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"Just look what a beauty we had yesterday... If I hadn't seen something similar myself 10 years ago, would not have believed it," an Instagram user from the Saratov region posted.
Earth Changes
"Just look what a beauty we had yesterday... If I hadn't seen something similar myself 10 years ago, would not have believed it," an Instagram user from the Saratov region posted.
Look at the far right side of the chart (today), and you'll see that temperatures have plunged to their lowest point in almost 250 million years.
There have been only two periods in the past 600 million years when it has been colder than today.
We are now living through one of the coldest periods in geologic history. The last few year's minor rise in temperature is too minuscule to even show up on the chart.
Anyone who tries to tell you that we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed.
Your father's instincts about the global warming hoax are absolutely spot on. Please, please do not try to push him in the opposite direction.
More than 450 people felt a 'moderate' earthquake near Whakatane when it hit at 9pm yesterday. It was followed hours later with another shake in the Bay of Plenty.
At 9.06pm yesterday a 4.2 magnitude quake struck at 10km deep. Only eight people reported feeling the early morning quake, but 454 said they felt last night's tremor. The quakes follow a 4.1 shake in the same spot at 1.35pm and another at 11.39am. Geonet recorded at least 86 "felt" reports from people describing yesterday afternoon's quake between "strong" and "light".
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Taiwan's forecasters have predicted further heavy rain into the weekend.
Taiwan's forecasters have predicted further heavy rain into the weekend.
State power company Taipower said a transmission pylon on a hill in New Taipei city toppled during torrential downpours, causing a reactor at a nuclear plant there to cut out.
A second reactor automatically shut down as safety measures were activated and neither were damaged, it added.
Manam Volcano
According to the newspaper The National, the islanders have been at the Potsdam Care Centre in Madang for almost a month. Manam leader Paul Maburau said the Madang provincial disaster office gave each family a bail of rice, 5kg of flour and two litres of oil when they first arrived.
He said they had now run out of food and couldn't find any way of obtaining more. Mr Maburau said people at the care centre were also getting sick and the nearest health centre did not have any medical supplies. Citing a lack of communication with the Madang government, he said the islanders were confused about whether they would be going back to the island or not.
As the front moved eastwards it delivered healthy amounts of rainfall to southern and central parts of the state, with 16.2mm recorded in just under 2 hours at Lara and 16mm in 3 hours at Ballarat. Eastern parts of Victoria saw lighter falls and as the front began to weaken and rain became more patchy.
CCTV shows three dogs leaping on the man and biting him before he seeks safety on the top of his car parked in the street.
The man, aged in his 50s, suffered minor cuts and bruises to his back and leg.
He told 9NEWS it's the third time the dogs have been seen out on the street in three weeks.
"I called the police because I was worried, they were ferocious" he said.
Just after 4 a.m., crews responded to a water main break that caused a sinkhole on the roadway at Pecan Park Lane.
Crews arrived to find an Uber vehicle had partially fallen into the hole, but the driver and his passenger climbed out of a window as water began pouring into the car.
Tasha Mills said she got the scary early morning call from her husband, who was working his second job driving overnight for Uber.
"I was sleeping and I got a phone call. It scared us pretty bad, so we rushed out here," she told 10News.
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A cold morning at Renmark, where the mercury dropped to -3.2C.
A cold morning at Renmark, where the mercury dropped to -3.2C.
Elsewhere in the state it was even colder, with Yunta -4.7C, Renmark -3.2C and Loxton, Snowtown and Murray Bridge -1.9C, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Cold morning for #SAweather: Yunta -4.7 °C, Renmark -3.2 ° C, Loxton, Snowtown and Murray Bridge -1.9 °C https://t.co/OazoPRe4P8 pic.twitter.com/3lgum4rTyF
— BOM South Australia (@BOM_SA) May 31, 2017
The measure is meant to reduce demand and conserve what little water is still available, and means significant sacrifices for residents.For Cape Town resident Suzanne Buckley, the restrictions mean adapting to a new lifestyle. "We have buckets in our shower and bathroom sink to save excess water," Buckley said. "The gray water is then used to flush our toilets."
The restrictions are in effect across the city in an aggressive effort to preserve its remaining drinking water, but it may not be enough. South Africa ranks as the 30th driest country in the world and is considered a water-scarce region. A highly variable climate causes uneven distribution of rainfall, making droughts even more extreme.
Speaking to CNN, Cape Town Executive Mayor Patricia de Lille explained her concerns about the growing water crisis."Climate change is a reality and we cannot depend on rainwater alone to fill our dams, but must look at alternative sources like desalination and underground aquifers."
