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Waterspout filmed in the Mediterranean sea off northern Egypt

Sophie Inge
Daily Mail
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:19 UTC
The footage of the tornado swirling above the sea was captured in dramatic footage by two brave sailors
© Ewen MacKenzie/ Magnus News AgenThe footage of the tornado swirling above the sea was captured in dramatic footage by two brave sailors
Water a sight this was for two Scottish crew members who captured amazing images of a tornado over the sea heading towards their survey ship.

Ewen MacKenzie, 37, and Barry Stevenson, 31, were on board a vessel in Egyptian waters when the amazing natural phenomenon appeared.

It was around 7am on October 16 in the Mediterranean off northern Egypt when a funnel-like cloud began to appear in an otherwise clear blue sky.

Within minutes the cloud had formed into what is known as a water spout - a tornado-like column of spinning air which forms usually over large lakes or seawater.

Luckily for the crew of the ship water tornadoes are not as powerful as their land-based cousins but the impressive swirling vortex still came within 40 metres -less than the width of a football pitch - from the ship.

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Attention

Signs and Portents overload: Not one but two double-headed sea turtles found on the Cayman Islands in a week

Michaela Broyles
The State
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 17:42 UTC
Two double-headed sea turtle hatchlings were found in the Cayman Islands last week.
© Josh BellTwo double-headed sea turtle hatchlings were found in the Cayman Islands last week.
An intern with the Department of Environment in the Cayman Islands stumbled upon not one, but two live two-headed baby sea turtles last week.

Yes, you read that right — a two-headed sea turtle. Two of them.

"͞This is a rare condition that these hatchlings have," said Lucy Collyer, lead turtle intern with the DOE. Collyer is in her seventh year with the DOE and is working towards her PhD.

"I have been working on turtle projects for 10 seasons now and my fellow interns have worked on multiple seasons also, and this is the first time that we have collectively witnessed a live two headed hatchling, let alone two in one week," she said. "We all have however, come across dead ones."

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Snowflake

Snowstorm breaks October record in Minnesota


wbay.com
Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:06 UTC
snow
© Big Bear Lodge & Cabins
Some Wisconsinites to our North and Northwest had to break out the shovels and snowplows on Friday after the first snow storm of the season hit parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

According to the National Weather Service in Duluth, Minnesota, Duluth received 10.6 inches of snow on Friday; the highest single day snowfall accumulation for October.

Some folks report seeing as much as 8-10" of snow in parts of Douglas County.

Total snowfall amounts from the event in the Gogebic range could end up being between 8-14" by the time the snow ends later on Saturday.

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Question

Strange animal behaviour: Octopuses are crawling out of the sea and walking onto a beach at New Quay, Wales

Anna Lewis
Wales Online
Sat, 28 Oct 2017 11:33 UTC
Octopus
© SeaMôr Dolphin Watching Boat Trips New Quay
Hordes of octopus have left sea-goers speechless with an unusual invasion on a Welsh beach.

More than 20 of the creatures were spotted making their way up the beach in New Quay, Ceredigion , on Friday night in a mysterious phenomenon which has left staff from a local dolphin watching company completely baffled.

Brett Jones, owner of SeaMôr Dolphin Watching Boat Trips, was returning the boat after a sunset trip at 10pm when he first spotted the sea creatures crawling up on to dry land.

He said: "They were coming out of the water and crawling up the beach. We don't quite know what's causing it.

"Perhaps it's because the sea has been quite rough recently but I've never seen anything like it before. They were walking on the tips of their legs.

"A friend of mine said it happened the night before and there was about 20 last night."

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills father and son in Colombia

Zhou Xin
Xinhua
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 11:08 UTC
LIGHTNING
A father and son were struck and killed by lightning as they were seeking shelter from a thunderstorm under a tree, Colombian media reported Saturday.

The victims were identified as Omar Fajardo Rivera and his son Diego.The two were planting sugarcane when the storm suddenly struck. They both died on site, according to the Caracol News network.

The incident took place in a village of Popayan in southwest Colombia.

A four-year-old who accompanied them survived and has been hospitalized.

The dry thunderstorm was "very violent. I have never seen so much lightning one after another," said Nelly Rivera, a relative of the victims.
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Seismograph

Shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits north of Franz Josef Land, Russia


Xinhua
Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:46 UTC
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An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted North of Franz Josef Land at 19:11:01 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 86.89 degrees north latitude and 55.13 degrees east longitude.

Comment: 2 other shallow earthquakes (of 5.7 magnitude) also struck the same area about 3 hour prior to the above event.

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Cloud Precipitation

5 dead, thousands affected as floods hit Central America

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:28 UTC
Nicaragua floods
© ReutersBoy walks in a muddied house in Nicaragua after heavy rains hit the country and neighboring Honduras.
Thousands of people have been affected by flooding and heavy rain in Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala over the last few days. Five fatalities have been reported in Nicaragua.

Local meteorological agencies say the rain was caused by two low-pressure centres, one off the Pacific coast and another off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Some areas have recorded over 300 mm of rain in 24 hours. Rivers have overflowed in all three affected countries.

Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, the Las Canoas Dam has reached all time highs - beating previous records set in 1998 during Hurricane Mitch - threatening to flood the homes of around 20,000 people downstream.

So far affected departments include Managua, Granada, North and South Caribbean, Boaco and Jinotega.

Nicaragua's National System for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters (SINAPRED), reports that 2,713 houses have been flooded and 30 destroyed in the municipalities of Teustepe, San Lorenzo, Tipitapa, Mateare, Managua, Granada and Bocana de Paiwas.

One person died crossing a swollen river in Jinotega. Four miners were also reported killed when the Oconwás River overflowed in Las Minas, Rosita municipality, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. At least 2 people are still missing.
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Arrow Down

Oil truck gets stuck after sinkhole opens up in Woodfin, North Carolina


wlos.com
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:38 UTC
tanker sinkhole
© The Weaverville TribuneTanker sinkhole
A large sinkhole opened up in front of the Moe's Original Bar B Que in Woodfin on Friday.

An oil truck driver told police he was leaving the restaurant and heard a noise that sounded like his tires popping.

He said he got out and saw the sink hole forming under the truck's back tires.

Police said the ground may have been weakened by recent storms.

Authorities said two trucks came and pulled the oil truck out of the sinkhole.
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Attention

75% of seal pups killed after Storm Ophelia batters Ramsey Island, Wales


ITV
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:59 UTC
image shows a surviving mother who remained behind to look after her baby. Credit: RSPB
Image shows a surviving mother who remained behind to look after her baby.

An estimated 75% of the seal pup population on Ramsey Island has been killed after ex-hurricane Ophelia.

The RSPB discovered dozens of the dead pups after visiting the island off the Pembrokeshire coast following the vicious weather.

Data collected by the organisation on the 14th of October recorded 120 pups on their nine 'study beaches' prior to the storm. Only 31 were recorded when they returned.

Comment: See also: Dozens of seal pups killed during Storm Brian on the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales

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Red Flag

Surfer attacked by shark at Port Stephens, Australia

Matilda Rudd
Daily Mail
Sat, 28 Oct 2017 15:25 UTC
Shark attacks
A surfer has been rushed to hospital after being bitten on the foot by a shark.

The 31-year-old swam to the shore at Birubi Beach in Port Stephens with puncture wounds to his foot at around 9.30am on Saturday.

He was treated by paramedics and an off-duty nurse on the sand before being taken to John Hunter Hospital when the 'bleeding became a bit of a problem,' a media spokesperson for the lifeguard tower told Daily Mail Australia.
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