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Get ready for bone-chilling back-to-back Arctic fronts this weekend

Chris Dolce
Wunderground
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:26 UTC
weather December 15
© The Weather Channel
Current Wind Chills
A bitter cold arctic air mass has swept through a large swath of the central and eastern states to close out the workweek, sending wind chills into the teens, 20s and 30s below zero in some locations. Extreme cold will continue this weekend as an even more frigid blast of arctic air plunges into the central states on heels of Winter Storm Decima.

Some locations have seen or could see their coldest December temperatures in several years, and some record lows may be threatened.

Forecast: Arctic Cold Round #1

Thursday morning, subzero low temperatures were recorded as far south as Iowa, northern Illinois and northern Indiana. Winds chills in the 20s and 30s below zero were widespread throughout the Upper Midwest.

Chicago saw its first December subzero low temperature since Dec. 24, 2013. The mercury plunged to minus 20 degrees in Grand Forks, North Dakota, making it the coldest December reading in the city since Dec. 23, 2013.

US temps December 14, 2016

Current Temperatures
Great Falls, Montana, recorded its tenth straight day in a row with subzero lows on Wednesday morning. That is longest such streak there since February 1996.

On Tuesday morning, subzero lows were recorded as far south as northern Iowa and northern Nebraska. Wind chills dropped as low as minus 36 degrees in Winthrop, Minnesota.

The Northeast will see its coldest high temperatures through Friday with daytime readings 10-25 degrees below average. Temperatures will not rise out of the 20s along the Interstate 95 corridor in New York City and Philadelphia. Highs in the teens and even a few single digits will grip New England Friday.
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Snowflake Cold

Arctic blast: 100 million Americans brace themselves for sub zero wind chills

Cabel News Live
You Tube
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:20 UTC
Snow on road
Tracking 24 states on alert from California to Maine with some of the lowest temperatures in a decade.

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Attention

Man attacked by fur seal in New Zealand


Newshub
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:56 UTC
The tourist was assisted by a DOC ranger who spotted the attack, before being flown to Nelson Hospital
© Getty
The tourist was assisted by a DOC ranger who spotted the attack, before being flown to Nelson Hospital
A marine life expert says it's possible a seal that bit a German tourist in Abel Tasman National Park was just trying to play.

The 18-year-old was flown to hospital after being severely bitten on both legs while swimming off the rocks below a lighthouse on Wednesday.

Mark Oram, head of sport & recreation at AUT University, says the tourist invited the attack by deciding to get into the water with the animal.

"Probably the surprising thing is that it doesn't happen more often. New Zealand fur seals, like other marine mammals, are predators - they hunt and kill things to survive. Aggression is a part of their behaviour.

"So when people choose to enter their world, they do so at their own risk."
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Snowflake

'Mass death' threatens deer population in Altai and eastern Russia due to freak snow falls


The Siberian Times
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:11 UTC
Deer in deep snow

Deer in deep snow
Rescue effort underway to provide emergency feeding sites for the helpless animals, with the wild boar population also in trouble.

High snow drifts in the Altai Mountains and further east in Russia are causing huge problems this winter for herbivores - roes, deer and boars. Even larger animals as moose - elk - are finding it hard to cope with the deep snow.

Boar that are not full grown are dying in snowdrifts if there are no adults to break through the trails. The biggest threat is to roe deer, say wildlife experts.

Special feeding sites have been set up to allow them to find food. The last winter in Altai with similar heavy snow falls was in 2001-2002, when the number of roe deer was reduced from 27,000 to 17,000.

At the beginning of 2016, an estimated 25,000 roe deer were in the Altai region, but there is a threat of a new wipe out.
© Altaipriroda
At the beginning of 2016, an estimated 25,000 roe deer were in the Altai region, but there is a threat of a new wipe out.
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Cloud Lightning

Man killed by rare winter lightning strike in Molino, Florida

Anthony Pura
weartv.com
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:13 UTC
lightning
A Molino man is dead after being hit by lighting Tuesday night.

Friends say his extended family is yet to be notified so WEAR is choosing not to release his identity yet. Emergency crews say he was in his 40s and people who know him say he was a newlywed.

He was also a long-time member of Hillcrest Church.

The incident happened outside a home on Wilder Road.

You could see pieces of a wooden post of the home's carport laying along the its front yard. Friends say that was where the man was standing, either walking to or from his car.
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Attention

Dead gray whale calf appears at Gearhart, Oregon

Lizzy Acker
The Oregonian
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:22 UTC
A gray whale calf washed ashore on Dec. 12, 2016 in Gearheart.
© Tiffany Boothe/Seaside Aquarium
A gray whale calf washed ashore on Dec. 12, 2016 in Gearheart.
A gray whale calf that washed ashore in Gearhart Monday and then disappeared, reappeared Wednesday in Seaside, allowing the Seaside Aquarium along with Portland State University to perform a necropsy on the animal.

The whale was a male and approximately 10 feet long. "Because of the time of year and size we believe the animal was most likely stillborn," wrote the Seaside Aquarium Tiffany Boothe in an email. "Gray whales are currently migrating passed the Oregon Coast on their way to their breeding grounds in Mexico."

Boothe added, "The whale had been heavily scavenged upon by sharks before washing ashore."

After the whale was found Monday, attempts to secure it higher on the beach were unsuccessful.
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Arrow Down

400 People Evacuated in Central China after Huge Cracks Form in Ground

CCTV+
YouTube
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 07:08 UTC
Earth cracks in central China
© YouTube/CCTV+ (screen capture)
More than 400 villagers have been evacuated after huge cracks and cave-ins appeared at previous mining area in Jingmen City of central China's Hubei Province last Saturday.

Fortunately, no casualties have been reported yet.

Cracks up to hundreds of meters long and 20 cm wide appeared in croplands of the Fengmiao Village at around 03:00 early Saturday morning. The land subsidence extended across most parts of the village, leaving fishponds dried up, buildings collapsed and roads damaged.

"We woke up after hearing a huge noise, like a bomb going off. I turned on the light and found the house cracking. We took our kid and ran out barely wearing any clothes," said a villager.

The village was immediately cordoned off by local authorities.

The incident occurred at a used up gypsum-mining area that was abandoned in around 2008. It belonged to a local mining enterprise named Baolong, which has been operating in the area since 1980s.


Comment: Some other signs of earth 'opening up' in recent times include:

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Snowflake

Heavy snowfall blankets Gangwon Province, South Korea


KBS World Radio
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:17 UTC
Snow
Heavy snow has blanketed Gangwon Province as snow advisories were issued for 16 cities and counties of the province.

The Gangwon Regional Office of Meteorology said on Wednesday that the Misiryeong Pass along the northern part of Mount Seorak received 38 centimeters of snowfall as of 3 p.m., while Sokcho got 32 centimeters.

A blizzard in Daegwallyeong has also caused drivers to exercise caution.

Heavy snow resulted in severe traffic congestion in downtown Sokcho, while a road on the Misiryeong Pass linking Sokcho and Inje was temporarily closed to traffic.

Snow Korea
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Snowflake Cold

Winter storm to create dangerous travel conditions along 1,200-mile swath of central US

Alex Sosnowski
AccuWeather
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 19:56 UTC
Winter storm
A storm will create dangerous travel conditions across a 1,200-mile swath of the central United States into the weekend.

Blizzard conditions could develop in major hubs such as Denver and Chicago.

People from the Rockies to the northern Plains and Upper Midwest are bracing for a new round of snow and travel disruptions on the highways and at airports.

Storm map
"Motorists and airline passengers may want to explore an alternate or more southern route as confidence is high that there will be widespread, major travel disruptions with this storm," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson said.

Mostly snow will fall from central and northern Colorado to northern Nebraska, South Dakota, northern Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and central Michigan. Motorists venturing along Interstate 90 should be prepared for snow covering roads, as well as blowing and drifting snow.

The storm also has the potential to spread accumulating snow to parts of the central Plains and the middle Mississippi Valley.
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Wolf

Mad dog bites 10 city children in Maharashtra, India

Faisal Tandel
mid-day.com
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:29 UTC
Ishwar Nupe (9) and Vinod Vijay Gavai (10)

Ishwar Nupe (9) and Vinod Vijay Gavai (10)
A stray dog has struck terror among the residents of Ulhasnagar after it went on a mad rampage and bit 10 children on the same day. All the kids had to be taken to hospital and five of them had to be admitted for severe injuries.

Sunday attack

All of the attacks were separate incidents as the kids reside in different areas like Sainath Colony, Saraswati Nagar and Raigad Colony. Vijay Kalbande, additional civil surgeon at the Central Hospital in Ulhasnagar, said, "The incident took place on Sunday afternoon. Out of the 10 victims, we admitted five for treatment as they had suffered severe bites, while the remaining five were discharged. Most had suffered injuries on their legs, while a few were bitten on their arms."

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