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Flooding in Zadar, Croatia after 280mm (11 inches) of rain in 24 hours

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:15 UTC
floods
Torrential rainfall of almost 280 mm in 24 hours fell in Zadar, Croatia, causing damaging floods in the city.

Many roads schools and hospitals in Zadar were closed as a result. Local media report that a bridge was completely destroyed by raging flood water.

Local emergency services received over 1,000 calls for assistance. Since yesterday authorities and emergency services have helped drain 127 flooded buildings.

Local media say that 242 mm fell in just 4 hours. According to Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (Državni hidrometeorološki zavod - DHMZ), 279.6 mm fell in 24 hours to 12 September. DHMZ says the average rainfall for the month of September in Zadar is 105 mm.

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Australians advised to hunt and eat kangaroos as population outnumbers humans by two to one

Harriet Pavey
Evening Standard
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
australian kangaroo population overrun
© AFP / Getty
Out of control: the kangaroo population in Australia is double that of humans
Australians have been told to hunt and eat kangaroos after the population of the marsupial reached double that of humans.

New data shows the kangaroo population in Australia is close to hitting 50 million, while the human population stands at 24 million.

Experts are now warning Australians to hunt, eat and cull the native animal or face being overrun by it.

The kangaroo population has boomed in recent years, rising to 45 million last year from 27 million in 2010, news.com.au reported. The huge rise in kangaroo numbers is thought to be due to an abundance of food after high rainfall.

David Paton, Associate Professor from the University of Adelaide, said communities needed to support kangaroo culling programmes and eat their meat to avoid wasting carcasses.
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Attention

Dead whale found adrift near d'Urville Island, New Zealand

Hannah Bartlett
Stuff
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:22 UTC
A large dead whale, thought to be a blue whale, has been spotted adrift south-west of D'Urville Island.
© Peter Connolly
A large dead whale, thought to be a blue whale, has been spotted adrift south-west of D'Urville Island.
What was initially thought to be the upturned hull of a boat has proved to be a 15-metre long dead whale, floating near d'Urville Island.

Sealord skipper Peter Connolly said he was out fishing when he spotted it off the western side of d'Urville Island north of Nelson.

"It was so bloated it just looked like the hull of a boat upside down... when we got close I realised what it was," Connolly said.

He said at first he thought sharks were feeding on it.

"But it wasn't. It was those big black petrels ... they're like an albatross size bird. They were just feeding on it absolutely profusely."

Connolly said he couldn't see any obvious injuries to suggest the whale had been hit by anything.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 4 and injure 17 in Madhya Pradesh, India


India Today
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:42 UTC
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Lightning strikes killed four persons and injured 17 others in three separate incidents in Seoni, Hoshangabad and Sehore districts of Madhya Pradesh.

While two persons were killed in Seoni this afternoon, one person each died in Hoshangabad and Sehore districts yesterday.

In Seoni, two farmers died when they were struck by the bolt from sky this afternoon in Turiya village, located in the buffer zone of Pench Tiger Reserve, Kurai police station sub-inspector SB Sharma said.

"The incident occurred when the two farmers were standing under a tree amid heavy rains when they were hit by lightning, killing both of them. The duo are identified as Insaram Bhondve (45) and Nandkishore Bhondve (35)," Sharma said.

Comment: Other fatalities caused by lightning strikes across southern Asia in the past week include a woman in Cambodia, with 4 deaths across Bangladesh while in India 2 were killed Odisha, 2 in Tamil Nadu and a farmer and his cow in Karnataka.

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Cloud Precipitation

Hundreds left without power, at least 8 dead after storm dumps twice the monthly rainfall on northern Italian city of Livorno


RT
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 07:45 UTC
Livorno Italy floods
© Leonardo Bianchi / Reuters
People are seen cleaning mud following floods in Livorno, Italy, September 10, 2017
Eight people have died and hundreds of homes left without power after a storm dumped double the monthly rainfall on the northern Italian city of Livorno, according to local media.

The Mayor of the Tuscan city, Fillipo Nogarin, tweeted that around 290 homes were still without power Monday, down from 2700 the day before.


Comment: September so far has been an almost apocalyptic month of environmental events

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Cloud Lightning

Woman killed by lightning in Port Morant, Jamaica

Shanna Kaey Monteith
The Gleaner
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 13:03 UTC
Lightning
A St Thomas woman is dead after she was reportedly struck by lightning while at her home in Port Morant yesterday.

She has been identified as 33-year-old Marsha Whyte of Works Yard in the community.

It's reported that Whyte was at home yesterday when she went to catch water from an outside pipe during the rain and was struck during a lightning storm.

Whyte was taken to the Princess Margaret Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

A post mortem is to be conducted to determine the cause of death.
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Cloud Lightning

Nearly 40,000 lightning strikes in 24 hours lit up the sky in southwest California

Veronica Rocha
Los Angeles Times
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:48 UTC
A volatile storm brewing over Southern California produced nearly 40,000 lightning strikes and threatened to bring more rain Monday, forecasters said
© National Weather Service
A volatile storm brewing over Southern California produced nearly 40,000 lightning strikes and threatened to bring more rain Monday, forecasters said
A volatile storm brewing over Southern California produced nearly 40,000 lightning strikes and threatened to bring more rain and thunderstorms Monday, forecasters said.

The lightning and in-cloud flashes were observed in the last 24 hours over Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties, with the most activity occurring Sunday evening, according to the National Weather Service. In one instance, forecasters recorded more than 5,000 lightning bolts in the area over a three-hour period.

"That's a lot," said meteorologist Kathy Hoxsie of the weather service in Oxnard.

Although the storm brought plenty of lightning, rain totals were less than half an inch in Santa Barbara County on Sunday. The greatest rain total was observed at Sudden Peak, which received .44 inches.

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Attention

Kilauea volcano expels lava in spectacular eruption in Hawaii


Asia One
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:33 UTC
KILAUEA VOLCANO
© Paradise Helicopters, Tropical Visions Video
KILAUEA VOLCANO
Liquid lava flowed at the Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island on Thursday (September 7).

The Kilauea volcano has erupted from its Pu'u O'o vent since 1983.

Late this week, Kilauea, the world's most active volcano sent streams of lava rolling down a 30-foot cone.

The outbreak came from a break at the top of a huge tumulus just above the cliffs about four miles below the active Pu'u 'O'o vent.

The eruption, dubbed 61G by the USGS began in early 2016 and has been entering the ocean nearby since summer of that year.


Source: Reuters
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Cloud Lightning

Power surge: 800 lightning bolts strike San Francisco in one day


RT
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:25 UTC
San Francisco lightning
© Ezra Shaw / Getty Images / AFP

After a spell of intense heat in the Bay Area, a huge storm finally broke over San Francisco on Monday, unleashing more than 800 lightning strikes in mere hours, according to the National Weather Service.

Starting around midday, the lightning blitz continued after night fell, treating locals to a spectacular light show.

The incessant storm forced the baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and their California rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers, to be delayed, as bolts of lightning rained down around the stadium.

According to local news station KRON 4 a worker at San Francisco Airport was struck during the barrage of lightning strikes.

The worker was operating an aircraft towing vehicle when he was struck. Luckily he did not sustain serious injuries and wasn't even taken to hospital.
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Cloud Grey

Fallstreak cloud captured over Central Coast, California

John Lindsey
Santa Ynez Valley News
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 07:29 UTC
Fallstreak cloud over Central Coast, California
© John Lindsey
A cloud formation known as a "fallstreak hole" developed over the Central Coast last week, prompting many phone calls and emails to meteorologist John Lindsey, who captured this image of the phenomenon.
Cloud forms became a topic of conversation last weekend when a fascinating cloud hovered over the Central Coast like some type of gigantic UFO.

I received numerous emails, photos and phone calls about it.

From earliest times; people have tried to understand the weather. Great thinkers from Aristotle to French philosopher René Descartes tried to explain atmospheric phenomena through the formation and lifespan of clouds.

Comment: In recent times this rare cloud phenomena has appeared over Southern California, UK, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Other strange cloud anomalies seem to be appearing globally with higher frequency and intensity. Factors which may contribute to these 'strange skies' are atmospheric dust loading from increased comet and volcanic activity and changes in the layers of the atmosphere.

An indicator of this dust loading is the intensification of noctilucent clouds we are observing. As explained in Pierre Lescaudron's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection:
The increase in noctilucent clouds is one of the effects - among others - of increased dust concentration in the atmosphere in general, and in the upper atmosphere in particular. We suspect that most of this atmospheric dust is of cometary origin, while some of it may be due to the recent increase in volcanic activity.
See also: Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange skies

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