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Farmworker killed by lightning in Manatee County, Florida


Naples Daily News
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:20 UTC
lightning
Authorities are investigating after they say a farmworker was struck and killed by lightning in Florida.

News agencies report the Manatee County Sheriff's Office says the man was struck Monday evening.

Deputies say the 47-year-old victim, who worked at the Falkner Farm, was helping two other farmworkers load a truck when the storm began just after 5 p.m.

Authorities say all three workers were struck by lightning and taken to the hospital, where one of them was pronounced dead.

The victim's name has not been released.


Source: Associated Press
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Cloud Precipitation

Man filmed clinging to car roof as floods sweep through southern China


The Irish Times
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 14:03 UTC
Vehicles come to a standstill at a flooded crossroad in Pingba, Guizhou province, China
© Reuters
Vehicles come to a standstill at a flooded crossroad in Pingba, Guizhou province
Rains continue to lash southern China as residents struggle to get onto dry land, including one man who can be seen clinging to the roof of his car as it gets washed away.



Video: Reuters
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Summertime June snow in Alaska, Finland, China, Russia, New York State

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:48 UTC
June snow
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
Rare Snowstorms abound across the planet. Mid-June and every continent received snow across both hemispheres. Record snows in Argentina/Chile, New York state, Russia, China, Finland


Comment: Snowfall records smashed across US as northern hemisphere struggles into 'summer'

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Wolf

Hyena attacks four youngsters in India


Times of India
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 13:13 UTC
Striped Hyena

Striped Hyena
Four teenagers suffered bite wounds in what they claimed was an attack by a hyena in Tarsadi village near Kosamba early on Monday.

The four young boys were slepping outside their house when they were attacked by the wild animal. The victims claimed that it was a hyena that attacked them but forest department officials said that they are still verifying this as hyenas were not spotted here before.

The victims Sabir Shabbir Shah, Azim Shaikh, both aged 13 and Imran Shah and Abdul Gani Ali Mansuri, both 19-year-old, were sleeping outside their house in Chisti Nagar. In the early morning, the animal tried to drag away Sabir who suffered severe injuries in one eye. The animal escaped after the boys raised an alarm. The family members of the victims said that they boys went to sleep outside house after power failure at around 11 pm on Sunday.
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Arrow Down

8 dead after heavy rainfall triggers landslide in Chocó, Colombia

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:27 UTC
A general view of a landslide in the sector El 20 of the rural area of Quibdo, department of Choco, Colombia
© COLOMBIA'S FIRE DEPERTMENT/AFP/Getty
A general view of a landslide in the sector El 20 of the rural area of Quibdo, department of Choco, Colombia
Civil defence officials in Colombia say that a deadly landslide occurred at around 14:00 on 10 June in Chocó Department, between Quibdó and Medellín.

Colombia's agency for disaster risk management (Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres - UNGRD) report that 8 people have died, 5 are missing and 4 injured. The President of Colmbia, Juan Manuel Santos, offered his condolences to the victims. Teams from the Red Cross and Defensa Civil Colombiana are carrying out searches in the area.

The landslide was triggered by heavy rain that has affected wide areas of Colombia over the last few days. Istmina, about 130 km south of Quibdó, recorded 170 mm of rain in 24 hours between 08 and 09 June.

The vital communications route between Quibdó in Chocó department and Medellín in Antioquia has been blocked by the slide.
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Attention

Sizable 4.3 magnitude earthquake hits west of Yellowstone

Dennis Bragg
kpax.com
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:17 UTC
Graph
© Dimas Ardian, Getty Images
A sizable quake rattled the mountains west of Yellowstone Park Monday morning, registering a 4.3 magnitude.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 6:14 a.m. Monday with the epicenter about 32 miles west of West Yellowstone.

That would put the quake's location north of the Continental Divide, in the Centennial Valley.

The area is sparsely populated, and even an hour after the quake only a couple of people had reported feeling the quake to U.S.G.S.

The region on the west side of Yellowstone frequently has several small quakes per month, but Monday's quake was larger than usual.
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Snowflake

June snowfall for Barrow, Alaska

Tracy Sinclare
ktuu.com
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:03 UTC
Snow in Barrow

Snow in Barrow
A record 1.7 inches of snow fell Thursday in Barrow, shattering the old daily snowfall record for June 9. The previous record was .5 inches, set in 1992.

Though it is a little unusual for it to snow in Barrow during June, it's not unheard of. Barrow has a record of snow falling during every month of the year. The record for a daily snowfall amount during June is 3.2 inches, which fell on June 7, 1981.

Cloudy skies are expected in Barrow Friday with a high temperature of 37F degrees and 47F degrees Saturday. Based on weather camera pictures, much of the snow has already melted.
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Attention

Thousands of red tuna crabs wash up around Mission Bay, California; second time for the area within a month


cbs8.com
Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:43 UTC
Red tuna crabs wash up

Red tuna crabs wash up
Thousands of red tuna crabs washed ashore Tuesday morning in Mission Beach.

Visitors in the area around the South Shores Park Boat Launch found beaches covered with the carbs. Red tuna crasbs are typically found off the coast of Baja California, however, El Nino weather patterns have pushed them north and onto Southern Californian beaches.

Last month, thousands of crabs also washed ashore in Imperial Beach. They have also been spotted on Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach and in Orange County.


Comment: See also: Thousands of tuna crabs found in Imperial Beach, California

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Cloud Lightning

Rare 'red sprites' burst out of supercell storm in Texas

RT NEWS
YouTube
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 08:13 UTC
rare red sprite over Texas
© YouTube/RT NEWS (screen capture)
Very rare 'Red Sprites' shoot out of the tops of supercell thunderstorms near Amarillo, Texas.


Comment: Red Sprites - A strange and beautiful form of lightning

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Arrow Up

Eurasia's tallest volcano in Russia's Far East spews ash miles into air


Sputnik
Tue, 14 Jun 2016 03:59 UTC
Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia erupts
© RIA Novosti. Evgeniy Neskoromniy
Eurasia's largest volcano Klyuchevskaya Sopka in Russia's Far East erupted shooting hot ash miles into the air on Tuesday, the local geophysical service said.

"The eruption was detected [Tuesday] morning...the eruption column rose 6 kilometers [3.7 miles]. The steam-gas plume stretched for 47 kilometers to the west of the volcano," a representative of the Russian agency told RIA Novosti.

The 15,580-feet volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula has been rumbling to life since the beginning of April. It has been almost continuously active for the past 50 years but the number of tremors and ash eruptions has been on the rise lately.

According to the geophysical service, ash spews are ongoing, volcanic activity has been registered. The Aviation Color Code has been changed to orange, which means that the volcanic eruption is underway with minor ash emission.
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