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Windsock

Giant dust storm sweeps through Khartoum, Sudan

CGTN
YouTube
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 13:36 UTC
Sudan dust storm
© YouTube/CGTN (screen capture)
A massive dust cloud - known locally as a "haboob" - has recently swept across the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

The storm has brought vast amounts of sand and dust into the city, burying several homes and severely limiting visibility.

Ecosystems and natural resources in the country have been deteriorating due to climate change. Water supplies are scarce and severe droughts are common. After years of desertification, the country's rich biodiversity is under threat and drought has hindered the fight against hunger.

Experts say that without rapid intervention, parts of the African country - one of the most vulnerable in the world - could become uninhabitable as a result of climate change.

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Snowflake Cold

June snow in Moscow just as Trump pulls out of Paris climate deal


RT
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:31 UTC
Snow in June in Moscow
© Grigory Sysoev / Sputnik
While most countries in the northern hemisphere are enjoying warm weather and sunshine, fresh snow has fallen on the Russian capital - just one day after Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate change accord.

Photos and videos posted on social media resembled the beginning of winter, rather than the second day of June and the second official day of summer.

"Well, where is this global warming?" one person joked, posting a video of large hail stones. She added that she should be wearing shorts and sandals this time of year, but instead was wearing a jacket and boots.
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Tornado2

Huge tornado terrifies locals in southern Russia


RT
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:00 UTC
Russian tornado
© _kholodnayaya / Instagram
A spate of tornados spanning several regions caught residents in southern Russia by surprise. The natural phenomenon, which is unusual for the area, left people in fear and awe.

"Just look what a beauty we had yesterday... If I hadn't seen something similar myself 10 years ago, would not have believed it," an Instagram user from the Saratov region posted.
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Ice Cube

Ivanka - Anyone who tells you we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:18 UTC
Holocene graph
It is colder right now than throughout almost all of history. I understand that you've been lead to believe that global warming is a problem, but that is not true. Please look at this chart. The blue line shows temperatures for the past 600 million years.

Look at the far right side of the chart (today), and you'll see that temperatures have plunged to their lowest point in almost 250 million years.

There have been only two periods in the past 600 million years when it has been colder than today.

We are now living through one of the coldest periods in geologic history. The last few year's minor rise in temperature is too minuscule to even show up on the chart.

Anyone who tries to tell you that we're enduring "unprecedented global warming" is lying or woefully misinformed.

Your father's instincts about the global warming hoax are absolutely spot on. Please, please do not try to push him in the opposite direction.
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Bizarro Earth

Swarm of earthquakes rattle Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

Kiri Gillespie
New Zealand Herald
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:03 UTC
earthquake graph image
More than 450 people felt a 'moderate' earthquake near Whakatane when it hit at 9pm yesterday. It was followed hours later with another shake in the Bay of Plenty.
More earthquakes have been felt in the Bay of Plenty. Geonet recorded four moderate quakes throughout the past 24 hours about 30km northwest of Whakatane. The last hit at 1.41am with a magnitude of 3.6 and was felt in Tauranga.

At 9.06pm yesterday a 4.2 magnitude quake struck at 10km deep. Only eight people reported feeling the early morning quake, but 454 said they felt last night's tremor. The quakes follow a 4.1 shake in the same spot at 1.35pm and another at 11.39am. Geonet recorded at least 86 "felt" reports from people describing yesterday afternoon's quake between "strong" and "light".
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Cloud Precipitation

1 dead, 2 missing as Taiwan fights floods; nearly 2 feet of rain in under 11 hours


Channel News Asia
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:37 UTC
Taiwan's forecasters have predicted further heavy rain into the weekend.
© AFP/SAM YEHTaiwan's forecasters have predicted further heavy rain into the weekend.
Roads turned into rivers in northern Taiwan Friday (Jun 2) as rain lashed the island, killing one woman and leaving two others missing.

State power company Taipower said a transmission pylon on a hill in New Taipei city toppled during torrential downpours, causing a reactor at a nuclear plant there to cut out.

A second reactor automatically shut down as safety measures were activated and neither were damaged, it added.

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Bizarro Earth

Evacuated Manam Islanders facing food shortages after April eruption


Radio New Zealand
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:32 UTC
manam volcano eruption
Manam Volcano
Over 800 people evacuated from the volcanic island of Manam are facing food shortages on Papua New Guinea's mainland. The islanders were evacuated after the eruption alert level for the Manam volcano was raised to stage three in late April.

According to the newspaper The National, the islanders have been at the Potsdam Care Centre in Madang for almost a month. Manam leader Paul Maburau said the Madang provincial disaster office gave each family a bail of rice, 5kg of flour and two litres of oil when they first arrived.

He said they had now run out of food and couldn't find any way of obtaining more. Mr Maburau said people at the care centre were also getting sick and the nearest health centre did not have any medical supplies. Citing a lack of communication with the Madang government, he said the islanders were confused about whether they would be going back to the island or not.
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Cloud Lightning

10,000 lightning strikes light up the Australian state of Victoria


weatherwatch.co.nz
Mon, 29 May 2017 14:11 UTC
Lightning
As autumn draws to an end, another front swept over Victoria over the weekend bringing more rain and blustery conditions. Along with this, a band of thunderstorms that a one point stretched from Nhill to Apollo Bay, generated a total of just over 10,000 lightning strikes across the state.

As the front moved eastwards it delivered healthy amounts of rainfall to southern and central parts of the state, with 16.2mm recorded in just under 2 hours at Lara and 16mm in 3 hours at Ballarat. Eastern parts of Victoria saw lighter falls and as the front began to weaken and rain became more patchy.
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Wolf

Pack of 3 dogs attack man and woman in Sydney, Australia


9news.com.au
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 13:45 UTC
Dog attack
A woman has been injured and a man was forced to climb onto his car in two separate attacks by a pack of three dogs in Daceyville in Sydney's eastern suburbs today.

CCTV shows three dogs leaping on the man and biting him before he seeks safety on the top of his car parked in the street.

The man, aged in his 50s, suffered minor cuts and bruises to his back and leg.

He told 9NEWS it's the third time the dogs have been seen out on the street in three weeks.

"I called the police because I was worried, they were ferocious" he said.

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Arrow Down

Car falls into sinkhole in El Cajon, California

Jermaine Ong
10news.com
Tue, 30 May 2017 13:25 UTC
car in sinkhole
A car fell into a sinkhole that formed Tuesday morning on Olde Highway 80 in the El Cajon area.

Just after 4 a.m., crews responded to a water main break that caused a sinkhole on the roadway at Pecan Park Lane.

Crews arrived to find an Uber vehicle had partially fallen into the hole, but the driver and his passenger climbed out of a window as water began pouring into the car.

Tasha Mills said she got the scary early morning call from her husband, who was working his second job driving overnight for Uber.

"I was sleeping and I got a phone call. It scared us pretty bad, so we rushed out here," she told 10News.
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