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Snowy start to July in Banff National Park, Canada


The Weather Channel
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 17:36 UTC
Snowy conditions observed in Banff National Park on July 2, 2020.
© Sunshine Village Ski ResortSnowy conditions observed in Banff National Park on July 2, 2020.
It's not common, but it does happen, and it coincided with a few days of markedly cooler-than-normal temperatures in Western Canada.

Though we normally expect summer-like warmth in Canada by July 1st -- and indeed, parts of Central Canada were cooking in temperatures at or above the 30-degree mark -- an unwelcome cooldown is never completely out of the question provided the right ingredients are there.

In the case of this year, much of Western Canada found itself beneath an upper-level low that brought some unstable conditions and noticeably cooler temperatures.
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Annual U.S. honey bee survey shows Summer 2019 marked highest colony losses ever recorded


Desdemona Despair
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:10 UTC
Total summer (yellow bars; 1 April – 1 October),
© The Bee Informed PartnershipTotal summer (yellow bars; 1 April – 1 October), winter (gray; 1 October – 1 April), and annual (orange bars; 1 October – 1 October) honey bee colony loss rates in the United States across years of the Bee Informed Partnership’s national honey bee colony loss survey, 2007/2008-2019/2020. Results from the inaugural survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America and performed in 2006-07 are not included.
The western honey bee, the species used across the country to support food production, to provide a natural sweetener, and to quite simply contribute to our leisure and free time, is among the most important of pollinators.

To mark Pollinator Week, the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) recently released the results of its 2019-2020 National Honey Bee Colony Loss Survey.

Results revealed some interesting insights into the experiences of our honey bee colonies, and their keepers, across the country this past year.
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Fin whale found washed up on Baja California beach in Mexico


Riviera Maya News
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 10:54 UTC
An 18-meter long Fin Whale found washed up on Baja California beach
An 18-meter long Fin Whale found washed up on Baja California beach
The Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) attended to the report of a deceased whale in the municipality of Playas de Rosarito.

The large mammal was discovered washed up on the beach by municipal cleaning personnel. Profepa officers arrived and verified the mammal was an 18-meter long Fin Whale and was in an advanced state of decomposition.

Officers noted that the whale did not exhibit any signs of physical injuries and deemed the death was likely caused by anthropogenic impacts. The Fin Whale is listed as a protected species in Mexico. It is the third whale found dead in Mexican waters since May.

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Cloud Lightning

2,170 lightning strikes within 3 hours near West Little Rock, Arkansas - thousands without power

Brittany Reese
katv.com
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:46 UTC
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Meteorologist Todd Yakoubian reports that 2066 lightning strikes happened within 25 miles of West Little Rock Thursday evening.

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Lightning strikes kill 4, injures 10 others in Bara, Nepal

Pushpa Raj Khatiwada
The Himalayan Times
Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:37 UTC
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As many as four persons have lost their lives while 10 others have been injured due to a lightning strike early Thursday morning, in Bara district. All of the deceased are women.

Two of the four — Aasha Devi Mahato (35) and Halika Khatun (45) — were residents of Sitalpur, Kalaiya Sub Metropolitan City-12. They were working at the field. While two others — Indu Devi Mahato (30) and Sunarpati Dev Mahato (40) — were from Tribeni, Pheta Rural Municipality-1.

Indu and Sunarpati were at their homes while the lightning struck and they were killed on the spot, informed Chief District Officer Rudra Prasad Pandit.
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Lightning strikes kill at least 8 in Rangpur region of Bangladesh

Rezaul Karim Manik
NEW AGE
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:27 UTC
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At least eight people were killed and nine others injured in separate incidents of lightning strikes in three districts of Rangpur region on Thursday.

Of them, four were killed in Lalmonirhat, three in Rangpur and the other was killed in Kurigram district.

The deceased in Lalmonirhat were identified as Montu Mia, 32, son of Ramzan Ali of Bejgram area of Hatibandha upazila, Ati Mia, 39, son of Abdul Hamid and Jahedul Islam, 28, son of Khandaker Ali of Islampur village under Patbarbati upazila and Hasan, son of Zahir Uddin of the same village.

Police and locals said some youths went for fishing in Kalibari beel of Tongbhanga union of Hatibandha upazila when Montu Mia and Ati were injured in a lightning strike.
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US tornado alley goes quiet, Canada's season had roaring start

Daniel Martins
The Weather Network
Thu, 02 Jul 2020 22:38 UTC
Tornado activity US
© The Weather Network
A single U.S. outbreak in April produced more tornadoes than May and June combined.

Tornado sirens are a fact of life for people in the United States' traditional 'tornado alley' in the country's midsection.

But it looks like the region had something of a reprieve this season, boasting May and June tornado numbers lower than they've been for half a century or more, with the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) going so far as to call it a tornado drought.

May's preliminary tornado count of 59, for example, is the lowest in 50 years, while June mustered no more than 50 twisters, the fewest since 1952. The drought is enough to bring 2020 in below average so far, though some parts of the country have had higher than normal tornado activity.

The 2020 season didn't start out this slow. May and June's combined count is less than a single outbreak over the Easter weekend in April that produced 114 confirmed tornadoes and killed more than 30 people. That month as a whole produced 351 tornadoes, the second most of any April on record.

The count of tornadoes at EF2 level or higher is also down, with the U.S. only seeing a single twister at that strength for the entire month of June.
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Circumhorizontal arc, sun halo seen over Swiss Alps

Klipsi
News Flare
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:53 UTC
CZ and sun halo over Swiss Alps
© YouTube/Oliver Staiger
Multiple atmospheric phenomena were seen in the skies above the Swiss Alps on Les Diablerets near Sion on June 26.

The sightings of not just a solar halo but a circumhorizontal arc was a particularly special scene.

The filmer said: "A 22° solar halo is seen around the Sun, and below it, near the horizon, a bright portion of circumhorizon arc.

"The solar halo is rather common but the circumhorizon arc can only be seen in summer here when the Sun is high enough in the sky.

"The arc is some 46° below the Sun. "

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 31 in a day across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India


The Tribune (India)
Thu, 02 Jul 2020 19:15 UTC
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In view of the IMD alert, Mumbai Police have advised citizens not to venture out of homes

At least 31 people died in lightning strikes in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, while the flood in Assam claimed one more life and inundated crop fields, even as Mumbai braced for extremely heavy rainfall.

However, the national capital sweltered under a stifling heat with no rains. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted dry weather in the city for the next two days and rains on the weekend.

Most places in the city recorded the maximum temperatures between 39 degrees and 42 degrees Celsius.

In Bihar, 26 people were killed on Thursday after being struck by lightning, officials said. More than 100 have died in lightning strikes in the state in the last one week, they added.

Comment: Continuing the trend for the last 8 days:

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Arctic heat as world civilization resets


Adapt 2030
Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:08 UTC
Arctic
Arctic reached 100F last week of June 2020, but 99.1F in 1988, so many climate anomalies as this Grand Solar Minimum intensifies so we need to look back at 1177 B.C to find a deep cooling that ended that civilization.


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