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Cloud Precipitation

70 dead after worst flooding ever in Namibia following on from the severest drought in 25 years


The Big Wobble
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 13:30 UTC
Floods
© Allafrica.comFloodwater in Namibia
The flood situation in the Cuvelai catchment area has reached alarming levels and residents are being warned to take necessary precautions, in expectation of the worst possible flooding experienced here in living memory.

Over 70 people have so far drowned in Oshana, Omusati and Ohangwena regions in Namibia because of heavy downpours.

Over 60 schools in Omusati Region are also reported to have shut their doors, while about some 120 families consisting of 562 individuals have been displaced at Oshakati and temporarily relocated to Ekuku.

Heavy rainfall is forecast for the areas within the Cuvelai Basin, including Omusati, Oshana, Ohangwena, Kunene, Kavango East and West and the Zambezi regions and residents of those areas are advised to be on high alert for possible flooding.

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Fire

Mass evacuations as wildfire threatens Boulder, Colorado


RT
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:55 UTC
Boulder, CO fires
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Firefighters are battling to contain a raging wildfire just outside Boulder, Colorado which has already forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 homes.

The fire broke out overnight and quickly expanded to cover 62 acres, according to the Boulder Office of Emergency Management (OEM). The blaze lies just west of the city of Boulder.

Authorities are struggling to contain the fire and the Denver Post reports that the flames is moving in a southerly direction towards downtown Boulder.
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Wolf

Commentary: Pit bull terriers pose a real danger

Gene Lyons
Indiana Gazette
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:44 UTC
Pit bull
Some years ago, I visited the local Boys Club early one morning. There had been a break-in. Two young brothers had gotten caught making off with pool balls and cues. They weren't going to be arrested, merely suspended. Police phoned their mother. It must have taken 10 minutes to persuade her to come get them. She kept insisting it was a case of mistaken identity. Her sons were at home with her the whole time.

The cop kept saying, "Ma'am, I keep trying to tell you we've got them right here." They finally had to put one of her sons on the line to make her quit fabricating alibis.

I kept thinking of that incident during recent encounters with what it's tempting to call the Pit Bull Cult. You see, I'd written a column about an unprovoked attack on my two dogs by an unleashed pit on a city park playground. Because my dogs are 120-pound Great Pyrenees who spent nine years guarding livestock (and cats) on our farm, they were never in danger.
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Cloud Lightning

Family mourns death of boy struck by lightning bolt in Kenya

Charles Lwanga
Daily Nation
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:01 UTC
A resident of Gongoni in Kilifi County displays the clothes Musa Kenga Karisa was wearing when he was struck and killed by lightning on March 18, 2017.
© Charles LwangaA resident of Gongoni in Kilifi County displays the clothes Musa Kenga Karisa was wearing when he was struck and killed by lightning on March 18, 2017.
A family in Magarini in Kilifi County is in agony after lightning struck and killed a 12-year boy during a heavy down pour this morning.

Musa Kenga Karisa, a Standard Six pupil at Mapimo Primary School, was struck at around 9am while he was walking from his home in Gongoni Township to Kokotoni, with a friend.

He was taken to Mjanaheri dispensary where he was pronounced dead. But his friend survived.

Karisa's elder brother Sammy Kenga is the one who rushed him to the facility.

"He was lying by the road near a pool of water groaning with pain," Kenga said at the Malindi Sub County hospital mortuary.

Malindi police boss Matawa Muchangi confirmed the incident.
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Info

Lake Tahoe expected to fill up with biggest physical rise in recorded history

Amy Graff
SFGate
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:51 UTC
Lake Tahoe March 2017
Lake Tahoe March 2017
Winter's unrelenting storms built up a substantial Sierra snowpack and are expected to fill the lake for the first time in 11 years.

Many low-lying areas that were exposed when the lake level was declining during the drought will be inundated with water. The docks will be bobbing in crystal blue waters once again.

Straddling the California - Nevada border, Tahoe is the sixth largest lake in the United States, an outdoor playground for people around the world, and the main water source for the Reno-Sparks, Nevada, area. The renowned ecological wonder is fed by 63 tributaries that drain 505 square miles known as the Lake Tahoe Watershed. With a vast surface area of 191 square miles, Tahoe requires an immense amount of water to fill, especially because roughly 100 billion gallons of water evaporates annually.
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Snowflake Cold

Chicago, Illinois an example of emerging Mini Ice Age climates

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 12:06 UTC
snow in Chicago
This years weather in Chicago, Illinois, USA is what we can expect for the beginning of an intensifying mini ice age climate. Out of place seasonal weather events as our jet stream shifts due to a weakening magnetic field on the Sun and a weakening magnetosphere here on Earth.


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Attention

Dead whale found in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Jesse Varner
wric.com
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:41 UTC
dead whale
A dead whale washed ashore Friday afternoon in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Dave Hallac, the superintendent with the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, confirmed that the whale washed ashore near ramp 38, between the towns of Avon and Buxton.

The whale measured approximately 29′ ft. long. Hallac also said it is not uncommon for dead whales and dolphins wash up on seashore beaches.

The cause of the whale's death is not known at this time.

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Attention

US farm credit implodes & South Korea food prices soar

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 07:27 UTC
US farm credit collapse
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Korean government has lost control of food prices in the country as massive bird flu culls of birds raising the prices of chicken and eggs by minimum of 30%, seafood 25% and vegetables up to 75%. The farm credit crunch will result in less acreage planted in 2017 and now department store sales are at record low, is this an indication people are spending more of food in the US and buying less non-essential items?

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Attention

Humpback whale washes up dead in Baja California, Mexico


Yahoo! News
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 20:36 UTC
dead whale
Dead humpback whale
A dead humpback whale washed up on the shore of an isolated tourist area south of San Felipe in Baja California, according to Mexico's environmental protection agency, PROFEPA, on March 18.

The agency said the whale was already in an advanced stage of decomposition, but said no evidence was found that its death was caused by fishing equipment.


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Cloud Lightning

Lightning not commonly seen in India during March kills 6

Anjali Marar
The Indian Express
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 20:27 UTC
Lightning strikes on March 15 over Marathwada followed by similar incident over Vidarbha, claimed lives of at least six people and damaged standing crops over this region.
Lightning strikes on March 15 over Marathwada followed by similar incident over Vidarbha, claimed lives of at least six people and damaged standing crops over this region.
The instances of lightning and thunderstorm activity, reported over parts of Marathwada and Vidarbha earlier this week, is not a common occurring event in March, said officials at India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, on Friday. Lightning strikes along with hailstorm reported on March 15 over Marathwada followed by similar incident over Vidarbha, claimed lives of at least six people and damaged standing crops over this region. Though weather experts hesitated from terming it as an unusual event, experts, however, said that records of past instances show that such activity rarely occurred in March, which is when there is seasonal transition.
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