Hurricane Blanca, a Category-4 storm with 130 mph winds, is spinning in the eastern Pacific Ocean. As of 2 p.m. ET Wednesday, it was located 455 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Blanca is nearly stationary, but will begin moving northwestward Thursday, the Weather Channel said. There is increasing confidence in a track toward southern Baja California, though it is expected to weaken as comes closer to land.
The hurricane would impact the Baja by the weekend.
Blanca is the second major hurricane to form in eastern Pacific this year. A major hurricane is one that's a Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Scale of Hurricane Intensity.
Hannah Parry Daily Mail Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:46 UTC
The NSW alpine resorts of Perisher (pictured) and Thredbo turned white overnight as 30cm of snow blanketed the mountains with lows of minus nine degrees
Australia is experiencing the coldest start to winter in forty years after parts of the country were buried under a foot of snow.
Temperatures plunged as low as minus nine degrees Celsius as the alpine resorts of Perisher and Thredbo in New South Wales disappeared underneath a blanket of snow on Monday evening.
Average winter temperatures across New South Wales are typically between 14 and 16 degrees Celsius.
It got as cold as 6.1 degrees Celsius in the City of Sydney, making it the chilliest morning the region has seen since 1987. Falls Creek in Victoria also received 20cm of snow overnight and Mount Buller recorded8cm, while Melbourne got off to its coldest morning in almost 40 years.
Spring weather in downtown Los Angeles and other areas of Southern California flip-flopped this year as temperatures cooled from March to May, creating a so-called reverse meteorological spring for the first time in nearly a century, officials said on Tuesday.
A reverse meteorological spring is rare and indicative of the abnormally warm and dry weather plaguing California, which has suffered severe drought conditions for the last four years, National Weather Service weather specialist Stuart Seto said.
"What this means is that springtime started out warmer in March and then April was cooler and May was cooler," Seto said. "It's an unusual occurrence that's only happened three times in the history since we've been keeping records."
The last reverse meteorological springs in the area were in 1914 and 1921, according to National Weather Service records dating to 1877.
Yellowstone National Park is known for its breathtaking landscapes and its array of wildlife inhabitants, but one Australian man got a little bit too close for comfort out in nature.
An unnamed 62-year-old tourist had a harrowing encounter with a bison while visiting the park. Authorities said that the man was rushed to the hospital after being tossed three times in the air by the bison. He sustained serious injuries but survived.
Yellowstone officials reported that several people had crowded the bison as it quietly lay near a path from the famous site of Old Faithful geyser. Park officials said that the bison was already becoming agitated due to the people crowding near it and it attacked the man as he took photos from a few feet away.
In a rare series of sightings, three beluga whales have been spotted repeatedly off the coasts of New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut in the past few weeks. The group was seen hanging around the area as recently as Friday when the town of New Hempstead, New York, posted a video to Facebook that shows the whales swimming near a boat.
Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the whales may have wandered down from the St. Lawrence Estuary in Canada, which is 940 miles away, where one was first spotted two years ago. If the whales were to turn around today, it could take them as long as two months to swim back, NOAA biologist Jamison Smith told Rhode Island Public Radio.
But the group seems to be headed even further southeast and Smith said their inquisitive nature may take them further still. The group was first spotted May 10 and has been observed in both Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island and Long Island Sound between New York and Connecticut. Beluga whales typically stick to colder waters but this group may be following a source of food on their long journey, WABC-TV, New York, reports.
The rescue operation to save a Humpback whale that beached earlier today in Great Brak, was unsuccessful.
According to Tersia Marais, freelance photographer for the Mossel Bay Advertiser, who arrived on the scene shortly after it was reported this morning that a whale beached, the operation was abandoned at around 13:30.
"The beach is being cleared from bystanders and general public, as the whale will have to be euthanized," Marais reported.
Members of the NSRI arrived around 11:22 and battled in rough sea conditions to get the whale back into the surf. They were assisted by Pinnacle Conservation and some members of the angling fraternity and the public.
Bystanders said that the whale was sunk deeply into the sand and at the start of the rescue already weak and kept on washing back.
A whale, thought to be a three month old minke whale, has washed up on the Lough Foyle in Myroe near Limavady.
It was discovered by people walking along the beach on Friday.
It was encouraged back into the sea by the Loughs Agency on Friday but it washed up on Tuesday due to its emaciated condition.
The dead whale has been removed from the site by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and the Loughs Agency.
A spokesperson for the Department of Environment (DOE) said: "We assessed the situation and noted that the animal was an unweaned calf about three months old and apparently separated from its mother.
A-Sixty five year old woman of Likamba village in chief Imonga in Sioma district of Western Province has died after being attacked by an Elephant.
Western Region Zambia Wild Life (ZAWA) Commanding Officer Gryton Kasamu disclosed the incident to ZANIS in an interview in Mongu today.
Mr. Kasamu said the Woman met her fate when she was coming back from her field where she went to collect Pumpkin leaves for relish around 09:00 near Sioma National Pack last Sunday.
He has identified the name of the deceased as Manyando Mwiya 65 adding that following the development, fear and panic has gripped the residents in the area.
A rarely-seen sea serpent was discovered Monday on a beach on the western end of Santa Catalina Island.
The island harbor patrol found a 17-foot dead oarfish floating in the waters off Sandy Beach.
Seagulls apparently had been eating parts of the body, said Annie MacAulay, a marine scientist who was at nearby Emerald Bay with 50 science camp students.
Guallatiri or Guallatire is one of the most active volcanoes in northern Chile. It is just west of the border with Bolivia and at the southwestern end of the Nevados de Quimsachata. It is a symmetrical 6,071-metre-high (19,918 ft) (3.7723 miles) ice-clad stratovolcano. Wallatiri is capped by a central dacitic dome or lava complex, with the active vent at its southern side. The volcano last erupted in 1960. -Wikipedia
Elevated seismic activity since the night 30-31 May triggered SERNAGEOMIN to raise the alert level of the volcano to "yellow." A swarm 22 earthquakes related to internal rock fracturing, possibly caused by rising magma, was registered shortly after midnight 30-31 May. A magnitude 3.7 quake occurred at 05:17 local time the next morning.
At the same time, slight deformation of the summit area of the volcano was detected as well, which would be consistent with a new magma intrusion at depth. No other changes (such as increased degassing, rock falls etc) have been noted.
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