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Cloud Precipitation

Rain records broken as heavy downpours and thunderstorms continue in Australia

Raffaella Ciccarelli, Emily Bennett
9news.com.au
Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:25 UTC
Cars became stranded in floodwaters in South Melbourne.
Cars became stranded in floodwaters in South Melbourne.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms are bringing widespread flooding to New South Wales and parts of Queensland.

The deluge hit Sydney on Saturday afternoon, as residents were told to brace for conditions to intensify throughout the night.

A damaging trough in New South Wales, first unleashed across the state's west, left several regions awash.

Despite only being October, Dubbo has now recorded its wettest year in 49 years, with about 882mm recorded up until 4pm today.

While at Bathurst, racing on Mount Panorama was thrown into chaos, after the Top-10 shootout was cancelled due to the torrential downpour.

The regional city has copped more than a month's worth of rain in a few days.

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Attention

215 pilot whales die on Chatham Island - 3rd mass stranding within 3 weeks for the region


Edan Magnet
Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:53 UTC
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A group of 215 pilot whales have died after they became stranded on a remote New Zealand island, environmentalists say.

Many of the whales were already dead when they were discovered in the northwest corner of Chatham Island, some 840 kilometres east of mainland New Zealand, environmental charity Project Jonah said.

"The Chatham Islands is a challenging spot for stranding response, known for great white sharks, remote beaches and a resident population of less than 800 people," the charity said on Facebook on Saturday.

Project Jonah said those factors meant the whales that were still alive had to be euthanised.

"While we always hope surviving whales are able to be refloated, this wasn't an option here."

Whale strandings are not uncommon on the Chatham Islands, with the largest event recorded in 1918 when more than 1000 animals died in a single stranding.


Source: Australian Associated Press

Comment: Details of the other 2 strandings:

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Snowflake Cold

Flashback Cosmic ray flux and global cooling: the implications are upon us

Cap Allon
Electroverse
Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:04 UTC
Sun and Earth illustration
Article originally published on electroverse.net on April 30, 2021

GALACTIC Cosmic Rays are a mixture of high-energy photons and sub-atomic particles accelerated toward Earth by supernova explosions and other violent events in the cosmos; SOLAR Cosmic Rays are effectively the same, only their source is the Sun.

Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus have been launching cosmic ray balloons almost weekly since March 2015-before the pandemic threw a spanner in.

The team's published results reveal that atmospheric radiation reached record highs just as solar activity hit a new space age low — the correlation is clear for all to see, with additional proxy data revealing it has been the case for time-immemorial.

During solar minimums -the low point of the 11 year solar cycle- the Sun's magnetic field weakens and the outward pressure of the solar wind decreases. This allows more cosmic rays (CRs) to penetrate the inner solar system, including our planet's atmosphere:

Comment: See also:

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Boat

Indonesia - Deadly floods in Jakarta, thousands evacuate in Aceh Province - 7 inches of rain in 24 hours

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:34 UTC
Evacuations after floods in South Jakarta,
© BPBD DKI JakartaEvacuations after floods in South Jakarta, Indonesia, 06 October 2022.
Heavy rain caused severe flooding in parts of Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, on 06 October 2022, where authorities report 3 people have died. Meanwhile over 18,000 people were forced from their homes after severe flooding in North Aceh Regency in Aceh Province.

Jakarta

Indonesia's nation disaster management agency BNPB reported 3 students died and 2 others were injured when flooding caused part of a school building to collapse in Cilandak, South Jakarta, on 06 October 2022. The 3 injured students have been transferred to hospital. The school building is situated in a low-lying area close to a river and drainage channels which flooded following the heavy downpour, BNPB said.

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Attention

Bear expert says British Columbia attack likely a rare case of black bear treating humans as food


The Clearwater Times
Wed, 05 Oct 2022 10:35 UTC
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Attack on family that sent three people to hospital appears to be a 'predaceous' incident

An expert in bear behaviour says an attack on a family in northeastern British Columbia that left two women with critical injuries appears to have been a rare example of a "predaceous" attack by a black bear.

Ellie Lamb, director of community outreach for the Get Bear Smart Society, says that by knocking down the women near Dawson Creek Monday night then staying close by them for more than an hour, the large boar bear was likely treating humans as food.

RCMP say they shot the bear dead after it was observed "guarding" the injured women, aged 30 and 48, and could not be chased off.

Lamb, a wildlife guide who serves on several B.C. advisory bodies related to human-bear interaction, says bears could exhibit predatory behaviour towards humans if improperly managed at a young age, but this was extremely uncommon.
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Doberman

3-year-old boy killed by dog on the island of Nevis

Loshaun Dixon
St Kitts Nevis Observer
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 08:53 UTC
dog attack
The Police are investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy who was fatally wounded during a dog attack in Gingerland.

The Police received a report sometime after 2 p.m. on Wednesday, October 05, 2022, that a dog had attacked a child.

Investigations so far have revealed that the child was at home with family members at the time of the incident. He made his way to the back of the house where several dogs are kept chained next to dog houses.

One of the dogs attacked the child causing serious injuries to several parts of his body. He was later discovered by a family member and transported to the Alexandra Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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Attention

Hawaii closes Mauna Loa national park summit due to 'elevated seismic activity'

Julia Musto
Fox News
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:06 UTC
Backcountry on Mauna Loa summit
© NPS Photo/A.LavalleBackcountry on Mauna Loa summit is closed until further notice as a precautionary measure.
Hawaii scientists said Mauna Loa is not erupting

The National Park Service said Wednesday that the Mauna Loa summit backcountry in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park would be closed due to "elevated seismic activity."

The closure, which is in effect until further notice, is a precautionary measure.

Mauna Loa Road and the Mauna Loa Lookout at 6,662 feet elevation remain open to the public.

"Mauna Loa is not erupting. The volcanic alert level remains at advisory, and the aviation color code remains at yellow," the park service added. "U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) scientists will notify the park if conditions change."
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike kills 3 farmers in Jharkhand, India


United News of India
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:56 UTC
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Three farmers lost their lives on Thursday as lightning struck in Lotaniya village under Hussainabad block of Palamu district in Jharkhand.

The deceased have been identified as Raghunandan Yadav (55), Surendra Yadav (50) and Pramod Yadav (35). A Buffalo also died in the incident.

As per information after grazing their cattle the farmers were returning back when suddenly it started raining heavily. Before they could find a shelter lighting fell on them due to which they died on the spot.

Upon receiving information people rushed to the spot and took the trio to sub divisional hospital where they were declared brought dead by the doctors.

Soon a police team also reached on the spot and sent the bodies for postmortem. Post the incident
a pal of gloom has descended upon the village.
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Doberman

Dogs attack family in Tennessee, 2 children killed


Yahoo! News
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:31 UTC
dog attack
Two young children were killed and their mother was hospitalized after two family dogs attacked them at their home in Tennessee, officials said.

The dogs attacked a 2-year-old girl, a 5-month-old boy and their mother Wednesday afternoon in the home located north of Memphis near Shelby Forest State Park, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said in a tweet.

The children were pronounced dead at the scene and their mother was taken to a Memphis hospital in critical condition.

The investigation remains active. No further information was immediately released.


Source: AP
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Biohazard

'Unprecedented bird flu epidemic could presage year-round outbreak', warns bird charity

Christie Wilcox
The Scientist
Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:25 UTC
dead bird
© ISTOCK.COM, EASYBUY4UABOVE: A dead northern gannet (Morus bassanus) on a beach in Quebec's Magdalen Islands, likely a victim of the current bird flu epidemic
Nearly 50 million birds have been culled amid efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, which continues to ravage the Northern Hemisphere.

A highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 influenza, also known as avian flu, that plagued Europe and North America all summer shows no signs of relenting, officials warn. More than 2,600 outbreaks have been reported among domesticated flocks, as well as more than 3,500 cases in wild birds from 37 European countries, according to the latest overview of the epidemic from European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

"I'm a scientist by training, and like all scientists, I'm used to taking a measured approach and don't take the language I use lightly," Jeff Knott, director of policy for the UK conservation charity, the RSPB, tells National Geographic. "But the severity of the situation and scale of the impact is unprecedented and very, very scary. It's a huge crisis that could turn into a catastrophe unless we get ahead of it."

Comment: Whilst it may be true that incidents of bird flu outbreaks may be on the rise - and in no small part thanks to factory farming practices that slowly destroy the health of livestock - it's also true that at least some of these declared outbreaks seem to serve another agenda, which is to cause deadly disruptions to the food supply:

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