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If the typhoon turns as forecast, its eye may make landfall on Taiwan's east coast Thursday, according to the weather bureau.
As of 8 a.m., the eye of Tembin was located 620 kilometers southeast of Eluanbi, off the southernmost tip of Taiwan, moving at a speed of 8 km per hour in a northerly direction.
Tembin, the 14th storm of the Pacific typhoon season, is packing winds of 119 kph, with gusts of up to 155 kph, and has a radius of 150 km, the bureau said.
The typhoon is likely to move toward Taiwan on a northwesterly track Tuesday and take a more westerly turn Wednesday, the bureau said.
A sea warning for Tembin is likely to be issued Tuesday morning and areas around Taiwan should be prepared for strong winds and heavy rain Wednesday to Friday, the bureau warned.
© Sky NewsFrance: An air tanker spreads water above a forest fire in a devastated area near the French sea resort of Lacanau on the Atlantic coast.
Wildfires have been spreading across southern Europe, fuelled by the hot, dry climate.
Firefighters in Spain are struggling to cope with the country's worst blazes in a decade while thousands of acres of forest are being destroyed by fires spreading across Greece.
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, a state of emergency has been declared around a town in the northeast of the country, as fires have left many residents suffering heat exhaustion.
French authorities are fighting wildfires, keeping an eye on isolated elderly populations and advising people to drink fluids as temperatures soar. Heat wave warnings were issued for a swath of central and southern France, from Burgundy to the Pyrenees. Temperatures are expected to reach up to 104 degrees in some areas.
Like the erroneous graph at California Governor Jerry Brown's climate denier slam site, here's another one of those things that I've been sitting on for about a week, waiting for somebody to fix it. Since they haven't, and I've given adequate time, I suppose it is time to bring this latest GISS miss to the global attention of everyone.
Last week during my email group exchanges, somebody (I forget who) pointed out this graph from NASA GISS:
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That is part of the GISTEMP graphs page here.
I chuckled then, because obviously it is some sort of data error, and not worth reporting since I figured surely those RealClimateScientists would notice in a day or two and fix it. Nope. But still there a week later? Now it is newsworthy.
Last week during my email group exchanges, somebody (I forget who) pointed out this graph from NASA GISS:
That is part of the GISTEMP graphs page here.
I chuckled then, because obviously it is some sort of data error, and not worth reporting since I figured surely those RealClimateScientists would notice in a day or two and fix it. Nope. But still there a week later? Now it is newsworthy.
With Joe Bastardi stating an opening for an east coast hurricane is possible the next three weeks, it might be timely to submit this semi-humorous look at the dangers of an east coast hurricane versus the dangers of heeding Bill McKibben's Alarmism, from the view of a writer criticizing a writer, rather than a scientist criticizing a scientist.
Guest post by Caleb Shaw
I would like to venture two predictions which I believe have a, (as they say,) "high degree of probability" of proving true.
The first is that a terrible hurricane, as bad as the ferocious 1938 "Long Island Express," will roar north and bisect New England. True, it might not happen for over a hundred years, but it also might happen this September. The fact is, 1938 showed us what could happen. 1938 set the precedent.
Guest post by Caleb Shaw
I would like to venture two predictions which I believe have a, (as they say,) "high degree of probability" of proving true.
The first is that a terrible hurricane, as bad as the ferocious 1938 "Long Island Express," will roar north and bisect New England. True, it might not happen for over a hundred years, but it also might happen this September. The fact is, 1938 showed us what could happen. 1938 set the precedent.
© Unknown Fish on sale near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. A pair of greenlings have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in waters off the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, its operator said Tuesday.
The fishes, captured 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) off the plant on August 1, registered 25,800 becquerels of caesium per kilo, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said -- 258 times the level the government deems safe for consumption.
The previous record in fish and shellfish off Fukushima was 18,700 becquerels per kilo detected in cherry salmons, according to the government's Fisheries Agency.
TEPCO said the greenlings might have fed in radioactive hotspots and that it would sample more of the fish, their feed and the seabed soil in the area in the coming weeks to determine the cause of the high radiation.
Fishermen have been allowed since June to catch -- on an experimental basis -- several kinds of fish and shellfish, but only in areas more than 50 kilometres off the plant.
Those catches have shown only small amounts of radioactivity.
Greenlings have not been caught by fishermen off Fukushima since the massive earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 triggered meltdowns in reactors at the plant.
The boy has already come to his senses; his health is improving, Life News said. Experts said the three men became victims of a pinpoint lightning strike. "The people died as a result of a tragic combination of circumstances. There were no extremely dangerous factors nearby, which could become a "magnet" for the lightning," officials said.
RIA New Region said that in early August, in the village of Bolshaya Gryaznukha, the Sverdlovsk region of Russia, lightning killed a 35-year old woman, a mother of four. The woman came to the meadow to help her 14-year-old son, who was grazing cattle there. It started raining, and the mother and son decided to take shelter under a tree. The tree was struck by lightning in a few moments. The teen was thrown aside; he lost consciousness. The woman died on the spot.
The three men just after they were hit by lightning
Their lucky escape comes shortly after US weather body, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, revealed that at least 21 people died across the United States after they were struck by lightning in the year to date.
Ecuadorian authorities are encouraging residents living near the Tungurahua volcano to evacuate due to increased activity, according to local media reports cited by Reuters. The volcano has been in an active state since October 1999.
© Gary Granja/ReutersThe Tungurahua volcano spews a large cloud of ash towards the nearby town of Bilbao, Ecuador, in the early hours of August 21, 2012.
