“With another 15 days still to go till the end of this year’s rains, the city has already recorded its wettest-ever monsoon, with 3,458.2mm rain between June and September 15, despite a 15-day delay in the season’s onset.
“Prior to 2019, the all-time record was 3,451.6mm in 1954, according to reports from the disaster management cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and the Maharashtra government. The reports are based on data recorded by the India Meteorological Department.”
“Torrential rain brought by the southwest monsoon has caused severe flooding in more than 32 provinces in Thailand and killed 33 people since the end of August, according to authorities.
“The worst floods are in Ubon Ratchathani province, in northeast Thailand. Thai officials said more than 20,000 people have been evacuated and some communities still have no access to electricity and clean water.”
“Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center (DMC) on Monday issued landslide warnings for several districts of the island country after the Meteorology Department warned of further rains in the coming days.
“The DMC said since rains had exceeded 150 mm within the past 24 hours in several areas, people living closer to landslide prone areas would be evacuated to avoid the risk of slope failures, rock falls, cutting failures and ground subsidence.”
“Six people, including four of a same family were killed after landslides triggered by incessant rainfall buried two houses in Nepal’s Rolpa district, officials said on Saturday.
“Rolpa district police chief Chitra Bahadur Gurung said that all six people were buried under the landslide debris in Cherlabang village on Friday night.”
“Days after Typhoon No. 15 struck the Kanto region [of Japan], Hisae Sakaki was still struggling to come to grips with the damage to her island home in the Pacific Ocean.
“Dirt and wood debris remained scattered about her house. Sunlight poked in through areas that used to be the roof.”
“The projections from NSW’s [Australia] river operator and bulk water supplier WaterNSW show without significant rain the first towns to lose water supply will be Dubbo, Cobar, Nyngan and Narromine with the Macquarie River forecast to run dry by November.
“The Macquarie River experiences an average inflow of 1,448GL annually but in the past two years has seen just 97GL enter the river system, the data shows.”
“After just four years, he’s noticing dramatic changes in New Zealand’s largest glacier… The 23-kilometre-long Tasman Glacier is retreating.
“As the ice melts, the terminal grows. Scientists estimate the terminal lake is growing at a rate of about 140 metres annually. It’s now over six kilometres long.”
“Residents are desperately trying to conserve water in the Native village of Nanwalek, located on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage.
“The village, home to the Sugpiaq tribe, is currently in a severe drought. Nina Kvasnikoff’s family is eating off paper plates, collecting water from the ocean to flush toilets and washing themselves with sponges.”
“Perhaps more than anywhere on Earth, the Arctic has felt most acutely the effects of climate change — evidence of which is unfolding in real time as residents and wildlife contend with a mess not of their own making.”
“Edgar Jone, Tearfund’s representative in Mozambique was there at the time and lost part of his home [due to Cyclone Idai]. He told Premier:
“”After six months, we still have two million people are still living in need of food and we have got 77,000 people are still living in temporal displacement camps in Mozambique.
“…the world’s “third pole”…is how glaciologists refer to the Tibetan plateau, home to the vast Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet, because it contains the largest amount of snow and ice after the Arctic and Antarctic – about 15% of the global total.
“However, a quarter of its ice has been lost since 1970.”
“More than 130 bushfires are burning across New South Wales and Queensland as firefighters battle to gain control. Buildings that have been destroyed include the heritage-listed Binna Burra Lodge, in Queensland.
“Acting fire commissioner, Mike Wassing, said the extraordinarily dry conditions, combined with high winds and temperatures, ‘will continue for weeks and potentially months'”.
“An Australian state will spend tens of thousands of dollars each month to truck water into a drought-hit town that is forecast to run out of drinking water by December, it said on Friday.
“The northeastern state of Queensland has announced A$2.4 million ($1.65 million) in emergency funds, which would include A$800,000 per month in costs to cart water.”
“As the seasons changed, crimson fires lighting up the night sky across Rondônia showed that prosperity will always come at a price. August is burning season, when Amazon farmers use a rare period of dry weather to set fires to clear fields ready to plant crops.
“But 2019 was different; satellite data showed more than 46,000 fires in the Amazon, an alarming 111% increase over last year.”
“A new storm brought rain and wind to the hurricane ravaged Bahamas early Friday, with the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) warning it could turn into a tropical storm.”
“September is a month known for beautiful blue skies and pleasant days. The average high in Washington on Sept. 12 is 81 degrees, squarely in our “nice day” range.
“However, the high of 98 degrees today ranks it as the second hottest day of 2019, and it’s enough to set a record high for the date as well.”
““We start out each morning with a prayer,” said owner Brian Klock. “We’re going to do that again today.”
“…The storm that ran from Tuesday night to Thursday morning officially dropped more than 10 inches of rain in Mitchell, according to the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls…”
“The giant trees, once thought to be unflappable fixtures of the forest and largely resistant to fire, are among the latest victims of climate change.
“In the national monument’s Black Mountain Grove, as well as elsewhere in the Sierra Nevada, researchers studying the toll of recent wildfires are finding surprising numbers of dead sequoias.”
“For the fifth straight year, seabirds in Alaska are starving to death at an alarmingly high rate.
“The deaths of more than 9,000 thousand seabirds along Alaska’s western coast this summer prompted government agencies to once again study their corpses to determine why they had died, according to a press release from the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.”
“The Russian military said it has discovered a new island in the Arctic where maps had previously shown a peninsula as climate change accelerates the disappearance of sea ice…
“On Thursday, the Defense Ministry announced that the Navy’s Northern Fleet expedition had “convincingly proved” the presence of an island previously thought to be a peninsula on the Franz Josef Land archipelago.”
“Glaciers in the Arctic are shrinking by as much as 300m a year, a Scottish-based research team has found.
“The researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science near Oban used robot submarines to study glaciers in the west of the Svalbard archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic.”
“The mighty Aletsch – the largest glacier in the Alps – could completely disappear by the end of the century if efforts are not taken to rein in climate change, a study has showed…
“The glacier… covers 86 square kilometres in the Swiss Alps and holds about 11 billion tonnes of ice…”
“One of the first places to be hit was Ontinyent, a town south of Valencia [Spain], where the Clariano River flooded the streets on Wednesday night.
“Ontinyent’s mayor, Jorge Rodríguez, said the town had endured its heaviest rainfall on record, with more than 400mm [circa 16 inches] by Thursday afternoon.”
“A flash flood in Algeria’s capital inundated subway stations and the city’s new airport, turned major boulevards into muddy rivers and trapped drivers in cars. No deaths were reported, but civil security spokesman Karim Bernaoui said Friday that “the damage is enormous…”
“The Algiers mayor said 40 millimeters of rain fell in 40 minutes, the equivalent of three months of normal rainfall.”
“All Vidisha rivers [India] are swollen which has led to destruction. Many villages are submerged…
“Normal life has been affected in Sehore, as the torrential rain has battered Madhya Pradesh, submerging the Karbala bridge. Narmada river is flowing above the danger mark due to intermittent heavy rains.”
“The United Nations is warning some two million people in Somalia are at risk of starvation, amid the country’s worst drought since 2011, and is calling for more support from the international community…
“The UN’s most recent food security analysis showed the April to June harvest was the worse since 2011 thanks to poor and erratic rains, which were followed by flooding.”
“Trudging home along a dusty street in the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo, Sikhathele Ndlovu balances a 20-liter (5-gallon) bucket of water on her head, a ritual she’s performed daily for almost a decade.
“Persistent drought on top of existing faulty piping means there’s little prospect of an end to her back-breaking trek to the communal borehole.”
“Extreme weather events displaced a record seven million people from their homes during the first six months of this year, a figure that put 2019 on pace to be one of the most disastrous years in almost two decades even before Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas.
“The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, which compiles data from governments, United Nations humanitarian agencies and media reports, concluded in a report published Thursday that floods, landslides, cyclones and other extreme weather events temporarily displaced more people in the first half of this year than during the same period in any other year.
“In today’s changing climate, mass displacement triggered by extreme weather events is becoming the norm,” the center said in its report…”
“Teams of dog handlers from the U.S., Canada and Belgium are uncovering more and more dead bodies among the debris of Bahamas homes hit by Hurricane Dorian, the Health Ministry said.
“The Category 5 storm was so powerful that it drowned people who had been seeking refuge in their attics, swept others out to sea, and crushed steel-reinforced concrete structures…”
“Firefighters in Colombia battled raging forest fires on Tuesday (September 10) and Wednesday (September 11), facing an uphill battle to tame the flames as drought conditions in the country worsen.
“Authorities have prioritized their efforts in areas near the city of Cali and the Antioquia region where residential homes are located.”
“Brazil’s soybean sowing season for the 2019-20 harvest is officially under way, but there might not be too many planters out in the fields just yet as conditions are extremely dry…
“Weather forecasts call for practically bone-dry conditions in most of Brazil’s growing regions for at least the next two weeks…”
“Researchers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources have observed a coral bleaching event that they link to Hawaii’s record breaking high temperatures this summer.
“Maui was most affected by the hot weather. Between May and August, Kahului broke 33 maximum temperature records according to the National Weather Service.”
“This week, at the site that triggered an environmental crisis in regional NSW [Australia], three blokes in a dinghy with nets were trying to catch some fish.
“But instead of eating the fish or throwing them back, they were moving the fish to another spot. For the next two weeks, the NSW Government is attempting what it has described as a “Noah’s Ark” fish rescue operation…”
“Hundreds of thousands of households near Tokyo entered their fourth day without electricity on Thursday amid sweltering heat and no relief in sight, as a utility struggled to recover power systems damaged by Typhoon Faxai.
“The number of households in Chiba Prefecture affected by the outage stood at approximately 330,000 around 2 p.m…”
“At least 14 people have died and at least one is missing as floods ravage Laos’ six southern provinces, stretching government relief capacity, authorities and residents said Wednesday.
“Tropical storm Podul and tropical depression Kajiki slammed into the area one after the other last week…”
“As Hu Yuyou frantically shouts instructions, his wife rushes out to the bow, waving to the boat opposite. River shipping is rarely this dangerous, but the worst drought in decades has left rivers in East China at their lowest level for decades.
“This has created congestion on canals, as vessels loaded with cargo crowd the gates to locks, waiting for them to fill with enough water so they can travel along the waterway.”
“India’s sugar output could fall 20% to the lowest level in three years in 2019/20 after drought last year forced farmers to curb their cane planting and as floods this year damaged crops in key growing areas, a senior industry official said on Thursday.”
“Yesterday, the Safdarjung Observatory in Delhi recorded 38.2°C as the maximum temperature which is the highest for Delhi during the month of September in the last ten years.
“This temperature is five degrees higher than normal. The Palam Observatory also saw the day temperature settle at 39.5°C which is again a record for the last ten years.”
“Rains were delayed and erratic, resulting in reduced area planted, poor germination and wilting of crops. Poor grazing and water conditions also affected livestock production.
“Namibia, Angola and Botswana declared national drought emergencies. Other countries affected by localised dry spells and drought included eSwatini, Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania.”
“The Mediterranean area [of Spain], specifically the south of Valencia, Alicante and Murcia will be this Thursday, September 12, at maximum risk (red) due to storms and rains that may be torrential leaving 200 liters per square meter, according to the prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).
“The storm has already left significant damage especially in the province of Valencia, with waterlogged streets and river overflow due to the storm.”
“She also shows that currently greenhouse gas emissions from all Western Siberian rivers and lakes exceed the amount of carbon that Western Siberian rivers transport to the Arctic Ocean.
“Such finding means that a major part of previously frozen carbon that ends up in rivers and lakes in this region is emitted as greenhouse gases from the water surface into the atmosphere, making Western Siberia a hotspot for river and lake greenhouse gas emissions following permafrost thaw.”
“…when unpinning occurs, the ice sheets become more prone to faster flow and contraction. This could mean the return of ice volume to the global ocean, which in turn causes sea levels to rise…
“Antarctica researchers are concerned because there is a current acceleration in ice shelf melting in several regions of Antarctica.”
“Climate change could have a lasting impact on bird populations, with some dying out and others forced to recolonise, scientists have warned.
“The recent record temperatures globally, from the hottest day ever in Britain to a deadly heatwave across Europe, has prompted research into the distribution of birds throughout history.”
“In conclusion, it would seem that the summer of 2019 was the warmest such on record for the Hawaiian islands… What was remarkable was how many daily record highs were tied or broken.
“Why has it been so hot in Hawaii this summer?
“The simple answer is that the sea surface temperatures have been running about 1.0°C-1.5°C (1.8°F-2.7°F) above average.”
“Climate change has made record-breaking heatwaves all the more likely, both on land and beneath the ocean’s surface. As the world’s ocean sucks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — as well as most of the additional heat being trapped by global warming — it is undergoing some significant changes.
“Marine heatwaves — prolonged periods of unusually warm ocean temperatures — are one of those changes.”
“Our weather is about to take a turn for the wetter. Again. The first of three main rain waves rumbles across southern Minnesota overnight…
“The widespread persistent nature of heavy rainfall is causing problems across much of the U.S… 2019 so far is the wettest year on record across the 48 contiguous United States. And the past 12 months are also the wettest on record.”
“About 17% of all Bahamians are suddenly homeless after Hurricane Dorian wiped out neighborhoods and ripped houses off foundations. That’s 70,000 people who have lost almost everything…
“Residents are sleeping in houses that are still standing but aren’t necessarily safe.”
“[Spain’s] Aemet met agency was spot on today. With Majorca on amber, level two alert for heavy freak storms, the torrential rain, thunder and strong winds worked their way across the island from mid-morning, reaching Palma late afternoon and soaking the city…
“A number of waterspouts, tornadoes just out to sea were caught on camera.”
“Japanese utility company, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), is struggling to restore power to nearly half a million homes after blackouts caused by Typhoon Faxai, while at least two people have died from heatstroke because of a lack of electricity, media said on Wednesday.”
“Bushfires have caused significant damage across Australia since the start of September and concern is rising that the upcoming summer could further yield blazes thanks to frequent heat waves…
“Despite recent firefighting efforts, 80 blazes continue to burn in Queensland and more than 50 others in New South Wales as of Tuesday evening…”
“Drought is a recurring feature in Australia — the driest continent on earth — but the current dry period in the country’s eastern states is devastating for farmers, who are struggling to grow crops to feed their animals. …
“Last month parliament passed a A$5bn government assistance package for farmers…”
“NIWA warns the sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) affecting Antarctica could be the “strongest warming event on record”. It says the event “continues to unfold” and has “set high-temperature records in the stratosphere”.
“And it warns the SSW is already starting to affect New Zealand.”
“British homes have been plagued by an influx of moths this summer as the warm weather and changing consumer tastes have created the perfect breeding conditions.
“An estimated three and a half million households have been blighted by the pests, with the problem particularly intense in London and the south east of England. Millions of items of clothing are likely to have been destroyed by infestation.”
“Alaska’s summer of fire and no ice is smashing records.
“With the Arctic warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, America’s “Last Frontier” feels like the first in line to see, smell and feel the unsettling signs of a climate in crisis.
“There are the smoky skies and dripping glaciers, dead salmon and hauled-out walrus but scientists also worry about the changes that are harder to see, from toxic algae blooms in the Bering Sea to insects from the Lower 48 bringing new diseases north…
“We’ve talked about these things occurring in decades or in centuries, but … it’s happening right now and it’s visible right now and it’s noticeable right now,” the University of Alaksa climatologist says.
“”The opportunity to do things about it is right now and not decades down the road.
“So, in one sense, it’s really bad, but people tend to kind of step up and do something about it when they feel a sense of urgency, and there really is a sense of urgency right now.”
“The Portland marine science lab that first told the world the Gulf of Maine is warming faster than almost any other part of the ocean is launching a virtual climate center that will focus on finding solutions to the challenges related to ocean warming.”
“After a weekend of bruising winds and torrential rain unleashed by Hurricane Dorian, emergency crews on Canada’s east cost have begun the task of restoring electricity to the region after more than 500,000 residents were left without power.
“Dorian was downgraded to a post-tropical storm as it made landfall near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday evening, but wind speeds still reached 150km/h (93mph), similar in intensity to a category 2 hurricane.”
“Phoenix, Arizona, is susceptible to a heat wave that could peak at a staggering 122 degrees Fahrenheit.
“Southern California could face a wildfire that burns 1.5 million acres of land. Tampa, Florida, could see 26 feet of storm surge flooding from a hurricane, just below the record-breaking 28-foot storm surge of Hurricane Katrina.”
“The danger persists elsewhere… Much of Norway has enjoyed record temperatures this summer, but western Norway has also experienced periods of intense rainfall.
“In July, a series of landslides in and around Jølster killed one person and caused significant damage to infrastructure in the remote region.”
“An entire [UK] town has been shut down due to flash floods as water levels reached up to waist-high.
“Emergency services have warned people to stay away from Ottery St Mary in Devon after heavy rain caused widespread disruption. Several roads in the town are impassable and it is feared some homes may also be flooded.”
“Authorities in Germany say about a dozen people have been injured after the plane they were in hit turbulence shortly before landing in Berlin. German news agency dpa quoted fire services saying Monday that five of the injured passengers required treatment or were hospitalized.”
“The future of sea level rise may be written into the walls of coastal Spanish caves. Mineral “bathtub rings” deposited inside the limestone Artà Caves on the Balearic island of Mallorca show how high seas rose during the Pliocene Epoch — a time when Earth was about as warm as it’s expected to get by 2100.
“Those mineral deposits suggest the planet’s seas were around 16 meters higher on average than they are today…”
“In Wad Ramli, a village outside the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Alsamani Fathalrahman and his neighbours travelled in blue speedboats through flooded streets trying to salvage their belongings…
““In just five hours, the area was completely flooded, with no prior notice, so people could only save themselves,” Fathalrahman said, as the 27-year-old engineer recovered bed frames and school books from abandoned homes.”
“Last week saw Mumbai getting submerged again as it received heavy rainfall. Thousands of people were stranded in vehicles, trains, at railway stations or their workplaces as rail transport was shut for hours and the traffic on the roads came to a near halt.
“This is the second time this monsoon that the city came to a standstill and lakhs of people suffered.”
“A new round of rainfall has hit the capital on Monday as peak temperatures in Beijing on Sunday broke a historical record for early September, reaching 35.9 degrees Celsius, according to the local meteorological department.
“Beijing Meteorological Service on Monday evening issued a blue alert for rainfall and strong winds. It is also expected that most areas in the capital will face gusts of wind.!
“Provinces in northern and northeastern regions [of Thailand] already battling flooding can expect no respite, with more rain on the way to exacerbate their problems.
“The Meteorological Department on Tuesday issued warnings for both regions, that heavy rain could trigger flash floods and runoff in some areas from Wednesday to Sunday.”
“Perth [Australia] recorded its second hottest September day since records began and its warmest this early in the month, after it reached a top of 33.1C on Monday. It fell just short of the the 34.2C the city recorded on September 20, 2014.”
“The Arctic is on fire. Now, Antarctica is suddenly experiencing a heatwave.
“And that means a looming rainfall apocalypse for Australia. According to a recent report by senior researchers from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, we’re in for higher than normal spring temperatures. And less rain.”
“Wildfires in Bolivia have torched two million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest and grassland since August, including some environmentally protected areas, officials said Monday…
“Environmentalists blame laws enacted under Morales, who has encouraged burning of forest and pasture land to expand agricultural production. The government attributes the blazes to dry weather and winds.”
“The world’s readiness for the inevitable effects of the climate crisis is “gravely insufficient”, according to a report from global leaders.
“This lack of preparedness will result in poverty, water shortages and levels of migration soaring, with an “irrefutable toll on human life”, the report warns.”
“A powerful typhoon barrelled through Japan’s Tokyo region early on Monday with record-breaking winds, killing one woman and leaving more than 900,000 homes without power.
“Typhoon Faxai – the 15th of the season – made landfall in the city of Chiba, east of Tokyo, shortly before dawn, whipping up 129 mph gusts of wind that were reportedly the strongest ever recorded in the area.
“Media footage catalogued extensive damage, including flooded streets, uprooted trees and branches, fallen signposts and twisted rooftops.”
“Australia is battling over 100 wildfires across two states, with authorities warning that the severe blazes are an “omen” of a brutal fire season to come. In Queensland, 57 wildfires were burning as of Sunday…
“In around 130 years of records, Queensland has never seen fires this severe this early in spring.”
“Across the Macquarie Valley, in the western region of New South Wales, water is fast running out. Three years ago, the Macquarie Marshes were flourishing…
“But a lot can change without any rain. The bone-dry marshes are a stark reminder of the reality of the water crisis in NSW.”
“Over 289,644 people [in Namibia] are food insecure and need immediate food assistance.
“This number is expected to rise during the course of the 2019/2020 consumption period, according to the Namibian Vulnerability Assessment Committee report released Wednesday.”
“On Sunday, September 8, a bus connecting Casablanca and Rissani, a town in Errachidia Province [Morocco], fell off the Oued Damchan bridge. The accident was caused by floods, according to MAP.
“The death toll was believed to be 6, but this morning, September 8, rescue teams uncovered two more bodies.”
“…thanks to the Saharan heat plumes due next weekend, temperatures could hit 26C – that’s warmer than Hawaii. Forecasters believe the months up to November [in the UK] could be so warm that it will make 2019 one of the top three hottest years on record.”
“A massive storm surge in the Bahamas killed about 220 dogs and 50 cats in an animal shelter during Hurricane Dorian, according to staffers at the shelter.
“Felicia Telfort, the shelter supervisor at the Humane Society of Grand Bahama, says she and five co-workers did everything possible to save the animals. They were looking after 300 dogs and about 100 cats when the storm hit.”
“Storm Dorian has smashed into the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, toppling trees and cutting power for more than 450,000 people.
“Now a post-tropical cyclone, Dorian hit Halifax on Saturday with winds of 100mph (160km/h) and is due to cross into Newfoundland. The Canadian government said the military would help recovery efforts.”
“The summer that will never end continued across Alabama on Sunday, and two cities had record high temperatures. Mobile hit 99 degrees on Sunday, which broke the record of 97 set in 1980…
“More hot and humid weather is on tap for the entire work week, with high temperatures expected stay in the 90s — and mid- to upper 90s for many locations.”
“Mother Nature gave residents in the western half of Washington state quite a light show on Saturday night. A large storm system brought a truly mind-boggling number of lightning strikes into the region during the evening hours.
“According to the National Weather Service office in Seattle, the region saw more than 2,000 “cloud to ground lightning strikes” during a five-hour period ending at 11:00 p.m. PT.”
“Norway’s Arctic archipelago of Svalbard got a new island of about 10 square kilometers, public broadcaster NRK reported Saturday. The island has been considered to be a peninsula for decades, but glacier melting during summer revealed something else, the report said.
“”In the new pictures, a blue strip of sea appeared where the glacier has withdrawn,” Anders Skoglund, topographer from the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, told NRK.”
“Fires burn off vegetation, stripping away an insulating layer that helps maintain permafrost – ground that is normally frozen.
“This makes it more likely that the permafrost could thaw and release even more CO2. Permafrost thaws discharge not just CO2, but also the more powerful greenhouse gas, methane. The potential positive feedback doesn’t end there…”
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“With another 15 days still to go till the end of this year’s rains, the city has already recorded its wettest-ever monsoon, with 3,458.2mm rain between June and September 15, despite a 15-day delay in the season’s onset.
“Torrential rain brought by the southwest monsoon has caused severe flooding in more than 32 provinces in Thailand and killed 33 people since the end of August, according to authorities. 
“Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center (DMC) on Monday issued landslide warnings for several districts of the island country after the Meteorology Department warned of further rains in the coming days. 
“Six people, including four of a same family were killed after landslides triggered by incessant rainfall buried two houses in Nepal’s Rolpa district, officials said on Saturday. 
“Days after Typhoon No. 15 struck the Kanto region [of Japan], Hisae Sakaki was still struggling to come to grips with the damage to her island home in the Pacific Ocean. 
“The projections from NSW’s [Australia] river operator and bulk water supplier WaterNSW show without significant rain the first towns to lose water supply will be Dubbo, Cobar, Nyngan and Narromine with the Macquarie River forecast to run dry by November.
“After just four years, he’s noticing dramatic changes in New Zealand’s largest glacier… The 23-kilometre-long Tasman Glacier is retreating. 
“A rare ‘fire tornado’ has been caught on camera…
“Residents are desperately trying to conserve water in the Native village of Nanwalek, located on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage. 
“It has not been a good summer for the Arctic. 
“The Costa Blanca has begun rebuilding this morning after the area’s worst storms in 140 years, which have so far killed six. 
“Edgar Jone, Tearfund’s representative in Mozambique was there at the time and lost part of his home [due to Cyclone Idai]. He told Premier: 
“Changing patterns of rainfall due to climate change could reduce the ability of soil to absorb water in many parts of the world, shows a new study. 
“…the world’s “third pole”…is how glaciologists refer to the Tibetan plateau, home to the vast Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet, because it contains the largest amount of snow and ice after the Arctic and Antarctic – about 15% of the global total. 
“More than 130 bushfires are burning across New South Wales and Queensland as firefighters battle to gain control. Buildings that have been destroyed include the heritage-listed Binna Burra Lodge, in Queensland. 
“An Australian state will spend tens of thousands of dollars each month to truck water into a drought-hit town that is forecast to run out of drinking water by December, it said on Friday.
“As the seasons changed, crimson fires lighting up the night sky across Rondônia showed that prosperity will always come at a price. August is burning season, when Amazon farmers use a rare period of dry weather to set fires to clear fields ready to plant crops. 
“September is a month known for beautiful blue skies and pleasant days. The average high in Washington on Sept. 12 is 81 degrees, squarely in our “nice day” range. 
“Atlanta smashed a century-old heat record Thursday as temperatures soared to 99 degrees. 
““We start out each morning with a prayer,” said owner Brian Klock. “We’re going to do that again today.”
“The giant trees, once thought to be unflappable fixtures of the forest and largely resistant to fire, are among the latest victims of climate change. 
“Warm and windy conditions have been keeping Yukon firefighters busy, at a time of year when the wildfire season is more typically winding down.
“For the fifth straight year, seabirds in Alaska are starving to death at an alarmingly high rate.
“The Russian military said it has discovered a new island in the Arctic where maps had previously shown a peninsula as climate change accelerates the disappearance of sea ice… 
“Glaciers in the Arctic are shrinking by as much as 300m a year, a Scottish-based research team has found. 
“The mighty Aletsch – the largest glacier in the Alps – could completely disappear by the end of the century if efforts are not taken to rein in climate change, a study has showed… 
“One of the first places to be hit was Ontinyent, a town south of Valencia [Spain], where the Clariano River flooded the streets on Wednesday night. 
“A flash flood in Algeria’s capital inundated subway stations and the city’s new airport, turned major boulevards into muddy rivers and trapped drivers in cars. No deaths were reported, but civil security spokesman Karim Bernaoui said Friday that “the damage is enormous…”
“All Vidisha rivers [India] are swollen which has led to destruction. Many villages are submerged… 
“The United Nations is warning some two million people in Somalia are at risk of starvation, amid the country’s worst drought since 2011, and is calling for more support from the international community… 
“Trudging home along a dusty street in the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo, Sikhathele Ndlovu balances a 20-liter (5-gallon) bucket of water on her head, a ritual she’s performed daily for almost a decade. 
“Extreme weather events displaced a record seven million people from their homes during the first six months of this year, a figure that put 2019 on pace to be one of the most disastrous years in almost two decades even before Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas.
“Teams of dog handlers from the U.S., Canada and Belgium are uncovering more and more dead bodies among the debris of Bahamas homes hit by Hurricane Dorian, the Health Ministry said.
“A storm that tore across Sioux Falls overnight was so treacherous, even weather forecasters had to pause their work and hunker down. 
“Firefighters in Colombia battled raging forest fires on Tuesday (September 10) and Wednesday (September 11), facing an uphill battle to tame the flames as drought conditions in the country worsen. 
“Brazil’s soybean sowing season for the 2019-20 harvest is officially under way, but there might not be too many planters out in the fields just yet as conditions are extremely dry… 
“Researchers from the Department of Land and Natural Resources have observed a coral bleaching event that they link to Hawaii’s record breaking high temperatures this summer. 
“This week, at the site that triggered an environmental crisis in regional NSW [Australia], three blokes in a dinghy with nets were trying to catch some fish. 
“Hundreds of thousands of households near Tokyo entered their fourth day without electricity on Thursday amid sweltering heat and no relief in sight, as a utility struggled to recover power systems damaged by Typhoon Faxai. 
“At least 14 people have died and at least one is missing as floods ravage Laos’ six southern provinces, stretching government relief capacity, authorities and residents said Wednesday. 
“As Hu Yuyou frantically shouts instructions, his wife rushes out to the bow, waving to the boat opposite. River shipping is rarely this dangerous, but the worst drought in decades has left rivers in East China at their lowest level for decades.
“Yesterday, the Safdarjung Observatory in Delhi recorded 38.2°C as the maximum temperature which is the highest for Delhi during the month of September in the last ten years. 
“Rains were delayed and erratic, resulting in reduced area planted, poor germination and wilting of crops. Poor grazing and water conditions also affected livestock production. 
“Deadly floods across Niger have left 57 people dead and affected more than 130,000 since they began in June, according to the latest government toll… 
“The Mediterranean area [of Spain], specifically the south of Valencia, Alicante and Murcia will be this Thursday, September 12, at maximum risk (red) due to storms and rains that may be torrential leaving 200 liters per square meter, according to the prediction of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET). 
“She also shows that currently greenhouse gas emissions from all Western Siberian rivers and lakes exceed the amount of carbon that Western Siberian rivers transport to the Arctic Ocean. 
“…when unpinning occurs, the ice sheets become more prone to faster flow and contraction. This could mean the return of ice volume to the global ocean, which in turn causes sea levels to rise… 
“Climate change could have a lasting impact on bird populations, with some dying out and others forced to recolonise, scientists have warned.
“In conclusion, it would seem that the summer of 2019 was the warmest such on record for the Hawaiian islands… What was remarkable was how many daily record highs were tied or broken.
“Climate change has made record-breaking heatwaves all the more likely, both on land and beneath the ocean’s surface. As the world’s ocean sucks up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — as well as most of the additional heat being trapped by global warming — it is undergoing some significant changes.
“Intense rain on Monday delivered in two microbursts flooded homes, streets, and damaged roads in Everett, Washington… 
“Our weather is about to take a turn for the wetter. Again. The first of three main rain waves rumbles across southern Minnesota overnight… 
“About 17% of all Bahamians are suddenly homeless after Hurricane Dorian wiped out neighborhoods and ripped houses off foundations. That’s 70,000 people who have lost almost everything… 
“[Spain’s] Aemet met agency was spot on today. With Majorca on amber, level two alert for heavy freak storms, the torrential rain, thunder and strong winds worked their way across the island from mid-morning, reaching Palma late afternoon and soaking the city… 
“Bushfires have caused significant damage across Australia since the start of September and concern is rising that the upcoming summer could further yield blazes thanks to frequent heat waves… 
Australian sheep flocks at 100-year lows:
“NIWA warns the sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) affecting Antarctica could be the “strongest warming event on record”. It says the event “continues to unfold” and has “set high-temperature records in the stratosphere”. 
“British homes have been plagued by an influx of moths this summer as the warm weather and changing consumer tastes have created the perfect breeding conditions. 
“Alaska’s summer of fire and no ice is smashing records.
“We’ve talked about these things occurring in decades or in centuries, but … it’s happening right now and it’s visible right now and it’s noticeable right now,” the University of Alaksa climatologist says. 
“After a weekend of bruising winds and torrential rain unleashed by Hurricane Dorian, emergency crews on Canada’s east cost have begun the task of restoring electricity to the region after more than 500,000 residents were left without power. 
“Phoenix, Arizona, is susceptible to a heat wave that could peak at a staggering 122 degrees Fahrenheit. 
“The danger persists elsewhere… Much of Norway has enjoyed record temperatures this summer, but western Norway has also experienced periods of intense rainfall. 
“An entire [UK] town has been shut down due to flash floods as water levels reached up to waist-high. 
“The future of sea level rise may be written into the walls of coastal Spanish caves. Mineral “bathtub rings” deposited inside the limestone Artà Caves on the Balearic island of Mallorca show how high seas rose during the Pliocene Epoch — a time when Earth was about as warm as it’s expected to get by 2100. 
“In Wad Ramli, a village outside the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, Alsamani Fathalrahman and his neighbours travelled in blue speedboats through flooded streets trying to salvage their belongings… 
“Last week saw Mumbai getting submerged again as it received heavy rainfall. Thousands of people were stranded in vehicles, trains, at railway stations or their workplaces as rail transport was shut for hours and the traffic on the roads came to a near halt. 
“A new round of rainfall has hit the capital on Monday as peak temperatures in Beijing on Sunday broke a historical record for early September, reaching 35.9 degrees Celsius, according to the local meteorological department. 
“Provinces in northern and northeastern regions [of Thailand] already battling flooding can expect no respite, with more rain on the way to exacerbate their problems. 
“The Arctic is on fire. Now, Antarctica is suddenly experiencing a heatwave. 
“The world’s readiness for the inevitable effects of the climate crisis is “gravely insufficient”, according to a report from global leaders.
“A powerful typhoon barrelled through Japan’s Tokyo region early on Monday with record-breaking winds, killing one woman and leaving more than 900,000 homes without power.
“A powerful typhoon has passed over the Korean peninsula, leaving five people dead… 
“Australia is battling over 100 wildfires across two states, with authorities warning that the severe blazes are an “omen” of a brutal fire season to come. In Queensland, 57 wildfires were burning as of Sunday… 
“Over 289,644 people [in Namibia] are food insecure and need immediate food assistance. 
“On Sunday, September 8, a bus connecting Casablanca and Rissani, a town in Errachidia Province [Morocco], fell off the Oued Damchan bridge. The accident was caused by floods, according to MAP. 
“Record heatwaves in June and July caused the deaths of 1,435 people in France this year, according to the country’s health minister. 
“A massive storm surge in the Bahamas killed about 220 dogs and 50 cats in an animal shelter during Hurricane Dorian, according to staffers at the shelter. 
“Storm Dorian has smashed into the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, toppling trees and cutting power for more than 450,000 people. 
“The summer that will never end continued across Alabama on Sunday, and two cities had record high temperatures. Mobile hit 99 degrees on Sunday, which broke the record of 97 set in 1980… 
“Mother Nature gave residents in the western half of Washington state quite a light show on Saturday night. A large storm system brought a truly mind-boggling number of lightning strikes into the region during the evening hours. 
“Norway’s Arctic archipelago of Svalbard got a new island of about 10 square kilometers, public broadcaster NRK reported Saturday. The island has been considered to be a peninsula for decades, but glacier melting during summer revealed something else, the report said.