Hurricane ZETA is making landfall

LANDFALL! Direct Hit New Orleans; 110 MPH Sustained Winds

Hal Turner,

28 October, 2020

Hurricane ZETA is making landfall in Louisiana from the Gulf of Mexico at this hour, 6:35 PM Eastern US time.  The eye of the storm will begin to pass directly over the city of New Orleans within an hour, with sustained winds of 110 MPH and gusts to 155 MPH.

Storm surge already occurring in the coastal marshlands is showing a ten meter (30 foot) surge of water being driven onshore by the storm!  This catastrophic surge will knock down most buildings hit by it, and make roads completely impassable, preventing residents who chose to stay, from evacuating.  If they stayed, it is too late for them now.

Emergency services are NOT responding to any calls for help in the affected area as it is too dangerous for Emergency Crews to go out; their fire / rescue trucks would be swept away by the storm surge.

Video from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico show the ferocious power of this storm.  In the brief video below, you can see FIFTY FOOT TALL WAVES striking the oil rig, and the backwash flowing over the deck which is twenty five feet higher!

This will still be a catastrophic storm when it reaches New Orleans.  It is not known if the city's levee system and flood water pumping system will handle the deluge.

City residents were NOT told to evacuate

Hurricane "Delta" is now a major" hurricane

 Hurricane "Delta" Goes from 70 to 110 MPH in 12 Hours! Now "Major" Hurricane

Hal Turner,

7 October, 2020

Folks, we've got a problem: Hurricane Delta, which crossed the threshold from a Tropical Storm (sustained winds 39 - 73 MPH) to a Hurricane (sustained winds greater than 74 MPH) by 9:00 last night last night, increased in strength to a "major" hurricane in the last ten hours.   

As of 8:00 AM this morning, the storm now has sustained winds of 110 MPH.  The storm is heading for Louisiana's coastline in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to the National Hurricane Center, the storm is heading form the Atlantic Ocean into the Gulf of Mexico.   It will pass thru the area between western Cuba and the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico later today, and make a beeline toward Louisiana, arriving on Friday, somewhere slightly west of New Orleans.

Landfall is presently forecast in the area between Cameron and Pecan Island, but this could change.

Hurricane Sally Makes Landfall In Alabama

Hurricane Sally Makes 

Landfall In Alabama With 

"Catastrophic, Life-

Threatening Flooding"

Zero Hedge,

16 September  2020

Slow-moving Hurricane Sally finally made landfall on Alabama's Gulf Coast on Wednesday morning as a Category Two hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). 

"Sally has made landfall near Gulf Shores Alabama at 445 AM CDT as a category two hurricane. Maximum sustained winds were 105 mph with a minimum central pressure of 965 mb," NHC tweeted. 

Sally made landfall near Alabama's Mobile Bay and the Florida Panhandle coast around 0545 ET with winds at 105 mph. NHC said the hurricane is unleashing "hurricane-force winds spreading inland over southeastern Alabama and the western portion of the Florida Panhandle. Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding likely along portions of the north-central Gulf Coast."

On Tuesday, we noted NHC's warning that the hurricane could unleash "historic flooding" across Mississippi, Alabama, and portions of the Florida panhandle. Now it appears damaging winds and torrential rains will stretch from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle. Some of these areas could experience upwards of two feet of rain as the hurricane creeps inland at three mph.

Storm surge warnings are in effect for Mobile Bay to Panama City. 

Peak storm surge between Mobile Bay and Pensacola Bay is between 4-7 feet.

Flash flooding risks across the Alabama-Florida line are "high." 

"Widespread moderate to major river flooding is forecast," NHC said. "Significant flash and urban flooding, as well as widespread minor to moderate river flooding, is likely across inland portions Alabama into central Georgia."

As of 0740 ET, nearly a half-million customers are without power in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Lousiana, according to PowerOutage. U.S. data. 

President Trump tweeted late Monday night that his "team" is "closely monitoring extremely dangerous Hurricane Sally." Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana have had emergency declarations approved by the White House ahead of Sally's arrival. More than 17 million people are located in the storm's path. 

Reuters notes research from Chuck Watson of Enki Research, which tracks tropical storm damage, who expects Sally's damage could be in the range of $2 to $3 billion. 

From Biloxi, Mississippi, to Pascagoula, Florida, ports, businesses, and schools were shuttered earlier this week ahead of the hurricane making landfall. Walmart announced 54 closures in Gulf Coast states, according to CNN. 

Military bases, including Naval Air Station Pensacola in Escambia County, Florida, Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Eglin Air Force Base in Pensacola, have announced only mission essential personnel should report to work Wednesday. 

Reuters notes a quarter of all U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas production has been taken offline, with some refiners inland shuttering operations. 

"This isn't the first hurricane that I have been through. I have been there through Hurricane Nate and Tropical Storm Gordon," Merrill Warren of Summerdale, Alabama, told CNN. "I'm more worried about the rain for this one ... The rain and storms surge are definitely going to be the bigger issue with a storm moving at two mph."

https://watchers.news/2020/09/15/medicane-cassilda-september-2020/

https://watchers.news/2020/09/16/tropical-storm-noul-2020-landfall-forecast/

https://www.thebigwobble.org/2020/09/death-toll-from-pakistans-torrential.html

Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Laura about to begin - Texas and Louisiana in the crosshairs

 Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Laura about to begin! East Texas & Louisiana YOU ARE IN DANGER

Please evacuate if told to. This storm is going to bring major storm surge, flooding and hurricane winds. This thing might even be a category 4/5 BEAST before landfall. Please stay safe.

God bless everyone

Hurricane Isaias approaches Florida

Forecasters declared a hurricane watch for parts of the Florida coastline on Friday as Hurricane Isaias drenched the Bahamas on a track for the U.S. East Coast.

Officials in Florida said they were closing beaches, marinas and parks in Miami-Dade County beginning Friday night. 

Mayor Carlos Gimenez said the county has 20 evacuation centers on standby that could be set up with COVID-19 safety measures.

'We still don't think there is a need to open shelters for this storm but they are ready,' he said.

Isaias had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph) Friday morning and it was expected to remain a hurricane for the next few days, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. It was centered about 295 miles (470 kilometers) southeast of Nassau in the Bahamas and was moving northwest at 16 mph (26 kph).

The Hurricane Center said heavy rains associated with the storm 'may begin to affect South and east-Central Florida beginning late Friday night, and the eastern Carolinas by early next week, potentially resulting in isolated flash and urban flooding, especially in low-lying and poorly drained areas.'

And the 'cone of concern' which shows areas where the storm may have an impact includes the tri-state area and New York City NBC4 reported.

Winds could begin to pick up in the city on Tuesday, but it is still too early to predict the severity of the weather or whether the storm will track away. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8579131/Bahamas-braces-newly-formed-Hurricane-Isaias-bears-down.html?fbclid=IwAR20VBwHMRXba3O0LkSz0sS-PCbC5_X1ULiqUTrfZGYPHAOJoAL0yJnHi9M

Hurricane Hanna bearing down on Corpus Christi, TX

There is something desperately wrong when a hurricane is not in the news

Hurricane Warning for Texas - LIVE BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE (Tropical Storm Hanna)

Hurricane Warning Expands in Texas - LIVE BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE (Tropical Storm Hanna)

Tropical Storm"Hanna" officially strengthened into a Hurricane overnight, with sustained winds now at 75 MPH.  The hurricane is in the Gulf of Mexico, headed for a direct hit/land-fall on Corpus Christie, TX.  TEN INCHES OF RAIN are expected to fall in some areas today alone!

Storm Surge Warnings are in effect from Houston to Brownsville, TX.  The storm is expected to come ashore today.

Rainfall amounts are expected to cause widespread flooding today, as seen on this projection map:

Extreme weather report - 23 September, 2019

Stench of death in some 

neighbourhoods of the 

Bahama Islands has become 

overwhelming: Police say 

they don't want to go there: 

1300 still missing

 

the Big Wobble,
23 September, 2019

According to a new report, the stench of death on some neighbourhoods of the Bahama 

Islands has become overwhelming two weeks after Hurrican Dorian smashed its way and 

then stalled for forty-eight hours into the area.

Photo Canada.com

According to the report by CNN, East Grand Bahama still looks like a war zone. The carnage is so widespread that even police officers can't bear to see it. "Police say they don't want to go there. It's too hard on them to go see their people," said Patricia Freling, a Florida nurse who's 
volunteering in East Grand Bahama. "They think there will be a lot of bodies. So we are 
preparing for everything."

The official death toll across the Bahamas is 52. But that number is expected to skyrocket, 
with 1,300 people still missing two weeks after the hurricane. Some may be trapped under 
mountains of rubble where houses once stood. Others may have been washed away in the 
storm surge, their bodies only recently surfacing on land.

Photo Canada.com


According to the report by CNN, East Grand Bahama still looks like a war zone. The carnage is so widespread that even police officers can't bear to see it. "Police say they don't want to go there. It's too hard on them to go see their people," said Patricia Freling, a Florida nurse who's volunteering in East Grand Bahama. "They think there will be a lot of bodies. So we are preparing for everything."


The official death toll across the Bahamas is 52. But that number is expected to skyrocket, with 1,300 people still missing two weeks after the hurricane. Some may be trapped under mountains of rubble where houses once stood. Others may have been washed away in the storm surge, their bodies only recently surfacing on land.


Indonesians suffering 

respiratory problems from 

wildfires reaches almost 1 

million with Malaysia 

Singapore Thailand and the 

Philippines affected too

the Big Wobble,

23 September, 2019

The number of Indonesians suffering respiratory problems caused by smoke from forest and peatland fires blanketing parts of Borneo and Sumatra in the past few months has nearly reached 900,000, according to the authorities. Data released late Friday by the Crisis Mitigation Centre of the Ministry of Health showed that a total of 885,026 people have been suffering from acute respiratory infections. Of the total, 291,807 cases were recorded in South Sumatra province and 268,591 cases in Riau province, both in Sumatra, followed by West Kalimantan province on Borneo with 163,662 cases.

The haze has impacted air quality not only in Indonesia but also in Malaysia, Singapore and as far as Thailand and the Philippines. The smog has forced Indonesia and Malaysia to close thousands of schools, with hundreds of Malaysian flights also being cancelled. Meanwhile, an operation to put out the fires with water bombing and cloud seeding is underway involving almost 30,000 personnel and over 50 helicopters.

Forest and peatland fires in Indonesia are most frequent between April and October, mostly due to slash-and-burn farming practices. Despite the seriousness of the haze problem this year, Indonesia is still unwilling to accept help offers from neighbouring countries. In its Saturday editorial, the English-language Jakarta Post criticized the government for insisting on handling the problem on its own. "Optimism that we can contain the fires ourselves does not help while children suffer even more from the effect of toxic pollutants compared with adults," it said. "We need all the help we can get. Now.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7494073/Hellish-red-skies-cover-parts-Indonesia-country-gripped-haze.html?fbclid=IwAR1OwKXtmVb4LKmtMihWAnfE2Cixxde0E9ZEM8E-QYJSPXpAVdEjM5VqZTQ

https://watchers.news/2019/09/23/severe-flooding-hits-trinidad-and-tobago-karen-heading-toward-puerto-rico-and-virgin-islands/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

CONCEPCION, Bolivia, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Bolivian volunteer firefighters, exhausted from battling blazes sweeping rapidly across the country's lowlands, are starting to lose hope and retreat from the front lines of some infernos in the drought-stricken region.

The fires this year are Bolivia's worst in at least two decades, with the size of burned land across the country nearly doubling in under three weeks, destroying swaths of biodiverse forest and ranches and farms that sustain thousands of people.


In the dusty cattle ranching town of Concepcion, despite nearly two months of non-stop firefighting, blazes that had been put out in surrounding dry forests have reignited while others continue to spread toward the Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, a gateway to pristine Amazonian rainforest.


"Nothing has been controlled. The fires continue," said Elias Johns, the deputy governor of the province of Nuflo Chavez, where Concepcion is located.


While helicopters have doused flames around Concepcion, the Boeing supertanker 747 that Bolivian President Evo Morales ordered to battle blazes across the country has not yet made it here. The heat and smoke are so intense along part of the front lines that firefighters cannot remain working for more than several minutes at a time.


Local firefighters with Bolivia's volunteer-based force say they are poorly equipped with little more than backpacks of water, hoses and machetes, lacking heavy machinery to clear debris and stop fires from advancing.


Some 700 to 800 volunteer firefighters have gone home, Johns said. The province now mostly relies on foreign units from Argentina and France and Bolivian soldiers sent to help.


Many volunteer firefighters are demoralized after working for weeks in smoke-filled landscapes scattered with the charred remains of animals and trees. Four firemen have also died, one by heart attack and three while bathing in a local lake.


"It's physically and emotionally taxing," said Shayir Rezvani, a university student who is one of around 30 firefighters in the province's remaining volunteer unit.


Authorities in Concepcion have set up a special clinic to tend to people suffering respiratory problems from the smoke. The fires have also affected the electrical grid, triggering blackouts and disruptions to water distribution, said Johns.


With no sign of the fires slowing, residents are anxiously waiting for the start of the rainy season, which might not come until October.


Lowland regions have been racked by a drought fueled by an expansion of cattle ranching and soy farming in forested regions, making traditional slash-and-burn practices increasingly risky.


Jose Payme, an indigenous Chiquitano chief, said a drought this year and the fires raging near his ranching community of Santa Marta are the worst it has ever seen.


"We're completely exhausted," said Payme. "We've been working day and night for two months to placate this fire that's so strong, and this drought that's so strong. It's impossible"


Payme said Santa Marta desperately needs a truck for transporting water.


Wildfires in Bolivia this year have spread over 4.1 million hectares (16,000 square miles) through Sept. 15, up from 2.1 million hectares less than three weeks earlier, according to the Bolivian environmental group Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza.


The area burned this year has already topped the previous record since the turn of the century, 3.8 million hectares in 2010.


"This is a warning for the entire continent. If we keep destroying the Amazon forest, we will soon reach the tipping point where the forest loses its capacity to recycle humidity and precipitation," said Lykke Andersen, the head of Bolivia's Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

http://news.trust.org/item/20190922093504-v5w0k/?fbclid=IwAR0PojF1d-UifaguI7Q5thTF7vAw66mbM4oYyyy1ayOeGNxj5CfEjB104VM