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Arctic Redpolls invade the southeast of Idaho


East Idaho News
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:50 UTC
Redpoll

Redpoll
With a group of 20 small birds attacking the seeds on the birch trees at Beaver Dick Park, seeds littered the snow turning it into a tan brown carpet.

"Common Redpolls," I thought as I got out of the truck for a closer look. They moved a little higher in the trees, but did not stop their eating in the bitter cold of a minus 12 degrees.

This winter is the first time I had seen flocks of them since the winter of 2012-2013 when they invaded most birch trees in the Upper Snake River Valley. While following big game migrations from the mountains two weeks ago, I found a small flock on the desert, north of the St. Anthony Sand Dunes. They have also been recorded in Ashton and on the Rexburg and Howe Christmas Bird Counts. In the last few days they have been visiting my backyard to feed on Niger seeds.

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Colima volcano erupts in Mexico


Reuters
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 18:39 UTC
Mexico's Colima volcano,

Mexico's Colima volcano, also known as the 'fire volcano', has erupted again.
Mexico's Colima or "Fire" Volcano spewed a large column of gas and ash high into a blue sky on Saturday (January 16). The ash cloud reportedly shot more than 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) into the air.

The explosion at the volcanic crater was registered at 3:42 p.m. local time (21:42 GMT). Located in the southwestern Mexican state of Colima, the Fire Volcano has been bursting to life since July 9 last year including three eruptions on New Year's Eve.

The Fire Volcano, officially known as the Colima Volcano, is part of the Pacific's Ring of Fire. Mexico contains over 3,000 volcanoes, but only 14 are considered active. Major eruptions in Mexican history have included the 1953 eruption of the Paricutin Volcano in Michoacan, the 1982 eruption of Tacana Volcano in Chiapas and the 1986 eruption of the Colima Volcano.

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Rare full circle rainbow appears in sky over Greenville, South Carolina


Strange Sounds
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 18:32 UTC
Full circle rainbow
© Brad Hudson
Yes it's possible to see them... when you are just up high!

This was the case of Brad Hudson, owner of The City Arborist in Greenville, SC.

When sunlight and raindrops combine to make a rainbow, they can make a whole circle of light in the sky. But it's a very rare sight. This rare sky phenomenon was captured on January 16, 2016.

Sky conditions have to be just right for this, and even if they are, the bottom part of a full-circle rainbow is usually blocked by the horizon. That's why we see rainbows not as circles, but as arcs across our sky. If you could get up high enough, you'd see that some rainbows continue below the horizon seen from closer to sea-level.

Brad Hudson with The City Arborist, LLC, a Greenville tree care company was at a 400-foot elevation when he snapped the full circle rainbow.

In 2014, a perfect rainbow circle was filmed from the Skylon Tower Revolving restaurant at Niagara Falls, Ontario:

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UK village gets rain for 81 days straight; even the animals are depressed

Benjamin Wright
Mirror
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:52 UTC
man walking in puddle
© Athena
Fed up: Howard Lewis, 73, walks through the rain and wet fields at the centre.
Fed-up residents in a Welsh village are holding their breath for a day of dry weather after 81 days of consistent rainfall.

People living in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, have experienced rainfall every day since October 26.

As well as dampening the spirits of locals, it has also caused problems for farmers - who have had to keep their livestock indoors.

However, while Eglwyswrw's predicament has seen it gain international headlines as well as close in on the previous record, villagers hope Saturday's predicted dry spell will be correct.
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Aleutian quake zone could shoot big tsunamis to Hawaii, California

Christopher Joyce
NPR
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:48 UTC
Part of the main street in Hilo, Hawaii, was flattened by a tsunami in April 1946. That big wave was triggered by a quake near the Aleutian Islands, where the edges of two tectonic plates continue to collide.
© Bettmann/Corbis
Part of the main street in Hilo, Hawaii, was flattened by a tsunami in April 1946. That big wave was triggered by a quake near the Aleutian Islands, where the edges of two tectonic plates continue to collide.
Two teams of geologists say portions of the seafloor along the Aleutian Islands in southwestern Alaska could produce tsunamis more devastating than anything seen in the past century. They say California and Hawaii are directly in the line of fire.

Tsunamis — the giant waves generated by undersea earthquakes or landslides — have hit U.S. shorelines before. Often they start along the Aleutian island chain that curves in an arc across the North Pacific. Right underneath, there's a trench where two pieces of the Earth's crust are colliding. The edge of the Pacific Plate is shoving itself under the edge of the North American Plate.

Occasionally a segment of the trench along the plate margins gives way with ferocious results — a big earthquake. These subduction quakes are the type that produces a tsunami, as a giant section of the earth collapses. It's like waving your hand underwater — the collapse creates a wave that can travel thousands of miles. In the past century, several such tsunamis have inundated parts of Hawaii, Alaska and California.
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Blaming the equipment: Global warmists claim ocean readings and satellite data are inaccurate

Joshua Krause
The Daily Sheeple
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:17 UTC
climate politics
Global warming believers always say that climate skeptics are guilty of wishful thinking, and that they're letting politics and emotions get in the way of indisputable scientific truths. Time and again they say that climate skeptics are cherry picking the data, and are falling for their own confirmation biases. They may be right. Many of the people who believe in man-made global warming are scientists, and scientists are really good at spotting those sorts of things. But they're also human, so they're just as likely to be guilty of cherry picking and confirmation bias as anyone else.

Never was this more true, than when NOAA announced earlier this year that the global warming "pause" didn't happen. For the past 19 years give or take, the official data has shown very little global warming, which as you might expect has perturbed climate scientists ever since.

Comment: The scientific research is corrupted and the global warming proponents have manipulated the data to fit a political agenda at the expense of humanity.

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Greening of the desert: Australia's largest lake comes back to life following heavy rainfall

Ada Carr
The Weather Channnel
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:50 UTC
Lake Eyre is lush and green after rainfall.
© W Lawler/Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Lake Eyre is lush and green after rainfall.

Australia's largest salt lake, Lake Eyre, has been brought back to life, drawing birds and other small mammals back to the area.

According to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, some light rain fell around the lake on New Year's Eve, followed by heavier rains of 1 to 2 inches (25 to 50 mm) on New Year's Day and the day after.

"Additional heavy rainfall added up to between 25 and 100 millimeters (1 to 4 inches) during the first week of January over the Lake Eyre region," said weather.com senior meteorologist Nick Wiltgen.

According to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, the rainfall seen on New Year's Day 2016 was the largest rainfall event it had seen since acquiring the Kalamurina park in 2007.

"This is an extraordinary event - the rapid filling of Lake Eyre by local flooding is unusual and a stark contrast to the slow arrival of floodwaters from the rain in the far-off channel country of Queensland," Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) chief executive Atticus Hemming told Mashable Australia. "The desert around Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) may not flood like this again for decade."


Lake Eyre in South Australia
© Australian Wildlife Conservancy
The photo above shows Lake Eyre in South Australia's Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary after it was flooded by heavy rainfall.

Comment: Waterfalls cascade off iconic Ayers Rock in Australia after heavy rainfall

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Rare elephant rage stomps Indian rickshaw


RT
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 14:08 UTC
Elephant rage
© IndianExpressOnline / YouTube
Known to be quite placid creatures, elephants rarely lose their cool. But when the red mist of rage does descend, the results can be car-shatteringly spectacular.

As this recently recorded amateur video suggests, never get on the wrong side of an elephant. Not only because they are liable to hold a grudge - but the large mammals can also stomp anything in their way into the ground.
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Photographer claims microscopic ice crystals in the sky reflect lights of town in Finland

Gianluca Mezzofiore
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 13:51 UTC
Street lights are reflected in the sky

Street lights are reflected in the sky in a vertically flipper mirror image, forming an accurate map of the town
This is the extraordinary sight caught by a Finnish woman in the sky over Kauttua/Eura.

The street lights are reflected in the sky in a vertically flipper mirror image, forming an accurate map of the town.

The jaw-dropping scene was captured by Mia Heikkilä, who later posted the picture on the Space Weather website.

'People gave hints to look if the pattern matches the local map. And there it was! Exact reversed light map of Kauttua, Eura, on the sky. Now I call it #LuxEura,' she wrote.

It may look like a scene from the X-Files but the explanation is more terrestrial.

The phenomenon, known as light pillar, appear when artificial light or natural light bounces off the facets of flat ice crystals in the air, producing luminous columns in the sky.

Light pillars are relatively common in cold, Arctic regions and most people see them from the side, where they look like towers that reach into the sky.
Image caught by Mia Heikkilä is an exact reversed light map of Kauttua, Eura on the sky

Image caught by Mia Heikkilä is an exact reversed light map of Kauttua, Eura on the sky
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New Jersey residents plagued by mysterious loud booming sounds


CBS Local
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:09 UTC
mystery booms over New Jersey
© ABC7 (screen capture)
Friday night was far from the first nervous one for residents of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, who have been plagued by loud booming sounds for about a week.

As CBS2's Dave Carlin reported, the source of the nuisance is a mystery.

"We were, like, looking at each other like, 'What was that?'" said Danielle McManus.

It happened twice in the past week to McManus and her family. While inside their home in a usually very quiet Fair Lawn neighborhood, things went bump in the night.

"If we didn't know any better, it almost sounds like a cannon," McManus said, "It was so deep and just like, echoey."

Elsewhere in the neighborhood along the Passaic River, residents say they have heard loud booms as early as 6 p.m. and as late as 2 a.m..

"It was, 'Pssh, pssh, pssh,'" one young boy said.

"I was like, 'Grr! Grr! Brr!' like that," another said.

"I heard the noise, so I came out here," added Susan Kuqi of Fair Lawn. 'Sometimes, you know, people dump garbage. It sounded like a garbage truck."

Comment: Last year mysterious earth-shaking booms also rattled residents in New Jersey, and elsewhere across the US. These strange sounds often remain unexplained by the authorities.

As meteor fireball and seismic activity have increased dramatically in recent years, we suspect that a number of these booms can be attributed to overhead meteor explosions or are earthquake-related. See also:

Unexplained loud booms: A compilation from 2015

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