Houses inundated by floodwater in Jeppu Kutpadi in Mangaluru.
Downpour led to flood-like situation in Mangaluru.
Fire department and emergency services carried out rescue operation in the area.
Storms
Houses inundated by floodwater in Jeppu Kutpadi in Mangaluru.
Downpour led to flood-like situation in Mangaluru.
Fire department and emergency services carried out rescue operation in the area.
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All three Greenland teams faced storms this week.
All three Greenland teams faced storms this week.
Norwegian sisters Aase and Hanne Seeberg are performing strongly on their east-to-west traverse. After 22 days, they are due to arrive at DYE II, an old radar station about three-quarters of the way along their 600km route.
"They have found deep snow but have skied a regular 20km every day," reports expedition liaison Lars Ebbeson. "They cleared the Summit [the apex of the Ice Sheet] before the last storm on the east side, so have been able to progress over the last few days."
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A swath of wildfire smoke is getting pulled into an offshore storm
A swath of wildfire smoke is getting pulled into an offshore storm
I'm going to file this under "I've never seen this in my career, but I probably should have expected it this year" as some of this thick smoke from the historic fires burning in Oregon and California is now getting sucked right into a Pacific storm.
Watch:
OK this seems very 2020: The offshore smoke is now getting sucked into that swirling storm out in the Pacific:
— Scott Sistek (@ScottSKOMO) September 12, 2020
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The accident in the makeshift mine occurred on Friday in the town of Kamituga, in South Kivu province.
Provincial governor Theo Ngwabidje Kasi deplored "the tragic deaths of 50 people, most of them young".
However, Kamituga mayor Alexandre Bundya said "we are not yet sure of the exact number" of victims. A local resident who was at the scene, Jean Nondo, told AFP that "according to witnesses, there are more than 50 dead. There is only one survivor."
He said a river close to the mine had flooded after torrential rain.
Footage released by China's Dalian Meteorology Bureau shows a waterspout looming over East Harbour Business District at 2pm on Friday. Another waterspout was spotted in the morning
Footage released by the meteorological authority of Dalian shows one of them looming over a business district in the afternoon.
The spectacle occurred at around 2pm near the East Harbour Business District, according to Dalian Meteorology Bureau.
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A firefighter battles the Creek Fire as it threatens homes in the Cascadel Woods neighborhood of Madera County, California.
A firefighter battles the Creek Fire as it threatens homes in the Cascadel Woods neighborhood of Madera County, California.
Meanwhile, the Atlantic's 16th and 17th named tropical storms are swirling, a record number for this time of year. Powerful Typhoon Haishen lashed Japan and the Korean Peninsula this week. Last month it hit 130 degrees in Death Valley, the hottest Earth has been in nearly a century.
Phoenix keeps setting triple-digit heat records, while Colorado went through a weather whiplash of 90-degree heat to snow this week. Siberia, famous for its icy climate, hit 100 degrees earlier this year, accompanied by wildfires. Before that Australia and the Amazon were in flames.
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Residents walk through a flooded street after last week's heavy rains in Keur Massar, Senegal September 8, 2020.
Residents walk through a flooded street after last week's heavy rains in Keur Massar, Senegal September 8, 2020.
Floods are common during the rainy season, but in recent years climate change, land degradation and poor urban planning have led to more frequent disasters as rapidly-growing cities struggle with heavier-than-normal rainfall.
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ghana, Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Congo Republic and Senegal are among those worst-hit this year, with at least 111 people killed, according to latest figures from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Evacuations after floods in Afar region, Ethiopia September 2020.
Evacuations after floods in Afar region, Ethiopia September 2020.
Unusually heavy Kiremt season (June to September) rainfall triggered flooding in the country from late July. By early August the UN reported 30,000 people had been displaced, with many of them in the Afar region after the overflow of Awash River. The regions of Gambella, Oromia, SNNP and later Amhara were also affected.
In a report of 06 September, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said "heavy summer season (June-September) rains continue to cause flooding in many parts of the country. Some 500,000 people were so far affected, including some 300,000 displaced."
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Fallen tree limbs block a street during an early season snow storm on September 9, 2020 in Boulder, Colorado.
Fallen tree limbs block a street during an early season snow storm on September 9, 2020 in Boulder, Colorado.
Here's a look at some of the weather records that were set in the Centennial State during this tumultuous time.
A summary of Denver's Extreme Weather the past week. #cowx pic.twitter.com/0C3DOcbt6Z
— NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) September 9, 2020
Two violent thunderstorms hit Cagliari in the space of a few hours on Thursday turning the streets of the Sardinian capital into rivers.
Cagliari and the surrounding area were swept by thunder, lightning, cloudbursts and a gale-force northwesterly wind.
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