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Teaching was suspended in some schools due to the extreme weather in the city of Sakakah, Sakaka News reported.
Footage here shows an icy flash flood in Sakakah left in the wake of a hailstorm.
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Teaching was suspended in some schools due to the extreme weather in the city of Sakakah, Sakaka News reported.
Footage here shows an icy flash flood in Sakakah left in the wake of a hailstorm.
Photos of the hailstorm circulated on social media.
More than three areas in eSwatini were affected by a severe hailstorm on Tuesday afternoon, reports Mpumalanga News.
Areas affected include Mhlambanyatsi, Lundzi, Siphocosini, and some parts of Mbabane.
Hail stones at Tony York’s property at Tammin.
The wild weather event, which stretched across areas including Bolgart and North Tammin to Southern Cross, in places dumped more than 40mm of rain, while crops were pelted with 3cm hailstones and lightning strikes caused spot fires.
At Tammin, WAFarmers president Tony York said his family's 1300ha wheat crop, yet to be harvested, had varying levels of hail damage. About 300ha of that was destroyed.
He said neighbours had reported similar destruction.
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New Caledonia earthquake evacuations: The country was hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday
New Caledonia earthquake evacuations: The country was hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake on Wednesday
Evacuations were ordered after hazardous waves up to three metres tall were expected to rise following the 7.6 magnitude quake on Wednesday.
People on the east coast have been told to retreat at least 300m from the shore and to get to ground at least 12m in altitude.
The quake struck about 104 miles east of Tadine at a shallow depth of six miles, according to the US Geological Survey.
"Tsunami waves reaching 1 to 3 metres above the tide level are possible along some coasts of New Caledonia and Vanuatu," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said.
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Agrobiologist and scientific researcher Dr. Albrecht Glatzle, author of over 100 scientific papers and two textbooks, has published research that shows "there is no scientific evidence, whatsoever, that domestic livestock could represent a risk for the Earth's climate" and that the "warming potential of anthropogenic GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions has been exaggerated".
Glatzle, 2018
Domestic Livestock and Its Alleged Role in Climate Change
Abstract:
"Our key conclusion is there is no need for anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), and even less so for livestock-born emissions, to explain climate change. Climate has always been changing, and even the present warming is most likely driven by natural factors. The warming potential of anthropogenic GHG emissions has been exaggerated, and the beneficial impacts of manmade CO2 emissions for nature, agriculture, and global food security have been systematically suppressed, ignored, or at least downplayed by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and other UN (United Nations) agencies. Furthermore, we expose important methodological deficiencies in IPCC and FAO (Food Agriculture Organization) instructions and applications for the quantification of the manmade part of non-CO2-GHG emissions from agro-ecosystems. However, so far, these fatal errors inexorably propagated through scientific literature. Finally, we could not find a clear domestic livestock fingerprint, neither in the geographical methane distribution nor in the historical evolution of mean atmospheric methane concentration."
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Charging elephant
Charging elephant
The elephant attacked the four persons - three women and a boy - when they were working in their sugarcane and paddy fields in villages under Kheroni area. The animal killed a woman and a 12-year-old boy at Bagidubi village, and two other women at Lomba Pathar and Jiribasa villages.
The elephant, suspected to have been separated from its herd, came out of the Kheroni forest a few days ago and wrecked havoc in the area destroying standing crops, the sources said.
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A newly discovered cave in a remote valley in British Columbia's Wells Gray Provincial Park just might be the country's largest such feature. The entrance to the cave, nicknamed 'Sarlacc's Pit' by the helicopter crew who discovered it, is seen in an undated handout photo.
A newly discovered cave in a remote valley in British Columbia's Wells Gray Provincial Park just might be the country's largest such feature. The entrance to the cave, nicknamed 'Sarlacc's Pit' by the helicopter crew who discovered it, is seen in an undated handout photo.
The feature, in the northeastern area of Wells Gray Provincial Park, was spotted by a helicopter crew from the province's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in March while they were conducting a caribou census.
Geologist Catherine Hickson, who first went to the cave in September, said the discovery promises a dramatic new chapter in the story of Canadian cave exploration.
"It was absolutely amazing,'' she said. "I immediately recognized that this was very significant.''
Before making the trip, Hickson and fellow researchers, including cave expert John Pollack, spent months studying satellite imagery and rocks in the area, she said.
The entrance pit to the cave is about 100 metres long and 60 metres wide. While its depth is hard to measure because of the mist from a waterfall, initial examinations show it is at least 135 metres deep.
"It's about the size of a soccer field,'' Hickson said. "So, if you think of a soccer field and you put that soccer field on its end so you have this pit going down. Think about this giant circular or oval hole that just goes down and down and down. It is truly amazing.''
Traffic in the city was subsequently disrupted due to flash flooding and trees were knocked down by heavy winds.
Motorists on the Pantura Route, which connects Semarang and other northern coastal cities on Java island, also reported traffic chaos.
This footage, shared on December 3, shows the West Flood Canal in Semarang almost bursting its banks after flash flooding hit the city.
The temperature was 28 to 30 degrees.
This is the deck at one home, which is eight inches off the ground, so one can see the depth of snow.
And to think, it is still fall, and winter does not officially begin for three weeks.
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An area of Capistrano Beach in Dana Point was destroyed by this week’s big surf and high tides. The area is prone to storm damage, but this week’s destruction was the worst yet.
An area of Capistrano Beach in Dana Point was destroyed by this week’s big surf and high tides. The area is prone to storm damage, but this week’s destruction was the worst yet.
The popular basketball court was closed, the wooden walkway and seawall just south of where they stood crumbled, and decades-old palms were uprooted, pointing out to the ocean's horizon after this week's storms battered the area.
But the seaside scene of destruction isn't what caught the eye of the two Capo Beach residents out Saturday for an early morning walk.
"Look at all the cars, that's crazy, the steering wheels and tires," said Miller, pointing to the pieces of old cars embedded in boulders, now exposed.
Comment: So cow farts don't cause climate change. What a shocker. Guess the Guardian will have to find a different reason to tell us we all need to become vegan.
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