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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: USA record cold and shocking crop report, France snow, EU electrified


Adapt 2030
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:44 UTC
neige, Normandie, 2018
© Instagram/@nono_basset_hound_et_stephSnow in a Normandy garden this Monday.
Normandy Region of France late season snow, with 300,000 lightning strikes over the last 24 hours. US record cold over the weekend Great Lakes region, but national news won't cover that, but if it were record heat it would be front page news. New shocking report US wheat 65% is now low or very low quality.


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Cloud Precipitation

Storm in Buenos Aires, Argentina leaves 2 dead, hundreds displaced

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:19 UTC
flood
© Cristian Ritondo ‏
A fierce storm struck areas around Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 28 to 29 April 2018. During the storm some areas recorded over 110 mm of rain and wind gusts of 130 km/h. At least 2 people have died and 1,200 evacuated.

Some areas saw more than a month's worth of rain fall in 24 hours. Rivers and streams overflowed, flooding parts of the city forcing hundreds from their homes. The Luján River broke it banks in Pilar, and overflowing streams caused flooding in the districts of La Matanza, Quilmes, Padre Varela de Luján and Lomas de Zamora.
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Snowflake

It's snowing on April 30th in Normandy, France


Le Parisien
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:01 UTC
neige, Normandie, 2018
© Instagram/@nono_basset_hound_et_stephSnow in a Normandy garden this Monday.
This Monday, the negative temperatures allowed the snow to fall in places in the Eure and Seine-Maritime, even to hold on the ground.

Northern France is experiencing heavy rainfall. This Monday, they even give snow in places in Normandy.

These snow showers concern in particular the departments of Eure and Seine-Maritime. Temperatures are close to 0°C or even slightly below. As shown on this map provided by Météociel at 11h20, the temperature felt, which takes into account the effect of the wind, was negative in the majority of the department as well as in the South of the Seine-Maritime and the East of the Oise. In Rouen, the feeling was -5°C.
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Seismograph

Yellowstone National Park sees the world's largest active geyser erupt for third time in weeks

Tom Barnes
The Independent
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
geyser yellowstone
Increased activity at Steamboat Geyser after three years sat dormant

The world's largest active geyser has erupted for the third time in less than six weeks.

Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park, erupted at around 6.30am local time on Friday morning, geologists said.

The eruption is the latest event in a rare period of activity at the geyser this year, following similar water discharges on March 15 and April 19 this year.

Before this year, Steamboat had not erupted since September 2014.

Comment: Yellowstone's Steamboat geyser sees rare eruption weeks after tremor swarm (VIDEO)

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Bizarro Earth

Invasion of the moths: Britain under siege from toxic caterpillars that can cause asthma attacks, vomiting and infections

Colin Drury
The Independent
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
London invasion processionary moths
London is under siege by an invasion of processionary moths.

A plague of toxic caterpillars which can cause life-threatening asthma attacks, severe vomiting and skin rashes have invaded the UK, environment officials have warned.

The larva of oak processionary moths have been spotted across the south-east of England.

And with more than 600 nests appearing in parks and gardens, the Royal Forestry Society has warned: "It's time to be vigilant."

But how dangerous are the creatures and what is the best way to protect against them?
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 19, injure at least 16 others across Bangladesh


bdnews24.com
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:05 UTC
Lightning strikes from freak storms during the monsoon season have left 19 people dead in eight districts of Bangladesh.
Lightning strikes from freak storms during the monsoon season have left 19 people dead in eight districts of Bangladesh.
At least 16 others were injured when lightning bolts slammed into the ground in Sirajganj, Magura, Naogaon, Rangamati, Noakhali, Sunamganj, Brahmanbaria, Gopalganj and Gazipur on Sunday.

In Sirajganj, five people were killed and four others injured by the outburst of lightning different areas of the district on Sunday.

Two died in Shahjadpur Upazila, two more in Kazipur Upazila and one in Kamarkhanda Upazila.

The dead have been identified as 'Nabil', 17, 'Polin', 15, Shamsul Mandal, 55, Mandal's 14-year-old son 'Arman' and Kader Hossain, 37.

Shamsul and his son were working in a peanut field on Sunday morning when the two were struck by lightning, said Kazpur UP Chairman Md Harun.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills dog in Te Puke, New Zealand

Samantha Motion
New Zealand Herald
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:54 UTC
Matt Petuha in front of his family's rented Te Puke home surrounded by the remains of a tree struck by lightning.
© Andrew WarnerMatt Petuha in front of his family's rented Te Puke home surrounded by the remains of a tree struck by lightning.
A 9-year-old girl was pulled her from her bedroom by her parents seconds before lightning split a huge tree outside sending a branch smashing through her window.

Shaken by the near miss, the Te Puke family went outside to find their dog dead, believed to have been electrocuted by a lightning strike.

Much of the North Island was doused with rain yesterday causing flooding throughout Rotorua and the Coromandel. A state of emergency was declared in Ngongotaha after a stream burst its banks.
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Green heron from North America turns up in Pembrokeshire, Wales


BBC
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:21 UTC
Green Heron
© Richard StonierGreen Heron at Llanmill
A rare green heron, native to north and central America, has been spotted in Wales for what is believed to be only the second time.

The bird turned up in the garden of Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP Simon Hart, in Llanmill, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire.

Posting an image on Twitter, he wrote: "Completely amazed to welcome a green heron to west Wales."

Naturalist Iolo Williams said the sighting was "exceptionally rare".

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Arrow Down

Landslide in northern China kills 9 people


570News
Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:36 UTC
landslide
A landslide in northern China trapped and killed nine people Monday morning beneath the falling earth.

More than a hundred firefighters, rescue workers and medical staff were sent to the scene in Shanxi province, the Luliang municipal government said on its official social media account.

The landslide hit shortly before 5 a.m., the post noted. Rescuers with four large machines and five ambulances looked for the people who had been trapped but the search concluded by early Monday afternoon.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the landslide or the identities of the deceased.

The mountainous Luliang prefecture has been hit by a number of landslides over the years, including one in 2008 that killed 19 people.


Source: Associated Press
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Sun

Rare green flash sunset photographed flickering into even rarer blue in Norway


Space Weather
Sun, 29 Apr 2018 12:00 UTC
green flash sun April 2018 US
© Ronny TertnesThe Green Flash
Green flashes at sunset are rare. Indeed, they were once thought mythological. Blue flashes are rarer still. Yesterday, Ronny Tertnes of Bergen, Norway, saw them both in a single sunset:

"There was a visible green flash in the sunset on April 29th," says Tertnes. "But that's not all. Just before the green flash, there was a very blue glow visible along the sun's upper edge--even more blue than I managed to capture in the photo."

Green flashes are formed when the prismatic action of the atmosphere splits the setting sun into basic R-G-B colors. Temperature inversions create a mirage, magnifying the green into an eye-catching flash.

Comment: From the activity in the skies to the shifting ground beneath our feet, our world is changing, and this is evidenced by the increasingly regular sightings of what once were rare phenomena, as well as sights that have never been seen before and remain unexplained:

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