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Attention

Bear attacks teenager in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park


knoxnews.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:08 UTC
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Black bear
Officials with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have closed several trails and backcountry campsites in the Hazel Creek section of the park because of a bear attack Saturday night.

According to the park, a 16-year-old Athens, Ohio, boy was pulled from his hammock at about 10:30 p.m. by a bear and injured at backcountry campsite 84, which is 4.5 miles from the Fontana Lake shoreline near Hazel Creek in North Carolina. The father was able to drive the bear off from the area, officials said.

Immediately following the incident, the boy and his father hiked to the lakeshore where they were transported across the lake to Cable Cove boat dock by campers at backcountry campsite 86 who had a boat. Graham County Rescue EMS transported them to a landing zone where the injured party was flown by Mountain Area Medical Airlift to Mission Hospital in Asheville at approximately 3 a.m. Sunday.
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Fish

Massive fish kill at Stanley, Hong Kong


ejinsight.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:56 UTC
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© Google Map, Apple DailyThousands of fish stuggle in the water off Stanley. Many washed ashore dead or dying (inset).
Tens of thousands of dead white fish have washed ashore in Hong Kong's Stanley district but authorities don't know what killed them.

The massive fish kill covered a big swath of St. Stephen's Bay in a silvery hue, Apple Daily reported Monday.

Most were sardines, thousands of which were spotted struggling in the water.

A man, surnamed Chui, described the scene as "breathtaking", with the water covered in a film of silver from dead or dying fish for about 30 minutes on Sunday.

He said he tried to push some of the fish back out to the water but there were just too many of them.

Most had died, he said.
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Attention

Humpback whale dies off Scotland's north-east coast

Chris Foote
news.stv.tv
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:46 UTC
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© STVHumpback: Whale died after becoming tangled in rope.
A humpback whale has died after becoming tangled in rope off Scotland's north-east coast.

A rescue was launched after a fisherman spotted the whale near the village of Helmsdale on Thursday.

A British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) team was scrambled, but choppy seas and stormy weather hampered the search.

The whale is believed to have drowned on Saturday and its body was recovered by the BDMLR on Sunday.

A BDMLR spokeswoman said: "The body was retrieved yesterday and it was confirmed dead on Saturday.

"It was brought back and pathologists from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) will perform a post-mortem.

"It was entangled in rope which could have made the whale weak and unable to feed and drown."
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Cloud Lightning

Massive Colorado thunderstorm appears to spawn rare 'twin' tornadoes

Andrew Freedman
Mashable UK
Sun, 07 Jun 2015 13:23 UTC
Twin tornadoes in Colorado
© Kelly DelayA supercell thunderstorm produces two tornadoes at the same time near Simla, Colorado on June 4, 2015
Storm chaser and professional photographer Kelly Delay took an epic picture of a particularly productive supercell thunderstorm near Simla, Colorado, on June 4.

The storm produced at least four tornadoes, according to reports and footage from Delay and other chasers who also followed the storm. At least one of these tornadoes destroyed a handful of homes.

Delay captured the image, which shows two tornadoes at the same time, or possibly one tornado on the right and a landspout funnel on the left.

Landspouts are tornadoes that are not spawned by the larger area of rotation in a supercell thunderstorm, which is known as the mesocyclone. These tornadoes generally form underneath thunderstorms, even non-severe ones, and are often thought of as the landform of waterspouts because they are weak tornadoes.

It is possible that this particular thunderstorm, though, produced two tornadoes at the same time. Twin tornadoes were observed in one Nebraska storm last year, and are not regarded as freak events, but rather just relatively rare occurrences.
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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy downpour floods Bangkok, Thailand with over 5 inches of rain in 3 hours


Bangkok Post
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:57 UTC
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An image posted on the Facebook page of JS100 shows the floods on Sukhumvit Soi 22 on Monday morning.
A heavy overnight downpour that lasted more than five hours caused traffic chaos and disruption throughout Bangkok.

At least three schools simply announced they were closing for the day.

Floods at Monday morning rush hour extended from Rama 4 Road and Asoke to Ratchadaphisek and in the east as far as Samut Prakan's BTS Bearing BTS station.

The rain began before 2am in many areas, and did not let up until after 6am. Heavy thunder and lightning accompanied the storm system.

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Arrow Down

Record cold night temperatures in June for Twente and Eindhoven in the Netherlands

Janene Van Jaarsveldt
nltimes.nl
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:30 UTC
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© Wikimedia Commons/ErkahaThermometer
Saturday night was a record cold night for both Twente and Eindhoven. But despite this brief bout of cold, warmer weather is expected for later this week.

Twente measured -2.2 degrees on Saturday night, the Gelderlander reports. The measurement was done at 10 centimeter height from the ground. According to the newspaper, the cold weather can partly be attributed to the cool sea air from the Northwest.

Eindhoven measured 0.2 degrees overnight on Saturday, also a record for this time of year. "For this time of year this is very exceptional", Dana Woei of Weerplaza said.

These cold records follow an extremely hot day on Friday, when temperatures reached above 30 degrees in some places in the Netherlands. Temperatures dropped again on Saturday, with some places not even reaching 20 degrees for maximum temperature.

The next few days are expected to be cloudy and cool, but the warm weather should return later this week, the Telegraaf reports. On Wednesday and Thursday temperatures are expected to rise to between 20 and 25 degrees, with an even warmer day on Friday. The weather will be cooler again over the weekend, with showers and thunderstorms expected.
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Attention

Wild elephant kills 4 more people in Bhagalpur, India

Kumar Rajesh
The Times of India
Sun, 07 Jun 2015 12:06 UTC
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Wild (bloody livid?) elephant
Four more persons, including two women, a man and a teenager, were trampled and killed by a wild elephant running amok on Saturday morning at Sabour-Goradih area in Bhagalpur district. The elephant killed two persons on Thursday. A few others were also injured while running away from the tusker.

The four deceased were identified as 70-year old Makri Devi (Rajpur village), 15-year-old Mohd Ehshan (Banshi Tekar village), 80-year-old Parsadi Tanti (Jhurkhuria village) and 75-year-old Shrista Devi (Fatehpur village). The place where the incidents occurred on Saturday is 5-8km away from Bhagalpur city.

Several houses were also destroyed in fresh attack on the houses of villagers despite the forest department officials and employees sweating out to either capture or facilitate the escape of the tusker towards adjoining Godda district in Jharkhand via Sanhaula block in Bhagalpur district.

Comment: See also: Wild elephant kills two in Bhagalpur, India

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Cloud Lightning

Two killed, 15 injured by lightning bolt in Maharashtra, India


indiatvnews.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:12 UTC
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Two labourers were killed while 15 others were injured as lightning struck them in a tribal dominated village here, police said today.

The incident took place last night when untimely rains lashed parts of the district including Sadadpada village in Peint taluka where a bunch of labourers were working at a small nullah site (Kolhapur type ware), when lightning struck the hut, they all had rushed to take refuge in.

Two labourers, Salik Krishna Rathad (20) and Krishna Choudhari (65) died on the spot, while 15 others sustained injuries and were taken to a rural hospital in Peint, said inspector V D Sase.

Surgana, Trimbakeshwar and other parts of Nashik witnessed unseasonal rains last night while downpour along with hailstorm at many places has damaged standing crops in the last fortnight.
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Bizarro Earth

USGS: Earthquake Magnitude 6.2 - 64km ENE of Mutsu, Japan


US Geological Survey
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 07:56 UTC
Mutsu Quake_080615
© USGS
Time
  1. 2015-06-08 06:01:08 (UTC)
  2. Times in other timezones
Nearby Cities
  1. 64km (40mi) ENE of Mutsu, Japan
  2. 99km (62mi) NNE of Misawa, Japan
  3. 102km (63mi) SSW of Shizunai, Japan
  4. 107km (66mi) ESE of Hakodate, Japan
  5. 670km (416mi) NNE of Tokyo, Japan
Scientific Data
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Arrow Down

Van driven into sinkhole in Cleveland, Ohio

Allison Brown
fox8.com
Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:13 UTC
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© WOIOA woman drove into a sinkhole
A messy situation on Cleveland's east side, as Glenside Road was waterlogged and had a deceiving hole on Saturday.

The situation caused some headaches, especially for one driver whose van took a nose dive right into what she thought was a puddle.

"It just was like, boom, and then smoke started rolling up off of the driver's side," Dikisha Taylor said.

There was unexpected damage to her vehicle.

"The bumper, the light, the door, you can see it's still dripping water," she said.
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