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Elderly apple grower killed by bear in Japan


japantoday.com
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 20:40 UTC
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A 74-year-old man was found dead Thursday morning at his apple orchard in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, after having apparently been attacked by a bear.

Police said Kazuo Harada told his wife Wednesday night he was going out to see if there were any bear tracks near the apple trees, TBS reported. Harada's wife went to bed early and found her husband's body at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, police said.

Harada's face and throat had injuries and claw marks consistent with a bear attack, police said, adding that bear tracks were found near Harada's body.

Police said there have been numerous bear sightings in the area recently. Authorities said that in autumn, bears aggressively search for food before hibernating for the winter. 　
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Father and son killed in elephant attack, Sri Lanka


adaderana.lk
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:21 UTC
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A father and his six-year-old son were killed after being attacked by a wild elephant in the Paludeniya area in Aralaganwila this morning, the Police Spokesman's Office.

The 45-year-old victim, who is employed as a security guard at a private company in Paludeniya, was with his son at his occupation when the elephant attack took place.

They were both rushed to the Dehiattakandiya Hospital with critical injuries following the attack, however were pronounced dead on admittance, police said.
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Attention

Dead beaked whale washes ashore on Pensacola Beach, Florida

Marketta Davis
Pensacola News Journal
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:51 UTC
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© Belinda Radford
A 20-foot-long whale beached Sunday night in front of Margaritaville Beach Hotel and was discovered this morning.
Beach visitors were caught off guard early Monday morning to find a deceased Beaked Whale on shore near Margaritaville Hotel on Pensacola Beach. The 20-foot whale beached Sunday night, said Cassity Bromley, chief of science and resource stewardship for the Gulf Islands National Seashore.

"The whale had washed up and was half buried right where the tide was coming in," said Josh Bell, a hotel employee. "They brought a bulldozer-type thing and a big tractor, dug it out, tied it up around the tail area, picked it up and took it across the beach." Bell said he works on the beach every day, and he has seen sharks and fish wash ashore but never anything like a whale.
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Igloo

U.S. Great Lakes ice cover develops earliest in over 40 years

Mark Torregrossa
Mlive.com
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:42 UTC
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Here's what Lake Michigan looked like in February 2014.
Ice is already starting to develop on Michigan's Great Lakes. This is the earliest ice on some of the Great Lakes in at least 40 years. According to the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, on November 20, 2014, three of Michigan's Great Lakes had ice starting to form. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan were one-half percent ice covered, while Lake Huron had one percent ice. Lake Erie was not reporting any ice as of Nov. 20, 2014.

Decent early season ice coverage records date back to 1973. Last Friday was the earliest date that all three Great Lakes already had ice since the better reporting of early season ice began. Lake Superior actually had ice forming on November 15th of this year. That is the earliest ice on Lake Superior in the good data set.

Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron had ice 10 days earlier this year than last year. Lake Superior only had five and a half months without any ice on the lake.

Comment:
  • U.S. - Weeks ahead of schedule, ice visible on Lake Superior

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Cloud Lightning

'Extremely rare' weather phenomenon hits Louisiana Parish

Erika Ferrando
KPLCtv.com
Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:35 UTC
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Rutherford Beach
Severe weather hit Southwest Louisiana Saturday night, but south Cameron Parish was hit quite a bit harder. Residents from Rutherford Beach to Sabine Pass woke up around 2 a.m. Sunday to thunderstorms and flooding.

Many residents said it was something they've never seen before, at least outside of a hurricane. It was a storm surge without the tropical storm, an occurrence so rare that there is not a name for it.

In a matter of minutes, the land was covered by water. RVs were knocked off their blocks, fences and AC units were tossed around the landscape. Authorities shut down La. 82 due to the high water and debris. Andy Patrick with the National Weather Service called the weather phenomenon extremely rare.

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Ice Cube

Britain to be colder than Moscow with -5°C forecast as flooding hits south east England

Gareth Roberts
Daily Mirror UK
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:49 UTC
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Many Brits woke up to their first winter frost this morning - as more flood warnings were issued for parts of the country. Forecasters are predicting more of the same tonight, with the mercury set to dip as low as -5C in central Scotland and gritters on alert up and down the country, compared to -4C in Moscow.

Central Britain and Scotland is also braced for a blanket of freezing fog tonight before a misty and frosty start to tomorrow morning. Flash floods hit parts of the of the South East of England last night with some roads transformed into rivers by a huge downpour with many areas receiving up to an inch of rain.

In London, the fire brigade tackled 34 separate flooding incidents. The River Ravensbourne in Lewisham, south-east London, burst its banks and water poured on to surrounding roads affecting an area of around 1,800 square metres, the London Fire Brigade said.


Comment: Southeastern France, Northwestern Italy facing more flooding - Nice, France, already received 614 percent of its normal November rainfall

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Cloud Precipitation

Southeastern France, Northwestern Italy facing more flooding - Nice, France, already received 614 percent of its normal November rainfall

Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:41 UTC
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The welcome stretch of dry weather southeastern France and northwestern Italy has enjoyed is coming to an end with the danger of more flooding on the horizon. The same storm system that brought deadly flooding to Morocco on Sunday will return downpours and thunderstorms this week.


Comment: Floods in Morocco kill 17 with dozens missing after heavy rain destroys houses, cars and roads


The rain will first reach southeastern France on Tuesday before spreading to Italy late in the day. Continued wet weather is in store for both regions on Wednesday. The good news is that widespread flooding is not expected, but localized issues may arise.

"Even with a week of dry weather, localized flooding is a bigger concern than normal due to the heavy rain from earlier in the month," stated AccuWeather.com Tyler Roys. So far this month, Nice, France, has already received 614 percent of its normal November rainfall.
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Bizarro Earth

Aleutian Islands' Shishaldin volcano being watched following increase in seismic activity overnight

Laurel Andrews
Alaska Dispatch News
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:32 UTC
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© Dane Ketner / AVO
View of Shishaldin from an Alaska Volcano Observatory monitoring site on the southwest flank of the volcano on June 28, 2014. The upper flanks of the volcano are darkened by ash erupted during low-level lava fountaining and small explosions deep in the summit crater.
The Aleutian Islands' Shishaldin volcano was being watched Monday morning following an increase in seismic activity overnight.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory posted a "watch" alert due to the increase in activity, which suggests "that the eruption at Shishaldin has intensified," AVO wrote. Elevated surfaces temperatures were shown on satellite images near the volcano's summit.

Shishaldin, elevation 9,373 feet, is located on Unimak Island on the Aleutians. The volcano has been listed as "orange" for months, coordinating scientist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory Jeff Freymueller said, as small explosions within Shishaldin's crater have been occurring "pretty much all the time."​ The color code "orange" indicates an ongoing level of heightened activity at a volcano.

These small explosions within the volcano are likely to continue for "some time," Freymeuller said, bringing along the "potential that at any moment ... you could have a much bigger (explosion)."
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Bizarro Earth

Residents evacuated as Pico do Fogo volcano in Cape Verde erupts after a 20 year silence


EarthSky.org
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:29 UTC
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FogoNews via Facebook
Pico do Fogo - a shield volcano on the island of Fogo in the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa - began erupting on Sunday (November 23, 2014). It's the first eruption since 1995, nearly 20 years. Already, hundreds of residents living in the vicinity have been evacuated, and a local airport has been closed.

Erik Klemetti wrote on his excellent Eruptions blog at Wired:
The eruption has formed a small steam-and-ash plume near the flanks of Pico, a small cone inside the main caldera at Fogo. Earthquakes became noticeable to people living on the island starting Saturday night and by morning, an eruption had begun. According to volcanologists monitoring Fogo, the volcano had been showing signs of unrest "for awhile ... " Most of the activity at Fogo for the past 500 years has occurred within the main caldera of the volcano and the eruption in 1995 was centered on the flanks of Pico. The eruptions are dominantly lava flows, although unlike shield volcanoes like Kilauea, Fogo erupts both low-silica basanite (similar to basalt but higher in alkaline elements like sodium and potassium) and high-silica phonolite (similar to rhyolite but higher alkalines). That eruption in 1995 created a lava flow field that spread over 6 square kilometers of the caldera floor.

Comment: 6 volcanic quakes at Philippines' Mayon Volcano in the last 24 hrs
Mexico's Colima volcano erupts, sending ash 3 miles into the sky

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Snowflake

Roof collapse threat in the U.S. Great Lakes area as massive snow melts


AccuWeather
Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:20 UTC
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Erie County Sheriff's Office Massive roof collapse.
Several roofs collapsed in the Great Lakes area last week as they succumbed to extreme lake-effect snow, totaling up to 7 feet. Now, even as the snow melts with warmer weather, the threat remains for more roof collapses.

For flat-lying roofs, gutters could still be jammed with packed snow, which could lead to additional collapse concerns. In a snowpack as dense as what the greater Buffalo area was covered in, Spamer said there could be nearly 4 inches or water held within snow.

The threat for structural damage is lower for angled roofs as the snow will melt and send water trickling down the side of the home or building.

A cold rain can also lead to heavier snow and more weight on a rooftop because when the rain falls it is then absorbed by snow already on the rooftop. As a result, the snow becomes even heavier than it was before the rain.

If the snow becomes too heavy, it can weaken the internal structure of a roof and cause damage or even cause the roof to collapse completely.
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