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Storm Leslie: Portugal hit by hurricane-force winds


BBC
Sun, 14 Oct 2018 06:15 UTC
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© REUTERSThe storm passed through the capital Lisbon
Hurricane-force winds have brought down hundreds of trees and left more than 15,000 homes without power in Portugal.

The remnants of Hurricane Leslie swept into the centre and north of the country overnight on Saturday.

There have been no reports of deaths or injuries, but officials have warned people not to venture outdoors, and a number of flights have been cancelled.

The storm, one of the most powerful to ever hit the country, is now heading over northern Spain.

Winds gusting up to 176km/h (109mph) were recorded after the storm struck the mainland.

Most of the power cuts are in Leiria district and on the outskirts of the capital, Lisbon, although other areas are affected too.

Hundreds of people remained in an arts centre in Figueira da Foz after a concert because of the high winds.

Sunday's Lisbon marathon is still expected to take place, though with an hour's delay to the start, Spain's El Pais reported.

It is rare for an Atlantic hurricane to reach the Iberian Peninsula, and it is thought this could be the most powerful to hit Portugal since 1842.

Comment: Portugal is facing the region's strongest Atlantic storm since 1842

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Mother battered by massive hailstones in heroic attempt to shield her baby


RT
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:48 UTC
Hailstones
© Reuters / B Mathur
A Queensland mother was left covered in large bruises and cuts after she used her body to shield her four-month-old baby from a brutal hailstorm.

Fiona Simpson was driving to her home in Kingaroy, Queensland with her new baby and grandmother when an extreme storm hit on Thursday. She pulled over when driving conditions got bad, but had no idea just how bad things were going to get.

Simpson soon heard a loud bang and turned around to see what had happened. "All this rain starts coming in, and the back window where my daughter was was just open ... it's gone," she told ABC. The large hailstones had smashed through the window.

Simpson quickly jumped into the backseat and used her body to shelter her baby from the onslaught of large hailstones and rain. "I looked down and I could see she was screaming but I couldn't even hear her, that's how loud it was," she said.

Comment: Freak 'hailnado' blankets southern Queensland with tennis-ball-sized hail

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Nine dead after Himalayan snow storm destroys climbers' camp in Nepal


The Telegraph (UK)
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:40 UTC
Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest peaks
© FRANK BIENEWALD/GETTYNepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest peaks
A group of five South Korean climbers and four Nepali climbers and porters has been reported missing after a storm hit a camp on a Himalayan peak in west Nepal, officials said on Saturday.

Tourism Ministry official Rameshwar Niraula said the storm struck the group at the base camp of Mount Gurja, a mountain of 7,913 metres (25,961 feet), on Saturday. The official said the camp had been destroyed.

Wangchu Sherpa, head of the Trekking Camp Nepal agency that provided local support to the South Korean team, said the camp had been devastated, citing the pilot of a rescue helicopter that was sent to look for the missing group on Saturday morning.

Niraula didn't disclose the names of the missing climbers and porters and gave no further details of the incident, which involves the largest group to be hit by a climbing accident in Nepal in two years.

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Storm Callum: Parts of Wales see 'worst flooding in 30 years'


BBC
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:51 UTC
North the dog overlooks Crickhowell in Powys as the River Usk burst its banks
© JADE HANLEYNorth the dog overlooks Crickhowell in Powys as the River Usk burst its banks
Rivers have burst their banks, homes are flooded while some are without power and Wales is suffering travel chaos as Storm Callum wreaks havoc.

Parts of Wales have seen their worst flooding in 30 years with Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Powys the worst hit. Flood warnings remain in place.

One village is ready to evacuate and people have been told to stay at home.

Wales was the windiest place in the UK on Saturday with gusts of 60mph (97kmh) hitting at Milford Haven.

Capel Curig in Conwy was among the wettest places in the UK with 46.2mm (1.6ins) of rain, the wettest being Shap in Cumbria.

A Met Office amber warning to expect flooding runs until 18:00 BST while the rest of Wales is on yellow possible flooding alert until midnight.

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Portugal is facing the region's strongest Atlantic storm since 1842

Brian K Sullivan
Bloomberg
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:38 UTC
Hurricane Leslie
© NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)/ NOAANASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of the very large Hurricane Leslie on Oct. 10 as it continued to linger in the Eastern Atlantic.
After three weeks meandering around the Atlantic Ocean, Leslie is expected to finally crash ashore near Lisbon on Sunday, marking the third time a storm that powerful has made it to the Iberian Peninsula in the past 176 years.

Storm warnings cover Portugal, according to the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere. There is a 70-to-80 percent chance tropical storm winds will reach Lisbon by about midday on Saturday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The storm will make landfall early Sunday, local time.

"Leslie is expected to bring near hurricane-strength winds on Saturday to portions of Portugal as a powerful post-tropical cyclone," Dan Brown, a senior hurricane specialist at the Hurricane Center, wrote in an analysis. "Tropical-storm strength winds are also likely to affect portions of western Spain."

In addition, Leslie will bring as much as 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain.

"Whether it will be technically a tropical cyclone or not, it is going to be a big storm for them," said Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground, an IBM company. "It's kind of unprecedented for them."

In 1842, Spain was hit by a large storm that scientists concluded was a hurricane in a 2008 study. On Oct. 11, 2005, Vince made landfall near Huelva, Spain, about 383 miles southwest of Madrid, as a tropical depression with sustained winds of 35 miles per hour.
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Freak 'hailnado' blankets southern Queensland with tennis-ball-sized hail

Tracey Ferrier, Dan Knowles, Sophie Chirgwin, Chris Clarke
Courier Mail
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 05:47 UTC
A Gympie resident with handfuls of hail
A Gympie resident with handfuls of hail
TALKS are under way to determine if the hard hit South Burnett region should be declared a disaster zone, with entire crops lost at harvest time, and roofs off homes.

The storms packing tornado-driven hail cut a swathe of devastation right across southern Queensland.

About 1000 Queenslanders have made insurance claims today, according to the Insurance Council of Australia.

That figures is expected to skyrocket over the weekend, however, as residents begin to count the cost of the damage.

Kingaroy mum Fiona Simpson was dubbed Queensland's bravest mother, after shielding her baby from vicious hail during a freak supercell storm which hit the South Burnett region on Thursday.

She had been travelling home from Nanago to Kingaroy with her grandmother and daughter Clara when the storm struck, delivering blow after blow of massive hailstorms.
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Ice Age Farmer Report: Michael wipes out pecans - Snow prevents harvest - No meat, and robot farms in Grand Solar Minimum


Ice Age Farmer
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:55 UTC
Snow covers soybean plants in Stutsman County,
© Jenny Schlecht/AgweekSnow covers soybean plants in Stutsman County, N.D., on Oct. 10, 2018. The storm dropped more than a foot of snow in some parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Hurricane Michael wiped out over a billion dollars, just after Florence did the same. Christian looks at how Philippines is frantically importing rice after Typhoon Mangkhut, how insurance actuaries are having to adjust to climate disasters, even as pizzas are shrinking and new studies declare that "meat" must soon be a thing of the past in order to "save the climate."


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Cyclone Titli hits India's Odisha coast: More than 300,000 evacuated - 17 killed (UPDATE)


bdnews24.com
Thu, 11 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Cyclone Titli at odisha coast
Authorities in India's eastern state of Odisha evacuated 300,000 people, suspended operations at a major port and cancelled many trains and flights on Wednesday as a severe cyclone in the Bay of Bengal gains strength and barrels towards the state.
Authorities in India's eastern state of Odisha evacuated 300,000 people, suspended operations at a major port and cancelled many trains and flights on Wednesday as a severe cyclone in the Bay of Bengal gains strength and barrels towards the state.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) rated Titli as a "very severe cyclonic storm" that could pack gusts of up to 165 kph by the time it makes landfall early on Thursday.

The IMD warned the cyclone is likely to uproot trees, power and communication poles, destroy coastal houses with thatched roofs, and damage roads, crops and plantations. It also issued a storm surge warning and said it expects low-lying areas in Odisha and the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh to be inundated.

Comment: Update: Odisha News Insight reports on the 13th October:
BJP's State General Secretary Bhrugu Baxipatra made sensational claims, which was later verified by the reporter of a TV Channel that at least 17 people have been killed in Gajapati district during Cyclone Titli.


Hundreds of migratory birds have also killed according to the Deccan Herald on the 12th of October:
Hundreds of migratory birds died at the Telineelapuram bird sanctuary of Srikakulam district due to the heavy rain and gusty winds that Cyclone Titli brought with it on Thursday.

Telineelapuram, situated 65 km from Srikakulam town, was declared a bird sanctuary long ago. The village comprises several creeks covered by different types of trees.

Forest officials said that the migratory birds such as painted storks, adjutant storks and spot-billed pelicans travel more than 6,000 km to this sanctuary from Siberia in Russia, Germany, Australia and Hungary The migration happens mostly in October.

The birds stay in the sanctuary for seven months during which they lay eggs and hatch them. They leave the sanctuary between March and May along with their new-born babies.

Sources said that over 200 migratory birds were killed and over 1,000 birds lost their nests as some trees fell under the impact of the storm.

Heavy rain and gusty winds kill many pelicans
© DCHeavy rain and gusty winds kill many pelicans at the Telineelapuram bird sanctuary of Srikakulam district.


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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Hurricane Michael devastates cities - What about crops ready to harvest?


Adapt 2030
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:45 UTC
Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael made landfall along the Florida Panhandle, now it moves across croplands sitting ready to harvest across the S.E USA. Property damage is vast along coastal areas, but what about 70% losses of anything in the fields or orchards?


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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Is Hurricane Michael a cyclical October Hurricane in Earth's history?


Adapt 2030
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:38 UTC
Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael
With Hurricane Michael bearing down on the Florida panhandle and Hurricane Leslie spinning toward Europe, corporate media will have you believe its the first time this is happening, but if we look back to the 1880's forward we find repeats in numbers and intensity of hurricanes and typhoons.


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