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Social media users have posted images of the spectacular sight online:
Red dust storm over #Tobruk #Libya pic.twitter.com/ZYU131gZ9U— Ahmed Sanalla (@ASanalla) January 17, 2016Earth Changes
Social media users have posted images of the spectacular sight online:
Peru's Ubinas volcano
Volcanologists from the Volcanology Southern Observatory said the ash spread south and southeast some six miles (9.65km), affecting seven surrounding towns. Scientists expect smaller eruptions of smoke and ash to continue throughout the day.
Just days earlier, a team of volcanologists had ascended Ubinas to study the crater and take readings. After being dormant for several years, the volcano has become increasingly active since September 2013. The Ubinas volcano is in Peru's Moquegua department, 776 miles south of Lima.
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Water levels rose sharply in the Naples area as the severe thunderstorm moved in, packing wind gusts over 80 miles per hour.
A meteotsunami, according to the NWS is caused by air pressure disturbances often associated with fast moving weather systems, such as squall lines.
These disturbances can generate waves in the ocean that travel at the same speed as the overhead weather system.
Such a squall line moved through Southwest Florida this morning. Its arrival at high tide led to widespread coastal flooding up and down the coastline as the strong thunderstorm winds helped drive the water onshore.
However what happened in Naples appears to be more than standard coastal flooding during a high wind event. As the water level readings show below, the water levels rose sharply at the moment the storms moved inland, reaching a height of over 7 feet, nearly 6 feet higher than a normal high tide. From there, continued spikes and falls were observed--signs of continued wave action in response to the initial wave's passage.
According to NWS, while uncommon, meteotsunamis are well documented and occur a few times a year in Florida.
Redpoll
"Common Redpolls," I thought as I got out of the truck for a closer look. They moved a little higher in the trees, but did not stop their eating in the bitter cold of a minus 12 degrees.
This winter is the first time I had seen flocks of them since the winter of 2012-2013 when they invaded most birch trees in the Upper Snake River Valley. While following big game migrations from the mountains two weeks ago, I found a small flock on the desert, north of the St. Anthony Sand Dunes. They have also been recorded in Ashton and on the Rexburg and Howe Christmas Bird Counts. In the last few days they have been visiting my backyard to feed on Niger seeds.
Redpolls
Mexico's Colima volcano, also known as the 'fire volcano', has erupted again.
The explosion at the volcanic crater was registered at 3:42 p.m. local time (21:42 GMT). Located in the southwestern Mexican state of Colima, the Fire Volcano has been bursting to life since July 9 last year including three eruptions on New Year's Eve.
The Fire Volcano, officially known as the Colima Volcano, is part of the Pacific's Ring of Fire. Mexico contains over 3,000 volcanoes, but only 14 are considered active. Major eruptions in Mexican history have included the 1953 eruption of the Paricutin Volcano in Michoacan, the 1982 eruption of Tacana Volcano in Chiapas and the 1986 eruption of the Colima Volcano.
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This was the case of Brad Hudson, owner of The City Arborist in Greenville, SC.
When sunlight and raindrops combine to make a rainbow, they can make a whole circle of light in the sky. But it's a very rare sight. This rare sky phenomenon was captured on January 16, 2016.
Sky conditions have to be just right for this, and even if they are, the bottom part of a full-circle rainbow is usually blocked by the horizon. That's why we see rainbows not as circles, but as arcs across our sky. If you could get up high enough, you'd see that some rainbows continue below the horizon seen from closer to sea-level.
Brad Hudson with The City Arborist, LLC, a Greenville tree care company was at a 400-foot elevation when he snapped the full circle rainbow.
In 2014, a perfect rainbow circle was filmed from the Skylon Tower Revolving restaurant at Niagara Falls, Ontario:
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Fed up: Howard Lewis, 73, walks through the rain and wet fields at the centre.
Fed up: Howard Lewis, 73, walks through the rain and wet fields at the centre.
People living in Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire, have experienced rainfall every day since October 26.
As well as dampening the spirits of locals, it has also caused problems for farmers - who have had to keep their livestock indoors.
However, while Eglwyswrw's predicament has seen it gain international headlines as well as close in on the previous record, villagers hope Saturday's predicted dry spell will be correct.
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Part of the main street in Hilo, Hawaii, was flattened by a tsunami in April 1946. That big wave was triggered by a quake near the Aleutian Islands, where the edges of two tectonic plates continue to collide.
Part of the main street in Hilo, Hawaii, was flattened by a tsunami in April 1946. That big wave was triggered by a quake near the Aleutian Islands, where the edges of two tectonic plates continue to collide.
Tsunamis — the giant waves generated by undersea earthquakes or landslides — have hit U.S. shorelines before. Often they start along the Aleutian island chain that curves in an arc across the North Pacific. Right underneath, there's a trench where two pieces of the Earth's crust are colliding. The edge of the Pacific Plate is shoving itself under the edge of the North American Plate.
Occasionally a segment of the trench along the plate margins gives way with ferocious results — a big earthquake. These subduction quakes are the type that produces a tsunami, as a giant section of the earth collapses. It's like waving your hand underwater — the collapse creates a wave that can travel thousands of miles. In the past century, several such tsunamis have inundated parts of Hawaii, Alaska and California.
Never was this more true, than when NOAA announced earlier this year that the global warming "pause" didn't happen. For the past 19 years give or take, the official data has shown very little global warming, which as you might expect has perturbed climate scientists ever since.
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Lake Eyre is lush and green after rainfall.
Lake Eyre is lush and green after rainfall.
According to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, some light rain fell around the lake on New Year's Eve, followed by heavier rains of 1 to 2 inches (25 to 50 mm) on New Year's Day and the day after.
"Additional heavy rainfall added up to between 25 and 100 millimeters (1 to 4 inches) during the first week of January over the Lake Eyre region," said weather.com senior meteorologist Nick Wiltgen.
According to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, the rainfall seen on New Year's Day 2016 was the largest rainfall event it had seen since acquiring the Kalamurina park in 2007.
"This is an extraordinary event - the rapid filling of Lake Eyre by local flooding is unusual and a stark contrast to the slow arrival of floodwaters from the rain in the far-off channel country of Queensland," Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) chief executive Atticus Hemming told Mashable Australia. "The desert around Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) may not flood like this again for decade."
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The photo above shows Lake Eyre in South Australia's Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary after it was flooded by heavy rainfall.
The photo above shows Lake Eyre in South Australia's Kalamurina Wildlife Sanctuary after it was flooded by heavy rainfall.
Comment: The scientific research is corrupted and the global warming proponents have manipulated the data to fit a political agenda at the expense of humanity.