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Windsock

'Powerful wind-like sound': Strange sounds heard coming from the sky near Bucharest, Romania

Strange sounds in Romania
© YouTube/Skin Xdr
YouTuber 'Skin Xdr' uploaded a video of strange sounds he heard on the evening of February 8, 2018, referring to the noise as a "powerful wind-like sound".


Music

Strange musical sounds heard the skies of Ølen, Norway

Strange sounds in Norway
© YouTube/Per-Einar Lauritzen
YouTube user 'Per-Einar Lauritzen' recorded this strange sound on February 10th stating that the "sound is very low because my window was closed and the sound was far away."


Snowflake Cold

Freezing spring weather may wipe out fruit crops across Southern Europe

snow damage
Today (1 March), spring has begun on the meteorological calendar; however, vicious winter cold will continue to be recorded until the weekend. The strong east wind, which in the Netherlands got the nickname "Russian Bear" and is known in the UK as "Beast from the East", has caused temperatures to drop well below the freezing point in many parts of Europe. Rome got a blanket of snow, and in Croatia the layer of snow was 1.80 metres thick. On the slopes in the Alps it was freezing, and the same cold has been measured in many parts of northern Europe. Does this winter weather affect the fruit and vegetable market?

The cold and snow have disrupted life in several European countries. In the Netherlands, code yellow was issued because of cold and local snow storms. In the United Kingdom, a weather alarm was issued, and Ireland temporarily issued a code red. The main consequences for the market are delays in the supply, consumers staying home and a rising demand for winter vegetables. The consequences in other parts of Europe may be greater. Further to the south and east, the first fruit trees were already in bloom or the flowers were about to sprout. The freezing cold may very well damage the early stone fruit harvest in these regions. In few other places did the mercury drop as low as in Poland, but trade remains calm. A day temperature of -10 degrees Celsius is perceived as historically very normal, according to a trader.

Comment: See also: A taste of the future: Fruit and vegetable prices surge as blizzards cut off roads, damage crops in China


Question

Hundreds of birds found dead and dying in Parral, Mexico

dead birds
On the 25 of February the Mexican newspaper El Sol de Parral (The Sun of Parral) reported the somewhat mysterious sudden death of what appear to be hundreds of Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) in the city of Parrel in Chihuahua, Mexico.

What can be gleaned from extracts of the story via Google translation is that hundreds of dead and dying birds were found on several roads and in a local municipal park. It seems that witnesses claim to have seen the birds falling from the sky. Some were noted to have blood in their beaks while others had been run over by vehicles (presumably already dead or dying).

Eagle

More symbolism? Two frozen bald eagles locked together in fight rescued along Susquehanna River in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

These two eagles were rescued by Rebecca Weaver and her daughter along the Susquehanna River bank near Bloomsburg on Sunday, Feb. 25.
© Submitted, Rebecca WeaverThese two eagles were rescued by Rebecca Weaver and her daughter along the Susquehanna River bank near Bloomsburg on Sunday, Feb. 25.
Two bald eagles were saved along the Susquehanna River bank near Bloomsburg on Sunday thanks to a concerned citizen.

Rebecca Weaver, from Almedia, said her daughter Alyssa heard a strange screeching sound when she was outside. Weaver and Alyssa found the two birds locked together, shivering from the cold water.

Weaver said Scott Township Police came to the property under the impression that they were supposed to collect two dead birds. When police realized the birds were alive, Columbia County Game Warden Rick Deiterich was dispatched.

"The eagles were likely fighting in the sky over territory and dropped to the ground near the river where they continued their battle," said Deiterich in a Pennsylvania Game Commission Facebook post. "They seem to have tumbled into the water and would not, or could not, let go of their grip on one another."

Comment: See also: Symbolic? Bald eagle found covered in ice in Osage County, Oklahoma (VIDEO)


Wolf

Boy killed by stray dogs in Andhra Pradesh, India

Attacks from stray dogs have been problems from different parts of the country. (Image for representational purposes only)
Attacks from stray dogs have been problems from different parts of the country. (Image for representational purposes only)
In a shocking incident, a nine-year-old boy has been mauled to death by street dog in northern Andhra Pradesh.

The victim, identified as R Jaswanth, was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed to injuries on the way. He was a Class III student in the government school in his village. He was a resident of the Ammapalli village near Balijipeta, about 150 km north of Visakhapatnam.

Jaswant was reportedly going to a farm in his village when the attack happened, news agency ANI reported. It is not clear what caused the dog to attack the boy.

Stray dogs have been reported as a menace from different parts of the country in recent years. The issue has been an especially hot-button topic in Kerala. In that state alone, the number of reported cases of people bitten by stray dogs was a whopping 53,000. In May last year, a 50-year-old fisherman succumbed to his injuries after being mauled by a pack of stray dogs in Trivandrum's Pulluvila. Prior to that, a 75-year-old man was found dead after being allegedly attacked by a pack of stray dogs in Kerala's Attingal.

Attention

Mount Shinmoe in southwestern Japan erupts (VIDEO)

File photo
File photo
Mt. Shinmoe on the southwestern Japanese main island of Kyushu erupted again Thursday less than five months after its last eruption, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The agency confirmed a small eruption at the 1,421-meter high volcano straddling Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures at around 11 a.m. and ash that was spewed was observed in the town of Takaharu, located east of the mountain.

Town officials confirmed the presence of fallen ash, while residents also reported seeing ash. The agency will dispatch officials to the area to probe the situation, it said.

There were no reports of injuries or property damage, according to police.


Attention

Infant on mother's lap in front of house killed by bear in Karnataka, India

bear print
A black bear mauled and killed a four-month-old girl child when she was on her mother's lap in front of her house at Hadlaghatta in the taluk on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Poorvi, daughter of Gowramma.Hadlaghatta in the taluk on Wednesday. The deceased has been identified as Poorvi, daughter of Gowramma.

According to the villagers, Gowramma, Kumar, father and Lavanya, sister, sustained severe injuries. They have been admitted to McGann hospital in Shivamogga. The family members were sitting in front of the house at 8 am when all of a sudden, the bear pounced on Poorvi. When the others tried to rescue the child, the wild animal attacked them also. But the girl child breathed her last on the way to the hospital, they added.

Snowflake Cold

Austrian ski industry researcher declares "every mountain station" in the Alps shows "winters have gotten colder"

alps cooling
Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne here.

Over the years we've all heard the dire predictions of snow becoming a thing of the past and that especially in the Alps the ski industry would in large part disappear. Warmer temperatures would put an end to snow as we know it.

Yet an analysis of the data tells a very different story, according to Austrian ski industry researcher Günther Aigner in a video presentation dubbed: Will the Arlberg see snow disappear? An analysis of historical temperature and snow datasets:

In the video Aigner shows what's going on concerning winters in the Alps. He begins by presenting some predictions of disappearing snow made by renowned scientists such David Viner and Mojib Latif. Other scientists such as Andreas Reiter, a future studies researcher, predicted Tirol would soon become mostly just a wine region. Other scientists made even more absurd predictions, Aigner shows.

Comment: We see these seemingly subtle changes reflected in the dramatic events occurring all over the world:


Ice Cube

Record breaking frosts in central Russia

Frosts in Belarus are breaking records
Frosts in Belarus are breaking records
The temperature record of the current winter is beaten in Belarus - according to the data of the Republican Center for Hydrometeorology, Control of Radioactive Contamination and Environmental Monitoring in Klichev, a temperature of -30.4 ° C was recorded last night.

Frosts came to Belarus in the middle of last week: in some places the night air temperatures approached the -30 ° C mark. The weather forecasters explained the cooling by the so-called ultrapolar invasion - the arrival of cold air masses to Belarus from the Arctic.


According to Hydromet, last night the coldest was in Klichev (Mogilev region) - there was recorded a drop in temperature to -30.4 ° C. It was in the Mogilev region that five people died from frosts since the beginning of the year. At the same time, according to weather forecasters, the strongest frosts were observed on the night of February 27 in the Dnipro floodplain, where it was everywhere below -25 ° С.

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