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Cobra found with smaller snake stuck in its nostril in Belagavi, India

Ben Hooper
UPI
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:08 UTC
snake
A snake rescuer called to remove a cobra from a businessman's property in India made an unusual discovery -- a smaller snake stuck in the serpent's nostril.

Anand Chitti, a snake rescuer in the city of Belagavi, said a local businessman summoned him Sept. 11 to some industrial land, where a cobra had been sighted.

Chitti filmed the rescue as he dug through a pile of bricks to reach the snake.

The cobra, once extracted from its hiding place, was found to have a blind worm snake -- the smallest species of snake in India -- stuck inside its nose.

"I have caught 14,000 snakes till now and had never seen anything strange like that," Chitti said.

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Cloud Lightning

New York family witness rare ball lightning pass through their home

Nathan Hooper
WBNG
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:41 UTC
New York family witnesses ball lightning
© WBNG
A Tioga County family says they had an incredible and mysterious encounter with a rare form of lightning in a recent thunderstorm.

"I saw light whiz past my head and my grandmother looked up and saw this giant ball just explode over the fan blades," said 11-year-old Alannah Reeves, who experienced the ball lightning first hand.

"Something comes past us and goes up to the ceiling fan and I look up and there's this ball of yellow lightning," said Jane Wright, Alannah's grandmother who also witnessed the phenomena.

They say they saw lightning that looked like a yellow, soccer ball sized orb called Ball Lightning.

Comment: Just two days prior to this report, ball lightning passed through the home of UK pensioner.

See also: A new theory in the ball lightning mystery

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Cloud Lightning

Puerto Rico braces for Hurricane Maria, potentially the most catastrophic storm to strike the country in a century

Emily Shapiro and Joshua Hoyos
ABC News
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:53 UTC
Hurricane Maria Dominica
As residents of Puerto Rico brace for Hurricane Maria -- which slammed into the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm Monday night -- Puerto Rico's governor is calling the storm "the biggest and potentially most catastrophic hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in a century."

Maria, which has left at least two dead in the Caribbean, is forecast to "remain an extremely dangerous Category 4 or 5 hurricane" as it approaches Puerto Rico early Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Maria could bring life-threatening flooding and mudslides, as well as a 6- to 9-foot storm surge, to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Dangerous flash flooding and mudslides are also possible, especially in mountainous regions in Puerto Rico.

As of 3 a.m. on Wednesday, Maria's maximum sustained winds had decreased to 160 mph, but it remained a Category 5 storm. Maria's maximum sustained winds had been as high as 175 mph during the day Tuesday. It was located 35 miles west of St. Croix and 70 miles southeast of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. The storm is expected to reach the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning.
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Better Earth

Current Arctic sea ice extent is the eighth lowest on record

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:27 UTC
arctic sea ice
© NASA/C. Starr
I called the Arctic sea-ice turn upwards a few days ago here. From NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER and the "you could also say 31st highest on record" department.

End-of-summer Arctic sea ice extent is eighth lowest on record.

Arctic sea ice appeared to have reached its yearly lowest extent on Sept. 13, NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder have reported. Analysis of satellite data by NSIDC and NASA showed that at 1.79 million square miles (4.64 million square kilometers), this year's Arctic sea ice minimum extent is the eighth lowest in the consistent long-term satellite record, which began in 1978.
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New Zealand struck by strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake just hours after Mexico City disaster

Michael Perry and Lydia Smith
The Independent
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:42 UTC
The location of the 6.1 earthquake and two other tremors near New Zealand
© USGSThe location of the 6.1 earthquake and two other tremors near New Zealand
An undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck in the remote Southern Ocean south of New Zealand on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The quake, at a shallow depth of 10 km (6 miles), was recorded 211 km (140 miles) west of the sub-Antarctic Auckland Island, off New Zealand's South Island, the USGS said.

There were no tsunami warnings issued immediately after the quake.

The quake was felt strongly in the capital Wellington but no damage to buildings has been reported.

Train services were briefly disrupted in the area.
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Wolf

Mysterious howling, moaning noise heard in Scotland

Brett Tingley
Mysterious Universe
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 22:53 UTC
'Werewolf' in Scotland
© YouTube/Caters Clips
For those of us who keep up with news of the strange and unexplained, it's clear that something is roaming the United Kingdom. Reports of big cats are nothing new to the northern U.K., having been reported for decades. In recent months, however, sightings of massive feline beasts have been pouring in, including reports of mutilated and/or completely devoured sheep and abnormally high numbers of missing house cats.

What could be roaming Scotland and northern England? If some strange news out of Scotland is confirmed, these unexplained events might be a very unexpected explanation.

Hotel night manager Paul Naylor was conducting his nightly rounds of his Outer Hebrides hotel on August 31st when an eerie noise stopped him in his tracks. Naylor immediately did what any of us would do and pulled out his phone to record the haunting sound:


Comment: These sounds are similar to other bizarre sounds heard around the world. See:

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Weather bureau in the Netherlands erases record cold in De Bilt

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:27 UTC
overcast
The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased the record cold temperatures recorded on Sept 16 in Amsterdam. Also anomalous numbers have already been filled out for the rest of the years months of average temperature. A new report about global cooling pegs London, Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon as cities to look for cold in, and Paris and Amsterdam are are already showing these signs.


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Cloud Precipitation

Flooding in Niger leaves at least 54 dead, 200,000 displaced and 11,000 homes destroyed


News24
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 20:03 UTC
Floods in Niamey, Niger
© AFPNiger's capital, Niamey has seen heavy rains since June
Flooding unleashed by three months of torrential rain in Niger has killed at least 54 people and left nearly 200 000 displaced, the UN said on Friday.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said most of the deaths took place in the capital Niamey and that more than 11 000 homes were destroyed.

Niamey has been hardest hit along with Dosso in the south, Tillaberi in the west and the central-southern areas of Maradi and Zinder as Niger struggles once more with flooding which claimed more than 50 lives last year.

The recovery from the disastrous rains promises to be long.

Food production will also take a hit, with the flooding killing some 16 000 cattle and about 12 000 hectares of crops being ruined, the UN said.

With its 17 million population in a country three quarters of which comprises desert, Niger regularly is beset by food shortages caused by drought as well as severe flooding.

Comment: "This year's rain is just extraordinary," Katiellou Lawan Gaptia, head of meteorology at Niger's Met Office said. "In Niamey alone, the season's rainfall has increased by 84 percent since 2010."

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Bizarro Earth

Scientist warn of possible eruption of a supervolcano in southern Italy


Sputnik News
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:52 UTC
Volcano eruption
© AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra
An international group of scientists warned of catastrophic consequences of a possible eruption of a supervolcano in southern Italy, which they said may be fueled by the so-called 'hot zone' feeding the volcano.

Scientists declined to elaborate on when the eruption of Campi Flegrei to the west of Naples may occur, but stressed that flows of a magmatic bubble under the volcanic caldera has become more active in the past few weeks, according to the Phys.org website.

The relevant study is led by Dr. Luca De Siena at the University of Aberdeen along with the University of Naples and the University of Texas at Austin.

"One question that has puzzled scientists is where magma is located beneath the caldera, and our study provides the first evidence of a hot zone under the city of Pozzuoli that extends into the sea at a depth of 4 km," De Siena said.
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"Hurricane Maria is following Irma's path"... imprecise media coverage picks up where Irma coverage left off

David Middleton
Watts Up with That
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:19 UTC
hurriane maria
© NOOANOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured this image of Hurricane Maria approaching the Leeward Islands today, September 18, 2017.
Hurricane Maria is a really bad storm. This criticism of the media's coverage of it is in no way meant to dismiss, disregard or devalue the harm that this storm will bring to many people.

With Irma we had variations of the following headlines:
  • Most Powerful Hurricane Ever
  • Most Powerful Atlantic Hurricane Ever
  • Most Powerful Atlantic Hurricane Ever... Apart From More Powerful Atlantic Hurricanes Ever
  • Most Powerful Atlantic Hurricane Ever... In This Particular Part of the Atlantic Ocean
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