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© Josh Baar / California Department of Water ResourcesAshok Bathulla, water resource engineer for the California Department of Water Resources, writes snow measurements as John King, Water Resource Engineer, for DWR plunges the long aluminum snow depth survey pole into the snowpack.
The fifth and final survey of the season at Phillips Station recorded 47 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 27.5 inches, the Department of Water Resources said. That's 188% of average for the location near Lake Tahoe.
Just four years ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown found a field at Phillips Station barren of any measurable snow amid an historic drought.
The April 1 measurement, which is typically the largest and is used by the state to make decisions about water supplies, measured 106.5 inches and 51 inches of snow water content. Snow water equivalent is the depth of water that theoretically would result if the entire snowpack melted instantaneously.
© Simon Davies/NRBOClearly exhausted, the Mourning Dove barely moved from the same small patch of grass by the lighthouse all afternoon
Dinner was being prepared, drinks were being served and the photo was inconclusive at best, so it was ultimately dismissed as a dodgy picture of a Collared Dove. Thankfully, though, it was at that moment that Pete Donnelly telephoned the Observatory to discuss a 'funny dove' at the lighthouse.
For the first few minutes of the call, I simply assumed that he was discussing the same photo that we'd all been looking at - but then the penny dropped. He was actually at the lighthouse, watching the bird at that moment! Having been working at the lighthouse, Pete had independently come across the dove and not yet seen the photograph on the island WhatsApp group.Things became a bit more urgent as he described it as "definitely not a Collared Dove" and that it was "too small [for Collared], with wonderful spots on the wings." However, he wasn't sure exactly what it was.
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
The attack was reported at the intersection of 38th Street and Grand Avenue around 12 p.m., according to LMPD spokesman Lamont Washington.
The child, who police said appeared to be 3-years-old, was transported to Norton Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"The only thing I saw was the black shadow of a dog leaving the room," neighbor Shelby Lee Caldwell told WAVE 3 News.
It was the second-highest number since recordkeeping started in 2000. In 2016, 221 dead porpoises were found.
"Porpoises in the German Baltic continue to be threatened by extinction," said Steffi Lemke, the Greens Party member who requested the figures from the ministry. "The alarming rise in dead porpoise finds make it clear that we need effective conservation areas."
She called for stricter rules on fishing and industrial use in conservation areas.
The breakdown of figures showed a record-high 69 dead porpoises were found in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and 134 in Schleswig-Holstein.
Tomintoul in Moray where there was a dusting of fresh snow today
And the dip in the mercury comes in stark contrast to the April heatwave.
A polar plunge is set to bring the coldest May Day Bank Holiday Monday for almost 40 YEARS.
But some parts of Scotland have already seen some of the white stuff this morning.
Punters took to social media in Aberdeen and parts of the Highlands to show the snow falling.
© Baiba Dālberga
In Rūjiena, close to the border between Latvia and Estonia, there was even a small snow cover, but snow was also reported in the towns of Cēsis and Sigulda as well as the villages of Naukšēni, Grundzāle and Lizums.
But the worst cold is yet to come, with temperatures set to fall 0..-4C across Latvia except for the coastal and southern regions of the country. Sunday morning is to be a bit warmer but freezing temperatures are also expected in parts of the country.
© SP Vaid
The meteorological (MeT department in Srinagar said there will be fairly widespread rain in Kashmir parts for the next two days, "The weather system suggests that the skies will clear up on the eve of Ramzan," a senior MeT official said.
According to reports, the border town of Gurez in north Kashmir and some other upper reaches, including tourist resort of Sonmarg, received fresh snowfall while rain lashed other parts of Kashmir valley, resulting in considerable dip in maximum temperature.
The quake hit at 6:45 p.m. local time at a depth of 10 kilometers, roughly 145 km north-northeast of Buala, a small town on the southeast coast of Santa Isabel Island, the longest island in the Solomon Islands.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
The Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii reported there is no tsunami threat.
© Twitter/@WMOCyclone Fani makes landfall in eastern India.
The monster weather system, which threatened to bring a dangerous storm surge that could flood low-lying areas, was packing winds of up to 180 kilometres (110 miles) an hour as it ripped into the country's east coast.
Forecasters say the areas could see gusts of up to 200 kilometres per hour, equivalent in strength to a Category 3 to 4 hurricane.
In recent days authorities in Odisha, where 10,000 people died in a 1999 cyclone, have evacuated more than a million people as they fret about a possible 1.5-metre (five-foot) storm surge.
Hundreds of thousands more people in West Bengal state have also been given orders to flee. Special teams were moving through holiday villages urging tourists to get to safety.
