Earth Changes
Météo-France Antilles-Guyane said the highest accumulation of rain was measured in Pointe-Noire and Petit-Bourg with 86.5 mm and 64.9 mm respectively during a 6 hour period between 12:00 and 18:00 on 03 February, 2021. Météo-France Antilles-Guyane added that the intensity of the rainfall was unusual.
Chipinge commercial farmer Mr Dawe Joubert was left counting losses after his 25 cattle were struck by lightning on Thursday
The district's Department of Agricultural, Technical and Extension Services livestock promotion officer Mr John Mwandifura confirmed the incident and said he had liaised with the Chipinge district development coordinator Mr William Mashava over the case.
Mr Mashava confirmed the incident.
"Yes, I can confirm the 25 cattle owned by commercial farmer Mr Dawie Joubert were struck by lightning cattle at his farm, popularly known as Chibonere Farm, on Thursday," he said. "The carcasses of the 25 cattle were ferried to a crocodile farm in Chiredzi."
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The département of Lot-et-Garonne in south west France on Friday morning had 45 roads that were impassable, while six schools were closed and dozens of people were evacuated from their homes.
Visiting the area on Friday, Prime Minister Jean Castex said that the formal declaration of a catastrophe naturelle (natural disaster) would be put in place "after the briefest delay possible".
After thanking the "quite exemplary" rescue forces and expressing the "solidarity of the State", Castex announced that the file for declaring a state of natural disaster "will be examined, as always with great diligence, so that it can be declared as soon as possible".
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A snowy owl was seen in Central Park in New York City on Jan. 27, 2021.
A snowy owl was seen in Central Park in New York City on Jan. 27, 2021.
DePorte - an avid bird-watcher - was then unaware a sighting of the owl hadn't been reported in Central Park in 130 years. At the time, she was in Rockefeller State Park Preserve with a friend who was looking for a pileated woodpecker, a bird she had seen plenty of times growing up in rural Pennsylvania.
"I really didn't care about a pileated woodpecker," she said. So she hopped in an Uber, and "$60 and 45 minutes later, I was back in Central Park running to the ballfield with my camera."
"I was so happy" as she snapped photos of the bird, DePorte added. "It was the best, most unusual spotting I had had."
Rangers urged the public not to travel to the park, and closed both the road and entrance gate — locals were not permitted to see the snow or ice.
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Somalia already has about three million people facing food shortage.
Said Hussein Lid, Somalia's Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, said the government has identified a large swarm of locusts in the southern federal states of Hirshabelle, South West and Jubbaland.
With the declaration, Somalia is seeking targeted funding and efforts to tame the swarms attacking a region that, according to a situational report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), is already food poor.
Somalia's decision came on Thursday after Mr Lid met representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and ministers from the three southern states of Somalia.
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Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
The body of a skier who had been missing for days was found underneath more than a dozen feet of snow Wednesday evening on a trail near Mount Washington in New Hampshire, the state's Fish and Game Department said in a statement.
In Colorado, three skiers died in an avalanche earlier in the week in an area called Mineral Creek near Silverton. They were publicly identified by the county and town of Eagle as Seth Bossung, Andy Jessen and Adam Palmer.
Comment: Another fatality occurred at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah:
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Motorists and truckies are trapped on islands between floodwaters.
Motorists and truckies are trapped on islands between floodwaters.
Operations were underway today to rescue around 40 people who became stranded in and around Minilya, about 120 kilometres north of Carnarvon.
A tropical low, previously expected to become WA's first cyclone of the season, dumped hundreds of millimetres of rain in the state's north last week, leading to flooding over major roads.
Truck driver Rob Minson was airlifted to safety by an RAC helicopter this morning, more than 36 hours after he became stranded on a patch of dry land along with three others.
"It was basically Gilligan's Island," he said.
"We were in the middle of nowhere."
Comment: Rivers across France burst banks as Storm Justine dumps half a month's worth of rain in 24 hours