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Cloud Precipitation

'Tasman Tempest' floods New Zealand's Auckland; 65 mm (2.5 in) of rain in one hour


The Watchers
Sun, 12 Mar 2017 08:57 UTC
Sinkhole opens in New Lynn, Auckland
© NZGrazie/TwitterSinkhole opens in New Lynn, Auckland after heavy rains on March 12, 2017.
A severe storm dubbed by NIWA meteorologists as Tasman Tempest has dumped extremely heavy rain and wreaked havoc in parts of northern New Zealand over the past couple of days. Some regions already saw 100-year storms and their worst flooding in a generation.

A huge sinkhole has opened up and some 320 houses were flooded in Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand, on Sunday, March 12, 2017, after torrential rain, including 65 mm (2.55 inches) of rain in just one hour, hit the city. 225 of the flooded houses are in West Auckland, the worst hit area.

Residents reported it took just 15 minutes for the water to completely flood their homes and turn streets into rivers. Civil Defence issued a warning to stay out of floodwaters which could be contaminated by sewage.

Local media reported that two people had to be rescued after a huge sinkhole opened up in the city, threatening the stability of a building and trapping multiple cars.

MetService meteorologist April Clark said around 80 mm (3.14 inches) fell in Auckland over a 24 hour period, but the worst of the rain seems to have taken place between 10:00 and 13:00 local time, with New Lynn and Glen Eden the worst affected.

Comment: Last week parts of New Zealand were hit by other storms bringing heavy rainfall.

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Binoculars

Ivory Gull from the Arctic found in Flint, Michigan


abc12.com
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:28 UTC
Ivory Gull
Ivory Gull
It's a bird watchers dream.

A rare bird made a special appearance in Flint.

Bird watchers spotted the Ivory Gull near the University of Michigan-Flint and called ABC12.

The bird is a long way from its natural habitat.

The Ivory Gull rarely comes south of the Bering Sea.

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Map

Mysterious boom radiates through northern Kentucky county

Ashley Sutter
The Sentinel-News
Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:55 UTC
Shelby County, KY
© Via Pinterest
Eastern part of the county rocked by strange rumble

Social media was bustling with chatter over the weekend regarding an unanticipated and thunderous boom that occurred Saturday evening. But days later, people are still searching for a solid explanation.

Shelby County Emergency Management Agency Director Paul Whitman said he was asleep at the time but began receiving text messages around 9:15 Saturday night questioning a loud boom that radiated through the eastern portion of the county.

Whitman said there were reports from those in Mount Eden to Bagdad.
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Seismograph

Shallow 5.6 magnitude earthquake recorded in the Kermadec Islands region

Timoci Vula
The Fiji Times
Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:33 UTC
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A 5.6 magnitude earthquake occurred this morning in the Kermadec Islands region, Northeast of New Zealand's North Island.

The Seismology Unit of the Suva-based Department of Mineral Resources stated the moderate earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km at 5:10am.

The quake's source location was registered at 943km Northeast from Whangarei in New Zealand, 1159km South-southwest from Nuku'alofa in Tonga, and 1460km South-southeast from Suva.

The Seismology Unit has assured that this seismic activity did not pose any immediate threat to the Fiji region.
The map showing the epicentre of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred in the Kermadec Islands region in New Zealand.
The map showing the epicentre of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that occurred in the Kermadec Islands region in New Zealand.
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Cloud Lightning

Girl and 2 cows killed by lightning bolt in Kenya

Ruth Mbula
Daily Nation
Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:13 UTC
A girl died after being struck by lightning in Kisii County on March 10, 2017.
© YASUYOSHI CHIBA girl died after being struck by lightning in Kisii County on March 10, 2017
A 12 year old girl died while her older sister sustained injuries after they were struck by lightning in Omorendi village, in Kisii County.

Also a cow and a calf were killed in the Friday incident.

The deceased was identified as Patroba Maturi and her sister Linet Nyanchama.

Nyamache sub-county police boss Japheth Mwirichia said the incident was reported by the area's community policing chairman Alfanus Nyabuto Mosiori.
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Better Earth

US EPA Chief says CO2 is NOT the primary driver of climate change

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:00 UTC
Scott Pruitt
© dailywire.comEPA Chief Scott Pruitt
US EPA chief comes out and says that CO2 is not the primary driver of the climate and that it is impossible to correctly measure the entire surface of the globe to get a true assessment of changes in Earth's climate system. Australia is closing the Hazelwood power plant that is a back up for South Australia if power from wind is not available, now what, no back up for that.



Snow on tap for the SE USA in the coming week and new food growing techniques with SquareRoots LED Vertical farms.

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Comment: See also: EPA Chief Pruitt: Carbon dioxide isn't "primary contributor" to global warming

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Biohazard

Radioactive wild boars running rampant in Fukushima after people evacuated

Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura
NY Times
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
Wild Boars
Radioactive boars have settled into where people have evacuated. Can you blame them?
They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes. They occasionally attack humans. But perhaps most dangerous of all, the marauders carry with them highly radioactive material.

Hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming across northern Japan, where the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant six years ago forced thousands of residents to desert their homes, pets and livestock. Some animals, like cattle, were left to rot in their pens.

As Japan prepares to lift some evacuation orders on four towns within the more than 12-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant later this month, officials are struggling to clear out the contaminated boars.

Comment: The Japanese government has tried to keep under wraps, the true extent of the damage that the Fukushima Nuclear Plant fallout has caused. And with these boars showing signs of being irradiated 300 times what's considered the safety limit, is it any wonder most people don't want to move back to the area?

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Cloud Precipitation

State of emergency declared following floods in Amazonas, Brazil; Juruá river 4 metres above flood level

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:12 UTC
Floods in Amazonas state, Brazil, March 2017.
© Civil Defence AmazonasFloods in Amazonas state, Brazil, March 2017.
The Juruá river in the northern state of Amazonas, Brazil, has overflowed affecting more than 6,000 families in four municipalities.

Civil Defence officials have been monitoring the situation since heavy rainfall in early January. However levels of the river recently increased dramatically and a state of emergency has been declared in the municipalities of Guajará, Ipixuna, Eirunepé and Itamarati.

As of 07 March, 2017, the Juruá river in Guajará reached 16.68 metres where the flood level is 12.64 metres.

Amazonas Civil Defence have started to distribute food and other emergency supplies including medicine, hygiene kit, sleeping equipment and water purification kits.

Elsewhere in the state increasing levels of the Juruá have placed on alert communities in the municipalities of Juruá, Carauari and Envira.
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38 killed, 53,000 displaced in Madagascar cyclone


PressTV
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:29 UTC
small building damaged by a tree in a street in Sambava, Madagascar, on March 8, 2017.
© AFPSmall building damaged by a tree in a street in Sambava, Madagascar, on March 8, 2017.

Nearly 40 people have lost their lives and 180 others sustained injuries since a powerful cyclone battered the island nation of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean mid-last week.

The national disaster management office in Madagascar (BNGC) made the announcement on Friday, saying that 38 people had been killed countrywide by tropical cyclone Enawo and an estimated 53,000 people displaced by storm waters.

More than 32,000 people have been affected in the capital city of Antananarivo alone, the agency said in an emailed statement.

"The damage is enormous wherever the cyclone has gone," said Thierry Venty, the executive secretary of the BNGC agency, without providing further details on overall damage and casualties.
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Wolf

At least 12 injured after stray dogs attack locals in Guntur, India


The News Minute
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:36 UTC
Image for representation
Image for representation
At least 12 people were injured on Friday after stray dogs attacked residents of Lingamguntla and Pedakurapadu, two villages in Andhra's Guntur district.

Most of the victims were reported to be agricultural labourers, who were rushed and treated at the Pedakurapadu Primary Health Centre (PHC).

Other reports added that the absence of dog sterilisation in the villages was the main reason behind the increase in the number of dogs.

Guntur has been plagued with stray dog attacks over the past year, as many victims are rushed to the Government General Hospital (GGH) every month.
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