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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Garden centre hoarding begins - Spring on hold across Europe

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We have seen the stores stripped bare of daily essentials and long term food storage, but this has moved to garden centres and items to plant or be able to grow your own food. Winter returns to Europe with 2+ feet of snow and an Arctic blast on the way through the end of the month. Airline traffic declines from 175,000 flights per day to 75,000.


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Lightning bolt kills 2, injures 3 in Malawi

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Two girls from the same family died while three other people suffered injuries after being struck by lightning in Mangochi on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Thursday evening in the area of Traditional Authority Jalasi in the district.

Mangochi Police Station spokesperson Sub Inspector Amina Tepani Daudi identified the two girls as Aisha Patrick aged 14 and Stella Mussa aged 20.

Daudi said all the victims are close relatives and on this fateful day they were chatting on the veranda while it was raining.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Vortices cavitate at storm centre as Earth's atmosphere churns

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Mesovortices cavitating withing a extra-tropical cyclone also forming cyclonic lows within a near record low pressure winter storm in the N. Atlantic. Extra-tropical cyclone off west Africa joins the Mesovortices at each end making a rough figure 8 in the atmosphere. Locust plague USA in 1870, plus snow in Lebanon and record snow in the N. Hemisphere for the fourth year in a row.


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Spring storm dumps up to foot of snow on the Wasatch Range, Utah

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The new snow arrived with grapple and then a heavy dense snow followed. Trent Meisenheimer with the Utah Avalanche Forecast Center says it should stabilize quickly but for now, suggests people avoid the back country. On Tuesday, they received reports of avalanches releasing from the grapple layer. He says, with this current storm, there are two issues that impact the avalanche danger.

"One is going to be new snow and that's going to be across all elevations and aspects but probably more dangerous above 8500 feet. Now our second issue is up in the wind zone."

The Wasatch range has received 10 to 12 inches so far and winds are 35 to 45 miles per hour with higher gusts, which results in wind-loaded slopes.

"Some areas like the Park City ridgeline or kind of Brighton, the backside of Heber/Snake Creek area could have received more snow out of this as they typically do pretty well with these southwest flow type storms."


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Floods in Murcia, lots of rain in Alicante and snow on Canary Islands adversely impacting Spanish cultivation

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It is not the first time Spanish cultivation areas have been pummelled by lousy weather. This bad weather is moving over parts of Spain. There is rain in some places, and rivers flooding in others. Streets in, for example, Murcia, are flooded.

In the southern part of the Alicante province, they have to deal with the impact of a new Dana or Gota Fria, making their way across the country. And it has snowed on the highest parts of the Canary Islands. This is according to reports in Spanje Vandaag.

Some places in Murcia have received more than 100 liters/m2. This has been more than 50 liters/m2 in the province of Alicante. This rainfall was recorded in that province's regions of Marina Alta and Vega Baja. There has been a lot of rain in the Valencia province and Almería too. The rivers there have, however, not yet burst their banks.

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Storm system brings up to 10 inches of spring snow to Newfoundland, Canada

About 17 centimetres of snow fell on St. John's Tuesday night.
© Ryan Cooke/CBCAbout 17 centimetres of snow fell on St. John's Tuesday night.
St. John's didn't get the full brunt of a storm system that swept across the island on Tuesday night, but high winds are still expected to make a mess of it Wednesday.

About 17 centimetres fell in the capital city and surrounding area. A further five centimetres is forecast to fall throughout the morning on Wednesday, as winds gust up to 90 km/h.

"We probably shouldn't let our guard down because as the day goes on, the wind is going to pick up,"said Environment Canada meteorologist Rodney Barney.

The system was initially expected to bring as much as 30 centimetres to the northeast Avalon, but Barney said the system tracked a little further west.

The brunt of it hit Clarenville and Terra Nova, where roughly 27 centimetres of snow fell.

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Heavy hailstorm causes collapse of Mexico City market

Hailstorm causes roofs to collapse at Mexico City's main food market
Hailstorm causes roofs to collapse at Mexico City's main food market
A hailstorm that hit Mexico City Saturday caused the collapse of two sections of roof over a market warehouse that left five injured and six trapped.

Myriam Úrzua, secretary of Gestión Integral de Riesgos and Protección Civil said the collapse happened in Iztapalapa around 6:17 p.m. in the vegetable area of Central de Abasto. He explained that during a heavy hail storm, two sections of roof collapsed due to the weight of the accumulation of hail.


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Storm brings more flooding to Cartagena, Spain - 4th such event in 7 months

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The fourth clean-up in 7 months begins in Los Alcázares

The latest heavy storm to cause flooding in Los Alcázares and other towns and villages in the Campo de Cartagena and along the coastline of the Mar Menor was rather less expected than the other three which have hit the Costa Cálida since last September, but the amount of rain it brought with it was very significant indeed in the south-east of the Region of Murcia and in and around the regional capital.

The Aemet national weather summary for Tuesday 24th March makes for very unusual reading in that eight of the ten wettest places in Spain were in the Region of Murcia! Heading the list is the city of Cartagena with 121.2 millimetres, followed by Alhama de Murcia (90.6), Mazarrón (86.6), Torre-Pacheco (84.8), Fuente Álamo (83.0), San Javier, La Manga and the city of Murcia. The top ten is completed by Pinoso in the province of Alicante (Very close to Jumilla in the north of Murcia) and the north African enclave of Ceuta.


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Rare tornado emergency issued after twister rips through Tishomingo, Mississippi

The tornado-warned thunderstorm as it hit the Tishomingo, Mississippi
© Facebook/barrett GutterThe tornado-warned thunderstorm as it hit the Tishomingo, Mississippi, area on Tuesday evening.

A "large and destructive" tornado tore through northern Mississippi and northern Alabama on Tuesday evening, leaving behind a trail of damage and prompting a dire warning to be issued for those in its path.

Severe thunderstorms began to blossom over the Tennessee Valley late Tuesday afternoon, and by 5:35 p.m. CDT, the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed that there was a tornado bearing down on Tishomingo, Mississippi.

Almost immediately, damage was being reported out of the town in the northeastern corner of Mississippi, including a Dollar General that was left with substantial damage. Fortunately, only minor injuries have been reported, according to WTVA.


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Storms and devastating floods continue in the Middle East

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Heavy storms cause flooding in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman, March 22-24, 2020


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