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Dead whale washes ashore at San Francisco's Ocean Beach - 17th this year


abc7news.com
Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:17 UTC
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A dead whale washed up at Ocean Beach in San Francisco Monday.

The mammal was found floating in the surf.

Experts conducted a necropsy Monday afternoon to determine the whale's cause of death.

This is the 17th whale to wash ashore in the San Francisco Bay this year.

In April, four whales were found dead on Bay Area shores in just over a week.

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Woman dies in suspected pit bull attack near Skiatook, Oklahoma

ROBERT SMITH
Pawhuska Journal-Capital
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:59 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
Osage County deputy sheriffs were dispatched Saturday, June 19, to an address west of Skiatook. They were carrying out a welfare check on an individual identified as Rebecca McCurdy, 28, who was reportedly house sitting and taking care of the homeowner's dogs.

When the deputies arrived at the home, they found McCurdy deceased. Her body was reportedly in the garage, and the Sheriff's Office said in a news release that evidence observed at the scene "indicates Rebecca was the victim of a dog attack."

"The homeowner claimed he raised pit bull dogs for hobby/sale," the Sheriff's Office said. "There were several pit bull dogs caged in the garage. One of the dog cages was toppled over and there were many signs of a dog attack visible."

Osage County Sheriff's Office investigators continued to look into the incident as they waited for results from the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office. The dogs suspected of vicious activity were taken by the Sheriff's Office and were being held pending further investigation.
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Major outbreak of noctilucent clouds over SOUTHERN Europe, as night-shining clouds AGAIN appear at record-low latitudes


Spaceweather.com
Tue, 22 Jun 2021 02:54 UTC
Noctilucent cloud on June 20, 2021 @ Valencia, Spain
© Francisco Gil
Noctilucent cloud on June 20, 2021 @ Valencia, Spain
A week ago, noctilucent clouds (NLCs) were stuck inside the Arctic Circle. Suddenly, they have broken free. Over the weekend, people saw the clouds through the city lights of Paris, Madrid, Berlin and other European capitals. On June 20th, Francisco Gil photographed NLCs as far south as Valencia, Spain.

"It is pretty strange to observe noctilucent clouds from these latitudes," says Gil.

Indeed it is. Valencia is at +39N, a latitude where NLCs are almost never seen. For most of their history (NLCs were discovered in the 19th century), the clouds have been found mainly near the Arctic Circle. Now they are spreading. The record low latitude, to date, was set in June 2019 when the clouds appeared near Los Angeles (+34 N). Gil's sighting shows that they are in the 30s again.

This just in: Cameras at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain recorded the clouds at an even lower altitude (+37.5N):


Comment: Another unusual sighting occurred in our changing atmosphere earlier this year: Novel atmosphere phenomenon 'STEVE' makes ANOTHER appearance over Finland

See also:

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Powerful storms rip through Belgium, including a tornado that obliterates almost 100 homes in country's south

Michaël Torfs
vrt.be
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:22 UTC
Belgium storm damage
© YouTube/CGTN (screen capture)
Heavy downpours triggered floods in parts of Flanders last night. In Wallonia, strong gusts of wind caused a lot of damage in the municipality of Beauraing, where there are reports of 17 injured people. Beauraing is talking of a "mini-tornado". As many as 92 houses were severely damaged, 10 have been declared unfit for habitation. Over a dozen cars were damaged.


Comment: There's no such thing as a mini-tornado. This was a powerful 'full-grown' tornado. The only reason we can't report where it fell on the EF scale is because Belgium doesn't track such things because tornadoes are (or used to be) so rare there.


Beauraing, a town in Namur province, was hardest hit. The local disaster plan was started after what local authorities are labelling as "a small tornado". 17 people sustained light injuries and some 90 homes were heavily damaged, Beauraing announced in a press report. The local cultural centre offers shelter for those that sustained damage.

Several people got injured when an outdoor construction at a café terrace was swept away by a gust of wind. "The wind was incredibly strong. Houses and cars got damaged, trees were uprooted", Beauraing Mayor Marc Lejeune told the Francophone public broadcaster RTBF.

The VRT's weather presenter Frank Deboosere thinks this phenomenon can be either a local tornado or a strong downwind, triggered by the enormous downpour that created a downward air movement.


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Severe hailstorms and flash floods hit Saudi Arabia and Yemen

START
YouTube
Sun, 20 Jun 2021 19:42 UTC
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Incredible! Scary large hail attacks Saudi Arabia, Abha!⚡️⚡️ The desert turns to rivers.

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Odd waterspout videoed on horizon of the Black Sea near Odessa, Ukraine

Videokings
YouTube
Sun, 20 Jun 2021 19:01 UTC
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On Saturday June 18 a peculiar waterspout was recorded on camera at the horizon of the Black Sea near Odessa, Ukraine.

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'Large and extremely dangerous' tornado hits Chicago suburbs

Gino Spocchia
The Independent
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 15:52 UTC
Naperville tornado damage
© Rich Hein/Sun-Times
A completely demolished home on Princeton Circle in Naperville’s Ranchview neighborhood Monday, June 21, 2021.
A tornado hit a suburban area of Chicago at the weekend, damaging hundreds of homes, toppling trees, causing power outages and injuring six people.

The National Weather Service told residents of Chicago to stay indoors as a "large and extremely dangerous tornado" touched down in Woodbridge, a suburb west of the city, late on Sunday.

By 5am on Monday, officials in Naperville — a city 25 miles west of Chicago — received more than 120 incidents of damage to property, and 450 reports of power outages.

Six people were also injured in Naperville, including an individual in a critical condition. Sixteen homes were deemed uninhabitable in the aftermath.

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6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Kermadec Islands, New Zealand - 2nd strong quake within 24 hours


Xinhua
Mon, 21 Jun 2021 14:15 UTC
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Kermadec Islands, New Zealand, at 11:14:12 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 27.01 km, was initially determined to be at 30.3301 degrees south latitude and 177.4501 degrees west longitude.

Comment: The earlier event: Strong shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes New Zealand's Kermadec Islands

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Bear attacks sleeping 16-year-old girl at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

ISABEL LOHMAN
Knoxville News Sentinel
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 13:05 UTC
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A black bear in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park attacked and injured a 16-year-old girl while she was sleeping in a hammock early Friday morning, according to a news release.

The family got the bear to leave their campsite in the Cosby section of the park immediately after the attack and park rangers provided medical care to the girl just after midnight Friday. She was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center by Tennessee Army National Guard at about 9 a.m.

The girl was conscious throughout the attack and is now in stable condition, the release said. She received multiple injuries, including head lacerations.

There were two bears near the campsite after the attack. The family identified one bear as being the one that attacked the girl. Rangers shot and killed it.

Forensic testing showed the bear had human blood on it.

The campsite located about 6 miles from the Maddron Bald Trailhead is closed until further notice.
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Bear kills man in Slovakia forest in what could be first fatal attack


The Guardian
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:57 UTC
A brown bear has killed a man in Slovakia. The number of bears in Slovak mountains has risen to estimated 2,760 last year from below 900 two decades ago.
© Greg Norgaard
A brown bear has killed a man in Slovakia. The number of bears in Slovak mountains has risen to estimated 2,760 last year from below 900 two decades ago.
A 57-year-old man has been killed by a brown bear in central Slovakia, in what the state forestry company said could be the first confirmed deadly attack by a wild bear, whose population has tripled in 20 years.

"An autopsy confirmed today that the man from Liptovska Luzna died from injuries caused by this predator," the forestry company, Lesy Slovenske Republiky, said on Facebook.

Bears are common in Slovak mountains, and their numbers have swollen to an estimated 2,760 last year from fewer than 900 two decades ago, said the forestry company, which has argued for legal hunting of bears to manage their population.
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