Several inches of snow dumped on Hawaii's Maunakea, which has a peak of nearly 14,000 feet.
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Several inches of snow dumped on Hawaii's Maunakea, which has a peak of nearly 14,000 feet.
The solar storm, or coronal mass ejection (CME), could interfere with the Earth's magnetic field and is likely to impact various forms of communications as well as sparking vibrant auroras, space weather physicist Tamitha Skov said.
"The storm is predicted to hit Earth by midday December 1... If the magnetic field is oriented correctly, expect aurora to reach deep into mid-latitudes. Amateur radio and GPS reception issues are likely, especially on Earth's nightside," Dr Skov posted on X.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other forecasters had already predicted that three solar storms were heading towards the Earth with some of them likely to merge to produce stronger magnetic field disruptions.
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Dozens of passengers in Ukraine have had to be rescued from vehicles stuck in heavy snow
Dozens of passengers in Ukraine have had to be rescued from vehicles stuck in heavy snow
They say 48 people, including children, have been evacuated from trapped vehicles in the worst-affected Odesa region in the south-west.
At least six people have suffered from hypothermia. Traffic is currently blocked on 14 motorways.
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An oarfish was spotted on the shoreline of Los Coquitos beach in Dominican Republic
An oarfish was spotted on the shoreline of Los Coquitos beach in Dominican Republic
Spotting a deep-sea oarfish species is a signal for an impending quake, according to Japanese folklore.
The elongated fish was spotted on the shores of Los Coquitos beach in Pepillo Salcedo, Dominican Republic on Monday.
The oarfish died shortly after.
The sea serpent was eerily located near the Septentrional-Oriente strike-slip Fault Zone, responsible for the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake and tsunami in neighbouring Haiti, which killed approximately 5,300.
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Heavy snow along Route 4 in Killington, Vt., on Tuesday.
Heavy snow along Route 4 in Killington, Vt., on Tuesday.
As expected, more than 40 inches of snow fell over the past two days over parts of the Great Lakes and interior Northeast in the first significant lake-effect snow event of the season.
The heaviest snowfall was recorded at Constableville, New York, where 42.7 inches landed.
All lake-effect snow warnings expired at 7 a.m. Wednesday. By the afternoon, the snow was winding down across the Great Lakes, with a few flurries or light snow showers trickling across lakes into northwest Pennsylvania and western New York. Heavy snowfall is not expected through the rest of Wednesday, but 1 or 2 inches of snow will still be possible.
More than 30 dolphins washed up on shore on Bryan’s Beach on Tuesday.
But the nature guide's latest interaction on Tasmania's east coast has left him devastated.
He along with two of his colleagues had travelled by boat to Bryans Beach, not far from the popular tourist destination of Wineglass Bay.
It was there they came across more than two dozen pilot whales lying in the shallows on Wednesday morning.
All of them were dead.
"It was pretty heart-wrenching," Mr Theobald said.
The water level in Boon Lay Avenue almost reached the height of the seats of a bus stop, with vehicles travelling slowly along that road.
National water agency PUB said on Facebook the same evening that a flash flood had occurred in Boon Lay Way at 3.42pm. It subsided within 20 minutes.
In a separate alert on Telegram earlier in the afternoon, it said the flash flood affected two of the three lanes there.
PUB said on Facebook that its quick response teams were on site to help the public. It added that it had issued flood risk alerts for six locations.
Videos posted on Facebook show the water level in Boon Lay Avenue near River Valley High School almost reaching the height of seats at a bus stop, with vehicles travelling slowly along that road.
The past week has seen more big accumulations of typically 50-100cm (20-40″) on high slopes, 10-20cm (4-8″) at resort level, the latest is a month which began with big snowfalls too.
It's all very different to the start of last season when ski areas struggled for cover below 1,800m altitude. It also comes after a warmest and dry first half of autumn/fall.
Tignes is pictured above after fresh snow yesterday, Avoriaz below after a snowfall on November 6th.
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Destructive "super pigs" from Canada are beginning to invade the U.S., threatening to add to the billions of dollars in damage already inflicted annually upon the nation by feral swine.
Destructive "super pigs" from Canada are beginning to invade the U.S., threatening to add to the billions of dollars in damage already inflicted annually upon the nation by feral swine.
Dr. Ryan Brook, lead on the University of Saskatchewan's Canadian Wild Pig Research Project, told Field and Stream earlier this year, "The U.S. has a 400-plus year history with invasive wild pigs, but we didn't have any here until the early 1980s."
"There was a big push to diversify agriculture with species like wild [boars] and ostriches. Wild boars were brought in from Europe to be raised on farms across Canada," said Brook.
The swinish imports from Eurasia, kept both on meat farms and in hunting preserves, were crossbred with domestic pigs, resulting in "super pigs." These monstrosities were not only larger, but hardier and capable of surviving in cold climates.
Comment: Canada's Global News was reporting on the problem a year ago:
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Flooded roads in Wayville, in the wake of thunderstorms across Adelaide.
Flooded roads in Wayville, in the wake of thunderstorms across Adelaide.
An inflatable whale was also swept down the River Torrens and other local Christmas decorations were plunged underwater, after metropolitan areas around the Adelaide Hills were hit with significant rainfall since Monday morning.
The Bureau of Meteorology's Jenny Horvat said the city had recorded above 50mm in parts, with Scotch College, south of the city, receiving 75mm of rain.
"[It is] quite a lot of rainfall in a short period of time," Horvat said. "So we have seen some local river rises, and some localised flash flooding ... and water heading straight down into the [River] Torrens."
"It is not one of those things happening every second day in November, but it can happen."
Comment: Update November 28
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