Earth Changes

More than 100-year rainfall record broken in Palm Beach County, Florida

Kimberly Miller
My Palm Beach Post (blog)
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:29 UTC

Tuesday's deluge broke rainfall records across South Florida including in West Palm Beach where a more than century-old record was dashed.

At Palm Beach International Airport, 4.18 inches of rain was measured Tuesday, a whopping 1.18 inches higher than the previous record of 3 inches set in 1904.

The cloudy skies also helped break a temperature record. The daytime high only reached 77 degrees at the airport, which breaks the record low maximum temperature of 81 degrees set in 1938.

Fort Lauderdale rainfall topped out at 4.78 inches, breaking a 1926 record of 1.96. In Naples, 3.37 inches fell Tuesday, breaking a 1992 record of 2.40 inches.

The big winner through Wednesday was Boca Raton. One South Florida Water Management District gauge measured a whopping 10.78 inches.

Comment: Powerful storm heading for South Florida days after torrential rains cause flooding

25% drop in wheat output across USA

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 07:34 UTC

The USDA just released new numbers for losses after the out of season blizzard and unseasonable cold rolled across the main wheat growing region of the USA., the numbers of now are at least 25% loss of the winter and red wheat crops. Look for increased prices from this point forward indefinitely as the grand solar minimum intensifies. Ethereum prices seem to rise when the crop losses are announced, but that could be due to meetings in China that will determine the fate of block-chain usage in Asia through June.

Six killed by lightning strikes in Maharashtra, India

India Today
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:10 UTC

Six persons were killed when lightning struck them in separate incidents in Maharashtra, officials said today.

In the first incident, four persons were killed after being struck by lightning in Dhanur village in Gadchiroli district last evening, District Disaster management officer Krishna Reddy told PTI.

A group of 13 villagers were attending a pooja at an agricultural farm when lightning struck them, he said.

All the 13 injured were rushed to a government health centre in Aheri, where four were declared brought dead, Reddy added.

The deceased have been identified as Sandip Khusnake (30), Ritesh Kinake (25) Jankiram Todsam (43) and Shyamrao Kanake (58), the official added.

Comment: Elsewhere in India over the last few days a bolt killed 3 family members in Odisha state while 2 women were killed by another strike in Meghalaya.

Three volcanoes are restless on the Alaska Peninsula

Avery Lill
kdlg.org
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:28 UTC

A volcanic plume from Bogoslof on June 5, 2017

Bogoslof volcano has a new lava dome. Cleveland volcano continues to put up ash and extrude lava, and the alert level for Pavlof volcano was raised to "advisory."

Over the last week there has been quite a bit of volcanic activity along the Alaska Peninsula. The Bogoslof, Cleveland, and Pavlof volcanoes are all showing signs of unrest. Most recently, the Bogoslof volcano erupted briefly Wednesday around 9:30 p.m.

"Bogoslof has been continuing its eruptive activity that started in December 2016 with a series of small activities," says Jessica Larsen, a geologist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory. "Now we have new evidence that there's a lava dome growing at the Bogoslof Island."

A lava dome is a mound of lava that has been extruded from the volcano. This is characteristic of previous Bogoslof explosive periods.

1-year-old boy dies following mauling by Rottweiler in Phoenix, Arizona

Trisha Hendricks
12news.com
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:07 UTC

A 1-year-old boy died after a dog attack in a South Phoenix home.

A fire official said a grandmother was watching the child at the time of the incident. Police said she was at home doing laundry when she put down the baby boy. The woman opened a house door and the dog got inside the room the boy was in, according to police.

Officers said the dog grabbed the baby and dragged him outside.

A Phoenix police officer shot the Rottweiler dog to make it stop attacking the boy. The boy, identified as Marcos Raya Junior, was taken to a local trauma center in extremely critical condition, and later pronounced dead.

Marcos Raya Junior's family is devastated. His mom told 12 News he was their miracle baby and that she prayed for him for 11 years. They called him MJ.

Comment: A couple of days earlier than the above incident 2 Rottweilers savagely attacked a 7-year-old boy in Niagara Falls, New York:

A 7-year-old boy, brutally attacked by two rottweilers in Niagara Falls, is fighting for his life. Kaeden Mitchell's mother says her son was at his babysitter's house on 70th Street where the two dogs are normally locked up when kids are around.

Vikki Avino says she got a call at work Wednesday afternoon that the dogs broke out of their cage as Kaeden and a 4-year-old girl were outside and attacked. Avino says the little girl managed to climb over a fence and get away, and the dogs' owner tried to intervene and shield Mitchell, but the dogs were relentless.

"He had had his ears ripped off, his eyelids, he's got big holes in his neck. He has lacerations everywhere. Legs, arms, stomach, neck head," she said by phone.

Avino says her son has already had several surgeries at a Buffalo hospital, with more expected.

Circumzenithal arc, sun dogs seen over England's Waveney Valley

Ian Carstairs
iwitness24.co.uk
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:15 UTC

Circumzenithal arc over Harleston in the Waveney Valley

As the storm approached a circumzenithal arc and sun dogs formed ahead of the thicker clouds .

Circumzenithal arc and sun dogs over England

Snow and heavy rains disrupt mining operations in desert region of northern Chile

Fabian Cambero
Reuters
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:52 UTC

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BHP Billiton's Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, is seen snow covered after heavy rains lashed the high altitude desert region of Antofagasta overnight and into Wednesday in northern Chile June 7, 2017.

Mines in northern Chile have suspended key operations after heavy rains lashed the high altitude desert region of Antofagasta overnight and into Wednesday, companies told Reuters.

BHP Billiton's Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, said it was snowing and all operations had been suspended.

State-run Codelco [COBRE.UL] said mining activities at its flagship Chuquicamata deposit and at nearby Radomiro Tomic and Ministro Hales had been suspended as a preventative measure, while Antofagasta said Centinela and Zaldivar had suffered intermittent interruptions.

Polish miner KGHM's Sierra Gorda said it was considering whether to restrict some operations as a precaution.

'High altitude rainbow' seen over Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Mark Alan Lovewell
Vineyard Gazette
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:28 UTC

Circumhorizontal arc in Martha's Vineyard

Last Sunday morning a number of Vineyarders spotted an extraordinary atmospheric event in the sky, a peculiar high altitude rainbow. This was not the usual rainbow we are all familiar with following a summer shower, where rain clouds are nearby. This was different.

What our friends saw on Sunday was what meteorologists call a circumhorizontal arc, not a very attractive name for a pretty event, created by sunlight passing through high altitude ice crystals.

A circumhorizontal arc is far more related and a cousin to a halo and also a sun dog. Though all three are rare, the rarest of them all is the circumhorizontal arc. This is an event that takes place way up high in the neighborhood of cirrus clouds, well over 20,000 feet above ground.

Our changing atmosphere is a giant part in the creation of Sunday's show. The air around us was dry and stable, while high aloft there was change, an approaching cold front. High in the sky, there was bitter cold air interacting with moisture creating ice crystals. One more ingredient in this phenomena involves the relative angle between us, the crystals and the sun.

Sun dogs, halos and circumhorizontal arcs were used to predict the weather. They were a sign of an advancing change in the air. Last Sunday, the cold front passed over the Vineyard and brought with it rainy weather by the end of the day.

60 killed by lightning strikes since the start of year in the Indian state of Jharkhand

A.S.R.P. Mukesh
The Telegraph (India)
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:06 UTC

The state emergency response centre, a centralised unit set up in Dhurwa to coordinate with districts and issue timely alerts, has stopped functioning from February, and the government displays no urgency to revive it even though Jharkhand has already recorded more than 60 deaths due to lightning strikes since January.

Today, according to police, three persons died after being struck by lightning while working in the fields at Garadih village at Kairo in Lohardaga. So far in June, 13 people have died of lightning strikes in the state, according to media reports and estimates provided by independent disaster management experts. In May, the toll was 40 across the state with 21 in East Singhbhum alone.

According to sources, the state emergency response centre has ceased to function because state disaster management's special projects officer's post has been lying vacant ever since the contract of Col Sanjay Srivastava, an expert from UNDP, expired over three months back.

The special projects officer was to act as the nodal officer of the disaster management department, under the state home department, and coordinate with district disaster management officers (DDMOs), local administrations and stakeholders during exigencies.

8 inches of hail falls near Canyon, Texas

Karl Wehmhoener
My High Plains
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 18:21 UTC

After Thursday night's hail storm, staff at Camp Don Harrington are getting ready for 150 Cub Scouts to attend camp today.

Officials at the camp say over 8 inches of hail came down and damages several areas and caused flooding in other parts.

"Mrs. Ranger" Brenda Hutson posted that some staff tents were damaged during the storm and some water got into the buildings.

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Earth Changes

More than 100-year rainfall record broken in Palm Beach County, Florida

25% drop in wheat output across USA

Six killed by lightning strikes in Maharashtra, India

Three volcanoes are restless on the Alaska Peninsula

1-year-old boy dies following mauling by Rottweiler in Phoenix, Arizona

Circumzenithal arc, sun dogs seen over England's Waveney Valley

Snow and heavy rains disrupt mining operations in desert region of northern Chile

'High altitude rainbow' seen over Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

60 killed by lightning strikes since the start of year in the Indian state of Jharkhand

8 inches of hail falls near Canyon, Texas

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