Earth Changes

Dead Gray whale washes ashore at Salishan, Oregon

Cassie Ruud
The News Guard
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:23 UTC

A juvenile Gray Whale washed ashore at the Salishan private residences early Wednesday morning, March 23.

The whale was in the process of dying when it washed ashore and is now dead.

Scientists from the Oregon State University Marine Biology department took samples from the whale and will be analyzing it on Thursday.

If you come across an injured sea creature on the beach, do not approach it, instead contact the Oregon Coast Aquarium at( 541) 867-3474 or contact local authorities.

Mysterious chunks of ice fall from sky near Los Angeles in clear weather

Melissa Pamer
KTLA
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:09 UTC

Colton resident Megan Clement was in her townhouse doing some cleaning when she heard the loud bangs. She thought a tree might have fallen on the home.

Then she went outside and found them: eight to 10 large chunks of ice.

They were everywhere — on the roof, covering the walkway and in the bushes.

The unusual incident occurred in the 1200 block of Mojave Drive about 10 a.m. Monday — when the sky was clear with no threat of hail or other strange weather.

Not a fish tale: Thanks to ocean pollution humans are ingesting plastic

Dahr Jamail
Truthout
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 21:00 UTC

Humans generate more than 300 million tons of plastic annually - an amount equal to the combined body weight of the entire global adult human population - and nearly half of the plastic is only used one time before it is tossed away to eventually find its way to the oceans. So it should come as little surprise that by 2050, it is a virtual certainty that every seabird on the planet will have plastic in its stomach.

Recent estimates indicate that upwards of 8 million tons of plastic are added to the planet's oceans every year, the equivalent of a dump truck full of plastic every minute. That is enough plastic to have led one scientist to estimate that people who consume average amounts of seafood are ingesting approximately 11,000 particles of plastic every year.

Comment: A Plague of Plastic

Explosion in Georgia school bathroom likely due to 'build-up of gases in a sewer line'

Gwinnett Daily Post
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:45 UTC

Emergency workers, including members of the local bomb squad and the FBI, crowded the Georgia Gwinnett College campus Monday after a curious "explosion" in a women's restroom injured a food-service worker.

The initial investigation by federal officials revealed that a "build-up of gases in a sewer line" appeared to a potential cause of the blast, which happened in Building A near Collins Hill Road, according to school president Stas Preczewski. In underlined type, he stressed "There is no evidence or suspicion of foul play at this time" and no "explosive device" found.

"It may take some time to determine the exact cause, if one can be found," Preczewski said. "In the meantime, we are acting out of precaution by keeping the building closed as inspections and repairs begin."

Gwinnett County deputy fire chief Charles Wells also said authorities hadn't found anything suspicious, but the incident was under investigation.

All students were safe.

Many walked to class as usual late in the morning, passing the emergency vehicles and workers gathered outside Building A, which was cordoned off with yellow caution tape. The building was expected to be closed at least through Tuesday.

Lightning strikes kill six in Manica, Mozambique

clubofmozambique.com
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:58 UTC

Six people were killed and one was seriously injured by lightning accompanying the torrential rain which lashed Manica, in central Mozambique, over the weekend.

The six dead, members of three different families, are all female, and were struck by lightning in their homes in the Manhene area, administrative post of Messica. A minor was admitted to Chimoio provincial hospital with serious injuries caused by lightning over the same weekend.

PRM spokesperson in Manica Elcidia Filipe said the police were unaware of any particular circumstance behind the six women being struck.

Source: A Bola

Wildfires burn across thousands of acres from Kansas to Oklahoma

ABC News
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:59 UTC

Fire crews were working to contain a wildfire burning across at least 75 square miles in rural Oklahoma and Kansas on Wednesday, while strong wind and dry conditions also increased fire threats in neighboring states, authorities said.

The National Weather Service said the fire started Tuesday night near the Kansas border in Woods County, Oklahoma. Wind gusts of up to 30 mph helped spread the blaze into in western Kansas, where about a dozen homes were evacuated. Dense smoke and fire also prompted highway officials to close a 28-mile stretch of U.S. 160 in Kansas.

No injuries have been reported in either state, and none of the evacuated houses in Kansas' Comanche County has been damaged, county emergency management coordinator John Lehman said. But he noted that wind speeds were increasing and complicating firefighting efforts.

"With this kind of wind, it's going to be kind of bad," Lehman said.

From 70s to snow as heavy blizzard pounds Denver

11 Alive
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:45 UTC

Heavy snow pounded the Denver metro area on Wednesday, grinding air traffic to a halt as a springtime blizzard wreaked havoc on the city just a day after temperatures reached 70 degrees.

Denver International Airport halted all air traffic shortly after noon as a result of the conditions. There was no estimated time for flights to resume.

Hundreds of flights at Denver International Airport were canceled or delayed, in part due to gusting winds that also created blizzard conditions on the state's eastern Plains.

Several interstates and major roadways in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska were closed.

Across the Denver metro area, schools and government offices closed and power flickered as the heavy, wet snow rapidly accumulated. More than 80,000 customers are without power from Denver to Fort Collins, AccuWeather said.

Blizzard warnings are in effect for much of eastern Colorado, including the Denver area, as well as small portions of Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas.

Wild weather lashes New Zealand, local state of emergency declared

Radio New Zealand
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 22:22 UTC

Nearly 200 people have been evacuated on the West Coast, and trees have brought down powerlines in Auckland, as wild weather lashes the country.

Heavy rain caused the Waiho River on the West Coast to breach its bank, the upper North Island has been hit by strong winds and MetService said the bad weather was expected to continue into the afternoon.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch includes #Auckland, has been expanded to include BOP & Hamilton https://t.co/9OBa2V63zz pic.twitter.com/rvlVqhkjkC CL
— MetService (@MetService) March 23, 2016

A local state of emergency was declared early this morning on the West Coast, after flooding forced the evacuation of nearly 200 people in Franz Josef.

The chair of the Glacier Country Tourism Group, Rob Jewell, said 80 of the tourists were staying in a welfare centre.

Ensuring the welfare of the town's guests was key, he said.

The Waiho River breached its bank near the town about 11.50pm last night.

Authorities said 186 people were evacuated at different stages as the river first made its way to the Scenic Circle Hotel, and moved towards the Top Ten Holiday Park and the Westwood Lodge.

Severe thunderstorms with flash flood risk expected to hit from Texas to Missouri

Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:32 UTC

Parts of the central and southern United States will face the return of severe thunderstorms. Some of the storms can cause property damage and flash flooding into Thursday.

Severe weather will erupt as a cold front slices into surging warm air.

Storms will initiate across eastern Texas to part of the central Plains and spread eastward into part of the Mississippi Valley.

A small number of severe storm will extend as far north as southeastern Nebraska and near the Iowa/Missouri border.

"Storms will be capable of producing mainly large hail and damaging winds," AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions Storm Warning Meteorologist Alex Avalos said. "However, a tornado or two cannot be ruled out."

Golf ball size hailstorm kills flamingos, other birds at Fort Worth Zoo, Texas

Bill Hanna
Star-Telegram
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 07:19 UTC

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Severe thunderstorms pounded Tarrant County with hail Thursday morning, covering roadways in west Fort Worth and south Arlington, busting out windshields and killing some exotic birds at the Fort Worth Zoo.

The first ice storm of 2016 hit Thursday.

But it wasn't sleet. It was hail, so thick at times it looked like snow.

The surprise hailstorms busted in windshields from Fort Worth to Arlington, killed exotic birds at the Fort Worth Zoo and made for a chaotic Thursday morning commute.

The hailstones varied in size from blueberries to tennis balls.

"The main ingredient was instability in the atmosphere," said National Weather Service meteorologist Matt Stalley. "We definitely had been advertising that there could be a few severe storms but they were more widespread than we anticipated."

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Earth Changes

Dead Gray whale washes ashore at Salishan, Oregon

Mysterious chunks of ice fall from sky near Los Angeles in clear weather

Not a fish tale: Thanks to ocean pollution humans are ingesting plastic

Explosion in Georgia school bathroom likely due to 'build-up of gases in a sewer line'

Lightning strikes kill six in Manica, Mozambique

Wildfires burn across thousands of acres from Kansas to Oklahoma

From 70s to snow as heavy blizzard pounds Denver

Wild weather lashes New Zealand, local state of emergency declared

Severe thunderstorms with flash flood risk expected to hit from Texas to Missouri

Golf ball size hailstorm kills flamingos, other birds at Fort Worth Zoo, Texas

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