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27 feet wide sinkhole appears in Asheville, North Carolina

Elizabeth Anne Brown
Asheville Citizen Times
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:34 UTC
A sinkhole opened up in the parking lot of the Asheville AAA office on Merrimon Avenue
© Bill SandersA sinkhole opened up in the parking lot of the Asheville AAA office on Merrimon Avenue
A monster sinkhole in a Merrimon Avenue parking lot continues to expand at an alarming rate.

As of early afternoon on June 24, it's a yawning 27 feet in diameter. When Asheville firefighters responded to the scene on the morning of the sinkhole's appearance, they estimated it was about 20 feet deep. Now, those who dare to approach the edge figure it's twice as deep.

The property owner — and neighbors on Merrimon Avenue — find themselves scratching their heads. What's the emergency protocol when the ground gives up?

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Expert says new sun-driven cooling period of Earth 'not far off'


Sky News
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 17:45 UTC
Nils-Axel Morner climate change hoax
Nils-Axel Morner, a former head of the Paleo-Geophysics and Geodynamics Department in Stockholm
Nils-Axel Morner, a former head of the Paleo-Geophysics and Geodynamics Department in Stockholm, says a new solar-driven cooling period for the Earth is 'not far off'. Mr Morner says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is misleading humanity about the changing climate and sea levels. Speaking to Sky News host Alan Jones, Mr Morner shares his work and beliefs on the state of the climate.

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Cloud Precipitation

Best of the Web: Severe hailstorm slams Guadalajara, Mexico with 5 FEET of hail!


Vallarta Daily News
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:49 UTC
hail
A heavy rain and hail storm affected the municipalities of the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque, around one o'clock this Sunday morning.

The accumulation of ice was unusual, in Tlaquepaque there were streets where it reached up to one meter in height, so emergency services used heavy machinery for the removal.

"We are doing hail removal work and also verifying the buildings that were affected by hail," said the head of the State Unit for Civil Protection and Firefighters of Jalisco, Víctor Hugo Roldán.


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Woman wakes to find 30-foot hot mud geyser outside kitchen window in Rotorua, New Zealand

Simon Veazey
The Epoch Times
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:26 UTC
geyser
Woken by shaking and noise in the middle of the night, Susan Gedye headed downstairs, thinking an earthquake had struck her town in the north of New Zealand.

But as she went into the kitchen the noise got louder. Then she spotted the windows had steamed up.

Looking out into the back garden, Gedye saw a geyser had sprung up overnight and was now spewing steam and mud over the kitchen walls as it grew in size.

The family has had to move out due to the risk of the house collapsing.

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As Europe swelters, snow falls in Finnish Lapland


Yle
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:57 UTC
A snow flurry hit Kilpisjärvi on Saturday.
© Traffic Management FinlandA snow flurry hit Kilpisjärvi on Saturday.
Snow fell in Kilpisjärvi on Saturday, and night frosts are possible in central Finland.

As most of the rest of Europe suffers record heat, Finland's weather is quite different. On Saturday, wet snow fell around 4 pm in the village of Kilpisjärvi. It's located in the municipality of Enontekiö at the top of Finnish Lapland's northwestern arm, close to the borders with Norway and Sweden.

There was little accumulation from the flurry, which was recorded by a traffic camera on European route E8, a road that extends from Turku, southwest Finland, up to Tromsø, northern Norway, also known as the Four Winds' Road. Near the village, the route reaches an elevation of 565.8 metres, the highest point in the Finnish road system.
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4.3 metre long whale shark washed ashore in Karnataka, India


Times News Now
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:44 UTC
The carcass will be buried after the post-mortem, Sridhar added.
© ANIThe carcass will be buried after the post-mortem, Sridhar added.
Around 4.3 metres long whale shark was washed ashore at the Mukka beach near the National Institute of Technology- Karnataka. The whale has been sent for the post-mortem.

An enormous whale shark, around 4.3 metres long was washed ashore at the Mukka beach near the National Institute of Technology- Karnataka.

Upon getting information, an expert team comprising of, fisheries college professor A Senthil Vel, fisheries resources department professor H N Anjanayappa and assistant professor of aquatic health department Girisha visited the spot on Saturday. The team then examined the corpse.
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Cloud Precipitation

Hailstorm damaged thousands of acres of Minnesota crops

Adam Belz
Star Tribune
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:38 UTC
crop damage
A hailstorm that ripped through southwest Minnesota last week left thousands of acres of corn and soybeans damaged or destroyed — in many cases too late in the season for farmers to replant their crops.

"We had a corn and bean field down to dirt again," said George Sill, a farmer southwest of Madelia. "You couldn't hardly tell it had been planted there."

Sill said 150 acres of soybeans and 90 acres of corn were leveled by the storm, and another 200 acres of crops damaged to varying degrees.

When he drove out to his fields after the storm, hailstones were drifted up by the road and fog was rolling in off the fields because so much ice was melting all at once.

"There's multiple veins of hail that ran from the Sleepy Eye area down to St. James and maybe even further south," said Steve Michels, an agronomist at Crystal Valley, a cooperative with a location in La Salle. "It's not unusual to have a hailstorm, but this was one of the more severe ones I've seen."
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Italy: Strong hailstorm damages crops in large areas of Emilia Romagna

Maria Luigia Brusco
Fresh Plaza
Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:13 UTC
cherries
From Reggio Emilia to Rimini, mostly along the Via Emilia and in the Ravenna area. It is the extension of the strong hailstorm that struck much of Emilia Romagna on Saturday 23 June 2019, causing damage to fruit crops and plants.

The Ravenna area, the areas of Lugo, Massa Lombarda, Bagnacavallo were those most affected with very large hailstones (up to 8 centimeters in diameter) and wind so strong as to destroy some protection systems.

"Even in the Modena area, the damages are enormous - explains Davide Marconi from Apofruit - especially on pears. In the uncovered plants, fruits have holes so large as to make them useless. Even in Nonantola the situation is the same. A wide area is very affected in the Modena province.

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Brick Wall

Wall collapses on huts in western India, killing 16


ABC News
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:52 UTC
Flooding
© AP Photo/Rajanish KakadeA Municipal officer stands guard to warn pedestrians of an open manhole on a waterlogged street following rainfall in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 28, 2019. India receives its monsoon rains from June to October.
A 4.5-meter (15-foot) high wall collapsed on a cluster of tin-roofed huts housing migrant workers and their families in western India early Saturday following heavy rains, killing at least 16 people, an official said.

The wall dividing the car parking area of a multi-story residential apartment building collapsed in Pune, a city in Maharashtra state, fire official J. Gaekwad said.

Rescuers pulled out alive three people from the rubble and they were hospitalized, he said.

The wall collapsed as the city received 7.3 centimeters (2.8 inches) of rain on Friday, the second-highest rainfall for the month of June in the past nine years, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
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Video shows cattle swept away in river in southeast Minnesota after 8 inches of rain overnight


Bringmethenews
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:05 UTC
fLOODS CATTLE
Southeast Minnesota was pounded by torrential rain that led to flash flooding.

Torrential overnight rain in southeast Minnesota led to flash flooding that swept cattle into rushing water Friday morning.

Video of the shocking incident was captured by Donny Ehlenfeldt, who witnessed the cattle being swept down the South Branch Middle Fork Zumbro River, which runs through Oxbow Park in Olmsted County.

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