Villagers Warned of Rising Volcanic Activity in Indonesia’s East Province
“This would cool things down,” says reader. Two volcanoes in the East Nusa Tenggara Province have shown “increasing activities,” Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency warned on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleTasmania – Coldest August day in 41 years
Skiers rejoice. While some snow is not that unusual in Tasmania at this time of the year the temperatures were unusually low with it being the coldest August day in 41 years for the capital , Hobart At...
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No NW Passage this season
“We have less than five weeks before the ice begins to set in for the winter.” “We had three objectives for this expedition: to make it to Pond Inlet and complete the voyage as intended; to draw...
View ArticleSea levels fell in 2011 because Australia soaked up the water like a sponge,...
Do people actually believe this kind of “science”? New US research (supposedly) shows that Australia’s dry soil and mountainous coastline soaked up heavy rainfall in 2010 and 2011 and stopped it from...
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Slowest Start To Hurricane Season On Record
“Obama says that hurricanes are getting worse,” says this article on the Steven Goddard website. But let’s look at the facts. “As we approach the end of August, there have been no Atlantic hurricanes,”...
View ArticleSnow every day expected at Mt Rainier – And it’s still August
7-Day Forecast from the National Weather Service, Seattle Office Paradise-Mt. Rainier, Washington – Elevation: 12,600 feet. This Afternoon A 30 percent chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a...
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‘Bitterly cold’ Super Bowl?
The Farmers’ Almanac is using words like “piercing cold,” “bitterly cold” and “biting cold” to describe the upcoming winter. The 197-year-old publication predicts a big winter storm will hit the...
View ArticleRare late August snowstorm for Iceland
“A very well organised and unusual storm for late August.” “(A low) will cross Greenland mid week and sets it’s sights on Iceland Friday into Saturday, deepening on approach,” says Mark Vogan Blog....
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Rare snow in Atacama desert – Video
Heaviest snowfall in three decades. (Short video) It is cold at the other side of the world, too. Residents of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, a desert city 750 miles (1,200 km) north of Santiago, say the...
View ArticleDramatic Sinkhole in Assumption Parish, Louisiana – Video
Watch as it swallows entire trees. Thanks to Kenneth Lund for this video. “I don’t know how the hell anybody could blame humans for this,” says Kenneth.
View ArticleBrazil – Worst snowfall in 13 years
Maybe 15 years. Maybe 22 years. Snowfall of such intensity and duration in São José dos Absent is the highest in 13 years. Perhaps even longer. The Municipal Secretary of Tourism, Alziro Paim Rock, a...
View ArticleTrucks stranded in Alaska snow
Fourth weather-related closure of the Dalton Highway this year. A severe winter storm hit Alaska’s Brooks Range on Wednesday, stranding numerous trucks on the Dalton Highway amid heavy drifting snow,...
View ArticlePeru – More than 250,000 alpacas die of cold and snow
President declares state of emergency. Peru’s government has declared a state of emergency in parts of the southern Andean region of Puno hit with the coldest temperatures in a decade, daily El...
View ArticleDr. Baliunas on Weather Cooking – Video
Dr. Sallie Baliunas discusses the Little Ice Age and the history of people’s superstitious reactions to extreme weather. Dr Baliunas, Staff Astrophysicist at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for...
View ArticleVolcano vent opens near Rome airport – Video
A small volcanic vent producing steam has suddenly opened in the ground near Rome’s International Fiumicino airport. A geyser-like vent, known as a fumarole, opened up near a road crossing in the...
View ArticleHistoric snowfall in Brazil
Snow in 113 Santa Catarina cities. “The record snow for sure is historic , because never in our files , we have the record of the phenomenon in so many cities,” says weatherman Marcelo Martins . In...
View ArticleAlabama – One of the coolest summers in 131 years
Continues the cooling trend. The summer of 2013 is the fifth-coolest on record in Alabama with average temperatures almost 2 degrees below normal,” says state climatologist John Christy, director of...
View Article9-story-deep sinkhole amazes Kansas town – Video
August 02, 2013 – “A few days ago, the earth opened up and left a giant sinkhole in the middle of Dalton Hoss’ pasture, says this report by Jim Grawe on KWCH 12 Eyewitness News. “The sinkhole is 200...
View ArticleSnowstorms kill 70,000 animals in Bolivia
Four farmers killed while trying to rescue the animals. A cold front with snow storms hit in recent days to the departments of La Paz (west) , Cochabamba (center) , Potosi (southwest) and Chuquisaca (...
View ArticlePeru snow state of emergency expanded
Tens of thousands of animals have frozen to death over the past week, leaving farmers destitute. “The Peruvian government has extended to nine more regions a state of emergency called to cope with...
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