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Ireland: Severe weather warning in place as southeast inundated with rain

Ronan McGreevy
The Irish Times
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:16 UTC
flooding ireland wexford wicklow
© Thomas Clare
There were reports of serious flash flooding in counties Wexford and Wicklow with some parts of both counties getting almost 40mm of rain in a nine hour period up to 3pm on January 30, 2021.
Status yellow snow and ice warning issued as motorists warned of road conditions

Snow has been forecast for the northern half of the country on Sunday as a new Met Éireann weather warning comes into effect.

A status yellow warning for snow and ice is in place for Connacht and counties Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Dublin, Carlow, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Wicklow, Offaly, Westmeath and Meath. The alert is valid until 6pm on Sunday.

Conditions are breezy and cold on Sunday morning, with widespread rain, sleet and snow. Possible accumulations of snow are predicted in the northern half of the country.

Comment: The weather system having an unusual impact Ireland's east coast:
A huge mass of sea foam covered parts of Ireland's east coast. Bad weather and high winds blew an especially large mass of it into the town of Bray, located south of Dublin.

Footage from the scene circulating online shows the town's seafront entirely covered with the wobbly blob on Saturday afternoon.


A few people braved the strong winds, taking a knee-deep stroll through the blob resembling a massive porridge spill.


The mix of sea water and dead organics covered Bray's beach completely, with some of the foam being blown deeper into the town.


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Biohazard

Sea lions are dying from a mysterious cancer in California - the culprits? Herpes and DDT

Rosanna Xia
L A Times
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:14 UTC
Barbie Halaska, right, necropsy manager at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, and lab assistant Jackie Isbell measure a California sea lion that was euthanized due to untreatable cancer.
© Bill Hunnewell / Marine Mammal Center
Barbie Halaska, right, necropsy manager at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, and lab assistant Jackie Isbell measure a California sea lion that was euthanized due to untreatable cancer.
On a former Cold War missile base perched high above the Golden Gate Bridge, in what is now the largest marine mammal hospital in the world, Frances Gulland still remembers the shock she felt when she first started working here as a veterinarian 26 years ago.

A male sea lion had washed ashore in severe pain. His hind flippers were swollen, his lymph nodes riddled with tumors. Cancer had taken over his kidneys and turned his spine to mush. First responders at the Marine Mammal Center told Gulland they saw this in sea lions all the time.

"Wildlife should not be getting cancer like this, that's crazy!" said Gulland, who was new to California. "How can that be?"

Now, after two decades of study, an all-star team of marine mammal pathologists, virology experts, chemists and geneticists say they've connected two surprising culprits: Herpes and toxic chemicals, like DDT and PCBs, that poisoned the California coast decades ago.
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Snowflake

Skier dies after being found buried upside down in snow at Mammoth Mountain, California

Mark Osborne and Matthew Fuhrman
Yahoo! News
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:05 UTC
Skier dies after being found buried upside down in snow at Mammoth Mountain

Skier dies after being found buried upside down in snow at Mammoth Mountain
A skier has died after being found upside down in several feet of snow at Mammoth Mountain ski resort in California.

The man was found by guests of the resort buried head first at about noon on Thursday "in deep snow near the intersection of Redwing and Hully Gully," Mammoth Mountain said in a statement.

The Mammoth Mountain Ski Patrol arrived on the scene, where skiers had already begun digging out the man. The ski patrol started CPR immediately and used a defibrillator as the man did not have a pulse, the resort said.

The man was taken to Mammoth Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The victim was not identified by authorities, but San Diego ABC affiliate KGTV said he was a 52-year-old from Oceanside, California, about a half hour north of San Diego.

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Snowflake

Severe weather warning issued in Latvia over prolonged snowfall


Global Times
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:53 UTC
A woman walks in the snow in Riga, Latvia, on Jan. 30, 2021. A cyclone with a center at the Estonian-Russian border has brought a prolonged period of heavy snowfall to Latvia this weekend, meteorologists said Saturday.
© Edijs Palens/Xinhua
A woman walks in the snow in Riga, Latvia, on Jan. 30, 2021. A cyclone with a center at the Estonian-Russian border has brought a prolonged period of heavy snowfall to Latvia this weekend, meteorologists said Saturday.
A cyclone with a center at the Estonian-Russian border has brought a prolonged period of heavy snowfall to Latvia this weekend, meteorologists said Saturday.

The Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center issued an orange warning over the heavy snowfall and blizzards, which were expected to increase the already thick snow cover in northern parts of the country and the capital city Riga by another 20 centimeters by Sunday morning.

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Doberman

Pack of 5 stray dogs kill young boy in Hyderabad, India


Sakshi.com
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 12:13 UTC
dog attack
In a shocking incident, a nine year old boy was killed when stray dogs attacked him. The incident took place in Bahadurpura, Hyderabad. The deceased was identified as Md Ayaan. According to the reports, he was attacked by a group of five stray dogs.

A. Narsimha Rao, sub-inspector, Bahadurpura police station speaking to TOI said that, "While the rest of the children managed to escape from the spot, Ayaan could not. The dogs chased him around for a while before attacking him. The boy was injured and died on the spot."

It is said that Ayaan had gone to play along with his friends on Saturday evening. He didn't return home after a very long time and he was found dead when his parents started searching for him.
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Attention

Earthquake swarm continues in Granada, Spain, with 49 quakes in one day, 585 counted since December

Javier Arroyo
El Pais
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:03 UTC
Granada quake
© Fermín Rodríguez
Residents in Granada flee to the streets following a series of earthquakes on Thursday.
The tremors have caused widespread alarm among local communities, with some families opting to sleep in their cars in open spaces due to fears of staying in their homes

Granada province, in southern Spain, was hit on Thursday by 49 earthquakes, according to the National Geographic Institute (IGN). The largest of these, with a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale, struck at 7.49pm at a depth of three kilometers. The city of Granada and its metropolitan area had already been shaken by 42 tremors of varying magnitudes before the latest ones were felt.

Local police in the municipality of Santa Fe, the epicenter of the 4.3-magnitude quake, said that one building had suffered minor damage, but did not pose any risk. Officers did, however, warn citizens to take care when passing by certain areas of the city center, which are home to a large number of old buildings.

Comment: Seismic and geologic activity of all kinds appears to be on the rise:

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Snowflake

Nearly 100 million in US Midwest under advisories as winter storm moves east

Jason Slotkin
NPR
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 19:20 UTC
California snow
© Randy Walker/AP
In this photo provided by Caltrans District 9, heavy snowfall blankets cars at June Lake, in Mono County, Calif., on Wednesday. The same storm that brought snow and heavy rain to the state is moving through the Midwest, with 5 to 9 inches of snowfall predicted in some regions by Sunday.
The winter storm system that blanketed California's mountaintops and brought heavy rains that caused mudslides throughout the state is moving into the Midwest, triggering advisories for nearly 100 million in the central U.S..

Forecasters with the National Weather Service predict the storm will move across the Central High Plains and to the northeastern United States by Monday, bringing with it feet of snow and heavy rain extending from the Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes along the way.

As of Saturday afternoon, the weather service had issued advisories and warnings for large swaths of the region, which include Chicago, where 5 to 9 inches of snowfall is expected by Sunday evening. The weather service also predicted the area would see other wintry conditions.

"In addition to the heavy snow this evening, gusty southeast to east winds will also produce high waves that could result in minor lakeshore flooding this weekend, mainly along the Illinois lakeshore," the NWS Chicago office tweeted on Saturday.

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Cloud Grey

Rare 'hole punch clouds' spotted over Georgia, US

Tanasia Kenney
Sacramento Bee
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:38 UTC
Several fallstreak holes over Georgia
© NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ATLANTA
Several fallstreak holes, or “hole punch clouds,” were spotted across parts of northern Georgia on Friday.
Several saucer-shaped formations dotted the skies over north Georgia, giving residents a reason to look up.

Fallstreak holes, also known as "hole punch clouds," were spotted across the Atlanta metro area and northern parts of the state on Friday, according to 11Alive.

The rare clouds form when "supercooled water droplets" suddenly freeze within mid- to high-level cumulus clouds, according to the National Weather Service. When these ice crystals fall, a giant hole is left behind.

Residents took to social media to share photos of the rare phenomena.

Comment: In recent times this rare cloud phenomena has appeared over UAE, Canada, Southern California, UK, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Other strange cloud anomalies seem to be appearing globally with higher frequency and intensity. Factors which may contribute to these 'strange skies' are atmospheric dust loading from increased comet and volcanic activity and changes in the layers of the atmosphere. See also: An indicator of this dust loading is the intensification of noctilucent clouds we are observing. As explained in Pierre Lescaudron's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection:
The increase in noctilucent clouds is one of the effects - among others - of increased dust concentration in the atmosphere in general, and in the upper atmosphere in particular. We suspect that most of this atmospheric dust is of cometary origin, while some of it may be due to the recent increase in volcanic activity.
See also: Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange skies

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Road Cone

Section of California's Highway 1 crumbles into the Pacific after storms trigger landslide

Mercury News
YouTube
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:05 UTC
California highway 1 landslide
© YouTube/Mercury News (screen capture)
California Highway Patrol Sergeant John Yerace describes the moment he discovered the road was swept into the ocean as a result of a winter storm that delivered heavy rains, debris flow and damage across the northern half of the Golden State. Story: https://bayareane.ws/39vHt9T

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Cow Skull

More than 700 pelicans found dead in Senegal world heritage site


The Guardian
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 10:38 UTC
Rangers are investigating mystery deaths at Djoudj bird sanctuary, a migratory pitstop for hundreds of bird species
Pelicans
© Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images
Senegal authorities are incinerating the dead pelicans and have closed Djoudj bird sanctuary while they investigate.
Seven hundred and fifty pelicans have been found dead in a Unesco world heritage site in northern Senegal that provides refuge for millions of migratory birds, the country's parks director has said.

Rangers found the pelicans on Saturday in the Djoudj bird sanctuary, a remote pocket of wetland near the border with Mauritania and a resting place for birds that cross the Sahara into west Africa each year.

Comment: See also:

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