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Flash flood hits Menorca and egg-sized hailstones strike Aragon, Spain

Rory McKeown
Daily Star (UK)
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:27 UTC

Heavy rain struck the island of Menorca and caused dangerous flooding in the streets.

Tourists had to take refuge in bars and restaurants to avoid being swept away by flash floods as thunderous rain hit the island.

The Spanish region has been decimated by adverse weather in recent days as hailstones the size of eggs rained down on the northern Spanish region of Aragon.

Storms have affected a wide area of the country following weeks of scorching sunshine.

Mahon in Menorca suffered more than 50 litres per square metre of rainfall in the space of a few hours.

Shark mauls 65-year-old man near Forster, Australia

ctvnews.ca
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 13:04 UTC

A 65-year-old man was mauled by a shark off Australia's most populous state on Friday, but managed to get back on his surf ski and get help for a serious leg injury, police said.

David Quinlivan was paddling a surf ski near the New South Wales state town of Forster, 300 kilometres north of Sydney, when he was attacked, police said. They said he fell into the water but got back on the surf ski and managed to get closer to shore, where bystanders were able to help him from the water.

One of those bystanders, Warren Thompson, said he and others ran into the surf to help Quinlivan.

"He had lost his paddle but was able to climb back onto the ski and caught a wave to the shore," Thompson said.

Thompson added: "It looked to us like he was having a heart attack. When we reached him, he told us to stay out of the water."

Waterspout seen off the coast of Point Grey in Vancouver, Canada

Vancity Buzz
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:31 UTC

Instagram user @tlcrodeostar posted this picture of a funnel cloud spotted over Richmond Friday, a rare occurence in Metro Vancouver according to Environment Canada.

A waterspout was spotted in open water just off the coast of the Vancouver Westside earlier this morning.

According to Environment Canada, the unusual weather occurrence, paired with a brief period of torrential rain, happened at approximately 10 a.m.

The federal agency has issued a marine-based waterspout watch warning for the South Coast due to a potent low pressure system. The notice says waterspouts are possible today over the Strait of Georgia, Howe Sound and Haro Strait. The marine-based warning is in effect until 5 p.m. today.

A week after heatwave, Bavaria receives snowfall

thelocal.de
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 09:25 UTC

From 30C to snow in under a week? It's possible in Germany where seven centimetres of the white stuff fell at the top of the Bavarian Alps on Friday.

It might seem like summer was only last week in Germany - and that's because it was.

With blazing sunshine and temperatures topping 30C over the weekend, the onset of winter couldn't have been further from most Germans' minds.

But in the Bavarian Alps, autumn has been skipped out altogether.

At Zugspitze - Germany's highest peak, at 2,962m - seven centimetres of snow have already fallen, reports the Münchner Merkur.

This Indonesian volcano erupts electric-blue streams of molten sulfur

Danny Lewis
Smithsonian
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 10:00 UTC

Glowing blue rivers illuminate Java's Blue Fire Crater.

Visitors looking up at Kawah Ijen, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Java, are treated to a sight not often seen in the rest of the world: electric-blue rivers streaming out from underneath the volcano. Although it looks like bright blue lava, the streams are actually molten sulfur, which gives off a neon-like light at night.

"I've never seen this much sulfur flowing at a volcano," U.S. Geological Survey research geologist Cynthia Werner tells Brian Clark Howard for National Geographic.

Bright blue sulfuric flames aren't exactly rare around volcanoes. Sulfur has a relatively low melting point of 239 degrees Fahrenheit and small trickles and blue fires are often found near hot vents and during volcanic eruptions, Howard writes. However, Kawah Ijen is the largest "blue flame" area on earth, with jets of fiery sulfuric acid burning at over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and shooting 16 feet into the air, Christopher Jobson reports for Colossal.

Hungry polar bears surround weather station on Vaygach island in north Russia

Devender Kundaliya
biztekmojo.com
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:45 UTC

Polar bears

Five polar bears have surrounded a team of three unarmed meteorologists and engineers at Fyodorov weather station located at Vaygach island in north Russia.

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Russia, the presence of these bears is preventing the researchers from leaving the weather station building to conduct their daily work, such as measurement of water temperatures in the Arctic Sea.

The team at Fyodorov weather station consists of an engineer and two meteorologists Every day, researchers have to go several hundred meters away from outpost to measure water temperatures in the sea.

A researcher at the station told Viktor Nikiforov, the head of the WWF Polar Bear Patrol project, that hungry bears have settled in the fields outside the building and can be seen fighting with each other. They are aggressive and "recently grappled, fighting near the house."

Lightning strikes kill 13 in Uganda

Rebecca Kabuya
allafrica.com
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:09 UTC

Lightning struck at a football match at Kere Primary School grounds in Kween District last Tuesday evening, killing seven people while six others were injured and are admitted.

Police confirmed that six people of Kere and Kwosir villages in Kwosir Sub-county in Kween District were admitted with serious injuries, and arrangements had been made to transport some of them to Mbale regional hospital by last night.

One of the survivors, Mr Nathan Cherukut, said the incident happened at about 4.50pm at the climax of a football game where people had braved the rains to watch the match between Kwosir and Kere villages.

Mr Yasin Siwa, a witness told Daily Monitor that the deceased were watching the match when the lightning struck.

Lightning kills 10 as heavy rain destroys over 50 houses in Rwanda

Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti
allafrica.com
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:59 UTC

At least ten people have been confirmed dead and over 30 others injured after they were struck by lightning in Western and Northern provinces this evening.

Eight people including five students were killed in Karongi District, one died in Rutsiro District while another victim was reported in Musanze, according to police.

Police said that all that were injured were immediately rushed to hospital.

Inspector of Police Theobald Kanamugire, the western regional police spokesperson, confirmed the deaths of eight people in his jurisdiction but could not give their identities.

Black bear attack in Nicholas County, West Virginia

wdtv.com
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:38 UTC

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR) has investigated an attack on a man by a black bear in the Mount Nebo area of Nicholas County, West Virginia, according to Colin Carpenter, black bear project leader for the DNR.

On August 26, 2015, a man was knocked down and bitten several times by a female black bear after he had unexpectedly walked up on a cub in the trail. The man fought back aggressively and was able to deter the female bear, according to Carpenter. The man escaped the attack with minor injuries. A lack of physical evidence from the bear and delayed reporting of the attack precluded any attempts to capture the offending animal.

"Bear attacks on humans are rare, but this recent incident should serve to remind people how unpredictable wild animals can be," said Carpenter. "Although this appears to be a defensive attack by a female with young cubs, the fact that the man fought back aggressively most likely prevented more severe injuries."

Mystery of thousands of fish that washed up on Queensland beach then disappeared

Kathy Sundstrom
The Sunshine Coast Daily
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 06:17 UTC

THE mystery surrounding the "thousands" of small fish that beached themselves at Buddina remains just that.

They were gone in less than 24 hours.

The Environment and Heritage Department, the Queensland Museum and an astronomer who knows about tides were all unable to explain it.

Buddina resident Susan Sheard took the photo of the washed up fish when taking a walk along the beach on Wednesday afternoon.

Ms Sheard, who has lived on the Coast for 10 years, had never seen so many fish washed up at the same time.

"It was a super low tide and there were thousands of them," she said.

"Some of them were still alive, flipping around and I threw a few back in the water. But there were too many."

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Earth Changes

Flash flood hits Menorca and egg-sized hailstones strike Aragon, Spain

Shark mauls 65-year-old man near Forster, Australia

Waterspout seen off the coast of Point Grey in Vancouver, Canada

A week after heatwave, Bavaria receives snowfall

This Indonesian volcano erupts electric-blue streams of molten sulfur

Hungry polar bears surround weather station on Vaygach island in north Russia

Lightning strikes kill 13 in Uganda

Lightning kills 10 as heavy rain destroys over 50 houses in Rwanda

Black bear attack in Nicholas County, West Virginia

Mystery of thousands of fish that washed up on Queensland beach then disappeared

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