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Late season warmth extends 2013 Greenland melt season…briefly

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nsidc.org- 9/7/13

Greenland’s surface ice melt season reached a peak in late July, coinciding with a period of very warm weather. Greenland’s melt season this year will be closer to average than was 2012, with far less melting in the northern ice sheet and at high elevations. Nevertheless, an all-time record high temperature for Greenland may have been set in 2013.

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20,000 Lightning Strikes Hit Pacific Northwest On Thursday

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Theweatherspace.com - 9/6/13

 

In what is the areas largest regional severe weather event in many years, The Pacific Northwest storm complex of September 5, 2013 will go down as one of the most intense lightning displays the region has seen.  Residents claim the storms were more like that of the Midwest than that of the Pacific Northwest

Supercells during the evening and early night hours  became tornadic, with one of them prompting a tornado warning in Northeast Oregon.  Other storms through the early night hours in Southwestern Washington showed signs of rotation.  While tornadoes were not warned for, one could easily have formed and dropped in the rural areas before hitting the cities … but we may never know.

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Hundreds evacuated after floods break dam in Russia's flood-hit Far East

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Rtnews.com - 9/7/13

Traffic and repair works on the flooded R454 highway Khabarovsk - Komsomolsk-on-Amur (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Astapkovich)

Nearly 300 houses with over 900 inhabitants have been inundated in a suburb of the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur after a nearby dam was destroyed in rising floods.

Up to 700 people have been evacuated so far, local Emergencies Ministry reported. The Mendeleyev settlement, where the dam is located, is home to 4,500 people; about a thousand of them are said to be in immediate danger.

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Snow Blanketing South America Kills 250,000 Alpacas, at Least 5 People Dead

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Natureworldnews.com -8/29/13, James A. Foley

 

A man clears snow on La Cumbre, some 30 km (18.6 miles) near La Paz, August 28, 2013. Unusually heavy snowfall has been reported on the highlands in Bolivia, according to local media

Approximately 250,000 alpacas have died as a result of the worst snowfall Peru has seen in a decade, and the unexpectedly intense blast of winter weather has claimed livestock and human life in other parts of South America as well.

A cold weather front from the Antarctic began to spread across South America earlier this week, with some regions devastated by the snowfall, and others reveling in it. Heavy snow fell upon a large swath of South America, from Peru and Bolivia in the northwest to Paraguay and Brazil in the southeast.

July 2013 was Sixth Warmest on Record Globally, According to U.S. Climate Report

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Wunderground.com - 8/21/13, Nick Wiltgen

Despite unseasonably cool weather for millions of Americans, July 2013 went down as the sixth warmest of the past 134 years globally, according to the U.S. government's latest monthly climate report.

The State of the Climate report, released by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Tuesday, showed that large swaths of the planet were unseasonably warm in July. Most of the cooler-than-average regions were either over the ocean or over sparsely populated areas such as the Yukon and Siberia.

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U.S. Southeast experiencing rainfall and tornado extremes in 2013

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Earthsky.org - 8/22/13, Matt Daniel

Tornado damage to a mobile home in Heard County Georgia. Image Credit: NWS Peachtree City

Across Georgia, rainfall totals are adding up to totals typically seen across an entire average year. Atlanta, Georgia averages 49.68 inches per year based on climatology records from 1981-2010. As of August 19, 2013, Atlanta has already recorded 50.43 inches of rain, and we still have over four months left until the year ends.

Giant Redwoods Growth Spurt Tied to Climate Change: Study

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Weather.com- 8/20/13, Associated Press

 

Redwood trees in Richardson Grove State Park in Garberville, Calif. California's beloved giant redwood trees are in the midst of an unprecedented growth spurt, according to a climate study released Aug. 14.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's beloved giant redwood trees are in the midst of an unprecedented growth spurt, according to a climate study released Wednesday.

The ancient trees have produced more wood over the past century than they have during any other time in their lives, according to findings by the Save the Redwoods League and a team of renowned scientists.

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