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Bottlenose dolphins seen near Aarhus, Denmark for the first time in 7 decades


thelocal.dk
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:53 UTC
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© Gregory Smith/FlickrBottlenose dolphins, shown here near the Galapagos, are rare near Denmark.
The Bay of Aarhus has some new playful and curious inhabitants in the form of a breed of dolphin that hasn't been spotted in more than seven decades.

Bottlenose dolphins are usually a rare sight in the waters surrounding Denmark but in the past week there have been several spotted swimming near the nation's second-largest city, Aarhus.

Rowers and boaters in the Bay of Aarhus have had unusual company over the past week or so. Several Danes have reported that they have seen dolphins swimming in the bay and a handful of videos are starting to circulate around the internet.

Marine biologist Carl Christian Kinze told TV2 Østjylland that the recent sightings of bottlenose dolphins are incredibly rare.

"They haven't been seen in the Bay of Aarhus with certainty for more than 20 years," he said.

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Attention

Humpback whale washes up on Danish shore for first time in over 100 years


thelocal.dk
Tue, 07 Jul 2015 17:44 UTC
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© Asger Ladefoged/ScanpixThe whale's remains were brought to the Natural History Museum on Monday.
For the first time in over a century, a humpback whale has washed up on Danish shores. Making the discovery even more interesting is the fact that its cranium had "fallen out".

Something seems to be happening in the waters around Denmark.

Not only are bottlenose dolphins now being found frolicking in the Bay of Aarhus, but now humpback whales seem to have arrived off Danish shores as well.

A five-metre long humpback washed up on a beach near Thy last week, creating a bit of a mystery because the corpse lacked a cranium and the whale's tail had been wrapped in rope.

Researchers from the Natural History Museum of Denmark spent Monday cutting the corpse into manageable-sized chunks for further examination in hopes of clearing up the strange find.

"This is huge. Humpback whales aren't normally seen in Denmark. There are only a few times per year that we need to cut a whale up and last summer it was a couple of sperm whales," the museum's Morten Tange Olsen told BT.
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Cloud Lightning

Storm brings flash flooding in Southern Nevada

Moira Johnston
Las Vegas Sun
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 17:24 UTC
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© Las Vegas Fire & RescueIn this photo provided by Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, a motorist is stranded in floodwaters at Rancho and Teddy drives on Monday, July 6, 2015.
A thunderstorm dropped heavy rain in parts of the Las Vegas Valley on Monday evening, leaving behind flooded roadways that made life difficult for motorists for several hours.

The hardest-hit areas included Lone Mountain and Summerlin in the northwest, which received 0.75 to an inch of rain, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Stachelski said. The eastern part of the Lakes tallied 1.5 inches of rain.

Stachelski said the average rainfall around the valley was about 0.25 inch, with North Las Vegas only getting a trace.

Firefighters responded to a dozen weather-related incidents in the area bounded by Rainbow Boulevard to the west, Interstate 15 to the east, Alta Drive to the north and Desert Inn Road, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said.


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Arrow Down

Large sinkhole opens up in Detroit


clickondetroit.com
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 15:15 UTC
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Sinkhole
A sinkhole big enough to swallow a car opened up Monday afternoon at the intersection of Chene and Medbury streets on Detroit's east side.

A crew from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department is on scene.

A DWSD spokeswoman said an 18-inch water main broke, damaging the sewer and leading to this sinkhole in the pavement.

However, the department dose not see a need to closed the street to traffic.

"We analyzed it. We're able to determine if (we needed to close the street) ... we would put up more barricades or actually make the area a little safer to work on and walk on," said DWSD spokeswoman Curtrise Garner. "We're pretty comfortable with where everything is. We're comfortable with the amount of traffic coming by."

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Arrow Down

Car falls into sinkhole in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Vijenthi Nair
The Star (Malaysia)
Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:08 UTC
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The car fell into the sinkhole which was covered with water.
A motorist drove into a 0.6m deep sinkhole that was filled with water in Jalan Pinang in Kuala Lumpur at 5am yesterday.

Syabas corporate affairs executive director Priscilla Alfred said the car fell into the sinkhole measuring 2m wide and 2m long.

The water, she said, was from an unreported underground pipe that had burst, causing the sinkhole.

"The car was not damaged during the incident. The driver was also reported to be fine and could drive the car out unassisted."

Priscilla said a team was despatched to the scene immediately and water supply was disconnected to facilitate repair works.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.3 - 99km ENE of Shikotan, Russia


US Geological Survey
Tue, 07 Jul 2015 05:32 UTC
Shikotan Quake_070715
© USGS
Time
  1. 2015-07-07 05:10:27 (UTC)
  2. Times in other timezones
Nearby Cities
  1. 99km (62mi) ENE of Shikotan, Russia
  2. 204km (127mi) ENE of Nemuro, Japan
  3. 228km (142mi) E of Shibetsu, Japan
  4. 294km (183mi) E of Abashiri, Japan
  5. 1159km (720mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan
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Sun

Bone dry and heat records fall as US West bakes under record heat


U.S.News
Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:46 UTC
US heatwave
© AP Photo/Don RyanChildren play in the Salmon Street Springs fountain in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, July 1, 2015.
From Seattle to Salt Lake City, the West is baking under record heat. Temperatures reaching the triple digits have made fire conditions extreme and sent folks looking for relief heading into the Fourth of July weekend. Unfortunately, the forecast in many areas calls for more sun and sweat.

WASHINGTON

Seattle, not accustomed to prolonged hot weather, saw its hottest June ever.

The average high temperature each day in June was a record 78.9 degrees, breaking the 1992 record by more than 3 degrees, said Johnny Burg, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Seattle.

"Our high is supposed to be in the low to mid 70s at this time and lows in the mid-50s," he said.

Instead, the Seattle area is seeing highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s.

Because the Seattle area suffers few heat waves, many people do not have air conditioning.

The weather was also dry in the Seattle area in June, when only 0.23 inch of precipitation was recorded. That's the fourth driest June on record.

Comment: While the west coast of the US bakes and is bone dry, Europe is experiencing a heat wave of their own with all time record temperatures. At the same time it is snowing in parts of Russia! You can't get much more extreme than that. It is as if the earth is responding with extremes as the human activity heats up. For more on the theory that human activity has an impact on how the universe interacts in kind with humanity read Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.

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Sun

Sizzling! Germany breaks national heat record at 40.3 degrees


Daily Sabah
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 18:00 UTC
thermometer
Germany has broken the national record for the highest recorded temperature due to Europe's weekend heat wave on Saturday and Sunday.

The thermometer in Kitzingen in the southern state of Bavaria read 40.3 degrees Sunday, breaking the 2003 record by 0.1 degrees, the German Weather Service said. It was the highest temperature Germany has experienced since the start of record-keeping in 1881.

Weather service spokesman Uwe Kirsche said Monday that the record will not be official until technicians have manually checked the station.

But he says "we assume that our equipment worked properly."
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Cloud Lightning

Tropical storm Linfa brings flooding and landslides to Philippines

Manuel Mogato
Reuters
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 02:07 UTC
storm Linfa, storm Egay
© ReutersA father holds his daughter as they wade through waist-deep flooding caused by typhoon Linfa, locally named Egay, at Longos town in Malabon city, north of Manila, on July 6, 2015.
All shipping was ordered to remain in harbor and some flights were canceled in the northern Philippines, while schools were closed in the capital, Manila, on Monday due to flooding and landslides from a tropical storm, disaster officials said.

Storm warnings were issued in at least 14 areas of the main Philippine island of Luzon as tropical storm Linfa moved slowly across the north of the Southeast Asian archipelago. It was carrying maximum wind gusts of 100 km per hour (60 mph).

Alexander Pama, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, said the storm would bring heavy rain within a 400-km (250 miles) radius. The storm was named Egay in the Philippines.
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Snowflake

Snowstorm in Summer? Russian town of Vorkuta hit by July blizzard


Sputnik
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:39 UTC
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Snow in Vorkuta
Whereas many cities feel oppressed with the heat and the bright summer sun, this Russian town would gladly receive some more sunlight instead of snow.

The Russian town of Vorkuta saw a strange but nevertheless mesmerizing combination of green trees and white snow in the middle of summer.



Comment: Snow in Summer? Other regions that have experienced unusual snowfalls this Summer include Norway, which had 5 times more snow in June than normal, and "unprecedented" snowfalls on Scottish mountains.

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