For the coming night night frost is expected, too.
Normally there is no night frost after the Ice Saints (May 11 -15).
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis, Hans Schreuder and JJM Gommers for these links
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For the coming night night frost is expected, too.
Normally there is no night frost after the Ice Saints (May 11 -15).
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis, Hans Schreuder and JJM Gommers for these links
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A close up of the diatom that produces the marine toxin domoic acid.
A close up of the diatom that produces the marine toxin domoic acid.
The effects stretch from Central California to British Columbia, and possibly as far north as Alaska. Dangerous levels of the natural toxin domoic acid have shut down recreational and commercial shellfish harvests in Washington, Oregon and California this spring, including the lucrative Dungeness crab fishery off Washington's southern coast and the state's popular razor-clam season.
At the same time, two other types of toxins rarely seen in combination are turning up in shellfish in Puget Sound and along the Washington coast, said Vera Trainer, manager of the Marine Microbes and Toxins Programs at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.
The sinkhole in Illawong that opened up about 4pm on Monday.
The three-metre deep hole opened up about 4pm, forcing police and firefighters to evacuate a row of townhouses on Osprey Drive.
One man was asleep on his couch when he heard a loud crack in his garden outside, the man's friend, Hisham Bashir said.
"He looked outside and the tree had collapsed and the ground started to sink," Mr Bashir said.
"Dirt had sprayed up all over his backyard and on the trampoline. There was dirt all over the windows.
"It's pretty scary, but these things happen," he said.
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A West Iceland beach.
A West Iceland beach.
"In the past years we have always caught some mackerel, and especially last year. But now we didn't see any," Guðmundur J. Óskarsson, one of the institution's specialists, who took part in the expedition, told Fréttablaðið.
Guðmundur stated that the ocean temperature from Southeast Iceland to the West Fjords has dropped by one to one-and-a-half degree Celsius. However, it can quickly increase if the air temperature increases substantially, he added.
Last month was the coldest May in Iceland in decades.
The expedition is part of the institute's long-term study of the condition of the ocean around Iceland, the vegetation, krill and fish which exist there. Samples were taken in 110 locations.
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For the second time in weeks, a large number of dead fish have washed up to the shoreline in Riverhead.
For the second time in weeks, a large number of dead fish have washed up to the shoreline in Riverhead.
For the second time in weeks, a large number of dead fish have washed up to the shoreline in Riverhead.
"Just look, the smell, oh my God, it's terrible," a resident said.
And that's putting it mildly.
"It's just a shame. A lot of guys who own these boats they don't even want to come down here now because of the smell. And the flies, you got flies, you got all kinds of bugs down here now," said Dan Battaglia, of Moose Lodge 1742.
It's just the latest massive fish die off around Riverhead. Just two weeks ago, thousands of the same bunker fish washed up around Flanders Bay.
And a few weeks before that there were more than 100 diamondback terrapins found dead around the same area. And now there's this die off along the Peconic River.
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The whirlpool was spotted in the aqua blue waters of Cheow Lan Lake, a dammed reservoir in Khao Sok National Park in the Surat Thani Province, and lasted for about two minutes.
The swirl left a long, wide trail of white bubbles as it moved through the water in a seemingly random figure-8 path in the video published on YouTube (watch video below) last week.
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Thousands of dead or dying red crabs washed up onto the sand at Huntington Beach on June 15, 2015.
Thousands of dead or dying red crabs washed up onto the sand at Huntington Beach on June 15, 2015.
The crustaceans — Pleuroncodes planipes, known as red crabs, or tuna crabs — began appearing in great numbers last week. Out of the water, they become stranded and typically perish, leaving their bodies to decay on the beach.
The crabs were first reported in San Diego and then ventured up the coast, with thousands appearing as far north as Huntington Beach on Sunday. They were also reported in Newport Beach in January, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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"The shakes of the quake were felt moderate. It was not potential to trigger tsunami and did not cause damage. The condition of the people is normal," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the national disaster management agency told Xinhua via phone after the quake.
Previously at 00:40 a.m. Jakarta time Tuesday another quake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck off East Nusa Tenggara province in central part of Indonesia, the official of the meteorology and geophysics agency said.
The quake was centered at 64 km southeast of the province and with the depth at 65 km under seabed, he said.
Sutopo also confirmed that the quake did not cause any damage.
Indonesia is prone to quake as it lies on a vulnerable quake- hit zone called "the Pacific Ring of Fire."
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But today, they were giving the skies a little bit of color.
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They're both caused by the same thing -- those thin clouds are made of tiny ice crystals that at a certain angle to the sun will refract the sunlight like a prism. The type of arc they create are based on cloud position and shape of ice crystal -- and we had two rather common ones Monday.
The 4-year-old girl mauled by a pit bull terrier.
Nevaldo "Chris" Ford said his 4-year-old was in the backyard playing with family when he heard screaming. He ran outside to find his dog, Toben, biting his daughter's head.
Ford said he wrestled the dog off the girl, threw the animal to the ground and ran his daughter into the house.
While family tended to the little girl and waited for an ambulance, Ford went back into the yard with a rifle.
"I didn't even know him at that point; he wasn't the dog I raised. " Ford said, "I just knew he was going to attack someone else."
Comment: This has been happening often in recent years, all over the world, and we suspect for the same reason that 'meteor smoke' gives rise to noctilucent clouds:
SOTT Exclusive: NASA blowing meteor smoke as noctilucent clouds intensify