“Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average in June across much of permafrost-laden Siberia, with last month in a dead heat for the warmest June on record globally, the European Union’s climate monitoring network said Tuesday…
“Globally, June 2020 was more than half a degree Celsius warmer than the 1981-2010 average for the same month, and on a par with June 2019 as the warmest ever registered.”
“The Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU’s Earth observation program, has recently reported there are currently record levels of wildfires in the Siberian Arctic…
“Wildfire activity tends to appear in the boreal forests of the Siberian Arctic each year around early May. However, this year’s have been freakishly prevalent.”
“The biggest ever science expedition to the Arctic encountered extremely thin sea ice, which could threaten future efforts to study the region…
“…the ice was exceptionally thin compared with what models had predicted for the past two decades. The ice was around 50 centimetres thick, while it had been around 150 to 160 centimetres…”
““As one of our elders says: ‘Nature doesn’t trust us any more’,” said Vyacheslav Shadrin, chair of the Yukaghir Council of Elders, of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in the Russian far east, about 600 km from Verkhoyansk.
“While anthropogenic climate change has raised ocean temperatures by 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 120 years, there is a blob (also called a warming hole) just south of Greenland whose surface temps have cooled by 1.6 degrees in that stretch of time…
““Its emergence has been linked to…reduced ocean heat transport into the warming hole region,” said Paul Keil, who led a study…”
““Ring of fire” thunderstorms that blew up over Philadelphia and radiated east and west on Monday inundated parts of the region with more rain than had fallen in the previous two months and set off flash-flooding that submerged vehicles, closed roads, and led to numerous water rescues…
“Almost six inches of rain was measured by a trained National Weather Service spotter in Jenkintown…”
“In Arizona and New Mexico, indigenous people have been dying from coronavirus at disproportionate rates. The Navajo Nation has been ravaged by Covid-19 since the pandemic began…
“Smoke from wildfires could worsen those death rates. Research during the pandemic has linked short- and long-term air pollution exposure with increased chances of Covid-19 complications and death.”
“A new study [into the bleeding obvious, apparently] from researchers at the University of Leeds has found that gold mining in the Amazon leeches nutrients from the soil and pollutes the surrounding area with mercury.”
“Global warming caused the melting of 51% of the surface of Peru’s glaciers in the last 50 years, which caused the formation of new lagoons, reported the National Water Authority (ANA).
“Glaciers are ecosystems highly sensitive to climate change. In recent decades, the effects have been more evident, generating a noticeable decrease in glacier mass and the formation of new lagoons,” says the ANA.”
“Rescuers are racing against time to save people stranded by heavy floods and landslides that have devastated southwestern Japan and left dozens dead.
“Japan’s Meteorological Agency on Tuesday issued its second-highest emergency warning for heavy rain and landslides over vast swaths of the Kyushu region, which has been pounded by downpours since late on Friday.”
“Severe flooding and heavy rains have killed at least two people in southern China and disrupted the first day of widely anticipated college entrance exams being held one month late because of the coronavirus.
“The Chinese language exam in She county in southern Anhui province was cancelled.”
“In the central city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus epidemic first erupted in December, a record-breaking 426 millimetres (16.8 inches) of rain fell on Sunday, the official China Daily reported
“…and authorities were using giant pumps to remove water from the flooded roads.”
“Eight people and thousands of livestock animals were killed and thousands of homes were flooded as a heavy rain caused flash floods in some provinces of Mongolia on Friday and Saturday…
“…the country’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) reported on Tuesday.”
“On the one hand, Corona havoc in Pakistan is increasing continuously, right there in the city of Karachi, the chain of different incidents related to rain is constantly increasing.
“Due to which at least 7 people have lost their lives.”
“Amid heavy seasonal rains, deadly floods swept through Yemen affecting the lives of thousands of Yemenis who were already devastated by the ongoing conflict, seasonal diseases, high inflation, and compromised health care system, while facing the arrival of COVID-19.
“The torrential rains destroyed houses, and damaged an already fragile infrastructure…”
“A record 936 meteorologically induced disasters took place in Turkey in 2019 – the highest number of meteorological disasters since the Turkish General Directorate of Meteorology’s records began in 1940.
“According to the latest report by the directorate, heavy rainfall and flooding were the most frequent meteorological disasters in Turkey last year…”
“While declining rainfall is a problem across the Maghreb region of northwest Africa, this year’s ongoing spring and summer drought is hitting Morocco’s agricultural sector particularly hard.
“The drought will weaken the strategic objectives of the Moroccan government’s agricultural investment plan…”
“Much of the moisture needed to form noctilucent clouds comes from methane, a potent greenhouse gas that produces water vapour when it breaks down in the upper atmosphere.
“And as methane pollution has increased, so noctilucent clouds have grown more common and more widespread.”
“Dry conditions, bushfires and extreme weather events have left Australia’s wine industry ruing its smallest vintage in 13 years, as growers and winemakers battle huge financial losses…
“…many individual growers and winemakers were wiped out or saw significant losses.”
“A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, more intense, and longer…
“Rescue workers were combing through the wreckage of houses hit by flooding and landslides in Japan after extreme weather left more than 50 people dead or missing on the southern island of Kyushu.
“The Kyodo news agency said 40 people had died in the floods and at least 11 were missing.
“Among the dead were 14 residents of an elderly care home in Kuma village, Kumamoto, where the nearby Kuma river flooded. More torrential rain is forecast for coming days.”
“Radar analysis shows about 120 millimeters [4.7 inches] of rain fell in the one-hour period between 6:10 a.m. and 7:10 a.m. in or near Kushima City in Miyazaki Prefecture.
“The agency issued an alert warning people about record hourly rainfalls in the area.”
“Local residents and bereaved family members of victims held gatherings Monday to mark the second anniversary of massive flooding and mudslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan that claimed 296 lives…
“The events also took place as Kumamoto Prefecture continues to suffer from massive flooding.”
“As downpours continue to batter vast stretches of China, especially areas in the south, leaving at least 121 people missing or dead, forecasters have warned of a grim flood control situation in the north, which hasn’t seen major floods for years, from precipitation that is expected to be much heavier than normal.”
“Until Sunday morning, the Santacruz neighbourhood in Mumbai had received a staggering 427mm of rain in 24 hours. It was 133mm in the previous 24 hours.
“July is the city’s wettest month with an average rainfall of 819mm. The first five days of the new month has already seen 675mm of rain.”
“Lightning strikes killed 147 people in the north Indian state of Bihar over the last 10 days, officials said Sunday, warning of more extreme weather conditions to come, driven by climate change…
“”I was informed by weather experts, scientists and officials that rising temperatures due to climate change is the main cause behind the increasing lightning strikes,” Bihar’s Disaster Management Minister Lakshmeshwar Rai told AFP.”
“It was a wild afternoon for residents of southwest Saskatchewan on Saturday.
“Environment Canada has confirmed that at least two tornadoes touched down over the weekend, bringing some unbelievable conditions with them. As well as the thunder, lightning, heavy rain and tornadoes, there was also softball-sized hail, too!”
“Quebec’s hot summer so far, with long stretches of little rain, has contributed to a large increase in the number of forest fires around the province.
“It is only early July but 2020 is already the worst year in a decade in terms of hectares lost to forest fire in Quebec.”
“After a sweltering holiday weekend, there’s no relief in sight for southeast Michigan with a possible record-breaking bid in sight.
“Temperatures are slated to be in the 90s all week, peaking at an expected high of 97 on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service’s forecast for Metro Detroit.”
“Year-to-date, Mountain Home [Idaho] has received 45.47 inches of rain. The average rainfall through the first six months is 23.19 inches, meaning we are 22.28 inches above normal.
“Another amazing fact is halfway through the year, Mountain Home has already surpassed its normal annual rainfall.”
“If you thought it was really, really hot out last week, you weren’t wrong.
“The temperature at Miami International Airport reached 98 degrees Fahrenheit last Tuesday, making it the hottest day on record for the month of June.”
“The temperature records are certainly jaw-dropping, but another Tweet by McNoldy caught my eye. He pointed out that the water temperature at Virginia Key, Florida on July 2nd was the hottest recorded at that site (92.5 degrees F).
“When I saw that statistic, my immediate thought was that the Atlantic hurricane season “fuel” is currently high octane.”
“An orange warning was issued by the Cyprus Met Office on Sunday for extremely high temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius as a heatwave grips the island… Cyprus has been sweltering under 40°C heat since Friday.”
[You may recall that Cyprus had its hottest May on record and broke its all-time high for May].
“Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae that accelerate the effects of climate change.
“…Biagio Di Mauro of Italy’s National Research Council said the pink snow observed on parts of the Presena glacier is likely caused by the same plant found in Greenland.”
“As global warming accelerates, temperature records are being broken every year. In Russia, the period from January to June this year was the warmest six-month spell since meteorological observations began…
“In January, the temperature was, on average, 10-11 degrees Celsius higher than normal. Russia saw more than 240 broken weather records in the first half of the year.”
“Due to the rapid heating – the Arctic is warming up at least twice as fast as the rest of the world – the permafrost is now thawing for the first time since before the last ice age, potentially freeing pathogens the like of which modern humans have never before grappled with.”
“The heatwave experienced so far this year in Siberia reflects temperature changes that weren’t generally forecast to occur until the end of the century.
“The rapid changes that are happening to the climate of the world’s northern regions means that even the infrastructure built on areas of continuous permafrost may soon be at risk, too.”
““We always expected the Arctic to change faster than the rest of the globe,” said Walt Meier, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
““But I don’t think anyone expected the changes to happen as fast as we are seeing them happen.”“
“Wildfires that have raged in the Arctic Circle since early spring led to a record spike in pollution from the infernos last month.
“Arctic fires emitted 16.3m metric tonnes of carbon in June… nine times more than the same month in 2018… The previous June record was registered last year, when fires were the worst on record.”
“The permafrost need not entirely thaw nor be thawed year round for [pathological] microorganisms frozen in the earth to come to life or make their way to the talik — a layer above the permafrost that is rarely if ever frozen.
“That active layer, ever larger and active for longer, becomes a new habitat, where “an increase in unfrozen water is enough to activate some biological processes.””
“While we’ve all been locked up inside for months the weather has been quietly hotting up across the Anglia region [UK].
“According to provisional data from the Met Office, January to June in East Anglia has been the warmest ever – a record held jointly with 2014 and 2007.”
“Turkey has become familiar with a worrying pattern in which it experiences low magnitude earthquakes more frequently than usual…
“”Also, during May and June, Turkey experienced floods and other adverse weather events such as hailstorms that caused casualties and damage to agricultural crops.”
“Locusts in Kenya could threaten the nation’s food supply if not controlled quickly, prompting experts to travel to remote corners of the country to try to find budding infestations.
“Boris Polo, a Kenyan logistician on contract for the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, says the team can fight locusts by finding ones that are too young to fly.”
“As many as 26 more people died in lightning strikes in various parts of Bihar [India] on Thursday, officials said. According to Police, five people died after being struck by lightning in Dulhin Bazaar of Patna alone.”
““We have faced many floods [in Assam, India], but this time the situation is hard for us. We have not seen such huge volumes of flood waters before. Our lives have been totally disturbed,” Abdul told NDTV.”
“…the poor and the marginalised in rural areas are suffering the worst.”
“[Bangladeshi] Farmers are estimating the huge losses they might suffer in the wake of the floods, while the rest of the flood-hit people are waiting to get relief or food assistance from the government.
“The flood situation has worsened in several northern districts of the country, with people living these areas facing their worst nightmare with their houses, croplands, livestock and ponds still under water.”
“The water level of the Baishui river [China] rose more than eight meters overnight, causing houses to collapse, crops to be destroyed, infrastructure to be severely damaged and vehicles to be swept away by the floods.
“Weeks of abnormally intense rains have swept away buildings and ruined homes across southern China, leaving at least 106 people dead…
“With the bad weather showing no sign of letting up after more than 31 consecutive days of alerts about torrential rain from the government weather agency, experts have warned of potential landslides and bursts at reservoirs and dams.”
“South Korea’s average high temperature rose to 28 C last month, making it the hottest June on recordsince authorities began collecting relevant data in 1973, a government agency said Friday.”
“Heatwaves have become more frequent and have been lasting longer across much of the planet, including Australia, over the past seven decades and the trend is accelerating as the world warms.
“Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes based at the University of NSW said the findings emerged from the first comprehensive assessment of heatwaves down to regional levels.”
“Since January 2017, research institute NIWA hasn’t recorded a single month where temperatures hadn’t slipped more than 0.5 C below the 1981 to 2010 average across Auckland, Wellington, Masterton, Nelson, Hokitika, Lincoln and Dunedin [NZ]…
““That is clear evidence of New Zealand’s warming climate,” NIWA meteorologist Ben Noll said.”
“The coming heat is projected to affect huge parts of the U.S…
“”The first half of July looks to have well-above-normal temperatures, at pretty high probabilities, beginning around the Fourth of July or slightly before,” said Jon Gottschalck, chief of the Operational Prediction Branch at the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center.”
“Called the Bighorn fire, it is the eighth-biggest in Arizona state history… And yet, Bighorn is just one of three fires that sit in the top 10 biggest wildfires in Arizona history…
“In June, Arizona saw regular daily temperatures of 105-110F. And little rain has fallen so far this summer, despite 15 June marking the start of the state’s official monsoon season.”
“Dust storms—those billowing walls of sand and dirt often seen seen in the more arid regions of the world—doubled in the American Southwest between the 1990s to 2000s.
“Data now suggest these weather systems in the U.S. may be associated with increased intensive care unit admissions.”
“Tropical plants which flourish closest to the equator are among those most at risk from climate breakdown, with the warming world expected to eventually become too hot for some species to germinate.
“This process could happen within just 50 years, according to researchers from the University of New South Wales.”
“Sixty per cent of studied fish species will be unable to survive in their current ranges by 2100 if climate warming reaches a worst-case scenario of 4-5C (7.2-9F) above pre-industrial temperatures, researchers have found.
“In a study of nearly 700 fresh and saltwater fish species, researchers examined how warming water temperatures lower water oxygen levels, putting embryos and pregnant fish at risk.”
“This year has been sobering and life-altering for reasons that have little to do with weather, but the weather has also been bizarre in many ways.
“Strange heat, early-season tropical anomalies, late-season snow and severe weather that either repeatedly hammered an area or was largely absent from a typically prone alley are among the oddities that make our top 20 list for the weirdest weather events we’ve seen so far in 2020.”
“A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least 113 people, officials say, warning the death toll is likely to rise further.
“The incident took place early on Thursday in the jade-rich Hpakant area of Kachin state after a bout of heavy rainfall, the Myanmar Fire Services Department said on Facebook.
“”The jade miners were smothered by a wave of mud,” the statement said.”
“An ancient Chinese town that has over 2,000 years of history is the latest location to be inundated by the devastating floods ravaging southern China over the past few weeks.
“Since June, more than 10 million people in 26 provinces have been affected by torrential rain, with many cities above and below the Three Gorges Dam submerged by floodwaters…”
“The Brahmaputra River, one of the world’s largest rivers that flows from Tibet into India, burst its banks in the northeastern state of Assam over the weekend, flooding more than 2,000 villages.
“More than a million people have been affected across the state due to the flooding, which also inundated parts of the Kaziranga National Park, home to the world’s largest concentration of one-horned rhinos.”
“Indonesia’s third-largest province declared a state of emergency from Wednesday (Jul 1) after identifying more than 700 fires, as the Southeast Asian nation braces for its annual fire season.
“The declaration comes as Indonesia scales back protection for some of the world’s most important tropical forests.”
“Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 percent in June compared to the same month last year, making it the worst June in 13 years, authorities revealed on Wednesday.
“June marks the start of the dry period and there were 2,248 recorded fires, leaving analysts expecting a worse year for the rainforest than the devastating 2019, which provoked anger throughout the world.”
“Windstorms and storms recorded this week in the south of Brazil caused deaths in Santa Catarina, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul leaving a trail of destruction in the three states of the region, with fallen trees and power posts, flooded homes, lack of energy and road blocks…
“According to Rio Grande do Sul Civil defense the “bomb cyclone” caused 120km/hour winds in the mountain range of Santa Catarina.”
“The lightning-caused Bighorn Fire [Arizona] burned 118,370 acres in the Santa Catalina Mountains and was 54% contained Wednesday morning, according to fire officials.
“Firefighters were working to secure more fire lines and protect structures near Summerhaven and Willow Canyon.”
“Cars were inundated with water and at least one person had to be rescued from a home as a flash flood emergency was declared for parts of Mississippi Wednesday morning.
“A flash flood emergency was in effect until 12:15 p.m. CDT for an area of northern Mississippi, including Pontotoc, Aberdeen and Okolona.”
“East London [South Africa] recorded its highest average maximum temperature since record-keeping started in 1950 — 24.1ºC…
“SA Weather Service spokesperson in Port Elizabeth, Garth Sampson, said the average maximum temperature of 22.5ºC surpassed the 1996 record of 22.1ºC and was almost 2ºC higher than the average of 20.7ºC.”
“Disturbing reports of a mass elephant die-off have emerged from Botswana over the last two months, with more than 350 elephant carcasses spotted since May.
“Some of the elephants were found face down, suggesting a sudden collapse. Most of their bodies were located around water sources in the northern parts of the Okavango Delta, a protected area for elephants…”
“A farmer works at a field at a village near Kumanovo, North Macedonia, on June 29, 2020. A heat wave hit North Macedonia on Monday and the temperature reached 38 degrees Celsius.”
“When flooding hit almost 300 towns and villages in western Ukraine last week, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said they were the biggest since the 1990s. Climate change is part of the story, but illegal logging and deforestation are also being blamed for the scale and speed of the floods.”
“Roughly half of Finland’s long-term weather observation sites reported record high temperatures in June, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
“The agency said on Wednesday that the month registered the highest number of days when temperatures reached 25 degrees Celsius (the so-called heat threshold in Finland) since the country began keeping digital records in 1961.”
“Worrying videos and pictures show how the pristine polar region of northern Yakutia [Siberia] is ablaze.
“A major fire is burning right now outside the Arctic town of Chersky, around Mount Rodinka, loved by the locals for weekend trips. The fire started around 10 days ago, threatening a major power line that feeds the remote town.”
“Global warming over the past 150 years has upended more than six millennia of climate cooling, with temperatures spiking to levels that otherwise may not have been seen for 125,000 years…
“Scientists at Northern Arizona University, US, made the worrying discovery after analysing data on historical temperatures from sources including ice cores, lake sediments and prehistoric fauna.”
“Confirming the temperature [of 38 decrees Celsius in northeastern Siberia] has been reached on June 17, Roman Vilfand, head of science at Russia’s Hydrometcentre, told a news conference that hotter weather was being recorded in the region because of an increase in anticyclones.
““Specialists assess that this situation will continue,” he said.”
“Over 100 individual fires are currently burning this week according to Avialesookhrana, Russia’s aerial forest fire management agency.
“A total of 2.85 million acres were listed as burning currently in Siberia, most in remote areas of the country not able to be reached by ground firefighters.”
“Northern Britain has been drenched in so much rain that a new 24-hour rainfall record for June was provisionally set at Honister Pass in the Lake District, with 212.8mm between Sunday and Monday morning.
“This beat the previous record, also at Honister Pass, of 208.4mm on June 22, 2012.”
“The likelihood of the UK experiencing deadly 40C temperatures for the first time is “rapidly accelerating” due to the climate crisis, scientists have found…
“The highest temperature recorded in the UK is 38.7C, set in Cambridge in July 2019, while the summer of 2018 was the joint hottest on record. The new analysis found an increasing risk of even higher temperatures.”
“Spain is set for scorching 40C temperatures starting tomorrow as a blast of hot air sweeps in from the Sahara.
“The Costa del Sol and Malaga are among areas expecting a scorcher – which comes just as Brits head back to newly reopened beaches for the summer holidays.”
“You don’t have to be an expert to know that southern Ontario is usually the warmer part of the province. However, residents up north will be the ones feeling the heat this week.
“A weather anomaly is expected to make northern Ontario weather the hottest in Canada on Tuesday.”
“Millions of properties nationwide [USA] are at risk of severe flooding over the next three decades, but their neighborhoods are not included on federal disaster-preparedness maps, according to an analysis released Monday…
“”I do think that this will be a bit of a shock to some folks,” First Street Executive Director Matthew Eby told FOX13.”
“Deforestation and land-clearing practices in Brazil have long been linked to decreases in biodiversity, and increases in temperature, stream flow, fire occurrences and carbon dioxide emissions.
“Now, a new study suggests that the deforestation of the Amazon rain forest could be affecting their corn yields as well.”
“The bodies of 70 penguins have been discovered on two neighbouring beaches in Brazil after apparently getting caught in fishing nets.
“The horrific scene was discovered by the R3 Animal Association on the Santinho and Mocambique beaches in the city of Florianopolis in south-eastern Brazil.”
“Western Australia has had its hottest start to winter on record with Perth enduring its equal-hottest June ever, as a wet end to the month failed to prevent the city from finishing up with below-average rainfall.”
“Weather officials are warning of possible flooding and torrential rain in wide areas of Japan through Wednesday. Record rainfall is expected in the Tokai region in central Japan…
“Weather officials say that in the next 24 hours, as much as 400 millimeters of rain will fall in some parts of the Tokai region. This is roughly equal to the rainfall the region gets on average for the entire month of June.”
“Kota Belud, known as the “rice bowl” of Sabah [Malaysia], is looking at RM29 million in losses after nearly 7,000 hectares of padi fields were severely damaged by the floods that hit the district following heavy rainfall on Saturday…
“The heavy rainfall on Saturday left 11 districts and 152 villages in Sabah inundated.”
“Weeks of torrential rain in southern China have left millions of people without homes and caused billions of yuan in economic losses, with environmental groups warning the extreme floods are likely to become more common…
“Videos that circulated on social media showed houses collapsing, cars afloat and crops dying in muddy, flooded fields.”
“Videos surfaced on social media showing intense flooding in Hubei Province’s Yichang City, which lies directly below the dam.
“Residents suspected that the flooding was related to an emergency flood discharge from the sluices of the monster dam, something that the Chinese government initially dismissed.”
“Just when the region [East Africa] thought the worst of the flooding was over, the weatherman is warning of another bout; only this time, some areas will be spared but dealt another devastating blow: extraordinarily dry spells.”
“Miami just experienced its hottest week on record, rounding out its warmest first half of the year ever observed. Two out of every three days this year have featured a broken record of some sort somewhere in South Florida.
“The unrelenting, punishing heat — even in a place known for its tropical climate — fits into the pattern of rising temperatures from climate warming.
“This latest burst of heat was further intensified by a plume of dry, dusty air carried into the region from the Sahara desert.”
“The warm start to the work week in South Florida doesn’t look like it will be going anywhere on Tuesday with temperatures in the record setting range.
“It looks like more morning records with low temperatures never getting below the mid-80s on spots.”
“Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vazquez has declared a state of emergency as the territory suffers from a drought during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority is limiting nearly 140,000 residents’ water service to every other day as one of several emergency measures, according to the Associated Press (AP)…”
“Drought conditions are setting in across most of Colorado, and that has top state officials worried about wildfire, crop losses and water restrictions.
“Nearly 83% of Colorado is experiencing abnormally dry conditions and 33% is reporting extreme or severe drought, as of Tuesday.”
“Some residents of a western Wisconsin village hit hard by hours of torrential rain were evacuated from their homes as floodwater lapped at their doors and motorists had to be rescued from the roofs of their partially submerged vehicles…
“Massachusetts residents across the state were battered by severe storms Sunday that brought serious street flooding, large flashes of lightning, roaring booms of thunder, damaging winds and massive hail.
“New Englanders took to social media to share images and videos of the intense weather…”
“Record-breaking rain fell during a series of storms Sunday, and the damage in Brandon, Minnedosa and Rapid City, Manitoba, prompted a state of emergency in the RM of Oakville.
“Damaged streets and overland flooding wreaked havoc Monday.”
“Officers have been out on the River Lathkill near Bakewell [UK], rescuing brown trout. All of the fish caught were moved downstream to sections with more water…
“Figures show that while February saw record breaking rainfall, in May it was only 11 per cent of the average for the month.”
“As Europe sizzled in a summer heatwave, one town recorded northern Sweden’s hottest temperature in June since records began.
“The mercury soared to 34C in Skellefteå – on the east coast of the Norrland region, some 700 kilometres north of Stockholm and 250 kilometres from the Finnish border – on Thursday, weather statistics show.”
“Firefighters in Muhos, northern Ostrobothnia say they have managed to contain a 250-hectare forest fire that began on Monday afternoon and raged into the early hours of Tuesday morning. However they say that it continues to burn within the containment area.
“”A wide zone of hundreds of metres is still burning,” said on-duty fire chief Heikki Levón of the Oulu-Koillismaa fire and rescue department.”
“Following the devastating floods in the south-west of Ukraine last week, the EU continues to mobilize emergency assistance through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.
“On 29 June, an airplane of the Italian government delivered pumping equipment, personal safety material, chainsaws, power stations and tents to the affected population.”
“Four people were killed in Assam [India] and the number of flood-affected districts in the state increased to 25 of the total 33 as rainfall continued in several parts of the state on Monday, officials said.
“Two people in Dibrugarh and one each in Barpeta and Goalpara died due to drowning on Monday taking the death toll due to floods this season to 24.”
“The flood-hit people are currently in need of dry food and drinking water.
“The overall flood situation in Jamalpur [Bangladesh] worsened further… Due to the floods, around 250,000 people of 38 unions and five municipalities are currently stranded…”
“Torrential rain is set to hit China’s eastern coastal regions this week after overwhelming large parts of the southwest, inundating villages and tourist spots and displacing more than 700,000 people, state weather forecasters said on Monday.
“Nearly 14 million people in 26 different provinces had been affected by storms and floods by Friday…”
“The beaver may be an unlikely agent of climate change, but the cuddly-looking creatures are transforming the Arctic landscape in a way that could be exacerbating global warming, a new study has suggested.
“With their sharp teeth, beavers fell trees and shrubs and build dams, which flood small valleys and form new lakes that can cover several hectares of land.
“These new water bodies contribute to the thawing of the frozen permafrost soil…”
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“Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average in June across much of permafrost-laden Siberia, with last month in a dead heat for the warmest June on record globally, the European Union’s climate monitoring network said Tuesday…
“The Copernicus Climate Change Service, the EU’s Earth observation program, has recently reported there are currently record levels of wildfires in the Siberian Arctic…
“The biggest ever science expedition to the Arctic encountered extremely thin sea ice, which could threaten future efforts to study the region… 
““As one of our elders says: ‘Nature doesn’t trust us any more’,” said Vyacheslav Shadrin, chair of the Yukaghir Council of Elders, of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in the Russian far east, about 600 km from Verkhoyansk. 
“Although the Arctic is best known for frozen tundra, it also has a number of freshwater lakes that are covered in ice most of the year. 
“While anthropogenic climate change has raised ocean temperatures by 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 120 years, there is a blob (also called a warming hole) just south of Greenland whose surface temps have cooled by 1.6 degrees in that stretch of time…
““Ring of fire” thunderstorms that blew up over Philadelphia and radiated east and west on Monday inundated parts of the region with more rain than had fallen in the previous two months and set off flash-flooding that submerged vehicles, closed roads, and led to numerous water rescues… 
“In Arizona and New Mexico, indigenous people have been dying from coronavirus at disproportionate rates. The Navajo Nation has been ravaged by Covid-19 since the pandemic began… 
“A new study [into the bleeding obvious, apparently] from researchers at the University of Leeds has found that gold mining in the Amazon leeches nutrients from the soil and pollutes the surrounding area with mercury.”
“Global warming caused the melting of 51% of the surface of Peru’s glaciers in the last 50 years, which caused the formation of new lagoons, reported the National Water Authority (ANA).
“Rescuers are racing against time to save people stranded by heavy floods and landslides that have devastated southwestern Japan and left dozens dead.
“Gifu Prefecture–A sake brewery that has been operating here for nearly 150 years is relocating north to Hokkaido due in part to global warming… 
“Severe flooding and heavy rains have killed at least two people in southern China and disrupted the first day of widely anticipated college entrance exams being held one month late because of the coronavirus. 
“In the central city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus epidemic first erupted in December, a record-breaking 426 millimetres (16.8 inches) of rain fell on Sunday, the official China Daily reported
“Eight people and thousands of livestock animals were killed and thousands of homes were flooded as a heavy rain caused flash floods in some provinces of Mongolia on Friday and Saturday…
“On the one hand, Corona havoc in Pakistan is increasing continuously, right there in the city of Karachi, the chain of different incidents related to rain is constantly increasing. 
“Amid heavy seasonal rains, deadly floods swept through Yemen affecting the lives of thousands of Yemenis who were already devastated by the ongoing conflict, seasonal diseases, high inflation, and compromised health care system, while facing the arrival of COVID-19. 
“A record 936 meteorologically induced disasters took place in Turkey in 2019 – the highest number of meteorological disasters since the Turkish General Directorate of Meteorology’s records began in 1940.
“While declining rainfall is a problem across the Maghreb region of northwest Africa, this year’s ongoing spring and summer drought is hitting Morocco’s agricultural sector particularly hard. 
“Much of the moisture needed to form noctilucent clouds comes from methane, a potent greenhouse gas that produces water vapour when it breaks down in the upper atmosphere. 
“Dry conditions, bushfires and extreme weather events have left Australia’s wine industry ruing its smallest vintage in 13 years, as growers and winemakers battle huge financial losses… 
“A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, more intense, and longer… 
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“Year-to-date, Mountain Home [Idaho] has received 45.47 inches of rain. The average rainfall through the first six months is 23.19 inches, meaning we are 22.28 inches above normal. 
“If you thought it was really, really hot out last week, you weren’t wrong. 
“The temperature records are certainly jaw-dropping, but another Tweet by McNoldy caught my eye. He pointed out that 
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“As global warming accelerates, temperature records are being broken every year. 
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“While we’ve all been locked up inside for months the weather has been quietly hotting up across the Anglia region [UK]. 
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“Turkey has become familiar with a worrying pattern in which it experiences low magnitude earthquakes more frequently than usual…
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“A farmer works at a field at a village near Kumanovo, North Macedonia, on June 29, 2020.
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“Vehicles drive on a flooded street in Warsaw, Poland, on June 29, 2020. 
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“You don’t have to be an expert to know that southern Ontario is usually the warmer part of the province. However, residents up north will be the ones feeling the heat this week. 
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“Deforestation and land-clearing practices in Brazil have long been linked to decreases in biodiversity, and increases in temperature, stream flow, fire occurrences and carbon dioxide emissions. 
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“Weather officials are warning of possible flooding and torrential rain in wide areas of Japan through Wednesday. 
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“The flood-hit people are currently in need of dry food and drinking water. 
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