Weather.com - 9/6/13, Dianca Coto

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean - the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region

In August 2012, some islands reported extremely dry weather, including Grenada and Anguilla. By July of this year, those conditions had spread to Trinidad, Antigua, St. Vincent and Barbados, the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology & Hydrology says.

"We're seeing changes in weather patterns," said Avril Alexander, Caribbean coordinator for the nonprofit Global Water Partnership. "... When you look at the projected impact of climate change, a lot of the impact is going to be felt through water."

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Volcano Discovery Sept 7. 2013

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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Thewatchers - 9/6/13, Adonai

The Bayou Corne sinkhole, also known as Louisiana sinkhole, was discovered in August 2012 when a Napoleonville salt dome, a naturally-occurring underground salt deposit, suddenly collapsed after months of unexplained seismic activity and mysterious bubbling at the bayou. The sinkhole grew from 1 to 25 acres in just 12 months and the scariest part of it is that the collapse unlocked tens of millions of cubic feet of explosive gases, which have seeped into the aquifer and wafted up to the community (40 million cubic feet = 1.13 million cubic meters). 

Texas Brine, the operator of the salt dome, specializes in a process known as injection mining and had been drilling around the dome in order to extract brine, which is used for refining oil. When they mined the salt dome too close to the edge of the dome, say officials, the side wall collapsed and 350 nearby residents were immediately advised to evacuate.