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The short polar melt season is almost half over, and hasn't actually begun yet.
But no worries. NASA's top climate prophet says the Arctic is ice-free and we are toast.
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A bridge is destroyed in Hongcheon Country in Gangwon Province where 343 millimeters of rain fell overnight.
A bridge is destroyed in Hongcheon Country in Gangwon Province where 343 millimeters of rain fell overnight.
While more rain - falling at 30 to 80 millimeters per hour -- is expected in Seoul, Gyeonggi and most other parts of the country until Wednesday, a typhoon is fast approaching waters off Jeju Island, according to the Korea Meteorological Administration.
"The monsoon rain front will become stronger, influenced by water vapor from the typhoon and bring more torrential rain to some regions," said KMA official.
A 86-year-old man went missing after falling into a flooded stream in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, which received over 100 millimeters of rain between midnight Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday.
A bridge was destroyed and four mountain hikers were marooned by a flood in Hongcheon, Gangwon Province, where 343 mm of rain fell overnight.
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Ash fallout was reported in several towns in Mexico State, including Ozumba, Amecameca, Tlalmanalco, Chalco, Ayapango, Tenango del Aire and San Pedro Nexapa, El Sol de Mexico reported. Luis Felipe Puente, the national coordinator of Civil Protection, said the eruption had sent a column 2 kilometres (1.2miles) into the sky.
The volcano's opening was glowing at night as it erupted, El Sol de Mexico reported.
During the day, the volcano continued to erupt, sending smoke and ash in a northeastern direction. Three eruptions were recorded with a moderate amount of ash pushed northeast of the volcano. According to El Universal, Puente also shared recommendations in light of ash fallout from the eruption.
Marine biologists from the Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute inspected the carcass found on Phuket beach in front of Trisara Phuket Hotel. According to their preliminary inspection, the 18-meter-long whale was around 15 years old and had been dead for more than 4 weeks before it washed ashore.
The marine biologists indicated that the Bryde's whale, whose sex remains unclear, could have been killed by an infection. The carcass will be taken to Layan National Park where it will be buried.
Bryde's whales are the largest mammals in Thailand. An adult Bryde's whale could weigh up to 20 tons and grow to lengths of up to 15 meters long.
It is reported that there are around 50 Bryde's whales in the Gulf of Thailand.
Source: National News Bureau of Thailand
There have been more whale sightings this season than usual.
But ironically, according to a popular Cooloola Coast tourism operator - it's a sign that things are steadily improving for the once seriously endangered species.
"Yeah it wasn't too good to see unfortunately," Tyron Van Santen from Rainbow Beach's Epic Ocean Adventures says of the calf's discovery on Teewah Beach yesterday.
"A couple of our team members saw it when they were making the trip from Noosa to Rainbow."
Emergency crews received a call about the lightning strike hitting a person around 6:15 p.m. at Maple Avenue Monday, Midland police spokeswoman Rachel Walker told KWES. When they arrived, they found an unresponsive man.
The man was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, KWES reported.
Authorities did not release the man's name or the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Midland is a small city in west Texas on Interstate 20.
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And this weekend the region got a spectacular, if slightly eerie view of them.
Noctilucent clouds (the Latin name that basically translates to 'night shining') are a strange phenomena in the upper atmosphere.
You can only see them during the summer.
They are formed from small ice crystals so high up that they are still catching the sun even though, for those of us on the ground, it has set.
The epicentre was around 131 miles south-east of Lerwick and happened at 1.33pm on Friday.
The British Geological Survey said it was felt by more than 30 people more than 130 miles away from the epicentre.
The 4.4 magnitude tremor has now been upgraded to 4.7 following further analysis on the quake.
It was recorded in the northern North Sea, and the largest since a 5.2 tremor on land at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire in 2008.
The epicentre was around 131 miles south-east of Lerwick and happened at 1.33pm on Friday.
BGS seismologist Davie Galloway was in Shetland at the time and said "at least" 20 people there said they had felt it.
He said the epicentre was approximately 62 miles south-west of a magnitude 5.7 event in the Viking Graben in 1927.
The quake was felt in Lerwick and Sumburgh on Shetland; Kirkwall and Sanday in Orkney; in Wick and Thurso in Caithness and even Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire.
One resident of Kirkwall, Orkney, said: "Very brief vibration of whole building. I am on the second upper floor."
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"We're dealing with things that people just don't want to talk about or see," Price County Sheriff Brian Schmidt told local media.
The Price County Sheriff's Office said the airplane crashed at 3:21 a.m. CT Saturday near the north Wisconsin city of Phillips. The plane was found near State Highway 111 and U.S. Highway 8 in the town of Harmony.
Authorities did not release how many people died in the crash until Sunday.
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