Tasos Kokkinidis Greek Reporter Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:43 UTC
Several parts of central and northern Greece were covered by a thick layer of snow on Thursday as an unseasonable cold snap dealt another blow to the country.
Social media users are posting photos of mountain villages near Kastoria, Larissa, Trikala, Karditsa and Ioannina which are much more reminiscent of winter than late spring.
In the prefecture of Ioannina, the snow in some parts has reached 15 cm (6 inches) while temperatures have dropped below zero (32 degrees Fahrenheit).
A severely decomposed young humpback whale washed ashore on a San Francisco beach and experts said Tuesday they were trying to determine how it died.
Dr. Pádraig Duignan, Chief Pathologist at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, said the center was alerted early Tuesday to a dead whale on San Francisco's Baker Beach.
A small team of scientists from the center and California Academy of Sciences performed a partial necropsy on the 37-foot-long (11-meter) whale. Details on what killed the whale won't be available until a final necropsy report is completed, he said.
At least six people have been killed after nearly two dozen tornadoes ripped through the south central region of the United states, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.
Three people were killed and some 20 injured by a fearsome tornado in , Texas located roughly 90 miles north of Houston. Two others were killed by another violent storm system in southern Oklahoma while another fatality occurred in Louisiana.
Aliens, weird cloud formations or just optical illusions - many people across the Rebel County have been asking about the giant rings seen around the sun today.
The rings, which appeared in the sky around lunchtime and persisted for a few hours, caught the eye of many an amateur astronomer, including Robert Falvey, who took a few pics on them while on his 2km walk on the Commons Road on the northside of the city.
And Robert wasn't the only Leesider looking to the sky and wondering what was going on, if social media is any guide.
Robert reckoned they were "weird and amazing" asked CorkBeo to look into it, so we asked Caoimhin de Bhailis of Blackrock Castle Observatory who came up with the scientific explanation.
Due to the weekend's heavy rains in the department of Santander, the Horta river flooded in the municipality of Bolivar devastating plantain, cassava, banana, and the papaya crops of 130 producers.
Apparently, the damming of the waters in the upper part of the river caused the flood. "Since the flood took place during the day, people were alert and we had no human losses," said the Mayor of Bolivar, Wilson Gamboa Sedano. The flood took place on Sunday affecting the villages of Puerto Pacheco, Pozo Tortuga, and Horta Medio, located in an area bordering this region's Magdalena medio valley.
At least 8 people have died in flash flooding in Djibouti.
Djibouti city and surrounding areas were the worst affected after flash flooding struck on 21 April after overnight heavy rain. The UN in Djibouti said initial estimates indicate that some 18,000 households (approximately 110,000 persons) were affected across Djibouti city and its suburb of Balbala.
The fatalities occurred when a house was washed away by the floodwater. The house was situated near a seasonal river (oued) that separates Djibouti town from Balbala
In a report of 21 April, the UN in Djibouti said: "in the night between 20 and 21 April, Djibouti city received 80 mm of rainfall in few hours (half of the annual average), triggering widespread flash floods. Heavy rains also occurred in other areas of the country, causing some damages. In Arta province some 100 mm of rainfall were recorded in the same time span in Damerjog, Chebelley; 110 mm in Iskoutir; and 80mm in PK20. In ali Sabieh province, the capital received 60mm of rainfall, and the refugee village of Ali Addeh 70mm."
Sunday's EF4 tornado in southern Mississippi tore a path less than 40 miles from a pair of Easter Sunday EF4 tornadoes in the same area, making it the third violent tornado there in a week.
According to damage survey results released Monday evening by the National Weather Service office near Jackson, Mississippi, Sunday's tornado tore a 54-mile path through parts of five counties, from Walthall County to Perry County.
The tornado quickly intensified and earned an EF4 rating after the NWS examined what was left of a destroyed home in southern Marion County.
There has been an unexplained spike in deaths in Germany's blue tit bird population
An unknown contagious disease is affecting Germany's blue tit bird population, said conservation non-governmental organization NABU. It received over 11,000 reports from the public of sick or dead birds between April 9 and April 17.
The Eurasian blue tit is a small bird native to Europe. It is around 12 cm (4.7 in) long with blue and yellow feathers. A spate of blue tit deaths in Germany, first noted on March 11, prompted NABU to launch the self-report survey.
Particularly hard-hit are blue tits in the lower Mosel wine region and the region around the city of Oldenburg, in Lower Saxony. "At least in these regions there is a noticeable death rate above all among the blue tit population," said NABU on its website.
The disease appears to mainly affect blue tits, but the great tit and other small song birds are sometimes infected.
A mutant calf with two heads has been born on a farm in the US - to the shock of a family of farmers who had never seen anything like it before in five generations.
Scott Kolousek of Wessington Springs, South Dakota, USA, was halfway through the 2020 calving season when he discovered one of his cows having difficulty delivering her calf.
The poor little thing's front legs and head were out, and everything seemed normal, but it would come no further until a caesarean section revealed the reason why.
"We didn't know the calf was unusual until the vet pulled it out during the c-section," said his wife, Amber.
Heavy rains have left a trail of destruction in parts of Nyanza and the South Rift where at least six people had died in the past 48 hours and hundreds of families have been displaced.
Homes have been marooned and residents lack basic necessities like food and bedding, amid fears of an outbreak of waterborne diseases.
In Kericho County, three children died in two separate incidents when mudslides hit Kipkelion West on Monday evening, while in Migori, a 28-year-old woman and her two children died when their house caved in.
"The purpose of GLADIO was to attack civilians, the people - women, children, innocent people, unknown people, far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the State and demand greater security. Under a strategy of tension, you 'destabilize in order to stabilize', to create tension within society and promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies."
~ Italian neo-fascist whose prosecution led to the discovery of NATO's 'Gladio' networks across Western Europe
- Vincenzo Vinciguerra
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They really think your that stupid to buy "artistic impression of a UFO"....GEZZ whats the world come to??
Comment: Mississippi was raked by three EF4 tornadoes within 40 Miles of each other in ONE week