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School's out: Thousands of dead fish wash up near Auckland, New Zealand

Matthew Cattin
Stuff
Thu, 22 Feb 2018 19:19 UTC
dead fish have washed into the Stanmore Bay estuary.
Dead fish have washed into the Stanmore Bay estuary.
Thousands of dead fish have startled residents at a north Auckland beach.

The washed up fish - identified by Auckland War Memorial Museum head of natural sciences Tom Trnski as anchovy Engraulis australis - lined the shores of the Stanmore Bay estuary on February 21, sparking fears of water contamination.

A video sent in by a resident shows just how many of the fish have washed up.

A similar incident occurred at Stanmore Bay and Martins Bay, Mahurangi, in August 2009.

Experts suggested the cause could have been rough weather conditions or predators chasing the school into the shallows.
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Ice Cube

Ross ice shelf freezing, not melting as 'expected', "It blew our minds."

David Middleton
Watts Up With That
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:00 UTC
Ross Ice Shelf
Ross Ice Shelf
Deep Bore Into Antarctica Finds Freezing Ice, Not Melting as Expected

Scientists will leave sensors in the hole to better understand the long-term changes in the ice, which may have big implications for global sea level.

By Douglas Fox

PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Scientists have peered into one of the least-explored swaths of ocean on Earth, a vast region located off the coast of West Antarctica.

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Comment: Obviously these scientists were suffering from the strong delusion of man made global warming, but its admirable they didn't try to fiddle the data, unlike some:

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Cloud Grey

A year without summer in Brazil

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:08 UTC
FROST
The temperature on Friday (Feb 23) in Vale do Cruzeiro, about 16km from the center of São Joaquim, dropped to 5.7ºC in the shelter and -2.4ºC in the grass, making it the fifth frost (freeze) in February at the top of the mountain range.

The previous record was only 3 frosts (freezes) in February 2002.

Remember, summer begins on December 21 in Brazil and ends on March 20.

This summer has already seen 12 days of frost, while the summer of 2008/2009 saw 13 days. It's also the seventh frost of 2018, making it the biggest number of frost days for the start of the year in 64 years!
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Attention

Three dead dolphins discovered in Long Beach, Mississippi

Lindsay Knowles and Taren Reed
wlox.com
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:56 UTC
One of the marine scientists with IMMS inspects a dead baby dolphin after it was found washed ashore in Long Beach Saturday morning.
© WLOXOne of the marine scientists with IMMS inspects a dead baby dolphin after it was found washed ashore in Long Beach Saturday morning.
Marine officials were out in Long Beach Saturday morning after discovering two dead baby dolphins on the beach there. A third baby dolphin was found dead on Ship Island on Friday.

Dr. Moby Solangi, the director of Institute of Marine Mammal Studies, said the two in Long Beach were found within a mile of the other on the beach.

Solangi and his team are now looking into how the infant dolphins died. According to Solangi, it's not uncommon to see dolphins come ashore during birthing season. However, Solangi said it's still really early in the birthing season.
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Seismograph

Shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake strikes off eastern Indonesia


Channel News Asia
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:46 UTC
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit eastern Indonesia on Monday (Feb 26).
© United States Geological SurveyAn earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 hit eastern Indonesia on Monday (Feb 26).
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia late Monday (Feb 26), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The quake had a depth of 11.9 kilometres and its epicentre was in the Seram Sea around 194 kilometres northwest of Ambon, capital of Maluku province, according to USGS.

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Source: AFP/aa
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Snowflake

Rare snowfall hits Rome, Italy (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

Khaleda Rahman
Daily Mail
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:04 UTC
A rare snow storm in Rome on Monday disrupted transport, shut down schools and prompted authorities to call in the army to help clear the streets. Pictured, the Colosseum
A rare snow storm in Rome on Monday disrupted transport, shut down schools and prompted authorities to call in the army to help clear the streets. Pictured, the Colosseum
A rare snow storm in Rome on Monday disrupted transport, shut down schools and prompted authorities to call in the army to help clear the streets.

Residents woke to the city's first snowfall in six years on Monday as chilling winds from Siberia swept across Europe, bringing freezing temperatures that have claimed at least four lives.

The Italian capital's first snowfall since February 2012 saw about three to four centimetres settling on the ground on Sunday.

Schools were closed in the city on Monday as local authorities opened several train stations as emergency shelters for the homeless.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 2 people in Nigeria

Emmanuel
Olisa TV
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:38 UTC
lightning
There was mourning in Pogo community, in the Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, when a thunderbolt killed two residents over the weekend.

Both victims reportedly died on the spot when the thunderbolt struck around 8pm after a drizzle. Another local resident, identified simply as Abdullahi, also sustained injuries from the storm.

Punch reports that the unfortunate victims were a 25-year-old man, Aliyu Salihu, and a 13-year-old pupil of an Islamic school, identified simply as Abbas.

According to Aliyu's father, Malam Makeri Salihu, the victims were harvesting mangoes when a lightning enveloped the community with the accompanying thunderbolt.
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Fire

Russia's Hephaestus mud volcano erupts chucking muck hundreds of meters (VIDEO)


Strange Sounds
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 20:19 UTC
hephaetus mud volcano
On February 22, 2018, the volcano, located in Taman, in Krasnodar Territory of Russia, erupted, covering several acres of land with mud and cracking down the Earth across its 500-meter large crater.

There are about 40 mud volcanoes - some active and other sleeping - in this remote area of Russia. Taman is indeed mainly visited for its miracle mud. The most popular volcano in Taman is "Hephaestus" - also known as Rotten Mountain and situated near Temryuk.

Comment: As noted above, apparently it's fairly fancy muck and people visit to bathe in it, when it's not erupting:

hephaestus
From 2015, one of the volcanoes was documented erupting on film:

The world is rocking and rolling these days: And could this be related to: Scientists predict upsurge in major earthquakes for 2018 due to slowdown in Earth's rotation

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Snowflake

Record snowfall of 3.1 metres hits Horokanai, Japan


Al Jazeera
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 19:29 UTC
Mt.Niseko Annupuri, Hokkaido
Mt.Niseko Annupuri, Hokkaido
Horokanai in Hokkaido reports a snow depth of more than three metres, setting a new local record.

The snow depth in Horokanai, in northern Japan's Hokkaido has been measured as 3.124 metres, setting a new record.

It beats the previous record of 3.119 metres set in 1970, while locals say that the huge amount of snow is making life difficult.

Although impressive, this amount of snow isn't a record for the country as a whole.

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Bulb

Glitch in the Matrix? Light pillars illuminate St. Petersburg skies (PHOTOS)


RT
Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:13 UTC
Spectacular light pillars illuminate St. Petersburg skies (PHOTOS)
© borozdin/instagram
Russia's St. Petersburg has witnessed an incredible light show by mother nature, which illuminated the sky with bright columns of light, turning the city into a winter wonderland.

Residents of Russia's 'Venice of the north' awoke early on Saturday morning to find the skyline glittering with strange colors. Yellow, red, blue and green laser-looking columns were visible across the city. At first, people thought that they were witnessing the northern lights, but the pattern of the luminescence suggested a different phenomenon.

Comment: More pictures from Instagram on Sputnik:
With frosty weather showing no sign of ceasing in St. Petersburg, residents of Russia's northern capital have shared photos of an eyebrow-raising natural phenomenon.

St. Petersburg residents living in the city's Vyborg and Kalininsky Districts have spotted giant light pillars in the sky, which they first mistook for Northern Lights, according to local media.

This Instagram user published a photo of the light pillars under the northern lights hashtag, saying that the admiration "cannot be expressed in words."

Another user nicknamed "daryabat" also voiced joy about a "very beautiful phenomenon" which she said she first thought was Northern Lights.


Clearly our atmosphere is showing signs of serious change - evidently it's becoming colder:

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