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Cloud Precipitation

Severe Gales and Massive Downpours to Batter Britain Over Weekend

Nathan Rao
The Daily Express
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:41 UTC
Essex tornado
The impact of the tornado that ripped through a hamlet in Essex
Torrential rain driven by 60mph winds is set to wreak havoc across Britain this weekend.

Weather experts warned last night a combination of severe gales and massive downpours would bring flash flooding and travel chaos.

The worst spell is expected on Sunday lunchtime with up to two inches of rain - the monthly average - falling by the afternoon. The Environment Agency said it was poised to issue "severe flood" warnings in the South, indicating "danger to life".
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Blackbox

Bird flu? 'Hundreds and Possibly Thousands' of Mysterious Open-Billed Stork Deaths Spark Bird Flu Fears In Ang Thong


Bangkok Post
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:05 UTC
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© Unknown
Hundreds and possibly thousands of open-billed storks have died mysteriously in Ang Thong, triggering fear of a new outbreak of bird flu.

The birds were found dead in open ground behind a deserted factory by the side of the Chamlong-Nong Jik road in tambon Chamlong in Sawangha district after residents noticed that the animals looked drowsy and lay around on the ground, causing a bad stench in the air, the kamnan of Chamlong, Suebsak Waewkaew, said.

Residents alerted authorities who inspect the site twice and then went away, Mr Suebsak said.

He demanded the authorities collect samples of the birds' remains and move quickly to identify the cause of the mass deaths as residents living nearby were worried that bird flu might be involved.

Suthee Srisuwan, head of the provincial natural resources and environment office, said he had instructed experts to launch an investigation into the incident. An initial inspection had found huge numbers of dead birds in two locations. He would not elaborate further other than to say an investigation is underway.
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Cloud Lightning

Freak 'Mini Tornado' Damages Homes In Rugby, UK


Sky News
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:01 UTC
Rugby tornado
© Diane Slater
High winds have ripped through a Warwickshire town, blowing the roof off one home and damaging others in what residents have called a "mini tornado".

Police said a number of properties suffered structural damage as winds battered Rugby from around 6pm on Wednesday.
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Attention

Massive Siberian Oil Spill Leaves Thousands Without Water


RT
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:29 UTC
Oil Leak
© RIA Novosti / STF
A giant oil slick is flowing along Russia's Angara river, in southeastern Siberia. Authorities have declared the situation an emergency, with some 80,000 people stranded without water.

­Reports say the slick is about ten kilometers long. Emergency services are trying to stop the oil from making its way any further, but have not succeeded so far.

The concentration of oil in the water still exceeded the norm by several times on Thursday.

About two tons of diesel oil spilled into the river on Wednesday as a result of an accident caused by illegal siphoning, officials say.

Cashing in on suffering

­The incident disrupted the local water intake, which supplies water to three towns, leaving about 80,000 people without water.

Local authorities in the affected towns had to close schools and kindergartens in the area, though hospitals are working as usual.

The centralized water supply can be restored only after probes show that the oil concentration in the water is lower than the maximum permissible concentration.

Meanwhile, there are reports of merchants trying to cash in on the catastrophe by doubling and tripling prices for bottled water.

Authorities urged them not to turn a profit on the ecological disaster, and said they would closely monitor the situation to eliminate such cases.

Forty tons of free bottled water have been delivered in the affected are as emergency workers try to restore the intake's ability to operate.
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Nuke

Fukushima Mutations? 3rd Plant Species With Mutations Found In 3rd Michigan Location

Alexander Higgins
Alexander Higgins Blog
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:01 UTC
It's not just in dandelions, but in other flowers, fruits, vegetables, and vegetation - 3rd plant species found mutation in a 3rd separate location in Michigan.

I just finished reporting on the discovery of mutated strawberries in Michigan which are speculated to be a result of Fukushima nuclear fallout, which scientists would argue such mutations would not happen this soon after the disaster.

Michigan Plants Mutated Due to Radioactive Fukushima Nuclear Fallout?
A recent video report from Christina Consolo (Radchick) documents possible plant mutations caused by fallout from the multiple nuclear meltdowns in Japan.

Despite the fact that the US government claimed that there was no danger posed to the United States due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, recent NRC documents prove that there was a large scale criminal conspiracy to cover up the dangers.

In the video Christina goes over numerous photos of dandelions that were found mutated in a Michigan parking lot.

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Read The Rest And Watch The Video
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Bizarro Earth

New Faults, and Earthquake Risks, Found in Washington

Crystal Gammon
OurAmazingPlanet
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:00 UTC
New Faults
© Kelsey et al./USGSThis LiDAR image (acquired in 2006 by the USGS) shows five paleoseismic study sites (red dots with block perimeters) and three Holocene faults (solid red lines) inferred from the data.
Tectonically speaking, there's a lot going on in the Pacific Northwest. From the Cascadia subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is slowly pushing its way underneath the North American plate, to the Seattle Fault, where Native American legends recorded a massive earthquake 1,100 years ago, the region has its fair share of seismic hazards.

Now add to that three more potentially dangerous faults in the Bellingham Basin, a tectonically active area along the coast of Washington, near the Canadian border.

A team of researchers has discovered active tectonic faults in this region nearly 40 miles (60 kilometers) north of any previously known faults.

"We've known for a long time that the whole Pacific Northwest region is contracting very slowly north-to-south, at the rate of a few millimeters per year," said Richard Blakely, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., who was part of the study.

"It doesn't sound like very much, but when you concentrate that contraction on specific faults, they can become rather dangerous."
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Umbrella

Drought-hit areas of England told to prepare for floods


Guardian.co.uk
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:44 UTC
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© Matt Dunham/APA man tries to shelter under a copy of the Financial Times as he runs through a heavy rain shower in London.
Heavy rain leads the Environment Agency to issue eight flood warnings and 22 flood alerts across southern England

No sooner had 20 million people in southern and eastern England been banned from using hosepipes than the heavens opened, and now parts of the country have been told to prepare for flooding.

April has seen day after day of wet and chilly weather, and heavy rain on Wednesday morning led the Environment Agency to issue eight flood warnings and 22 flood alerts across southern England.

Paul Mott, forecaster at MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said the weather was set to remain wet: "It's going to stay unsettled over the next seven days with frequent showers and persistent rain.

"Sunday looks to be a washout with up to an inch of rain falling across England and Wales."

Nick Prebble at MeteoGroup said: "Throughout April we have seen 175% more rain than would be normal, totalling 94.3mm (3.7in)."

However, the environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, said the rain would not avert the drought and water companies were right to impose a hosepipe ban.
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Bizarro Earth

Underwater Volcanism - Antarctic ice melting from below


YouTube / The Extinction Protocol
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:37 UTC
"Underwater volcanism is also sublimating portions of the Antarctica ice mass from underneath. In 2004, a research team led by Eugene Domack, aboard the research vessel Lawrence M. Gould, made a remarkable discovery of a massive underwater volcano off the coast of Antarctica using a deep water submersible vehicle equipped with a cadre of sensors and video cameras. The volcano was 2300 feet (700 meters) tall. The British team findings confirmed the volcano was still active and was contributing to the melting of the ice sheet from beneath the Antarctica land mass." - The Extinction Protocol, page 160 - 2010

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Nuke

Poison skies: Hanging over Japan is a Fukushima nuclear crisis that's far from over

Robert Alvarez
The Huffington Post
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:17 UTC
Spent reactor fuel, containing roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl, still sits in pools vulnerable to earthquakes.

More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster began, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the rest of the world are far from over. After repeated warnings by former senior Japanese officials, nuclear experts, and now a U.S. senator, it's sinking in that the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools amidst the reactor ruins pose far greater dangers than the molten cores. This is why:
  • Nearly all of the 10,893 spent fuel assemblies sit in pools vulnerable to future earthquakes, with roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl
  • Several pools are 100 feet above the ground and are completely open to the atmosphere because the reactor buildings were demolished by explosions. The pools could possibly topple or collapse from structural damage coupled with another powerful earthquake.
  • The loss of water exposing the spent fuel will result in overheating and can cause melting and ignite its zirconium metal cladding resulting in a fire that could deposit large amounts of radioactive materials over hundreds, if not thousands of miles.
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Question

Green mysterious clouds spark disaster fears in Moscow

Neil Harvey
RT
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:59 UTC
Mysterious green clouds have been spotted over the Russian capital, sparking fears of a chemical disaster and even some doomsday theories.
green clouds
© Image from ntv.ru
But the Emergencies Ministry is advising the public to calm down. It says the clouds are actually composed of birch pollen, not of chemicals from an allegedly burning factory in the Moscow region, as some reported.

Some people, however, got so scared that even the official comments could not convince them. Russian Twitter users have been posting alarming messages like "Moscow schools are closed because of the blast! Children are sent home," "Sky has turned completely green in Moscow's south!" and "The factory in Kaluga is destroyed!" A flood of 911 calls was also registered.
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