Luke 21:11 “There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.”
Important Takeaways:
- Wildfires are burning away the West’s snow
- Researcher Stephanie Kampf’s team set out to determine whether more wildfires are burning at high elevations. The answer is unequivocally yes. And the consequences are dramatic: Snow in wildfire-burned areas is melting 18 to 24 days earlier than average.
- The snowpack is critical… it contributes 20% to 90% of surface water used for agriculture, energy production, aquatic species habitat and more.
- “What this study shows nicely is that fires are moving into places that we would think of as being more resistant because they’re cooler and wetter”
- The study also found that snow in burned areas contains less water
- Downstream water managers might need to prepare for an earlier melt-off that will contribute to reservoirs much earlier than needed.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- SoCal facing “precarious situation” as water levels hit historic lows
- They’re among more than 1,600 people who have exceeded their water budgets by 150% as the state faces a water and drought crisis exacerbated by climate change, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District spokesperson Mike McNutt told Axios on Tuesday evening.
- California is the the grip of an ongoing megadrought that led Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to expand a drought emergency declaration last October and officials in the south of the state to declare a water shortage emergency in April, restricting outdoor water usage.
- Federal officials have issued increasingly urgent warnings about the need to conserve water, especially in the U.S. West.
- Meanwhile, California remains prone to wildfires — and five large fires are currently burning across the state.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- A disastrous ‘megaflood’ flood in sunny and dry California? It’s happened before
- While intense droughts, wildfires and earthquakes are typically the main concern across the West, the study released Friday warned of another crisis looming in California: “Megafloods.”
- California has experienced severe floods throughout the 20th Century, including in 1969, 1986, and 1997. But a flood from farther in the past – the Great Flood of 1862 – is being eyed by researchers as the threat to California grows by the day.
- In fact, the UCLA researchers studying “megafloods” say such storms typically happen every 100-200 years.
- The Great Flood of 1862 would be much worse if it happened today
- The region that was underwater in 1862 is now home to many more people than it was then — it’s home to some of California’s fastest-growing cities including Bakersfield and Sacramento.
- Back then, the state’s population was about 500,000, but today it’s nearly 40 million.
- The resulting disaster would cause an estimated $1 trillion in damage, the biggest disaster in world history, they say.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Europe reels as repeated heatwaves cause chaos
- Western Europe was battling Thursday to deal with the fallout from extreme heat and drought, with wildfires causing evacuations in France and Italian farmers losing up to 80% of their harvest due to severe drought.
- The Gironde fires had scorched 7,400 hectares of forest by Thursday afternoon and 10,000 people have been evacuated from the area. The fire has a 40-kilometer perimeter, which requires a lot of manpower to cover, according to Martin Guesperau, deputy commissioner for defense and security at the Nouvelle-Aquitaine prefecture.
- Drought has meant that the soil hasn’t been able to absorb any rainfall in recent storms, leading to flooding and landslides, according to Coldretti.
- Hail was “the most serious climatic event due to the irreversible damage it caused to the crops,” the association said, adding that “in a few minutes, it is able to destroy a whole year’s work.”
- The farming association estimates the damage to exceed 6 billion euros ($6.2 billion), equal to 10% of Italy’s annual agricultural production.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- ‘Monster’ wildfire incinerates French wine country: France desperately sends in reinforcement firefighters as ten thousand flee, while record drought helps kill tons of fish in Germany amid summer ‘extremes not seen before’
- More than 100 communes in France have seen their taps run completely dry amid dangerous water shortage
- Fleets of vans are ferrying bottled water to desperate communities in the ‘historic’ drought
- France is also tackling eight active wildfires that have scorched thousands of hectares in the hellish scenes
- The suffocating heat with no water relief is a story reflected across Europe, with Spain, Italy, Portugal and Germany also under emergency measures.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Thousands evacuated as wildfires tear through southwest France
- Wildfires tore through the Gironde region of southwestern France on Wednesday, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 8,000 residents
- Some people were forced to clamber onto rooftops as the flames got closer to their properties.
- More than 6,000 hectares (14,826 acres) were still continuing to burn out of control despite the efforts of firefighters backed by water-bombing aircraft.
- Sweden and Italy are among countries preparing to send help to France, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Wildfires rage in US: Authorities evacuate town in Washington State. This is what has happened:
- The Sheriff said six homes and eight other structures had got destroyed in fire. With the help of state and local resources, the authorities are trying to control the fires. The evacuation process is also going on, as per the Sheriff.
- According to officials at a community meeting on Wednesday night, about 1300 people are being evacuated. Officials have warned that fires could break out again in the next few days as clouds clear and humidity drops.
- The fires broke out last Friday and charred about 92 square miles. More than a hundred homes and other buildings were burned down, and four bodies were found.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Wildfires are wiping out one of Greece’s major export products
- Wildfires in Greece are impacting not just humans but the bees that make pine honey, a major export.
- As extreme weather rages, the country is increasing funding available to battle the flames and bringing in firefighters from around Europe.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Wildfires are spreading rapidly across the U.S.
- From Nebraska and Wyoming to Washington, Oregon and California, at least 60 large fires are burning in the West.
- Dry forecasts are meeting hot temperatures and cooking up a deadly recipe for inferno. The McKinney fire has burned 56,000 acres, and it’s completely uncontained.
- In Montana, the Elmo Two fire is burning about 20 miles south of Kalispell, forcing evacuations.
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Revelation 16:9 “They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.”
Important Takeaways:
- Wildfires in Germany, Czechia threatening tourist region
- The fire in the region, called Bohemian Switzerland on the Czech side and the Saxon Switzerland national park on the German side, started last weekend. It had seemed to be under control but spread again early Thursday, German news agency dpa reported.
- Hundreds of firefighters on both sides of the border battled the flames with help from reinforcements from neighboring Poland and Slovakia. Eight firefighting helicopters were working to douse the flames in the hilly and rocky region that is difficult to access and where about 250 hectares (618 acres) of forest were burning
- “It’s all very tense, we can by no means speak of an easing of the fire yet” firefighters have reached the limits of their capabilities, Saxony Interior Minister Armin Schuster said.
- Another large forest fire in the Elbe-Elster district of the eastern German state of Brandenburg was under control, but the fire was still burning an area of 500 hectares (1,236 acres).
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