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About 170 endangered seals found dead on Russia's Caspian coast


Al Jazeera
Thu, 06 May 2021 11:56 UTC
Authorities previously reported the death of nearly 300 endangered seals on Dagestan's Caspian shore in December 2020.
© Musa Salgereyev / TASS
Authorities previously reported the death of nearly 300 endangered seals on Dagestan's Caspian shore in December 2020.
At least 170 endangered seals have washed up dead over the course of several days on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Russia's republic of Dagestan, according to researchers.

"These are the dead animals that we saw, photographed and whose GPS coordinates we noted," Viktor Nikiforov of the Moscow Marine Mammals research centre told the AFP news agency on Thursday.

Images shared with the AFP showed several seal carcasses washed up on the beach.

The deaths may have been caused by "industrial pollution, fishing or poaching when seals get caught in the nets", Nikiforov said.

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M6.0 earthquake hits Fiji Islands Region


Volcano Discovery
Sat, 08 May 2021 00:13 UTC
Fiji quake map
Date & time: 7 May 2021 23:35:14 UTC - 8 hours ago
Local time at epicenter: 7 May 11:35 am (GMT -12)
Magnitude: 6
Depth: 384.0 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 18.74°S / 177.63°W
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Cloud Lightning

Four killed, two injured in lightning strike in Chhattisgarh, India


Devdiscourse.com
Fri, 07 May 2021 19:39 UTC
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Four members of a family were killed, while two others injured after being struck by lightning in Chhattisgarh's Korea district, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on Thursday evening, when the victims, including three sisters, were at their paddy field near Bichhli village under Kelhari police station area, an official said.

The deceased include Jailal Khairwar (45), his two daughters Pramila (20) and Subhadra (15) and son-in-law Bhupendra (25), he said.

Khairwar's son Surajbhan and daughter Budhhi sustained burn injuries in the incident, the official added.

On being alerted, a police team rushed to the spot and bodies were sent for post-mortem, he said, adding that the injured are undergoing treatment at the district hospital in Baikunthpur.

Source:PTI

Comment: On the same day a teenage girl was killed by a lightning strike in Nepal.

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Indonesia's Sinabung volcano erupts, spewing massive column of smoke and ash up to 2,800 metres high


France24
Fri, 07 May 2021 19:16 UTC
Mount Sinabung erupted on Friday,

Mount Sinabung erupted on Friday
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung erupted on Friday, spewing a massive column of smoke and ash up to 2,800 metres into the sky.

The volcano in North Sumatra province started belching ash and volcanic material at 9 am and the eruption lasted almost six minutes, a local geological agency said.

Images showed a thick column of ash spewing from the inside of Sinabung towards the east.

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6.0-magnitude quake hits west of Macquarie Island: USGS


Xinhua
Fri, 07 May 2021 19:13 UTC
quake
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted west of Macquarie Island at 15:21:14 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 54.3761 degrees south latitude and 144.1926 degrees east longitude.
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Snowflake Cold

Spring where are you? Heavy snow hits Lapland Finland

All About Lapland
YouTube
Thu, 06 May 2021 11:36 UTC
snow

Enjoy the amazing views of Finnish Lapland with us!

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Snowflake

Unseasonal snow gives skiers chance to return to slopes in Lake District, England


The Independent (UK)
Fri, 07 May 2021 11:13 UTC
ski uk

Unseasonal snow gives skiers a chance to return to the slopes
Unseasonal snowfall has given skiers in the Lake District ideal conditions to return to the slopes after a winter of lockdown.

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Ice Cube

"Covert" NASA data reveals global snowfall has *Increased* over the past 40 years

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Fri, 07 May 2021 10:56 UTC
GLOBE
Experienced data analyst, 10-year Wall Street veteran, and self-proclaimed "Mrs. Smarty Pants," Zoe Phin of phzoe.com crunches the data on GLOBAL SNOWFALL and reveals a surprising trend (surprising to the alarmists, at least).

Zoe was curious to know what the global snowfall trend was in this era of "extreme global warming."

"Luckily," she writes, "NASA covertly provides us with all the necessary data to figure this out."

Zoe downloaded all available monthly images from 1980 to 2020 (inclusive), such as the one shown here:
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Snowflake Cold

Parts of Ireland report coldest April since Records began (in 1943), as Iceland registers lowest May temperature ever

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Thu, 06 May 2021 10:46 UTC
cold
According to Irish Meteorological Service's monthly report (issued May 5, 2021), Ireland just suffered a historically cold month of April.

Dominating high-pressure systems set up to the west or northwest of Ireland, reads the report, which brought brutal polar air masses over the country, leading to below average temperatures.

The cold was intense.

Across the country, ALL weather stations logged a mean air temperatures that was either at or below their Long-Term Average (LTA) for the month; in fact, only one station matched their LTA - see Newport in the chart below:
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Cloud Precipitation

Afghan flash flood toll increases to 56


Laprensalatina.com
Fri, 07 May 2021 09:40 UTC
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The death toll due to flash floods in Afghanistan reached 56 Thursday with 30 people still missing, officials said.

Around 1,000 houses got damaged in days of heavy rains and flash floods across the war-ravaged country.

Tamim Azimi, a disaster management ministry spokesperson, told EFE that 56 people were confirmed dead.

"Twenty-five more are injured and another 30 missing in rains and flash floods," Azimi said.

Women and children are among the victims of the floods.


Comment: Earlier report: Flash floods in Afghanistan leave 16 dead, 10 missing

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