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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt striking moving car filmed in Morocco

LIGHTNING HITS CAR
A moving car on a street in Morocco was struck by lightning in a moment caught on camera by a person filming the road.

A video posted to YouTube shows the car traveling down a road during a rain storm and being struck in its back end by a bolt of lightning.

The car continues moving, but starts billowing smoke and pulls over a short distance up the road.

The driver and passengers are able to get out of the car without apparent injuries as a crowd gathers to inspect the smoldering vehicle.

The video's description says it was recorded in Morocco, but the exact location and date of the event were unclear.


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Waterspout filmed in Penang, Malaysia

WATERSPOUT
Social media was abuzz recently when a viral video depicting a natural yet uncommon phenomenon known as 'Waterspout' occurred near the Penang Bridge - raising alarm amongst netizens and the public.

The video revealed that the waterspout which resembles a mini tornado was spotted in the Penang channel during a downpour as the natural phenomenon is often linked with strong winds and thunderstorms.

"It's a miracle and an act of God when we have such a phenomenon like a tornado," one netizen described about the 16-second video circulated on Facebook, as quoted in The Star.

The Sun reported that the video was recorded by motorists and the Fire and Rescue Department confirmed that no casualty reports were received.


Wolf

Man mauled by own Staffordshire bull terrier dies in London

Dog attack
The Staffordshire bull terrier, which is not a breed prohibited under the Dangerous Dogs Act, injured the 41-year-old in Wood Green on 20 March.

The man, named locally as Mario Perivoitos, suffered injuries to this throat and was taken to hospital, but was pronounced dead two hours later.

The man was taking part in a BBC documentary at the time of the attack.

'A lot of blood'

Neighbour Geoff Morgan, 52, who was home at the time, said: "I heard shouting - 'Get him off! Get him off me!'

"He was shouting really loudly. He was bleeding from his neck. There was a lot of blood."

Avraam Avramidis, 31, who lived upstairs, said: "For me, Mario was a good guy. He was actually very clever."

Attention

Dead humpback washes ashore in Aurora, Philippines

Humpback Whale
Humpback Whale
A dead humpback whale washed ashore in the town of Dipaculao, Aurora province Tuesday night.

The marine mammal, which measured almost 15 feet long, was covered with wounds and bruises.

Dipaculao Mayor Joana Salamanca said they deployed a pay-loader to haul away the carcass and bury it Wednesday.

Local fishermen have also reported regular sightings of butanding or whale sharks off the coast of Casiguran. Last year, a dead whale shark washed ashore in the town.

Officials measure the humpback whale carcass that washed ashore in Dipaculao, Aurora.
© Cris SansanoOfficials measure the humpback whale carcass that washed ashore in Dipaculao, Aurora.

Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills prophetess in Ghana

LIGHTNING
A prophetess, Ewura Esi Amanda, has been struck and killed by lightning at Assin Fosu in the Central Region.

Amanda, who is the spiritual leader of the International Christian Bible Church, was struck dead at her house on Sunday, according to a report by the Daily Guide.

The report quoted an eyewitness, Blessing Kwame Mensah, as saying that the incident happened at about 8:30 pm.

According to Mensah, the prophetess, who stayed at Assin Foso Mempasem behind Stroman Preparatory School, did not go to church that fateful Sunday.

Cloud Precipitation

Floods in the Dominican Republic leave 1,700 displaced, 3 missing

Weather alerts in the Dominican Republic, 25 March 2017.
© Emergency Operations Center of Dominican Republic (COE)Weather alerts in the Dominican Republic, 25 March 2017.
Disaster authorities in the Dominican Republic say that a period of heavy rain caused flooding in northern areas of the country from 23 March 2017.

As of 25 March, 1,770 people had been forced from their homes. Around 364 homes have been damaged and a further 8 completely destroyed. Seven bridges have also suffered some flood damage. At one point around 27 communities were cut off by flood water.


Bizarro Earth

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake recorded over Kamchatka region

Kamchatka Earthquake
© USGS
A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, some 80 kilometers north east of Ust-Kamchatsk. The Sakhalin tsunami monitoring center issued a warning of possible local waves of up to 1.5 meters.

The quake occurred in the Bering Sea, just off the eastern coast of Kamchatka on Wednesday afternoon (4:09am GMT), Kamchatka's branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Interfax.

"Residents of the Klyuchi and Kozyrevsk of the Ust-Kamatsky villages experienced this earthquake with a five points magnitude," the representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences said.

The Sakhalin Tsunami Center has warned the earthquake can possibly trigger local tsunami waves of up to 1.5 meters, TASS reports, adding that waves could reach North-Kurilsk island within two hours.

Solar Flares

What Solar Activity Looks Like Entering a Mini Ice Age

Global cooling prediction
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
With Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) decreasing, galactic cosmic rays increasing causing more cloud cover globally and measurable decreases in out put of our Sun, it is apparent that the new mini ice age / grand solar minimum has commenced. David Evans also predicts a 0.3C drop beginning 2017 to occur, which will leave the IPCC in serious damage control as the planet wont be the warmest year ever. We need to look to the Electric Sun model to explain the changes and begin the discussion of how we as species are going to adapt to the changes that repeat every 400 years.


Comment: The Electric Universe model and impact of the Sun's reduced activity on our planet is discussed, with other important information pertaining to climate change, in Pierre Lescaudron's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.


Blackbox

Siberian Crater Mystery: Are Exploding Gas Pockets Really to Blame?

crater on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia
© Itar-Tass/ZumaA crater on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. Scientists aren't sure what caused these craters to form in the Siberian Arctic, where the permafrost is thawing.
Is the Siberian permafrost exploding? Recent reports out of the Arctic Circle suggest that methane pockets are erupting and causing huge craters, but scientists aren't so sure that these features are necessarily the result of detonations — or that they are even new.

A Siberian Times article suggested that 7,000 underground gas bubbles are set to "explode" on the peninsulas of Yamal and Gydan as a result of melting permafrost. The article differentiates these small gas bubbles from enormous craters in the tundra landscape, but asserts that the huge craters are the result of subsurface methane gas exploding as global warming heats up Earth. That is far from certain, scientists told Live Science. In fact, the craters may be thousands of years old.

"These craters are recently discovered by scientists," said Katey Walter Anthony, a biogeochemist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who studies methane release from permafrost. "It doesn't mean they are new."

Comment: Is there something much bigger happening on our planet? Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection


Binoculars

World's rarest, most ancient dog has been rediscovered in the wild

wild dog
© NGHWDFNew Guinea Highland Wild Dog
After decades of fearing that the New Guinea highland wild dog had gone extinct in its native habitat, researchers have finally confirmed the existence of a healthy, viable population, hidden in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on Earth.

According to DNA analysis, these are the most ancient and primitive canids in existence, and a recent expedition to New Guinea's remote central mountain spine has resulted in more than 100 photographs of at least 15 wild individuals, including males, females, and pups, thriving in isolation and far from human contact.

"The discovery and confirmation of the highland wild dog for the first time in over half a century is not only exciting, but an incredible opportunity for science," says the group behind the discovery, the New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation (NGHWDF). "The 2016 Expedition was able to locate, observe, gather documentation and biological samples, and confirm through DNA testing that at least some specimens still exist and thrive in the highlands of New Guinea."
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© NGHWDFWild dog sightings.