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Heavy rainfall creates problems in west Georgia

Thea Morrison
Georgia Today
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:49 UTC
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Heavy rain has caused flooding in several towns in western Georgia, damaging infrastructure, houses and causing traffic delays.

The Emergency Management Service of Georgia reports that their units are mobilized at every spot where help is needed and are carrying out pumping works.

As a result of abundant rainfall in Batumi, Andronikashvili, Ostrov, Komakhidze and Saakadze streets were flooded. The Emergency Management Service has already cleaned the drainage channels and pumped water from the residential houses. 150 notifications were received from Batumi residents by the Emergency Management Service.

The Agency added about 40 houses were flooded in Kobuleti due to the heavy rain. Water pumping works have been completed there.

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Teen boys struck by lightning in El Mirage, Arizona


ABC 15 Arizona
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:36 UTC
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Authorities say two teens were rushed to the hospital after being hit by lightning during Wednesday's storm.

The El Mirage Police Department said two 14-year-old boys were playing with friends in a park near El Mirage and Cactus roads.

The pair was running toward a ramada when they were struck.

Witnesses started CPR before first responders arrived, police said.
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10-year-old boy captures close lightning strike on camera in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina


cbs17.com
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:13 UTC
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The scare of a Davidson 10-year-old's life ended up turning into one of the coolest things he's ever seen. And he safely got it all on video for the rest of us to see.

"That's the closest lightning bolt I had ever seen in my life," Brody Lee told WBTV just hours after he shot the video.

Lee was standing right by his home's front window when - boom! - he got the scare of his life.

"I was like freaking out because it was legit, maybe a couple of meters away from our house," he said.

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Two dead, 100 evacuated following landslides in northern Italian town


The Local (Italy)
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:01 UTC
File photo of Courmayeur
© Jeff Pachoud/AFPFile photo of Courmayeur
Two landslides close to the northern resort town of Courmayeur have killed one tourist and caused panic among many others, with over 100 people evacuated.

A couple from Milan was reported to have died after the landslides, caused by storms in the Val Ferret area close to the Swiss border at the foot of Mont Blanc.

Their car was one of several swept away by mud after one of the landslides flooded a small side valley close to the town of Planpincieux.

The body of the man, 71, was recovered on Monday evening and firefighters were on Tuesday working to recover his wife's body, which they had identified as trapped under the vehicle, Corriere della Sera reported.
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Saharan dust causes orange haze above Southwest Florida


NBC 2
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:55 UTC
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Do you notice anything unusual about our sky today? If you look closely, you'll see a slight orange haze above Southwest Florida over the next few days.

This haze was very evident around sunrise Wednesday morning looking east. The image below was taken around 7 a.m. from downtown Fort Myers.

The source of this orange haze is a layer of dry dusty air originating from the Sahara Desert that's traveled over 6 thousand miles from Africa to South Florida!

Comment: As if our planet needed more punch adding to the strength of its storms:

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North America's first EF-4 tornado of the year strikes Manitoba, Canada

Brian Donegan
The Weather Channel
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:12 UTC
Manitoba EF-4 tornado
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North America's first EF4 tornado of 2018 has been confirmed, but it wasn't in the United States. Environment Canada said an EF4 tornado touched down last Friday in Manitoba, Canada.

The U.S. averages the most tornadoes in a given year, with 1,253 twisters occurring in the country annually, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Canada is a distant second, averaging about 100 tornadoes per year, NCEI also noted. Parts of southern Canada - particularly from the prairie provinces to southern Ontario and southern Québec - are most prone to tornadoes.

The strongest tornado to ever touch down in Canada was an F5 twister in Elie, Manitoba, on June 22, 2007.

Last Friday's EF4 tornado killed a 77-year-old man as it tore through the Alonsa, Silver Ridge and Margaret Bruce Beach areas of western Manitoba during the evening hours.

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Firefighters battle rare firenado at UK plastics factory

Harry Cockburn
Independent
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:35 UTC
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A firenado is generated in a similar way to a tornado, but full of fire
Firefighters in Derbyshire have captured on video a rare fire tornado, or firenado, towering 50ft above them while they tackled an industrial blaze near the town of Swadlincote.

The film shows a dazzling column of red-hot fire reaching high into the sky as black smoke billows up from a pool of flames at a plastic pallet factory, where the blaze broke out at about 1.20am on Tuesday morning.

As the camera tilts back to show the full height of the phenomenon, the whirling string of light appears to pulsate and bend as it is whipped by winds.

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service, which helped the Derbyshire and Staffordshire services tackle the blaze, shared the video on Facebook, saying: "Whilst we were firefighting at Occupation Lane we witnessed a firenado or a fire whirl.

"It's created as cool air enters the top of the hot air causing a swirl similar to how a tornado is formed."

Comment: The articles states that firenadoes are due to a temperature differential, but is that really the case? Or are we seeing a rise in a variety of phenomena around the world because of the electrical nature of this activity and the changing nature of our planet? Because, as noted in: Rare tornado touches down in Carinthia, Austria
The accumulation of cometary dust in the Earth's atmosphere plays an important role in the increase of tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes and their associated rainfalls, snowfalls and lightning. To understand this mechanism we must first take into account the electric nature of hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones, which are actually manifestations of the same electric phenomenon at different scales or levels of power.
So when we take into account the rise in not just firenadoes, but snownadoes, deadly lightning and hail, and other strange sky phenomena, clearly other factors are at play than just temperature:

Firenadoes: Snownadoes: Strange skies, deadly lightning and hail: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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"World weather issues" see rise in grain prices with lowest global yield in five years

Suzie Horne
Farmers Weekly
Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC
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Barley damaged in hail storm south of High River, Calgary, on Monday, July 30.
Feed wheat prices rose by almost £4/t in just two days, with the spot ex-farm value averaging £181.23/t towards midday on Friday (3 August).

November futures touched £200/t during the week and stood at £192.25/t at lunchtime on Friday.

On the same day, the AHDB estimated wheat yields at 5-8% below the five-year average of 8.2t/ha. This would give a harvest of 13.3-13.7m tonnes, the lowest for five years.

With the GB winter wheat harvest estimated at about 25% complete, there is caution around the figures.

Comment: Farmers are facing an endless torrent of weather related disasters, from brutal cold and record breaking rainfall that delay planting, devastating drought that lead to lower yield, or destructive hail and early frost that completely decimate the crop: Also check out SOTT's monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - June 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Massive hail injures multiple people, kills zoo animals and damages 400 vehicles in Colorado Springs

Benjamin Lloyd
KOAA News 5
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:35 UTC
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Colorado Springs Police and the Fire Department rushed to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to help people with serious injuries at the facility from a major hail storm around 3 p.m. The fire department says five people were taken to the hospital by ambulance while 11 others were treated on scene and released.

The zoo is currently closed and will remain closed for a damage assessment Tuesday. Unfortunately, a 4-year-old muscovy duck named Daisy and a 13-year-old cape vulture Motswari were killed by the hailstones.

People at the zoo were told to stay in place as emergency personnel made arrangements for evacuations to Cheyenne Mountain High School for reunification efforts for families and large groups.

Comment: Hail is increasingly becoming a threat to life both in the form of a direct hit and its ability to decimate crops. Its sudden appearance all over the planet and at any time of the year provides more evidence that our atmosphere and climate patterns are changing, with a trend toward serious cooling:




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Rainfall records tumble as wild weather lashes Adelaide, Australia

Georgia Westgarth
9news.com.au
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 22:29 UTC
Parts of South Australia received up to 81mm of rain
© 9NEWSParts of South Australia received up to 81mm of rain.
A wild storm front has caused flooding as record rain and hail fell across Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills.

The rough weather saw a number of homes come under threat from rising waters and also made for dangerous conditions on the roads.

Residents across the state woke to the sound of hail as much of Adelaide was covered in an icy white blanket.

From 9am yesterday to 5.30pm today Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills had received 81mm, setting a new August rainfall record for the town.

Seventy-three mm fell at Lobethal, and 63mm at Bridgewater.

In the city, 23mm fell, while at Belair the rainfall total was close to 50mm.

"We've been dry all winter and now the rain has come," Collinswood resident Andrea Shipard said.
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