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Woman bitten by shark in rare attack at Curio Bay, New Zealand


Daily Mail
Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:27 UTC
A shark came 'out of nowhere' and attacked a French tourist in her 20s while she was bodyboarding in New Zealand. She survived the rare attack with only a gash to her leg (stock image)

A shark came 'out of nowhere' and attacked a French tourist in her 20s while she was bodyboarding in New Zealand. She survived the rare attack with only a gash to her leg (stock image)
A French tourist survived a rare shark attack in New Zealand on Thursday, suffering only moderate injuries, rescuers and locals said.

The woman, aged in her 20s, was bodyboarding in the afternoon at Curio Bay in the South Island when the shark attacked her leg, St John Ambulance said.

She was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital's emergency department for treatment.

Nick Smart, who runs the Caitlin Surf School, said the woman was in the water with friends when the shark attacked 'out of nowhere'.
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Attention

Dead whale found on beach at Jersey Shore

Wayne Parry
US Nnews
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:30 UTC
A dead 43-foot-long whale lies on the sand in Toms River N.J. hours after washing ashore on Wednesday April 26, 2017.
© Andrew Pero
A dead 43-foot-long whale lies on the sand in Toms River N.J. hours after washing ashore on Wednesday April 26, 2017.
A badly decomposed whale that had been floating offshore for at least three days washed up on a beach Wednesday, prompting a hurried effort to dismember and haul away the putrid 43-foot carcass.

Bob Schoelkopf, director of the Brigantine-based Marine Mammal Stranding Center, said the whale may have been a Sei whale, but the poor condition of the carcass made a firm identification difficult. For the same reasons, he said, it will be difficult to determine how the whale died.

"It has been so chewed up. The sharks have really been tearing it up," he said.

The dead whale was first reported by a passing cruise ship three days ago off the coast of New York, and it had been in the surf the last few days.

Comment: Also on the same day: Dead whale found on Hassik beach, Oman

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Road Cone

Large sinkhole opens in Winter Garden, Florida neighborhood


WFTV9
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 07:36 UTC
Winter Garden, FL sinkhole
© WFTV9
Residents in an Orange County neighborhood said a sinkhole opened up near their homes.

The hole forced crews to shut down a road in the Orchard Hill subdivision on Cypress Hill Road, not far from State Road 429.

Residents said the hole was filled with dirt and it's not blocked by barricades.

"It's pretty scary. We don't want it to spread," said Heather Kelly.

Kelly and her family live feet away from what the county calls an active sinkhole. "It's a lot wider now than it was in the first place," said Kelly.

Residents said the sinkhole was 6 inches deep and, before it was filled, it had grown to a depth of 12-feet.

"We're always concerned. This is a new home. We've been here for about a year," Kelly said.
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Snowflake

26 feet of snow recorded in Japan

Bill Steffen
woodtv.com
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:34 UTC
Huge amounts of snow, up to 8 m, at Mt Gassan, Yamagata prefecture, Japan over the past few days.
© e Meteo
Huge amounts of snow, up to 8 m, at Mt Gassan, Yamagata prefecture, Japan over the past few days.
Go to this link to see pics. of up to 26.2 feet of snow on the ground in Japan. This is near Mt. Gassan, which at 6,509 feet above sea level is not a terribly high mountain. Very cold air coming off Siberia can produce incredible ocean-effect snow there. And check out these pictures of gigantic snowcover in N. Japan. I think the pics. at this second link are from 2012. Looks like the sun is fairly high in the sky in these pics.

8.2% of the U.S. has a snow cover - mostly out West, but also in northern Maine and northern N. Dakota.

Most of Canada is still snow covered and the lakes are frozen (except near the U.S. and western British Columbia).

This is Northern Hemisphere snow extent, which been increasing a little over the past couple decades (pic. from Rutgers Snow Lab).

Comment: Interesting 'Spring' around the world:

13 cm of snowfall as late-season storm hits Regina, Saskatchewan
April showers? Southern Manitoba hit with snowfall instead
Hard freeze kills 95 to 100 percent of France's Alsace vineyard buds
Turkey greenhouses collapse due to snowfall
Snow across Wales as Arctic winds sweep across the country

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Snowflake

Mountain snowpack well over average in Northwest Montana

Matt Baldwin
Daily Inter Lake
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 19:25 UTC
A plow clears snow from Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park earlier this month.

A plow clears snow from Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park earlier this month.
The higher elevations of Northwest Montana can expect another round of winter-like weather this week, adding to a mountain snowpack that remains well above average for this time of year.

As of Tuesday, the snowpack in the Flathead River basin was at 120 percent of normal. The Kootenai River basin boasts snow totals 113 percent of average, while the Upper Clark Fork basin is at 108 percent.

"We still have a lot of snow in the high elevations," said Ray Nickless, a hydrologist with the Weather Service in Missoula. "And it continues to build. We certainly have a lot of water still to come down this spring."

Nickless pointed to a weather station at Flattop Mountain at 6,300 feet in Glacier National Park. The site shows more than 10 feet of snow on the ground, holding about 52 inches of water.
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Snowflake

Surprise snowfall in the heart of France

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:02 UTC
florence france snow
It snowed Tuesday night in the northern Côte-d'Or! Snowflakes begun falling around 19:30 in the Saulieu area, leaving a light white coat covering the landscape as shown by photographs taken shortly before 20:30.

The snowfall could continue for a few hours since Météo France forecast some flakes for parts of the department (Etalante, Vitteaux, Saulieu, Arnay-le-Duc) early on Wednesday.

See lots of photos
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Igloo

Is the Tahoe Glacier making a comeback?

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:00 UTC
Lake Tahoe
This is not as far-fetched as you may think. In fact, if history is any guide it is inevitable. Not only inevitable, the process may have already begun.

California's Squaw Valley ski resort, just west of Lake Tahoe, has been buried beneath more than 58 feet of snowfall this season. That's enough snow to completely cover a five-story building. With such copious amounts of snow, Squaw Valley CEO Andy Wirth announced last week that some ski trails may stay open all summer and into next season.

In other words, the snow may not entirely melt this summer. I don't know if Mr. Wirth fully understood the import of his words, but readers of this website ( iceagenow.info ) certainly do.

"Isn't this how glaciers are formed?" asked one reader. "Snow in one year still existing the following year?"

"Golly! Wouldn't that start a glacier?" asked another.

"Ski all Summer thru Fall? That's called a glacier," exclaimed yet another reader. "Glaciation of the Sierras."

Those readers are correct. That is indeed how glaciers form. That is also how ice ages begin - not because some huge ice sheet starts grinding southward (or northward if coming from the bottom of the globe), but because the more the snow accumulates, the less chance it has to melt.
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Ice Cube

"Extraordinary" cold in Spain - Snow at 600 meters

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:56 UTC
spain cold
© EFE/Chema Moya
An "extraordinary" collapse in temperatures, up to 15 degrees C in northern areas.

25 Apr 2017 - Galicia will be this cold and, during the next 48 hours in the province of Lugo, the low will vary between 0 and 3 degrees.

At night, Vitoria and almost all the provinces of Castilla y León will ​​range from 2 below zero to 2 degrees.

On Thursday night there will be frosts in the northern highlands. Leon will fall to 4 degrees below zero.

The cold ​​will cause significant snowfall in the north, especially in the Cantabrian mountain range and the Pyrenees, and will occasionally affect flat northern areas above 600 / 1,000 meters on Wednesday and Thursday.

Yellow alert: In Asturias there is yellow alert for snow in the Cantabrian mountain range and the Picos de Europa at 900 meters, which is expected to fall to 600 meters tomorrow.

From tomorrow, the snow will affect Huesca, Barcelona, ​​Girona, Lérida and Asturias. On Thursday the snow will remain in Teruel, Barcelona, ​​Gerona and Lleida. Efeverde

Thanks to Argiis Diamantis for this link

Comment: Interesting 'Spring' around the world:

13 cm of snowfall as late-season storm hits Regina, Saskatchewan
April showers? Southern Manitoba hit with snowfall instead
Hard freeze kills 95 to 100 percent of France's Alsace vineyard buds
Turkey greenhouses collapse due to snowfall
Snow across Wales as Arctic winds sweep across the country

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Fish

Fishermen report increase in exotic fish caught off Perth beaches in Western Australia


WA Today
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:28 UTC
Jack Burke landed a nice rankin cod out of Mindarie.
© Perth Game Fishing Club
Jack Burke landed a nice rankin cod out of Mindarie.
Local fishermen have reported an increase in tropical fish caught just off Perth beaches over the past week.

According to Recfishwest, many Perth fishermen had reported landing tropical fish off the coast in unusual spots.

"We've been receiving some reports of uncharacteristic tropical fish caught just out of Perth the last week," a spokesperson said.

"Both north and south have seen rare catches which is exciting for the fishing community."

Most notably, Perth locals have reported landing a rankin cod out of Mindarie, and a large red emperor off Rottnest Island in the last week.
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Cloud Lightning

Three hikers killed by lightning bolt in Java, Indonesia

Jessie Prasetya
Indonesia Expat
Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:44 UTC
LIGHTNING
On April 23, 2017, three hikers on Mount Prau in Central Java died after being struck by lightning. The unfortunate incident occurred when a group of 11 people hiked from their base camp at Patak Banteng and decided to spend the night on Mount Prau.

The next day, the group decided to go down into the valley due to heavy rain on top of the mountain. They pitched their tents near the mobile signal transmitter tower. Not long after, lightning struck their location, killing three members of the group.

After the incident, one of the survivors said the strike may have been triggered by one of the hikers who opened his mobile phone after detecting a signal in the area.

In addition to three fatalities, the lightning strike caused severe burns to six of the hikers and minor burns to two of them. Those who died were identified as private sector workers named Deden Hidayat Maulana (31) from West Java, Aditya Agung Darmawan (30) from East Jakarta and Adi Setiawan (31) from East Jakarta.

Comment: Elsewhere in Asia: Worker dies after lightning strike in Sepang, Malaysia.

Lightning kills man at Nadanahalli, India

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