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Double lightning strike starts house fire in Cornwall, England


BBC
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:54 UTC
lightning strike house cornwall
Emergency services are trying to stop the fire spreading to the house next door
A house caught fire when it was struck twice by lightning.

The three-storey property on Cornwall's Lizard Peninsula was hit just after 11:30 GMT, with the blaze spreading from the roof to the top floor of the building.

No-one was injured in the blaze, in the village of Ponsongath, near Coverack, which caused extensive damage to the top of the house.

Fire crews attended amid storms which swept across the South West.

"We did have warnings of quite severe thunderstorms in the area which last throughout the whole weekend, but it is very unusual for a strike to cause a fire," Gary Rich from Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said.

"When the crews arrived within five or ten minutes of the call the roof was well alight."

Comment: The increase of cometary dust in our atmosphere along with grand solar minimum and Earth's weakening magnetosphere - all likely related to the approach of Nemesis - are changing the nature of weather on our planet: For a detailed discussion on the matter, check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

And for the strange happenings on our planet, watch SOTTs monthly documentary: Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs



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Australia dust storm sparks health warning

Sharon Marris
Sky News
Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:03 UTC
NSW dust storm
© MATT WHITLUMThe outback town of Broken Hill was hit by the storm on Wednesday


Health officials say they have seen a large spike in people needing treatment for asthma or breathing difficulties

Parts of eastern Australia have been covered by a dust storm so large that it can be seen from space.

The 300-mile storm has brought a thick haze to landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House, while the city's 309m (1,014ft) tower has been barely visible at times.

Some flights at the city's main airport were delayed.

The storm is caused by strong winds picking up dry soil in a country where many parts have been suffering from drought.

Adam Morgan of the Bureau of Meteorology said a low pressure system over the states of South Australia and Victoria had pushed strong winds across areas of western New South Wales that have experienced one of the worst drought seasons in years.

"This is the typical time of year for dust storms through inland Australia, but it is quite rare for dust to reach the east coast," he said.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Earth's atmosphere becoming unstable & why ancient cultures tracked the cycles


Adapt 2030
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 23:07 UTC
Massive waterspout in Salerno
Massive waterspout in Salerno, Italy.
Five feet of snow Greece, Blizzard in Croatia, Slovenia with record snowfall, EF2 water spouts and 200K lighting strikes along new jet streams forming in our atmosphere. This is why the ancient cultures followed cycles in the stars, Sabians of Haran, Sumerians, Daoists and ancient cultures of the Adriatic.


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Twin waterspouts hit Turkey's southwestern coast - Second event in one week

Sabri Kesen
Anadolu Agency
Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:34 UTC
waterspout in Marmaris, Turkey
Two tornados off Turkey's Aegean coast on Wednesday caused panic and affected several watercraft and vehicles.

Several sailboats, as well as four automobiles were damaged by the waterspouts in the coastal town of Marmaris in Turkey's southwestern Mugla province.

The town's mayor said no casualties had been reported and damage assessment were ongoing.

Both tornados occurred in the afternoon, roughly 40 minutes apart.


Comment: Less than a week ago another pair of waterspouts hit southern Turkey before moving inland. Meanwhile a couple of days ago a huge waterspout was filmed off Salerno, Italy.

Once a rare phenomenon, waterspouts are increasingly common these days in some areas. At the same time, vortexes of water, fire and dust are appearing in very unusual places. See also:
That's pretty clear-cut evidence that cyclonic winds are all essentially electrical in nature. Heat exchange plays a role, but more as a side-effect to the distribution of electric charge potential between mediums - ground-to-air, water-to-air, fire-to-air, whatever.


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Huge waterspout filmed off Salerno, Italy


BBC
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:50 UTC
Massive waterspout in Salerno
Massive waterspout in Salerno, Italy.
A huge waterspout has been captured on video moving from the sea and hitting Italy's south-western city of Salerno.

Eyewitnesses said the whirling column of air and water lifted containers in the city's port area. There were no reports of any injuries.

The rare phenomenon was observed at about 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT), officials say.

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex that occurs over a body of water and quickly dissolves over dry land.

Footage of Tuesday's waterspout has been widely shared on social media, with some users describing the vortex as "incredible".

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Atmospheric compression events - Deserts blooming - Both hemispheres break record cold


Adapt 2030
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:25 UTC
Saudi Arabia desert blooming
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Atmospheric compression events occurring in all corners of the Earth. One of the end results is that deserts across the planet are blooming, no where more so than the Middle East and North Africa, fields of green carpet the landscape as far as the eye can see in drone shots, carpets of flowers are an endless tapestry of color and some of these flood events turn deserts into inland seas. Australia record cold and two months of rain in two hours, record cold USA, and the ferocity of colliding jet stream fronts is now visible in temperature anomaly maps.


Comment: For more information check out SOTT's latest monthly summary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs


To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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Series of 4 waterspouts seen off Auckland's North Shore in New Zealand


tvnz.co.nz
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:05 UTC
waterspout
© Jo Ottey
A large waterspout has formed off a beach on Auckland's North Shore today.

Stunning video of the weather phenomena were sent to 1 NEWS by Graeme Gilby.

In the video people can be heard exclaiming in awe of what they're seeing over the water.

Mr Gilby said the "amazing sight" formed off Takapuna Beach around 6:15pm.

"At first I thought it was a mighty big whale. It was wicked," Mr Gilby said. "It was quite a way out to sea".

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Seismic records show Newfoundland was literally shaking from vicious windstorm


CBC.ca
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:51 UTC
Giant waves in Canada

Seismometer in St. John's shows how intense Thursday's winds were

The waves crashing into the rugged shoreline of Newfoundland and Labrador this week led to waves of a different kind.

The squiggly black lines produced by a Natural Resources Canada seismometer show the seismic activity of a vicious windstorm that whipped across the province on Wednesday and Thursday.

The wind and waves were so strong, the island was shaking.

"What we saw over the past 48 hours was quite a dramatic change in [activity]," said John Cassidy, an earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada.

"It was very noticeable and in our seismic data, our plots, it just jumped off the page. You could just see that shaking."


Comment: The windstorm that struck Newfoundland and Labrador was the "most intense storm" on the planet, according to a meteorologist in Gander. Wild, whipping winds gusting upwards of 130 km/h caused huge waves, delays, cancellations and closures across the province reports CBC.

According to the Weather Network the effects of the incredibly strong low pressure system that moved through Atlantic Canada would cause more than ripples across the Atlantic Ocean this week, causing giant waves to track towards Europe and Africa. See also: Enormous waves wipe away balconies in Tenerife, Canary Islands



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Death toll from central Vietnam typhoon-triggered flood rises to 14

Shi Yinglun
Xinhua
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:10 UTC
FLOODS
Floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Toraji over the weekend in Vietnam's central Nha Trang city have killed 14 people and left two others missing, according to local authorities on Monday.

Due to heavy rain and floods, many areas were still inundated including roads to the city's airport, local daily newspaper Sai Gon Giai Phong (Saigon Liberation) quoted the municipal People's Committee as reporting.

Flash floods and landslides also destroyed 12 houses, injured several people and triggered a breach of a reservoir. According to local online newspaper VnExpress, the municipal authorities told some 90,000 students to stay home from school on Monday.

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Flash floods have claimed 30 lives in Saudi Arabia over the last month

Northeast Live
YouTube
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:03 UTC
Saudi Arabia hit by unprecedented rains and floods
Saudi Arabia hit by unprecedented rains and floods
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that flash floods have claimed at least 30 people across the desert nation over the past month.

The government has issued warning as situation is expected to get worse.

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