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Rare snowfall hits Rome, Italy (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

Khaleda Rahman
Daily Mail
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:04 UTC
A rare snow storm in Rome on Monday disrupted transport, shut down schools and prompted authorities to call in the army to help clear the streets. Pictured, the Colosseum

A rare snow storm in Rome on Monday disrupted transport, shut down schools and prompted authorities to call in the army to help clear the streets. Pictured, the Colosseum
A rare snow storm in Rome on Monday disrupted transport, shut down schools and prompted authorities to call in the army to help clear the streets.

Residents woke to the city's first snowfall in six years on Monday as chilling winds from Siberia swept across Europe, bringing freezing temperatures that have claimed at least four lives.

The Italian capital's first snowfall since February 2012 saw about three to four centimetres settling on the ground on Sunday.

Schools were closed in the city on Monday as local authorities opened several train stations as emergency shelters for the homeless.

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Lightning bolt kills 2 people in Nigeria

Emmanuel
Olisa TV
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:38 UTC
lightning
There was mourning in Pogo community, in the Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, when a thunderbolt killed two residents over the weekend.

Both victims reportedly died on the spot when the thunderbolt struck around 8pm after a drizzle. Another local resident, identified simply as Abdullahi, also sustained injuries from the storm.

Punch reports that the unfortunate victims were a 25-year-old man, Aliyu Salihu, and a 13-year-old pupil of an Islamic school, identified simply as Abbas.

According to Aliyu's father, Malam Makeri Salihu, the victims were harvesting mangoes when a lightning enveloped the community with the accompanying thunderbolt.
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Russia's Hephaestus mud volcano erupts chucking muck hundreds of meters (VIDEO)


Strange Sounds
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:19 UTC
hephaetus mud volcano
On February 22, 2018, the volcano, located in Taman, in Krasnodar Territory of Russia, erupted, covering several acres of land with mud and cracking down the Earth across its 500-meter large crater.

There are about 40 mud volcanoes - some active and other sleeping - in this remote area of Russia. Taman is indeed mainly visited for its miracle mud. The most popular volcano in Taman is "Hephaestus" - also known as Rotten Mountain and situated near Temryuk.

Comment: As noted above, apparently it's fairly fancy muck and people visit to bathe in it, when it's not erupting:

hephaestus
From 2015, one of the volcanoes was documented erupting on film:

The world is rocking and rolling these days: And could this be related to: Scientists predict upsurge in major earthquakes for 2018 due to slowdown in Earth's rotation

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Record snowfall of 3.1 metres hits Horokanai, Japan


Al Jazeera
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:29 UTC
Mt.Niseko Annupuri, Hokkaido

Mt.Niseko Annupuri, Hokkaido
Horokanai in Hokkaido reports a snow depth of more than three metres, setting a new local record.

The snow depth in Horokanai, in northern Japan's Hokkaido has been measured as 3.124 metres, setting a new record.

It beats the previous record of 3.119 metres set in 1970, while locals say that the huge amount of snow is making life difficult.

Although impressive, this amount of snow isn't a record for the country as a whole.

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Glitch in the Matrix? Light pillars illuminate St. Petersburg skies (PHOTOS)


RT
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:13 UTC
Spectacular light pillars illuminate St. Petersburg skies (PHOTOS)
© borozdin/instagram
Russia's St. Petersburg has witnessed an incredible light show by mother nature, which illuminated the sky with bright columns of light, turning the city into a winter wonderland.

Residents of Russia's 'Venice of the north' awoke early on Saturday morning to find the skyline glittering with strange colors. Yellow, red, blue and green laser-looking columns were visible across the city. At first, people thought that they were witnessing the northern lights, but the pattern of the luminescence suggested a different phenomenon.

Comment: More pictures from Instagram on Sputnik:
With frosty weather showing no sign of ceasing in St. Petersburg, residents of Russia's northern capital have shared photos of an eyebrow-raising natural phenomenon.

St. Petersburg residents living in the city's Vyborg and Kalininsky Districts have spotted giant light pillars in the sky, which they first mistook for Northern Lights, according to local media.

This Instagram user published a photo of the light pillars under the northern lights hashtag, saying that the admiration "cannot be expressed in words."

Another user nicknamed "daryabat" also voiced joy about a "very beautiful phenomenon" which she said she first thought was Northern Lights.


Clearly our atmosphere is showing signs of serious change - evidently it's becoming colder:

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Attention

USGS reports Kilauea volcano wall collapse in Hawaii


Big Island Video News
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:29 UTC
Kilauea volcano
© USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Kilauea volcano
Volcanic activity on Kilauea volcano's East Rift Zone continues, and scientists with the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory are documenting it.

On February 10 at 8:21 in the morning, a large portion of the northeastern rim of the west pit in Pu'u O'o collapsed. Prior to and during the rim collapse, the adjacent ground also subsided.

There have been several active breakouts and lava channels on the Pulama pali over the past few days.

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Ebeko Volcano on Kurils, Russia sends two-kilometer ash plume into air


Sputnik
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 12:16 UTC
Explosive event at Ebeko volcano on 23 May, 2017
© Dr Janine Krippner
Explosive event at Ebeko volcano on 23 May, 2017
Volcano Ebeko is a natural sight featuring quite often in news reports, as it frequently stages spectacular "ash" shows for those living on Russia's Sakhalin island as well as guests to the picturesque Far Eastern region.

On Saturday, the volcano, which lies on Paramushir island on the Northern Kurils sent up into the air an ash plume of about 2 kilometers above the sea level. "The ash cloud has moved east of the volcano," a report by a local volcano eruption response unit [KVERT] of Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the Russian Academy of Sciences, reads.
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Record snowfall for Vancouver, British Columbia - double previous record

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:40 UTC
Motorists sit in traffic as snow falls in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday February 23, 2018. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Metro Vancouver with 10 to 20 centimetres of snow expected.
© DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Motorists sit in traffic as snow falls in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday February 23, 2018. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Metro Vancouver with 10 to 20 centimetres of snow expected.
Almost double the previous record, but "not one single media organization put the term 'record' in the title of their news," says reader David Taylor. Didn't mention the word "record" until 10 paragraphs down.

23 Feb 2018 - "Between eight and 10 centimetres of snow had accumulated in Vancouver by Friday afternoon, Environment Canada said, breaking the Feb. 23 snowfall record of 4.8 centimetres set back in 1940.

"As much as 11 centimetres of snow fell on parts of Richmond during the same time, and the North Shore saw as much as 13 centimetres in some areas.

"Vancouver's director of streets, Taryn Scollard, said even the city's own snowplows and salt trucks are getting stuck."

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Environmental stress? Rare '1-in-a-million' Yellow Cardinal sighted in Alabama


RT
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:30 UTC
Rare '1-in-a-million' Yellow Cardinal sighted in Alabama
© Charlie Stephenson / Facebook
A rare, yellow-colored American Northern Cardinal was spotted in an Alabama backyard in January. The "one-in-a-million" cardinal has excited birdwatchers across the US.

Cardinals usually have red feathers. This bird, however, is a mustard-yellow color, likely due to a pigment mutation.

Charlie Stephenson first noticed the yellow bird in her garden in January. She told the Shelby County Reporter it has made almost daily visits to her backyard ever since.


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Three killed across three US southern states following reported tornadoes


ABC News
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 05:33 UTC
Kentucky tornado

A screengrab from a video that a resident shot of a reported tornado near Alvaton, Kentucky.
Three people were killed across three southern states Saturday as the result of reported tornadoes, officials said.

In Arkansas, the Clay County Sheriff's Department posted to Facebook Saturday night, "Clay County Sheriff Terry Miller regrettably reports one fatality from tonight's storms, Albert Foster of Knobel."

The post continued, "Tonight's storms have resulted in severe damage to several areas of Clay County. Reports of power outages, power poles down, and flooded roads have been reported at this time. Sheriff Miller advises residents if they have any damage to their property to call the Clay County Sheriff's Department so information can be given to the Office of Emergency Management.

In Kentucky, an elderly woman was killed in her home in Logan County, the coroner there confirmed. The Logan County Sheriff's Department said the woman lived in a one-story home, which was was among many that were destroyed.

In Tennessee, another victim was found in Springfield. No further details were available on that fatality.

And while there were no reported tornadoes in Missouri, an extreme storm system caused widespread damage.

Comment: A few days ago three tornadoes hit North Texas.

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