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Supercell storm
Supercell storm
Watch these insane pictures and video of the Tuesday, March 8, 2016 rare supercell storms wreaking havoc in Muscat, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
Earth Changes
Watch these insane pictures and video of the Tuesday, March 8, 2016 rare supercell storms wreaking havoc in Muscat, Oman and Saudi Arabia.
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Hawkkey Davis is back with another documentary of extreme weather, earth changes, and meteor fireball events from around the world in the first two months of 2016. This series does not mean to suggest that the world is ending, but that what is happening across the world is leading to bigger 'earth changes'.
If you're following the series, then you're seeing the signs. It's much more than one video; check out previous installments here.
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Gray's Beaked Whale
Gray's Beaked Whale
The whales stranded at high tide, possibly just before dawn, but marine mammal experts were unsure as to why they they swam close to shore as they are usually deep sea dwellers.
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One of three whales which stranded on Ruakaka Beach.
One of three whales which stranded on Ruakaka Beach.
Local iwi have given their permission for Dr Visser to perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death.
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Spectators look at a beached whale in Coronado, March 8, 2016.
The 23-foot carcass appeared to be a humpback whale calf that was dead before it washed ashore, according to a San Diego National History Museum employee.
Park workers taped off the area of the beached whale to keep spectators, who were snapping photos, at distance for public safety concerns, including bio hazard.
The whale had been found between the park entrance and parking lot 1.
Park officials told NBC 7 that they had contacted the National Oceanic Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), which will determine how to move the beached whale.
NOAA was conducting a forensic investigation of the carcass to determine the whale's cause of death.
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A tornado that injured at least two people in Tolar led to massive destruction of home on March 7.
A tornado that injured at least two people in Tolar led to massive destruction of home on March 7.
The National Weather Service said tornadoes hit the towns of Stephenville and Tolar on Tuesday morning. The service also confirmed an EF-1 hit the community of Cool on Monday evening, for a total of three tornadoes in 24 hours.
The Tolar tornado was captured on video by Jared Morris when he was at work on Tuesday morning. The video shows the funnel cloud, debris flying through the air and power flashes.
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View of the crater of Nyiragongo on 1 or 2 March with the lava lake and the new vent at the NE margin of the crater floor
View of the crater of Nyiragongo on 1 or 2 March with the lava lake and the new vent at the NE margin of the crater floor
According to a preliminary report of the Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO) who visited the volcano during 1-2 March, the new vent is now forming a second lava lake. Images from a visit of GVO staff show a spatter cone erupting fresh lava flows that pooled onto the crater floor.
GVO reported that since the end of February, activity at the volcano has been more intense than usual. In particular, starting from 04 am on 29 February, local inhabitants began to hear frequent rumblings coming from the volcano almost every minute. Likely, these were caused by the opening of the new dike (fracture occupied as pathway for the new magma) and associated rockfalls inside the crater (the vent is directly located near almost vertical walls).
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The slow-moving nature of the storm will enhance the risk of heavy downpours from parts of the southern and central plains to parts of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. It will be a combination of the moisture of the storm and the moisture coming in from the Gulf of Mexico that will trigger extremely heavy downpours and this will lead to major flooding in the region.
From Tuesday to Friday, several spells of heavy rain will continue to pound eastern Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and southern Missouri. Later this week the spell of heavy rain will cross the Mississippi river and move into Mississippi and southern Indiana.
In cities like Memphis, Tennessee, and Dallas, a month's worth of rain could be breached in just one week.
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Locally heavy downpours will develop over the next few days thereby causing normally dry rivers to swell, inundating some roads. The maximum threat of flooding will be from eastern Oman to southeastern Iran. Eastern Oman cities like Muscat and Sohar will be majorly affected by flash flooding this week. A low-pressure system moving over Iran on Tuesday and Wednesday will lead to an increase in thunderstorm activity and these are the days when the risk of flooding will be the greatest. These severe thunderstorms will move into southeast Iran as well and will affect areas from Bahl to Chabahar and inland towards Zahedan.
In Dubai also, rain will occur for several days this week. But the city will escape the flood fury. Despite this, the downpours will lead to travel disruptions. The people in the city have been warned not to drive on flooded roads.
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Dead beaked whale
Dead beaked whale
The body of the mammal, which weighed some 930 kilos, has been taken to Utrecht University where vets will try to determine the cause of death, local news website PZW says.
The last time a beaked whale washed up in the Netherlands was in 2013, off the coast of Wadden Sea island Schiermonnikoog. The last one to be found in Zeeland was in 1992.
Beaked whales are unique among toothed whales in that most species only have one pair of teeth. There are 22 species of the Ziphiidae family and it is not clear which sort was found in Vlissingen.
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Beached whale in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, being removed using earth-moving equipment, September 2013.
Beached whale in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, being removed using earth-moving equipment, September 2013.
A pod of whales stranded in Fife in 2012 had high concentrations of toxic chemicals, some of which had reached the mammals' brains, scientists have discovered.
The pod of long-finned pilot whales were stranded on a beach between Anstruther and Pittenweem in Scotland, on 12th September 2012.
Out of the 31 mammals which beached only 10 could be refloated and 21 - 16 females and five males - died.
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