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Bridge crawling with thousands of spiders in Columbus, Ohio

Mark Somerson
The Columbus Dispatch
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:55 UTC
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© Doral Chenoweth III/The Columbus Dispatch
This Oct. 19, 2015 photo shows one of the thousands of spiders that are living on the new Main Street bridge over the Scioto River in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State University entomologist David Shetlar estimated that up to 5,000 spiders live there.
The Main Street bridge is crawling with spiders.

Crawling. With. Spiders.

But this is no Halloween tale. The $60 million bridge that spans the Scioto River and connects Downtown to Franklinton really is infested with thousands of orb weavers spinning intricate webs up and down the hand and guardrails.

If you pay close attention during the day, you can see the sun playing off the silk strands woven round and round on nearly every open span on the steel structure.

But at night, you can really see the webs, snagging thousands of flying insects that live in and around the river. (You can tell how successful the hunters are at night by all the repair work being done during daylight.)

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Cloud Precipitation

Storms cause train derailment amid flash floods in Texas


The Guardian, UK
Sun, 25 Oct 2015 09:41 UTC
Flooding in Dallas.
© Tony Gutierrez/AP
Flooding in Dallas.

Remnants of storm fuel heavy rains in south-eastern US, as Houston braces for high water and freight train comes off tracks

Heavy rains fuelled by two storm systems, one of them remnants of hurricane Patricia, have pounded south-eastern Texas, triggering flash floods in Houston and derailing a freight train.

Forecasters predicted 15-30cm (6-12in) of rain for coastal areas of the US, including south-west Louisiana, by Monday morning, exacerbated by tides up to 1.5 metres high (5ft) and wind gusts of up to 35mph (56km/h).

The rain systems were intensified by the remnants of hurricane Patricia, which was downgraded to a tropical depression after crashing into Mexico's west coast.

As the storms moved east early on Sunday, cities in Texas's flood-prone Gulf of Mexico region braced for the impact. They include Houston, the state's second most populous metropolitan area with 6.1 million people.
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Cloud Precipitation

Canary Islands hit by fierce storms, flash floods, landslides and waterspout


thelocal.es
Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:27 UTC
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© Cabildo Gran Canaria / twitter
Waterspout off Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria
Severe weather warnings have been issued across the Canary Islands this weekend as torrential rain brings chaos and forced the closure of schools.

All schools were closed on Friday as storms hit the archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of west Africa.

Spain's meteorological agency AEMET put the region on amber alert and warned that the eastern most islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote were likely to be the worst hit with rain of up to 30 litres per square meter per hour expected.

Those tourists willing to brave the wind and rain and head for the popular resort of Playa del Ingles in Gran Canaria may have spotted an unusual weather phenomenon just off the beach.

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Question

Dead birds wash up on beach in Tiny Township, Ontario

Brandon Rowe
barrie.ctvnews.ca
Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:40 UTC
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© Brandon Rowe / CTV News
Several dead birds washed up on the shore of Ardmore Beach in Tiny Township on Friday October 23, 2015.
An investigation is underway to figure out why a large number of dead birds have washed up on beaches in Tiny Township.

It's not uncommon to see ducks wash up on the beaches but on Thursday Tiny Township workers counted 66 dead birds.

"We find ourselves back here this year with another large amount of dead water fowl on the beach," says Tiny Township Mayor George Cornell.

The last major occurrence of dead birds was in 2011. On Friday workers removed 12 more ducks from the beach.
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Windsock

Massive hurricane Patricia batters Mexico's Pacific coast: Strongest ever recorded in western hemisphere

David Alire Garcia
Livemint
Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:19 UTC
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© Jonathan Levinson/AFP
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) downgraded Patricia to a Category 4 storm but said it remained an ‘extremely dangerous major hurricane’.
There were no reported casualties and officials said the damage might not be as catastrophic as feared

One of the strongest ever hurricanes lashed western Mexico with rain and winds of up to 165 mph (266 km/h), causing chaos in coastal towns and resorts but less damage than feared before weakening on Saturday as it moved inland.

Mowing down trees, flooding streets and battering buildings, Hurricane Patricia plowed into Mexico as a Category 5 storm on Friday before grinding inland, where it began to lose power in the mountains that rise up along the Pacific coast.

Around 15,000 tourists were hurriedly evacuated from the beach resort of Puerto Vallarta as people scrambled to get away from the advancing hurricane, whose massive swirl over Mexico could be seen clearly from space.

"It sparked chaos here, it ruined a lot of things, took down the roof, lots of trees. Things are in a bad state where we work," said Domingo Hernandez, a hotel worker in the resort of Barra de Navidad near to the major port of Manzanillo.

Thousands of residents and tourists ended up in improvised shelters but there were no early reports of fatalities and many felt they had escaped lightly.


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Windsock

Hurricane Patricia: Thousands evacuated as 325km/h winds blast Mexico


RT
Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:15 UTC
hurricane Patricia
© Jonathan Levinson / AFP
A truck drives along a flooded street in Manzanillo, Colima state, Mexico on October 23, 2015, during hurricane Patricia
The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere has struck Mexico's Pacific Coast, destroying houses and forcing thousands to evacuate. Heavy flooding and mud-slides are also feared along the hurricane's path.

Hurricane Patricia grew at an "incredible rate" on Friday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. It became a hurricane overnight, carrying maximum sustained winds of about 200 miles per hour (325 km per hour) as it moved north-northwest at 12 mph (19 kph).

Comment: See also: Hurricane Patricia becomes strongest hurricane ever recorded

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Sun

Mysterious 'planet' filmed by Florida woman likely a sundog

Ben Hooper
upi.com
Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:01 UTC
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A Florida woman filming a sunset in Florida had a "freak out" when she spotted a mysterious "planet" -- but the object was likely an illusion known as a sundog.

Melissa Huffman posted a video to YouTube showing the large light in the sky near the sun as she was filming from Florida's Sanibel causeway near sunset.

Huffman refers to the object as a "very clear planet" -- showing the moon hanging elsewhere in the sky -- and mentions it probably isn't Mercury or Venus.

"Somebody tell me what it is, thank you," Huffman says in the video.

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Cloud Precipitation

Flash flood sweeps away mini bus in Pakistan

Ben Hooper
upi.com
Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:48 UTC
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Mini bus swept away
A mini bus taking Pakistan's Lowari Pass was caught on camera getting carried away by a flash flood while its 10 passengers fled to safety.

The video, posted to YouTube, shows the mini bus being carried away by rushing waters Lowari Top Dir Upper area amid flash flood Monday.

The bus' 10 passengers can be seen climbing out of the vehicle and rushing to the safety of the shore as the vehicle picks up speed in the water.

The video ends with the bus getting stuck on small but quickly-moving waterfall.

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Cloud Lightning

El Nino will bring disastrous weather this winter, increased likelihood of civil unrest

Emily Soh
Discovery News
Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:33 UTC
Pacific Ocean El Nino
© NOAA
When an unusually powerful El Niño struck in 1997, civil conflicts erupted across the tropics, from Sudan to Peru -- as floods, droughts and fires devastated crops, fisheries and livelihoods.

It wasn't an isolated case, suggests growing evidence that links El Niño's extreme weather with a spike in violent conflicts in tropical regions. As one of the strongest El Niño events in recorded history gains steam this fall, some experts are warning of the potential for more unrest to come - and the urgent need to take preventive action.

"Half the world's population is exposed to a higher risk of violence this year," says Solomon Hsiang, professor of public policy at Berkeley. "Now that we know what to expect, we shouldn't necessarily sit back and watch sparks fly. There are a lot of things we can do."

Comment: The SOTT Earth Changes Summaries that have been tracking the weather have already shown the planet to be in a state of extreme turmoil, and now things are expected to get worse? How long before the cumulative effect of localized disasters reaches critical mass and causes the global supply chain to be unable to function, leaving most people of the world without access to basic necessities?

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Snowflake

Unseasonal snowfall brings winter in October to parts of Kashmir, India

Nazir Masoodi
ndtv.com
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:00 UTC
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Met department officials say they have no record of heavy snowfall in the Valley during the month of October
Even though it's the middle of autumn, in parts of Kashmir it seems like winter. Cold temperatures have brought unseasonal snowfall at higher reaches of the valley.

For last two days Mughal Road that connects Kashmir valley with Pirpanjal region has remained closed and hundreds of trucks were stranded along the key passage.

At an altitude of 11,000 feet, Peer Ki Gali, the highest spot on Mughal Road has seen about two feet of snowfall in last 48 hours. But as the weather improved today and sun came out, officials increased their efforts to clear the road.

"Snow clearance machines are at work since yesterday and road will be fully functional today. We have already cleared over 500 trucks yesterday evening," said Nisar Ahmad, an engineer at Mughal Road.

Comment: See also: Heaviest blizzard in at least 10 years hits Omsk, Russia... and it's still October

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