Earth Changes

More record lows on Canada's east coast

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:47 UTC

Coldest July 14 since 1871

New Brunswick

Issued by Environment Canada Saturday 15 July 2017

The following stations set a daily minimum temperature record on July 14, 2017:

Grand Manan
New record of 3.7 (38.7 F)
Old record of 5.0 (41.0 F) set in 1992
Records in this area have been kept since 1883

Saint John
New record of 4.7 (40.5 F)
Old record of 6.1 (43.0 F) set in 1970
Records in this area have been kept since 1871

Newfoundland And Laborador

The following station set a daily minimum temperature record on July 14, 2017:

Magnitude 3.6 earthquake hits West Yellowstone bringing the current sequence to over 1200 since June12th

The Big Wobble
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:25 UTC

The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reports that a minor earthquake of magnitude 3.6 occurred at 02:31 PM on July 18, 2017. (MDT)

The epicenter of the shock was located 9.3 mi N of W. Yellowstone, MT.This earthquake is part of an ongoing sequence of earthquakes that began on June 12, 2017 and included a magnitude 4.4 event on June 15, 2017, 9.0 mi NNE of W. Yellowstone, MT.

Today's M 3.6 earthquake was reported felt in Yellowstone National Park and in West Yellowstone, MT.

It was followed by numerous smaller earthquakes, the largest of which had magnitudes of 2.8 and 2.9.

The total number of located earthquakes in the current sequence has now exceeded 1200.

Rare snowfall filmed on Table Mountain, South Africa

memeburn
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 18:02 UTC

It hardly ever snows on Cape Town's fabled Table Mountain, but when it does in the internet era, it's definitely going to get caught on tape.

The courtesy comes from YouTuber Justin Hawthorne, who this past weekend experienced the fluffy precipitation from near the summit of the mesa.

Snowfall began around midday on Sunday 16 July, and lasted for around two minutes, Hawthorne notes in a comment.

"There had been a few lighter flurries over 15min or so prior. There were only a few spots on Table Mountain with visible snow that I saw leading up to this, but it clearly showed that snow had fallen on Saturday night — but a little."

"It was just fantastic to have had some snow falling during the day, in good weather conditions - so it made for a great shot," he added.

Close to the middle of summer and still no Northwest Passage

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:03 UTC

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.

'Rare' cloud phenomenon seen over Bournemouth, UK

Katie Clark
Daily Echo
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:22 UTC

A rare cloud 'phenomenon' was spotted over Bournemouth last week.

The rainbow coloured haze in the cloudy sky led a string of enquiries on social media.

And while many put the colourful sight down to cloud iridescence, some said it could also be a circumhorizontal arc. Cloud iridescence happens when light is diffracted by ice crystals in the clouds, producing a rainbow effect.

2017's natural catastrophes less damaging than 10-year average so far

AFP
Yahoo News
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:54 UTC

© AFP Photo/SVEN HOPPE
Disasters inflicted a financial cost of around $41 billion in the first six months, Munich Re reported

Natural catastrophes worldwide were less devastating in the first half of 2017 than the average over the past 10 years, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, while highlighting the role of climate change in severe US storms.

Some 3,200 people lost their lives to disasters between January and June, the German group found -- well short of the 10-year average of 47,000 for the period or the 5,100 deaths in the first half of 2016.

April floods and landslides in Colombia that claimed 329 lives were the deadliest single event.

Elsewhere, an April-June heatwave in India killed 264 people, while floods, landslides and avalanches claimed around 200 lives in Sri Lanka, 200 in Afghanistan and 200 Bangladesh.

Disasters inflicted a financial cost of around $41 billion in the first six months, Munich Re reported.

That was less than half of the $111 billion toll in the same period last year, or the average of $102 billion over the past 10 years.

Comment: Damage was way up in 2016, but the trend for the past few years seems to have been fewer major disasters, but with perhaps more frequent smaller-scale events:

Shallow 5.9 magnitude earthquake hits Mauritius - Reunion region

Earthquakes Today
Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:16 UTC

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.9 (ml/mb) strikes Mauritius - Reunion region (0 miles) on Wednesday.

The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth's surface.

The 5.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:16:25 / 12:16 pm (local time epicenter).

A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/07/17 / 2017-07-19 12:16:25 / July 19, 2017 @ 12:16 pm.

Alligator attacks Peace River swimmer in Arcadia, Florida; 4th such incident in 10 days

nbc-2.com
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:22 UTC

An alligator bit a man swimming in the Peace River Sunday afternoon -- this is one of four attacks to have occurred in the past 10 days and the second attack in the area.

Russell Mendelsohn, 34, was bitten on his left foot while wading in the waters at Morgan Park in Arcadia.

One witness we spoke with told us he saw Mendelsohn playing in the water with his two daughters and then he heard him scream.

Justin Cassell watched on as he pulled his two daughters out of the water. When he got to the shore, it was clear Mendelsohn had been attacked by an alligator.

'Sonic event' blamed for rumbling noises, rattling windows on Channel Islands, UK

Guernsey Press
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:10 UTC

Hundreds of islanders reported feeling an earthquake-like movement about 10pm, with some in Jersey and even in Nomandy, France, saying that they felt it.

British Geological Survey seismologist Davie Galloway confirmed the vibrations were too slow to have been an earthquake.

Instead the vibrations were measured to be at the speed of sound, which led to the conclusion that it was likely to have been a sonic event, such as a plane going supersonic.

Some islanders reported feeling the shudder and thinking they had an intruder in their house, others thought their children had fallen out of bed.

Many people said their windows and doors were shaking.

Helen Wallbridge on Facebook said she felt it in St Martin's. 'The doors shook, thought we had an intruder in the house,' she said.

Mid-July snow in Quebec, Santiago anomaly & temperature data faked

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:44 UTC

View of a street covered with snow in Santiago on July 15, 2017

With the new report out calling into question all of the temperature records from NASA, NOAA and HadCRU, there a lot of scientists and policy makers asking a lot of questions after seeing the purposeful manipulation of politically driven fake temperatures to show a warming trend that isn't there. Then we have snow in Canada in July, the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere on Greenland @-33C plus what can only be described as a freak weather event blanketing Santiago Chile with ice. The planet is showing signs of cooling, but the AGW agenda is trying its best to hold on in a tsunami of new information of their temperature fraud.