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Elephant tramples man to death in Kerala, India

Jessica Green
Daily Mail
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:22 UTC
Suddenly the creature stomps forward and crushes the man's body under his giant feet
Suddenly the creature stomps forward and crushes the man's body under his giant feet
This is the horrifying moment a man is trampled to death by a raging elephant as terrified onlookers run for their lives.

Graphic footage captured the animal's deadly rampage in Kerala, a southern state of India.

At the start of the video the group of men that surround the elephant, in what appears to be a temple of some sort, can be heard shouting towards it.

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Snowflake

Asir region of Saudi Arabia gets covered in snow


Khaleej Times
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:20 UTC
The region experienced rain and snow for six hours.
The region experienced rain and snow for six hours.
The Asir region of Saudi Arabia was covered with snow as the weather witnessed a change in temperature, Saudi news Agency SPA reported on Tuesday.

For six hours, the region experienced rain and snow, which covered the mountains and roads in white including the Al Hussein and Al Omar valleys.

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Snowflake Cold

Depth of snow in the Alps hits 7 metres, Swiss ski resort gets 5 feet of snowfall in 7 days

Patrick Thorne
Inthesnow
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:18 UTC
Alps
Snow depths in the Alps have passed the 7m mark for what is believed to be the first time in many years.

Engelberg in Switzerland, which has reported the deepest base in the world for much of winter 17-18, somewhere above 6m/20 feet, reported 145cm (just under five feet) of snowfall in the past 7 days, again the biggest total for the Alps this week, and now reports its upper slope base at 7.4m - nearly 25 feet.

The resort is open for snow sports to mid-May.
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Attention

Baby boy snatched by monkey found dead in Odisha, India

Binita Jaiswal
The Times of India
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:55 UTC
The baby’s father, Ramakrushna Nayak lies prostrate before God, praying for safety of his child in Talabasta village of Odisha’s Cuttack district.
© SambadThe baby’s father, Ramakrushna Nayak lies prostrate before God, praying for safety of his child in Talabasta village of Odisha’s Cuttack district.
The body of a 16-day-old boy, who snatched by a monkey from his home in Odisha's Cuttack district, was recovered from a well in the backyard of the house on Sunday morning.

The incident occured in Talabasta village in Banki on Saturday at the residence of Rama Krushna Nayak, boy's father.

The body was sent to Banki Hospital for postmortem to know the exact cause of the death. Police said a woman had gone to the well to fetch water when she spotted baby's body floating in it. She immediately informed other family members after which the body was fished out from the well.
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Bug

Locusts swarm in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions, Western Australia

Michelle Stanley
abc.net.au
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:12 UTC
Locusts swarming through Western Australia's Pilbara and Kimberley regions
© cms.ausgeo.bauer-media.net.au.Locusts swarming through Western Australia's Pilbara and Kimberley regions
Locusts swarming through Western Australia's Pilbara and Kimberley regions are costing pastoralists thousands of dollars in lost pasture and control efforts.

The warm and wet summer in the north provided a perfect breeding ground for the yellow-winged locust.

Pastoralists believed locust numbers had not been so high for decades.

Bettini Beef Pastoral Group general manager Mark Bettini said in his 30 years in the Pilbara, the worst locust plague he had seen was in 1998 at De Grey Station, 100 kilometres east of Port Hedland.

"You could not see the tin on the roof for grasshoppers," Mr Bettini said.
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Windsock

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Strange winds in the Arctic, early Pacific super typhoon and Antarctic sea ice returns


Adapt 2030
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:59 UTC
Super Typhoon Jelawat
© NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP/VIIRSSuper Typhoon Jelawat on March 30, 2018.
Winds are noticeably changing in the Northern Hemisphere due to the continued weakening of the magnetosphere as we descend further into the grand solar minimum. Zonal winds @65N and above had a dramatic reduction, but in the Pacific a super typhoon forms in March. Antarctic sea ice makes a massive recovery nearly breaking above the 1981-2010 average. The shift to a colder polar climate in beginning to show, now add in unstable global winds and I feel the result will be crop yield reductions.


Comment: Jelawat rapidly intensified into the first super typhoon of 2018

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Snowflake

UK: Snow, rain and floods make bank holiday travels a trial


BBC News
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 20:50 UTC
snow, cars
Drivers in Nenthead, Cumbria faced treacherous conditions as up to 4in (10cm) of snow fell in the north of the UK.
Travellers returning from bank holiday trips faced delays as heavy rain and snow closed roads.

Up to 4in (10cm) of snow covered parts of Scotland, northern England and north Wales, while torrential rain fell in southern England.

Flood warnings and alerts are in force in England, Scotland and Wales.

The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings as the AA warns that motorists faced one of the busiest bank holidays on the roads in recent years.

As of 21:00 BST the Environment Agency had issued 41 flood warnings and 217 flood alerts in England, and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency issued one flood warning for people in Scotland.

Natural Resources Wales had one flood warning and 19 flood alerts in place for Wales.

Comment: Ice age on the way: Gulf Stream is slowing down faster than ever, scientists say

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Ice Cube

America's North East continues to be battered by storms - with 'Spring snow' to follow

ANIEL MANZO
ABC News
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:43 UTC
A storm is developing in the central Plains Sunday and rapidly moving off to the east.
© ABCA storm is developing in the central Plains Sunday and rapidly moving off to the east.
The first storm of the holiday weekend moved through the upper Midwest on Saturday bringing as much as a foot of snow in northern Minnesota. Now another storm is developing in the central Plains Sunday and rapidly moving to the east -- with snow likely from Nebraska to Ohio on Easter Sunday.

Snow will reach Missouri and Illinois by the early evening hours, and then move into Indiana and Ohio by Sunday night. Occasional heavy bursts of snow are likely, which will reduce visibility. Although the snow will have some difficulty sticking to roadways, slick and treacherous spots will develop in the region Sunday evening, and travel will be impacted.

Comment: This will be perhaps the fifth Nor'Easter after a string of other storms to hit the US in just under two months: Fourth Nor'easter this month to bring snow and on the first day of Spring - and we can expect more to come

And it's not just the US experiencing unusual cold:

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Huge steam vortices filmed above Hawaii's Kilauea volcano

Isabel van Brugen
Express
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:28 UTC
Hawaii volcano vortices 2013 Kilauea
The Volcanic vortices pictured back in 2013.”
Several land spouts of twisting lava were seen just above the Pulama pali at sunrise on Thursday, helicopter footage shows.

Mick Kalber, a videographer who was aboard a Paradise Helicopters flights, said: "[A] pink rainbow, amazing land spouts and a veritable plethora of lava flows made for a spectacular lava overflight this morning.

"We have often seen water spouts at the ocean entry, but this morning, due to a head downpour on the 61G flow and the right wind and heat conditions, several vortices [land spouts] appeared just above the Pali."

Comment: While this phenomenon has been recorded before, it's notable that all over the world the appearance of wind vortex formations in the unlikeliest of places appear to be increasing - and that perhaps our understanding of how they form needs to be questioned:

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Arrow Down

One killed and three injured by avalanche in French Alps - over 12 such fatalities for the region this year


Independent (Ireland)
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:22 UTC
stock photo
An avalanche in the Alps has killed one person and injured three, French mountain rescuers said.

Searches are under way for others who may be trapped in the snow.

The avalanche hit in the Aiguilles Rouges range near Chamonix, an officer with the Chamonix mountain guides service said.

The area is across from the Mont Blanc massif.

Comment: See also: Avalanche in Swiss resort kills 3 skiers following days of heavy snowfall

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