Four people are dead - devastation in the communities affected.

In terms of wind speed Yasa was one of the fastest on record.

We had a a break in the snow today, but it's due to restart tonight and continue all day tomorrow. I'm starting a two-week winter break, which will give me time to move all the snow that has piled up in my parking spaces.

"Rescuers are trying to free more than 1,000 vehicles which have been stranded on a highway for two days after a heavy snow storm struck Japan. Authorities have distributed food, fuel and blankets to the drivers on the Kanetsu expressway, which connects the capital Tokyo to Niigata, in the north."

Stuck in your car for two days! That's worse than lockdown.

The creek is pumping and onto the first level of flood plains but no danger of reaching the house at this stage. Hopefully the rain will start to ease from this point.

BoM is now predicting up to 200 mil for Northern Rivers tomorrow, but i don't know if it's going to eventuate - will depend on the low coming onshore - it may hang out to sea.

Today has been a lot more moderate, just a rainy day, and the radar looks pretty good - we'll see what happens.

Looking at the satellite, a cyclone has formed off the east coast - they don't call them cyclones in Australia unless they reach a certain wind speed - but it's still a cyclone in any other language. Wind gusts of up to 100 kph are expected and even more torrential rain.

Bear in mind that they rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere - which means it's feeding directly into where i am.

The event started yesterday morning, raining on and off, then heavily all night and most of today. Guess we've had about 150 mil in that time.

Forecast totals over 250 mil for the whole event which will transpire over several days. That's not a big deal in Taiwan but will challenge the flood defenses of Australia. This in combination with a king tide and huge surf whipped up by offshore winds.

Nicaragua is in the firing line - having been hit by Eta a couple of weeks ago - a lesser storm in wind speed but a huge rain event that resulted in 200 dead in the country. God knows how they'll cope with this one.

Man, this has been a helluva hurricane season, breaking all kinds of records.

As usual, it was the rain, not the wind, that did the damage.

It's now heading for Vietnam which has already suffered a series of flooding events this year.

On the other hand Typhoon Vamco has made landfall in The Philippines following a similar path to the last one. There are reports of flooding and three deaths so far. Manilla

Seems this year the storms have come in pairs striking almost identical areas. Two for Korea (which rarely gets typhoons), two for Louisiana, now two for central PPE.

As is usually the case with hurricanes/typhoons, it's not the wind that's the most dangerous, it's the rain.

20 killed in Mexico and now 150 buried in mudslides in Guatemala.

It's now heading towards Cuba, then the southern tip of Florida. Strange track - seems almost opposite to normal path. Nov is also pretty late in the season.

Dan, strands of the spaghetti models have it going very close to where you used to live.

Media reports 10 dead and widespread destruction.

There's another typhoon (Atsani) just behind it that's forecast to clip the north coast of Philippines.

Interestingly it's been two years in a row without a serious typhoon hitting Taiwan, maybe three. That sequence is gonna end with a bang - look out 2021!

It looks like some towns and cities you'd never expect to be facing a fire evacuation order may see that in the coming hours and days.

That's 145kph! You're not gonna outdrive that.

Even if there weren't fires. that's a serious wind storm - same as a Cat 1 typhoon - almost Cat 2. It's a typhoon on fire basically.

Orange County is the place most at risk according to reports.

Sounds like it has cooled off a lot but cross that with existing fires from what was already the worst season on record and you've got hell on earth.

70 dead in floods and landslides in central Vietnam.

Interestingly, Taiwan, Australia, Japan (?) have seen benign conditions so far this year - possibly due to La Nina - while the US, parts of India, China, Vietnam have been copping it.

As we've observed before, global warming is not something that affects the globe in a blanket manner - more like a laser beam that torches a certain area for a year or so before moving onto another location - unless it's California - where it just seems to stay all the time.

Fires, Hurricanes, Covid, Riots - 2020 is seriously biblical.

I bet they'll be shitting themselves in the future when it clicks over to 3030.