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Great Lakes' water levels way above normal, Lake Erie inches away from record high

Kelly Reardon
cleveland.com
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 06:39 UTC

Lake Erie's water levels are the highest they've been since 1998, and will remain 4 to 9 inches above normal through November.

The latest reading measured just 7.32 inches below the all-time record high set in 1986. Within the next week, the level could increase to just 6 inches below that record.

The high water is due to the recent heavy rain and months of snow melt surging into the lake. In May, Lake Erie received 150 percent of its typical rainfall, and it hasn't gone unnoticed. Some locals have complained about the rising tides along beaches and piers, but no physical damage has been reported along the Erie coastline.

The rest of the Great Lakes are also higher than normal.

Equal coldest start to winter on record for Adelaide, Australia

Sarah Scopelianos
abc.net.au
Wed, 31 May 2017 10:27 UTC

ABC Radio conducted an icy pole test in Adelaide to see how cold it was this morning.

Did you think the first day of winter felt a little nippy? Well, if you were in Adelaide it wasn't all in your head because the city has shivered through its coldest start to the season with the temperature dropping to just 2.9 degrees Celsius.

Duty forecaster Paul Bierman confirmed the city had its equal coldest June 1 on record, a temperature not seen since 1943.

"The minimum temperature at Kent Town got down to 2.9 degrees at 6:44am this morning. It has already started to warm up slightly, we're up to 3.3 degrees," he said just before 8:00am.

He said a cold front that moved across the state earlier in the week combined with overnight light winds and clear skies to produce the chilly morning.

"[We're going to have] very cold mornings right through until at least next Sunday ... around 3 or 4C," Mr Bierman said.

Thousands of rats invade villages in Myanmar (Burma)

Phys Org
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:58 UTC

Dead rats are piling up in Irrawaddy Division’s Ngapudaw Township as locals try to control infestations in a handful of villages

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Dead rats are piling up in Irrawaddy Division’s Ngapudaw Township as locals try to control infestations in a handful of villages

Thousands of rats have descended on villages on an island in southern Myanmar, a local official said on Tuesday, in what some have taken to be an ill omen of impending disaster.

Residents of Haingyi island, one of the larger islands in the Irrawaddy Delta, have been battling the plague of rodents since the critters scurried into their villages over the weekend.

Short of pied pipers, desperate authorities have resorted to paying residents 50 kyat (four US cents) for each dead animal in a bid to contain the outbreak.

"More than 4,000 rats have been killed since they tried to enter the villages," regional MP Phyo Zaw Shwe told AFP.

"According to traditional beliefs, these animals can predict bad weather. So people here are also worried about floods or earthquakes."

Studies by Japanese scientists have shown mice and rats are sensitive to electromagnetic waves similar to what often occurs before a major earthquake—although there has been no notable seismic activity in Myanmar the last few days.

Storm wreaks havoc in Cape Town, South Africa

eNCA
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 05:23 UTC

Residents of Cape Town are being urged to avoid the roads, if possible.

Rain and strong winds are battering the city.

Emergency shelters are on standby as a vicious storm lashes the Western Cape.

Several people have been displaced in Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay, where the roofs of some homes have blown off.

Displaced people are being housed at a school in Maitland.

In Lavender Hill, two people have been injured.

Roofs also blew off homes in Strand, Kalkfontein, Delft and Mfuleni.

Trees were uprooted in Durbanville and in Plumstead a tree landed on a block of flats.

Unusual rains and record snowfall continues as cosmic rays increase

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:21 UTC

There has been a steady progression of events with unusual rains or snows in record amounts which are out of season from Asia to North America. Now there is coldest start to winter in Adelaide Australia in the last 103 years , June skiing in Vermont and snow still falls in Idaho. The progression of unusual events is caused by increasing cosmic rays, which will continue to increase through solar cycle 25 and so shall our increasingly strange weather.

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Surprising Convergence of Day and Night Upper-Atmosphere Temperatures

Charles Samuels
Watts Up With That?
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 21:05 UTC

A cursory review of articles about the upper atmosphere reveals many theories about the role of CO2 on temperatures aloft. By "Upper Atmosphere" we mean the region above the surface and below 100,000 feet. Actually, in this article, we will only concern ourselves with the region from 850 millibars to 100 millibars, which is about 5,000 feet to 55,000 feet.

In the early days of Global Warming, the theories predicted that the upper atmosphere would heat due to increases in CO2. Well, that didn't happen. One recent article by NASA says that the Thermosphere (above 100,000 ft) has cooled in recent years due to decreased solar activity and a reduction in ultraviolet light. That certainly seems reasonable. Another article stated that if the lower atmosphere warms, the upper atmosphere must cool, which makes no sense to me.

Other articles posit that as CO2 increases the level at which radiation escapes to space also increases and the upper atmosphere warms. That also made no sense to me.

I decided to take a look at temperatures aloft and reasoned that the difference between day and night temperatures in the upper atmosphere might reveal whether the nighttime atmosphere is cooling faster or slower than in previous years. If cooling slower the temperature curves at 00z and 12z would tend to converge and if cooling faster the curves would diverge. Simple, right?

Father and son are killed after being sucked into flaming sinkhole in Jharkhand, India

Julian Robinson
Daily Mail
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:34 UTC

A 21-strong rescue team arrived at the scene and dug an underground passage to try and get to the father and son

A father and son have been burned alive after being sucked into a flaming sink hole that has been blazing for more than 100 years in India.

Teenager Rahim Khan was sweeping an area in front of his shop in the town of Jharia, in the country's north eastern Jharkhand province when he was sucked into a crater which opened up in the road.

His desperate father, Bablu Khan, 40, saw him slip into the hole before he too was killed after being buried under debris as he tried to save the 14-year-old.

Pictures show smoke coming from the burning sink hole which was caused by fires that have raged underground in the area for decades.

Lightning bolt kills four children and seriously injures two others in Jharkhand, India

Business Standard
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:15 UTC

Four children were killed and two seriously injured when lightning struck them at Mundaro village in Giridih district today, police said.

The children were all playing cricket and had taken shelter under a tree as rain accompanied by thunderbolt struck the area, Sub-Divisional Police Officer Deepak Sharma said.

The SDPO said Asif Ansari (7), Saheed Ansari (9), Hasan Ansari (7) and Umar Farooq (9) were killed as lightning struck them while Mister Ansari (9) and Ahmed Ansari (12) were injured.

The injured have been rushed to nearby hospital, where they were undergoing treatment.

Source: Press Trust of India

It's June, but there are still massive piles of snow on Trail Ridge Road, Colorado

Allison Sylte
9news.com
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:15 UTC

Here's a Colorado drive that will make you appreicate some plow drivers.

You don't need a news article to tell you that conditions are a little different at 11,000 feet versus 5,280 feet - but it's still pretty jarring to realize there are still some huge piles of snow on Trail Ridge Road!

A 9NEWS viewer made the drive over the weekend, and even though temperatures were in the 80s here in Denver, on Trail Ridge Road, snow was piled almost 10 feet high.

It's pretty cool to see all of that snowing looming above the road - it certainly makes you appreciate those snow plow drivers.

It took this legendary Colorado route a little extra time to open this year thanks to a late storm, but it's open and ready for business!

Comment: Heavy snowfall buries road in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park

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Sott.net
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:41 UTC

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Earth Changes

Great Lakes' water levels way above normal, Lake Erie inches away from record high

Equal coldest start to winter on record for Adelaide, Australia

Thousands of rats invade villages in Myanmar (Burma)

Storm wreaks havoc in Cape Town, South Africa

Unusual rains and record snowfall continues as cosmic rays increase

Surprising Convergence of Day and Night Upper-Atmosphere Temperatures

Father and son are killed after being sucked into flaming sinkhole in Jharkhand, India

Lightning bolt kills four children and seriously injures two others in Jharkhand, India

It's June, but there are still massive piles of snow on Trail Ridge Road, Colorado

Incredible downburst engulfs Dallas, Texas (VIDEOS)

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