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First great white shark in 30 years spotted near Spanish islands

Patrick Greenfield
The Guardian
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:37 UTC
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© Alnitak/EPA
The great white shark seen swimming off the Balearics.
A great white shark has been spotted near Spain's Balearic Islands for the first time in at least 30 years.

Conservation workers saw the five-metre predator as it swam across Cabrera archipelago national park on Thursday morning.

Bite marks on dead whales and unconfirmed sightings of have long fuelled rumours of great white sharks in Spanish waters since the last confirmed sighting in 1976. But this time scientists with Spanish conservation group Alnitak were able to record and track the shark for over an hour.

"We saw a black fin and straight away could see it was a very big shark," said documentary director Fernando López-Mirones, who was on the boat with researchers.
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Waterspout filmed in Bermuda


Bernews
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:46 UTC
waterspout
A waterspout was seen in the Hamilton Parish area earlier today [July 1], with it apparently visible for quite a few minutes.

Andrea Pedrini from Bermuda Weather Service confirmed that a waterspout was recorded late this morning in the area, and also added that it is not that unusual for this to occur at this time of year.

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Fifty-metre long section of city road collapses in China

Sam Duncan
Daily Mail
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:53 UTC
No injuries or deaths were reported as a result of the road collapse (pictured), which occurred just before 7am on Sunday

No injuries or deaths were reported as a result of the road collapse (pictured), which occurred just before 7am on Sunday
Terrifying footage has emerged of the moment a fifty-metre section of a major road collapses.

The street can be seen buckling and crumbling on video captured by CCTV cameras in the city of Guang'an in Sichuan province, south-west China.

No injuries or deaths were reported as a result of the road collapse, which occurred just before 7am on Sunday.

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After months of quiet, Mayon volcano in the Philippines erupts again

Rhaydz B. Barcia
Rappler
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:39 UTC
The mayon volcano is again spewing ashes following a phreatic explosion on Sunday.

The mayon volcano is again spewing ashes following a phreatic explosion on Sunday. File photo
Following months of quiet, Mount Mayon erupted again on Sunday afternoon, July 1, sending white to light gray ash clouds 500 meters up the sky.

The eruption took place around 12:30 pm on Sunday. This was months after the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) lowered the volcano's alert level status from 3 to 2 in March.

Ed Laguerta, resident volcanologist of Phivolcs in Bicol, explained that Sunday's eruption was phreatic in nature.

A phreatic explosion is a steam-driven episode that occurs when water beneath the ground or on the surface is heated by magma, lava, hot rocks, or new volcanic deposits.
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Cloud Precipitation

Large hailstones smash crops in south central Nebraska

Bryce Doeschot
kticradio.com
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:22 UTC
Hail damage
© Andrew Philips
Some producers in south central Nebraska received an unwelcome hail storm on Saturday.

According to Andrew Philips, who farms in the Loomis area, the storm traveled two miles east of Loomis at a southwest angle toward Arapahoe.

Philips said the hail, which lasted 30 to 40 minutes, ranged in size from peas to golf balls.

"A lot of it (corn) is completely snapped off," said Philips. "Corn was close to tassel. Beans there is nothing but little stems left."
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Lightning bolt kills 5 and injures 12 in Maharashtra, India

Chengcheng
Xinhua
Mon, 02 Jul 2018 12:52 UTC
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At least five people have been killed and 12 others injured by lightning strikes in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, officials said Monday.

The incident took place in the state's Aurangabad district.

"Some 20 people had gathered at a crematorium site for the funeral of a person in Aurangabad Sunday when they were hit by lightning," a disaster management official said.

While five people were killed on the spot, those injured have been admitted to a local hospital, he added.

Lightning is common in the monsoon months of June and July in India.

Comment: Elsewhere in Asia over the last few days lightning strikes have killed a woman in South Korea and a hiker in Hong Kong while 3 family members died after being hit by by a bolt in Bangladesh.

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UK heatwave causes farmers earliest harvest for 40 years - Yield is significantly reduced

Tim Stickings
Daily Mail
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:21 UTC
They began harvesting their 750 acres of arable land on June 28, two weeks earlier than normal

They began harvesting their 750 acres of arable land on June 28, two weeks earlier than normal
The 86F heatwave which has swept Britain in the last week has caused an almost unheard of June harvest at a British farm.

Bisterne Estate in Ringwood, Hampshire, produces seed barley, milling wheat and biscuit rye, and began harvesting their 750 acres of arable land on June 28, two weeks earlier than normal.

Farm manager Martin Button says this is the earliest harvest there since 1976.

However, they are expecting a significantly reduced yield as the barley grain is much smaller than in a typical year, which was been attributed to the dry summer.

Comment: In recent years farmers all over the world have been fighting a losing battle against an increasingly erratic climate. With extreme cold, epic flooding, scorching heatwaves and deadly hailstorms, farmers are losing crop to disease and damage, and consumers are seeing prices skyrocket:

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Cloud Precipitation

Golfball-sized hail batters cars, forcing them off roads in southern Russia


RT
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:57 UTC
Hailstones as big as golf balls rain down in Russia’s South July 2018
Mother Nature has unleashed her fury in the South of Russia, pelting rural areas with hailstones the size of golf balls and forcing motorists to pull over on the side of the road.

Footage posted online by RT's Ruptly agency shows massive chunks of hail that rained down on a small village in Krasnodar region, located roughly on the same latitude as Bologna, Italy. Some hailstones appeared to be as big as golf balls.

Motorists could be seen pulled over on the side of the road, and one video posted on Instagram showed a windshield that had been shattered by the force of the hail.

Comment: Note that the most recent hail destructive hail events were in the last two years. And this is a pattern we see all over the planet. Epic hail events are on the increase and it points to great changes in our atmosphere.

More footage from the hailstorm in Russia:





A similar hailstorm batters France within about 24 hours:


Ominious storm clouds in Ukraine:


And in the Florida, US:


And to note global temperatures are becoming cooling, even with these outbreaks of heatwaves all over the northern hemisphere. That may partly explain this epic hail and flooding we're seeing worldwide:



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Cloud Precipitation

"Adverse cyclonic conditions" bring flooding to the streets of Cape Town, South Africa

Tom Head
The South African
Sun, 01 Jul 2018 18:07 UTC
SUNDAY 1 JULY 2018: Wind and rain batters Mouille Point, Cape Town
© Linda Venter
SUNDAY 1 JULY 2018: Wind and rain batters Mouille Point, Cape Town
Ooft, Sunday morning was above and beyond hectic. The Cape Town weather has been unforgiving, as the heavens opened up and delivered a deluge to the city.

Around 9:00, severe downpours hit the CBD and its surrounding areas hard. The South African Weather Service (Saws) have already issued several weather warnings for Sunday, as the region attempts to deal with "adverse cyclonic conditions".

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Cloud Precipitation

Flash floods kill 3 in Jammu, India


Firstpost
Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:37 UTC
Vehicles wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in Srinagar on June 30.
© Waseem Andrabi
Vehicles wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in Srinagar on June 30
Three persons, including a woman, were killed and nearly a dozen houses were damaged in rain-related incidents in different districts of the Jammu region, officials said on Saturday.

Harbans Lal (45) was washed away by flash floods in a stream near his house at Natulphal village of Khour in the Akhnoor sector on Saturday afternoon, they said. The officials said Lal was crossing the stream when a sudden surge in the water level due to incessant rains caught him. The body of the deceased was recovered and handed over to his family, they said.

A woman, identified as Jameela, was killed when a tree got uprooted due to heavy rains and fell on her temporary shelter at Kalamsatherdhar village of Kishtwar district, officials said. Jameela's daughter was also injured in the incident and was shifted to a hospital, they said.

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