Saturday night was a record cold night for both Twente and Eindhoven. But despite this brief bout of cold, warmer weather is expected for later this week.
Twente measured -2.2 degrees on Saturday night, the Gelderlander reports. The measurement was done at 10 centimeter height from the ground. According to the newspaper, the cold weather can partly be attributed to the cool sea air from the Northwest.
Eindhoven measured 0.2 degrees overnight on Saturday, also a record for this time of year. "For this time of year this is very exceptional", Dana Woei of Weerplaza said.
These cold records follow an extremely hot day on Friday, when temperatures reached above 30 degrees in some places in the Netherlands. Temperatures dropped again on Saturday, with some places not even reaching 20 degrees for maximum temperature.
The next few days are expected to be cloudy and cool, but the warm weather should return later this week, the Telegraaf reports. On Wednesday and Thursday temperatures are expected to rise to between 20 and 25 degrees, with an even warmer day on Friday. The weather will be cooler again over the weekend, with showers and thunderstorms expected.
Four more persons, including two women, a man and a teenager, were trampled and killed by a wild elephant running amok on Saturday morning at Sabour-Goradih area in Bhagalpur district. The elephant killed two persons on Thursday. A few others were also injured while running away from the tusker.
The four deceased were identified as 70-year old Makri Devi (Rajpur village), 15-year-old Mohd Ehshan (Banshi Tekar village), 80-year-old Parsadi Tanti (Jhurkhuria village) and 75-year-old Shrista Devi (Fatehpur village). The place where the incidents occurred on Saturday is 5-8km away from Bhagalpur city.
Several houses were also destroyed in fresh attack on the houses of villagers despite the forest department officials and employees sweating out to either capture or facilitate the escape of the tusker towards adjoining Godda district in Jharkhand via Sanhaula block in Bhagalpur district.
Two labourers were killed while 15 others were injured as lightning struck them in a tribal dominated village here, police said today.
The incident took place last night when untimely rains lashed parts of the district including Sadadpada village in Peint taluka where a bunch of labourers were working at a small nullah site (Kolhapur type ware), when lightning struck the hut, they all had rushed to take refuge in.
Two labourers, Salik Krishna Rathad (20) and Krishna Choudhari (65) died on the spot, while 15 others sustained injuries and were taken to a rural hospital in Peint, said inspector V D Sase.
Surgana, Trimbakeshwar and other parts of Nashik witnessed unseasonal rains last night while downpour along with hailstorm at many places has damaged standing crops in the last fortnight.
In two separate incidents, two persons were trampled to death by a wild elephant. The deceased includes a 65-year-old woman and a 60 year old man. Crops in the agriculture field besides thatched houses of some of the villagers were also damaged by the wild elephant.
The incidents occurred at remote Dayalpur and Taufir villages under Kahalgaon sub-division in Bhagalpur district late Thursday evening. According to local sources, the wild elephant strayed into Dayalpur village under Antichak police station under Kahalgaon sub-division on Thursday evening. The villagers, on sudden appearance of wild elephant into their village, started raising an alarm. Out of panic, they started hooting to scare away the wild elephant.
Sources said someone from the crowd also fired some shots in the air to scare the elephant away. It all resulted in angering the wild elephant making it ran berserk through the village areas.
A four year old Lithia boy is facing a long road to recovery after being viciously attacked by a pit bull.
It happened earlier this week at the boys home.
"He was down on his stomach and his legs were curled up in a ball and the dog was on the back of his head," said Andrew Edwards, Hunters Father.
A Horrifying site for any parent, on Tuesday 4 year old Hunter Edwards was rushed to the hospital bleeding from the head.
"He never really got me that good, I was just trying to fight him off," said Edwards, pointing to his bandaged arm.
Disabled Army veteran Andrew Edwards says on that day his son hunter followed him to the back yard. Edwards was looking for a tool in his shed and hunter decided to pay the family dog Abe a visit. Thats when the dog got a little excited and jumped on the little boy.
Mount Sinabung blew its top Saturday sending lava and thick plumes of volcanic ash into the sky
Indonesian officials raised the alert status Friday to the highest level, urging residents who live nearby to evacuate. About 2,700 people were forced to flee their homes from the island located in the North Sumatra province. Government agencies have set up public shelters and kitchens to help those who have been evacuated. The 2,600-metre-high volcano had been inactive for three years before showing signs of life in September, 2013.
Photos of the eruption have been posed on Instagram from photography student Ahmad Zikri Mohamad Zuki. Pyroclastic flows (avalanche-like hot ash, rocks and gas) have been rushing down the sides of the mountain for the past week, Zuki told CNN. The photography student lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the Malaysian island of Borneo, shaking the Mount Kinabalu region around 7:15 a.m. local time Friday. At least 12 people have died. Of the eleven people confirmed to have died, nine have yet to be identified by authorities. Zuki has been documenting Mount Sinabung's activity since 2014, according to CNN. Following sharp increase volcanic activity, officials urged residents living within a radius of 7 km south and southeast of the mountain to evacuate Wednesday.
Mount Sinabung erupted in February 2014, killing 16 people. In August 2010, the volcano claimed the lives of two people and forced 30,000 to leave their homes. There are over 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia.
In spring 2015, MBARI researchers discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico. Lying more than 3,800 meters (12,500 feet) below the surface, the Pescadero Basin vents are the deepest high-temperature hydrothermal vents ever observed in or around the Pacific Ocean. They are also the only vents in the Pacific known to emit superheated fluids rich in both carbonate minerals and hydrocarbons. The vents have been colonized by dense communities of tubeworms and other animals unlike any other known vent communities in the in the eastern Pacific.
Like another vent field in the Gulf that MBARI discovered in 2012, the Pescadero Basin vents were initially identified in high-resolution sonar data collected by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). MBARI's yellow, torpedo-shaped seafloor-mapping AUV spent two days flying about 50 meters above the bottom of the Basin, using sound beams to map the depth and shape of the seafloor.
The AUV team, led by MBARI engineer David Caress, pored over the detailed bathymetric map they created from the AUV data and saw a number of mounds and spires rising up from the seafloor. Data from the AUV also showed slightly warmer water over some of the spires, which implied that they might be active hydrothermal-vent chimneys. A team of geologists led by David Clague then used a tethered underwater robot, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts, to dive down to the seafloor, fly around the vents, and collect video and samples of rocks and hot water spewing from the chimneys.
Reflecting on the discovery, Clague commented, 'Before the AUV survey of Pescadero Basin, all we knew was that this area was really deep and filled with sediment. I was hoping to find a few outcrops of lava on the seafloor. But we got lucky. The vent field was right on the edge of our survey area, along a fault at the western edge of the basin.'
The AUV and ROV dives showed that the new field extends for at least 400 meters (one quarter mile) along this fault. Within this area the researchers found at least three active hydrothermal chimneys up to 12 meters (40 feet) tall, as well as dozens of low mounds that are most likely collapsed chimneys.
Winter in the northern hemisphere officially ended in March, and yet May 2015 saw heavy snowfalls in parts of Norway, Russia, China and the US. Europe recorded its highest ever (official) May and June temperature - 44°C in Spain - during a brief heatwave, before the mercury plunged to as low as 8°C the following week. Like much of Siberia, northern China went from warm, dry weather - including sandstorms and wildfires - in April, to blizzards by the end of May, while spring snowfall and cold temperature records were broken in Russia.
There were at least four major tornado outbreaks in the US last month, generating some 460 tornado reports. Will the US break its 2011 record for highest number of tornadoes in one year? With the storms came hail, rain, and snow - lots of it. Texas was inundated with record-breaking rainfall that bought its 3-year-long drought to a chaotic end. There were also destructive tornadoes in New Zealand, Mexico, and Germany, which saw two tornado outbreaks.
California's record-breaking drought continues, but Los Angeles saw its daily rainfall record smashed in May. Other parts of the US under water were Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alaska, which saw its 'worst flooding in decades', in part due to yet another bizarre spring heatwave. An 'apocalyptic' storm in Moscow flooded streets, while hailstorms turned streets into rivers of ice in Spain, Mexico, and Turkey, where cars were washed away in the coastal city of Izmir. Several huge sinkholes opened up - in the US, Turkey, the Canary Islands and Russia - swallowing gardens, street intersections, golf greens, and cars.
Another deadly earthquake - officially considered an aftershock - rocked Nepal on May 12th, just three weeks after the country was flattened by its worst seismic event in 80 years. Wolf Volcano in the Galapagos erupted for the first time in decades, followed a couple of days later by an explosive eruption of Mount Shindake in southern Japan. Next up was a magnitude 8.5 earthquake off the Japanese coast, the country's strongest since that magnitude 9.0 earthquake in March 2011.
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