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India records 50% increase in deaths caused by lightning during the 2006 - 2015 decade compared to the one prior

Malavika Vyawahare
Hindustan Times
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:03 UTC
Higher particulate matter pollution and loss of vegetation is making urban areas more susceptible to lightning strikes.
© Ajay Aggarwal
Higher particulate matter pollution and loss of vegetation is making urban areas more susceptible to lightning strikes.
Lightning strikes claim more lives annually in India than other natural disasters such as floods and cyclones. They have turned deadlier over the years.

Climate change is leading to extreme weather events such as storms, rain, heatwaves and lightning are getting more frequent and more intense, causing more deaths and destruction.

However, while floods and heat waves that impact large swathes of the population attract the spotlight, lightning strikes that prove dangerous to individuals get less attention.

The average number of people who died of lightning strikes every year between 2006 and 2015 was about 50% higher than the decade before, National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data shows. Taking into account population growth, the average deaths from lightning strikes per million people in 2006-2015 was 26% more than in 1996-2005.

Comment: Sott Exclusive: Shocking weather! Lightning fatalities across the planet on the increase

Lightning caused more deaths than floods, landslides across India in 2015 - with 2,641 fatalities

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Deputy opens fire on alligator that chased girl up a tree at Freak Creek, Florida


wbtv.com
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:53 UTC
A Florida teenager was enjoying a day on the water when an unexpected deadly visitor approached.
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A Florida teenager was enjoying a day on the water when an unexpected deadly visitor approached.
What started as a lazy afternoon on the water ended up being a terrifying experience for a 15-year-old girl who found herself hanging from a tree branch, trapped by an angry gator.

"I'm at Freak Creek. My daughter is stuck in a freaking tree and there are gators surrounding her and we can't get her out. Please, she's fifteen," her mother said in a frantic 911 call.

It happened Friday near Alexander Springs Creek in the Ocala National Forest.

According to deputies, the teenager was floating on her raft when a gator swam up to her. It started hissing and chased her to a tree.

"There was a low-hanging tree. She was able to climb up into the tree and get out of the water and stay high enough to where the gator couldn't get her," Sgt. Mark Fulmer explained.

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Phoenix

Agung volcano in Bali explodes again sending rocks and flares of lava into the air


RT
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:57 UTC
Mount Agung volcano
© Andre Ardiansyah / Reuters
A volcano on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali erupted Monday, sending rocks and lava spewing into the air and unleashing a wave of panic across the island.

Residents reported hearing a loud explosion as Mount Agung flung volcanic rocks at least 2 km in the air. A sea of lava spewed from the crater, which ignited nearby vegetation.

Indonesia's National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB) said the explosions began just after 9pm local time and that the ash column was seen as high as 2,000 meters above Mount Agung's peak.

Comment: Less than a week ago: Agung volcano eruption in Indonesia forces closure of international airport, hundreds of flight cancellations

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Wine

'Red rain' falls in Siberia - Rust from nearby metal plant?


RT
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 11:39 UTC
red rain Siberia
© БИЗНЕС Online
Screenshot from YouTube video.
Car owners in Siberia could be forgiven for thinking a biblical plague had descended upon their city, after finding their vehicles soaked by blood-colored rain in a Norilsk parking lot.

Photos of the phenomenon showed the parking lot and cars coated in brownish-red residue from the rain. But the owner was quick to reassure everyone there's no calamity in store for the city. According to him, blood-red water was simply colored by rust from the roof of a nearby workshop. The parking lot in Siberia's major industrial center is located next to a metal plant.


Comment: Although this appears to have been a man-made phenomenon, we can learn from it that dust particles in the atmosphere will turn rain into 'blood'. Which has happened before:

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Sun

Iranian general thinks Israeli weather modification is to blame for country's drought


RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:19 UTC
clouds
As Iran is suffering from severe drought, its officials are struggling to explain the disastrous weather conditions. An Iranian general believes Israel is behind the cloud and snow theft, but meteorologists cast their doubts.

Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization, accused the Islamic Republic's old regional adversary, Israel, of taking the lead in "suspicious" climate change in the country. The general says researches have proof that Tel-Aviv, with some allies, are putting a crimp in precipitation on Iranian soil.

"Foreign interference is suspected to have played a role in climate change," Jalali told a news conference on Monday as cited by Isna. He added that Iranian research centers can "confirm" the claim.

Comment: While the capabilities of weather modification is still up for debate, what is clear is that all over the world the climate has dramatically shifted where a variety of extreme weather events are becoming increasingly common, and that includes record breaking drought and epic flooding:

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Cloud Lightning

Greece lightning: Country struck over 93,500 times in June

John Smith
Greek Reporter
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:10 UTC
lightning
Greece was hit by over 93,500 lightning bolts last month, it was revealed on Tuesday.

The amount of electrostatic activity recorded in Greece in June was very high, according to the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), without one day across Greece being lightning-free.

Last month, there were 93,580 electrical discharges country-wide, the majority of them being lightning strikes.

Among the few areas that escaped the high electrical activity was Karpathos and the western part of Icaria, added the NOA.
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Snowflake

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Fuel and food prices up, July snow in British Columbia


Adapt 2030
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:51 UTC
snow

Snow in British Columbia July 02, 2018 and the news article covers heat in Ontario devoting a few sentences to the snow coverage in an article about snow cover in July, but the other 5 paragraph to how warm it is elsewhere. Ski resorts with honest journalism calling snow through their stories, heat not mentioned once.

Hudson Bay ice anomalies continue with ice measurements and food / fuel prices up which means now more than ever you need to take measures to grow your own food to keep costs low in your life.


Sources

Comment: See in addition: Global cooling: Snow hits parts of British Columbia in July

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Cloud Grey

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Atlantic Ocean cools and African dust storm reaches rare locations in North America


Adapt 2030
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 08:39 UTC
dust
With all the talk of the warmest year ever and hottest months ever, interestingly Sweden says it had so much snow that the pile created from city snow removal will last to next winter, and they are worries about where to put next years snow as space will 100% for sure run out. Incredible zonal wind event dragging dust storm from Africa from the Gulf of Mexico to Chicago then up into Canada swirling to Hudson Bay. A look at the U.S Drilling Program, Ice Bits, where we get some of the ice core data sets from.


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Attention

Bear kills couple then attacks another man in Andhra Pradesh, India

Debbie White
Daily Mail
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:41 UTC
The bear chases after one of the villagers, above, who had tried to slay the animal after it killed a couple

The bear chases after one of the villagers, above, who had tried to slay the animal after it killed a couple
Shocking footage shows a man being mauled by a wild bear after it fatally attacked a couple in India, before a desperate mob kills the animal by beating it with long sticks.

Baipilli Urvasi, 50, and her husband Tirupathi Rao, 55, were mauled to death when the bear pounced on them in an orchard in south India.

When villagers in Yerramukkam, in Andhra Pradesh, moved in to attack the bear, in a video reminiscent of the Leonardo DiCaprio film The Revenant, the huge beast can be seen fighting back.


Comment: This event was originally reported on the 10th of June (minus the video) with the following headline: Woman killed by bear, 7 others injured in Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Ice Cube

Global cooling: The still-frozen north

Bill Steffen
woodtv.com
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 16:57 UTC
North American snow and ice cover

North American snow and ice cover
There is still snow and ice in N. Canada. While the weather has been warmer the past couple weeks...the very cold spring in N. Quebec and N. Labrador has left some snow on the ground here in the first week of July. The ice on Hudson Bay is slowly melting, but the bay is still mostly ice covered.

Here's another view of the snow and ice in the Arctic. There is still a little ice left on Great Bear Lake and inland lakes northwest of Hudson Bay are still frozen. Barrow (Utqiaġvik) had a high of 41 yesterday. The average high at Barrow in July is 47.

Comment: Two tankers trapped in ice near Russian Arctic port in midsummer

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