“June, July and August have never been this warm in the Arctic. Data from Russian and U.S weather institutes show that all the three months beat the records.
“According to Roshydromet, the Russian meteorological institute, it was the area between the peninsulas of Taymyr and Chukotka that had the biggest abnormality for the period. Average temperatures across the region were between 2-4 degrees Celsius above normal.
“In certain areas, the abnormality was even bigger, the institute makes clear. Meteorological data from the region stretch back 130 years, Roshydromet informs.
“Similar results are found in Greenland, Alaska and the eastern part of the Canadian Arctic.”
“”The ice is changing,” says Moses Bajare, a 59-year-old musher from the village [Greenland]… In winter, when the sea ice freezes, Bajare’s team of 12 dogs pulls his wooden sled out to the edge of the sea ice. From there, he kayaks out with a rifle to hunt seals.
“But, he says, in the 35 years he has kept dogs, sea ice patterns have become less predictable. The ice used to be thick enough to sled on from February until June or July. Now, it’s freezing later and thinning earlier…”
“Almost a hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle the slow struggle between two vast crags vying for the title of Sweden’s highest peak has been settled by global warming…
“A rapidly warming climate has melted the southern glaciated peak and first brought it lower than its rival last year following the record heat during the summer of 2018.”
“The head of Russia’s largest Arctic territory has warned of “very dramatic” impacts from climate change, as Moscow comes under increasing pressure to tackle the issue.”
“The beloved sight of bright purple heather on English moorland is at risk due to climate change, the National Trust has warned.
“The violaceous vistas of late summer have failed to materialise on the Long Mynd in Shropshire and Holnicote on Exmoor, where the landscape is instead a muddy brown.”
“Nigeria will experience torrential downpours and massive flooding this month, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency warns…
“The agency has issued a red alert because of above-normal water levels on the country’s two largest rivers, the Benue and the Niger. In August, many communities along the rivers were cut off due to collapsed bridges and impassable roads.”
“A prolonged and crippling drought is threatening to wipe out over 38,000 livestock, hippos in the north-western part of Botswana, as over 20 animals are dying every week.
“Thato Raphaka, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Wildlife, made the shocking revelation on Wednesday night when addressing journalists in Gaborone, Botswana’s capital city.”
“Job losses, starving animals, looming food price hikes and cash-strapped farmers selling up are the reasons Agri Eastern Cape [South Africa] is asking that the province be declared a drought disaster area.
“The bleak picture in the Eastern Cape is a sad reflection on the national farming sector, with 31,000 jobs shed and R7bn lost countrywide in the one-year period between January 2018 and 2019…”
“It has been a bad year for the Mekong. An unusually long period of drought has brought water levels to some of the lowest measurements in recent years.
“There are fears that the drought will have a particularly negative effect on the Tonle Sap River, connecting the Mekong to Cambodia’s Great Lake and which plays a key role in the maturing of the fish stocks on which population of the Lower Mekong Basin depends…”
“Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday announced the creation of a working group of government agencies, academics and industry players to tackle the worst drought in 60 years which has spiked this year amid record lows of rainfall.
“The government has declared water shortages in more than 50 communities across three regions of its normally lush central belt so far this year, and an associated agricultural emergency across more than 100.”
“A heat wave forming off the west coast in the Pacific Ocean resembles a 2014-15 phenomenon that led to major disruptions to marine life along the western seaboard, federal scientists said Thursday.
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote in a blog post that a growing belt of warm water that stretches from Alaska to California “ranks as the second largest marine heatwave in terms of area in the northern Pacific Ocean in the last 40 years, after ‘the Blob…'”
“Denver set another record high temperature Thursday when the thermometer hit 98 degrees, the National Weather Service said.
“The new high for Sept. 5 exceeded the previous record by one degree. It is the third day this month where a new record high has been set, according to the weather service’s tweet.”
“The air is fairly still on the Treasure Coast [Florida] following the outer bands of Hurricane Dorian whipping through this week. But this dry air is having its own effect, the National Weather Service in Melbourne said…
“…in Vero Beach, a record was set at 97 degrees, breaking the Sept. 5, 1996, record of 96 degrees. The heat index puts parts of the Treasure Coast at 107 degrees, said meteorologist Kevin Rodriguez.”
“Officials in the Bahamas brought in more body bags and coolers as the death toll from Hurricane Dorian rose to 30 and hundreds remain missing. The number of fatalities is expected to climb as the extent of the damage becomes clear.
“”Literally hundreds, up to thousands, of people are still missing,” said Joy Jibrilu, director general of the country’s tourism and aviation ministry.”
“To no surprise, sea ice extent in the Arctic has once again been running well below normal and close to the 2012 extent, which is currently the year in which the record low annual minimum extent was set.
“Due to recent atmospheric pattern changes, the rate of sea ice loss has steadily slowed compared to what it was earlier in the summer and spring. However, based on the latest data, NSIDC scientists currently project that 2019 will end up as the second lowest sea ice extent minimum on record in the Arctic.
“In terms of sea ice thickness, the Arctic sea ice thickness is about 50 percent of what it was at this time of year back in 1980.”
“The Wahlenberg glacier in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago is calving icebergs at an increasing rate because of warming ocean waters, according to the international director of the Norwegian Polar Institute.
“Kim Holmén, who has lived in Svalbard for three decades, describes the changes he has seen as “profound, large and rapid”.”
“Climate change is heating Russia at a faster rate than the rest of the world, the country’s environment ministry has said in a draft report of environmental data for 2018…
“…climate change will bring epidemics, drought and mass hunger to Russia if left unchecked.
“Melting permafrost in the Russian Arctic could release radioactive substances, the ministry has warned, while Siberian forests are increasingly prone to fires and the Far East to flash floods.”
“After an unprecedented summer drought drained reservoirs and wells across Alaska, hundreds of people face immediate water shortages — and lingering questions about the future…
“In Chignik Lagoon, village administrators are assessing long-term options after local aquifers ran dry last month… In Seldovia, local officials estimate the community reservoir holds only 16 days’ worth of water.”
“The official death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has hit 20 and is likely to rise further, the country’s prime minister has said, as he warned of “generational devastation” in the archipelago’s northern region.
“At a press conference late on Wednesday Hubert Minnis also said he was aware of reports of looting on the Abaco Islands, a northern band of islands in the Bahamas hardest hit by Dorian…”
“Wildfires raging in Bolivia’s forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres), officials said Wednesday, amid an US$11 million effort by the government to contain them.
“Environmentalists blame laws enacted under leftist President Evo Morales, who has encouraged the burning of forest and pasture land to expand agricultural production, while the government attributes the blazes to dry weather and winds.”
“Water, or the lack of it, is the only thing that matters in several rural Australian towns at the moment as the drought drags on and rivers dry up.
“In parts of southern Queensland, people are skipping showers and a brewery has even canned water to be trucked in by charities while residents wait for authorities to act. In New South Wales today, drought-stricken farmers protested on the banks of the Murray River…”
“Bundaberg [Queensland] came within a degree of recording its hottest ever September day. The temperature on Thursday at Bundaberg Airport edged over 33 degrees at 12.30pm.”
“A man believed to be the driver of a truck submerged in a flooded underpass was found dead
“….record rainfall fell in large concentrations on the northern part of Mie Prefecture, central Japan, over the afternoon of Sept. 4 to the morning of Sept. 5.”
“A powerful typhoon was barrelling towards southern Japanese islands on Thursday (Sept 5), with forecasters warning of high waves, strong winds and torrential rains in the region.
“As Typhoon Lingling was closing in on the island of Miyako, 80 flights and 157 ferry services were cancelled, according to the Okinawa Times newspaper.”
Record rainfall causes five fatalities in Mumbai, India:
“Releasing the rainfall data of September 4, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Disaster Control said the city [of Mumbai in India] recorded 127.9 mm (season’s total – 2,263.2 mm), the eastern suburbs got 173.4 mm (3,006.3 mm) and the western suburbs notched 186.0 mm (2,765.1 mm).”
“As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards his house in Niger’s capital Niamey, Mamoudou Barkire is finally leaving. Deadly floods have swamped several parts of the city and the rest of the country, forcing thousands to flee as it demolished homes and turned streets into rivers.”
“This year’s summer was the second hottest in Hungary since the beginning of temperature measurements in 1901… This summer was much hotter than usual, with average daily temperatures of 22.3 degrees Celsius, more than two degrees above the 1981-2010 average…
“In Hungary, the hottest month of the year is usually July, but this year, interestingly, June and August proved to be more than one degree warmer than July.”
“I’ve been a meteorologist at CNN since 1999. And for a long time I didn’t think that global warming gasses would overwhelm the earth enough to change its climate.
“As a skeptic, I didn’t deny climate change existed. I was questioning the data behind the science. One big number ultimately changed my mind.”
“…the heat hasn’t just been record-breaking, it’s been relentless. Over the 108 days between May 16 and Aug. 31, Hawaii saw 87 heat records tied or broken…
“Hawaii is seeing water temperatures about 2 degrees above normal, and the summer has seen a number of bouts without trades.
“Add a lack of rainfall and the higher humidity and you have the recipe for a really hot summer.”
“Last month was the hottest, driest August on record in Anchorage, with only one day at normal temperatures.
“National Weather Service records show that every day in August hit above-average temperatures — once as high as 12 degrees above normal — except for Aug. 21. Only four-hundredths of an inch of rain fell in Anchorage all month.”
“Dorian is now the fifth hurricane to reach category five—the highest level possible on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale—over the past four hurricane seasons in the North Atlantic.
“Between 1924 and 2019 there have been only 35 category 5 hurricanes in the North Atlantic. Having five such storms form over just the past four hurricane seasons is way beyond the average occurrence rate…”
“While attention has been focused on Hurricane Dorian as it ravages the Bahamas and menaces the Southeast coast of the U.S., another tropical system is threatening Mexico this week as hurricane season nears its peak. The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico has become Tropical Storm Fernand, the sixth named storm of the season.”
“Speaking to the drinks business on Friday, Bollinger’s cellar master, Gilles Descôtes described the [Champagne] harvest as “very small”, adding that he believed that producers across the region would fail to reach the limit set by the Comité Champagne, while recording that Bollinger’s own vineyards, which amount to just under 180 hectares, had suffered a fall-off in yield by almost 20%.”
“Any advantages to European agriculture from a warming world will be outweighed by the losses from extreme events and environmental stress, leading to a probable large economic loss for farming in the next 30 years, research on the impacts of the climate crisis has found…
“Heatwaves this year and last year have exposed the vulnerability of agriculture…”
“”It is official, Port Elizabeth [South Africa] received the lowest total rainfall for August, on record,” said Garth Sampson, the SA Weather Service’s Client Liaison Officer for the Eastern Cape.
“”This is from records that date back to 1900.
“”The 3.0 mm measured during August broke the 1985 record of 4.7 mm for the month.”
“Similar records were recorded over other areas of the Eastern Cape…”
“Torrential rain in Penang earlier on Tuesday (Sept 3) caused several roads to be closed due to flash floods.
“The Star reported several roads in Bayan Baru and Bayan Lepas, as well as roads along Jalan Mahsuri, Jalan Mayang Pasir, Lebuh Mayang Pasir and Jalan Kampung Relau, were flooded due to the heavy downpour.”
“Typhoon Lingling is forecast to affect South Korea as early as Friday, with strong winds feared to cause the biggest damage, South Korea’s weather agency said Wednesday.
“The typhoon is slowly moving northward from seas east of Taipei but is expected to pick up speed and directly affect the country by Friday, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration.”
Ominous for Oz: “South East Queensland is expected to get a taste of summer this week due to hotter-than-average temperatures, with some parts of the region set to hit 36 degrees Celsius.
“The fire threat has also increased with residents near Cunungra, north west of the Gold Coast, on alert after a bushfire broke out near Sarabah Road this morning.”
“A Niwa scientist and a weather photographer are at a loss as to how to stem the retreat of New Zealand’s longest glacier in the Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park.
“The now 27-kilometre long Tasman Glacier has retreated by more than 7km since the early 1970s, and the terminus recession in recent years has shown no signs of slowing up.”
“Greenland’s massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned…
“Bangladesh, Florida, and eastern England are among many areas known to be particularly vulnerable to rises in sea level over the course of the century.”
“Dogs are being hospitalized left and right, all with a similar set of symptoms that appear anywhere from 15 minutes to several days after exposure. Many report effects such as seizing, diarrhea, vomiting, foaming at the mouth, and ultimately death.
“The earliest reports of blue-green algae poisoning in dogs go back all the way to the 1920s. However, in recent years, there seems to be an increasing number of fatalities. As a result, many have come to the conclusion that the rising temperatures from climate change are driving this trend.”
“Evidence from ancient rocks reveals the oldest die-off in our planet’s history most likely occurred among single-celled organisms more than 2 billion years ago.
“A recent analysis now suggests that deadly event was far bigger than any known loss of life that came after, even the dinosaur extinction.”
“Temperatures in Denver reached 100 degrees Monday — the first time triple-digit heat has ever been recorded in the city during September.
“The temperature hit 100 degrees at Denver International Airport just before 4 p.m. Monday. The heat had already eclipsed the previous record for Sept. 2 by 11:55 a.m.
“The previous record for the month — 98 degrees — had been set Sunday.
“Until this brutally hot Labor Day weekend, the previous record for the month of September had been the 97-degree heat recorded in 1995. The average high for Sept. 2 is about 84 degrees.”
“Salt Lake City’s temperatures met an all-time record on the first day of the month. KUTV reports temperatures in Salt Lake City reached 100 degrees on Sunday, marking the first time in 40 years temperatures reached triple digits.
“The only other year on record when it was 100 degrees in September was 1979.”
“The havoc on communities bordering the Great Lakes is a result of their water level steadily rising over the last five years and spiking to record levels this spring and summer.
“In 2019, the lakes’ depths ranged from 14in to nearly 3ft above long-term averages, according to data from the US Army Corps of Engineers.”
“As Hurricane Dorian makes its slow crawl toward the Eastern United States, the National Hurricane Center is keeping tabs on four other tropical disturbances across the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.”
“Dorian has the strongest landfall wind speed of any Atlantic hurricane on record and crashed across the island of Grand Bahama, east of Florida, more than 24 hours ago before settling over the island.
“As of the early hours of Tuesday morning, it had not moved for more than 12 hours, meaning for that entire time the same communities had been lashed relentlessly…”
“Recent research shows that more North Atlantic hurricanes have been stalling as Dorian did, leading to more extreme rainfall. Their average forward speed has also decreased by 17 percent—from 11.5 mph, to 9.6 mph—from 1944 to 2017, according to a study published in June by federal scientists at NASA and NOAA.”
“A global team of scientists including researchers from The University of Western Australia and the United States has found deforestation in the Brazilian Amazaon-Cerrado region is causing temperatures to rise in areas as far as 50km away from deforestation sites…
“Professor Thompson said although people thought of climate change as happening because of greenhouse gas emissions, changes in land cover, such as forest loss, also had dramatic effects.”
“In Finnmark, on the northernmost tip of Norway, the changing climate is a challenge both for reindeer and for the indigenous Sami people who herd them.
“Usually reindeer forage for food through the snow.
“But in warmer winters the top layer sometimes melts briefly before freezing again as an impenetrable blanket of ice, starving the animals.”
“Climate change is causing wild birds to shift their migration routes, new international research has found.
“A team of scientists from the University of St Andrews, in collaboration with colleagues from the UK, Norway and Denmark, have been analysing the flight patterns of barnacle geese over the past half century.”
“In 1540, the French wine-making region of Burgundy experienced a summer so hot and dry that the grapes withered on the vine. The resulting pour, according to contemporary reports, “yielded a sweet sherry-like wine which made people rapidly drunk.”
“…More than 400 years on, global heating has made such hot, dry summers virtually commonplace in Burgundy.”
“[Morocco] One video shows the overflowing river, carrying dirt and rocks and destroying a bridge in the middle of Imlil. The cascade then damages cars parked on the side of the streets and building facades. People can be seen running for their lives away from the fast-moving flood water.
“The floods come just a couple of days after the Tizert village incident, where seven people lost their lives to unexpected torrents.”
“Heavy rain in Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions threatens to compromise bean quality, raising fears of flooding and crop disease, farmers said on Monday. Harvesting started early for the October-to-March main crop, and farmers expect it to be larger than last year’s.
“But a lack of sunshine and rainfall up to four times higher than average could cause high moisture content in the first beans, increasing the risk of mould.”
“In spite of the warnings issued by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency to state governments that this year’s rains would wreak havoc, most of the affected states have refused to act. Consequently, residents of these states are now bearing the brunt of downpour.
“For instance, some residents of Oyo, Ekiti, Adamawa, Gombe, Bayelsa and Osun states are now counting their losses after rains pounded their communities.”
“… wild elephants fled their habitats, entering residential areas after wildfires spread through the Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau Province [Indonesia], for the past week, the Natural Resources Conservation Office (BBKSDA) stated here, Tuesday…
“When wildfires ravaged through the national park for the past week, dozens of wild animals fled to the residential area in search of food at the villager’s plantation.”
“Typhoon Lingling is feared to inflict damage on South Korea as it continues to gain strength while moving north toward the country, the weather agency said Tuesday.
“”The tropical storm, which took shape in the Western Pacific on Monday, is currently tracking north-northwest on seas 650 kilometers south-southwest of Taipei, Taiwan, at a speed of 9 kilometers per hour as of 9 a.m. Tuesday,” the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said.”
“The death toll from a torrential rainstorm which hit southwestern Japan last week rose to four on Tuesday when a local government said a missing woman has been confirmed dead…
“The woman in her 50s had been listed as missing since Wednesday morning, when the heavy rain fell in the area, according to police.”
“A team of researchers from Stanford University and Cambridge University was able to digitize the radar data taken during flight surveys recorded between 1971 and 1979. Not only does the film provide a further look back into the history of Antarctica’s ice shelf, but the researchers found that the Thwaites Glacier ice shelf is thawing faster than previously realized…”
“Hurricane Dorian is a massive Category 5 hurricane Monday morning with sustained winds of 165 mph as it continues to batter the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean.
“Dorian, which came ashore on Elbow Cay of the Abaco Islands, is tied for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall on record, along with a hurricane on Labor Day in 1935 that struck the Florida Keys and moved up along the Gulf Coast of Florida.
“Winds are currently blowing at a sustained 165 MPH — the same strength that Hurricane Andrew had when it hit parts of the Miami metro area in 1992.
“Francis Charles, who rode out the storm in Hope Town, Elbow Cay, called the island “a wreck” late Sunday.
“”I have never seen anything like this in my life,” Jenise Fernandez, reporter with Miami ABC affiliate WPLG, told the station during their broadcast.”
“DENVER — We are in for a very toasty rest of this Labor Day weekend. Labor Day Monday will be hot and dry, with mid to upper 90s in store for the Denver area!
“(The record high for Monday is 95 degrees- and we should see 98. That will break the daily and monthly hottest temperature record for September).”
“According to the National Weather Service tweeted Saturday, Aug. 31, that the valley reached 109 degrees once again… This was the 24th day with temperatures over 105 degrees for the month of August, breaking the last record of 23 days set in 1969.
“We’re only one day into September and the temperature has already tied the all-time record high for the month, officials said.
““We have hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit at Salt Lake City airport, tying the all-time record high for the month of September,” said a tweet from the National Weather Service at 3 p.m.”
“In South America, the Amazon basin is ablaze. Halfway around the world in central Africa, vast stretches of savanna are going up in flame. Arctic regions in Siberia are burning at a historic pace.
“While the Brazilian fires have grown into a full-blown international crisis, they represent only one of many significant areas where wildfires are currently burning around the world. Their increase in severity and spread to places where fires were rarely previously seen is raising fears that climate change is exacerbating the danger.”
“Volunteers are in a race against time to save animals trapped by fires in Bolivia. Nearly 1.5 million hectares of tropical dry rainforest in Bolivia have been destroyed by wildfires which continue to spread out of control southward towards neighbouring Paraguay.
“Among the biggest victims are the large and diverse number of animals trapped in the flames.”
“Drought-hit regions of southern and eastern Australia got little if any relief during winter, with barely half the normal rainfall and the country still posting its warmest start to any year for daytime temperatures…
“For the first eight months of 2019, maximums are running the hottest on record and mean temperatures the second-warmest.”
“At least six deaths [in Thailand] have been blamed on Tropical Storm Podul with widespread flooding persisting today following a weekend of powerful storms.
“The death count rose again Monday in the hardest-hit provinces of Khon Kaen, Roi Et and Phitsanulok, where at least six people have reportedly died of causes ranging from drowning to electrocution… Thousands have been left stranded by rising floodwaters.”
“The main [Indian] Monsoon months of July and August have ended with a rainfall excess figure of 10%. This makes these two months the wettest India has observed since the last 25 years.
“As forecast by Skymet, August is ending on a seasonal rainfall surplus of 16%. This is the wettest August in last 23 years. Also, July was not far away with a monthly rainfall surplus of 5%.”
“Six bodies have been recovered after a tour group was swept away by a flash flood in a Kenyan national park.
“The incident at Hell’s Gate National Park on Sunday involved five Kenyan nationals, a local tour guide and a “foreigner”, officials said. One tourist is still missing and a search and rescue operation is continuing.”
“Sudan’s Deputy Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Ahmed Fadlallah reported new figures on the size of damage and losses due to rain and floods in the country on Friday. The death toll has risen to 78…
“The number of families affected is 65,322; 40,800 homes collapsed totally; 24,444 homes collapsed partially; 184 schools were affected; and 4,707 animals drowned.”
“…while tourists visiting Greenland might expect to see only infinite amounts of ice and snow, the sad reality is that at the moment, they will be confronted with a completely different landscape.
“One Getty photographer went to explore the landscape this summer and documented the impact of the heatwave during July and August.”
“The study’s authors are especially concerned about destabilization in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where warm water, imported by shifting wind patterns, is washing up against the ice shelves, causing melting even where air temperatures remain frigid.
“As the ice shelves grow thinner, the possibility arises that large stores of methane will escape…”
“The temperature many kilometres up in the atmosphere above Antarctica is the highest it’s ever been for the time of year in records going back six decades.
“Three times since 2002 the atmosphere high above Antarctica has warmed rapidly, In contrast, there’s no record of a similar event in the previous 40 years, raising questions of a climate change connection.
“Niwa meteorologist Ben Noll said the temperature in the stratosphere above Antarctica was now about 60 degrees Celsius above normal.”
“Australia is bracing for a horror summer this year after experts warned of a perfect storm of conditions causing a spate of bush fires and mass fish deaths. The latest seasonal bushfire outlook has forecast above average fire potential across Australia – including the entirety of the New South Wales coastline.”
“…as CO2 and heat are absorbed, our oceans are changing, and so is their capacity to support ecosystems such as our Great Barrier Reef, and to continue to take up carbon dioxide into the future.
“Many big questions remain, especially as the most recent comparable atmospheric CO2 levels date back 3 million years.”
“The wildfires ripping through the Amazon rainforest in the heart of South America now threaten isolated Indigenous tribes, according to advocates.
“While most of the focus has been on the Amazon wildfires within Brazil’s borders, flames are also raging in the forests of Bolivia and in the rainforest between Bolivia and Paraguay.”
“Leaves in Alaska are changing colour and the rainy season is supposed to begin, but wildfires are raging on in an unusually long and fierce fire season that scientists say is linked to the far north’s long-term climate warmup… Usually, Alaska wildfires wind down by late July…”
“More than 10 rural municipalities have declared a state of agricultural disaster in Manitoba after a hot dry summer has left farmers struggling to feed their cattle.
“”We are in a dire situation here,” Arnthor Jonasson, the reeve of the RM of West Interlake, told CBC’s Marjorie Dowhos on Radio Noon Thursday.”
“Hurricane Dorian’s winds topped Category 2 strength late Thursday with the potential to become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it barreled toward the southeastern United States, forecasters said…
“”It’s going to be this big, bad, intense storm — wherever it hits, it’s going to do catastrophic wind damage,” said Bill Karins, a meteorologist for NBC News.”
“A report published on Thursday in the Climate of the Past scientific journal points to significantly hotter and drier conditions for grape harvests during the past 30 years. The findings delve way back into the dates of annual harvests since 1354…
“”We did not anticipate that the accelerated warming trend since the mid-1980s would stand out so clearly in the series,” said Christian Pfister…”
“This year’s average summer temperature [Switzerland] will be between 15 and 16 degrees, around 2 degrees higher than the norm between 1981 and 2010, according to the forecaster.
“The marked rise in summer temperatures is a sign of climate change, according to Swiss Meteo. Since the preindustrial period from 1871 to 1900, average summer temperatures have risen by around 2 degrees.”
“This is the distressing moment a farmer discovered his 20 cows dead after they had apparently been struck by lightning – freezing their blood in the process.
“The gruesome deaths are thought to have happened during a thunderstorm on the Geras Mountain in the Spanish municipality of Geras de Gordon…
“..neighbours claimed it is uncommon for lightning to strike cattle.”
“Muscovites suffered the coldest summer on record this year, which drove them indoors to the malls to escape the rains… Watcom CEO Roman Skorokhodov added:
““The weather forced people to head for shopping centres as centres of leisure activities and moved the traditional periods of demand for autumn clothes for the summer period.””
“According to research published last week by US scientists, hajj is set to become a danger zone. As soon as next year, they say, summer days in Mecca could exceed the “extreme danger” heat-stress threshold.
“The news comes just weeks after over 2 million people completed their journey of a lifetime.”
“Urban and medical experts have warned of a “sanitation emergency” as Pakistan’s economic hub experiences the “worst infestation of flies” to date while local politicians play catch with responsibility…
“The flies follow the torrential rainstorm that hit the southern port city a few weeks ago, leading to days-long power outages and flooding on major thoroughfares and streets as well as in the drainage system.”
“Drone footage above the ocean recorded by Mirror photographer Adam Gerrard has given more warnings with the situation threatening a global rise in sea levels – it’s stunning to watch but an urgent reminder of the emergency situation the world is now faced with.
“Greenland is the world’s largest island, almost three times the size of France.”
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“June, July and August have never been this warm in the Arctic. Data from Russian and U.S weather institutes show that all the three months beat the records.
“”The ice is changing,” says Moses Bajare, a 59-year-old musher from the village [Greenland]… In winter, when the sea ice freezes, Bajare’s team of 12 dogs pulls his wooden sled out to the edge of the sea ice. From there, he kayaks out with a rifle to hunt seals.
“Almost a hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle the slow struggle between two vast crags vying for the title of Sweden’s highest peak has been settled by global warming… 
“The beloved sight of bright purple heather on English moorland is at risk due to climate change, the National Trust has warned. 
“Nigeria will experience torrential downpours and massive flooding this month, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency warns… 
“A prolonged and crippling drought is threatening to wipe out over 38,000 livestock, hippos in the north-western part of Botswana, as over 20 animals are dying every week. 
“Job losses, starving animals, looming food price hikes and cash-strapped farmers selling up are the reasons Agri Eastern Cape [South Africa] is asking that the province be declared a drought disaster area. 
“It has been a bad year for the Mekong. An unusually long period of drought has brought water levels to some of the lowest measurements in recent years. 
“The upper atmosphere above Antarctica warmed by as much as 40 degrees Celsius in the course of a few days — and it is continuing to warm. 
“Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera on Thursday announced the creation of a working group of government agencies, academics and industry players to tackle the worst drought in 60 years which has spiked this year amid record lows of rainfall.
“A heat wave forming off the west coast in the Pacific Ocean resembles a 2014-15 phenomenon that led to major disruptions to marine life along the western seaboard, federal scientists said Thursday.
“Denver set another record high temperature Thursday when the thermometer hit 98 degrees, the National Weather Service said. 
“The air is fairly still on the Treasure Coast [Florida] following the outer bands of Hurricane Dorian whipping through this week. But this dry air is having its own effect, the National Weather Service in Melbourne said… 
“Officials in the Bahamas brought in more body bags and coolers as the death toll from Hurricane Dorian rose to 30 and hundreds remain missing. The number of fatalities is expected to climb as the extent of the damage becomes clear.
“To no surprise, sea ice extent in the Arctic has once again been running well below normal and close to the 2012 extent, which is currently the year in which the record low annual minimum extent was set.
“The Wahlenberg glacier in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago is calving icebergs at an increasing rate because of warming ocean waters, according to the international director of the Norwegian Polar Institute. 
“Climate change is heating Russia at a faster rate than the rest of the world, the country’s environment ministry has said in a draft report of environmental data for 2018… 
“After an unprecedented summer drought drained reservoirs and wells across Alaska, hundreds of people face immediate water shortages — and lingering questions about the future… 
“Hurricane Dorian continues to pound the southeastern coast of the US, slamming Charleston, South Carolina, with torrential rain and storm surge.”
“The official death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has hit 20 and is likely to rise further, the country’s prime minister has said, as he warned of “generational devastation” in the archipelago’s northern region. 
“Wildfires raging in Bolivia’s forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres), officials said Wednesday, amid an US$11 million effort by the government to contain them. 
“Water, or the lack of it, is the only thing that matters in several rural Australian towns at the moment as the drought drags on and rivers dry up. 
“If you thought today was warm, you’re right. 
“A man believed to be the driver of a truck submerged in a flooded underpass was found dead
Record rainfall causes five fatalities in Mumbai, India:
“”That’s it, time to go!” 
“This year’s summer was the second hottest in Hungary since the beginning of temperature measurements in 1901… This summer was much hotter than usual, with average daily temperatures of 22.3 degrees Celsius, more than two degrees above the 1981-2010 average… 
“I’ve been a meteorologist at CNN since 1999. And for a long time I didn’t think that global warming gasses would overwhelm the earth enough to change its climate. 
“…the heat hasn’t just been record-breaking, it’s been relentless. Over the 108 days between May 16 and Aug. 31, Hawaii saw 87 heat records tied or broken…
“Dorian is now the fifth hurricane to reach category five—the highest level possible on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale—over the past four hurricane seasons in the North Atlantic. 
“While attention has been focused on Hurricane Dorian as it ravages the Bahamas and menaces the Southeast coast of the U.S., another tropical system is threatening Mexico this week as hurricane season nears its peak. 
“Speaking to the drinks business on Friday, Bollinger’s cellar master, Gilles Descôtes described the [Champagne] harvest as “very small”, adding that he believed that producers across the region would fail to reach the limit set by the Comité Champagne, while recording that Bollinger’s own vineyards, which amount to just under 180 hectares, had suffered a fall-off in yield by almost 20%.”
“Any advantages to European agriculture from a warming world will be outweighed by the losses from extreme events and environmental stress, leading to a probable large economic loss for farming in the next 30 years, research on the impacts of the climate crisis has found… 
“”It is official, Port Elizabeth [South Africa] received the lowest total rainfall for August, on record,” said Garth Sampson, the SA Weather Service’s Client Liaison Officer for the Eastern Cape.
“Torrential rain in Penang earlier on Tuesday (Sept 3) caused several roads to be closed due to flash floods. 
“Typhoon Lingling is forecast to affect South Korea as early as Friday, with strong winds feared to cause the biggest damage, South Korea’s weather agency said Wednesday. 
Ominous for Oz: “South East Queensland is expected to get a taste of summer this week due to hotter-than-average temperatures, with some parts of the region set to hit 36 degrees Celsius. 
“A Niwa scientist and a weather photographer are at a loss as to how to stem the retreat of New Zealand’s longest glacier in the Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park. 
“Greenland’s massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned… 
“Dogs are being hospitalized left and right, all with a similar set of symptoms that appear anywhere from 15 minutes to several days after exposure. Many report effects such as seizing, diarrhea, vomiting, foaming at the mouth, and ultimately death. 
“Evidence from ancient rocks reveals the oldest die-off in our planet’s history most likely occurred among single-celled organisms more than 2 billion years ago. 
“Temperatures in Denver reached 100 degrees Monday — the first time triple-digit heat has ever been recorded in the city during September.
“Salt Lake City’s temperatures met an all-time record on the first day of the month. KUTV reports temperatures in Salt Lake City reached 100 degrees on Sunday, marking the first time in 40 years temperatures reached triple digits. 
“The havoc on communities bordering the Great Lakes is a result of their water level steadily rising over the last five years and spiking to record levels this spring and summer. 
“Dorian has the strongest landfall wind speed of any Atlantic hurricane on record and crashed across the island of Grand Bahama, east of Florida, more than 24 hours ago before settling over the island. 
“A global team of scientists including researchers from The University of Western Australia and the United States has found deforestation in the Brazilian Amazaon-Cerrado region is causing temperatures to rise in areas as far as 50km away from deforestation sites… 
“In Finnmark, on the northernmost tip of Norway, the changing climate is a challenge both for reindeer and for the indigenous Sami people who herd them. 
“Climate change is causing wild birds to shift their migration routes, new international research has found. 
“In 1540, the French wine-making region of Burgundy experienced a summer so hot and dry that the grapes withered on the vine. The resulting pour, according to contemporary reports, “yielded a sweet sherry-like wine which made people rapidly drunk.” 
“[Morocco] One video shows the overflowing river, carrying dirt and rocks and destroying a bridge in the middle of Imlil. The cascade then damages cars parked on the side of the streets and building facades. People can be seen running for their lives away from the fast-moving flood water. 
“Heavy rain in Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions threatens to compromise bean quality, raising fears of flooding and crop disease, farmers said on Monday. Harvesting started early for the October-to-March main crop, and farmers expect it to be larger than last year’s. 
“In spite of the warnings issued by the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency to state governments that this year’s rains would wreak havoc, most of the affected states have refused to act. Consequently, residents of these states are now bearing the brunt of downpour. 
“… wild elephants fled their habitats, entering residential areas after wildfires spread through the Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau Province [Indonesia], for the past week, the Natural Resources Conservation Office (BBKSDA) stated here, Tuesday… 
“Typhoon Lingling is feared to inflict damage on South Korea as it continues to gain strength while moving north toward the country, the weather agency said Tuesday. 
“The death toll from a torrential rainstorm which hit southwestern Japan last week rose to four on Tuesday when a local government said a missing woman has been confirmed dead… 
“A team of researchers from Stanford University and Cambridge University was able to digitize the radar data taken during flight surveys recorded between 1971 and 1979. 
“Hurricane Dorian is a massive Category 5 hurricane Monday morning with sustained winds of 165 mph as it continues to batter the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean.
“DENVER — We are in for a very toasty rest of this Labor Day weekend. Labor Day Monday will be hot and dry, with mid to upper 90s in store for the Denver area! 
“According to the National Weather Service tweeted Saturday, Aug. 31, that the valley reached 109 degrees once again… This was the 24th day with temperatures over 105 degrees for the month of August, breaking the last record of 23 days set in 1969. 
“In South America, the Amazon basin is ablaze. Halfway around the world in central Africa, vast stretches of savanna are going up in flame. Arctic regions in Siberia are burning at a historic pace.
“Volunteers are in a race against time to save animals trapped by fires in Bolivia. Nearly 1.5 million hectares of tropical dry rainforest in Bolivia have been destroyed by wildfires which continue to spread out of control southward towards neighbouring Paraguay. 
“At least six deaths [in Thailand] have been blamed on Tropical Storm Podul with widespread flooding persisting today following a weekend of powerful storms. 
“The main [Indian] Monsoon months of July and August have ended with a rainfall excess figure of 10%. This makes these two months the wettest India has observed since the last 25 years. 
“Six bodies have been recovered after a tour group was swept away by a flash flood in a Kenyan national park. 
“Sudan’s Deputy Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Ahmed Fadlallah reported new figures on the size of damage and losses due to rain and floods in the country on Friday. The death toll has risen to 78… 
“…while tourists visiting Greenland might expect to see only infinite amounts of ice and snow, the sad reality is that at the moment, they will be confronted with a completely different landscape. 
“The study’s authors are especially concerned about destabilization in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where warm water, imported by shifting wind patterns, is washing up against the ice shelves, causing melting even where air temperatures remain frigid. 
“The temperature many kilometres up in the atmosphere above Antarctica is the highest it’s ever been for the time of year in records going back six decades.
“Auckland [NZ] has broken a new record today for the most rain days in a single month – 29 days in August to be exact. 
“Australia is bracing for a horror summer this year after experts warned of a perfect storm of conditions causing a spate of bush fires and mass fish deaths. 
“…as CO2 and heat are absorbed, our oceans are changing, and so is their capacity to support ecosystems such as our Great Barrier Reef, and to continue to take up carbon dioxide into the future. 
“The wildfires ripping through the Amazon rainforest in the heart of South America now threaten isolated Indigenous tribes, according to advocates. 
“Leaves in Alaska are changing colour and the rainy season is supposed to begin, but wildfires are raging on in an unusually long and fierce fire season that scientists say is linked to the far north’s long-term climate warmup… 
“More than 10 rural municipalities have declared a state of agricultural disaster in Manitoba after a hot dry summer has left farmers struggling to feed their cattle. 
“Hurricane Dorian’s winds topped Category 2 strength late Thursday with the potential to become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm as it barreled toward the southeastern United States, forecasters said…
“Increases in both floods and droughts have been predicted for northern England, two new studies are warning… 
“This year’s average summer temperature [Switzerland] will be between 15 and 16 degrees, around 2 degrees higher than the norm between 1981 and 2010, according to the forecaster. 
“This is the distressing moment a farmer discovered his 20 cows dead after they had apparently been struck by lightning – freezing their blood in the process. 
“Muscovites suffered the coldest summer on record this year, which drove them indoors to the malls to escape the rains… Watcom CEO Roman Skorokhodov added: 
“According to research published last week by US scientists, hajj is set to become a danger zone. As soon as next year, they say, summer days in Mecca could exceed the “extreme danger” heat-stress threshold. 
“Urban and medical experts have warned of a “sanitation emergency” as Pakistan’s economic hub experiences the “worst infestation of flies” to date while local politicians play catch with responsibility… 
“Drone footage above the ocean recorded by Mirror photographer Adam Gerrard has given more warnings with the situation threatening a global rise in sea levels – it’s stunning to watch but an urgent reminder of the emergency situation the world is now faced with. 