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Wildfire near Vacaville, CA now at 1,400 acres, only 10% contained

Cynthia Dizikes
San Francisco Chronicle
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:25 UTC

The Quail Fire in Solano County just north of Vacaville grew to 1,400 acres by Sunday morning, and was 10% contained as of 8 a.m.

It destroyed 4 structures, threatened another 100 structures and prompted mandatory evacuations for Quail Canyon Road between Pleasants Valley Road and Highway 12, according to Cal Fire's Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit. Pleasants Valley Road was closed.

Cal Fire said on Sunday that 600 firefighters were battling the blaze. Thirty engines responded to the scene along with seven hand crews, nine dozers, and "numerous firefighting air tankers from throughout the state are flying fire suppression missions as conditions allow."

Satellite images showed that smoke was blowing into Sacramento, according to the National Weather Service.

Severe hailstorm damages cars, agricultural goods and kills birds in Morocco's Fez-Meknes region

Safaa Kasraoui
Morocco World News
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 20:58 UTC

Videos and photos have gone viral online showing a heavy hailstorm hitting the Fez-Meknes region over the weekend.

One of the videos shows hailstones covering the green grass of a resident's backyard.

Other photos submitted to Morocco World News show hailstones all over the region's roads.

Youssef Belhaissi, a journalist for Morocco's Medi1 TV channel, also shared photos showing the damages the hailstorm inflicted upon the city.

Storm Cristobal: Tornado hits Florida as US Gulf Coast braces for battering from tropical rains

Evening Standard (UK)
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 20:06 UTC

The storm has already wreaked havoc in Mexico

The US Gulf coast is bracing to be battered by a powerful tropical storm and tornados.

Rain pounded the region on Sunday ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Cristobal, which has already spawned a tornado in Florida and threatened more twisters along with high winds and storm surge.

Roads flooded in coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, and thousands were without power even before the storm made landfall.

Forecasters warned the storm would affect a wide area stretching roughly 180 miles (290 kilometres) east into Florida and would arrive late on Sunday, but they do not expect it to grow into a hurricane.

Woman killed by lightning near Durango, Colorado

Patrick Armijo
The Durango Herald
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 19:44 UTC

A 65-year-old woman was struck and killed by lightning Saturday morning while walking in the Edgemont subdivision.

La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith identified the woman as Pam Mount, 65, of Durango.

Mount was out for a walk in the subdivision with a friend when she was struck by lightning at about 8:37 a.m., said La Plata County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Steve Reiter.

The lightning bolt first struck a tree and moved laterally to strike Mount, Reiter said.

'In for the kill': Wombat's violent reign of terror on family in Dubbo, Australia

Ally Foster
News.com.au
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 10:22 UTC

Wombat’s violent reign of terror on Dubbo family.

A family in NSW's Central West say they are lucky to be alive after they were viciously attacked by a "terminator-like" wombat.

Jeanette Ambrose, 78, lives in the bush near Dubbo and regularly interacts with and cares for native animals.

She has been living on the property, known as Daybreak Wildlife Sanctuary, for 40 years and during that time she hand-reared some of the wombats that played the character Fatso on the long-running series A Country Practice.

Jeanette is no stranger to the iconic Aussie marsupial, which is why she was delighted when her daughter Kim, who was in a cabin on the property, called her one morning to tell her there was a wombat wandering around.

Man dies in shark attack in northern New South Wales, Australia

Peter Hannam, Sally Rawsthorne and Laura Chung
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 10:04 UTC

A male surfer has died after being bitten by a shark near Kingscliff in northern NSW

A community is reeling after a three-metre great white shark killed a man at Kingscliff in northern NSW on Sunday morning, the first fatal attack in the state in five years.

Police said the Queensland man, aged between 50 and 60, was surfing off South Kingscliff Beach, north of the Salt Surf Life Saving Club.

Surf Life Saving NSW said the shark attacked the Gold Coast man and bit the back of his thigh after 10am. Nearby surfers rushed to the aid of the man. The shark reportedly circled the three men and rammed one of their boards.

The man died from his wounds at 10.40am.

Waterspout filmed off the coast of Pontian, Malaysia

Infotainment
YouTube
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:44 UTC

Waterspout, Marine Tromba off the coast of Pontian - Malaysia, June 5, 2020.

Lightning kills 9 people in Sylhet, Bangladesh - at least 50 killed in 3 days across the country

The Independent (Bangladesh)
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 09:21 UTC

Nine persons have been killed in lightning today in different places in four districts under Sylhet division.

Of the victims, an elderly person is of Sayestaganj upazila, one of Chunarughat and two teenagers of Ajmeriganj under Habiganj district; one youth of Dharmapasha under Sunamganj district; two of Baralekha upazila and one of Kamalganj under Moulvibazar and one school-boy of Balaganj in Sylhet district, police and hospital sources said.

Comment: A day earlier 16 were killed by strikes while 24 hours prior to that at least 25 succumbed to hits.

'It sounded like an explosion': Scottish village left shaken by M2.2 earthquake

Douglas Dickie
Scottish Daily Record
Sat, 06 Jun 2020 19:59 UTC

The tremor was recorded at Earthquake House

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is asking residents in Perthshire who felt today's earthquake to report their experiences.

A seismic event measuring 2.2 on the Richter scale was recorded near Comrie at around 3.20pm this afternoon.

Residents in Comrie reported hearing a "really loud bang" while one person said "it sounded like an explosion".

The BGS appealed on Twitter for residents to fill out a questionnaire on its website to give it "valuable data".

Hundreds of Perthshire residents took to social media to report feeling the earthquake.

On Facebook, one person said the thought a "massive truck just hit my building," while another said said "it was the biggest tremor I have ever felt having lived here my whole life".

Biblical village of Bethsaida 'where Jesus fed the 5,000' is submerged by flooding

Michael Havis
Daily Mail
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:56 UTC

The place 'where Jesus miraculously fed the 5,000' has been totally submerged by flooding, forcing archaeologists to abandon the excavation site. Pictured, the flooded El-Araj site

The place 'where Jesus miraculously fed the 5,000' has been totally submerged by flooding, forcing archaeologists to abandon the excavation site.

Bethsaida — hometown to disciples Andrew, Peter and Philip — was reputedly where Christ performed the miracles of feeding the multitude and helping a blind man see.

Archaeologists have been working to prove that the lost ancient town once stood at El-Araj, an excavation site on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

However, their efforts have ground to a halt after heavy rains caused the Sea of Galilee — also known as Lake Kinneret — to flood the site.

Lead archaeologist Moti Aviam of Kinneret College said that there was no way digging could continue this year.

'During the past 30 years, the amount of the rain in Israel was not enough to bring the lake to its full capacity,' he said.

'This year it happened. All of our excavated squares, even the highest — the mosaic floor of the Byzantine church — were covered.'

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Earth Changes

Wildfire near Vacaville, CA now at 1,400 acres, only 10% contained

Severe hailstorm damages cars, agricultural goods and kills birds in Morocco's Fez-Meknes region

Storm Cristobal: Tornado hits Florida as US Gulf Coast braces for battering from tropical rains

Woman killed by lightning near Durango, Colorado

'In for the kill': Wombat's violent reign of terror on family in Dubbo, Australia

Man dies in shark attack in northern New South Wales, Australia

Waterspout filmed off the coast of Pontian, Malaysia

Lightning kills 9 people in Sylhet, Bangladesh - at least 50 killed in 3 days across the country

'It sounded like an explosion': Scottish village left shaken by M2.2 earthquake

Biblical village of Bethsaida 'where Jesus fed the 5,000' is submerged by flooding

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