Tyler Durden Zero Hedge Mon, 22 May 2017 21:29 UTC
With Trump traveling half-way around the globe, on Monday an amusing "event of nature" took place at the president's favorite "ground zero", when a sinkhole opened up in front of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort where he has previously hosted world leaders including China's Xi Jinping and Japan's PM Shinzo Abe, prompting an advisory from the Town of Palm Beach.
The 4-foot-by-4-foot sinkhole, first reported by the local municipality, formed on Southern Boulevard directly in front of Mar-a-Lago, in the vicinity of a newly installed water main.
An officer of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was killed and four others injured after lightning struck at Belpahari in Jhargram on Saturday night. A 12-year-old boy was also killed after lightning struck him at another village under Belpahari police station.
The victim, identified as Tapan Kumar Dey, was declared dead after he was rushed to a nearby hospital. The other four injured CRPF jawans are undergoing treatment. Some of the injured are said to be in a critical condition.
The officer and the jawans were posted at CRPF 165 BN camp.
The incident occurred on Saturday night when the deceased officer and the jawans were conducting vigil in the area. While the five CRPF personnel were out conducting vigil, they were struck by lightning. After hearing about the incident, locals rushed to the spot.
Flooding in Sukhothai's Khirimas district remained critical on Monday morning, with its main business area under water up to 60 centimetres deep and the flood death toll rising to three after the discovery of a body in a canal.
The victim was identified as tambon Nong Prading resident Sriprai Boo-on, 48.
Khirimas's 10 tambons are inundated, affecting 5,536 families and damaging about 20,000 rai (3,200 hectares) of farmland.
Besides various state offices, 11 schools were closed including Khirimas Phittayakhom School, Ban Lan Eung School, Ban Khao Thong Pha Ngab School, Ban Sam Poung School and Ban Pak Klong Reu School.
They will remain shut until the situation returns to normal, said Sukhothai Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 chief Phayom Wongpul.
Ground to sky lightning in Oklahoma City on May 18 2017.
With atmospheric changes expected during the grand solar minimum intensification and the inter-tropical convergence zone shifting, strange occurrences in our skies are to be expected. Here we go, Ground to Sky Lightning, but the media blames it on mobile phone towers. Also record cold and snow records broken during the latest storm on record with the greatest snow depths back to 1880's. Also I included the newest research I have on the timeline and intensification for the grand solar minimum.
A polar bear and two cubs ready to spring into the ice-cold waters
All the stories of low Arctic sea ice seem to be exaggerated as there is record sea ice off Newfoundland even with incredible pack ice 12 polar bears came ashore, a rarity and were put down by game officials as the danger to the public. Sea ice is not at record lows as they would have you believe, so much ice is there that now they are trying to confuse you with "Young Sea Ice" , hey sea ice is sea ice. It still has albedo effect and our planet has begin to cool. The mini ice age is here and intensifying.
A loud, crashing bang jolted the nerves of many Merrimack Valley residents late Thursday night.
The boom came at around 11 p.m., on the tail end of an intense thunder storm.
Mary Murphy, of Linwood Street, said the noise woke her out of a sound sleep. "It was very loud," she said. "I thought there had been a car accident." Some of her friends in New Hampshire heard the noise at that same time, she said.
Murphy teaches in Lynn and her colleagues also reported hearing the "really loud" bang, she said. "My house shook," Murphy said. One of her fellow teachers thought there had been a gas explosion, she added.
A couple of police dispatchers said they, too, heard the bang. "It rattled my house," said Emily Staton, who dispatches for the Groveland police. She lives close to the Bates Bridge in Haverhill.
A 50-year-old fisherman, bitten by a group of dogs at Pulluvilla near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, died early on Monday morning at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College hospital, an official said.
Jocelyn was attacked late on Sunday night. He was walking towards the beach just after having his dinner, getting ready to go fishing when the dogs attacked him, Keston, president of the local village council said.
"This occurred around 11 p.m. Jocelyn was rushed to the hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries today morning," said Keston.
It was in the same place in August 2016, that a woman was bitten to death in a similar canine attack. In the past one year, this is the fourth casualty in the state capital district.
A Georgia woman captured an image Wednesday of a rather stunning weather phenomenon.
Karen Dell Seagraves of Resaca in northwestern Georgia posted the photo of what looks like a vivid, rainbow-like stripe streaming across the sky to Facebook.
The odd but equally beautiful rainbow-like stripes are circumhorizontal arcs, or CAs.
Typically, you associate rainbows with rain and sunlight. However, CAs result from the refraction of sunlight through plate-shaped ice crystals.
For a CA to form, the sun has to be 58 degrees above the horizon. This is a rare sight at higher latitudes, where the sun is not sufficiently high above the horizon. In the middle latitudes, however, the spring and summer months offer the best chance to see this.
About two weeks ago, a seismic swarm just west of the city of Seattle, Washington, and southwest of Bainbridge Island started. It began with a M=3.3, which was followed a week later by a M=3.4 and a M=3.5. In total, the USGS has recorded 72 earthquakes in the area over the last two weeks. While there has only been one earthquake in the last few days (a M=1.1 at 2:13 a.m. this morning), we thought we'd take a look at the activity and the regional tectonics, with help from the people at the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
The city of Seattle sits right on top of the Seattle Fault zone, an east-west-striking system of reverse faults within the Puget Lowland. While active, the Seattle Fault Zone is largely concealed as it lies at the southern end of the Seattle Basin, which is covered by surface deposits, water and dense vegetation. Nonetheless, by using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) the faults can be clearly seen (See image below). This complex system of reverse faults formed due to regional compression on the order of 0.5 cm/yr.
Comment: A slightly earlier report from the same source contained this headline: Sukhothai hit by worst flooding in 15 years