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Toddler mauled to death by 2 family dogs in High Springs, Florida


fox35orlando
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:41 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
A Florida toddler was mauled to death by a family dog on Friday. The attack happened in the community of High Springs, just outside of Gainesville.

The Alachua County Sheriff's Office says the 2-year-old boy was with his grandmother as she went to her daughter's home to check on the dogs. The grandmother let the dogs out in the yard with the boy while she went inside to prepare food.

"She's inside briefly. When she goes back outside, she can no longer see her grandson, can no longer see the dogs," explained Lt. Brett Rodenizer with the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.

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Cold streak in southern California continues, nears record


losangeles.cbslocal.com
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 11:23 UTC
cold walkers
It has been one of the longest stretches ever recorded of high temperatures below 70 degrees in Southern California, and people are taking notice.

It was far from a good beach day in Santa Monica on Friday.

"I literally felt like I was going to be blown over into the ocean earlier," said Julie Marshall.

Strong winds and cold temperatures took many tourists out walking by surprise.

"This is a little bit different than what I'm used to," said Alex Sabur of Baltimore. "We are supposed to be warm not cold."


Comment: Also relevant: Global Warming? Los Angeles experiences coldest February in 60 years

Storm breaks 135-year-old rainfall record for downtown Los Angeles

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Deadly floods in Malawi - at least 6 dead, thousands displaced


Floodlist
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:57 UTC
Flooding of the Shire River
© Government of Malawi
Flooding of the Shire River in Southern Region of Malawi, March 2019.
Heavy rains in southern and central parts of Malawi have caused flooding and rivers to overflow, in particular the Shire River in Chikwawa, where local media say 6 people have died.

The government of Malawi said in a statement of 07 March, that "Thousands of people have been displaced and a good number of people reported missing and others feared dead in the southern part of Malawi due to a heavy downfall of rain that started on 05 March, 2019. Malawi Red Cross volunteers and staff have embarked on search and rescue."

Floods have rendered the Kamuzu and Mwanza bridges on the Shire River in Chikwawa impassable.

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Earthquake of 6.2 magnitude strikes off southern Philippines


Xinhua
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:21 UTC
Earthquake seismograph
An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck off Surigao del Norte province in the southern Philippines on Friday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

Initially, the institute said the quake was magnitude 6.4. But a few minutes later the institute revised its magnitude to 6.2.

In an updated bulletin, the institute said the quake, which struck at 11:06 p.m., hit at a depth of 16 kilometers, about 38 km northwest of Burgos town in Surigao del Norte.

However, in the main Burgos town, the institute said the intensity of the earthquake was only magnitude 5.

The tremor was also felt in Dinagat Island, Butuan City, Abuyog in Leyte province, Tacloban City in Southern Leyte, Camiguin Island, Cebu City in the central Philippines.

The institute said the tremor, which was tectonic in origin, is not expected to cause damage. However, it said that aftershocks are expected.
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Wetter than ever: Winter 2018-19 was USA's soggiest in recorded history

Doyle Rice
USA Today
Wed, 06 Mar 2019 19:40 UTC
Winter 2018-19 was the wettest on record
© NOAA
Winter 2018-19 was the wettest on record in the Untied States
Umbrellas and snow shovels would have been wise investments over the past three months.

The winter of 2018-19 was the wettest winter ever recorded in the United States, according to a report federal scientists released Wednesday. (Climate scientists define winter as the months of December, January and February.)

In all, 43 of the "Lower 48" states had above-average levels of rain and snow from December to February, the report said. Tennessee was record wet while Wisconsin had its second-wettest winter.

In Tennessee, the colossal rains caused deadly flooding across the state in February. The floods killed four people, washed out homes, buried two stretches of interstate highway under tons of mud and rock, and led to a statewide declaration of emergency.
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Pack of pit bulls attack four people in Akron, Ohio

Ian Cross
News 5 Cleveland
Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:18 UTC
pit bull in cage

One of the three dogs that allegedly attacked four people in Akron.
Four people, including a mail carrier, were bitten by a pack of three dogs in two separate incidents in Akron Monday morning, according to police.

At about 10:30 a.m., officers were called to the 800 block of Reed Avenue for a report of three dogs biting. When police arrived, the dogs had already left the scene. One victim said she was getting out of her van when she was attacked. She said she was brought to the ground by the dogs, who then bit her on both sides of her body from her torso to her feet.

A man overhead the woman screaming, and tried to fight the dogs off from the woman, an Akron police report states. He was bitten numerous times in the left arm.
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Historic avalanche cycle wreaks havoc in Colorado mountains

Sawyer D'Argonne
Summit Daily
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:51 UTC
big snow
© Hugh Carey
A new avalanche slide path seen below Mount Victoria Thursday, March 7, in Frisco.
When Frisco residents went to sleep on Wednesday night the view of Mount Victoria was familiar, with densely crowded lodgepole pine trees resting branch-to-branch above the snow-packed slope.

But when they woke up Thursday morning, the view had changed considerably after a massive avalanche near the J Chute - just off of Rainbow Lake - tore through the landscape, stripping trees and leaving a gigantic white scar on the side of the peak.

"The trees that are gone were full-sized lodgepoles," said Kathryn Grohusky, a Frisco resident who saw the damage from the avalanche from her home Thursday morning. "The avalanche debris is really deep, it came down the hill and took the trees out. The path is a ski run wide."

When asked if she'd ever seen anything similar in her 20-plus years of living in Frisco, the answer was clear: "Nope."
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Storm breaks 135-year-old rainfall record for downtown Los Angeles


Patch.com
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 08:21 UTC
Latest Winter Downpour Brings Record Rainfall to Downtown L.A.
© KTLA
Latest Winter Downpour Brings Record Rainfall to Downtown L.A.

Downtown rainfall in the latest storm broke a record set in the 1800s. More rain is on the way

This week's storm, which drew added moisture from an atmospheric river out of Hawaii, doused L.A. County valley areas early Thursday and broke rainfall records, forecasters said.

"After the spectacular lightning show early Wednesday morning and the periods of heavy rain that lingered into Wednesday afternoon, the weather across Southwestern California has quieted down quite a bit in most areas," noted an NWS statement.


Comment: Anomalous lightning storm hits Southern California - More than 1,200 bursts in five minutes


Record rainfall totals from this week's storm generally averaged 0.75 to 1.75 inches of rain in coastal areas, 2 to 3.5 inches in the foothills and mountains, and 0.50 inches to 1 inch in the Antelope Valley, according to the statement. Through 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, the highest total was at Opids Camp in the San Gabriel Mountains with 4.12 inches, followed by 3.69 inches at San Antonio Dam in San Bernardino County.

The National Weather Service reports that Wednesday's 1.25 inches of rain in downtown Los Angeles shattered a 135-year-old record. The old record was .88 inches, set in 1884. The NWS also notes that March 6 -- until Wednesday -- was the only day in March with a daily rainfall record that was below 1 inch dating back to 1978.

Comment: Last month Los Angeles experienced the coldest February in 60 years.

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Rain brings 2nd California super bloom in 2 years

Julie Watson
Associated Press
Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:03 UTC
Southern California's Anza-Borrego desert
© REUTERS
Southern California's Anza-Borrego desert is covered in swathes of colourful wildflowers after weeks of heavy rains
It started with the desert lilies in December. Since then a wave of wildflower blooms has been crescendoing across Southern California's Anza-Borrego desert in a burst of color so vivid it can be seen from mountain tops thousands of feet above.

Two years after steady rains followed by warm temperatures caused seeds dormant for decades under the desert floor to burst open and produce a spectacular display dubbed the "super bloom," another winter soaking this year is expected to create possibly an even better show by Mother Nature.

Having two super blooms in two years is highly usual. In California, super blooms happen about once in a decade in a given area, and they have been occurring less frequently with the drought.


Comment: A similar situation is evident in Arizona.

spring wildflowers bloom at Picacho Peak State
© Oscar Perez/Casa Grande Dispatch
Spring wildflowers bloom at Picacho Peak State Park in Picacho Peak, Ariz.
FLOWERS
FLOWERS
FLOWERS


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Beached gray whale spotted off San Pedro coastline, California

Donna Littlejohn
Daily Breeze
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:17 UTC
Beached whale found on San Pedro

Beached gray whale found on San Pedro coast
Television news crew this week captured a view of a beached gray whale near the San Pedro coastline. The KABC video surfaced on March 5 and it was unclear how long the whale had been there.

The rocky shoreline just off of Point Fermin Park may have made it difficult to completely wash ashore. This is the time of year when gray whales are migrating north from Baja California to Alaska.

Recently, false killer whales were spotted along the coast - a rare sighting for the tropical species. Sightings can be followed on the Facebook page for the Los Angeles chapter of the American Cetacean Society which conducts a migration census every year.

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