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Thousands of red tuna crabs wash up around Mission Bay, California; second time for the area within a month


cbs8.com
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:43 UTC
Red tuna crabs wash up
Red tuna crabs wash up
Thousands of red tuna crabs washed ashore Tuesday morning in Mission Beach.

Visitors in the area around the South Shores Park Boat Launch found beaches covered with the carbs. Red tuna crasbs are typically found off the coast of Baja California, however, El Nino weather patterns have pushed them north and onto Southern Californian beaches.

Last month, thousands of crabs also washed ashore in Imperial Beach. They have also been spotted on Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach and in Orange County.


Comment: See also: Thousands of tuna crabs found in Imperial Beach, California

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Cloud Lightning

Rare 'red sprites' burst out of supercell storm in Texas

RT NEWS
YouTube
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 08:13 UTC
rare red sprite over Texas
© YouTube/RT NEWS (screen capture)
Very rare 'Red Sprites' shoot out of the tops of supercell thunderstorms near Amarillo, Texas.


Comment: Red Sprites - A strange and beautiful form of lightning

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Eurasia's tallest volcano in Russia's Far East spews ash miles into air


Sputnik
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 03:59 UTC
Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia erupts
© RIA Novosti. Evgeniy Neskoromniy
Eurasia's largest volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia's Far East erupted shooting hot ash miles into the air on Tuesday, the local geophysical service said.

"The eruption was detected [Tuesday] morning...the eruption column rose 6 kilometers [3.7 miles]. The steam-gas plume stretched for 47 kilometers to the west of the volcano," a representative of the Russian agency told RIA Novosti.

The 15,580-feet volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula has been rumbling to life since the beginning of April. It has been almost continuously active for the past 50 years but the number of tremors and ash eruptions has been on the rise lately.

According to the geophysical service, ash spews are ongoing, volcanic activity has been registered. The Aviation Color Code has been changed to orange, which means that the volcanic eruption is underway with minor ash emission.
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Cloud Precipitation

Ferocious hailstorm causes havoc in Harbin, China


Euronews
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:24 UTC
Hailstorm
A ferocious hail and rainstorm lashed Harbin City in north-east China, wreaking mayhem on the streets and disrupting traffic.

Coin-sized hailstone pellets pelted Harbin for some 10 minutes on Sunday before a heavy rainstorm moved in, causing flooding up to 20-centimeters high in some places.


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Sun

Weekend brings dangerous triple-digit heat to southwestern US - records may fall

Alex Sosnowski
Accuweather
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:35 UTC
heatwave June13
© Accuweather
Heat will build to dangerous and record-challenging levels in much of the southwestern United States toward this weekend and into early next week. Temperatures will climb well past 100 F in parts of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Teaxas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona with the worst days of heat likely from Saturday to Monday.

While the summer months can be unbearable in terms of heat in the Southwest, temperatures will climb to 10-20 F above average for the middle of June during the pattern.

"The core of the heat will be centered on Arizona, where portions of the state, including Phoenix, could approach their highest temperature on record for any calendar day," according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.

Temperatures may not only reach levels not felt in the past several years but could challenge the highest mark on record in some cases.

Comment: Wild swings of weather are a marker of larger earth changes, possibly of cosmic origin. See also:

SOTT Earth Changes Summary - May 2016: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Fire

Residential building in Milan partially collapses after explosion; three dead and nine injured


The Local.it
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:13 UTC
Milan building explosion
© Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo
A residential building is seen partially collapsed following an explosion in Milan, Italy, June 12, 2016.
Three people died and nine were injured after a building partially collapsed in Milan on Sunday in an explosion that is believed to have been caused by a gas leak.

The incident happened in a residential building on Via Brioschi.

Among those injured were two sisters, aged seven and 11, who were hospitalized with severe burns, and their father. Their 43-year-old mother died in the explosion, which is thought to have been caused by a leak from a stove in an apartment rented by a couple, who were also among the victims, Ansa reported.

The couple, from the Marche region, were students, both aged 27.

All three victims and the nine injured lived on the third floor of the building, where the gas leak is thought to have occurred.

"The explosion sounded like a bomb - at first I thought it was an attack," a resident on Via Brioschi was quoted by Ansa as saying.


Comment: A couple of months ago a massive mysterious explosion obliterated an apartment block in Paris.

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Sinkhole swallows 3 cars in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Hean Socheata
All Expatt News
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:50 UTC
Onlookers watch the cars sink in a hole by a construction site by Phnom Penh's Olympic Stadium after a heavy rain on Wednesday, June 8, 2016.
Onlookers watch the cars sink in a hole by a construction site by Phnom Penh's Olympic Stadium after a heavy rain on Wednesday, June 8, 2016.
The onset of monsoon rains in Phnom Penh this week opened a sinkhole on a busy road close to the iconic Olympic Stadium.

The city is thought to be at high risk of sinkholes due to its position astride numerous lakes, which the government has filled in over the years to expand the land on which it can build.

Residents living close to a large skyscraper project next to the sinkhole have become concerned.

Hout Hang, 60, who saw the road collapse during a rainstorm on Wednesday, said he had watched in amazement as the tarmac gave way.

"It just suddenly happened, and three cars fell into the sinkhole," he said. "Luckily the cars were just parked there, otherwise, if people were driving, it would be dangerous and could have killed people," he said.

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Hardhat

Large sinkhole swallows road in Mason City, Iowa

Brian Tabick
KIMT
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:42 UTC
Iowa sinkhole
© KIMT
Authorities say they responded to a call of a sink hole around midnight on B20 near Poplar and Raven Road just North of Mason City.

Those who live near the sinkhole say they have been working on fixing the damage left behind for most of the morning.

"It washed out our waterline for horses, and I have been working on that all day," says Steve Smith. "But the road is the least of our worries. It washed out our crops, we had some hail north of here, the roads the minor compared to what we've dealt with."

Deputy Brian Koob with the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff's Office says many road ways are blocked with water and folks need to try and avoid areas that completely covered.

"It is something that just pops up," says Deputy Koob. "We ask the driver to be vigilant, when we have heavy downpours and flash flooding this could happen to any roadway. It's hard to detect when the colvert is going to giveway unless you see the bowing in the road or anything of that affect."

As for Smith, he says this isn't the first time he has seen a sinkhole and it certainly wont be the last.

"I've seen it numerous times, when you get 4 inches in 15- 20 minutes it's going to happen," he says.

Comment: Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill another 6 in Bangladesh; 14 deaths in 2 days


Dhaka Tribune
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:09 UTC
Lightning
Lightning killed six people in Khulna, Bagerhat, Jessore, Satkhira and Jhenaidah on Sunday.

Khulna

Murad Gazi, 33 and his daughter Rajia Sultana Sonali, 7, were killed at Modbari village under Koyra Upzila of the district in the morning as lightning struck them at the balcony of their house, Officer-in-Charge of Koyra Police Station confirmed.

Bagerhat

Monoara Begum, 35, wife of Shah Alam of Kachua Village, was killed at the yard of her house also in the morning, Officer-in-Charge of Kochua Police Station Sheikh Shamser Ali said.

Jhenaidah

At 10 am, lightning killed a fire service official, Milon Miah, 28, son of Bulbul Miah of Raghunathpur village under Kaliganj Upazila of the district. Kotchadpur Fire Service Station Manager Alauddin said.

Comment: See also: Update: Lightning strikes kill 8 across Bangladesh

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Cloud Grey

International Space Station captures rare high-altitude noctilucent clouds

Cody Matz
Fox 9
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 08:42 UTC
High altitude noctilucent clouds
© ESA/NASA/Tim Peake
Expedition 47 Flight Engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency recently photographed rare, high-altitude noctilucent or "night shining" clouds from the International Space Station.

Polar mesospheric clouds, also known as noctilucent clouds, form between 76 to 85 kilometers (47 to 53 miles) above the Earth's surface, near the boundary of the mesosphere and thermosphere, a region known as the mesopause. At these altitudes, water vapor can freeze into clouds of ice crystals. When the sun is below the horizon and the ground is in darkness, these high clouds may still be illuminated, lending them their ethereal, "night shining" qualities.

In the late spring and summer, unusual clouds form high in the atmosphere above the polar regions of the world. As the lower atmosphere warms, the upper atmosphere gets cooler, and ice crystals form on meteor dust and other particles high in the sky. The result is noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds — electric blue wisps that grow on the edge of space. Polar mesospheric clouds can be observed from both the Earth's surface and in orbit by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

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