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The storm pushed some of the coldest air of the season through the Northeast. Wind gusts of up to 55 mph could be felt along the coast from Maine to as far south as Cape May, N.J., and some parts of Delaware.
Towns like Duxbury, Mass., saw homes damaged as strong gusts blew through the area forcing schools to close.
"This whole town got hit pretty hard," Duxbury Fire Capt. Rob Reardon told ABC News. "You can tell by just the amount of trees, the wires, the damage to houses. Roads are blocked, schools are shut down because school buses can't access these streets at all. We're having a difficult time trying to get to calls from one side of town to the other."
The senior citizen died of heavy bleeding after three to four pigs indiscriminately attacked him.
The incident took place in Bijinepally block in Nagar Kurnool district on Tuesday evening.
Local police sub-inspector told Mirror that C Kondaiah (in his late 70s) was living in a shed outside his son's house. On Tuesday, he kept the door open and slept. There was nobody at home.
Some pigs roaming around attacked him. Neighbours saw the pigs with blood on their mouths and suspected that they attacked somebody. They went into Kondaiah's shed and found him lying dead in a pool of blood.
© Lars Holst HansenThe Zackenberg valley in Northeast Greenland, summer 2018. Huge amounts of snow still covered the ground in late June, where the snow-covered season usually is coming to an end.
"2018 may offer a peep into the future, where increased climatic variability may push the arctic species to — and potentially beyond — their limits."
A new study published Tuesday looked at the implications of extreme snowfall in the Arctic in 2018 — the kind of increased precipitation event scientists link to climate change — and researchers say the scenario could be a harbinger of how ecosystems in the region will be negatively affected by a rapidly warming planet.
"The result was an almost complete reproductive failure of plants and animals of all sizes," the authors wrote.
The takeaway for arctic ecosystems, the authors found, is that "changes in precipitation may prove as crucial as changes in temperature — if not even more."
For the study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers focused on the monitoring site of Zackenberg in Northeast Greenland. In 2018, the Arctic — including the High Arctic where the Zackenberg facility is — saw unusually large amounts of snow. That meant there was a significant delay in snow melt, which in turn made it difficult for plants to grow and for animals to access resources.
The result? The "most complete reproductive failure encountered in the terrestrial ecosystem during more than two decades of monitoring," said the study.
Comment: Elsewhere in the Arctic a wildflower meadow photographed in Arctic oases surprises scientists.
Time running out for San Francisco?
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© Lisa PeronneA seagull found sick at Huntington State Beach on Thursday, Oct. 10, recovers at the Wetlands and Wildlife Center. The gull was one of 12 found at the beach
A handful of wildlife experts and volunteers responded to a call from a woman walking on the beach, who first saw the numerous dead and dying gulls at around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, said Lisa Peronne, wildlife manager at the Huntington Beach-based rehabilitation nonprofit.
When Peronne and her team arrived, she said they found 12 beached Western Gulls on the high tide line mixed up with seaweed. Upon inspecting the birds, eight were dead and the other four were clinging to life, she said.
"When we found them," Peronne said, "we had to pick up each bird to see if they were dead or alive"
© GEONETWhite smoke plumes above Metis Shoal observed this week.
The eruption at Matis Shoal, a submarine volcano around halfway between the islands of Kao and Late in Tonga, was first noticed on Tuesday when a pilot with the Real Tonga airline flew over the area and alerted ground control to white columns of steam rising to about 5000 metres elevation.
GeoNet and the Wellington Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre, a department of Metservice, have been monitoring the situation, but say there is currently no risk to flights in the area.
According to the USDA, only 15 percent of all U.S. corn and only 14 percent of all U.S. soybeans had been harvested as of October 6th...
Comment: The 'bomb cyclone' set a record as the strongest October storm ever in the Boston area.