“…exceptional warm spell in Canada: Main cities Toronto [24.8C / 76.6F], Montreal [24.3C / 75.7F], Halifax and others had their warmest November day on records.
“This will be followed by the warmest November nights; we can’t even exclude a tropical night somewhere in Canada. It’s November, folks!!”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1589047118227906560
“Hundreds of highest minimum temperature records smashed in NE USA and Canada in this historic warm spell with even tropical nights in some stations.
“Provisional Tmins include: 66F [18.9F] at Boston; 67F at Albany; 62F at Bangor; 69F at Franklin.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1589335760540676096
“Millions of Americans are with AC in these hot November days (and nights).
“After Florida and Maine, now it’s Alabama with 91F [32.8C] at Andalusia the “Cotton State” tied its hottest November day in history Fairhope 2 Nov 1971). Troy 89F is also a record tied.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1589359600041484288
“Two dead and dozens injured after twisters rip through three US states…
“Several twisters caused property damage and physical injury across the various states on Friday. Tornado warnings had still been in effect as of late Friday in parts of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/05/tornadoes-texas-arkansas-oklahoma
“‘Frogmaggedon’ in Florida town after Hurricane Ian.
“Hundreds of thousands of frogs have descended upon a Florida neighborhood in Edgewater… More than a month after record rainfall from Hurricane Ian covered Central Florida, the report of frogs started to pour in on a local Edgewater Facebook page.”
https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/frogmaggedon-florida-hurricane-ian
“Up to 1 million birds count on Kansas wetlands during migration. Drought has left them high and dry…
“The ongoing drought in Kansas isn’t only parching crops and drinking water supplies. It’s also hurting wildlife…”
https://lawrencekstimes.com/2022/11/06/1m-birds-high-and-dry/
“California Drought: California native fish species decline as drought continues and climate change impacts increase…
“As the west has become developed and climate change is threatening an already limited water supply, native fish species are rapidly declining. Trout Unlimited, the nation’s largest cold water conservation organization, is doing everything they can to protect the water ways these species live in an increasingly dry climate.”
“Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as foreign-owned farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas…
“Groundwater is the lifeblood of the rural Southwest, but just as the Colorado River Basin is in crisis, aquifers are rapidly depleting from decades of overuse, worsening drought and rampant agricultural growth.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/05/us/arizona-water-foreign-owned-farms-climate/index.html
“Heavy flooding wreaks havoc in the north of St Lucia…
“Loop News spoke with Dr Haden Alcindor, a resident of Grand Riviere, who described his frightening ordeal. “I can’t even explain what happened, it happened so fast. I was just told the river was going over the bank and when I looked, I realised the water was coming in the yard already.””
https://cayman.loopnews.com/content/heavy-flooding-wreaks-havoc-north-st-lucia-632096
“Bolivia’s Water People are Suffering After the Lake that Provided For them Dried Up.
“Bolivia’s “water people” now have no vital lifeline, which leaves their future uncertain. The Uru people relied on the lake and believed it would always be “a source of life,” but after it abruptly vanished, the community is now left trying to figure out how to live and adjust to their new situation.”
“Cochabamba [Bolivia] endures critical fire season with more than 20 thousand affected.
“Cochabamba is still struggling to get out of the critical stage of fires. The department ranks fourth in the number of burned areas nationwide. From January to September of this year, the fire destroyed 20,547 hectares of vegetation…”
“As planet heats, Brazil’s anteaters face rising extinction risk.
“… a fire holocaust …swept through Brazil’s vast southern Pantanal in 2020, killing an estimated 17 million animals and burning nearly a quarter of the drought-parched wetlands and grasslands region, which is about the size of New York state.”
“The heat wave in Patagonia keeps breaking records.
“Yesterday the Argentine town of Gobernador Gregores rose to 32.2C [90F] its warmest November day on records. Some temperatures above 35C were recorded more North.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1589301586676924419
“Warning UK could ‘easily’ see catastrophic floods on scale of Germany’s deadly deluge.
“Devastating floods on a similar scale to those seen in Germany in 2021 are “absolutely conceivable” in the UK, experts have warned. Factors ranging from the summer’s drought conditions to erratic weather patterns caused by the climate crisis rachet up the risk, they claim.”
“Melting permafrost threatens several Swiss villages…
“”For hundreds and thousands of years, we had this rocky glacier, but the ice was very cold, so little material could come off, whereas today it is melting,” says Guillaume Favre-Bulle, head of the section of geological hazards and subsoil resources of the canton of Valais.”
“The Ossoue glacier, located in the Hautes-Pyrénées, has melted at an alarming rate this year. In total, it has lost 4.54 meters in thickness, twice as much as usual, and may soon disappear.
“An alarming observation. The Moraine association, which has been measuring the evolution of the Ossoue glacier for more than twenty years, has found that it has lost much more thickness than usual.”
“In Spain there are still summer like max. temperatures in some areas. Today 6 November 29.4C [84.9F] at Xativa the highest.
“In France also very mild with a new monthly record at Vauxrenard (740m) with 21.6C. Temperatures near 30C can still happen next week in Spain.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1589287982116540416
“As climate change worsens, Egypt is begging families to have fewer kids.
“In public speeches, President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi has repeatedly scolded families for having more than two children, calling the population crisis a national security issue that has hindered progress on development goals. The state’s longtime anxiety over its birthrate is shared by many other countries in Africa…”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/06/egypt-cop27-climate-change-population/
“Floods to Displace 700m in Nigeria, Benin, Chad by 2030, Experts Reveal.
“Experts in environmental rights have revealed that climate-induced floods in Nigeria, Chad, Benin-republic, Cameroon, South Africa and others will continue and is likely to displace half of Africa’s 1.4 billion population by the year 2030.”
“Dry season is starting in the Sub-Saharan Africa. The dry wind Harmattan can blow towards the Gulf of Guinea lowering the humidity.
“On 3 November the Ivorian town of Bondoukou, near the border with Ghana, rose to 38.0C [100.4F]. This is the highest November temperature recorded in the country [Ivory Coast].”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1588916548005027840
“Hundreds of elephants, wildebeests and zebras dead in Kenya amid prolonged drought.
““The Kenya Wildlife Service Rangers, Community Scouts, and Research Teams counted the deaths of 205 elephants, 512 wildebeests, 381 common zebras, 51 buffalos, 49 Grevy’s zebras, and 12 giraffes in the past nine months,” a report released Friday by the country’s Ministry of Tourism said.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/05/africa/elephants-dead-kenya-intl/index.html
“Zimbabwe dam water levels declining despite current rainfall – ministry…
“In its latest water security report, the ministry said erratic rainfall patterns across the country had not improved the water levels. “The national dam storage levels continue to decline despite the rainfall activities in some parts of the country during the week.”
“A confidential report that flags harmful levels of toxic mining effluent in Lesotho’s key rivers has raised uncomfortable questions in the government…
“The agency says mine pollution of critical water sources continues unabated despite the mines’ repeated promises to mitigate contamination. South Africa has also repeatedly complained about mining-based pollution.”
https://www.namibian.com.na/117630/read/Lesothos-dangerous–water-gamble
“Harsh heat wave in India. Temperature rose to 39.6C today at Kandla Aero which is a new November record and it’s just 0.1C from the Indian highest reliable temperature in November.
“Monthly record tied at Rajkot with 38.4C.(equalling 3 Nov 2001). 40C might be reached next days.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1588576053890809856
“Shizuoka’s wasabi farmers still reeling from September typhoon…
““Who knows how many years it will take before everything can be back to normal,” said Yamazaki, one the many farmers whose livelihood has been threatened by the record torrential rain from Typhoon No. 15 that battered the central and western parts of Shizuoka Prefecture in September.”
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20221107-69331/
“In regional Victoria [Australia], summer tourism hopes washed away with the floods.
“This summer was supposed to mark a return to busy holiday trade… But Victoria’s devastating floods have upended those hopes for many tourism operators across the state, while concerns rise that the disastrous water damage to the state’s road network will reach $1 billion.”
“With the melt season now underway, current levels of Antarctic sea ice extent is the lowest on record for the date…
“+ More graphs of conditions: https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/.”
https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1588644835086327809
“Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing…
“…in this case, the flame had gone out, so methane was pouring from the pipe. The flare’s mechanisms are supposed to alert the operator if it stopped working. That didn’t happen in this case, according to a report by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-wilson-epa-san-antonio-texas-b2218465.html
“Climate crisis: past eight years were the eight hottest ever, says UN.
“The past eight years were the eight hottest ever recorded, a new UN report has found, indicating the world is now deep into the climate crisis. The internationally agreed 1.5C limit for global heating is now “barely within reach”, it said.”
“The former BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin has spent his career talking to scientists. Now they’re telling him they’re scared of what they’re seeing…
“It is the suddenness and ferocity of recent events that is alarming researchers, combined with the ill-defined threat of tipping points, by which aspects of heating would become unstoppable.”
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