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Waterspout filmed over Buckhorn Lake, Ontario

Jessica Nyznik,
The Peterborough Examiner
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:35 UTC
Jordan Trudell took this photograph of Friday afternoon's waterspout on Buckhorn Lake.
© Jordan Trudell Jordan Trudell took this photograph of Friday afternoon's waterspout on Buckhorn Lake.
@JHarringtonTV Water Spout/Tornado Upper Buckhorn Lake, Ontario pic.twitter.com/1SZSBrQfrU

— Jordan Trudell (@Air21turtle) July 1, 2016
When a funnel cloud touched down in Upper Buckhorn Lake Friday afternoon, Jorg Klein was quick on the draw.

He immediately grabbed his phone and recorded the waterspout as it passed by The Birches Resort in Buckhorn.

Jorg Klein posted this video to Facebook of the Buckhorn Lake waterspout as seen from The Birches resort:


It happened around 3:45 p.m., about 300 metres away from the resort.

"It came down, swirled around a bit, wasn't too intense - it was quite awesome to look at, actually," said Klein.
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Waterspouts caught on camera over Lake Erie

Jen Steer
fox8.com
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:14 UTC
Waterspout
© Griff HemphillWaterspout over Lake Erie
Several viewers reported seeing waterspouts over Lake Erie Friday evening.

FOX 8 News received photos from people in Madison, North Perry and Geneva-on-the-Lake.

There are two types of waterspouts. Tornadic waterspouts are associated with severe storms, according to the National Weather Service. Fair weather waterspouts form in light wind conditions and move very little.

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Cloud Lightning

Intense thunderstorms slam Las Vegas with golf ball-sized hail, winds, lightning and flash flooding


Las Vegas Sun
Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:26 UTC
Las Vegas floods June 2016

Intense thunderstorms pounded the Las Vegas area on Thursday with golf ball-sized hail, gusty winds, destructive lightning and sheets of rain that swamped busy intersections and left at least one person hospitalized after she was plucked from a flooded wash, authorities said.

The woman was believed to have suffered a heart attack while she and two other people were rescued from rushing water near the Hard Rock Casino Hotel east of the Las Vegas Strip, Deputy Clark County Fire Chief Jeff Buchanan said.

Firefighters reached two other people and their dogs in another wash near Boulder Highway, about 5 miles east of the Strip, and rescued another two people at another site shortly after 6 p.m., Buchanan said.

At least 21 airline flights were diverted from busy McCarran International Airport, where the National Weather Service said wind gusts were clocked at 56 mph during the height of the storm.

Several vehicles stalled with water up to their headlights in one flooded intersection in nearby Henderson.

"People don't realize just a few inches of rain can really cause some damage," said Kim Becker, a Henderson city spokeswoman.

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Little Ice Ages deliver famine and disease

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 13:58 UTC
The Frozen Thames, 1677
The Frozen Thames, 1677
Retired U.S. Navy Physicist warns of what is to come.

Several centuries ago the Earth underwent a very dramatic shift in climate known as the Little Ice Age, says retired U.S. Navy Physicist James Marusek. This coincided with a period of minimal sunspot activity called the Maunder Minimum.

During the Maunder Minimum, average temperatures dropped approximately 1.5º C below current levels, says Marusek. The cold and extreme weather caused a reduction in the growing season, which lead to disastrous harvest failure.

"Hunger became the heart of this crisis," says Marusek. "Plagues, smallpox, typhus, measles and fever belong to a cluster of deadly diseases that correlate closely with harvest yields."
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What's killing hundreds of young gulls in Buffalo, New York?


wgrz.com
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:33 UTC
Young Ring-billed Gull
© Dorothy E. PughYoung ring-billed gull
While kayaking on the outer harbor, one of our Channel 2 employees recently found himself paddling through areas where the water's surface was literally covered with dead birds.

A marina proprietor also confirmed for Two on Your Side that in recent weeks, hundreds of dead birds have been washing up on the shore near Gallagher Beach and the Union Ship canal.

They are ring billed gulls, mostly juveniles or fledglings.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) says it is aware of the bird kill, but has thus far determined it to be a natural occurrence.

According to a DEC spokesperson, Wildlife Biologists from the agency responded to observations and reports of dead birds along the Lake Erie Shoreline from Wilkerson Point to Union Ship Canal and investigated the entire length of the shoreline area.

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Cloud Precipitation

The Netherlands: June is wettest ever in the south, and changeable weather will continue


Dutch News
Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:04 UTC
rainfall netherlands
© Leo Wouters
June 2016 has been the wettest ever June in the southern provinces of Limburg and Noord-Brabant, broadcaster NOS said on Wednesday.

The KNMI has so far issued four code orange weather warnings for the two provinces and rainfall is three times the average of between 60 and 70 mm over the month, NOS said.

Despite the heavy showers in the rest of the country, rainfall is not above average nationwide. And with an average temperature of almost 17 degrees, it has also been warmer than the average June.

Comment: According to the KNMI, the average rainfall across the country was 115 mm, around two times the normal average for the month June.

See also:

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Jet streams cross equator with 'climate chaos' predicted


RT
Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:03 UTC
Jet stream crosses equator
© YouTube/Paul Beckwith (screen capture)
Scientists have observed an "unprecedented" event that could lead to an end of seasons as we know them, after Northern Hemisphere jet streams crossed the equator and linked with others in the south.

Usually separated entirely from each other by the equator where warm air acts as a barrier, both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere consist of jet streams made up of either warm moist air or cold dry air.

The streams usually run from east to west but new data shows that the Northern Hemisphere's streams have changed path and linked with streams in the south.

"Welcome to climate chaos. We must declare a global climate emergency" warned Paul Beckwith, a climate scientist from the University of Ottawa, when analyzing data from Earth Nullschool.

Beckwith explained the data in a video online in which he warned it could disrupt the world's food supply and lead to "massive geopolitical unrest."


Comment: Jet streams crossing the equator are not 'unprecedented'. But given the current lull in solar activity (The sun goes blank for the second time this month in the weakest solar cycle in more than a century) this latest incident may be quite significant. As Pierre Lescaudron explains in his book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection:
So since about 1998, when the solar activity started to drop, the Arctic jet stream has shown signs of weakness (lower speed and more southerly location). Jet stream latitudinal oscillations have been acknowledged by mainstream science for years. They are allegedly due to changes in the Arctic oscillation. [561] So far, no convincing explanation has been provided for the causes of this 'oscillation'. However, if the electric nature of our solar system is taken into account, shifts in the jet stream begin to make sense...

Therefore, if solar activity is weak, the jet stream should be observed at abnormally low latitudes. This is what has happened in recent years, particularly over Europe, with the jet stream as low as 15° north in winter (above North Africa) when it should be around 60° north (above Scotland)...

In this way, a lasting decrease in solar activity would induce an overall cooling of the 'temperate' latitudes that would be increasingly less separated from Arctic air by a more frequently and abnormally south-shifting polar jet stream. This could be an aggravating factor in the quick onset of an ice age.


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Lightning strikes claim 14 lives across Madhya Pradesh, India


Hindustan Times
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 18:38 UTC
14 people were killed as lightning struck various parts of Madhya Pradesh on Friday.
14 people were killed as lightning struck various parts of Madhya Pradesh on Friday.
Lightning struck various parts of Madhya Pradesh on Friday, killing 14 people, including a six-year-old child.

A 6-year-old child died while three others were injured when lightning struck them at village Imaliya under Raneh police station in Damoh district. The children were playing under a Mango tree. When rains started, they took shelter under the tree on which lighting struck. Six-year-old Mahendra died on spot while nine-year-old Sapna, 14-year-old Sakshi and 6-year-old Narendra were injured. They were rushed to Damoh district hospital.

Five of a family die in Singrauli village

In Singrauli district, five people died in lightning strikes at various places. Five of a family died at village Misiragva in Singrauli's Chitrangi block. According to local sources, lightning struck on the family of one Rai Singh, who fell unconscious but survived. Family members who died included 45-year-old Rajkumari, 20-year-old Shivkumari, 10-year-old Phool Singh and 17-year-old Chirojiya. In Singrauli's Tamai village, 40-year-old Ramjanak Kewat died when lightning struck him. Another 48-year old Subash Bais was injured in Singrauli's Jharkatiya area when lightning struck him.

Comment: Neighboring Bangladesh has seen a near-record number of deaths this year from lightning strikes, with 261 fatalities already - compared with last year's total of 265 deaths. The surge has even prompted Bangladesh's government to add lightning strikes to the country's list of official types of disasters.

The explanation provided by a physics and astronomy professor in California is indicative of mainstream science.
"Some specialists think that as the world warms up, we should expect more explosive lightning events ... rather than a gradual increase,"
Rather than 'global warming' it is the electrical nature of such phenomena that ought to be addressed. See also:

Electric universe: Lightning strength and frequency increasing

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An 'unprecedented' number of whales appear off San Francisco, California

John Metcalfe
CityLab
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:39 UTC
Gray whale near the Golden Gate Bridge
© Chris GallelloGray whale near the Golden Gate Bridge
The waters off San Francisco must be echoing with a glorious chorale of weee-oooos and uuuuurrrghhs. Spotters have reported a record number of gray, humpback, and massive blue whales in the region, making whale-watching as easy as strolling onto the Golden Gate Bridge.
Spotted some gray whales while I was on the GG Bridge! First time I brought my camera too, super lucky. pic.twitter.com/ePIMn5DsOy

— Chris Gallello (@cgallello) May 11, 2016
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Waterspout filmed over Tampa Bay, Florida


abcactionnews.com
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:18 UTC
Waterspout
© Asia Uluocak
The National Weather Service confirms a waterspout formed over Tampa Bay on Thursday afternoon.

The picture above was captured by @ValentianDanish.

The NWS said emergency management reported the spout approximately 10 miles southwest of Tampa International Airport.

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