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A huge watersprout near Split​


It threatened the participants of the regatta, it looked like a tornado

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The cyclone, which has been acting on time in Croatia for days, has brought disbelief to parts of Dalmatia. In the afternoon, a front developed with strong thunderclouds, and after 4 p.m. several waterspouts developed on the sea around Split. The most intense was the one that developed in front of [island] Brač, more precisely in front of [islands] Sutivan and Supetar.

The very strong waterspout lasted about ten minutes, but at no point did it reach land, and it gradually disintegrated as it moved towards the southeast.


Before it, a waterspout developed on the sea between Split and [island] Šolta, which briefly approached the competitors of the 91st Split Mrduja regatta, however, it was at a sufficient distance for the competitors to be safe. By this time, most of them had reached their destination, but a few sailboats were still at sea. Fortunately, the waterspout did not infect them.

During the storm, 5 to 15 liters of rain fell per square meter, and there were occasional strong gusts of wind.
 
▪︎ Mexico

Hurricane Orlene is headed for landfall between Nayarit and southern Sinaloa will cross the Islas Marias and pass very close to CaboCorrientes and Puerto Vallarta Jalisco.

#Orlene has intensified to #Hurricane category 3 ⚠️

📍A 205 km southwest of Playa Pérula and 230 km south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes, #Jalisco.
💨#Maximum sustained winds of 185 km/h and gusts of 225 km.
🌀Displacement to the north at 7 km/h
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▪︎The sounds of hurricane Ian

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Andrei "The Saker" who is living in Florida has just reported
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The latest from Andrei (October 1)

Dear friends

We found a home to stay. We have workable Internet. Best of all, a neighbor told us that in his opinion our house might be fixable, but it will take time (especially to get the materials). Compared to much of Florida, we are very lucky. I am totally spent and will have to use the little energy I have to salvage the salvageable from our house. I hope to write something semi coherent for the blog early next week.

Thank you all for your support and patience!

Andrei
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▪︎Mexico

Bulletin #SIATCT no. 11🚩(05h).
Hurricane cat. 4 Orlene A 185 km west-southwest of Playa Pérula and 195 km southwest of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco.

It has rapidly intensified to a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
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Hurricane Orlene strengthens to Category 4 as it heads west of Mexico

Category 4 Hurricane Orlene is rapidly intensifying and approaching western Mexico, where it is expected to cause potentially deadly flooding, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 209 km/h (130 mph), was heading north at 11 km/h (7 mph) Sunday morning about 282 km (175 miles) south of Las Islas Marias, Mexico, the center said. Las Islas Marias, an archipelago about 60 miles (97 km) off the mainland coast, is expected to face hurricane conditions Sunday night.

Orlene is projected to make landfall on the coast of mainland Mexico on Monday or later Monday night, making landfall just south of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, where life-threatening flash flooding is a concern, according to Mexico's CONAGUA Agency.

Orlene is forecast to produce heavy downpours, storm surge and landslides along the west coast of Mexico. The forecast also calls for the region to encounter 3 to 5 inches (76 to 127 mm) of rain, with local amounts up to 10 inches (254 mm).
cnnespanol.cnn.com

Huracán Orlene se fortalece a categoría 4 mientras se dirige hacia el oeste de México

El huracán Orlene, de categoría 4, se intensifica rápidamente y se acerca al oeste de México, donde se espera que cause inundaciones potencialmente mortales
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▪︎Mexico

After making landfall as a category 1 hurricane, Orlene became a tropical depression on October 3 and its remnants headed towards northeastern Mexico as a low pressure. The tropical storm caused rainfall in at least nine states.
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Flooding in Guadalajara Jalisco
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▪︎Trinidad and Tobago

Floods, landslides, traffic: Tropical wave wreaks havoc across T&T​


Residents of Tobago and north-east Trinidad are facing the full brunt of thundershowers associated with a fast-approaching tropical wave.

Violent rainfall started at midnight, five hours earlier than was previously advised by the Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS) when its Adverse Weather Alert - Yellow Level was issued.

There have been reports of incessant flooding, landslides, marooned vehicles, traffic as well as power outages in Roxborough and Mt St George, Tobago. This was reported extensively by the TT Weather Centre.

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Floods, landslides, traffic: Tropical wave wreaks havoc across T&T | Loop Trinidad & Tobago

Residents of Tobago and north-east Trinidad are facing the full brunt of thundershowers associated with a fast-approaching tropical wave. Violent rainfall started at midnight, five hours earlier than was previously advised by the Trinidad and Toba
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Heavy rains associated with low pressure #91L (under watch by @NHC_Atlantic ) are causing severe flooding in Bon Air West in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹
CAUTION ⚠️
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Australia

Sydney has wettest year on record with 2.2 metres of rain in 279 days​


This year is already Sydney’s wettest year on record, with more than 2.2 metres of rain having fallen since January.

Previously, Sydney’s wettest year was 1950, when the total annual rainfall was 2.194 metres. This year’s rainfall topped that figure at around 1pm on 6 October.

In an average year, Sydney only gets about 1.2 metres of rain.

With almost a quarter of the year left to go and wet conditions predicted to continue, 2022 is likely to be the wettest year on record in Sydney by a long margin, says Milton Speer at the University of Technology Sydney.

There are several reasons why it has been so wet, he says. One is that for the third year in a row, the east coast of Australia is experiencing a La Niña weather cycle, which attracts moist onshore winds from the Pacific Ocean.

Another is that there have been a series of low-pressure troughs associated with low-pressure systems that have “focused the rain for extended periods on Sydney and other parts of the coast”, says Speer.
www.newscientist.com

Sydney has wettest year on record with 2.2 metres of rain in 279 days

A combination of moist ocean weather cycles, low-pressure systems and climate change have combined to make 2022 the wettest year ever recorded in Sydney
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Sydney, Australia records its wettest day since 1858, more than 60 cities in New South Wales under flood warning.
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▪︎Colombia and Nicaragua

Julia is now a category 1 hurricane

Julia is now a hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), according to a 7 p.m. (Miami time) special update from the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Julia is expected to strengthen slightly before hitting the coast of Nicaragua early Sunday.

Along with hurricane force winds, potentially life-threatening rainfall amounts of 6 to 10 inches (150-250 mm) are possible in Nicaragua, with isolated amounts up to 15 inches (350 mm).

Such rainfall amounts could trigger landslides and flash flooding.
cnnespanol.cnn.com

Julia es ahora un huracán de categoría 1

Julia es ahora un huracán con vientos máximos sostenidos de 120 km/h, según una actualización especial de las 7 pm ET del Centro Nacional de Huracanes.
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Colombia declares "maximum alert" in San Andres Island due to storm Julia.
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Tropical #TropicalStorm #Julia about to reach hurricane strength on approach to the coast of Nicaragua 🇳🇮.
-Winds 110km/h
-280km ENE of Bluefields #Nicaragua.
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▪︎Spain

Torrential rains hit the region of Mallorca in Spain.
 
▪︎ Nicaragua

Hurricane Julia hits Nicaragua with torrential rainfall​

Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast on Sunday and dumped torrential rains across Central America before an expected reemergence over the Pacific.

Julia hit as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph (140 kph), though its winds had dipped to tropical storm force of 50 mph (85 kph), by late afternoon as it pushed across Nicaragua.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Julia was centered about 45 miles (75 kilometers) west-northwest of Managua, the capital, and was moving west at 16 mph (26 kph).

It said life-threatening flash floods and mudslides were possible across Central America and southern Mexico through Tuesday, with the storm expected to bring as much as 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain in isolated areas.

Colombia’s national disaster agency reported Sunday that Julia blew the roofs off several houses and knocked over trees as it blasted past San Andres Island east of Nicaragua. There were no immediate reports of fatalities
apnews.com

Hurricane Julia hits Nicaragua with torrential rainfall

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua's central Caribbean coast and dumped torrential rains across Central America before reemerging over the Pacific as a tropical storm. It was forecast to travel parallel to the coasts of El Salvador and Guatemala on Monday.
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UPDATE🌀
#Julia leaving #Nicaragua 🇮 into the Pacific Ocean as a Tropical Storm.

EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION ☔️
Continued rains and landslides possible in #Nicaragua 🇳🇮 #ElSalvador and #Guatemala 🇬🇹.
October 9/18:00h
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The incredible history of Julia and Karl

The initial germ of Julia was a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean at the beginning, back on October 2. Later, on October 7, over the northern coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, Julia became a tropical storm while heading towards the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua where it impacted as a category 1 hurricane on October 9. Within 24 hours, it jumped to the eastern Pacific as a tropical storm, retaining its name and organization. On October 10, it moved parallel to the Pacific coast and penetrated over Guatemala losing all its previous organization, post Julia, and forming a very wide area of low pressure that covered vast areas of the Pacific, northern Caribbean and areas of Yucatan.

On October 11, Julia split. (Meteorologists call it a double cyclonic gyre) The northern ridge of tropical cyclone originated a low pressure in the southern Gulf of Mexico with intense rain accumulations in Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca and Chiapas.

Amazing: remnants of #Julia, or a part of it, could regenerate in the #GulfofMexico after #TropicalTropicalStormJulia passed from the #Caribbean to the Pacific and back into the #GdM. (Gulf of Mexico)
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Simultaneous activity of 2 cyclonic gyres in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico developed from Cyclone Julia will cause a heavy rainstorm in Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco. Chiapas, Puebla, Campeche, and Guerrero. In Mexico City cloudy intervals Acapulco Cancun and Huatulco with heavy showers. @ChaacTlaloc Ing.Geofisico.
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At 19:32 UTC a U.S. Air Force Reserve reconnaissance hurricane-hunter aircraft investigated the system in the Gulf of Mexico and reported a "tropical depression or tropical storm within the next few days" Tropical Storm Karl was born.

At 21:00 UTC U.S. National Hurricane Center begins issuing new tropical storm warnings for tropical storm Karl whose center is located according to the hurricane hunter aircraft mission: 195km east northeast of the port of Veracruz with winds of 65km/h currently moving northwest at 9km/h.

Due to the binary effect (simultaneous cyclones) of tropical storm Karl east of Veracruz and the cyclonic gyre south of Guerrero, heavy rains were forecast for the next three days in Veracruz (Gulf of Mexico) and Guerrero (Pacific Ocean).

Consequences of the cyclonic gyre so far

Acapulco (Pacific Ocean Coast)

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Several people were swept away by the currents after heavy rains this Tuesday afternoon in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.
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Heavy #rainfall and severe #flooding yesterday in #Acapulco #Guerrero #Mexico 🇲🇽.
Associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm #Julia the Port of Acapulco suffered heavy damage to the coastline and several colonies.
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Due to heavy rains caused by the remnants of cyclone "Julia", there were floods, landslides, mudslides, fallen trees and one death in Acapulco, Guerrero.

According to initial reports, a woman was swept away by the current of the stream that crosses Pedrera street, and a search operation was carried out.

After several hours of searching, the victim, Ana Fabián, 32 years old, was found dead among the branches of a riverbed.
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Fuertes lluvias en Guerrero dejan una persona sin vida (+Video)

La víctima fue arrastrada por una corriente de agua
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Australia

Sydney has wettest year on record with 2.2 metres of rain in 279 days​

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Flood waters swamp Melbourne as heavy rains slam three Australian states​


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By Renju Jose and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY

Thousands of people across Australia's southeast were asked to evacuate their homes on Friday, including some in Melbourne's west, after two days of incessant rains triggered flash flooding and fast-moving waters burst river banks.
Large parts of Victoria state, southern New South Wales and the northern regions of the island state of Tasmania were pounded by an intense weather system with some taking more than a month's worth of rain since late Wednesday, officials said.
"This has led to widespread, major flooding ... with some rivers experiencing record flooding and this is only going to continue to move downstream and get worse," Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Dean Narramore told ABC television.
Footage on social media showed people wading through knee-deep water with their pets and some being rescued in boats.
Many rivers in Victoria, including the Maribyrnong in Melbourne's west and the Goulburn further north, reached major flood levels, prompting the nighttime evacuation of residents.
The Goulburn River at Seymour, about 100 km north of Melbourne, has peaked above the record 7.64 meters reached in May 1974, data showed.
"It's far from over, we'll see waters rise," Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews told the ABC. "We'll see more and more waters continuing to rise, more and more houses being inundated, more and more communities being closed off."
Andrews said the state's purpose-built COVID-19 quarantine facility, closed last week after Australia scrapped isolation rules, could be reopened to shelter flood-impacted residents.
In Tasmania, the flooding crisis intensified after more evacuation orders overnight, while hundreds of residents in southern New South Wales spent the night in evacuation centers.
Though heavy rains are expected to ease from late Friday, flooding could continue through the weekend, officials said.

Devastating floods have repeatedly struck Australia's east coast since early last year because of a multi-year La Nina weather phenomenon, which brings more rain.
 
Sicily, Italy
13 Oct 2022

Curiously - the precipitation over West Sicily wasn't really that much - i mean those numbers are relatively small in comparison to the big down pours in the past (like 150-300 mm) Yet... still causing a lot of flooding, judging from the videos.

In the morning of 13 Oct 2022 when a line of "V" shaped thunderstorms pulled in from the west quickly moving eastwards, were rather moderate in terms of rain: at the most 93.2 mm / 3.66 inches [Marsala]. My assumption is, that the rain came down within a very short time - with the waters collecting, moving as floods towards the coasts and towns.

(Amount of rain in mm below - 72 hours period)

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▪︎ Greece

One dead and two missing after Greek island of Crete hit by flash flooding​


A man was found dead and two people were missing on Saturday after torrential rain brought major flooding to the Greek island of Crete, emergency workers said.

A man in his fifties died while trapped inside his car as the rains began to fall in the southern Greek island, a popular holiday destination. Local media reported extensive damage in seaside villages, where streets have become rivers carrying away everything in their path.

According to emergency services, a woman was slightly injured when she too became trapped in a car. At least nine vehicles surrounded by water still needed to be rescued on Saturday evening. The emergency services received more than 450 calls within an hour on Friday morning.

Eight tourists and a security guard were also stranded in the archaeological museum in the coastal resort town of Sitia. All the gorges on the island, popular hiking spots for tourists, were closed to the public until further notice.

The mayor of Sitia told the Skai TV channel: “The situation was out of control and the [weather] phenomena in the region were exceptional.”
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One dead and two missing after Greek island of Crete hit by flash flooding

A man in his 50s dies while trapped in car as extensive damage in seaside villages reported
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▪︎ Australia

Thousands evacuated by the overflow of the Maribyrnong River in Australia, flooding reported in Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.

▪︎ Nigeria

Floods in #Nigeria has led to the displacement of more than 600,000 people....
 
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