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When life hands you snow, make a snowman
When life hands you snow, make a snowman
Earth Changes
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Storm damage
Storm damage
However, the National Weather Service said the storm was a microburst and not a tornado.
Microbursts are localized columns of sinking air within a thunderstorm; experts said they can cause extensive damage and in some instances, can be life-threatening.
The National Weather Service will be in the Triangle area taking a look at the damage left behind from the storms.
Fuquay-Varina and Willow Spring were particularly hard-hit, as was Angier, where large hail and wind gusts resulted in significant damage.
On Sunray Court in Fuquay-Varina, it was anything but sunshine. Kacy Daniels and her daughter Kyra said it was terrifying.
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This porbeagle shark washed up on Revere Beach dead Friday morning
This porbeagle shark washed up on Revere Beach dead Friday morning
Friday was an exception when a deceased porbeagle shark washed ashore near Rumney Marshes, just north of Revere Beach, and attracted onlookers who posted photos to social media:
Greg Skomal, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries's senior fisheries biologist, told CBS Boston it's unusual to find porbeagle sharks washed up on the beach. It's possible the shark became caught and injured by fishing gear, Skomal said.
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Shark bite
Shark bite
Capt. Mike Berard said the boy was surfing near the inlet just before noon when a shark bit his right hand.
John Brown, of Winter Garden, was there when it all happened and made the call to 911.
"As I'm scanning with the binoculars, there's this kid that comes straight to me, with his hand flowing blood from where he got bit," he said. "The kid said, 'I was on the surfboard coming into the whitewater and jumped off the board and landed right on the shark.' He said the shark bit his hand, and he was trying to rip his hand out. He punched him two or three times, and he let go and came straight out."
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Star: calculated epicenter - Small red dots: possible error margin for the epicenter, the more dense, the higher probability that the epicenter will be in that area. Orange circle: epicenter location error zone
Star: calculated epicenter - Small red dots: possible error margin for the epicenter, the more dense, the higher probability that the epicenter will be in that area. Orange circle: epicenter location error zone
Magnitude : 6
Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2017-09-04 06:07:39
GMT/UTC Time : 2017-09-04 08:07:39
Depth (Hypocenter) : 65 km
Update 09:25 UTC: earthquake in the subantarctic penguin volcanic islands region. This is an unpopulated area of the world, so no impact at all on human beings :)
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In southeastern Montana, a wind-driven wildfire ripped through parched forest and grasslands, forcing the evacuation of an undetermined number of ranches and homes, officials said Thursday.
In southeastern Montana, a wind-driven wildfire ripped through parched forest and grasslands, forcing the evacuation of an undetermined number of ranches and homes, officials said Thursday.
With red flag warnings covering 200,000 square miles of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and the Dakotas saying the danger for new wildfires is imminent, firefighters continue to battle blazes that have burned huge swaths of land.
This summer has been particularly dry and windy for our northern neighbors and a lack of moisture and unfortunate weather has led to hundreds of wildfires burning across Montana, Idaho and northern California.
Rainfall at this point hasn't been much help; lightning strikes on Wednesday sparked at least 40 more in a state already on fire, according to the Great Falls Tribune. High winds are pushing the fires and helping them spread.
Firefighter Brent M. Witham of Mentone, California, died in early August after a tree fell on the 29-year-old.
Smoke is so heavy in Montana that planes couldn't fly over the fires to check their size or status, the Tribune said on Wednesday.
Back in July, Gov. Steve Bullock declared a state of emergency in Montana. The declaration was issued July 24, sometime after the federal government denied the state's request for aid. Three days later, the feds reversed their decision and sent FEMA in to help.
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Boats on the Willamette River on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, near Salem's Riverfront Park. The high for Saturday was forecast for 104 degrees; the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory lasting until Tuesday.
Boats on the Willamette River on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, near Salem's Riverfront Park. The high for Saturday was forecast for 104 degrees; the National Weather Service issued a heat advisory lasting until Tuesday.
The five warmest Augusts have taken place in the last five years, said David Elson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service - Portland.
"It's pretty clear that something is going on that we are changing our climate," said Kathie Dello, deputy director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University. "We're seeing climate change impacts already and we need to think about resiliency toward these 100-degree days."
The hot, dry conditions in the Mid-Willamette Valley are a result of a persistent pattern of the growing drier conditions and lack of rain.
Salem recorded just .15 inch of rain on August 13 - the only day there was precipitation in August.
Average rainfall for Salem in August is .45 inches.
The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory that will remain in effect until 10 p.m. Tuesday. Temperatures are expected to creep into the high 90s on Sunday, hover around 100 degrees on Monday and may reach 103 degrees on Tuesday.
"Normal temperatures would be around 80 degrees around this time of year," Elson said. "We'll be in the ballpark for record temperatures in the next few days."
Oregon is abnormally dry and on the cusp of drought conditions, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center.
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A handout photo made available by NASA shows an image acquired by the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite of then Tropical Storm Irma in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, on 30 August 2017
A handout photo made available by NASA shows an image acquired by the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite of then Tropical Storm Irma in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, on 30 August 2017
Such explosive strengthening is known as "rapid intensification," defined by the National Hurricane Center as having its wind speed increase at least 30 knots (35 mph) in 24 hours. "Irma has become an impressive hurricane," the National Hurricane Center said on Thursday, noting the rapid intensification, and saying "this is a remarkable 50 knot [58 mph] increase from yesterday at this time."
Hurricane Harvey underwent rapid intensification last week, just before landfall, which brought it from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane when it moved onshore near Corpus Christi.Irma is a classic "Cape Verde hurricane," a type of hurricane that forms in the far eastern Atlantic, near the Cape Verde Islands (now known as the Cabo Verde Islands) and tracks all the way across the Atlantic.
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Within Stanley Park's "Lost Lagoon," a strange amorphous blob of life has appeared. The gelatinous "brain" is known as the Pectinatella magnifica, or, more commonly, the "magnificent" bryozoan. What appears to be a single alien organism is instead the gelatinous gathering of hundreds of individual bryozoan "zooids." At a fraction of a millimeter each, it takes a lot of them to form into these oddly cerebral communities.
The gelatinous creatures are hermaphrodites, possessing all requisite reproductive organs within each individual. They spread from their gelatinous communal clumps via "statoblast," where clumps of cells are detached from a zooid that can reproduce themselves asexually to form another brain-like colony. Fossil records have placed ancestors of the modern bryozoan as far back as 470 million years, but they have never been spotted outside of areas east of the Mississippi River.
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Major landslide in Shimla after heavy rainfall in Shimla on Saturday
Major landslide in Shimla after heavy rainfall in Shimla on Saturday
Nearly half a dozen vehicles marked along the road, just next to Dhalli traffic tunnel, were damaged in the landslide. People witness to the landslide, whose video also went viral on social media,saw cars flying in the air after hit by the landslide.
Residents living in Bhatta Kuffar area were also stranded on the other side after the landslide completely blocked the road.
However, Deputy Commissioner, Shimla, Rohan Chand Thakur said no deaths were reported.
"Approximately 7 to 8 vehicles dulled in the debris.Three houses also developed cracks and a temple also came in the grip of the falling rock debris. The owners of the houses and tenants have been temporarily rehabilitated," he said .
Comment: Images of Irma's possible path:
Computer model "spaghetti" plot showing track projections for Hurricane Irma
Irma's path is still uncertain - normal for hurricanes while they're still traversing the Atlantic towards the coast. On average, there's a 194-mile margin of error in five-day forecasts. As usual, predictions are only as good as the models and initial conditions used to produce them. And no model is perfect. For example, here are the predicted tracks from Sept. 1st (NOAA):
Update (Sept. 3)
The Weather Channel reports that Irma has strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane. Additional strengthening is expected as Irma moves westward in the week ahead. Irma will move close to the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico by the middle of this week, and then near or north of Hispaniola, the Turks and Caicos and Bahamas late week into next weekend.
Projected Path and Intensity
One such fake forecast has been shared on social media almost 40,000 times. The official NOAA emblem was cut and pasted to make it look genuine. It depicts Irma's predicted path to impact the U.S.
Fake Hurricane Irma forecast.