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The Buffalo Niagara region is on the boundary of a hexagon that marks the coldest deviation from normal winter temperatures for the upcoming winter.
The Buffalo Niagara region is on the boundary of a hexagon that marks the coldest deviation from normal winter temperatures for the upcoming winter.
So prepare to bundle up this winter.
Expect a frigid winter with at least one visit from a lobe of the polar vortex, according to climate researchers funded by the National Science Foundation.
"I think the combination of La Niña and an anticipated disruption of the polar vortex could focus the worst of this winter's weather around the Great Lakes," said Judah Cohen, a meteorologist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a firm specializing in environmental research.
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In a separate incident, a 38-year-old woman was injured when she was attacked by a leopard in a cotton field in Chalisgaon taluka of neighbouring Jalgaon district.
In a separate incident, a 38-year-old woman was injured when she was attacked by a leopard in a cotton field in Chalisgaon taluka of neighbouring Jalgaon district.
A seven-year-old boy was killed by a leopard when he was sleeping in an agriculture field at Sakur village in the district last night, police said on Thursday. The big cat dragged Kunal Ahire when he was sleeping near his mother. After Ahire's mother raised an alarm, villagers rushed to the spot and started searching for the child, an official said. Ahire's remains were found later. In a separate incident, a 38-year-old woman was injured when she was attacked by a leopard in a cotton field in Chalisgaon taluka of neighbouring Jalgaon district.
The feline ran away after the woman raised an alarm and was joined by farm hands working in the field.
She sustained injuries to her neck in the attack, a Forest official said.
Source: PTI
Comment: See also this report from 6 days ago: In Assam, Mob Hunts And Eats Leopard Who Killed 60-Year-Old Woman
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The last eruption in Öræfajökull occurred in 1727.
The last eruption in Öræfajökull occurred in 1727.
A 3-D image made by specialists at the Geological Institute of the University of Iceland indicates that the caldera has deepened by twenty metres and that crevasses have become larger since it was first spotted.
The image was made using various information, not in the least the photographs of Morgunblaðið photographer Ragnar Axelsson who flew over the glacier on November 19th and again on November 28th.
"We see a greatly increased pattern of fissures around the caldera. It's now more of a drop shape than a circle, lengthening towards the South West," says Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir at the University of Iceland speaking to Morgunblaðið today.
Source: Morgunblaðið
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Heavy traffic on Mumbai’s Western Express Highway because of rain on Tuesday morning.
Heavy traffic on Mumbai’s Western Express Highway because of rain on Tuesday morning.
As Ockhi came close to the city on Tuesday, it brought in a day full of rains and gusty winds, leading to a steep drop in temperatures. The maximum temperatures recorded at both the Santacruz and Colaba observatories were 10 degrees lower than on Monday. As a result, at several places, noon-time unusually was much cooler than dawn. Also, there was barely a two-degree difference between maximum and minimum temperatures at most places.
Ockhi's threat had prompted the government to keep schools shut, which lead to an easing of school-time traffic. For adults, it was business as usual, barring minor absenteeism, though organizations had issued advisories to employees. While rainfall was moderate, rumour mongers were busy creating panic with fake news on the sea link and various roads, prompting the BMC to tweet: "Please don't create panic." In fact, no transport disruption was reported from anywhere in the city. The trains ran, as did the buses and cars.
The nearly three-foot-long boars raced about Higashiyama Middle School and High School.
Students were evacuated. One male student said he freaked out when his friend pointed out the boars running about and that they charged at people.
The two boars were shot with a tranquilizer gun and caught in nets.
In a related incident, two other boars appeared around half-a-mile away. Police are monitoring the situation.
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After local residents reported that mysterious "water snakes" had washed up on the coast of Chukotka, which were allegedly unknown to science, experts from the Beringia National Park studied the samples to find out what exactly these "creatures" were.
Brown 'heads' and 'bodies,' which were showing up from the water, attracted attention of sailors from cargo ships passing along the north of the Bering Sea. According to some of them, those creatures were most likely large worms or the sea snakes unknown to science. Others thought those objects were of anthropogenic origin. Several people were sure those were some kind of 'mutants'," the Beringia National Park wrote in a press release.
Wild boar
Police in the north-eastern town of Greifswald have announced that the man was on an arranged wild boar hunt with 12 other people when he attempted to shoot the animal. He fired at the boar and moved into a patch of undergrowth, where he was attacked and suffered injuries to his left thigh.
The wound was bleeding heavily and the man fell into a ditch flooded with water. A fellow hunter rushed to his aid, but the man lost consciousness en route to the hospital and subsequently died. It is not known if the boar survived.
Police are now investigating the incident. "We are hoping to discover more clarity in this case," said Martin Cloppenburg, a spokesperson for the state lawyers' office of Stralsund on Tuesday.
The attack occurred on Sunday in the village of Neuenkirchen on the outskirts of Greifswald, near the northern coast of Germany on the Baltic Sea.
"The hunters will always try to kill the boar," said Ulf-Peter Schwarz, the press spokesperson for the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hunter's federation.
The volcano ashes 10 kilometres in the air
Scientists working at the geophysical department of the Russian Academy of Science in north-eastern Russia's Kamchatka Krai region have confirmed the giant eruption took place at the site of the Shiveluch Volcano yesterday over a 20 minute period and saw the volcano spew ash 10 kilometres (6 miles) into the sky.
Experts have raised the alert after the volcano flung hot ash into the air for the first time since February 2016.
It is not believed any locals or villages surrounding the eruption were affected.
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