Earth ChangesS


Snowflake Cold

Record cold in parts of Alaska

Robert Feliz
iceagenow.info
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:55 UTC
Most notably, Bettles recorded a low of 15ºF Saturday morning, by far the lowest temperature of record at Bettles in August. The previous record at the Bettles in August was 22ºF on August 30, 1969. At old Bettles, about four miles downriver from the current townsite, a low of 20ºF was measured on August 24, 1948.

Other low temperatures included 17ºF at both Chandalar DOT and Coldfoot DOT and a chilly 13F at the Norutak Lake RAWS west of Bettles. These are close to, but not at the record low temperature for the month of August in the state.

http://ak-wx.blogspot.de/2013/08/record-cold-in-northern-interior.html

Thanks to F. Guimaraes for this link

"The winter could be starting earlier!" says Guimaraes.

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Snowflake Cold

More than 25, 000 animals killed in southern Peru

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:47 UTC
Snow expected to continue for about 60 days. Humanitarian catastrophe unfolding.

1 Sep 13 - Snowfall in parts of the southern highlands of Peru has killed more than 25,000 animals and destroyed 137 homes, according to the National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci).
(These are government numbers. I earlier reported that 250,000 alpacas had been killed in Peru. This is on top of the 70,000 animals killed in Bolivia.
The national government on Saturday declared a state of emergency in 250 localities of the country since the snow is expected to continue for about 60 days.

Until Saturday, there were a total of 5,247 people injured and 739 homes declared uninhabitable in Apurimac (south), Cusco (southeast), Ayacucho (South Central), Huancavelica (center), Puno (southeast) and Junin (center) .

The deputy director of humanitarian assistance and mobilization of the National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci), Eric Cortijo, reported that this phenomenon affected more than 67,000 people. (I don't know what he meant by "affected.")
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Fish

Ghana: Huge, mysterious mammal appears on beach in Jomoro District

Zachary Stieber
Epoch Times
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
Ghana Mysterious Mammal
© Screenshot/My Joy OnlineA screenshot of My Joy Online, a Ghanaian news agency, shows a purported mysterious sea creature, which is described by a local as having a head which looks like a crocodile, and a tail similar to a whale's.
A mysterious creature has appeared on the shores of a beach in Ghana's Jomoro District.

The creature, deemed a mammal weighing between six and eight tons, is decomposing after washing ashore several days ago, locals told My Joy Online, a Ghanaian news agency.

The stench coming from the mammal is disturbing and makes it hard to breathe, locals said.

Isaac Bentum Williams, a businessman who was at the shore, said the creature could be an endangered species and said scientists and researchers should come and study it.

The head of the creature looks like a crocodile while its tail looks like a whale's tail, he said.

People commenting on the article online said it should definitely be studied.
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Stop

Flooding in the Far East of Russia reaches its most dangerous moment from swollen rivers


The Siberian Times
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:51 UTC
Defences were breached in Komsomolsk-on-Amur engulfing several villages, as forced evacuation rise.
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© YoutubeToday the waters at Komsomolsk-on-Amur were up to 803 centimetres, by 102 centimetres above the rating of record flooding from 1959.
Water levels in the city of Khabarovsk mean thousands could be forced to evacuate in the coming days. Many are fearful to leave, concerned their water-logged properties can be looted, say locals in stricken regions.

Concern on Monday focused on the villages of Molodezhniy and Kharpensky close to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, with rescuers carrying our an emergency evacuation. People are forced to leave their homes even if they initially refused because of the high risk to their lives for staying after flood defences burst. A dozen were reported to be refusing to quit.

Some houses were completely underwater. 223 houses were flooded. Residents were evacuated to temporary shelters, specially arranged for them, or to their family members. New dikes were being built in industrial city Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a height of 9.20 metres.
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Cloud Grey

'UFO' clouds spotted over Scotland leaving homeowners baffled

Olivia Williams
The Daily Mail
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:36 UTC
A mysterious UFO-like cloud made homeowners in Scotland this morning do a double take as it appeared to hover close to the ground.

Claire Stewart, 37, from Kincorth, Aberdeen caught sight of the strange-looking out over her back garden at 9.30am.

She said: 'I was just looking out from my home in Kincorth when I saw the cloud.

'It looked like a UFO and I had to double take before I realised it was actually a cloud.'
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© Claire Stewart/HEMEDIAStrange sighting: It was likely that the odd cloud in Aberdeenshire sky was formed in the Cairngorms mountains
'I've never seen anything like it before, but apparently they're called lenticular clouds.

'It's very weird.'
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Cloud Lightning

Freak tornado ploughs through Tokyo suburb


The Telegraph
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:09 UTC
Tornado in Japan
© NHK World
At least 27 people have been hospitalised after a rare tornado ripped through a suburb of Tokyo.

Several dozen people were injured when a tornado ripped through parts of eastern Japan on Monday, tearing off roofs and uprooting trees.

Footage shot by public broadcaster NHK shows a number of homes destroyed, upturned cars, schools with shattered windows and a warehouse that had been lifted from its foundations and hurled into other buildings in Koshigaya, north of Tokyo.

Some electricity poles had been snapped and a number of them had hit houses as they fell, worsening the damage.

The Koshigaya city hall said 29 people were injured, three of them seriously, in the city alone. Local news reports said most of the injured were members of a volleyball team at a local middle school.

A meteorologist at Japan's weather agency said the tornado was caused by warm, wet air coming inland over flat areas.
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Bizarro Earth

In pole position for magnetic change

Chelsea Geach
iOl SciTech
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:11 UTC
Pole Shift
© ReutersSatellites and magnetic observatories have recorded stirrings in the magnetic field  some areas weakening, some strengthening  which suggest that our planet is headed for a reversal of its magnetic poles in the next few hundred years.
Cape Town - Earth's magnetic field is undergoing significant shifts, and South Africa has front row seats to observe the changes.

Satellites and magnetic observatories have recorded stirrings in the magnetic field - some areas weakening, some strengthening - which suggest that our planet is headed for a reversal of its magnetic poles in the next few hundred years.

If that happens, compasses which usually point north will point south. Animals which use the magnetic field for navigation such as birds, whales and sharks will find it difficult to migrate along their usual routes. Our magnetic navigation systems will have to be recalibrated.

And while South Africans won't be able to watch the aurora visible over the equator during the pole switch, we are in a prime position to monitor the process because we are situated between the two areas of greatest change in the magnetic field.

Just south-west of Cape Town is the region where the largest decrease was recorded by satellites between 1980 and 2001: -8 percent. And not too far east of South Africa is the region in the Indian Ocean where the largest increase was recorded, of +3 percent.

At the magnetic observatory in Hermanus, one of four in the country, the geomagnetic field has decreased by more than 20 percent since 1941.

Dr Pierre Cilliers, a researcher at the South African National Space Agency (Sansa), said: "The area of largest decrease in the magnetic field is closer to South Africa than to the rest of the inhabited world."
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Snowflake Cold

South American countries gripped by snow


BBC
Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:05 UTC
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Farmers in the Peruvian mountains have been hard hit by the cold spell
Unusually cold weather and snow in parts of South America have affected thousands of people in several countries.

The cold spell has killed at least seven people in Peru, four in Bolivia and two in Paraguay.

In the latter, the authorities blamed the weather for the death of more than 5,000 cattle too.

Weather forecasters say a cold front from Antarctica entered the region almost a week ago.

On Friday, the Peruvian deputy education minister, Martin Vegas, said schools were closed in 43 provinces in 10 regions.
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Hardhat

Miraculous escape for motorist in Taiwan as giant boulder narrowly misses car

Raluca Anghel
softpedia.com
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 07:55 UTC
The video was captured in the town of Badouzi near Heping Island, on August 31 shortly after 16 p.m.

By the 22-second mark, a mudslide starts to unfold and the car in the footage is sprayed with mud and water and pushed to the side of the road.

The accident seems to have been caught on tape via dashcam by the motorist behind the white sedan driver.

As the mountain top collides over the road, a large boulder becomes loose and gets within inches of squashing the vehicle, then stops.

The driver comes out and, along with residents jumping in to help, tries to figure out how to get the rock out of the road.


A car is close to getting crushed by a boulder in a frightening video from Taiwan. This clip has received more than 3.8 million views on YouTube since Saturday.
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Eye 2

Tourist trapped on Australian Island for two weeks after being stalked by a 20ft crocodile

Richard Shears
The Daily Mail, UK
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:01 UTC
  • The tourist was trapped on remote Governor Island off West Australia
  • A local man saw the traveller's flashing light and rescued him by boat
  • The crocodile was described as a 'monster' and had lived there for years
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Terrifying a tourist: A New Zealand traveller was trapped on remote Governor Island off the West Australian coast for two weeks after he was stalked by a 20ft-long crocodile (file photo)
A New Zealand tourist who planned to spend a few days exploring an island in his canoe was left trapped and desperate on a hill for two weeks after being stalked by a monster crocodile.

The unfortunate traveller had set up camp on remote Governor Island, off the coast of Western Australia, intending to paddle his canoe around the island but the arrival of the 20ft-long crocodile changed all that.

Instead, he remained terrified at his campsite, which he had hurriedly set up on a hill on the 250-acre island in the hope that he was too far inland for the crocodile to reach him.
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