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Attention

Drone footage reveals mysterious cracks in Kilauea

Oli Smith
Sunday Express
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:08 UTC
hawaii volcano
© GettyA drone mission has alarmed scientists monitoring the erupting Hawaii volcano.
A drone mission has alarmed scientists monitoring the erupting Hawaii volcano, which has become one of the world's most dangerous and volatile sites.

Kilauea has shocked the world with streams of lava swallowing houses and giant fissures opening up across Hawaii.

The latest aerial drone footage of the volcano has revealed dramatic changes within the volcano spotted at one of Kilauea's main craters

There are new alarming cracks and fault seen in a collapsed crater, some of which are spewing with intense steam.

Scientists are concerned that an "expanding collapsed crater" and the debris blocking the vent could trigger a massive explosion.
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Fire

Wildfires sweep through Colorado and New Mexico; hundreds of acres ablaze

Dakin Andone & Dave Alsup
CNN
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:58 UTC
Ute Park Fire
Teachers cook for first responders on the scene of the Ute Park Fire in New Mexico.
Massive wildfires in Colorado and New Mexico have torched thousands of acres and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes. A blaze known as the 416 Fire in Colorado's La Plata County has burned 1,100 acres, US Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen told CNN on Saturday.

The fire, about 15 miles outside the town of Durango, is 0% contained and has forced the evacuations of 1,500 residents, Mackensen said. No structures have been destroyed, he added.

By Friday evening, the blaze had prompted La Plata County Manager Joanne Spina to declare a state of local disaster.Grass, brush and timber continued to fuel the fire on Saturday morning.

The fire broke out on the west side of US 550, according to a Forest Service update posted on InciWeb, a government-operated multiagency fire response site. That highway is closed as firefighters work to prevent the fire from crossing it.
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Attention

Shocking images show pilot whale died with over 80 trash bags in its stomach


RT
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:18 UTC
Whale died from plastic bags
© Reuters80 plastic bags found in Thai pilot whale’s stomach.
A whale in Thailand died after ingesting over 80 plastic bags. An autopsy on the pilot whale, which was found in a canal in the southern province of Songkhla, revealed that its gut was packed to capacity with trash bags.

A team of veterinarians worked for five days to free the animal from the canal. Ultimately, their efforts proved unsuccessful as the country's Marine and Coastal Resources Department reported that the whale spit out five plastic bags just prior to its death on Friday. A post-mortem found that its stomach was clogged with another 80 bags and other items with a total weight of 8kg.

Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biologist and lecturer at Kasetsart University, said the bags made it difficult for the whale to perform its normal digestive functions. "If you have 80 plastic bags in your stomach, you die," he told Sky News.
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Arrow Down

Large sinkhole appears in Berkeley County, West Virginia

Stephen Lowery
localdvm.com
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:57 UTC
sinkhole
Recent storms have caused damage throughout the Eastern Panhandle, including creating a sinkhole on the side of Tuscarora Pike in Berkeley County.

Crews say the sinkhole is reported about 15 feet deep and 10 feet wide. Currently, the sinkhole is confined to the side of the road, and crews on the scene were not sure if it will spread to the road ot not.

Crew members say they do not know how long it will take to fix, but they are expecting more heavy equipment to help get the job done.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 3, injures 2 in Malayer, Iran


MEHR
Sun, 03 Jun 2018 14:19 UTC
lightning
Thunderstorms and lightning killed three people and injured two others in Malayer in the west of Iran on Saturday, according to the spokesman for Iran's Emergency Management Organization.

Mojtaba Khaledi, spokesman for Iran's Emergency Management Organization, said thunderstorms and lightning have killed three people and injured two others in Malayer County, in the western province of Hamedan on Saturday afternoon.

Immediately after the lightning struck, an ambulance was dispatched to the scene to transfer the bodies of the injured and the killed to the hospital, he added.

He gave no further details about the severity of the condition of the two injured.

On Friday, Khaledi reported death of four people and injury of nine by lighting strikes across the country.

Comment: Also over the last few days a total of at least 12 people and 40 sheep were killed by lightning strikes across India, while 2 were fatally hit in the Philppines.

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Cloud Precipitation

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Water returns to ancient cities & river channels after 3000+ years of drought


Adapt 2030
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 18:26 UTC
Afghanistan flooding
© The NationAt least 60 people have been killed in flash floods across 13 provinces in Afghanistan in May 2018.
With river channels filling after thousands of years of being dry in Afghanistan, and also next to abandoned ruins and the same thing happening in east Africa as lakes not full since the end of the mid-Holocene refilling, we seriously need to ask ourselves if this isn't a 3000 year + cycle we are repeating, not just a regular 400 year Grand Solar Minimum.

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Windsock

Another deadly dust storm hits Uttar Pradesh, India, 17 killed

Neha Lalchandani
Times of India
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 19:15 UTC
Dust storm in Uttar Pradesh, India
© ANIDust storm in Uttar Pradesh claims 17 lives
At least 17 persons have been reported dead in dust storm which hit western Uttar Pradesh on Friday evening.

Muradabad has the highest number of casualties (7) while Muzaffarnagar and Meerutreported two deaths each. Three persons died in Sambhal and two deaths were reported from Badaun. Relief commissioner Sanjay Kumarsaid that all these deaths have been reported due to tree or house collapse incidents.

A tin shed collapsed in Amroha killing one person. Kumar said that district magistrates have been asked to ensure that relief material are distributed within 24 hours and compensations are disbursed to affected families at the earliest.

Close to 150 persons have died in the state due to thunder storms since May 1 this year. While some deaths were reported due to lightning strikes, most deaths have occurred due to wall or tree collapse incidents.

Comment: A month ago powerful 'freak' dust storms killed over 125 people in north India, the highest death toll in decades.

While dust storms and thunderstorms are common in the country at this time, recent storms appear to be particularly intense. NASA's Earth Observatory reported that the state of Andhra Pradesh in the country's southeast was struck by about 40 000 lightning bolts in just 13 hours late April 2018. That's more than the number of strikes that occurred in the entire month of May 2017.

From the same article Ajay Singh, a climate change researcher commented:
"Even with the increasing trend, the intensity of events so far this year is anomalous. The unusual thunder and dust storms could have a combination of causes, including extra moisture from a cyclonic circulation over West Bengal colliding with destructive dusty winds. High temperatures in the area also made the atmosphere unstable, fueling thunderstorms and heavy winds."


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Bizarro Earth

Researchers discover 900 new methane seeps off the Oregon coast near the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Mark Floyd
Phys.org
Thu, 31 May 2018 03:56 UTC
Oregon coast methane seeps
© Oregon State UniversityLarge carbonate platform with intense bubble streams pouring out of the seafloor from under the carbonate cap.
For the past two years, scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have surveyed the Pacific Northwest near-shore region mapping sites where underwater bubble streams signify methane gas is being released from the seafloor.

And what they have found is eye-opening. Since the first evidence of underwater methane was discovered in the late 1980s, only about 100 "seep sites" had been identified along the Northwest coast through 2015. They often were discovered by accident, when fishermen would spot anomalies on their fish-finders that turned out to be acoustic reflections of the bubbling methane gas.

But over the past two years the scientists-aided by new sonar technology on the Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus, owned and operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust-have purposefully gone seeking evidence of underwater methane and have expanded the total number of offshore seep emission sites to a whopping 1,000 locations.

It is not yet clear whether the methane presents an opportunity for a new source of energy or a potentially serious environmental threat, but for now the researchers want to map the distribution of the sites and conduct research on the composition and sources of the gas. They believe they will discover new methane seeps this summer when they utilize several research vessels to conduct additional mapping off the Northwest coast.

Comment: In recent times hundreds of methane plumes have been discovered erupting along the US Atlantic coast, as well as for the first time in deep Arctic Ocean areas.

It is likely this increased methane outgassing and undersea volcanic activity (it is estimated there are up to one million of these 'submarine volcanoes') are contributory factors to the devastating huge ocean 'dead zones' which have quadrupled around the world since 1950, including in Atlantic open waters for the first time.

The significant increase of fish die offs and strange migratory behaviour of marine life could be considered other potential signs of such activity.

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Cloud Precipitation

Belfast streets 'like rivers' following deluge in Northern Ireland


Belfast Telegraph
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 18:47 UTC
Belfast streets 'like rivers' after deluge - Northern Ireland supermarket swamped
Belfast streets 'like rivers' after deluge - Northern Ireland supermarket swamped
There was widespread flooding across many parts of Northern Ireland on Friday night.

The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for Friday and most of Saturday telling the public to brace for extreme weather with thunderstorms and flooding expected.

The north west appeared to bear the brunt of the worst. Roads in Ballykelly and Greysteel and Limavady were near impassable while there are incidents of flooding in Magherafelt which the Fire Service attended.

The Meadowlane Shopping Centre in Magherafelt was flooded.

There was also flash flooding on the Falls Road and difficult driving conditions reported in Lisburn.
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Cloud Precipitation

Residents picking up pieces after severe hailstorm pummels Roundup, Montana

Zoe Zandora
ktvq.com
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 18:27 UTC
Hail pounds Roundup
Hail pounds Roundup
Roundup residents are busy today cleaning up after the devastating damage done from a storm Thursday evening.

"It broke the window. It shredded the blinds, and then it forced the glass inside. We were holding the curtains down, and it was still coming through," says Roundup resident Gail Armstrong said.

Residents were busy Friday picking up shards of glass, boarding up windows and assessing what some said is the worst storm they have seen come through the city

Wind gusts reached up to 60 miles per hour and precipitation rates reached well above 2.5 inches per hour and about 2.5 inches wide.

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