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Boulder, Colorado registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record

Charlie Brennan and Elizabeth Mattern Clark
Daily Camera
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:56 UTC
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© Paul Aiken
Cars sit abandoned on 28th Street just north of Pearl on Wednesday morning.
Devastating downpour now ranks as a 100-year flood 

Boulder has set a record for its wettest 24-hour period. Ever.

Prior to Wednesday, the single wettest day on record was July 31, 1919, when 4.80 inches of rain were recorded, according to Bob Henson, a science writer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Henson said that the latest official readings for Boulder show that from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 9:15 a.m. today, 7.21 inches of rain have fallen in Boulder, with amounts likely varying from a bit lower in northeast areas of the city to higher than that to the southwest.

"We have never had anything this big," said Boulder meteorologist Matt Kelsch.

Additionally, the last three days of rain are more than Boulder has experienced in any month on record.

Since the rain kicked in late Monday afternoon, Boulder has officially recorded at least 9.61 inches of rain, topping the 9.59 inches recorded in the entire month of May 1995.

But the numbers, in fact, go higher
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Bizarro Earth

Sinkhole swallows smart car near Jacksonville, Florida


KUHT
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:15 UTC
A large sinkhole swallowed up a moving car in Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday.

The woman says she was driving through what looked like a water main break and didn't realize how saturated the ground really was. It only took a few seconds for her car to sink below the earth and fill up with water.

The road where it happened is now blocked off while crews investigate.
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Bizarro Earth

Cloud seeding not to blame for Colorado flooding

Laura Poppick
LiveScience
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:02 UTC
Colorado Flooding
© NOAA
This image from the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS sensor from the evening of September 11, 2013, shows the storm system that has devastated towns in the foothills of the Rockies in central Colorado.
Colorado's recent massive flooding, which has left hundreds of people unaccounted for, has been called an anomalous 100- or even 1,000-year event by the scientific community.

Such floods have a 1 percent and 0.1 percent chance of occurring, respectively, during any given year. While those odds make them rare events, they are the result of natural larger-scale weather and climate patterns, with perhaps an assist from climate change.

Still, some Internet users have voiced alternative views, suggesting that the destructive rainstorms were more directly human-induced, the result of Colorado's cloud-seeding program.

Cloud seeding, in which tiny silver iodide particles are sprayed into clouds to provide a core for ice crystals to form around, falls within the Colorado Weather Modification Program that is overseen by the Colorado Water Conservation Board and is used primarily by ski resorts to increase the snowpack during the winter.

The program - which has been reported to increase the snowpack by 10 to 15 percent each year - remains controversial among those concerned about the unknown repercussions of manipulating weather in this way.
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Arrow Down

Earth opens up and swallows U.S. Marine in Missouri

Betsey Bruce
Fox2Now St. Louis
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:42 UTC
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A young Marine based at Fort Leonard Wood in mid-Missouri was killed in what authorities call a "bizarre" accident. It happened at dusk Monday north of Buckhorn, MO.

Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long said 31-year old Cortis Powelson fell into a sink hole as deep as a tall tree while returning home from deer hunting.

The county's deputy coroner Michael McCart repelled into the hole to reach the body. He said it was sixty to seventy feet deep and only about the size of a car at the top.

McCart, who describes himself as a life long deer hunter in the area, believes the sink hole is newly formed. "With all the rain and everything we've had just in the last month, it looks like it was a very freshly opened sink hole," he said Tuesday. Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in the area in August that took two lives.

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Hourglass

Will the Dead Sea be eaten by sinkholes? Huge chasms are appearing in the region at a rate of one per day

Ellie Zolfagharifard
The Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:12 UTC
The Dead Sea is drying up at a rate of one meter per year causing sinkholes

There are now over 3,000 sinkholes around the Dead Sea on the Israeli side

This compares to 40 in 1990, with the first sinkhole appearing in the 1980s

The Dead Sea is drying up at an incredible rate leaving huge chasms of empty space in its wake.

These chasms appear in the form of large, devastating sinkholes and are increasing in number throughout the region.

Experts claim they are now forming at a rate of nearly one a day, but have no way of knowing when or how they will show up.

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The Dead Sea is drying up at an incredible rate leaving huge chasms of empty space in its wake
Estimates by Moment magazine suggest that, on the Israeli side alone, there are now over 3,000 sinkholes around the Dead Sea.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike, Cheyenne Wyoming 9-14-13

Colby Moore
Youtube
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:41 UTC
Lightning - right down the street from my house!
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Question

Another blackbuck dies, toll touches 18 in Lucknow zoo, India


The Times of India
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:29 UTC
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© Chinmayisk, Wikimedia Commons
A blackbuck adult stag.
Lucknow zoo authorities are yet to control the reasons taking a toll on the lives of blackbucks. On Tuesday, another of the specie died in the zoo taking the total toll to 18.

The female blackbuck was under supervision as it was not keeping well for the past two days. According to zoo authorities, its condition deteriorated on Monday night and it had to be put on oxygen. The animal died at 7.45 am on Tuesday.

Till Saturday, 17 blackbucks had died due to a mysterious ailment.

Zoo minister SP Yadav visited the zoo and warned authorities of action if laxity was found on their part. On the complaints that the animals caught infection through the feed and fodder, Yadav said, the government is now thinking of making another arrangements for the fodder at Kukrail forest.
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Bizarro Earth

'Poison-proof' rats discovered in Sweden


The Local, Sweden
Wed, 18 Sep 2013 01:14 UTC
Rat
© Reg McKenna/Flickr
Sewer rats and mice that are resistant to common rat poisons have been found in four locations across Sweden, confirming long-held suspicions about why common anti-rodent agents seemed ineffective.

Pest control experts have theorized that rats and mice in various parts of Sweden had developed some sort of immunity to commonly deployed rat poisons. Now their suspicions have been confirmed.

The results of 80 random tests performed across the country by Swedish extermination company Anticemex revealed poison-proof rats and mice in four locations: Kristianstad in the south; Linköping and Växjö in south central Sweden; and Uppsala in eastern Sweden.

Pest control expert Håkan Kjellberg with Anticemex said chemicals are likely to blame for the rodents having developed immunity to rat poison.

"It may have been rat poison, but also chemicals in their immediate environment that have caused the genetic makeup in their body to change," he told Sveriges Radio (SR).

According to SR, rats that are resistant to poisons have been found in many other countries, including Denmark, but this Anticemex study is the first to confirm the phenomena in Sweden.

The company said it may now be forced to resort to more potent poisons in more cases in order to keep Sweden's rodent population in check.
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Question

Mysterious sickness killing Kansas dogs

Lauren Seabrook
KWCH 12 Eyewitness News
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:16 UTC
Emporia - A disease is killing dogs across Lyon County and veterinarians do not know what it is. Vets at Kansas State University are working with the Emporia Animal Shelter to find out.

Dozens of dogs that seemed to be healthy quickly became deathly ill at the shelter. "We're in the process now of hoping it's not some virus that we're not aware of ... some new form of distemper or this new circle virus that's been reported around the country," said Emporia veterinarian Floyd Dorsey.

Dorsey thinks it started with dogs found wandering out in the country that were picked up and brought to the shelter. "We've been trying to contain it since then and each time we think it's contained, it seems to break out again," said Dorsey.
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Igloo

Antarctica Sea ice hitting record highs

Becky Oskin
Livescience
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:57 UTC
Antarctic sea ice_1
© NSIDC
Antarctic sea ice extent.
Sea ice surrounding Antarctica hit a record high in August and is on track for another record-breaking month in September. Clocking in at a stunning 7.2 million square miles (18.7 million square kilometers), last month's sea ice extent was 4.5 percent above the 1981 to 2010 average and the largest extent since record-keeping started in 1979, according to data released today from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in its monthly State of the Climate Report.

September marks the end of Antarctica's winter, and daily sea ice reports posted online at the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., suggest the growing ice pack has already smashed the all-time record ice extent set in September 2012. This year's massive sea ice reached 7.53 million square miles (19.51 million square km) on Sept. 14, 2013, the NSIDC reports.

The old record was 7.51 million square miles (19.44) million square km. The data is preliminary and the NSIDC website came back online yesterday (Sept. 16) after a three-day shutdown due to the Colorado flooding disaster.
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