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Massive hail injures multiple people, kills zoo animals and damages 400 vehicles in Colorado Springs

Benjamin Lloyd
KOAA News 5
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:35 UTC
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Colorado Springs Police and the Fire Department rushed to Cheyenne Mountain Zoo to help people with serious injuries at the facility from a major hail storm around 3 p.m. The fire department says five people were taken to the hospital by ambulance while 11 others were treated on scene and released.

The zoo is currently closed and will remain closed for a damage assessment Tuesday. Unfortunately, a 4-year-old muscovy duck named Daisy and a 13-year-old cape vulture Motswari were killed by the hailstones.

People at the zoo were told to stay in place as emergency personnel made arrangements for evacuations to Cheyenne Mountain High School for reunification efforts for families and large groups.

Comment: Hail is increasingly becoming a threat to life both in the form of a direct hit and its ability to decimate crops. Its sudden appearance all over the planet and at any time of the year provides more evidence that our atmosphere and climate patterns are changing, with a trend toward serious cooling:




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Cloud Precipitation

Rainfall records tumble as wild weather lashes Adelaide, Australia

Georgia Westgarth
9news.com.au
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 22:29 UTC
Parts of South Australia received up to 81mm of rain
© 9NEWSParts of South Australia received up to 81mm of rain.
A wild storm front has caused flooding as record rain and hail fell across Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills.

The rough weather saw a number of homes come under threat from rising waters and also made for dangerous conditions on the roads.

Residents across the state woke to the sound of hail as much of Adelaide was covered in an icy white blanket.

From 9am yesterday to 5.30pm today Lenswood in the Adelaide Hills had received 81mm, setting a new August rainfall record for the town.

Seventy-three mm fell at Lobethal, and 63mm at Bridgewater.

In the city, 23mm fell, while at Belair the rainfall total was close to 50mm.

"We've been dry all winter and now the rain has come," Collinswood resident Andrea Shipard said.
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Best of the Web: Extreme climes: Raging Mendocino wildfire tops last year's Thomas Fire to become largest in California history


RT
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 03:34 UTC
California Mendocino Complex fire
The two fires are known as the Mendocino Complex, which has become the largest in state history
The raging Mendocino Complex fire has officially become the largest wildfire in California's history, authorities have confirmed. Firefighters continue to battle the blaze, which is currently only 30 percent contained.

"We broke the record," state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Scott McLean said. "That's one of those records you don't want to see."

The Ranch and River fires that make up the Mendocino Complex wildfire had grown to 283,800 acres by Monday evening, Cal Fire said in their latest update. Some 3,908 firefighters, 441 fire engines, and 15 aircraft continue to battle the flames.

"Tonight fire crews will try to take advantage of the lower temperatures to increase suppression and hold current containment lines," Cal Fire said.


Comment: Seven of California's 10 largest fires on record have occurred since 2000, including last year's Thomas fire, which was, prior to the Mendocino Complex fire, the largest blaze in the state's recorded history.

See also: California battling 17 large wildfires, already spent one-fourth of annual fire budget in July and Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Planet wide forest and wildfires - where does it go from here?

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Cloud Precipitation

Firefighters rescue 14 people trapped on vehicles as flash flood hits town in central China


CCTV Plus
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 19:43 UTC
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Firefighters rescued 14 people after their vehicles were stuck in a flash flood triggered by torrential rain in a local town in central China's Henan Province on Sunday.

On Sunday morning, more than 20 trucks became stranded by a torrent of floodwater caused by a swollen river in Fudian Town, Yanshi City.

Amateur footage captured the power of the flooding, with rushing torrents slowly washing away the heavy trucks.

Some drivers and other occupants were forced to climb on top of their vehicles.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Wind & atmospheric compression events across our planet


Adapt 2030
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:22 UTC
Exceptional waterspout off Isola di Pantelleria, Italy, August 4 2018
© Stefano Cerio / Italia Live MeteoExceptional waterspout off Isola di Pantelleria, Italy on August 4, 2018.
At the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ICTZ) shifts due to the intensifying Eddy Grand Solar Minimum we are beginning to see more atmospheric anomalies. Here are such events from the first week of August. Incredible to think all this is happening at the same time in a single week.


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Two waterspouts filmed off Taiwan

Renée Salmonsen
Taiwan News
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:54 UTC
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© CNA
Two waterspouts were spotted off the coast of Taitung on the afternoon of Aug. 5.

A waterspout is a swirling column of air and water mist, similar to a tornado in appearance, that forms over bodies of water.

Shortly after 4 p.m. the sky began to darken off Green Island and two waterspouts formed over the Pacific.

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Nine killed as landslide buries houses after incessant rainfall in Nepal

Bhim Bahadur Singh
Relief Web
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:39 UTC
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One woman and eight children died when a landslide triggered by incessant rainfall buried two houses at Thanti Bazaar in Bheri Municipality-3, Jajarkot, on Sunday morning. A man was injured in the disaster.

A rockslide from some 100 metres above buried the houses belonging to Tirtha Raj Bohara, a member of the Jajarkot chapter of the Federation of Nepali Journalists, and Jit Bahadur Sunar at around 7:30am.

According to the District Police Office (DPO), Bohara's daughter Najita (5), Sital Luhar (25) and her three daughters Bhagawati (9), Ranjana (6) and Manisha (3) were buried to death. Sital, a permanent resident of Bheri Municipality-6, was a tenant at Bohara's house.

Narendra Pariyar (12) of Kushe Rural Municipality-6, Nabin Pariyar (10) of Kushe-6, Gobinda Pariyar (12) and his brother Dasharath Pariyar (5) of Nalgadh Municipality-3 died in the calamity. Two of the children had been staying at a rented room in Sunar's house while the two others stayed in a neighbouring house.

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Dead blue whale washes ashore at beach in Kamakura, Japan - first time for the country


The Asahi Shimbun
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:14 UTC
A dead whale that washed up on Yuigahama Beach is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Aug. 5, 2018.
© MainichiA dead whale that washed up on Yuigahama Beach is seen from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter on Aug. 5, 2018.
A dead whale measuring 10.6 meters washed ashore here Aug. 5, stunning hordes of sun-worshipers at popular Yuigahama beach.

Experts from the Enoshima Aquarium in Fujisawa, also on the Pacific coast of Kanagawa Prefecture, said the animal was believed to belong to the baleen whale family.

The whale was spotted around 2:30 p.m., having apparently died at sea.

Experts from the city government's tourism section and the Enoshima Aquarium rushed to the scene after police were alerted to the whale's presence.

It washed up near the west end of the beach.

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25 dead fur seals found at Te Oka Bay, New Zealand


New Zealand Herald
Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:46 UTC
Young fur seals, like this one on Ninety Mile Beach last August, often come ashore in winter.
© Ray WiblinYoung fur seals, like this one on Ninety Mile Beach last August, often come ashore in winter.
Multiple mass deaths of New Zealand fur seals on the Canterbury coast have been reported to the Department of Conservation this year.

Andy Thompson, the operations manager for DoC's Mahaanui/Sockburn office in Christchurch, said today's find of about 25 dead seals at Te Oka Bay repeated a pattern of the last four months in the vicinity.

The difference, however, was that the two earlier finds along the southern bays of Banks Peninsula, each of about a dozen dead seals, were of younger animals.

DoC staff would retrieve the dead seals from Te Oka Bay tomorrow, following the grisly find by members of the public.
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Man killed by shark in the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt

Samer al-Atrush
The Telegraph (UK)
Sun, 05 Aug 2018 12:33 UTC
Shark attacks
A Czech tourist has been killed in a shark attack off the coast of an Egyptian Red Sea resort, the first such incident in the country since 2015.

The man was swimming off the beach in Marsa Allam on Friday when the shark struck, a Czech foreign ministry official told The Telegraph.

Local media reported that only some of his remains washed up on shore.

The Czech tourist was holidaying with his family in the popular Red Sea tourist destination. They have since returned home and are waiting for his remains, the Czech official said.

A local newspaper, Al-Mal, reported that Egypt's environment ministry, which would take part in investigating such attacks, had posted then promptly deleted a statement on its Facebook page sharing details of the mauling.
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