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Ravers get hypothermia at snow-hit French techno festival

Yahoo! News
Mon, 06 May 2019 17:14 UTC

© AFP Photo/PASCAL LACHENAUD
Participants at the Teknival music festival in Feniers, central France, were caught off guard by a spring snowstorm on Saturday, May 4

Around 30 people were treated for hypothermia at an outdoor techno music festival in France after unexpected snowfall left many ravers sheltering under survival blankets distributed by the Red Cross.

Around 10,000 people attended the unauthorized Teknival 2019 festival in the central Creuse region at the weekend, where temperatures dropped to -3 degrees Celsius (27 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight on Saturday to Sunday.

Around 30 people were treated for hypothermia at the scene and two were taken to hospital, local officials told AFP, with the several centimeters (inches) of snow turning the festival camping experience into an endurance test.

Shark species as big as small yachts spotted off California coast after 30-year absence

Amy Graff
SFGate
Fri, 03 May 2019 15:23 UTC

© Gregory B. Skomal / NOAA
Basking sharks are large and gentle and in April 2019 they started to reappear in California waters after a 30-year absence. (photo: Gregory B. Skomal / NOAA)Basking sharks are large and gentle and in April 2019 they started to reappear in California waters after a 30-year absence.

A species of enormous sharks, some as long as small yachts, have been frequently spotted off the coast of Southern California after all but vanishing decades ago.

But need not fear, basking sharks are often called "gentle giants" as they aren't aggressive and don't bite. Swimming with their mouths wide open and often near the surface, they are filter feeders, consuming tiny food such as plankton.

Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab Director Christopher Lowe tells the Ventura County Star it's been 30 years since basking sharks have been seen in the area in large numbers.

After whale sharks that can reach 60 feet long, basking sharks are the second-largest known shark species, growing to be 30 feet long, though the ones seen locally have been in the 18- to 25-foot range.

Unseasonable cold temperatures bring snow to northern Greece

Tasos Kokkinidis
Greek Reporter
Tue, 07 May 2019 14:53 UTC

Even though spring is well advanced and summer is supposedly just around the corner, weather stations recorded unseasonably low temperatures and even snow in several parts of Greece on Tuesday morning, especially at high altitudes.

Photographs published by EpirusGate show the Greek village of Syrrako in the Ioannina region covered in a thick layer of snow.

Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine covered with May snow

112.international
Tue, 07 May 2019 14:39 UTC

Snow falls in Ukraine’s Carpathian mountains

On May 7, Ukrainian Carpathians are being covered with snow. In particular, snow falls in Ivano-Frankivsk region, as Unian reported.

Forecasters announced storm warning.

Facebook users shared videos of the snowfall.

North Korea faces food crisis after "worst harvest in a decade" - UN

Tom Miles
Yahoo
Fri, 03 May 2019 12:00 UTC

© Jacky Chen/Reuters
A North Korean woman is shown in a 2015 file photo tending to crops in Sakchu county, North Phyongan Province, North Korea.

Four in ten North Koreans are chronically short of food and further cuts to already minimal rations are expected after the worst harvest in a decade, the United Nations said on Friday.

Official rations are down to 300 grammes - under 11 ounces - per person per day, the lowest ever for this time of year, the U.N. said following a food security assessment it carried out at Pyongyang's request from March 29 to April 12.

It found that 10.1 million people were suffering from severe food insecurity, "meaning they do not have enough food till the next harvest," U.N. World Food Program spokesman Herve Verhoosel said.

Comment: Obviously malicious US sanctions are exacerbating the situation but food shortages due to the increasingly erratic seasons and extreme weather is depleting food stocks across the globe:

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2 dead grey whales wash ashore, raising total to 13 in Washington this year

KOMO News
Sun, 05 May 2019 09:33 UTC

Stranded dead gray whale May 4 at Cape Disappointment

Two dead grey whales were found washed ashore in the last two days, bringing the total to 13 this year alone in Washington state, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

A dead grey whale washed ashore at Harborview Park in Everett Sunday, according to the Everett Police Department.

Another gray whale was found stranded near Ilwaco at Cape Disappointment Saturday.

A portion of Harborview Park remains closed.

Comment: Meanwhile over on the other side of the country along the Atlantic coast dead whales have recently been found in Westhampton, New York and Oyster, Virginia.

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: 5G disrupts weather forecasts - UK record cold - Europe record snow

Adapt 2030
Mon, 06 May 2019 23:49 UTC

5G will disrupt the ability to forecast weather due to the fact that it mimics the signature of water vapour, so forecasters won't know 5G signature from real weather fronts. UK breaks cold temperature record back to 1841, and Europe record snow in five countries first week of May 2019.

Comment: Meteorologists warn 5G frequencies could interfere with water vapor signals, disrupting forecasting

May snow storm leaves Italian mountain towns blanketed - 26 inches recorded

Yahoo! News
Mon, 06 May 2019 20:00 UTC

An estimated 67 centimeters of snow fell in the mountains of Italy's Veneto region on Sunday, May 5, Nuova Venezia reported.

The late season storm delivered winds and flurries throughout the southern Dolomite region and broke local records for spring snowfall, Italian media said.

Video posted to Instagram and is described as showing heavy flurries and snow-laden trees near Crespano del Grappa.

Comment: It's not only the central and northern parts of Italy currently experiencing heavy and unseasonal snowfall, so too is the far south:

Pretty heavy snowfall on Monte Scuro (max. 1633 m), Calabria, south Italy this morning, May 6th. The cold airmass has reached south Italy. Report: @meteocalabria.net pic.twitter.com/UO53unfYtX
— severe-weather.EU (@severeweatherEU) May 6, 2019

Rare green flash snapped above clouds in California

Space Weather
Sat, 04 May 2019 12:00 UTC

© Thom Peck
The Sun setting, but above true horizon due to the hills between us and the Pacific 20 mile away. The incoming marine layer doing some optical aid, I suspect. The green flash was not naked eye, or at least we didnt see it.
Canon t6i at f/13, 1/2000 second 250mm, ISO 200

For seaside photographers, nothing beats a green flash--that sudden pulse of verdant light at sunset as the sun vanishes beneath the ocean waves. Thom Peck of Poway CA was near the Pacific Ocean on May 4th when he captured a green flash. But it didn't come from the ocean waves. It came from the top of a cloud:

This is a rare 'cloud-top' green flash, sometimes seen as the sun's rays graze a distant cloud bank. They are not well understood. Ordinary green flashes require a temperature inversion layer near the sea surface. Similar inversions may sometimes occur at the top of marine stratus clouds.

"The green flash was not naked eye--or at least we didn't see it," says Peck. "But we photographed it easily enough using my Canon T6i digital camera." Photo settings may be found here.

Comment: Rare and yet, apparently, like many unusual phenomena, increasingly common:

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Record coldest ever May day set in Denmark and snowfall reported around the country

Ben Hamilton
CPH Post
Mon, 06 May 2019 18:39 UTC

It was frosty enough in Copenhagen during the Occupation in World War II, but did you know that the coldest ever May day recorded in the Danish capital was in 1941?

Something was clearly up with the weather that year, which makes Hitler's decision to launch Operation Barbarossa a month later all the more baffling.

You weren't hallucinating

Well, we can now scratch May 1941 from the record books because on Saturday morning a new record low of 0.8 degrees was set in Frederiksberg.

The frosty beginning to the day that many woke up to followed a night that included hail, sleet and even snow - no, you weren't hallucinating!

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Earth Changes

Ravers get hypothermia at snow-hit French techno festival

Shark species as big as small yachts spotted off California coast after 30-year absence

Unseasonable cold temperatures bring snow to northern Greece

Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine covered with May snow

North Korea faces food crisis after "worst harvest in a decade" - UN

2 dead grey whales wash ashore, raising total to 13 in Washington this year

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: 5G disrupts weather forecasts - UK record cold - Europe record snow

May snow storm leaves Italian mountain towns blanketed - 26 inches recorded

Rare green flash snapped above clouds in California

Record coldest ever May day set in Denmark and snowfall reported around the country

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