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Fore! Family of 4 golfers struck by lightning in Hayward, Wisconsin

Joey Swanson
cbs3duluth.com
Wed, 11 Aug 2021 10:12 UTC
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Authorities said four people, all related, were struck by lightning at the Big Fish Golf Club course in Hayward.

Multiple units with Sawyer County responded to the incident around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday.

They said four male golfers who were visiting the area suffered injuries from a nearby lightning strike on the golf course.

The golfers were alert at the time authorities arrived and all four were brought to a local hospital.

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Fire

British Columbia wildfires by the numbers: Over 650,000 hectares burned

Josh Duncan
KamloopsbcNow
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:30 UTC
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The sun has risen on another summer day in British Columbia where thousands of hard-working personnel are combining their efforts to get the province's ongoing wildfire situation under control.

Since April 1, there have been 1,451 wildfires in BC that have burned just over 650,000 hectares of land.


Currently, there are 260 active wildfires and here's how they break down by region:
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Fire

"Like a horror movie:" Greece wildfires continue to force thousands of evacuations


Global News
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 13:19 UTC
FLEE
The burning of wildfires in Greece was like living in a horror movie, one resident said as she was evacuated from the Greek island of Evia by ferry on Sunday.

Thousands of people have fled their homes on Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day, and ferries were on standby for more evacuations after taking many to safety by sea.

Fires that had threatened the northern suburbs of Athens in recent days died back. But the blaze on Evia, a large island north-east of the capital, quickly burgeoned into several fronts, ripping through thousands of hectares of pristine forest across its northern part, and forcing the evacuation of dozens of villages.

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Fire

Dixie fire becomes the second-largest wildfire in California history


L A Times
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:10 UTC
Devastation of the Dixie Fire in Pumas County
© Zac Slotemaker/KRNVDevastation of the Dixie Fire in Pumas County
The Dixie fire, now the second-largest blaze in state history, has burned more than 463,000 acres and destroyed more than 400 buildings.

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Fire

Seven dead as wildfires sweep across Algeria


Dhaka Tribune
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:17 UTC
Some fires erupted near houses, forcing inhabitants to flee [Screengrab/ Social media]
Some fires erupted near houses, forcing inhabitants to flee [Screengrab/ Social media]
Algeria is the latest Mediterranean country to be hit by wildfires, after blazes hit Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.

Wildfires fanned by blistering temperatures and tinder-dry conditions have killed at least seven people in Algeria, the interior minister said Tuesday, adding the fires had criminal origins.

Photographs posted on social media show huge walls of flame and billowing clouds of smoke towering over villages in the forested hills of the Kabylie region, east of the capital Algiers.

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Climate change propaganda: Unchecked gas emissions will make Earth 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter by 2040, experts at United Nation's IPCC warn

Eric Ng
South China Morning Post
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 16:00 UTC
zhengzhou flood
© ReutersAn aerial view shows a flooded road following heavy rainfall in Zhengzhou, Henan province, last month. A UN report warned that climate change will lead to more intense rainfall and flooding in many parts of the world.
Global temperatures are expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius or more in the next two decades from pre-industrial levels unless "immediate, rapid and large-scale" reductions in greenhouse gases are achieved, climate experts have warned.

Failure to stem the rot could render the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees by the next decades "beyond reach," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body, said in a report on Monday. Human activities have raised temperatures by 1.1 degrees since 1850. The Paris climate agreement of 2015 seeks to limit the threshold of 1.5 to 2 degrees by 2100.

"Climate change is already affecting every region on Earth, in multiple ways," Panmao Zhai, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group, said in a statement. "The changes we experience will increase with additional warming."

Comment: If only there were a worldwide global reset of human culture and society that could rework from the ground up how we live on this planet. That would save the planet, for sure.

See also:

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Boat

India - Hundreds of villages flooded in Uttar Pradesh, 9 people dead

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 08:48 UTC
Flooding in Uttar Pradesh, India, August 2021.
© Government of Uttar PradeshFlooding in Uttar Pradesh, India, August 2021.
Disaster authorities in India report over 400 villages in the state of Uttar Pradesh have been flooded after several rivers broke their banks.

As of 09 August 2021, India's Disaster Management Division (DMD) said "Due to excess rainfall in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, excess water was released in River Chambal from District Dholpur, which led to flood like situation in Districts Jalaun and Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh on 06.08.2021 onwards."

Since then heavy rain and swollen rivers have combined to affect other areas districts including Ballia, Budaun, Gonda, Etawah, Prayagraj and Baghpat among others.

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Attention

Indonesia Mount Merapi: Volcanic eruption on Java island unleashes clouds of ash and smoke into the sky


The Pigeon Express
Mon, 09 Aug 2021 13:55 UTC
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Mount Merapi in Indonesia erupted on the densely populated island of Java, spewing smoke and ash high into the air and sending streams of lava and gasses down its slopes.

The volatile volcano unleashed clouds of hot ash at least seven times on Sunday, as well as a series of fast-moving pyroclastic flows - a mixture of rock, debris, lava and gasses - said Hanik Humaida, who heads the city of Yogyakarta's Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Center.

The rumbling sound could be heard several kilometres away. No casualties have been reported.

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Attention

1,000+ earthquakes rattle Yellowstone in July - the most in a single month since 2017

Stacy Liberatore
Daily Mail
Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:57 UTC
Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park sits in the northwest region of Wyoming and is home to bursting geysers, steam vents and bubbling pools. At 3,472 square miles, the park is larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined
A swarm of more than 1,000 earthquakes ripped through Yellowstone National Park in July, which officials are calling a 'doozy' of a month.

This was the most seismic activity in the region since the Maple Creek swarm of more than 1,100 quakes shook the park in June 2017.

Although some may fear this increase in activity may mean 'the big one [earthquake] is near,' the US Geological Survey (USGS) says the earthquakes were not caused by magma, but rather groundwater moving through pre-existing faults.


Comment: Is this an attempt to be reassuring?


The University of Utah Seismograph Stations, responsible for the operation and analysis of the Yellowstone Seismic Network, located 1,008 earthquakes in the park, with a whopping 764 beneath Yellowstone Lake.

Comment: Despite the attempts to downplay what's happening at Yellowstone, it's concerning that activity is increasing, and to record levels, and this alongside an uptick in seismic and volcanic activity elsewhere on the planet:

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Cloud Precipitation

Devastating flash floods hit downtown Omaha, Nebraska

Zach Williamson
3newsnow.com
Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:05 UTC
FLOOD
It didn't take long for the storm to make its impact Saturday night. Heavy rains turned into devastating flash floods.

"Fifteen years and I've never seen anything like it," Rowhouses at Soma resident John Thomas said.

The streets in the Old Market area turned into rivers. The worst damage was between 14th and 11th streets on both Jones and Leavenworth streets.

"I had a birds-eye view from the ninth floor watching all of this," Old Market Lofts resident Richard Berkland said. "I've never seen rain that fast coming down to an area that can't absorb the water."

"We were just hosting an event here and the light started to flicker," Vintage Ballroom operator Rebekah Pasqualetto said. "We knew it was raining but we didn't know how bad it was, so once the light started to flicker, we came outside and saw the river at the intersection."

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