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Dead whale found on the shore of Peaks Island, Maine

Bonnie Washuk
Portland Press Herald
Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:03 UTC
A dead minke whale lies on the rocky backshore of Peaks Island on Saturday.
© Ben McCannaA dead minke whale lies on the rocky backshore of Peaks Island on Saturday.
Peaks Island residents discovered a dead whale on the shore Saturday morning.

"It is a minke whale," Sgt. Matt Wyman of the Maine Marine Patrol said. The agency is assisting Marine Mammals of Maine in getting to the island so officials can do sampling that will determine what happened to the whale, Wyman said. Minke whales are common in Maine, he said.

Mary Collari said she, her daughter and their dogs were out early Saturday for a walk along the shore. "I saw a large number of golf carts pulling over" and a small crowd had gathered, she said.

When Collari got closer, she saw the dead whale, which appeared to be about 20 feet long. "It's sad," she said. "It's right on the shore on the southern part of Peaks Island."

The mood of the crowd was somber, she said. "A lot of people there were quiet ... respect for this magnificent animal."

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Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes near Neiafu, Tonga


Khaleej Times
Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:29 UTC
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An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck the Neiafu region in Tonga on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said.

There was no tsunami danger for the US West Coast, British Columbia and Alaska, The US Tsunami Warning System said.

The quake was at a depth of 247 km (153.48 miles), the USGS said.

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Heavy downpour deluges most roads in Dhaka, Bangladesh - nearly 3 inches of rain in 3 hours


The Financial Express (Bangladesh)
Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:55 UTC
As rain pelted down throughout Saturday, many city streets became waterlogged, causing much inconvenience to the city dwellers, especially those who were returning from their native homes after celebrating Eid-ul-Azha.
As rain pelted down throughout Saturday, many city streets became waterlogged, causing much inconvenience to the city dwellers, especially those who were returning from their native homes after celebrating Eid-ul-Azha. The photo shows cars and buses driving through stagnant water on a road close to the Notre Dame College in Motijheel area of Dhaka.
Roads looked inundated and many vehicles went phut as season's heaviest rainfall resulted in massive waterlogging in almost all parts of the capital on Saturday, also disrupting normal life.

People of all walks of life, including Eid holidaymakers, faced woes and difficulties in their movement on various streets and main roads of the city, says a firsthand account of the raining.

Besides, almost all streets, lanes and by-lanes in the capital city were seen under ankle-to waist-deep water due to heavy rain that began in the afternoon.

People in the capital and elsewhere in the country saw incessant rainfall over the last three days, starting from the Eid-ul-Azha day of holy fiesta, which also disrupted their Eid celebration mostly.

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Cloud Precipitation

One dead and two missing as western Japan hit by heavy rain - record-breaking hourly precipitation - 15 inches of rainfall in 24 hours


Japan Times
Sun, 02 Jul 2023 12:49 UTC
A car that was washed away in Yamaguchi Prefeture on Saturday
© KYODOA car that was washed away in Yamaguchi Prefeture on Saturday
Heavy rain pounded parts of western Honshu and the Kyushu region on Saturday, with record-breaking hourly precipitation reported in several locations, causing one fatality and leaving two others missing, local authorities and the weather agency said.

The Meteorological Agency on Sunday continued to warn of the danger of landslides and flooding in low-lying areas, as well as the rising and overflowing of rivers in Kyushu, especially its southern areas, due to possible heavy rainfall through Monday.

The agency said a weather front that is expected to stay near Kyushu over Monday will see warm and moist air flowing toward it, making the atmospheric conditions very unstable.

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2023's lack of noctilucent clouds 'may be due to solar maximum'


Space Weather
Sun, 02 Jul 2023 11:51 UTC
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© Milan RinckFILE PHOTO: Noctilucent clouds above the windmills of Kinderdijk. Captured on June 12th.
2023 has not been a good year for noctilucent clouds (NLCs). First, NASA's iconic AIM spacecraft broke, losing power when its main battery failed. We could no longer see noctilucent clouds from space. Next, the clouds themselves failed.

"As we have have passed Summer Solstice, the NLC season still has not started for me," laments Ruslan Merzlyakov, who usually photographs many NLCs from his home in Jutland, Denmark. "I made this new film to share my experience trying to photograph them."

NLCs are clouds of frosted meteor smoke. They form every year in summer when wisps of water vapor rise up to the edge of space. At altitudes greater than 80 km, the water crystallizes around disintegrated meteoroids, forming electric-blue structures visible in the night sky.

Comment: Whatever is causing NLC's to be absent, there does indeed appear to be a significant shift occurring on our planet, and beyond:

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Bandaid

12-year-old Philadelphia girl gets 50 stitches after shark attack near Central Florida pier

Robbin Simmons, Rubén Rosario
wsvn.com
Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:17 UTC
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A Pennsylvania girl is on the road to recovery days after she was bitten by a shark in Florida.

Magnolia Woodhead shared her account of the frightening moment that took place off Cocoa Beach on Monday.

"Right when I got off the water, I just started screaming, because I knew that it was not good," she said.

The 12-year-old can smile about it now, but her frightening encounter with a marine predator was no laughing matter.

"My husband picks her up, and I could see blood just dripping down her leg," said Melissa Stallings, Woodhead's mother,

Woodhead and her family were visiting from Philadelphia, in town for a gymnastics competition.

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Lightning strike kills 31 cows in northern Alabama


AL.com
Sat, 01 Jul 2023 10:45 UTC
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More than 30 cows were killed Saturday when lightning struck in Cullman County, according to reports from news outlets.

WVTM reported that the beef cattle were sheltering under a tree during a severe storm on Daymin Gardner's farm in Berlin, when lightning struck the tree, killing 31 of the cattle.

A Facebook post from the Cullman Daily News showed an image of the cows lying lifeless below a tree on Gardner's farm.
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Bobcat attacks camper sleeping in hammock at a Connecticut state park


The News-Times
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:31 UTC
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A bobcat attacked a camper sleeping in a hammock at a Connecticut state park Friday, state environmental officials said.

The man was among several adults leading a group of youth campers on an outing to Selden Neck State Park, an island in the Connecticut river in Lyme, according to a release from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

The man was sleeping early Friday morning when the bobcat attacked him, the DEEP said. He and two other adult leaders were able to subdue the animal and kill it, officials said. The department did not say how that was accomplished.

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Cloud Precipitation

Unseasonable rain continues to fall across Australia's north, helping lower temperatures to near-record levels

Tom Saunders
abc.net.au
Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:17 UTC
Uluru has so far received 80mm of rain
© Stacey MacGregorUluru has so far received 80mm of rain
Unseasonable rain continues to fall across Australia's north in what's meant to be the region's dry season, helping lower temperatures to near-record levels.

The surprise soaking is forecast to last at least another five days, gradually shifting from the Kimberley and Northern Territory this weekend, to Queensland and New South Wales next week.

Here's what's going on.

Why is it raining in the dry season?

The cause of the rare winter rains can be traced back to two pools of cold polar air, which earlier this week moved north through WA and caused a dramatic change in the winds blowing over Australia.

These rivers of winds are known as jet streams, which blow about 10 kilometres above the earth's surface and form the boundary between relatively warm and cold air.

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9 dead as torrential rains lash Gujarat, India - receives 15.6 inches of rain in 24 hours


India Today
Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:43 UTC
Several areas in Ahmedabad city too were waterlogged, which led to heavy traffic jams and inconvenienced commuters.
Several areas in Ahmedabad city too were waterlogged, which led to heavy traffic jams and inconvenienced commuters.
Heavy rains lashed several parts of Gujarat in the last 24 hours, inundating low-lying areas in cities and villages and creating a flood-like situation, an official said on Saturday.

Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) were deployed in Kutch, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Navsari, which were some of the worst-affected districts, the official said.

According to the State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC), nine people have lost their lives in rain-related incidents in the last two days.

As per the data shared by the SEOC, 37 talukas of the state received more than 100 mm rainfall in 30 hours ending at 12 pm on Friday.

Visavadar taluka in Junagadh district received extremely heavy rainfall of 398 mm in a 24-hour period ending at 6am on Saturday, as per the SEOC.

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