A powerful storm hit Sverdlovsk Region on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring three others. Footage from the area shows the destruction sustained by the storm in Nizhny Tagil. Over 30,000 people were forced to go without electricity and dozens of building were damaged as a result.

A new article by NASA to answer the question if a Warming Earth is natural, they focus on CO2 emmissions, and talk about the pre-industrial age, but never show charts of pre-industrial age, but tell you how natural change occur too slowly through history and that its all "human caused" quick rises in temperatures. I added many pre-industrial temperature graphs, volcanic cooling events and current May 2017 temperatures which are down -0.1C since May 2016.


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A massive fish kill on Puget Sound is being blamed on the recent holiday weekend hot weather. Thousands of anchovies have washed up on the shores of Case Inlet at Belfair.

"It's sad. It's really sad," said beach resident Kristen Wiseman. It has residents worried about what did this.

The people who live along with the beach say the fish started showing up a couple of days ago.

"I saw a little bit come in and it's like 'what is that shiny stuff in the water?'" said Wiseman.

That shiny stuff turned out to be a massive fish kill with the tide leaving the carcasses stranded on the beach and even higher up during high tide.

The Department of Conservation (DOC) said they were found south of Ohau Point in mid-May.

Three were sent to Massey University for necropsy.

DOC regional operations director Roy Grose said there were no signs of physical injury and based on early diagnosis, two of the pups likely died of pneumonia.

He said other factors such as biotoxins, viruses or bacterial infections had not been ruled out and pups had died because of starvation or environmental factors in the past.

DOC said it would keep monitoring the situation but the deaths were unlikely to affect the wider Kaikōura fur seal population.

A mother and her son were killed today in Hudi village of the district after lightning struck them, a senior district official said.

Babytai Jayawant Bule (40) and her son Vikas (14), both residents of Tulsinagar village, had gone to Hudi to harvest groundnuts, when the incident took place, he said.

In a separate incident, 20 goats were killed when lightning struck them in village Katkheda, the officer added.

Source: Press Trust of India

A woman has died after she was attacked by two dogs in a horrific incident in Galway. Emergency services were called to the scene in the village of Moycullen at approximately 3pm yesterday.

Independent.ie has learned that the woman, named locally as Teresa McDonagh, who was aged in her 60s, was attacked by two bullmastiff dogs at a home.

The animals were shot dead by neighbours who came to Ms McDonagh's aid at a house in Knockarasser, near Moycullen, Co Galway. It is believed she was visiting a relative at the time.

Ms McDonagh suffered horrific injuries in the attack and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her remains were moved to University Hospital Galway yesterday evening. A post-mortem is now expected to take place on the woman's body.

All spring I chase storms across the United States to collect footage of supercells, lightning, tornadoes and whatever I might find. Generally I don't release any time-lapse clips from those chases until I put out my final end of season compilation film. But last night in North Dakota was too unreal to let sit on my hard drive for months.

We were chasing northeast of Bismarck, North Dakota and as storms were dying out, we decided to go for a lone cell on the backside of a line of storms. We knew it had a hail core on it and we were hoping that we might get some nice sunset color at least on the storm as it moved past us, and hopefully some lightning bolts. But we had no idea what we were about to encounter. The clouds were taking on a very different, curvy, wave-like appearance and suddenly we knew what we were seeing.

Undulatus asperatus clouds are a rare phenomenon and actually the newest named cloud type in over 60 years. I've seen tons of photos of them, but never anything like what we witnessed last night. We had a storm with hail in front of us and flashing lightning which was fantastic. But then we had this layer of undulatus clouds flowing across our view.

A large halo around the sun was seen from various locations in Singapore yesterday afternoon.

Photos of it posted online were taken in places such as Changi, Marina Bay and Toa Payoh.

The optical phenomenon, which is not uncommon, typically occurs when there are thin clouds so high in the sky that they are made of ice crystals rather than water droplets.

The crystals act as tiny prisms, reflecting and refracting light in such a way that a ring is seen around the sun. Such a halo is referred to as a sun halo, solar halo or 22-degree halo, where 22 degrees is the angle formed between one's eye and the edge and centre of the halo.

A reader once asked if it was possible to forecast when something like this would happen.

Video from Alberta, Canada on Friday shows a monstrous tornado touching down as cars continue to drive towards the storm on a nearby highway.

Environment Canada, the government agency tasked with sending out weather alerts, said the tornado was produced by a thunderstorm, CTV reported.

Environment Canada had issued a warning for parts of the Kneehill County area shortly after 5 p.m. Friday due to an "eyewitness report" of a possible tornado, CTV reported. By 5:27 p.m., the storm had produced a tornado.

If the blathering blowhards of the dinosaur media and the Chicken Littles of the Twitterverse are to be believed, the world has officially come to an end. And in a way, maybe it has. Not "the" world, of course, but their world.


That's because, as you will no doubt have heard by now, Trump just announced that the US will be pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord.

"I am fighting every day for the great people of this country," Trump boasted in his Rose Garden press conference announcing his decision on the agreement, adopted in Paris in December 2015. "Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord..."

...If only he had stopped there. However, after a brief applause break greeting the announcement of the withdrawal, the Dissembler-in-Chief completed the sentence thusly: "but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers." And then, just to make sure he added enough political hogwash to confuse everyone, he pressed on: "So we're getting out. But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair. And if we can, that's great. And if we can't, that's fine."

Ok, then. So the US is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement not because it is the leading edge of the $100 trillion carbon swindle wedge. Not because it is based on the fake science of fundamentally flawed models with fundamentally incorrect inputs. Not because it brings us one step closer to the Edmund Rothschild-articulated vision of a "global conservation bank" to steward over the world economy or the century-old technocratic dream of an energy-based economy where people will be assigned "carbon credits" and forced to ration their activities in response to the dictates of a de facto world government. No, not for these reasons, but because the "deal" wasn't "fair" for "American workers?" And the Trump Administration is going to immediately begin negotiations to re-enter the agreement?

Sigh.