surge could be 6 metres (20ft) deep and unsurvivable.

Authorities had previously implored coastal residents of Texas and Louisiana to evacuate, but not everyone did before howling winds began buffeting trees back and forth in an area that was devastated by Hurricane Rita in 2005.

Social media footage showed torrents of rain rushing sideways past lampposts in Lake Charles, and streets covered with water closer to the coast.

With hours of violent weather ahead, officials said the extent of destruction would not be clear until daybreak, when search-and-rescue missions would begin.


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