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Cloud Precipitation

Colorado Springs uses snowplows to clean up heaps of hail


Daily Mail
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:48 UTC
Hail as deep as two feet lies in the front yards of home along Logan Avenue between Platte Avenue and Bijou Street after a storm hit Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday, Aug. 29, 2016.
© Christian Murdock/The GazetteHail as deep as two feet lies in the front yards of home along Logan Avenue between Platte Avenue and Bijou Street after a storm hit Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday, Aug. 29, 2016.
A strong summer storm that walloped Colorado Springs forced authorities to rescue people from their stranded cars and move heaps of hail with snowplows.

More rain is possible Tuesday after the deluge Monday flooded roadways and left hail piled up on sidewalks. Eight people were rescued from their cars after they got stuck in the deep water, and hail swamped a basement apartment.

National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Peterson tells The Gazette of Colorado Springs that 2 to 3 inches of rain fell on some parts of the already soggy city. Most areas got between 1 and 2 inches Sunday, leaving the ground saturated before the latest storm hit.

An area near Peterson Air Force Base got just over 4 inches of rain between Sunday and Monday evening.


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Attention

Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano eruption triggers 3-magnitude earthquake

Andrew V. Pestano
UPI
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 20:35 UTC
Popocatépetl volcano
Popocatépetl volcano
Mexico's National Center for Disaster Prevention on Wednesday said an eruption at the Popocatépetl volcano caused a 3-magnitude earthquake.

The temblor occurred at 1:11 p.m. Tuesday. The epicenter was in the southeast section of the volcano.

"These earthquakes are part of a swarm or train of volcano tectonic earthquakes that began last Monday," the disaster prevention center, or CENAPRED, said in Wednesday's statement. "At the time of this report there have been counted 366 of these earthquakes."

Popocatépetl is about 43 miles southeast of Mexico City. CENAPRED in March raised the environmental alert level to the second degree out of three, meaning nearby residents should be prepared to evacuate.
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Attention

Baird's beaked whale carcass found on coast of Point Reyes, California

Sumayah Aamir
i4u.com
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:48 UTC
Scientists from The Marine Mammal Center, California Academy of Sciences, and Point Reyes National Seashore measure the length of the stranded Baird’s beaked whale at North Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday, August 29, 2016.
© The Marine Mammal CenterScientists from The Marine Mammal Center, California Academy of Sciences, and Point Reyes National Seashore measure the length of the stranded Baird’s beaked whale at North Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore on Monday, August 29, 2016.
A stranded whale's body was found on the coast of Point Reyes.

A 34 foot long whale that belonged to a deep water species was found stranded on the beach at Point Reyes. This was reported by the Marine Mammal Center.

A group of eleven scientists investigated the case of the stranded whale carcass. It was an adult Baird's beaked whale. A post-mortem of the rotten carcass of the whale revealed that there had been a lot of hemorrhaging on the left side and a severed fluke was present somewhere in its body as well.

The poor whale had probably been struck by a man-made seafaring vessel. This is the first Baird's beaked whale the Marine Mammal Center has seen in such a disintegrated condition in its entire history, according to Bay City News.
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Cloud Grey

Multiple lenticular clouds form over Washington state

Scott Sistek
KOMO News
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:51 UTC
Lenticular clouds over Central Washington
© Wendy PeteMultiple lenticular clouds spotted over the Columbia River Gorge in Central Washington on Aug. 28, 2016.
Glancing at the skies over the Pacific Northwest Saturday might have had you wondering if a request to be taken to your leader was not too far behind.

But no, it wasn't an alien invasion, just an invasion of cooler air from the Pacific Ocean that put a surreal visual stamp on the end of the recent hot weather. The spooky looking clouds are "lenticular" clouds -- so named for their lens-like shape, and while they might look ominous, the clouds themselves are fairly benign.

Lenticular clouds are created when the atmosphere is moist and almost -- but not quite -- to the point of condensation. They are most commonly seen in the Pacific Northwest near the large mountaintops, especially over and around Mt. Rainier.

As air flows over the summit, the mountain creates just enough lift that the air cools the few degrees it needs to condense into a cloud. Then when the air sinks down the windward side of the mountain, it warms and dries out, and essentially goes back to being invisible.
Lenticular clouds over Washington state
Depending on the horizontal air flow, you can get secondary and tertiary lenticular clouds downstream as the air propagates in the Rainier-caused turbulence where the air rises enough again to condense into a cloud, then sinks down again. And depending on how the air stacks up vertically, you can get several layers of clouds stacked like thin pancakes that give way to unusual shapes.

Watch this time lapse video from Saturday showing how the clouds form and appear to float in place:


Comment: More pictures from a photographer at Mt. Rainer:



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Fire

Central Idaho wildfire increases by 45 square miles; now up to 220 square miles


The Spokesman-Review
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:20 UTC
Firefighters
A central Idaho wildfire fanned by strong winds expanded 45 square miles Tuesday, burning through timber in remote and mountainous terrain.

Officials say the active part of the fire that's now up to 220 square miles is burning far from critical infrastructure, but some low-level evacuations remain for some areas of the sparsely populated region.

Officials say they expect the fire to continue moving north and northeast and into burn scars from previous fires that could slow its advance.

About 1,200 firefighters are at the blaze that started July 18 for unknown reason.

Officials have said a rain or snow event will be needed to put the fire out, and the estimated containment date of the fire is mid-October.


Source: Associated Press
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Attention

Farmer survives 3 hour bear attack in Karnataka, India

Darren Boyle
Daily Mail
Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:50 UTC
Indian sloth bears
The man believes he was attacked by an Indian sloth bear. Despite their almost comical looks and awkward gait, they can be very effective killers according to experts
A farmer who fought a terrifying three-hour battle with a bear has astonished medics by surviving massive head injuries caused in the attack.

Victim Jube Valanti Adveppache, 58, had been picking mushrooms in one of his fields in southern India when the bear attacked without warning.

Jube later told wildlife officials and police how the animal - believed to be a sloth bear - pounced on him without warning and would not let him go.

In a scene remarkably similar to the bear attack in Leonardo Di Caprio's hit movie The Revenant, the predator kept breaking off the attack and then restarting it.

Jube says it was three hours before the bear seemed convinced he had killed him and moved off into the forests around Haliyal in Karnataka State.
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Woman survives black bear attack in her own back yard in Warren County, Virginia

Matthew Fultz |
whsv.com
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:08 UTC
Black bear
Black bear
It was a close call for Judy Milden as she went toe to toe with a black bear.

"I've never seen a big bear that close before (or) actually touched it, so that was pretty wild too," said Milden.

Milden said Saturday night she let her dogs out before bed. That's when they started barking in the distance.

Milden said she initially thought it was just raccoons, but it turns out it was a mother bear and her cubs. That's when the bear attacked one of her dogs.

"I wasn't even thinking about anything with me. I was just worried about the dog," Milden said.
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Black Cat

Man-eating tigress claims its third victim in 11 days in Dudhwa National Park, India


Catch News
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:54 UTC
Tiger
© Representational Image
A man-eating tigress in Dudhwa National Park claimed its third victim on 30 August. A man was mauled to death by the predator near Dudhwa in Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident occurred in Cheedipur village and angry villagers pelted stones at forest officials forcing them to flee the spot. An official informed Catch that the man was walking back home when the tigress attacked him.

The animal killed its first victim on 19 August and villagers rushed to the spot forcing the animal to abandon its kill. A day later, the tigress killed another man near the same spot and devoured some of his body parts. Since then, there had been no attacks, but that changed on Tuesday.

The forest department along with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) have been making desperate attempts to track the animal, but to no avail. All attempts to capture the tiger have failed despite several teams working day in and out to locate the animal.
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Wolf

Contractor attacked by wolf at Cigar Lake, Canada


ckom.com
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:38 UTC
Wolf
© wikipedia
A contractor working in northern Saskatchewan is recovering in hospital after he was mauled by a wolf.

The 26-year-old victim was on his lunch break at Cameco's Cigar Lake uranium mine Monday morning when the wolf made the unprovoked attack.

The incident ended when a security guard scared the animal away.

"We were very fortunate the security guard was in the place where she was," said Rob Geraghty, Cameco spokesperson. "She took a number of steps to not only get the animal away, but also to administer first aid."
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Cloud Lightning

Two killed and one injured by lightning bolt in Bengal, India


Business Standard
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:18 UTC
lIGHTNING
Two persons died and one person was injured due to lightning strike in Howrah district today.

The lightning struck them when the persons were engaged in drying jute fibre on the bank of a canal at Uttar Manasri Saupara area of Udainarainpur killing the two persons on the spot, the police said.

The injured was being treated at Udainarainpur hospital.

Source: Press Trust of India
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