Earth Changes

Two farmers killed by elephants as herd storms through village in Tanzania

Coastweek.com
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 19:13 UTC

Two people were killed in a wild elephant attack in the Tanzania central region of Singida on Monday, police said.

Debora Magiligimba, Singida Regional Police Commander, said that a group of 32 elephants stormed the remote village of Musimi in Ikungi District, killing two farmers.

She said the incident occurred on Monday morning around 10 a.m.

The situation caused mayhem in the village as most people were puzzled to learn that the largest mammals were in the village, the regional police chief said.

Magiligimba further said the elephants might have strayed from either Maswa Game Reserve or Kigosi and Kizigo Game Reserves.

Lightning bolt kills three family members in Rajasthan, India

DNA
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:19 UTC

Three members of a family were killed as lightning struck a tree under which they had taken shelter in the Jagdishpura village falling under the Khanpur police station in Jhalawar district today.

Yogendra Nagar (40), his wife Sugna Bai and their son Lokendra (13), who were working in the fields, had taken shelter under a tree when they were struck by thunderbolts, SHO Khanpur, Surjeet Tholiya, said.

He said that the couple had two sons, of which one died in the natural calamity.

After post-mortem the bodies were handed over for the last rites, the official said.

Source: Press Trust of India

Comment: On the same day in another district of India a man and his daughter were killed by lightning in Rajouri.

Solar activity headed toward 100-year low

David Archibald
WattsUpWithThat
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:24 UTC

Figure 1: F10.7 Flux 2014 – 2017

The F10.7 flux shows that over the last three and a half years the Sun has gone from solar maximum through a bounded decline to the current stage of the trail to minimum. Solar minimum is likely to be still three years away.

Comment: While activists scream bloody murder over any confrontation to the doctrine of global warming, they should obviously be much more concerned with the very real impending challenges of global cooling!

Arctic Sea Ice Expanded in May - and in the unlikely place of Barents Sea

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:34 UTC

Light blue line shows 2017 ice extent

As of May 15, sea ice in the Barents Sea was growing like crazy. "Something surprising is happening with Arctic ice," wrote Ron Clutz. "It is May and ice should be melting, but instead it is growing and in the unlikely place of Barents Sea." "In recent days 2017 NH ice extents have grown way above average." The ice is refusing to leave Newfoundland, says Clutz. And instead of backing down in the Barents Sea, it is increasing. See map showing ice growth.

Shark attacks spearfisherman off Boca Chica Key, Florida; captured on video

David Strege
Grind TV
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:52 UTC

A spearfisherman wearing a head camera captured the intense moment an 8-foot reef shark attacked him and took a bite out of his leg Sunday near Middle Samo Reef off Boca Chica in the Florida Keys.

The unidentified spearfisherman posted video of the incident on his YouTube Channel called Over the Edge on Tuesday and wrote, "this clearly could have been much worse." Warning for a couple of expletives at the end and the wound itself:

The spearfisherman said the shark came out of nowhere. While holding a black grouper he had speared, the spearfisherman appeared to point at the shark at the 14-second mark. Fifteen seconds later the shark was near the surface and in clear view in the video.

"He first went at my dive buddy Justyn but immediately turned toward me," the victim wrote. "He first bit my left fin then took a chunk out of the right one before biting my leg and cutting the speargun line.

Great Lakes' water levels way above normal, Lake Erie inches away from record high

Kelly Reardon
cleveland.com
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 06:39 UTC

Lake Erie's water levels are the highest they've been since 1998, and will remain 4 to 9 inches above normal through November.

The latest reading measured just 7.32 inches below the all-time record high set in 1986. Within the next week, the level could increase to just 6 inches below that record.

The high water is due to the recent heavy rain and months of snow melt surging into the lake. In May, Lake Erie received 150 percent of its typical rainfall, and it hasn't gone unnoticed. Some locals have complained about the rising tides along beaches and piers, but no physical damage has been reported along the Erie coastline.

The rest of the Great Lakes are also higher than normal.

Equal coldest start to winter on record for Adelaide, Australia

Sarah Scopelianos
abc.net.au
Wed, 31 May 2017 10:27 UTC

ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.

Did you think the first day of winter felt a little nippy? Well, if you were in Adelaide it wasn't all in your head because the city has shivered through its coldest start to the season with the temperature dropping to just 2.9 degrees Celsius.

Duty forecaster Paul Bierman confirmed the city had its equal coldest June 1 on record, a temperature not seen since 1943.

"The minimum temperature at Kent Town got down to 2.9 degrees at 6:44am this morning. It has already started to warm up slightly, we're up to 3.3 degrees," he said just before 8:00am.

He said a cold front that moved across the state earlier in the week combined with overnight light winds and clear skies to produce the chilly morning.

"[We're going to have] very cold mornings right through until at least next Sunday ... around 3 or 4C," Mr Bierman said.

Thousands of rats invade villages in Myanmar (Burma)

Phys Org
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:58 UTC

Dead rats are piling up in Irrawaddy Division’s Ngapudaw Township as locals try to control infestations in a handful of villages

© Ministry of Information
Dead rats are piling up in Irrawaddy Division’s Ngapudaw Township as locals try to control infestations in a handful of villages

Thousands of rats have descended on villages on an island in southern Myanmar, a local official said on Tuesday, in what some have taken to be an ill omen of impending disaster.

Residents of Haingyi island, one of the larger islands in the Irrawaddy Delta, have been battling the plague of rodents since the critters scurried into their villages over the weekend.

Short of pied pipers, desperate authorities have resorted to paying residents 50 kyat (four US cents) for each dead animal in a bid to contain the outbreak.

"More than 4,000 rats have been killed since they tried to enter the villages," regional MP Phyo Zaw Shwe told AFP.

"According to traditional beliefs, these animals can predict bad weather. So people here are also worried about floods or earthquakes."

Studies by Japanese scientists have shown mice and rats are sensitive to electromagnetic waves similar to what often occurs before a major earthquake—although there has been no notable seismic activity in Myanmar the last few days.

Storm wreaks havoc in Cape Town, South Africa

eNCA
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 05:23 UTC

Residents of Cape Town are being urged to avoid the roads, if possible.

Rain and strong winds are battering the city.

Emergency shelters are on standby as a vicious storm lashes the Western Cape.

Several people have been displaced in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, where the roofs of some homes have blown off.

Displaced people are being housed at a school in Maitland.

In Lavender Hill, two people have been injured.

Roofs also blew off homes in Strand, Kalkfontein, Delft and Mfuleni.

Trees were uprooted in Durbanville and in Plumstead a tree landed on a block of flats.

Unusual rains and record snowfall continues as cosmic rays increase

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:21 UTC

There has been a steady progression of events with unusual rains or snows in record amounts which are out of season from Asia to North America. Now there is coldest start to winter in Adelaide Australia in the last 103 years , June skiing in Vermont and snow still falls in Idaho. The progression of unusual events is caused by increasing cosmic rays, which will continue to increase through solar cycle 25 and so shall our increasingly strange weather.

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Earth Changes

Two farmers killed by elephants as herd storms through village in Tanzania

Lightning bolt kills three family members in Rajasthan, India

Solar activity headed toward 100-year low

Arctic Sea Ice Expanded in May - and in the unlikely place of Barents Sea

Shark attacks spearfisherman off Boca Chica Key, Florida; captured on video

Great Lakes' water levels way above normal, Lake Erie inches away from record high

Equal coldest start to winter on record for Adelaide, Australia

Thousands of rats invade villages in Myanmar (Burma)

Storm wreaks havoc in Cape Town, South Africa

Unusual rains and record snowfall continues as cosmic rays increase

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