Earth Changes

'Strangest fish I've ever seen': Rare giant sunfish found in California

kqed.org
Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:06 UTC

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The animal, identified as a hoodwinker sunfish, washed up on a shore last week at UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point Reserve.

Stumbling upon a seven-foot-long sunfish while walking on a beach is already pretty surprising.

But what researchers initially thought was a common type of sunfish turned out to be much rarer - a newly discovered species thought to make its home almost entirely in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere. This was in Santa Barbara, California — much further north than anyone expected to find it.

"I literally, nearly fell off my chair," Marianne Nyegaard of Murdoch University in Australia said in a statement. Nyegaard, a sunfish expert, discovered and described the Mola tecta sunfish — commonly known as the hoodwinker sunfish — in 2017.

The more common Mola mola ocean sunfish is known to swim in the Santa Barbara Channel. The hoodwinker has only been found in the Southern Hemisphere, aside from just one known example that washed up in The Netherlands in 1889.

Heavy rainfall and flooding sparks chaos in Amman, Jordan

Arab News
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:30 UTC

Heavy rainfall and flooding sparked chaos in Amman's streets on Thursday.

Cars were washed away and people rescued after a deluge filled the Jordanian capital's roads with water.

Several vehicles broke down in the streets, causing traffic to stop, Ammon News reported.

California residents survey damage as historic floods recede

Terence Chea and Janie Har
Sacramento Bee
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 23:17 UTC

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Jonathan Von Renner checks on his son Jonathan Jr., and friend Emilio Ontivares in lower Guerneville, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019.

Tom Orr began moving lyrics and scripts, clothes and photo albums from his apartment as authorities ordered evacuations along a rising Northern California river threatening to hit a historic crest.

But the actor and writer couldn't move costumes, computers and performance videos. So he shifted those to his loft bed about 10 feet up and prayed they would survive. On Wednesday, television news footage showed muddy brown water nearly swallowing his ground-level unit and much of the tiny town of Guerneville, part of Sonoma County's famed wine country and a popular tourist destination.

Residents awoke Thursday to sunshine and began assessing the damage while the water started receding. Orr, 48, was among those still unable to get into his house after the rain-swollen Russian River reached nearly 46 feet (14 meters) Wednesday night, its highest level in more than 20 years.

"I feel so helpless just sitting here and waiting before I can go back and start salvaging whatever I can," Orr said in text messages to The Associated Press before preparing for a friend to take him by canoe to work at the Main Street Bistro, one of the few places in town that did not flood.

Sonoma County officials said they expected the communities of Guerneville and Monte Rio to be accessible by car Friday. The two-day storm rendered the towns reachable only by boat on Wednesday.

One National Weather Service station measured 20 inches of rain in 48 hours.

Comment: Over 520mm (20 inches) of rain in 48 hours, evacuations as rivers rise in Northern California

Biggest February snowstorm in 118 years hammers Central Oregon

Julia Shumway
Bend Bulletin
Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:06 UTC

Seven-year-old Cole Ruff works on digging a snow fort in a large pile of snow after his father shoveled their driveway Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. (Ryan Brennecke/Bulletin photo)

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Seven-year-old Cole Ruff works on digging a snow fort in a large pile of snow after his father shoveled their driveway Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.

Schools, government offices and the Redmond Airport all closed Monday as more than a foot of snow blanketed Bend in the biggest February snowstorm to hit Central Oregon in at least 118 years.

Between 13 and 16 inches of snow had fallen on Bend by midday, with close to 20 inches near La Pine, said Marc Austin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pendleton. More snow continued to fall throughout the day but began to taper off late in the afternoon.

"Conditions are still going to stay pretty nasty even though it might not be snowing," Austin said.

A one-day snow total — from 7 a.m. Sunday to 7 a.m. Monday — of 12.5 inches set a new record in Bend as the highest February total since the agency started tracking it in 1901. The previous record was 12 inches, on Feb. 18, 1953.

Ice Age Farmer Report: "The destruction is unprecedented." - Grand Solar Minimum - Zombie Deer

Ice Age Farmer
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 20:51 UTC

© Ryan Brennecke
Seven-year-old Cole Ruff works on digging a snow fort in a large pile of snow after his father shoveled their driveway Monday, Feb. 25, 2019.

Modern agriculture is faltering as the climate changes. From crop losses to Zombie deer, Christian breaks it down.

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Mt. Shasta Ski Park in California reopens after receiving over 70" of snow in 48 hours

Haleigh Pike
krcrtv.com
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:41 UTC

A view of Mt. Shasta Ski Park on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019.

Mt. Shasta Ski Park is reopening Thursday after being closed for two days due to heavy snowfall.

The park said they saw over 70-inches of snow at the park over a 48 hour time period, burying their ski lifts and causing power fluctuations.

The park is advising all snowboarders and skiers to stay on the groomed runs due to hazardous conditions and bottomless powder.

To keep up-to-date on the conditions at the park, click here.

Snowplow driver at South Lake Tahoe, California finds woman alive inside car buried in snow

Amanda Jackson
CNN
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:30 UTC

This was the back of the car the snowplow driver hit.

It was just an ordinary day for a snowplow driver in California, until he struck a car buried in snow -- then his day turned into a rescue mission.

On February 17, the driver was clearing the snow-covered roads of South Lake Tahoe when he struck the back of a car that was illegally parked on the street. The driver contacted police to start the process of getting the vehicle towed out of the way, but as police and the driver started to dig out the car, to their surprise, a woman stuck her hand out of the car window waving for help.

She said she had been there four to five hours, but the amount of snow covering her car led officials to believe she possibly was there longer.

147 inches of snow in Caribou, Maine, and counting

Sabrina Schnur
Boston Globe
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:05 UTC

“Several office windows at NWS Caribou are covered in deep snow and drifts,” the National Weather service wrote. “This is a common view looking out windows in Northern Maine.”

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“Several office windows at NWS Caribou are covered in deep snow and drifts,” the National Weather service wrote. “This is a common view looking out windows in Northern Maine.”

Bostonians missing a lot of snow may need to plan a vacation to Caribou, Maine, where 147 inches have fallen so far this season, according to the National Weather Service.

Meteorologist Mark Bloomer said this is way above the average, which is 81 inches for the end of February, and they're tracking a few storms this weekend and early next week.

The record snowfall was set in 2008 at 197.5 inches, Bloomer said.

The windchills and hours of snow drifts Tuesday night helped make the 8- to 10-foot snow walls in the parking lot of the Caribou National Weather Service headquarters, Bloomer said.

Spectacular photos of iridescent clouds in Bucegi Mountains, Romania

Sott.net
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:58 UTC

Spectacular photos of iridescent clouds in the Bucegi Mountains, Romania have gone viral on the internet. Captured at sunset by photographer Răzvan Neagoe the phenomenon lasted for 20 minutes on Sunday 24th February 2019 reports stirileprotv.ro.

Trans-Siberian train narrowly escapes inferno of raging wildfire

RT
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:20 UTC

Dramatic footage posted on Youtube shows a train battling through a wall of fire and smoke in Russia's Far East as wildfires reduced the region to a hellscape.

In the terrifying video captured by passengers, the flames are seen coming close to the train while the railway completely disappears in a cloud of smoke. The inferno is rapidly extending across the region and threatening to paralyze railway traffic, including the legendary Trans-Siberia railway connecting Moscow to Vladivostok.

Comment: 2nd wildfire in 24 hours hits UK: Arthur's seat in Edinburgh ablaze

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Earth Changes

'Strangest fish I've ever seen': Rare giant sunfish found in California

Heavy rainfall and flooding sparks chaos in Amman, Jordan

California residents survey damage as historic floods recede

Biggest February snowstorm in 118 years hammers Central Oregon

Ice Age Farmer Report: "The destruction is unprecedented." - Grand Solar Minimum - Zombie Deer

Mt. Shasta Ski Park in California reopens after receiving over 70" of snow in 48 hours

Snowplow driver at South Lake Tahoe, California finds woman alive inside car buried in snow

147 inches of snow in Caribou, Maine, and counting

Spectacular photos of iridescent clouds in Bucegi Mountains, Romania

Trans-Siberian train narrowly escapes inferno of raging wildfire

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