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Cloud Lightning

First tornado of the season touches down in north Alabama

Paul Gattis
Alabama News
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:40 UTC
Tornado
© NWSRadar image from the National Weather Service forecast office in Huntsville when a tornado warning was issued for DeKalb County on Friday night 4.3.15. The weather service confirmed on Saturday that an EF-1 tornado touched down briefly in the Ider community.
A weak tornado touched down briefly in DeKalb County on Friday night, the National Weather Service forecast office confirmed following a storm survey on Saturday.

The weather service classified the tornado as an EF-1 with top wind speeds estimated at 105 mph.

It's the first confirmed tornado in north Alabama in 2015 and the first in the state since Jan. 4.

Comment: Also see: Storms, fires, and floods sweep across American South and Midwest - more severe weather on its way

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Two injured after vehicle plunges into sinkhole in Sheffield Beach, South Africa


Citizen.co.za
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:00 UTC
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© Allan Johns The beach buggy dived into the deep sinkhole on Sheffield Drive.
Two people were injured after their vehicle drove into a sinkhole at the intersection of Colwyn and Sheffield drives in Sheffield Beach, on KwaZulu-Natal's Dolphin Coast last night.

Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said reports from the scene indicated the people had been travelling in the heavy rain when their vehicle plunged into a sinkhole.

"Paramedics arrived at the scene and found that the people managed to escape from the wreckage of their vehicle. After medics treated them at the scene, they transported the injured to a local hospital for the care that they required," he said.
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Bizarro Earth

Multiple earthquakes shake Los Angeles area over a period of three hours

Kelly Taylor
MyFoxLA
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:43 UTC
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© USGS
A series of earthquakes, the largest magnitude 3.1, shook the Oat Mountain area north of the San Fernando Valley Saturday.

Automated seismographs reported a series of six quakes, most in the 1-2 magnitude, starting at 7:45 a.m.

The largest quakes were magnitude 2.7 at 7:52 and magnitude 3.1 at 7:54, according to preliminary automated reports that have not been reviewed by humans.

A magnitude 2.0 temblor hit the mountain at 10:14 a.m.

As a precaution, Los Angeles city fire trucks were rolled out of station houses, where garage doors can jam or stall if a major quake occurs.

Seismologists routinely give a 10 percent chance of a major shaker following what turns out to be a foreshock.

Firefighters also scanned bridges and buildings near their station houses, which is the standard drill following a quake. No damage was found.

Persons reported to the USGS that they felt weak shaking in the northern half of the San Fernando Valley, and in across Santa Clarita, and as far away as Westlake Village, Glendale and the Antelope Valley.
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Attention

Strayed wild elephant gores man to death in Bengal, India


indileak.com
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:27 UTC
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Some irate Asian elephants
In a sad incident, a young man was gored and killed by a wild elephant herd in Bankura district of West Bengal on Saturday.

According to information, the incident occurred in Kuchkunda village under Barjora forest range of the district in the early hours of Saturday while the 25-year-old man was sleeping outside his house.

A senior forest official said that the village in which the incident occurred is situated on the periphery of a heavily forested tract.

He said that a herd of four elephants had strayed into the village in search of food and water. "The victim was sleeping outside his house when he was unfortunately attacked by one of the four elephants."
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Common murre (guillemot) die-off along the waterfront in Seward, Alaska

Heidi Zemach
Seward City News
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 19:37 UTC
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© Heidi ZemachCommon murre carcass found Sunday at Lowell Point beach.
If you've walked Seward waterfronts lately, you might have come across the carcasses of common murres or you might have spotted bald eagles feasting on them. There's been a lot of the carcasses spotted, and people are calling in, said Dr. Carrie Goertz, a staff veterinarian at Alaska SeaLife Center who also helps manage the stranding program and disaster response. Most of the murres are very thin and emaciated, indicating starvation, she said.

The phenomenon is apparently a murre die-off, or "wreck," and is probably caused by these small marine birds having exhausted their nutritional reserves, with the sudden bouts of cold temperatures and waves of poor weather in mid to late March pushing them over the edge to their deaths. Also, the fish biomass may not have coincided with when they were in the area, plus in a weakened state they're easier prey for predators, or to get hit by cars, the latter two of which she saw examples of in the bird carcasses brought in to ASLC, Goertz said.

The center vets did some cursory examinations of the murres they found, but are sending them to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey for more in-depth examinations.
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Cloud Precipitation

Storms, fires, and floods sweep across South and Midwest - more severe weather on its way


NBC News
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:59 UTC
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© UnknownTornado touching down in Kansas
Searchers on Friday found the body of a woman whose car was swept away by floodwaters in Kentucky earlier in the day, after powerful thunderstorms rolled through the South and Midwest.

The car and the body were found at around 7 p.m. after the rain-swollen Sinking Creek near Beattyville subsided, authorities said. State police believe she tried to drive through moving water on Kentucky Route 52 just before 10 a.m. when her car was swept into the creek and disappeared.

Police initially said a child was also in the car, but investigators now believe she was alone.

Comment: Below is footage of the flooding in Louisville, Kentucky:


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Cloud Lightning

Flooding closes parts of Indiana's I-64 as severe weather spreads across the region


USA Today
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:14 UTC
Flood
© via TwitterSevere storms in Midwestern and Southern US have brought floods and tornadoes
Heavy rains closed parts of Interstate 64 on Friday and led to the rescue of a UPS driver.

Westbound portions of the highway between Evansville, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., were closed in Perry and Dubois counties starting around 7 a.m. ET because of flooding, according to Sgt. Philip Hensley, an Indiana State Police spokesman. At least one lane had reopened by 11 a.m.

Motorists were being detoured, and firefighters in a ladder truck had to rescue the driver of a UPS truck stranded in the flash flood about 60 miles west of Louisville, Ky., Hensley said.

State police urged motorists to avoid driving into high water.

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Snowflake

Cold weather stops migrating storks in their tracks in Europe


thenews.pl
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:46 UTC
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© Wikimedia commons/K.Billington Still on the way.
A cold snap has stopped storks on the way back for the summer in Poland in their tracks.

The birds have halted their advance from Africa and are weathering the cold snap in Romania and Bulgaria, researchers reported.

The few storks that have already made their way to Poland are struggling to find food and are getting nearer to human settlements than usual. But storks are equipped to deal with harsh weather and the scientists have asked for people to refrain from feeding them.

The overwhelming majority of storks have, however, been put off by the cold, snow and strong winds.

"They are not far," ornithologist Ireneusz Kaługa said. "We believe two or three days of better weather will be enough for them to turn up."
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Cloud Lightning

Severe thunderstorms flaring up across American Midwest, Great Plains, and the South


The Weather Channel
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:57 UTC
Tornado_Oklahoma_March 25 2015
© Alix Chin/European PressPhoto Agency
Severe thunderstorms are again flaring up across parts of the Midwest, Great Plains and South as a storm system plods eastward through the central and southern U.S., prompting the National Weather Service to issue numerous tornado warnings.

Notable information:

Comment: Below is footage of a funnel cloud that touched down in Labette County, Kansas:



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Snowflake

Winter returns to Romania with a vengeance: Over a meter of snow falls in 2 days

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:17 UTC
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Spring snow in Romania
It has been snowing continuously and extremely heavily for 24 hours in Step Tihuta as a wave of polar air moves across Romania.

A blizzard - at the beginning of spring. April winter.

Snow is 10 to 15 inches deep in places and the wind has been blowing hard, turning driving into a nightmare.

The worst hit is the northern county of Suceava, where the National Road 2 to Ukraine was closed. In addition, dozens of motorists are stranded: some abandoned their cars and others spent the night on a bench.

Road workers have already spread 80 tons of non-slip material and say they will not stop until the storm is over, but anyone who wants to spend Palm Sunday and Easter in the Bistrita may need to use a sleigh.

At dawn temperatures dropped below zero. In Bistrita and Brasov minus two degrees, in Miercurea Ciuc -5 and -1 in Cluj were recorded.

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