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Large waterspout spotted over Cancun waters, Mexico


Riviera Maya News
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:40 UTC
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A large waterspout that emerged from a cloud over the sea at Cancun caught the attention of many, including geologist Sergio Almazán.

Almazán, who is an engineer from the National Polytechnic Institute, was out walking when he spotted the large funnel. On his social media account, he posted a 42-second video of the unusual spout as it hovered over Cancun waters.

While not unheard of in regions such as the Florida Keys where they see 200 a year, waterspouts in this region are not common, however, several are spotted each year along the Quintana Roo coast.


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Unusual animal behaviour: Woman attacked by raccoon in Oakville, Ontario

Saira Peesker
Toronto Star
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 13:08 UTC
62-year-old Janet King says she had just finished
© TORONTO STAR / David Cooper62-year-old Janet King says she had just finished walking her dog when she was attacked by a racoon.
A raccoon that lunged at an Oakville woman as she was getting into her car in December has tested negative for rabies, says the Oakville and Milton Humane Society.

Janet King, 62, says she had just finished walking her dog Cookie in Lakeside Park when the attack occurred. It was about 1 p.m. on Dec. 13, and she was sitting sideways in her car's driver's seat, with her feet still on the street.

"I felt this sharp pain," she told the Oakville Beaver on Monday. "I looked down and this big, giant raccoon had a hold of my leg and was biting away."

"Three of its teeth just went right into my leg. I didn't know if it wanted (to get) in the car, wanted the dog or what."
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Mud volcano continues to bubble away following eruption near Gisborne, New Zealand

Marty Sharpe
Stuff
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:15 UTC
This boundary fence was a casualty of the mud volcano.
© Murry CaveThis boundary fence was a casualty of the mud volcano.
A mud volcano that erupted on a fenceline between two Gisborne farms is continuing to spew mud a month after it appeared.

A mud volcano is an eruption of mud, cold water and gases. This one, in the Waimata Valley, began on December 15.

Gisborne District Council scientist Murry Cave said the main eruption lasted five hours and spewed thousands of tonnes of mud over some 1.3 hectares, destroying a fenceline and partially burying trees.

"We've been monitoring the area for the last year or so because the area uplifted in the Te Araroa earthquake [in September 2016] and there were a lot of cracks," he said.

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Heavy snowfall in Japan - 40 inches dumped on Yamagata overnight

Mark Schnackenberg
kwwl.com
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:42 UTC
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Parts of Japan had their heaviest snow of the season along the Sea of Japan coast last night.

Some parts had 25-40 inches of snow.

As you can imagine travel was disrupted across the entire area.

Shinjo in the northern prefecture of Yamagata got 40″ of snow.

Tokyo has not seen any snow yet this season. That may change this weekend with a chance of snow in the forecast.

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Both Arctic & Antarctic sea ice at historically high levels

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC
icebergs towed Antarctica to South Africa
© ReutersHuge icebergs could be towed from Antarctica to Cape Town to solve South Africa's worst drought in a century.

Contrary to claims that modern day sea ice changes are "unprecedented", alarming, and well outside the range of natural variability, biomarker proxies used to reconstruct both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice conditions since the Early Holocene increasingly reveal that there is more extensive Arctic and Antarctic sea ice during recent decades than for nearly all of the last 10,000 years.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

According to Comiso Et Al., 2017, "Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Has Been Slowly Increasing Contrary To Expected Trends Due To Global Warming And Results From Coupled Climate Models."

'After A Record High Extent In 2012 The Extent Was Even Higher In 2014. ... [T]He Trend In Sea Ice Cover Is Strongly Influenced By The Trend In Surface Temperature [Cooling]."

Comment: Results like these further support the overall trend, measured all over the globe, that our planet is undergoing serious cooling: And for an idea as to why this may be occurring check out: Professor Valentina Zharkova explains and confirms why a "Super" Grand Solar Minimum is upon us as well as SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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Earth's magnetic field is shifting rapidly and geologists don't know why

Alexandra Witze
Nature
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC
magnetic field map
© Source: World Data Center for Geomagnetism/Kyoto Univ.Erratic motion of north magnetic pole forces experts to update model that aids global navigation.
Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth's north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet's core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world's geomagnetism experts into a rare move.

On 15 January, they are set to update the World Magnetic Model, which describes the planet's magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones.

The most recent version of the model came out in 2015 and was supposed to last until 2020 - but the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that researchers have to fix the model now. "The error is increasing all the time," says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Centers for Environmental Information.

Comment: It's not just the poles that are wandering, our Sun is becoming quieter and its rotation is slowing down, Earth's magnetic field is weakening and its rotation is also slowing, and, in tandem, there are many a great many other sights and shifts on our planet confounding mainstream science: Also check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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Massive snowstorms continue in Austria and the Northern Alps - 10 feet of snow in 7 days for one resort

Reggae Elliss
Mountain Watch
Wed, 09 Jan 2019 21:32 UTC
snow Austria
There has been a huge amount of snow falling across the northern European Alps over the past couple of weeks with resorts in Austria bearing the brunt of the storm. While there have been a few epic powder days in some resorts, there is literally too much snow in other areas with roads and train lines cut.

We've been talking about big snowfalls in Whistler, California and Japan, but the seven-day totals in parts of Austria are really impressive - the resort of Tauplitz reporting over three metres (10 feet), while Solden's upper slopes now have a base of over four metres after 70cms fell in the past few days.



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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 110 in Cambodia last year - 37% increase from 2017

Mu Xuequan
Xinhua
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 20:59 UTC
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Lightning strikes claimed 110 lives in Cambodia in 2018, up 37 percent from 80 deaths recorded a year earlier, a disaster control spokesman said on Tuesday.

Besides fatalities, thunderbolts injured 82 others last year, up 28 percent from 64 in the year before, said Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management.

"The increase in casualties from lighting strikes last year was due to the surge in rainfall amounts," he told Xinhua. "Moreover, Cambodia had suffered more from the impact of tropical storms."

The spokesman said the Southeast Asian nation had experienced the impact of 29 storms in 2018.
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Storm packing snow and rain paralyzes parts of Lebanon


Surrey Now Leader
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:31 UTC
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Among those affected are tens of thousands of Syrian refugees

A winter storm packing heavy rain and snow has turned streets in Lebanon into rivers of water and mud and paralyzed parts of the country.

Among those affected Tuesday are tens of thousands of Syrian refugees many of whom live in tent settlements.

In the eastern Bekaa Valley, Syrian refugees stayed indoors next to diesel or wood heaters as snow covered their flimsy tents.

Authorities closed the highway linking Beirut with the Syrian capital Damascus after parts of it that cut through high mountains became covered with snow.

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Man mutilated by 3 rottweilers dies in Madrid

Taylor Collins
Euro Weekly
Tue, 08 Jan 2019 12:17 UTC
The incident reportedly occurred on the Villaverde de Vallecas road (file image).
The incident reportedly occurred on the Villaverde de Vallecas road (file image).
An 81-year-old has died after being attacked and mutilated on Saturday by three Rottweiler dogs in Madrid.

The incident reportedly occurred on Calle Villaverde de Vallecas.

The victim, who had Alzheimer's disease, passed away last night (Monday) at the La Paz Hospital.

The deceased was said to have had very serious injuries - his arms were in a 'catastrophic condition' and both of his legs had been torn.

The owner of the Rottweilers was arrested a few hours after the incident occurred as none of the dogs had been microchipped and the animal documentation was not in order.
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