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Huge sinkhole appears at landfill site in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Mary Beth Gahan
The Virginian-Pilot
Tue, 11 Oct 2016 11:01 UTC
Sinkhole
© Virginia Beach Public Works
The city landfill is closed until further notice after heavy rain and flooding from Hurricane Matthew created a Grand Canyon of sorts there.

Water filled up a quarter-mile ditch that runs around the site off Centerville Turnpike, then spilled over into a borrow pit and caused "extensive damage," according to the Department of Public Works.

The ditch, which used to be 4 feet deep, now bottoms out at 30 feet.

A concrete-block bathroom was washed away, along with an exit road at the landfill and eight sections of 36-inch pipe. A pump that was in the pit has disappeared. An excavator and a horizontal grinder - two large pieces of construction equipment - are submerged up to their cabs.

Electricity has been shut off at the site, and the city has dammed up the water going into the borrow pit to slow the flow, said Drew Lankford, public works spokesman. Extra pumps have been added to drain the pit. The road will also need to be repaired.

"It's going to be several days before we're up and running," Lankford said.

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Rare fallstreak or hole punch clouds appear over Somerset, UK

Shivali Best
Daily Mail (UK)
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:55 UTC
hole-punch cloud over UK
© Jason Bryant/ApexThe rare atmospheric phenomenon is a strange cloud formation, known as fallstreak, or hole-punch clouds

Residents in Somerset were in for a surprise this morning, when they spotted what could easily be mistaken for a UFO in the sky.

The rare atmospheric phenomenon is a strange cloud formation, known as fallstreak, or hole-punch clouds.

Experts say the stunning clouds that look like a brushstrokes are caused by a rare - but rather ordinary - atmospheric occurrence.

The bizarre clouds were snapped over Shepton Mallet, in Somerset.

These unfamiliar clouds form when temperatures are below freezing, but water droplets in the clouds have yet to freeze due to a lack of ice particles.

When ice particles form quickly, it causes a domino effect as the water droplets connect with the crystals, which get heavier and then start to fall all of a sudden - leaving a large hole in the cloud.


Comment: Earlier in the year this rare cloud phenomena appeared over Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Other strange cloud anomalies seem to be appearing globally with higher frequency and intensity. Factors which may contribute to these 'strange skies' are atmospheric dust loading from increased comet and volcanic activity and changes in the layers of the atmosphere.

An indicator of this dust loading is the intensification of noctilucent clouds we are observing. As explained in Pierre Lescaudron's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection:
The increase in noctilucent clouds is one of the effects - among others - of increased dust concentration in the atmosphere in general, and in the upper atmosphere in particular. We suspect that most of this atmospheric dust is of cometary origin, while some of it may be due to the recent increase in volcanic activity.
See also: Chemtrails? Contrails? Strange skies

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Britain facing a "winter of flooding" with storms and heavy rain predicted

Lauren Fruen
The Sun
Thu, 06 Oct 2016 21:04 UTC
Flooding
© Getty / stock image
Britain is facing a "winter of flooding" with high winds and heavy rain threatening to batter the country over the next few months. Stormy weather is due to hit the UK later this month and forecasters have warned of the first named storm of the season within weeks. They say Scotland and the north will be in the firing line for the severe wet weather this winter.

AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alan Reppert said the entire country should prepare for "damaging winds" through winter. He warned: "A stormy weather pattern will set in before wintertime with active weather during the second half of October across the United Kingdom." Mr Reppert added: "At least one named windstorm is expected during this time before a lull in November. However, storm systems may still bring locally heavy rainfall at times during the month. The most active period of weather will be during the official winter months from December through February."

Brits have been told to expect a choppy run up to Christmas with wet and windy weather stretching through the New Year.
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Hundreds stranded by record-breaking flooding North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew

Michael Nunez
Gizmodo
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:16 UTC
South Carolina flooding
© AP
The United States may have avoided the brunt of Hurricane Matthew's deadly rain and wind storms, but it wasn't enough to prevent the Southeast coast from receiving severe damage. After Hurricane Matthew rolled through the Caribbean and killed nearly 900 people in Haiti, the storm continued along the US Southeastern coast, pummeling states like Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina all weekend.

At least 19 people have been killed in the US by the hurricane across four Southeast states according to authorities. At least eight people were killed in North Carolina; three people were killed in Georgia; six people were killed in Florida; and at least two people were killed in South Carolina.

Local residents may have underestimated the severity of Hurricane Matthew, because it was downgraded to a Category 3 just before hitting landfall in Florida on Friday. It was again downgraded to a Category 1 when it hit South Carolina on Sunday. Regardless of its categorization, Hurricane Matthew still wreaked havoc in the areas it touched. "What those categories don't include is how water can kill," said North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory in an interview with the New York Times.

In North Carolina—the state to receive the worst parts of the storm in the US—more than 1,000 people had to be rescued on Sunday, and more than 3,000 people were moved to shelters. Nearly 770,000 people across North Carolina were left without power. The storm has left more than 2 million businesses and homes without power along the Southeastern coast.

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Record low number of UK butterflies a 'shock and a mystery'

Patrick Barkham
The Guardian
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 18:24 UTC
The average number of peacock butterflies seen by participants in the count fell by 42% compared to last year.
The average number of peacock butterflies seen by participants in the count fell by 42% compared to last year.
Annual Big Butterfly Count records lowest ever number of usually prolific species despite the relatively warm, dry summer

If you think you saw fewer butterflies than ever this British summer, you are probably correct: the Big Butterfly Count has recorded its lowest number of common species since records began.

Normally ubiquitous butterflies such as the gatekeeper, comma and small copper experienced their worst summers in the history of the count, which is run by Butterfly Conservation and began in 2010.

Scientists said the low number of butterflies is "a shock and a mystery" because this summer was warmer than average and much drier in England than the previous worst year for butterflies, 2012, which was unusually cold and wet.

"The drop in butterfly numbers this summer has been a shock," said Richard Fox of Butterfly Conservation. "When we have cold, wet summers, as in 2012, we expect butterfly populations to plummet, but that wasn't the case this year.
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Whale remains found on beach near Pevensey, UK


Eastbourne Herald
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:44 UTC
The remains of the 50ft whale.
© Stephen Marsh The remains of the 50ft whale.
The body of a whale found on a Pevensey Beach has been identified as the same species as the huge creature that famously washed up in almost the exact same place in 1865.

The 50ft (15m) remains were discovered on Friday (October 7) at Normans Bay by Jez Asfour while out walking his dog.

Rob Deaville, of the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, said that it was most likely to be a Finback Whale, the second largest type of the mammal after the Blue Whale.

Mr Deaville will be collecting bone samples under license, as it is illegal to take any part of a dead whale without one. He said, "We do not normally get access to this tissue."

The zoologist said that it is impossible to tell how the creature died but he was confident that the rope, found wrapped around its tail, was attached to the body after its death.

A 71ft (21m) Finback Whale, which weighed as much as eight double decker buses, washed up on the beach at Pevensey Bay on Novermber 13, 1865.

Reports say as many as 40,000 people flocked to see the creature, the skeleton of which is still on display at Cambridge Museum of Zoology.

For many, in an age before television or the internet, it was the first time they had ever seen a whale.
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Mounds of hail pile up after storm pounds Safford, Arizona

Phil Benson
Tucson News Now
Sun, 09 Oct 2016 14:57 UTC
Hail was 6 inches deep in some spots.
© Kris KeyesHail was 6 inches deep in some spots.
Residents in Safford got more than just rain from an overnight storm.

"The cell just came out of nowhere," says longtime Safford resident, Skyler Evans.

Hail fell and according to Brandie Ybarra who posted a photo on our Facebook page, it broke out windows on two of her vehicles.

National Weather Service meteorologists in the Tucson office estimated the hail was 2 inches in diameter and 6 inches deep in some spots.

"There were definitely people that were scared there were people running and people scared," said Safford resident, Chance Campbell.

Evans said, "it was coming down so hard, you've been in heavy rain that you can't hardly see only it was solid hail. We saw quarter sized, dime size and even softball size hail."

Mounds of hail
© Julie Whipple-McKennonMounds of hail
The golf ball sized hail filled Safford, streets, making it look like a winter white out.

The hail storm was also captured in a photo by Valerie Boughner. Her photo shows her yard covered in white.

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2 killed by lightning strikes in Sherpur, Bangladesh


The Financial Express (Bangladesh)
Mon, 10 Oct 2016 12:42 UTC
lightning
© 123RF
Two people were killed in two separate incidents of lightning strike in Jhinaigati upazila under Sherpur on Sunday.

The deceased were identified as Sada Miah, 37, son of late Siddik Ali Geda Miah of South Dariarpar village, and Basiruddin Mondal, 60, son of late Kasimuddin Mondal of Darikalinagar village in the upazila.

Officer-in-charge of Jhinaigati Police Station Mizanur Rahman said a streak of lightning struck Sada Miah as he was returning home from Dhanshail Bazar amid thunder shower in the evening, leaving him dead on the spot.

In another incident, Basiruddin was injured as a thunderbolt hit him while he was working in a field in the evening.

Later, he was rushed to Jhinaigati Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead, according to a news agency.

Source: ZR
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Global warming fraud: Earth warmest in 115K years claim debunked; IPCC climate deal rushed through

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Fri, 07 Oct 2016 07:38 UTC
Global warming fraud
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
The most outrageous claim that I have seen since starting this channel that the Earth is the warmest in 115,000 years. I show with peer reviewed data sources that the claim is erroneous and false. At the same time the IPCC climate deal was rushed through a secretive meeting ahead of US elections. The deal also claims that if CO2 is reduced that hurricanes will be controlled.


Comment: More and more climate scientists and institutions are being exposed for supporting the global warming myth. See also:

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Cloud Precipitation

Torrential rain in south Kerry, Ireland breaks 150 year old record


RTE
Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:02 UTC
landslide in south Kerry
A landslide closed part of the Wild Atlantic Way in south Kerry

Valentia Observatory in Co Kerry has recorded its highest level of rainfall on a single day since records began there over 150 years ago.

There was 105.5mm of rain in 24 hours.

Last night's torrential rain led to the closure of a number of roads on the south Kerry peninsula.

A significant land slippage blocked part of the Wild Atlantic Way tourist route between Baile an Sceilg and Portmagee.

A number of houses in the fishing village of Portmagee were badly damaged when flood waters entered during the night.
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