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Rare Irrawaddy dolphin washed ashore dead in Pengkalan Balak, Malacca

Jason John
New Straits Times
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 15:07 UTC
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A 2.13 metre long male dolphin, weighing about 100 kilograms, was found dead and washed ashore on the beach of Tanjung Serai, Pengkalan Balak, Malacca.
A male dolphin, weighing about 100 kilograms, was found dead and washed ashore on the beach of Tanjung Serai, here, on Saturday evening.

The 2.13 metre long dolphin, a rare species was found with wounds in its mouth and bruises on the bottom right flipper.

A chalet owner who found the dead dolphin is said to have brought the mammal to the Turtle Management and Information Centre in Padang Kamunting in Pengkalan Balak.

State Fisheries Department head of Fisheries Extension Division, Mohd Azam Jusoh said the department received information about the discovery of a dead fish at about 6pm on Saturday and immediately went to the scene along with four department staff.

He said the dolphin, a Irrawaddy Dolphin, was endangered and rare species is believed to have spent the last few days without food based on the wounds in the mouth caused by ulcer.

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Lightning bolt kills woman near Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Phil Helsel
nbcnews.com
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:33 UTC
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A woman in Iowa died after she was struck by lightning Saturday as storms rolled through the area, authorities said.

Rebecca McCarthy, 42, of Hiawatha, was hit by lightning at around 5:30 p.m. as she walked between camp sites at Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area, northwest of Cedar Rapids in the eastern part of the state, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources said.

McCarthy was rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, the Iowa DNR said. The fatal lightning strike occurred as the possibility of strong storms were forecast for eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois Saturday.

In Linn County, where the recreation area is located, there were reports of quarter-sized hail that fell so heavy in parts that it resembled snow, according to the National Weather Service.
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Fire

California's biggest wildfire this year increases to 11,000 acres

Becca Stanek
The Week
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:45 UTC
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© Lucy Nicholson—Reuters
A firefighter monitors a wildfire as it spreads to the road near Jenks Lake in the San Bernardino National Forest in Calif. on June 18, 2015
In less than two days, a wildfire near Big Bear Lake, California, has spread to an estimated 11,000 acres as of Friday morning. The "Lake Fire" sparked on Wednesday afternoon, and has since been roaring through the San Bernardino National Forest. According to Time, this is the worst wildfire yet this year on California forestland. Dry and windy conditions on Thursday afternoon sparked the quick spread of the wildfire, which has so far ravaged an estimated 12 square miles of national forest.

At this point in time, the fire is 10 percent contained, and The Los Angeles Times reports that over 500 fire personnel, 32 engines, five air tankers, and seven helicopters continue to work to further contain it. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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Attention

Coldest June in 33 years for Tromsø, Norway

Robert Felix
iceagenow.info
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 10:31 UTC
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© Rune Nordgård Andreassen
243 centimeters of snow in Sjufjellet in Balsfjord 14th June 2015.
The mountains of Sjufjellet are still covered in 243 cm (8 ft) of snow - and their spring has been unseasonably cool and overcast with 149% of normal precipitation.

The summer solstice occurs June 20-21st when day length begins turning shorter and there seems to be a lot of whinging going on:

Thanks to H.B. Schmidt for this link

"High latitudes are the first to experience real climate changes, and you can't get much higher of a latitude than Tromsø," says H.B. "With NH land temperatures showing a declining trend since 1950, and upwards of 90% of land-based temperature variance affected by oceanic thermal currents, any cooling of the North Atlantic is going to show up on land."

"We already see the decline off Greenland and in the North Atlantic from direct SST measurements, so Norway and others should expect a continued cooling if the linear logic used by AGW proponents is to be believed.

"Keep the snow boots handy, kids."
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Cloud Precipitation

Hundreds flee rising floodwaters in North Island, New Zealand

Charlotte Curd
stuff.co.nz
Sun, 21 Jun 2015 09:54 UTC
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© Warwick Smith/ Fairfax NZ
The Whangaehu River in flood.
A hundred people have been evacuated from Waitotara - likely the south Taranaki village's entire population - after flooding engulfed the remote town.

Waitotara is located about 30 kilometres north of Whanganui. It has sixty houses and sits on the Waitotara River, which flooded in the heavy rain over the weekend.

Residents were not able to return to their homes on Sunday, as flood waters were still high, Civil Defence said. Some residents were asked to evacuate, while others self-evacuated. Many went to the nearby town of Waverley.

A state of emergency remains in place for Taranaki, Whanganui and Rangitikei.

More than 200 people were evacuated from areas near the Whanganui River, which reached record levels of 9.1 metres at Town Bridge at 3am on Sunday. Many more people had self-evacuated.

About 100 flood affected homes on the city's Anzac Parade could be inaccessible until Tuesday because of the high waters, the Ministry of Civil Defence said.

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Attention

Film of pyroclastic flow surge down the hillside during Sinabung volcano eruption

Angela Fritz
Washington Post
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:26 UTC
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© James Reynolds
This was remarkable, ash cloud resembled super cell thunderstorm, detached from #volcano #Sinabung #Indonesia
Mount Sinabung in Indonesia has been exploding with ash and debris since early June, now in its fifth year of activity since the long-dormant volcano came back online after hundreds of years of silence.

Environment videographer James Reynolds has been on the Indonesian island of Sumatra since Thursday, sharing video of Sinabung's intense eruptions of ash and gas. In Reynolds' video above, Sinabung's pyroclastic flow surges down the mountainside on Friday, destroying everything in its path, including farms. The beginning of the video shows how pyroclastic flow can pour down the side of a volcano like an avalanche.

The USGS says that pyroclastic flow — made up of small pieces of rock, ash and hot gas — can vary in speed, it is universally deadly and destructive. "A pyroclastic flow will destroy nearly everything in its path," says the USGS. "With rock fragments ranging in size from ash to boulders traveling across the ground at speeds typically greater than [50 mph], pyroclastic flows knock down, shatter, bury or carry away nearly all objects and structures in their way.

"The extreme temperatures of rocks and gas inside pyroclastic flows, generally between [400 and 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit], can cause combustible material to burn, especially petroleum products, wood, vegetation, and houses."

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Cloud Precipitation

Swim to your car, it's 'normal'! Downpour turns roads to rivers in Russian cities (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)


RT
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:39 UTC
floods in Russia

Still from YouTube video
Several Russian cities, including Moscow and Kursk, were partly flooded on Saturday. While streets turned into "rivers" as sewer systems failed to cope with the torrents of water, local authorities said that everything was "normal."


The city of Kursk in Russia's southwest was flooded on Saturday, after heavy rain hit the city of some 430,000 people. Residents said the rain was the worst so far this year.


The low-lying center of the city was reported to have been affected the worst.

Residents took to social media, posting videos and photographs of roads that had literally turned into rivers in some parts of the city.
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Fire

Ontario methane gas leak thought to be natural - called 'extremely rare occurance'

Chris O'Gorman
Sarnia Observer
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 04:00 UTC
methane release canada
© Sarnia Observer
Emergency responders along with Union Gas crews and a spill action team from the Ministry of Natural Resources attended a natural gas leak in Lambton Shores Wednesday after reports of a odour were noted. (file photo)
Municipal officials in Lambton Shores declared a "localized state of emergency" Thursday, one day after a natural gas leak at a local golf course bubbled and released methane gas.

Doug Cook, the town's deputy mayor, announced the state of emergency for the Indian Hills Golf Course and surrounding subdivision following a meeting of the Municipal Emergency Control group.

Gas has continued to leak into the air since Wednesday morning, and with no indication of when it might stop.

"We're hoping it will dissipate in the near future," Cook told The Observer. "There may be more radical steps to take if not, but at this point, there's not much we can do."

Firefighters and Lambton OPP responded to reports shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday from a nearby First Nations group of a strange odour coming from a creek.

The golf course was evacuated when the leak was discovered, and access to Indian Hill Trail West remains restricted, said Const. Travis Parsons, the OPP's community services and media relations officer.

Cook said the evacuation was a precautionary measure and there is no risk to the public outside the gas leak site.

Comment: For those who are paying attention, incidences of methane outgassing, or suspected outgassing are becoming disturbingly frequent. Another sign of impending earth changes? Just a small sample:

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Cloud Precipitation

6 inches of rain in 3 hours floods Edinburg, Texas

Sky Chadde and Jared Taylor
The Monitor
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:31 UTC
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© Veronica Christine Salinas
Floodwaters cover Cano Street and Eighth Avenue in Edinburg after heavy rainfall June 19, 2015.
Felipe Ayala Jr. said he was cooking hot dogs Friday afternoon when the water started seeping through the walls.

More floodwater crept onto the floor. And when he opened the door, brown water and garbage spilled in.

"It was like a swamp," the 42-year-old said at an emergency shelter Friday evening. "There was trash everywhere."

Ayala has lived at the house along Cypress Drive in a neighborhood just south of Iowa Road in Edinburg for about the past two weeks — a period with several days of localized torrential rainfall that seemingly reached a new apogee Friday afternoon.

As much as six inches fell in less than three hours, prompting evacuations and road closures in east Edinburg and the surrounding colonias, including San Carlos, where the Federal Emergency Management Agency had been set to survey already damaged properties.
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Cloud Precipitation

Floods overwhelm major streets in Lagos, Nigeria

Jola Sotubo
pulse.ng
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 20:15 UTC
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Flooding in Lagos
Motorists are finding it hard to navigate their way due to the water level and pedestrians are unable to pass unaided.

Major streets in Lagos State are now flooded due to the heavy rain which fell today, June 20, 2015.

Motorists are finding it hard to navigate their way due to the water level and pedestrians are unable to pass unaided.

The affected areas include Lekki, Ajah, Oshodi, Iju, Opebi, Agege and Ikorodu among others.

Floods are a constant problem in Lagos leading the state government to provide a free phone line, 08099183777, for residents to report flooding incidents in their respective areas.

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