Two tornados off Turkey's Aegean coast on Wednesday caused panic and affected several watercraft and vehicles.
Several sailboats, as well as four automobiles were damaged by the waterspouts in the coastal town of Marmaris in Turkey's southwestern Mugla province.
The town's mayor said no casualties had been reported and damage assessment were ongoing.
Both tornados occurred in the afternoon, roughly 40 minutes apart.
Once a rare phenomenon, waterspouts are increasingly common these days in some areas. At the same time, vortexes of water, fire and dust are appearing in very unusual places. See also:
That's pretty clear-cut evidence that cyclonic winds are all essentially electrical in nature. Heat exchange plays a role, but more as a side-effect to the distribution of electric charge potential between mediums - ground-to-air, water-to-air, fire-to-air, whatever.
Thought the skies in New York City seemed puzzlingly hazy Monday afternoon? That was all the smoke blowing east from the California wildfires.
New Jersey-based Gary Szatkowski pointed out the smoke descending on the East Coast Monday, tweeting a map from NOAA showing the direction of the plumes traveling 3,000 miles across the U.S.
The smoke isn't expected to cause any health problems for people in this area. Senior meteorologist Tom Kines told the Journal News last week, "The smoke is so high up in the atmosphere. It's kind of diluted anyway as it heads eastward."
From the Prairies to Prince Edward Island, a harsh fall harvest means Canada could be facing a serious potato shortage, one that may cause millions of dollars worth of Canadian potatoes to rot in the ground this year.
A two-headed Holstein calf was born live last week at Byland Animal Hospital in Loudonville.
Veterinarian Dr. Jeff Byers delivered the calf from Idylwild Farm by Cesarean section. However, the calf only survived for 20 minutes before it died on Friday.
"I'm surprised, I'd never seen that before," said Paul Weber, owner of Idylwild Farm of Loudonville. "I was surprised it lived."
Though Byers was not certain of the cause of the two-headed birth, the condition of polycephaly — being born with more than one head — can be caused by an incomplete separation of a single embryo or an incomplete fusion of two embryos.
According to new weather models, the US mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions are expected to experience the coldest/earliest temperatures to the start of any winter season on record.
The culprit: a massive area of high pressure from the Arctic Circle will descend across Canada and into the Northeast, collapsing temperatures to life-threatening conditions ahead of Thanksgiving and into Black Friday.
The flamingo was on its annual migration, but lost the rest of its flock.
Experts believe it took a wring turn after flying from Kazakhstan to the Arabian peninsula, a distance of some 3,400 kilometres.
Instead the young bird got so cold it 'froze in the air' and crash landed on a road in the Novokuznetsky district of Kemerovo, some 1,300 km in the wrong direction.
Locals picked up the forlorn bird and warmed it in the car before giving it a temporary home beside a bathroom radiator.
Atmospheric compression events occurring in all corners of the Earth. One of the end results is that deserts across the planet are blooming, no where more so than the Middle East and North Africa, fields of green carpet the landscape as far as the eye can see in drone shots, carpets of flowers are an endless tapestry of color and some of these flood events turn deserts into inland seas. Australia record cold and two months of rain in two hours, record cold USA, and the ferocity of colliding jet stream fronts is now visible in temperature anomaly maps.
Record breaking snowfall, record setting low temperatures, -50 wind chills, impossible driving conditions amid freezing rain and ice. Sounds like the heart of the winter season doesn't it?
In reality, ALL of these harsh winter conditions have plagued different parts of the country this fall, leaving little to no areas untouched.
Will this be a sign of what's to come this winter or will Mother Nature start to loosen its frosty grip? More on what's happened (keep in mind we had to limit this to just a few main events because the wintry scenes have been endless) and what lies ahead this winter, below.
Comment: Less than a week ago another pair of waterspouts hit southern Turkey before moving inland. Meanwhile a couple of days ago a huge waterspout was filmed off Salerno, Italy.
Once a rare phenomenon, waterspouts are increasingly common these days in some areas. At the same time, vortexes of water, fire and dust are appearing in very unusual places. See also: