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An optical phenomenon known as a solar halo, or a sun dog, has been caught on camera in China. 
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Sierra ski resorts get up to 9 feet of snow
The totals may be measured in inches, but the ski resorts have received several feet, much to the delight of skiers and snowboarders seeking fresh powder.
ABC7 news meteorologist Drew Tuma looked at the numbers on Sunday night and they are incredible.
These are 7-day totals. Squaw Valley leads the way with a whopping 109 inches of snow! That's about 15-and-a-half inches of new snow every day. Homewood Mountain Resort is right on Squaw's heels with 108 inches. Northstar comes in with 95 inches. Heavenly follows with 91 inches. Then comes Kirkwood Mountain Resort at 88 inches. Sierra-at-Tahoe received 79 inches.
A cropland lies ravaged at a field of Sijakmukh village in Saroatoli union of Baghaichhari upazila under Rangamati hill district after a hailstorm lashed the area yesterday.
Besides, at least 15 to 20 tin-roofed houses were completely damaged as the hailstorm lashed through Baghaichhari, Saroatoli, Amtoli and Khedarmara unions in the upazila.
The affected villagers claimed that the extent of loss caused by the storm is around Tk 50 lakh.
The affected villages include Sijakmukh, Mohish Pujje, Baghaichhari, Kedarmara and Battola village.
© Getty ImagesSwarms of locusts, like these, have descended on Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra area.
Breeding along the coasts of Eritrea and Sudan, the swarms are spreading farther afield, with at least one having crossed over the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia in mid-January and more a week later.
Swarms also went north along the Red Sea towards Egypt.
In January, Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra area was covered in a cloud of the flying insects.
Chile wildfires tear through Valparaiso on Pacific coast in 2014
"A number of dead manatees have recently been reported in the park. Necropsies are inconclusive, but biologists are considering environmental factors such as red tide and cold weather," said a Facebook post from the park.
Four bodies have been recovered, but nine manatee deaths have been reported in the park, the Miami Herald reported. Cold weather was cited as the cause in two of the deaths, but biologists have yet to learn what killed the other two.
Michelle Kerr, a spokeswoman for the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, told the Herald the bodies have been found in remote locations that make it more difficult to determine the cause of death.
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The 6.4-magnitude quake was reported at around 14:35 GMT with the epicentre located 47 km from the city of Namatanai, New Ireland. There is no official information about any victims or damage caused by the earthquake at the moment.
The report comes just a few months after another powerful quake struck 148 km (92 miles) south of the island of Rabaul.
© AFP / Genya SavilovA sign warns about high levels of radiation in a forest located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
The blaze inside Chernobyl's 'dead zone' in northern Ukraine started on Sunday when dry grass caught fire, the Ukrainian emergency service said in a statement. The blaze then reached a forest near the abandoned village of Bychki located some 24km (15 miles) away from the damaged nuclear reactor.
Some 5 hectares (12 acres) of forest went up in flames. Three firefighting vehicles and 18 emergency crew members were dispatched to tackle the blaze, according to the emergency service's statement.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an area heavily contaminated by the disaster, has repeatedly witnessed wildfires over recent years. A large fire broke out there in June 2018. Another blaze, which scorched 25 hectares (60 acres) of land, hit it in 2017.
Loud shrieking noise coming from sky in Virginia. Went on for a minute before I started recording.
Boats are stranded in frozen sea at a port in Dalian City, Northeast China's Liaoning Province amid a cold front. A fisherman had to break ice to transport supplies to a marine fish culture zone
Due to strong cold waves, sea ice continued to increase on Liaodong Bay which freezes in December annually.
By Wednesday, over 40 percent of the bay was covered with ice, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Comment: NASA releases image of massive February snowpack in the Sierra Nevada compared to that of same month in 2018