“This winter, so abnormally warm in Lithuania, is bewildering everyone and is wreaking havoc both in the nature and on the store shelves.
“It is really an extraordinary winter. I cannot remember seeing so much greenery in the forests. Some trees and plants are budding, forget-me-nots are sprouting and moths and butterflies can be spotted flickering on a sunny day,” Erlandas Paplauskas, chief ecologist of the Pajūris regional park, told BNN…
“It is hard to predict how the Mother Nature will react to the record-high January and February temperatures…”
“The exceptionally warm winter this year [in Sweden] has had a negative effect on economic growth, says a senior economist from Swedbank.
“The fall in logging activity and energy generation which the mild conditions have brought have not been mitigated by any improvements in construction or agriculture, Liis Elmik, Swedbank senior economist, said, according to BNS.”
“Inured to interminable winters, Muscovites have been stunned this year by spring-like temperatures and virtually snow-free sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history…
“Experts say that Russia, which has a large portion of territory in the Arctic, is experiencing the effects of global warming faster than some other countries.”
“Two Germans were killed on Thursday in an avalanche on an Arctic island off northern Norway, officials said.
“The tourists were part of a guided group traveling with a Russian company, and were on a snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago.”
“It’s been a record-breaking winter on the Côte d’Azur; the warmest recorded during the months of December, January and up to now in February the Alpes-Maritimes since 1958.
“According to Météo France, the perched village of Seillans in the Var reached 27 degrees [over 80f] at the start of February, a whopping 5 degrees hotter than the previous record set at 22 degrees.”
“Britain is being deluged by “atmospheric rivers” delivered on the jet stream, the Met Office has said. Experts believe the west-east band of high-altitude winds is currently pointed directly at the UK for the first time in years, enabling a “conveyor belt” of non-stop rain.
“This has been exacerbated by relatively mild temperatures that have forced extra moisture into the air.”
“Severe Weather Europe said: “A rapidly developing extra-tropical cyclone is looking more impressive on the satellite, gradually developing hurricane-force winds around its core.
““With the pressure drop of around 35 mbar during the past 24 hours, the system is classified as a ‘bomb cyclone’.”
“The sunshine, blue skies and warm weather we enjoyed on Wednesday [Seattle] were, officially, just as remarkable as they felt.
“The day’s high of 58 degrees, as recorded at the National Weather Service office near the University of Washington, tied the record for the warmest Feb. 19, the weather service said.”
“Rainfall soared 400 percent above normal levels for the month so far, driving the flood.
“According to the Washington Post, Jackson has already seen 19.9 inches of rain this year, the greatest year-to-date rainfall recorded in at least half a century of record-keeping.”
“The flow of the Colorado River is dwindling due to the impacts of global heating, risking “severe water shortages” for the millions of people who rely upon one of America’s most storied waterways, researchers have found.
“Increasing periods of drought and rising temperatures have been shrinking the flow of the Colorado in recent years…”
“San Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of the wettest months of the year for California.
““This hasn’t happened in 150 years or more,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist…”
“At least 9,000 years ago, humans began domesticating corn for the first time near Tehuacan, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, laying the foundation for permanent settlements in the Americas.
“But in the past few years, more frequent and longer droughts have forced many farmers in the area to give up corn and other cereals…”
“Heat stress is already building across the world’s biggest reef system [Barrier Reef], with reports of patchy bleaching already occurring. But a major widespread event is not currently taking place.
“”We are down to the wire,” said Prof Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.”
“Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier has warm water from three directions well under it threatening to destroy the ice sheet and raise global sea levels by up to two feet.
“A team of scientists from Oregon State University made the most of ice free waters in West Antarctica to look under the glacier – which is about the size of Great Britain.”
“Tiny bubbles of ancient air trapped in ice cores from Greenland suggest we’ve been seriously overestimating the natural cycle of methane, while vastly undervaluing our own terrible impact…
“…our own methane emissions might be up to 40 percent higher than suspected.”
“Deluged communities in parts of the UK are facing more heavy rain as they struggle to cope in the wake of Storm Dennis.
“A month’s worth of rain in 24 hours could also hit north Wales and north-west England, forecasters said, falling on ground that is already saturated.”
“Southwest Florida is known for having two seasons, but so far this year it’s more like one. This year has brought record-breaking heat, but scientists warn it could disrupt the ecosystem.
“”A quarter of 2020 so far has been record-breaking warm,” said NBC2 First Alert Meteorologist Rachel Duensing.”
“Sprawling fields turned into large lakes throughout West Tennessee, including in the small town of Halls, where it turned cold and extremely wet…
“Forecasters expect more heavy rains in parts of the flood-ravaged south on Tuesday, prolonging the misery for worried people unable to return to homes surrounded by water.”
“There was a mysterious yellow orb hovering above the Seattle skyline earlier this week. The National Weather Service said it last appeared 80 days ago…
“All of the gloomy weather is directly due to a stuck weather pattern that has funneled storm after storm into the Pacific Northwest.”
“Communities on the north coast of New South Wales are struggling to recover from an extraordinary series of natural disasters…
“Six months ago the drought was the major environmental issue on most people’s minds, but since then the region has been hit by catastrophic bushfires, severe flooding, mass fish deaths, and landslides.”
“Thai farmers said their troubles on the [Mekong] river began when the turbines of the Xayaburi Dam started churning upstream from Nong Khai in Laos seven months ago, further disrupting the river flow that was already drying out even at the end of the rainy season.”
“The temperature [in Sri Lanka] is rising, rainy days are decreasing, and drought periods, intense rainfalls, weather-related disasters, and even thunder are increasing, to recap a few realities.
“It is time we focused on environmental conservation and disaster resilience on top of all other matters.”
“Swarms of desert locusts, which have been ravaging crops and grazing land across east Africa, have now crossed the border into South Sudan, a country already struggling from widespread hunger and years of civil war.
“The UN has warned that an imminent second hatch of the insects could threaten the food security of 25 million people across the region.”
“A century ago, more than one million giraffes used to roam across sub-Saharan Africa. But these gentle giants are now extinct in at least seven countries
“…with only 100,000 left in fragmented populations across the continent, wildlife experts warned on Thursday.”
“Glaciologist Adrian Luckman from Swansea University in the U.K. said the changes in the west of Antarctica appear to be caused by a warming climate.
““Taken as a whole, the generalized retreat of ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula, and especially the thinning elsewhere such as at Thwaites Glacier, shows clearly that climate change is causing accelerating mass loss from Antarctica to the oceans,” he said.”
“The record-breaking January temperatures appear to be caused by shifts in the Arctic oscillation, a wavy ring of powerful wind that circles the Arctic at around 20 degrees latitude.
“Shifts in the AO have a direct impact on global weather by influencing how much cold air from the Arctic is pushed down and spread across the rest of the northern hemisphere.
“The exact relationship between the AO and global warming isn’t fully understood, but NSIDC director Mark Serreze says changes in one part of the planet will inevitably have affect other areas.
“‘We’re already seeing the Arctic warming at an outsize rate compared to the rest of the planet,’ he said. ‘If we’re changing the temperature gradient between higher and lower latitudes, the jet stream is going to respond to that.’”
“January was the warmest on record in Europe, and February could follow suitas above-average temperatures dominate the month so far.
“A very warm airmass has been spreading across parts of Europe over the past few days, producing unseasonal temperatures. Today, Dalmatia, along with parts of Greece and Spain, was among the warmest in Europe with temperatures reaching +20 °C in parts.”
“Scientists from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has been surveying the lake [Windermere] for decades and monitoring the temperature and water quality.
“They found that, between 1981 and 2010, average temperatures were approximately 11°C, but that yearly-averaged temperatures were approximately 1°C above this after 2000.”
“Naples [Florida] warmed to 90 degrees this afternoon, breaking the previous record high for February 18 of 86 degrees.
“The old temperature record had stood since 2018. Temperatures hitting 90 degrees are well above the seasonable average in Naples for this time of year.”
““The Dakotas, Minnesota, part of Wisconsin, Michigan, are all legitimate places for concern right now, where we were wet from last fall [and now] there’s snow on the ground,” Todey says.
““All of those states set records in 2019 for wettest year on record, so there’s still ample water in those places to get rid of.””
Hawaii saw a ridiculous amount of records for heat broken or tied last year.
“Valentine’s Day may not have been the only reason Maui residents were feeling the heat Friday, asKahului reached a record-high temperature of 87 degrees. The temperature broke the old record of 86 degrees set on Feb. 14, 2018, according to the National Weather Service.”
“The town has survived for more than a year on water brought in daily by road tankers. Working six days a week, driver Mathew Byrne trucks in more than 120,000 litres of drinking water a day from the nearby town of Scone.
““The river hasn’t run since 2017,” said Byrne, relaxing in one of Murrurundi’s three pubs shortly after finishing a delivery. “There’s no water going through the creek. It’s pretty sad.”“
“More than 99 per cent of the state [NSW] remains in drought, despite record rainfall in Sydney which will see the desalination plant switched off next month and water restrictions wound back.
“As Sydney recovers from the worst drought on record, the situation is still “diabolical” for most of the state, in what is likely to create tensions in the Coalition ahead of the May budget.”
“Climate change could wipe out almost all coral reef habitats around the world by 2100, according to research released Monday.
“The bleak outlook forecasts that warming oceans and rising seas could have a devastating impact on ocean ecosystems, suggesting that efforts to restore dying corals will likely encounter difficulties…”
“A tropical rainfall belt providing critical summer rains to billions of people is at risk of shrinking due to future climate warming, according to new research.
“The resulting droughts could lead to social unrest and mass migration from affected regions, including Central America and sub-Saharan Africa.”
“Hundreds of thousands of mussels have been cooked to death on a beach in New Zealand’s North Island, with experts saying more will die as the effects of the climate crisis accelerate.
“The mass die-off in Northland was sparked by “an exceptional period of warm weather” combined with low tides in the middle of the day, which had exposed the shellfish, said Dr Andrew Jeffs, a marine scientist from the University of Auckland.”
“Australia’s hottest and driest year on record has slashed crop production, with summer output expected to fall to the lowest levels on record, according to official projections released Tuesday.
“The country’s agriculture department said it expects production of crops like sorghum, cotton and rice to fall 66 percent…”
“Many parts of South Korea see snowfall during the months of December, January and February. However, this season, snow remained almost absent and very heavy snow was not seen…
“However, this Monday was a different one as snowfall pounded many parts of South Korea including the national capital Seoul.”
“Normally, the Moscow River should be covered by a thick sheet of ice, but there’s hardly any for kilometers through the city.
“On the river banks, there are a few signs of snow here and there. And the temperature in the middle of February is two degrees Celsius. Unbelievable for this time of year.”
“Temperatures peaked at 16.4° C on Sunday in Uccle [Belgium], setting a new record for a 16 February, meteorologist David Dehenauw published on his Twitter account.
“This news comes alongside reports that Belgium has become systematically warmer and winters gradually drier from the 17th century…”
“One week after Storm Sabine wreaked havoc in northern Germany, the offshoot Storm Dennis, named Victoria in Germany, swept across the country, causing accidents on Sunday and Monday.
“Germany’s weather service (DWD) said the storm had wind speeds of up to 172 kilometers per hour (107 miles per hour).”
“Houses in Hereford and surrounding villages were inundated by flood water as the River Wye reached its highest level on record.
“Communities across the country are assessing the cost of Storm Dennis, which brought winds of more than 90mph and up to 150mm (6in) of rain to some areas over the weekend.”
“Parts of Wales that have been hit by the worst floods in a generation are preparing for further rain in the next 48 hours, as more than 450 flood warnings and alerts remain in place across the UK.
“Heavy rain is forecast in parts of north and south Wales from Wednesday evening…”
“Authorities managing dams in Tennessee and Mississippi must make difficult decisions as floodwaters swell along the states’ rivers;
“…the surging water pressing against the dams has to be released at some point, and when it does, it often spells disaster for individuals living downstream from the dams.”
“More rain will soak parts of the flood-weary South through Thursday, adding to what has been one of the wettest Februaries and winters to date from Mississippi to the Carolinas.
“The first round of rain, associated with an approaching cold front, is already soaking parts of the South and will persist through Wednesday morning before moving off the coast of the Carolinas.”
“Caritas warns that Zambia is facing one of its worst droughts in decades and 2.3 million people urgently need help.
“Caritas is appealing for E745,000 to support communities as they cope with the impact of the drought and help them build resilience against future climate crises.”
““There is a link between climate change and the unprecedented locust crisis plaguing Ethiopia and East Africa,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said.
““Warmer seas mean more cyclones generating the perfect breeding ground for locusts. Today the swarms are as big as major cities.”
“I’m a climate scientist, and I deal every day with the kind of worrying truths that induce “climate anxiety”. When you work on the polar regions, the statistics are even more stark because they are where we see the most dramatic and fast-occurring changes.
“The poles are also the places where we are seeing change at a much faster rate than predicted…”
“A French ski resort has angered ecologists by using a helicopter to move snow from higher up the mountains after exceptionally mild weather left its slopes bare.
“Officials at Luchon-Superbagnères in the Pyrenees authorised the “exceptional” emergency operation overnight on Friday.”
“Norway’s [indoor] Sno resort opened its doors just one month ago, during the country’s warmest January on record.
“The project is the brainchild of Olav Selvaag, a member of one of Norway’s richest families, known for real estate and property development. Among the owners is Norwegian billionaire Stein Erik Hagen.”
“Two St. Petersburg marmots roll out of their den, peer around in front of the cameras, and confirm what seemingly everyone in the Russian animal kingdom already knows — winter isn’t coming this year…
“All across Russia, record-high temperatures have tricked countless plants and animals into thinking spring has arrived.”
“Storm Dennis has hit England and Wales creating severe flooding, especially in south Wales where officials have warned conditions are ‘life-threatening’.
“Streets have been evacuated by lifeboat in some of the worst-hit areas and people moved to emergency rescue centres after their properties and businesses were devastated by water from overflowing rivers.”
“New [UK] Environment Secretary George Eustice risked sparking anger in flood-hit areas yesterday after warning he will ‘never be able to protect every single household’ from extreme weather.
“Less than a week into his ministerial post, Mr Eustice warned the nature of climate change means extreme weather events such as this weekend’s deluge are becoming more common, advising: ‘We have to live with that fact.'”
“The U.S. is on track to finish its warmest year on record as global temperatures rise due to the effects of climate change.
“Scientists are bracing for the next mass extinction as they struggle to keep up with changing weather patterns and its effects on millions of species.”
“Pearl River in Jackson, Mississippi passed major flood stage on Sunday morningas it exceeded 36 feet, sending the Ross Barnett Reservoir beyond capacity.
“The river is predicted to continue to rise just under one foot in the next 6 to 12 hours.”
“Part of the Argentine Army was mobilized this weekend towards rural areas of Chaco, due to flood flooding. The Ministry of Defense, led by Agustín Rossi, informed through the Secretary of Military Coordination in Emergencies that troops began to evacuate neighbors and deliver merchandise in affected areas.”
“The drought currently affecting New Zealand’s North Island is having devastating effects on farmers — and has already dramatically changed the country’s landscape.
“New Zealand’s lush greenery has now turned into the driest of browns as the North Island’s thirst for rain continues.”
“The mercury pipped 40C about 3.32pm on Saturday in Cairns, and after taking into consideration the 33 per cent humidity, the apparent temperature at the time was 41.5C.
“The new record high for Cairns in February eclipsed the previous record of 39.7C, which was recorded on Fridayat Cannon Park.”
“A Gold Coast [Australia] Councillor says mosquitoes have “reached plague proportions” in the city, after recent record-breaking rainfall created ideal breeding conditions…
The council has restarted spraying residential areas to kill adult mosquitoes after efforts were suspended during recent wet weather.”
“Kuwait has become threatened by the locust attack on its soil… Locusts arrived in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the eastern coast of Iran and Pakistan and numbered in billions.
“The only way to combat it is by spraying with pesticides, whether with portable devices on the shoulders or with cars, but for large countries that have large areas, they need to spray with planes.”
“As these huge systems, like the Antarctic, respond to a warming planet, the scientific community have condemned governments… things are coming to a head.
“Climate change is now in the news like never before as temperature records continue to be broken, storms batter the UK and flooding, heat waves and the resulting disruption become the new normal.”
“Residents of the small Alaskan town Kongiganak can no longer bury their dead. Their cemetery has become a marshy swamp, sucking graves into the once frozen ground. On the island of Sarichef near the Bering Strait, the village of Shishmaref is shrinking so fast locals are considering relocating it entirely.
“Global warming has shown that permafrost is not so permanent after all.”
“Last month was the hottest January on record over the world’s land and ocean surfaces, with average temperatures exceeding anything in the 141 years of data held by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
“The record temperatures in January follow an exceptionally warm 2019…”
“New Zealand’s largest city is on the cusp of its longest-ever dry spell, as a total fire ban is declared for the entire North Island, home to millions of people.
“According to the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa), on Saturday, Auckland will mark 40 days of no rain – breaking the previous record from 2013, when no rain fell for 39 days.”
“The temperature reached a scorching 39.7 degrees today at the Cairns Racecourse [Queensland, Australia] at 2.39pm. That is 0.2 degrees above the all-time maximum temperature record for Cairns in February, recorded at the airport on February 21 last year.”
“The Sunshine Coast [Australia] bore the brunt of heavy falls overnight, however, with 232 millimetres [over nine inches] recorded at the airport since 9am Thursday – its highest daily total on record…
“Multiple schools across the Sunshine and Gold Coasts told their students to remain home on Thursday because of flooding or road closures.”
“Thailand is scaling back production forecasts for key agricultural commodities because of a drought, dealing a further blow to the country’s struggling economy.
“Rice, rubber and sugar are among the crops that help to sustain 11 million jobs, drive consumption and color the political mood of the rural population.”
“A lunar landscape is taking shape in the far south of Madagascar. Not a single drop of rain has fallen on this part of the country since the end of September 2019.
“Two regions are particularly affected: Androy and Anosy, where the heat has dried up the plantations and where food reserves are almost exhausted, plunging nearly 500,000 people into a nutritional crisis…”
“Over 1,000 animals died on a farm north of Cape Town, South Africa in recent months. This is as a result of the severe drought affecting the Kahalari Desert.
“The situation is more serious as the local flora and fauna, which are used to protect climatic conditions, struggle to survive.”
“At about 3pm yesterday, a huge swarm of locusts entered Uganda from Kenya’s Kasai region and officials estimate it to comprise more than 40 million insects.
“They said the locusts entered through Nakasepan Village in Amudat Sub-county, Amudat District. Two hours later, another swarm entered through Komoret in Amudat.”
“Storm Dennis exploded into a “bomb cyclone” during the early-morning hours on Thursday as the looming weather system poses a new windstorm threat for Europe
“…just days after deadly Storm Ciara triggered widespread travel disruptions from the United Kingdom to Germany.”
“As pretty much all roads in the country are closed right now due to the extratropical cyclone rolling over Iceland, it bears mentioning that some places are getting hit harder than others.
“Reykjavík is on lockdown until 15:00 today, as the storm is moving from the southwest, but other parts of South Iceland are contending with even worse conditions.”
“Maine’s climate is not only changing due to global temperatures increasing overall, but the rate at which it is changing is speeding up, according to researchers at the University of Maine…
“Days of torrential rain across the Southeast [USA] left residents to deal with rising rivers, falling trees, weakened dams and mudslides Thursday as storms finally subsided…
“The rains were expected to create the worst flooding in Jackson since 1983. That’s the second-highest crest on record, below an epic flood in the spring of 1978 that created widespread damage”
“Swaths of Southern California, including downtown Los Angeles, could be heading toward one of the driest combined starts to a year on record if the Golden State doesn’t start getting some rain, the National Weather Service said Thursday…
“…a persistent high-pressure ridge hovering over the eastern Pacific Ocean has kept wet weather at bay for much of January and early February.”
“Given São Paulo [Brazil] sits on the Tropic of Capricorn, heavy tropical rainfall is not unusual. Summer traditionally consists of hot, sunny days finished off with a heavy thunderstorm in late afternoon. But Monday morning’s rain was something different.
“In just 24 hours, 66 per cent of the expected rainfall for the whole month of February was dumped on the city.”
“Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday.”
““After two years of ground field studies that began in 2018 at an Alaskan lake site with a methane hotspot, we found abrupt thawing of the permafrost right underneath the hotspot,”said Elder.
“”It’s that additional contribution of permafrost carbon – carbon that’s been frozen for thousands of years – that’s essentially contributing food for the microbes to chew up and turn into methane as the permafrost continues to thaw.””
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“This winter, so abnormally warm in Lithuania, is bewildering everyone and is wreaking havoc both in the nature and on the store shelves.
“The exceptionally warm winter this year [in Sweden] has had a negative effect on economic growth, says a senior economist from Swedbank.
“Inured to interminable winters, Muscovites have been stunned this year by spring-like temperatures and virtually snow-free sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history… 
“Two Germans were killed on Thursday in an avalanche on an Arctic island off northern Norway, officials said. 
“It’s been a record-breaking winter on the Côte d’Azur; the warmest recorded during the months of December, January and up to now in February the Alpes-Maritimes since 1958. 
“Britain is being deluged by “atmospheric rivers” delivered on the jet stream, the Met Office has said. Experts believe the west-east band of high-altitude winds is currently pointed directly at the UK for the first time in years, enabling a “conveyor belt” of non-stop rain.
“Severe Weather Europe said: “A rapidly developing extra-tropical cyclone is looking more impressive on the satellite, gradually developing hurricane-force winds around its core. 
“After a cold patch Thursday and Friday, temperatures are expected to rise into the 40s and 50s again over the weekend [Boston, US]…”
“Rainfall soared 400 percent above normal levels for the month so far, driving the flood. 
“The flow of the Colorado River is dwindling due to the impacts of global heating, risking “severe water shortages” for the millions of people who rely upon one of America’s most storied waterways, researchers have found. 
“San Francisco and Sacramento have not seen a drop of rain this February, and climate scientists are expecting that disturbing dry trend to hold, in what is typically one of the wettest months of the year for California.
“At least 9,000 years ago, humans began domesticating corn for the first time near Tehuacan, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, laying the foundation for permanent settlements in the Americas.
“A torrential downpour has caused flooding in Hokitika [NZ]. 
“Heat stress is already building across the world’s biggest reef system [Barrier Reef], with reports of patchy bleaching already occurring. But a major widespread event is not currently taking place.
“Hakuba, a northern Japan Alps village in Nagano Prefecture at the foot of some of the country’s most popular ski resorts, has a problem: 
“A grim prophecy made years ago by climate scientists and experts is coming true now. 
“A swarm of desert locusts is destroying crops and threatening the livelihoods of farmers in Pakistan’s Punjab province. 
“Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier has warm water from three directions well under it threatening to destroy the ice sheet and raise global sea levels by up to two feet. 
“Tiny bubbles of ancient air trapped in ice cores from Greenland suggest we’ve been seriously overestimating the natural cycle of methane, while vastly undervaluing our own terrible impact… 
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