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Boat

Mysterious orange water seen at Dubai Marina

Orange water in Dubai
© Stewart ClarkeThe waters of Dubai Marina turned orange on Thursday.
The waters of Dubai Marina mysteriously turned orange on Thursday.

Residents were quick to share their concerns on social media suggesting that an oil spill could be responsible for the change in colour.

A spokesperson from Dubai's Municipality said they had not yet identified the cause and a team of officials had been sent to inspect the site on Friday morning.

"There are some speculations that the spillage can be from a near by construction or from groundwater", the spokesperson said.

Residents said the water was still strangely coloured on Friday morning.

Arrow Down

Three cliff falls in just two days near iconic Seven Sisters, UK; woman killed

A sightseer was just feet away from death as 50,000 tons of chalk gave way and a cliff collapsed into the sea in East Sussex
A sightseer was just feet away from death as 50,000 tons of chalk gave way and a cliff collapsed into the sea in East Sussex
A sightseer was just feet away from death as 50,000 tons of chalk gave way and a cliff collapsed into the sea, claiming the life of a woman in her 20s.

The cliffs at Seaford Head in East Sussex have been hit by three unexpected collapses in just two days.

The first happened on Wednesday afternoon, taking a huge section of the coastline with it. Yesterday afternoon there was another collapse, before a giant crack tore into an 80ft chalk-face leading to the third cliff fall last night.

Now photographs have emerged of people peering over the edge of Birling Gap, which is roughly six miles from where the cliffs collapsed at Seaford yesterday.

Rescuers yesterday found the body of a woman in her 20s who is believed to have fallen from a clifftop around the time of the dramatic rockfall.

And as the Coastguard has issued a warning urging people to avoid the area, photographs have come to light which show a person teetering near the edge despite the imminent danger.


Attention

Angry elephant flips car and goes on a rampage at festival in Kerala, India

The angry animal flipped a car across the grounds and mowed over motorcycles in rage
The angry animal flipped a car across the grounds and mowed over motorcycles in rage
Incredible footage has emerged of an angry elephant flipping over a car with its trunk.

The elephant was appearing at a local festival called Ambalapura in Thrissur, Kerela in Southern India when it went on the rampage.

The video shows the angry elephant toppling a car, sending it tumbling across the ground, and flipping over motor cycles.


Attention

Dead pilot whale found on beach in Sarasota County, Florida

Dead pilot whale
© Sarasota County Sheriff's Office Dead pilot whale
Crews with Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium are removing a dead pilot whale that was discovered on a Sarasota County beach on Friday morning.

Sarasota County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to Point of Rocks Beach around 3 a.m. after receiving reports about a 12-foot-long whale that had washed ashore.

Crews with Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium were called to help remove the sub-adult, pilot whale from the beach.

Marine biologists will likely try to determine what the whale died from.

Cloud Precipitation

Large hailstones pound Altai, Russia; breaking car windows, damaging roofs and ruining harvests

Freak weather in Altai region of Siberia
Freak weather in Altai region of Siberia
Strong hail storms hit in several settlements in Altai region, breaking car windows, damaging roofs of buildings and destroying greenhouses.

In some areas it wiped out future harvests.

Subscribers of Barnaul22, a public group on Vkontakte, say a thunderstorm with hail hit Polkovnikovo village in Kosikhinsky district and ruined all crops there.

Similar carnage was in Nalobikha village and along the Buysk highway.

Snowflake

Summer snow falls in Russia as anomalous heat hits Siberia

Summer snow in Murmansk, Russia on 20th June 2017.
© YouTube/Камчатка (screen capture)Summer snow in Murmansk, Russia on 20th June 2017.
According to newsru.com summer snow has fallen across Russia in Sochi, Kazan and Murmansk while anomalous heat has been experienced in Siberia. Earlier this month snow fell in Moscow, just as Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris climate deal.

This video was recorded in Murmansk on 20th June 2017.


Sun

'Rare' sun halo seen over the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan

Sun halo in Issyk-Kul
© Turmush
Residents of Issyk-Kul region were able to see the spectacular sight of the halo sun, Turmush reports.

The photos were taken on June 21 at 2:30 pm local time in Cholpon-Ata and Balykchy towns.

Halo is a circle of white or colored light around the sun, moon, or other luminous body caused by refraction through ice crystals in the atmosphere.

According to specialists, a particular weather pattern typical for North and South Pole is needed for the halo effect.

Camera

Red jellyfish sprites with halo of light captured over Austria

On June 20th, a thunderstorm in Austria unleashed a spectacular display of lightning. Observers on the ground witnessed blinding flashes of crackling light. The most amazing aspect of the outburst, however, was to be found high above the clouds. 80 km high, to be exact, in the realm of the sprites:
Red sprites
© Martin Popek
Martin Popek photographed the display from his private observatory in Nýdek, Czechia, more than 500 km away from the storm. Such distances are ideal for seeing above the tops of towering thunderclouds:
How to look for sprites
© Space Weather
"Jellyfish sprite events like these are produced by very impulsive cloud-to-ground lightning flashes draining positive charge from the stratiform rain region in large thunderstorms," explains lightning scientist Oscar van der Velde of the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain. Somehow, in a process that researchers only partially understand, the resulting electric fields draw jellyfish forms out of the cloudtops.

Camera

22-degree sun halo spotted in Huntsville, Alabama

Alabama sun halo
© Kristen Nesmith Harris
Did you see a halo around the sun on Tuesday?

If you did, you spotted an atmospheric optical phenomenon known as a 22-degree halo.

Earthsky.org explains it very simply:
Halos are a sign of high thin cirrus clouds drifting 20,000 feet or more above our heads.

These clouds contain millions of tiny ice crystals. The halos you see are caused by both refraction, or splitting of light, and also by reflection, or glints of light from these ice crystals.
It is called a 22-degree halo because the ring has a radius of approximately 22 degrees around the sun or moon.

Cloud Lightning

Man dies following lightning strike in Martin County, Florida

lightning
The National Weather Service is reporting that a Fort Pierce man who was struck by lightning May 17 has died.

It was the second death this year caused by lightning. The first occurred in Colorado on May 7.

According to an incident report, construction worker Guadalupe Salinas was working on a pool and clubhouse in northern Martin County when he was struck.

He was taken to Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart and transferred to St. Mary's Medical Center.