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Alberta wildfire more than triples in size overnight


CBC News
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:17 UTC
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© David Robson
A wildfire about 15 kilometres southeast of Hinton, Alta., is burning out of control.
Air tankers, helicopters used in fight against fire that has grown to 1,250 hectares

A wildfire burning out of control near Hinton, Alta., has more than tripled in size in less than a day, fire officials said Thursday.

The fire, about 15 kilometres southeast of the town of Hinton, now covers 1250 hectares, up from the 900 hectares reported earlier Thursday, and the 350 hectares reported Wednesday evening, said wildfire officials.

"This morning there's a bit of an inversion which makes it difficult to get a more recent size assessment, so it could be slightly larger than that," said wildfire information officer Travis Fairweather

An inversion is when a lot of smoke at the head of the fire creates difficult flying conditions for those assessing the fire, he explained.
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Ice Cube

Inconvenient facts about Antarctica's faux meltdown

Gregory Whitestone
The Daily Wire
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Antarctica faux meltdown
© MATHILDE BELLENGER/AFP/Getty Images
Rest easy, Antarctica isn’t melting away, and you aren’t going to drown because of it.

Nearly all of the major news outlets last week ran attention-grabbing headlines uncritically reporting a supposed crisis of rapidly increasing melting of Antarctica. According to the reporting, accelerated melting of the continent's ice could raise sea level significantly and bring catastrophic coastal flooding to communities all over the world. If true, we should all be very alarmed about severe negative consequences to hundreds of millions of people.

This spate of Antarctic alarm was triggered by a study from an international team that measured ice volume and reported a dramatic increase in ice loss in recent years. This new study contradicts previous research which had consistently shown the continent steadily gaining ice volume since the beginning of the satellite era in the late 1970s.

NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally -- likely the pre-eminent expert on Antarctic ice accumulation and loss -- published a study in 2015 showing that ice loss in western Antarctica* and the Antarctic Peninsula was more than offset by significant accumulations in the rest of the continent. Both Zwally and the recent researchers were measuring the same thing, but the difference appears to be in the corrections made in adjusting for the movement of the Earth beneath the ice.

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Phoenix

Hawaii: Is the cone of Kilauea's fissure 8 a new volcano?

David Rothery
The Conversation
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:51 UTC
Kilauea
© US Geological Survey
The lava lake in Kilauea’s summit crater (Halemaumau) as it appeared on March 19 2018.

Kilauea, the most active volcano on Hawaii, has been in continual eruption since 1983. It entered a new phase in early May when fractures along a rift on the eastern side of the volcano opened during a series of earthquakes - some of which became volcanic fissures from which lava was erupted.

These fissures allowed magma that had been ponded in a lava summit lake to drain onto the ground surface as lava flows lower down the mountain. This was close to a residential subdivision known as Leilani Estates, where a new volcanic cone has since developed.

Kilauea is buttressed on its north-west side by the enormous mass of Mauna Loa volcano, but its south-east slopes face the ocean and are unsupported. The magma from beneath the volcano usually erupts from the summit of the volcano, and there was a spectacular lava lake there in March. However two rift zones (areas where the volcano is splitting apart), extending east and south-west from the summit, can make it possible for lava to erupt from Kilauea's flanks too.


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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes near police officer in Apopka, Florida


fox35orlando.com
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:54 UTC
lightning strike
The police department in Apopka, Florida lost power following a lightning strike on Tuesday evening.

A severe storm rolled through the area, resulting in a lightning strike near the police department parking lot. The building lost power and the strike damaged multiple electrical transformers; however, the building's generator kicked-in shortly thereafter.

The Apopka Fire Department responded due to a haze in the building, but no damage or fire was located. There were no injuries, but it did startle a police canine officer who was standing next to his patrol car at the time of the strike.

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Huge waterspout filmed off coast of Cattolica, Italy

Ben Hooper
UPI
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:36 UTC
waterspot
A visitor to an Italian beach captured video of a huge waterspout that formed off the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

The video, recorded Monday morning by Rosa Tiziana Bruno, shows the waterspout swirling water high up into the air off the coast of Cattolica.

The video shows astonished beach-goers watching the whirlwind as it moves through the water.

The waterspout dissipated before it reached land.

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Cloud Precipitation

At least 22 dead following landslide and floods in north Vietnam - 15 inches of rain in 24 hours (Update)

Richard Davies
FloodList
Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:47 UTC
Rescuers work at the flood-affected area in Lai Chau province, north of Vietnam, on June 25, 2018.
© Xinhua/VNA
Rescuers work at the flood-affected area in Lai Chau province, north of Vietnam, on June 25, 2018.
Vietnam's Disaster Management Authority (DMA) reports that floods and landslides triggered by recent heavy rain in northern areas of the country have killed at least 7 people and destroyed almost 50 houses.

The affected provinces are Lai Chau, Ha Giang and Thai Nguyen. Nam Giang in Lai Chau recorded 386 mm of rain in 24 hours to 24 June, 2018. Bac Quang in Ha Giang recorded 335 mm during the same period.

At least 5 people have died in Lai Chau province. A further 5 people have been injured and 12 people are still missing, including 9 after a landslide in Sin Ho district, and 1 each in Than Uyen, Tam Duong and Nam Nhun districts.


Comment: UPDATE, Jun 26: From The Straits Times:
The death toll from floods and landslides in Vietnam rose to 15 on Tuesday (June 26), with the authorities warning the toll could go higher with more torrential rains forecast for the worst-hit province in the mountainous north.

Lai Chau province, 470km north-west of Hanoi, has been the worst hit, with at least 12 people, including two children, killed, said Le Trong Quang, deputy chairman of the province's People's Committee.

Most of the victims drowned or were buried in landslides, triggered by heavy rains since Saturday, Quang told Reuters.

A flood-damaged road in Lai Chau province, Vietnam, on June 24, 2018.
© EPA-EFE
A flood-damaged road in Lai Chau province, Vietnam, on June 24, 2018.
UPDATE, Jun 28: From the news agency Xinhua:
Floods and landslides triggered by downpour over the weekend in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces have killed 22 people and left nine others missing, the country's Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said on Thursday.

Specifically, 16 residents of Lai Chau province, five of Ha Giang province, and one of Quang Ninh province were killed in landslides, house collapses or flash floods. All the nine people listed as missing by Thursday morning were swept away by floods in Lai Chau.

The floods and landslides have injured 15 people in Lai Chau and one person in Son La.

Rescuers clear ruins after a landslide in Vietnam's northern Lai Chau province, on June 27, 2018.
© Xinhua/VNA
Rescuers clear ruins after a landslide in Vietnam's northern Lai Chau province, on June 27, 2018.


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Info

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Global climate shift amplification media pushes global cooling to protect themselves


Adapt 2030
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:53 UTC
Kitzsteinhorn ski resort in Austria on 25th June
With the now obvious changes in our climate signaling "Global Cooling" we see the Wall Street Journal question James Hansen's predictions and the AGW narrative, even calling out predictions that did not pan out. The media is now dripping in words to articles like, Grand Solar Minimum, Global Cooling and Shifting Cloud Patterns to give themselves some credibility as the climate cools.

When meteorologists in Canada call all time record snow "White Rain" because they don't feel snow belongs in summertime lexicon of weather forecasting, we have a huge shift happening in the media arenas. Record snow in Italy, Canada, Slovakia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovenia all this week, people are starting to ask questions about the media we are being fed. Arctic ice at 13 year highs, Greenland Ice Budget growing, Antarctic Sea Ice growing, people are really starting to wake up. This will be the last year of "Global Warming" on our planet.


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Cloud Precipitation

Floods in central and northern areas of Greece after heavy rain - 6 inches in 24 hours

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:27 UTC
Flooding in West Attica, Greece, June 2018.
© Greece Civil Protection / Fire Service
Flooding in West Attica, Greece, June 2018.
Summer storms over the last few days have caused flooding in central and northern areas of Greece.

The storm system, named 'Storm Nefeli' by local observers, brought heavy rain of more than 60 mm in 24 hours to parts of Attica, Thessaly and Central Macedonia regions.

According to local meteorological services, Avlonas in Attica recorded 156.2 mm of rain in 24 hours to 27 June and Nea Moudania in Halkidiki, Central Macedonia region recorded 110.1 mm.

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Cow

Man killed by bull in Mullins, South Carolina

Tonya Brown
wpde.com
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:19 UTC
farm
A 43-year-old man was killed by a bull Tuesday night on French Road in Mullins, according to Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson.

Richardson said crews didn't find the body until Wednesday morning.

He added the man was apparently working with the bulls when the incident happened.

Richardson said he has not ordered an autopsy on the man's body at this time. He said the man was gored to death, but police say the man was stomped to death.

The man's name will be released later Thursday afternoon when his next of kin is notified.

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Attention

Dead humpback whale found on beach at Crescent Head, Australia


www.9news.com.au
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:28 UTC
The dead humpback was spotted by fisherman last night.

The dead humpback was spotted by fisherman last night.
Fears were raised that the carcass of a humpback whale would explode after it washed up bloated on the New South Wales north coast.

The 13-metre, 18-tonne female washed up near Crescent Head before being spotted by a fisherman last night.

By midday today, the mammal had tripled in size while laying washed up on the sand at
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