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Cloud Precipitation

Wettest 12 months in U.S. history

Annual precipitation across the contiguous U.S.
© NOAA/NCEI.Annual precipitation across the contiguous U.S. has increased by about 7% over the past century. Blue bar shows the linear increase since 1895, while the red curve is a smoothed version of the year-to-year numbers in green. When averaged over running four-year periods (not shown), the past four years are the wettest on record for the contiguous U.S.
The 12 months ending in April 2019 were the wettest year-long period in U.S. records going back to 1895, according to the monthly U.S. climate summary issued Wednesday by the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Averaged across the contiguous U.S., the total of 36.20" made the period from May 2018 to April 2019 the first year-long span ever to top 36". The old record for any 12-month period was 35.78", from April 2015 to March 2016.

Given the fierce drought-related impacts of the 2010s—including multiple deadly wildfire disasters from Tennessee to California—it may seem a bit counterintuitive that the nation has actually been getting wetter overall. Across the contiguous U.S., average yearly precipitation has risen by about 2" over the past century, from around 29" to just over 31" (see Figure 1). For the entire nation, including Alaska and Hawaii, precipitation increased by about 4% in the period from 1901 to 2015, according to the U.S. National Assessment.

Comment: For additional information on the seasonal and regional details read more here . The article does however does include some rather tiresome man-made global warming propaganda.

Also of relevance: Ice Age Farmer Report: "Wettest Winter Ever" - Farmers Desperate - Massive Solar Storm Warning

2018 was wettest year on record in over 2 dozen cities in the East, Midwest, including Washington D.C. and Pittsburgh


Ice Cube

Freak hailstorm turns beaches white in Victoria, Australia

Victoria’s Cape Paterson looked like a snowfield after it was hit by a large hailstorm
© Luke Watson/TwitterVictoria’s Cape Paterson looked like a snowfield after it was hit by a large hailstorm.

The sandy beaches of Victoria's Cape Paterson turned white on Friday after the coastal hamlet was blanketed by a freak hailstorm.

Victorians were bracing for huge rainfall and chilly temperatures as a cold front moves across the state from the south-west throughout the day, with 50mm of rain already soaking some towns west of Melbourne.

But for the residents of Cape Paterson, in Gippsland and about 150km south-east of Melbourne, the stormy weather came with a surprise.

The seaside village resembled a snowfield, forcing residents to shovel hail from their doorsteps, while videos posted to social media showed hail covering local roads.

"I've grown up here and it's not something I've ever seen before," said Glenn Sullivan, who lives in nearby Wonthaggi. "The whole beach was covered. Everyone was just stunned by it. It was an amazing thing to see."


Snowflake Cold

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Global nothing as record cold and snow shocks Europeans

Italy snow
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New World Meteorological Organisation report showing global temperatures at 4th warmest on record, well back to 1880, it was cooler in 1706, but that doesn't count. Record cold and snowfall sweep the USA and Europe as Jet Streams have moved into the wrong location on the planet. Coldest May Day temperatures ever in Copenhagen, France festival goers with hypothermia, new snow records in the USA from west to east and more crop planting delays.


Cloud Precipitation

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Brutal winter exit & cold start to spring 2019

Nebraska grain bins flooded
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Extreme cold and floods events leading into spring 2019 have left parts of our globe unable to plant this years crops, how did we go from all time record cold to all time record floods, here is what the corporate media overlooked along the way into spring of 2019.


Cloud Lightning

Rare 'positive lightning' strike captured in Florida

Positive lighting in Florida
© Youtube‘Positive lighting,’ or continuous lighting, is ten times more powerful than a regular bolt and is characterized by its positive charge
This is the spectacular moment a woman captured a lighting strike right outside her window. The shocking video was taken by Erica Hite as she filmed a thunderstorm on Sunday in her home in Boynton Beach, Florida.

Hite had her camera ready at just the right time to capture the bolt of lightning - which experts said was actually a rare glimpse at an unusual weather phenomena.

The National Weather Service in Miami identified the bolt as 'positive lighting,' or a continuous current, which is up to ten times more powerful than a typical flash.

Positive lightning makes up less that 5% of all strikes and originates in the upper levels of a cloud, meaning that it must burn through more air on its way to the ground, increasing its charge.


Windsock

Huge dust storm blankets Mildura, Australia, turning daylight to midnight in minutes

Mildura dust storm
© Michael MoodieMildura residents said the dust storm looked like a thick wall.

Pictures and video show vast clouds of dust towering over the town in north-western Victoria, Australia


A huge dust storm blanketed the north-west Victorian town of Mildura on Tuesday afternoon, turning daylight to midnight in a matter of minutes as the front blew in from the west.

Tanvi Mor, who was at the airport when the storm came in about 5pm, said "it seemed to be swallowing Mildura".

Mor said it was Mildura's worst dust storm in 40 years. Pictures and video posted on social media showed vast clouds of dust towering over the town.

The North Star Mildura Motors salesman Shaun Blythman said the dealership was scrambling to clean 100 cars coated in a chocolate brown film on Wednesday morning.


Tornado2

Mississippi counts 75 tornadoes for year, 43 for April 18

file photo of a waterspout near Biloxi,
© JOHN FITZHUGHFile photo of a waterspout near Biloxi
With three more tornadoes confirmed Friday from an April 18 outbreak, the National Weather Service now says 43 tornadoes hit Mississippi that day, and 75 for the year.

The one-day amount alone equals Mississippi's annual average of 43 tornadoes during the years 1991 through 2010. The most tornadoes ever recorded in a single year in the state were 109 in 2008.

Forecasters also confirmed on Friday that a tornado with top winds of 90 mph (145 kph) hit the Kiln area on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Thursday.

President Donald Trump has declared a federal disaster for storms in February that included a tornado that hit Columbus, limited to government aid for seven counties. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Friday it's still assessing damage from the April 13-14 and April 18 tornado outbreaks, and intends to seek separate federal disaster declarations for each of those days.

Comment: Storms tear through 5 states and spawn at least 2 dozen tornadoes - 2 killed in Oklahoma


Windsock

Cyclone Fani: At least eight dead in India's biggest storm in decades

Cyclone Fani, seen on April 30, 2019
© Twitter/NOAA SatellitesCyclone Fani, seen on April 30, 2019.

One million people evacuated as 170km/h winds make landfall in eastern Odisha state


Cyclone Fari barrelled into Bangladesh on Saturday after leaving a trail of deadly destruction in India, passing through hundreds of densely populated, low-lying communities along the Bay of Bengal, one of the most vulnerable regions to flooding in the world.

Major roads in the capital of eastern India's Odisha state were scattered with trees and power lines, and the roof was torn off the city's main railway station, after on Friday it was hit by the most severe storm on the Indian subcontinent in two decades.

Almost all thatched-roof and mud houses across four districts in the state were destroyed by the cyclone, which made landfall at about 8am on Friday morning and began migrating north-west towards the city of Kolkata.

More than 1 million people, including at least 1,000 pregnant women, were moved from their homes into shelters.

Eight people reportedly died in India and Bangladeshi police said nine perished even before the eye of the storm rumbled over the border.

Rescue officials told the Guardian the dead included a teenager in Puri who was hit by a falling tree and a woman in an adjoining district who was struck by a collapsing wall.

"We have taken full precautions and my government is fully prepared to deal with the situation," Odisha's chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, told the Guardian. "I have learned of the casualties and am instructing officers to find out the reasons behind them."


Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 6 in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh as cyclone Fani lashes coasts

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Lightning strikes have killed six people during thunderstorms in Kishoreganj.

The district in central Bangladesh experienced thunderstorms on Friday afternoon under the influence of cyclone Fani.

The monster storm was poised to hit the country in the evening after crossing Odisha coast in India.

Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 8 in Uttar Pradesh, India

Lightning during a thunderstorm killed eight
© AFP.Lightning during a thunderstorm killed eight people in two districts of Uttar Pradesh.
Lightning during a thunderstorm killed eight people in two districts of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.

Four people were killed in Chandauli, while one person died in Sonebhadra.

As an impact of Cyclone 'Fani', thunderstorm and rains lashed these two districts late on Thursday night.

The Met Department has already sounded a weather alert in Uttar Pradesh for the next two days.