New all-time heat record for Indonesia:
“The unusually high daytime temperatures currently experienced in several parts of Indonesia are expected to persist over the next seven days, the national weather bureau said, advising the public to avoid sun exposure as far as possible and to stay hydrated.
“A weather station in Tangerang, Banten, just outside Jakarta, registered 39.6 degrees Celsius – the highest temperature ever recorded in the archipelago – on Wednesday and Thursday. The previous record was 39.5 degrees Celsius, recorded in Semarang, Central Java, in 2015.”
“Torrential rain caused flooding and mudslides Friday in towns east of Tokyo, prompting concerns over new damage in areas still recovering from recent typhoons.
“Muddy waters spilled from a river in Chiba, southeast of Tokyo, where pedestrians waded through waist-deep floods.”
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/torrential-rain-eastern-japan-flooding-tokyo-66519968
“A record high of 90 degrees was set at Honolulu on Wednesday, breaking the old record of 89 set in 2013. A high of 88 degrees in Hilo matched the previous record set in 2017. A high of 93 degrees in Kahului matched the previous record set in 1984.”
“Los Angeles area residents ran for their lives on Thursday evening as wildfires, whipped up by strong winds, reached residential neighborhoods, forcing 50,000 evacuations.
“Two blazes are threatening LA, while another has taken hold in Sonoma County in California’s wine country, where 16,000 acres are burning. Two other fires are moving across the center of the state.”
“As cold air spills into the Lower 48, a spell of warmer air will sweep through Alaska this weekend, with temperatures expected to climb by more than 20 degrees in some areas.
“The rise in temperatures will come as a strong low-pressure system digs in over the Bering Sea, driving the jet stream eastward and southward over the northern Pacific.”
https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2019-10-24-strangely-warm-alaska-lower-48-shivers
“Rain has slowed the harvest across the state in recent days. National Weather Service data for Des Moines showed that Central Iowa on Wednesday matched the October rainfall record of 7.29 inches, set in 1941.
“Any more rain in the remaining eight days of the month would set a new record — a landmark in a year that already is one of the wettest in recorded Iowa history.”
“At 3:40 p.m. on Thursday, temperatures climbed to 19.5 degrees at the weather station in De Bilt, making it the warmest October 24th in the Netherlands since temperature measurements started in 1901, Weeronline reports. The previous record of 19.4 degrees was set in 1995.
“This is the 14th heat record so far this year, compared to only one cold record on October 6th. Last year, which was extremely hot, also had 14 heat records, but three cold records.”
https://nltimes.nl/2019/10/25/another-heat-record-broken-warmest-oct-24-ever-measured-netherlands
“The town of Beziers was among the hardest hit in recent days.
“It saw more rain in 24 hours than in the whole previous year as the fierce storms lashed eight French departments along the Mediterranean Sea and inland areas…
“More than 2,000 personnel from the emergency services have been mobilised to deal with the aftermath of the storms.”
“Israel is set to be lashed by a rare hybrid tropical storm over the weekend that is expected to bring heavy rainfall, strong winds, and flooding across the country.
“Forecasters said the “medicane” brewing in the eastern Mediterranean would make landfall by Saturday. Flash flood warnings were issued in the south…”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rare-tropical-like-storm-to-batter-israel-egypt-on-saturday/
“The Associated Press news agency, meanwhile, put the death toll at 11…
“Tuesday’s rainfall in Alexandria [Egypt] was reminiscent of the deadly flooding in 2015, which killed five people and led to the resignation of then-Governor Hani el-Mesery…
“…a persistent circulating storm low is rare.”
“Zimbabwe has flown up to 30 young elephants overseas despite animal welfare group’s concern they could be traumatized. The animals – believed to have been sent to China – have been separated from their families for a year.
“However Zimbabwe’s National Parks service claim that it needs the money to support other wildlife during a devastating drought which has already killed 55 elephants.”
“Over US$4 billion is needed to help Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe recover from the devastating effects of Cyclones Idai that hit the three southern African nations earlier this year…
“…representatives from the three countries said they had not been able to attract enough financial support to rebuild lives and fast track early recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction after Cyclones Idai and Kenneth.”
“A cyclonic storm, named Kyarr, over east central Arabia Sea is likely to add to the troubles of people living in southern Maharashtra, north and coastal Karnataka…
“Kyarr’s expected landfall comes even as the entire northern and coastal parts of Karnataka have been lashed with heavy downpours and inundation of entire villages and infrastructure.”
“As the warm north-westerly moves to the east coast, the wind also brings increased dust in the air and very high fire dangers for most of the state.
“More than 40 bushfires are burning in New South Wales, the Rural Fire Service has said. But despite the hot weather for yesterday and today, that sweltering weather will eventually lose out to a polar blast coming from the south.”
“…So natural climate change had cued up the massive Antarctic ice shelves to collapse before human-caused climate change turned up the heat.
“A random shift in wind patterns has been melting the ice caps for the last 300 years, the scientists wrote, “potentially predisposing them to collapse under intensified anthropogenic warming.””
https://grist.org/article/new-study-antarcticas-tipping-point-is-closer-than-we-thought/
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