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Emilio Garza, a producer of Arándiga, says that "when it rains, it pours, and this year has been tough, because rains have been recorded almost every week or every 10 days, so all varieties have been hit by it."
Growers are therefore unable to make forecasts and are facing losses. "It is a disaster; we are talking about just 30-40% of the usual harvest, and with 60 to 80% of those affected by cracking," says Garza.
© Antara Foto/Aloysius Jarot NugrohoA view of Mount Merapi following an eruption, as seen from Sawit village, Boyolali, Central Java Province, Indonesia June 21, 2020
The two eruptions lasted around seven minutes, according to the agency, and prompted local authorities to order residents to stay outside a three-kilometer no-go zone around the rumbling crater near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta.
The agency did not raise the volcano's alert status after the eruptions, but it advised commercial planes to be cautious in the area.
Local media reported that people in neighboring areas including Sleman and Klaten heard strong rumbling sounds this morning.
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Verkhoyansk already held the record for the place with the greatest temperature range on Earth. Prior to today, temperatures in the small town have ranged between -68 and +37 degrees Celsius - a 105-degree difference. In Fahrenheit, that's between -90 and +98.
In July, the average high daily temperature is 19.9 degrees Celsius - much lower than Saturday's sweltering 38.
The record-shattering heat was shared far and wide on social media, most prominently by Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
North Pacific Crestfish
The strange fish had a unique face with a protruding head, rippling its dorsal fin and shaking its 1-meter-long silver body.
Suganuma, 24, caught the fish on the Shintokumaru fishing boat, which sails out of Imizu, in the early hours of May 15, when the firefly squid fishing season was coming to an end.
At first, he thought it was a lowsail ribbonfish, which is often caught in nets during this season. However, a younger colleague knowledgeable about fish species said it might be a deep-sea North Pacific crestfish, aka unicornfish.
Suganuma decided to give the fish to the Uozu Aquarium because of its rarity.
The Brahmaputra was flowing above the danger level at Neamatighat (Jorhat), the Jia Bharali at NT Road Crossing (Sonitpur), the Disang at Naglamuraghat (Sibsagar), and the Dhansiri (S) at Numaligarh (Golaghat).
The total crop area affected is 1,733.50 hectares, stated a bulletin of ASDMA.
© Daniel Hines/SunLive.The giant squid caught near White Island this week.
Skipper Roger Rawlison says it wasn't until it fell out of the net that the crew realised it was a giant squid, around 3m in length and weighing 80kg.
They were fishing around 1000m deep just north of Whakaari/ White Island at the edge of continental shelf and often get squid as a bycatch but never anything of this size.
Roger says in the space of 24 hours he caught a 10kg squid, then a 30kg, then the massive 80kg gravid female.
"Within 24 hours, I'd caught three of my biggest squid I've ever caught.
"I was very surprised, I've never seen one that big."
Comment: Other similar recent reports of rare denizens of deep waters turning up across the globe:
- Rare deep-sea fish washes up on beach in New South Wales, Australia
- Rare, deep water King-of-the-Salmon discovered near Port Angeles, Washington
- Fishermen catch rare, 6-meter oarfish off Cozumel, Mexico - normally a denizen of deep water
- Giant squid found on beach in the Western Cape, South Africa
© WikiCrested bandfish
The mystery fish with a flat head was found near Murrays Beach Boat Ramp in Jervis Bay by Wreck Bay Council workers on Wednesday. Stumped at the find they took the species to Booderee National Park's main office for identification.
The species, identified as a crested bandfish, has only 30 occurrence records listed on the Atlas of Living Australia and is rarely photographed.
The species is thought to feed on squids. It has an ink sac for defence and large eyes to help it see in the dark of the deep ocean.
Park staff do not know how the fish found its way to Jervis Bay but are excited about the find nonetheless.
Comment: This is the latest in a spate of rare, deep-sea dwelling creatures turning up in coastal areas around the world recently (since June the 7th), see in addition:
- Rare, deep water King-of-the-Salmon discovered near Port Angeles, Washington
- Fishermen catch rare, 6-meter oarfish off Cozumel, Mexico - normally a denizen of deep water
- Giant squid found on beach in the Western Cape, South Africa
Comment: What Greta did not notice, however, is that the same region experiences record COLD temperatures just a few weeks ago...
Bone-chilling cold sweeps Northeast Russia, records from the 1950s and 1960s fall