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After the first night of Greta Thunberg’s zero carbon journey to New York, Boris Herrmann posted few more updates.
The night was bouncy and rough, but mostly everyone got some sleep. We are trying to find an organisation of space and storage and life.
Everything is slow motion: dressing, cooking, etc. All ok so far and we will get used.
Boris has also posted a short weather update, watch it below with the sound turned on.
Today on August 14th, a 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg begun her 3,000 miles long sail to attend a U.N. summit in New York. You can get more details about her journey in our previous coverage here, also don’t miss Windy founder’s message to Greta here.
Our friends from Team Malizia sent us some footage of Greta leaving Plymouth and heading for New York.
Check out the Malizia II departure below, with fans gathered to wave her off on her voyage across the Atlantic.
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Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg will spend two weeks travelling across the North Atlantic, to send a signal that "the climate change crisis is a real thing". Her goal is to attend a crucial climate change conference in New York.
Climate change is still a controversial topic and that’s exactly why we need people like Greta - to spread the debate further.
Scientists and weather nerds already pretty much agree on consensus climate change is not just real, but it seems we people are responsible and we should take much “greener” stance, starting with decarbonization ASAP (don’t miss this this huge post about decarbonization Ivo wrote couple of weeks ago).
Even if you don’t believe that CO2 pollution is the main cause and you think the proof is not scientific, you should take a “greener” stance, given what we know about complex system (climate is complex system).
Back to Greta and her journey. Before I get to the details, let me tell you, how surprised I was, when I found out Greta gets a quite a lot of criticism too - I’d rather say hate.
The hate goes from basic climate change deniers stuff, up to the accusations of child abuse with some hidden agenda, that kind of stuff. And—despite depressing comments you can see below—that’s a good thing. To make something that stands out, you get not only supporters, you get a lot of hate too. I take it as a sign Greta is doing great job.
Maizia II, the boat she’s travelling across the North Atlantic on, is a boat with no toilets, kitchens or privacy. The electricity on the boat will solely come from water turbines, or in the sailing world known as hydro generators, and solar panels, meaning the journey has a zero carbon footprint.
Professional sailor Boris Herrmann (38), who lives in Germany and is preparing for 2020 Vendée Globe (as the only German racer), is on board. Other crew members are her dad Svante, Pierre Casiraghi (co-skipper and founder of team malizia) and Nathan Grossman (close friend of Thunbergs and film maker).
We consider ourselves members of the supporters camp, and that’s why we decided to give Greta some coverage. Our friends from Follow My Challenge built a Windy plugin tracking Greta's journey, that makes it possible follow her path in realtime. You can view the tracker at https://www.windy.com/greta-thunberg
Recap & few more interesting facts:
What damage can be caused by typhoons and how dangerous a typhoon is? You can make a judgement yourself. Just watch some of the videos people shared from the affected area.
Related: TS Krosa could strike Japan as Typhoon this week
Typhoon Lekima made a landfall in Zheijang province, China as a high-end Category 2 storm last week (you can read our coverage here, accompanied by satellite imagery).
IFRC Asia Pacific reported that Lekima has affected more than 4 million people & displaced 1 million in Zhejiang, Shanghai & Jiangsu provinces.
Lekima brought all the three main fatal consequences of typhoons to China:
The citizens experienced winds so strong, you could even be a witness of an octopus falling from the sky.
Chinese TV network CGTN shared a video of Zhang Yijun, a deliveryman, cleaning clogged drains on several flooded streets — he was cleaning the drains barehanded. Zhang said he was doing what he could to help people to get over the disaster.
MIMIC storm-centered microwave imagery.
Lekima and Krosa hovering over Western Pacific.
The monsoon season, which runs from July to September in South Asia, continues to shatter the region with destruction. Heavy Monsoon rainfall has caused massive landslides and flooding and has led to more than 170 deaths in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
In South and West India the toll stands at 169 dead in flood or rain-related incidents, according to local government
The Indian state of Kerala has been particularly hard hit, with nearly half the reported deaths occurred in the south-western parts of the state.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes by the monsoons and have taken refuge in 1,318 relief camps across the southern state of Kerala. Nearly 200 houses in the state were destroyed.
Dhanya Rajendran, Editor-in-chief at TNM tweeted scary and sad footage from Malappuram in Kerala of a man and his mother trying to run away as a landslide happens.
She gets stuck. His son and wife were inside the house and could not rush out.
The three people of this family are feared to be dead, the DSP told my colleague Cris.
Scary videos of the "monsoon mayhem" came from Mumbai, too.
According to AP at least 17 people have died in Pakistan, including 7 people electrocuted and 3 others killed when a roof collapsed in the southern city of Karachi.
The destruction doesn't end, as the monsoon period stretches until September. Locals are busy rebuilding the houses destroyed in the first wave of the season, before more rains come.
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Tropical storm Krosa (11W) has made landfall on Thursday afternoon at the city of Kure near Hiroshima in southern Japan, after large areas were evacuated, with more than 400,000 people advised to evacuate.
According to The Japan Times, a 82-year-old man was confirmed dead after falling from a ship amid strong winds and high waves in the city of Onomichi. A total of 40 people injured in 13 prefectures were reported as of Thursday evening.
Krosa, in Japan known as 台風10号 (typhoon no. 10), had weakened from the previous days but there are still high risks of of torrential rainfall, mudslides and flooding in the affected areas of the Pacific coast. As you can see on latest warning cone above, Krosa is forecast to move north toward the Sea of Japan.
(12 Aug 2019) Last week was that rare occasion, when you could watch two massive typhoons churning through the Western Pacific, Super Typhoon Lekima (10W) as equivalent to a Category 4 major hurricane, typhoon Krosa (11W) was equivalent to Category 3 hurricane.
Meanwhile, typhoon Lekima (10W) made a landfall in southeastern China last week as high-end category 2 storm (you can read our coverage here).
Typhoon Krosa (11W) weakened to Tropical Storm, and is hovering over the Ogasawara Islands, forecast to approach coastal areas of western Japan later in the week, possibly as a typhoon, or strong tropical storm.
Through today, residents around the islands can expect severe weather conditions, with intense thunderstorms and high waves along the Pacific coast of western and eastern Japan.
Check out the latest wind, wind gusts, and rain/thunder forecast on Windy and watch Krosa churning over WPAC almost in real-time on our satellite layer.
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