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Three wolves shot dead in Essex after gang of five escaped from Colchester Zoo, UK

Alex Wynick
The Mirror, UK
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:41 UTC
Police and zoo keepers launched a frantic search to find the two escapees after they got out of their enclosure through a hole in the fence

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Three wolves have been shot dead after a pack of five escaped from Colchester Zoo.

Zoo keepers discovered the group had got out of their enclosure at around 8am this morning through a hole in the fence.

One of the timber wolves returned and another was captured.

But police and zoo staff had to launch a frantic search to find the three remaining animals who were on the loose in Essex.

Two were found and shot dead within a few hours.

Colchester Zoo said they were unable to use anaesthetic darts as they take around 15 minutes to have an effect - in which time the wolves remained a danger to the public.

The fifth and final wolf remained on the run for several hours longer.

A police helicopter was scrambled and officers are searching fields around the zoo in a bid to find the beast.
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Cloud Lightning

Watch moment driver survives lightning bolt striking car in Australia


The Mirror, UK
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:27 UTC
The shock of electricity from the heavens was so powerful it lifted Wayne Lennan's vehicle OFF the ground before destroying it


This is the moment Australian Wayne Lennan was relaxing in a beach bar car park in Newcastle, New South Wales, before a bolt of electricity from the heavens completely wrecked his car.

The force of the impact was so powerful it lifted his car OFF the ground - but somehow he managed to walk away unharmed.

The incredible event was caught on video on by surfer Luke Flanders on his camera phone, and the footage has gone viral.

Luke Flanders was trying to get some cool pictures of a lightning bolt for his Instagram account when he switched his phone to video mode.

"I was filming for like 30 seconds and then BANG!" he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

"It hit the aerial of a car about 30 or 40 metres in front of me and just kind of exploded and orange sparks shot out everywhere."

Mr Lennan is still in shock at just how he managed to survive such a violent strike and admits the whole incident came and went in a blur.

"It was all a bit of a shock, the storm was coming in and it all happened very quickly,'' he said. "[When the lightning bolt hit] it lifted the car off the ground."

A local towing service came to the rescue to take the car to a garage but the vehicle has now been confirmed as a write off.
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Ice Cube

Shock 'snow avalanche' crushes car driving down street in China's 'Ice City', as country experiences 'worst blizzard in 50 years'


The Mirror, UK
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:11 UTC
The giant sheet of ice crashed down on top of the 4x4 completely caving in the roof and showering onlookers with snow


This terrifying clip shows a Range Rover driving down a street when it is smashed by an AVALANCHE that appears to come out of nowhere.

Winter driving conditions are never easy to negotiate, but this shocking video shows what this Chinese driver in Harbin in the northeast of the country, had to go through.

Harbin is known as Ice City and true to form the huge sheet of ice apparently slid off a nearby roof and crashed on to the 4x4 causing a giant snow cloud which showered onlookers.

The force of the impact was so severe that the snow actually caved in the roof of the famously sturdy vehicle setting off the airbag.

From the after pictures it appears that no one was seriously hurt in the incident but the sheer scale of the damage is there for all to see.

Harbin is nicknamed the 'Ice City' for its extreme low temperatures, but it is currently in the midst of the worst blizzard in 50 years, a storm which has claimed four lives.
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Bizarro Earth

Mount Sinabung is just one of 35 currently erupting volcanoes

Lisa Mahapatra
IBTimes.com
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:16 UTC
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The volcano at Mount Sinabung at Jakarta, Indonesia, erupted six times early Monday, shooting volcanic ash 2,000 meters into the sky. Thousands have been evacuated from the region since the Sinabung volcano began erupting sporadically in September. 5,000 people were evacuated from the area the day before the eruption on Monday, bringing the total number of evacuees to 11,000. There have been no casualties so far.

The Sinabung is just one of 35 active, erupting volcanoes in the world, according to a categorized list on Volcano Discovery. Of the 35 currently erupting volcanoes in the world, seven are in Indonesia. Most of Indonesia is situated along the "Ring of Fire" -- a horseshoe shaped ring around the Pacific where most earthquakes and volcanic eruptions take place.

Here's a map of the Ring of Fire and the 35 volcanoes that are experiencing sporadic eruptions and other active volcanic activity. Click here to see what sort of volcanic activity that volcano is experiencing.
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Ice Cube

Britain facing unprecedented six-month winter - relentless heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures could last until May, could now parallel the worst winters ever recorded

Nathan Rao
Express.co.uk
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:35 UTC
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The entire UK has been told to brace for a record-breaking period of bitter Arctic winds, crippling snowfall and plunging temperatures. Long-range forecasts now point to winter 2013 now being the worst for more than 60 years with Polar conditions stretching right into the beginning of next spring.

The shock warning comes with the UK already shivering in an unseasonably early big freeze with temperatures plummeting to -5C and heavy snow sparking chaos in parts of the UK. Long-range forecaster James Madden, of Exacta Weather, said: "An exceptionally prolonged period of widespread cold is highly likely to develop throughout this winter and last into next spring.

"It will be accompanied by snow drifts of several feet and long-lasting snow accumulations on a widespread scale.

"This period of snow and cold is likely to result in an incomparable scenario to anything we have experienced in modern times.
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Ice Cube

Three million flyers across the U.S. East Coast told to expect massive cancellations as deadly storm rolls in

James Nye
Daily Mail UK
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:45 UTC
The huge deadly winter storm that is barreling east is set to cause massive cancellations across the East Coat's major airports for Thanksgiving travelers trying to get home - and last up to 36 hours meteorologists warn. A combination of high winds and low clouds are likely to cause travel delays at all New York, Boston and Washington airports and parts of Pennsylvania and upstate New York, including Pittsburgh could likely experience up to 18-inches in snow.
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Already the storm has been responsible for the deaths of 14 people from West to South to Midwest and is covering parts of Georgia, North Carolina and West Virginia in a blanket of ice this morning. Yesterday and through the evening, the storm hit parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas swept toward the densely populated East Coast on Tuesday, threatening to disrupt the plans of travelers ahead of the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

The large system has already struck parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, but with temperatures creeping above freezing the outcome was less dramatic than forecasters had feared as it crossed the nation's midsection. The storm sprung out of the West and has been blamed for at least 11 deaths, half of them in Texas. It limped across Arkansas with a smattering of snow, sleet and freezing rain that didn't meet expectations.
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Ice Cube

Founder of The Weather Channel STICKS IT to Al Gore

EPAabuse.com
The Rick Amato Show
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 03:17 UTC
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KUSI's John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, makes a special guest appearance on the Rick Amato Show to debunk the latest spree of Global Warming claims in mainstream news.


Comment: John Coleman may be wise to the anthropocentric global warming scam, but appears to be unaware that other scientists are saying the real imminent threat from climate change is a return to an ice age:

Ice Age Cometh? Extreme Weather Events and 'Climate Change'

Fire and Ice: The Day After Tomorrow

New Ice Age 'to begin in 2014'

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Question

Mystery object falls from sky in Long Island

Greg Cergol
NBC New York
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:40 UTC
Mystery Object
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A mysterious object fell from the sky in a busy aircraft corridor along Long Island and lit up imaginations. The object, which left a white trail as it plummeted to the ground Monday, generated 911 calls and reports of a downed plane. Suffolk County police looked into whether a small plane had crashed, but found nothing.

Marc Rubin is among those who witnessed the object when it fell between Patchogue and Sayville.

"It had this little curlicue tail at the top and was coming straight down at a 90-degree angle," Rubin said Wednesday.

Police said they plan to send investigators to talk to Rubin and look at the pictures he took. But they believe the object had less mysterious origins.

Suffolk County Police Deputy Chief Kevin Fallon said, "I spoke to some helicopter pilots with our department and it's their belief that this was some type of model rocket or some type of flare."

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Bizarro Earth

European satellites launched to eye Earth's weakening magnetic field

Maria Sheahan
Reuters
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:26 UTC
Aurora Australis
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Aurora Australis or ''Southern lights'' are seen in this picture captured by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) with a digital camera while they passed over the Indian Ocean, in this September 17, 2011 photograph.
The European Space Agency on Friday launched three satellites it hopes will help understand why the magnetic field that makes human life possible on Earth appears to be weakening.

The satellites, comprising ESA's Swarm project, were launched from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Rockot vehicle at 7.02 a.m. EST and were placed in near-polar orbit at an altitude of 490 kilometers (304 miles) about 91 minutes later.

Data that Swarm is due to collect for the next four years will help improve scientists' relatively blurry understanding of the magnetic field that shields life on Earth from deadly solar radiation and helps some animals migrate.
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Snowflake

Winter-like U.S. storm lumbers east, threatening holiday travel

Matt Pearce
Los Angeles Times
Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:59 UTC
Thanks a lot, Mother Nature.

A deadly winter-like storm already blamed for eight deaths continued its trek east through the Southwest on Sunday, disrupting hundreds of flights in a possible preview of Thanksgiving travel hassles.

Meanwhile, an arctic air mass brought freezing temperatures to much of the Northeast and the upper Midwest in what the National Weather Service called the coldest weather of the season.

The wintry system slushed through New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas on Sunday, dumping heavy snow over several areas in New Mexico and sleet that forced the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to "pre-cancel" about 300 flights.
"This is more of a January, February-type weather event," National Weather Service meteorologist Dennis Cain told the Los Angeles Times, adding, "It's not rare, but it's not very common either."
Fortunately for Texans, Cain said, temperatures have remained above freezing as the area braces for a band of icy weather early Monday. "By Thursday, we should have quite a bit of sunshine," he said. "Should be no problem for people going to grandma's house for Thanksgiving."
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