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Vineyards in France suffer at least €1 billion in damage after Spring freeze; the biggest disaster in a quarter century say vintners


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:56 UTC
Frost damage to French vineyards
© Christian Hartmann / Reuters
Workers and wine growers light heaters early in the morning, to protect vineyards from frost damage outside Chablis, France
Spring frost has ravaged production in some of France's most famous winemaking regions, including Champagne, Bordeaux, and Burgundy, causing at least €1 billion in damage in what vintners call the biggest disaster in a quarter century.

Temperatures plunged below freezing in late April, hurting shoots already well-developed because of earlier mild weather.

Winegrowers have used candles, heaters and even the down-draft from helicopters to try to save crops.

"It's a frost like we haven't seen since 1991," Paul-Francois Vranken, chief executive officer of Vranken-Pommery Monopole told Bloomberg, adding that winemakers "are worried."

April's frost damage spread across Europe's wine-producing regions, but France was worst affected.

According to the Bordeaux wine federation FGVB, frost affected as much as 60 percent of the Bordeaux wine-growing areas and will cut the volume of the 2017 vintage by as much as 40 percent. Some Bordeaux chateaus say they lost almost everything.

Comment: Other crop losses across the world due to cold & Mini Ice Age climate intensification

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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rains in New York area produce flash floods

Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail (UK)
Fri, 05 May 2017 20:23 UTC
Flash floods in New York
© Jack Pestaner / Facebook
Water has also been seen accumulating at subway stations of City Hall, Borough Hall in Brooklyn, and the World Trade Center. The effects of the rain on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Station in Jersey City is seen above.
Heavy rains brought flash floods that are likely to hamper the afternoon commute home in the New York metropolitan area on Friday.

Transit officials are reporting delays caused by flooding while those traveling by air may have to wait up to four hours at any of the three local airports.

The heavy rain prompted officials to shut down the main Seventh Avenue entrance to Penn Station in midtown Manhattan.

Water has also been seen accumulating at subway stations of City Hall, Borough Hall in Brooklyn, and the World Trade Center.

New Jersey has also been hit hard by flash floods.

Cars driving along some parts of Route 440 in Jersey City were completely submerged.

Police in Hoboken are urging motorists not to drive unless it's an emergency.

Social media users posted images showing cars almost entirely covered by a few feet of water.

Forecasters are predicting more precipitation as the evening progresses on Friday.

Thunderstorms and showers are possible later Friday and into Saturday.
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Snowflake Cold

Toronto headed for one of the most prolonged cold periods in over 40 years

Daksha Rangan
The Weather Network
Fri, 05 May 2017 21:10 UTC
Snowfall Forecast
© The Weather Network
The month of May begins on an unseasonable note for southern Ontario, with an extended stretch of below-seasonal temperatures in the region's forecast.

Much of the south of the province is also in line for a prolonged rainfall event, with parts of the southwest expected to see rainfall totals surpass 100 mm in some areas.

But that system will be accompanied by a cold snap. And by "cold snap," we not only mean single-digit daytime highs, there's also a fair chance many people in southern Ontario are likely to see a few snowflakes in their forecast by Sunday.

"The cold snap, which is expected to last five days, will be one of the most significant spans of cold weather Toronto has seen in May," The Weather Network meteorologist Tyler Hamilton says.

"The record for the most single-digit days in a row in May is five, and that was back in May of 1974," Hamilton adds. "Currently, we're forecast to get five days of single digits, making it one of the most prolonged cold periods in history."
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Megaphone

Early morning trumpet-like sounds observed in London

Militant Angel
YouTube
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 17:51 UTC
London sky sounds
© Via YouTube/Miltant Angel
On February 2nd 2017 around 3am we heard a strange sounds that seemed to be coming from the sky.???

It's the second time we've heard these sounds...

There are plenty more videos here on YouTube with people reporting & recording to have heard the same sound...

WHAT IS IT..!!!???
& HAVE YOU HEARD IT?

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Snowflake Cold

2017 cooler globally 0.44C than in 2016: Mini Ice Age 2015-2035

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Fri, 05 May 2017 18:44 UTC
chart
April temperatures for 2017 are out and the definitively show 2017 global temperatures are 0.44C cooler than 2016. What happened to the projections of warming to infinity year upon year getting warmer?

Global 2 Meter shows the same.


Sources
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Cloud Lightning

Seven killed and two injured by lightning strikes in Bangladesh


Dhaka Tribune
Fri, 05 May 2017 18:11 UTC
LIGHTNING
Two bullocks that farmer Younus were taking to the field also died when struck by lightning.

Seven people, including five farmers, died in lightning strikes in five districts on Friday.

Our Jessore correspondent reported that lightning strikes accompanied by thundershowers claimed the lives of two men in the district.

Farmer Younus Ali and Jashimuddin were heading to the field when they were struck.

Two bullocks that Younus was taking to the field also died in the same strike.

In Gopalganj, one farmer died and two others were injured when struck by lightning.

Comment: Elsewhere in Asia there were 2 fatalities due to lightning recently in Cambodia with another one in Nepal.

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Cloud Grey

'Creepy' horn sounds coming from the UK sky

spring
YouTube
Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:08 UTC
Creepy sky sound in the UK
© Via YouTube/spring
Creepy sound from the sky - UK.

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Arrow Down

Sinkhole partially swallows truck in San Francisco

Sarah Ravani
SF Gate
Fri, 05 May 2017 17:54 UTC
A sinkhole partially consumes a large truck parked on 7th Street near Townsend Street in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, May 5, 2017.
© Paul Chinn
A sinkhole partially consumes a large truck parked on 7th Street near Townsend Street in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, May 5, 2017.
A truck stuck in a sinkhole early Friday in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco was causing traffic delays, officials said.

The sinkhole, measuring about 5 feet wide by 14 feet long, was discovered about 6:20 a.m. on Seventh and Townsend streets, officials said.

No injuries were reported. Crews from the city Public Works Department were on scene to clear the issue.

The bed of the truck was loaded with bags of cement and a trailer attached to the rig carried two mini bulldozers.

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Magnet

Strange trumpet sounds recorded in Georgia skies

Irving Macias
YouTube
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:38 UTC
Strange sound in the sky
The breathing is my lil bro sleeping. These were the first sounds of the night.

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Attention

Raccoon attack leaves elderly woman in bandages in Niagara, Ontario

Karena Walter
St. Catharines Standard
Thu, 04 May 2017 13:57 UTC
Wilma Hagt, 81, was seriously injured when she was attacked by a raccoon outside of her St. Catharines home.
© Julie Jocsak
Wilma Hagt, 81, was seriously injured when she was attacked by a raccoon outside of her St. Catharines home.
An 81-year-old woman is recovering from bites and scratches after being attacked by a raccoon at her St. Catharines home in what officials say is a rare event.

Paramedics took Wilma Hagt to hospital with injuries to her legs and hands while animal services trapped the raccoon Sunday.

"I was bleeding all over," Hagt said Wednesday from her Carlton Street home. "It was just unbelievable. Half of my finger was off, the top of my finger was dangling.

"You tell people, they've never heard of it that vicious."

Hagt said she was leaving her home on Sunday at about 8 a.m. to go to the store and from the window noticed a raccoon walk very quietly from the backyard. It passed her house and went to the left towards her neighbour's property.

She went outside towards her car and suddenly felt her right leg being bitten. She said she didn't see the raccoon coming.

"I ran into the house. We have a small entrance and I thought I'd get away from him, but the door closes slowly because we have little kids here coming in and out, and he snuck in with me," she said. "That's when he attacked me quite a bit."
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