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Cloud Precipitation

Record precipitation levels threaten to trigger widespread flooding in Canada


CBC.ca
Sat, 06 May 2017 16:33 UTC
Floods in Quebec, Canada
© CHRIS WATTIE/REUTERSA man walks past an abandoned car on a flooded residential street in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, May 4, 2017. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for much of Quebec.
Unrelenting rain is worsening rising water levels in Central Canada that have already forced Quebec to call in military aid.

The Quebec government says Canadian Forces personnel have been enlisted to help battle the floodwaters in that province, where the storm is most severe.

More than 130 communities there have been hit by flooding and some 700 people have abandoned their homes.

Environment Canada says a massive system is slowly drenching much of Ontario, the Maritimes and Quebec. Record precipitation levels — with double to triple the seasonal norms for rainfall — have threatened to trigger widespread flooding in those areas.

Rainfall advisories were lifted for Montreal and Toronto early Saturday.

However, elsewhere in Quebec, along the Gaspé Peninsula, Environment Canada warns up to an additional 100 millimetres could fall.

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Cloud Precipitation

Increasing cosmic rays linked to historic USA floods & global deluges

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Sat, 06 May 2017 14:34 UTC
US floods
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
With historic floods sweeping our planet, the cause can be attributed directly to an increase in galactic cosmic rays. These cause cloud formation between 15,000 and 18,500 feet and there have been record increases in the last 18 months of 12.5% with another 19% increase forecast for solar cycle 25. This is the reason our planet is being ravaged by hail, blizzards and historic floods events, not CO2, but the answer is Galactic Cosmic Rays.


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Cloud Grey

Stunning 'roll cloud' photographed in the skies above Cumbria, UK

Amie Gordon
Daily Mail
Sat, 06 May 2017 12:15 UTC
The clearly defined narrow cloud is believed to be cause by the Helm wind - a result of the geograph of the fells - and was seen by thousands of people as it drifted over Cumbria
The clearly defined narrow cloud is believed to be cause by the Helm wind - a result of the geograph of the fells - and was seen by thousands of people as it drifted over Cumbria
Onlookers were treated to a stunning spectacle as a strong wind created an unusual meteorological sight above their homes.

Known as Helm Bar, the 'roll cloud' formation stretched across the sky above Carlisle, Cumbria.

Extreme weather conditions which are unique to the highest point of the Pennines created the striking tube-shaped cloud.

The helm bar cloud formation is only said to end when the direction of the wind changes again.
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Info

Hundreds of leopard sharks washing up dead on San Francisco beaches


Sputnik
Sat, 06 May 2017 11:59 UTC
leopard shark
© Matthew Field
For seven weeks now, hundreds upon hundreds of leopard shark corpses have been washing up on the beaches of San Francisco Bay, turning the City by the Bay into the "Dead Shark Capital of California."

A similar incident occurred in 2011, when the beautiful beaches of San Francisco Bay were choked with the fetid corpses of leopard sharks. Similar die-offs have been reported going back to 1967.

"I look at it as a 50-year-old shark murder mystery, and we are hopefully closing in on the killer," said California Department of Fish and Wildlife senior fish pathologist Mark Okihiro to Bay Nature, a California conservation group.
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Wolf

Investigation into woman's death after dog attack in Buncombe County, North Carolina

Abigail Margulis
Citizen-Times
Fri, 05 May 2017 08:53 UTC
Dog attack
The Buncombe County Sheriff's Office was investigating after a woman was found dead in her home Monday along with an aggressive dog, according to an agency spokeswoman.

The Sheriff's Office identified the woman as 59-year-old Jane Marie Egle, who lived in a home near the Bent Creek Forest.

Egle had visible cuts on her body that are consistent with an animal attack, but her exact cause of death had not been determined by Friday, said Natalie Bailey, spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Office.

The county's Animal Services Division responded to the residence around 5:20 p.m. Monday after receiving a call for assistance.

When deputies arrived, Egle was lying on the floor unresponsive inside her home, Bailey said. An aggressive dog, a South African Boerboel, was also in the home and would not allow anyone inside.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 3 people in Bangladesh


en.prothom-alo.com
Fri, 05 May 2017 08:45 UTC
LIGHTNING
Three people, including a farmer, were killed in lightning strikes in Jessore and Gopalganj districts on Friday, reports UNB.

In Jessore, two people and a cow were killed at Nishchintpur village of Jhikargachha upazila after being struck by a thunderbolt.

The deceased are Yunus Ali, 25, son of Akbar Ali, and Jasimuddin, son of Tajuddin.

Masud Karim, officer-in-charge of Jhikargachha police station, said the lightning struck them while they were going to a field in the morning.
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Arrow Up

Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts belching ash up to 37,000 feet


AOL
Fri, 05 May 2017 17:05 UTC
Fuego volcano eruption
© AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ / MANILA BULLETINThe Fuego volcano is seen from Alotenango municipality, Sacatepequez department, about 30 km southwest of Guatemala City, as it erupts on May 5, 2017.
Guatemala's Fuego volcano belched black ash high into the sky at dawn on Friday, May 5th, with authorities placing local authorities from nearby villages on high alert.

Guatemala's volcanic monitor, Insivumeh, said in a statement that thick columns of ash reached between 34,000 feet and 37,000 feet above sea level, amid loud explosions and extended new lava flows.

According to Insivumeh's statement, ash was swept more than 12 miles towards the south, southwest and west and fell in the areas of San Pedro Yepocapa, Sangre de Cristo, Panimache I and II.

Local media reported that the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) has not yet reported damages after the explosion, which is the fourth so far this year.

The volcano is located about 30 miles southwest of the Guatemalan capital.
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Snowflake Cold

Vineyards in France suffer at least €1 billion in damage after Spring freeze; the biggest disaster in a quarter century say vintners


RT
Fri, 05 May 2017 14:56 UTC
Frost damage to French vineyards
© Christian Hartmann / Reuters Workers and wine growers light heaters early in the morning, to protect vineyards from frost damage outside Chablis, France
Spring frost has ravaged production in some of France's most famous winemaking regions, including Champagne, Bordeaux, and Burgundy, causing at least €1 billion in damage in what vintners call the biggest disaster in a quarter century.

Temperatures plunged below freezing in late April, hurting shoots already well-developed because of earlier mild weather.

Winegrowers have used candles, heaters and even the down-draft from helicopters to try to save crops.

"It's a frost like we haven't seen since 1991," Paul-Francois Vranken, chief executive officer of Vranken-Pommery Monopole told Bloomberg, adding that winemakers "are worried."

April's frost damage spread across Europe's wine-producing regions, but France was worst affected.

According to the Bordeaux wine federation FGVB, frost affected as much as 60 percent of the Bordeaux wine-growing areas and will cut the volume of the 2017 vintage by as much as 40 percent. Some Bordeaux chateaus say they lost almost everything.

Comment: Other crop losses across the world due to cold & Mini Ice Age climate intensification

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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rains in New York area produce flash floods

Ariel Zilber
Daily Mail (UK)
Fri, 05 May 2017 20:23 UTC
Flash floods in New York
© Jack Pestaner / FacebookWater has also been seen accumulating at subway stations of City Hall, Borough Hall in Brooklyn, and the World Trade Center. The effects of the rain on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Station in Jersey City is seen above.
Heavy rains brought flash floods that are likely to hamper the afternoon commute home in the New York metropolitan area on Friday.

Transit officials are reporting delays caused by flooding while those traveling by air may have to wait up to four hours at any of the three local airports.

The heavy rain prompted officials to shut down the main Seventh Avenue entrance to Penn Station in midtown Manhattan.

Water has also been seen accumulating at subway stations of City Hall, Borough Hall in Brooklyn, and the World Trade Center.

New Jersey has also been hit hard by flash floods.

Cars driving along some parts of Route 440 in Jersey City were completely submerged.

Police in Hoboken are urging motorists not to drive unless it's an emergency.

Social media users posted images showing cars almost entirely covered by a few feet of water.

Forecasters are predicting more precipitation as the evening progresses on Friday.

Thunderstorms and showers are possible later Friday and into Saturday.
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Snowflake Cold

Toronto headed for one of the most prolonged cold periods in over 40 years

Daksha Rangan
The Weather Network
Fri, 05 May 2017 21:10 UTC
Snowfall Forecast
© The Weather Network
The month of May begins on an unseasonable note for southern Ontario, with an extended stretch of below-seasonal temperatures in the region's forecast.

Much of the south of the province is also in line for a prolonged rainfall event, with parts of the southwest expected to see rainfall totals surpass 100 mm in some areas.

But that system will be accompanied by a cold snap. And by "cold snap," we not only mean single-digit daytime highs, there's also a fair chance many people in southern Ontario are likely to see a few snowflakes in their forecast by Sunday.

"The cold snap, which is expected to last five days, will be one of the most significant spans of cold weather Toronto has seen in May," The Weather Network meteorologist Tyler Hamilton says.

"The record for the most single-digit days in a row in May is five, and that was back in May of 1974," Hamilton adds. "Currently, we're forecast to get five days of single digits, making it one of the most prolonged cold periods in history."
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