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Eighth dead grey whale washes up on British Columbia coast - total now of 171 on west coast of North America

Jenna Cocullo
Mission City Record
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:35 UTC
The dead grey whale washed up last week near
© Fisheries and Oceans Canada
The dead grey whale washed up last week near Tow Hill.
A total of 171 grey whales have been found dead on the west coast from Mexico to Alaska

A fourth whale has washed up on the beaches of Haida Gwaii, making this the eighth dead whale to arrive on B.C.'s coast this year.

A grey whale washed up on North Beach, east of Masset, sometime in the last week, said Andy Lewis, North Coast area chief for conservation with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. A request for comment from the federal government has not been returned.
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Calgary hit by huge hailstorm

Chandler Walter
Daily Hive
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:16 UTC
hail
Thunder and lightning can definitely be frightening, but huge chunks of ice falling from the sky in a furious and unrelenting flurry is something else entirely.

That's what many Calgarians had to deal with on Sunday evening, as the thunderstorm that rolled into town brought with it a significant hailstorm.

Nickel-sized balls of hail fell on YYC, making many front yards look like winter all over again.

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Nearly a month's worth of rain in ONE hour triggers travel nightmare in Washington DC

Amanda Schmidt
AccuWeather.com
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:49 UTC
Motorists stranded in flood waters in Washington, D.C
© Dave Dildine/WTOP
Motorists stranded in flood waters in Washington, D.C
Commuters in the D.C., and Baltimore area faced an extremely difficult and dangerous drive back to work on Monday morning following the long holiday weekend as heavy downpours flooded local roadways.

Videos have surfaced on social media in which the raging floodwaters turned roads into rivers. One social media user captured a video while driving through high floodwaters in the Virginia Avenue Tunnel on Monday morning and said, "You're going to need a boat to pass underneath the Virginia Ave. underpass on I-66 in NW D.C."

Several water rescues were performed as high waters overflowed the roads. Local officials urged motorists to stay off the roads on Monday morning due to flash floods. Numerous roads in downtown Washington, D.C., as well as surrounding areas, were closed on Monday morning due to the heavy floodwater.

Pete Piringer, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, told local news station WTOP that "all our folks are deployed right now" at about 8:30 a.m. He said "the storm drains are overwhelmed."

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Blue Planet

Giant fissures appear near epicenters of California's major earthquakes


Strange Sounds
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 16:11 UTC
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© David McNew/Reuters
A deep fissure discovered in the Mojave Desert near Ridgecrest, the epicenter of the M6.4 earthquake in Southern California on July 4, 2019. Picture by
There were multiple fissures that broke the ground in the Mojave Desert in southern California on Thursday and Friday after two major M6.4 and M7.1 earthquakes struck the area. The power of nature is amazing... And these deep fissures near Ridgecrest, California are just terrifying!

On the Fourth of July, people from Los Angeles to Las Vegas felt the ground shake. Books fell off library shelves, trees collapsed, and cracks spidered through building walls and highway asphalt.

The magnitude 6.4 earthquake was centered in the California city of Ridgecrest, about 175 miles northeast of Long Beach. It ended a five-year drought in California's seismic record: Before yesterday, the ground had not shook in the state since a magnitude 6 quake struck Napa in August 2014, causing $1 billion in damages.

Comment: See: Southern California hit by 7.1 magnitude earthquake just one day after M6.4 tremor - the largest for 20 years

Gaping sinkholes and massive fissures are occurring all over the planet:

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Cloud Precipitation

Severe summer hailstorms hit Verona and other areas of Italy


Global News
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:33 UTC
HAIL
Video shared on social media shows water and ice blocks flowing down narrow streets as a powerful hail storm hit the northern Italian city of Verona on Sunday.​


Comment: Other parts of Italy were also hit on either the 6th or 7th of July:









This substantial accumulation of hail was recorded in the south on the 5th:



Damage caused by some of the larger hailstones:








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Arrow Down

Teen girl trapped in 15-foot sinkhole after curb she was sitting on collapsed in Douglas County, Nebraska

Megan Johnson
Yahoo! News
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 14:29 UTC
The sinkhole
© Omaha Fire Dept.
The sinkhole
A teenage girl in Nebraska was rescued from a massive 15-foot sinkhole after the concrete curb she was sitting on collapsed, plunging her down into the earth.

The girl told authorities she was sitting behind the Uta Halee administrative building when she felt the concrete begin to crack. As she stood up, the ground crumbled beneath her and she fell into the hole, trapping her underneath dirt and concrete, the Omaha World-Herald reports.

The Omaha Fire Department used a rope to remove the girl from the massive trench after they entered the hole and used airbags to remove the concrete from the girl's legs, the Herald added.
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Putin travels to Siberia as floods turn deadly - at least 23 killed and 8 still missing (UPDATE)

Elizabeth Schumacher
Deutsche Welle
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 10:15 UTC
floods
The Irkutsk region has been hit by torrential rains, causing Lake Baikal and the Angara River to burst their banks. At least five people have been killed and hundreds injured.

At least five people have died and hundreds more injured in massive floods sweeping Siberia on Saturday, Russian media has reported. President Vladimir Putin travelled to the affected area as he returned from the G20 summit in Japan.

Emergency Situations Minister Yevgeny Zinichev told Interfax news agency that five people, one of whom is believed to be a child, have died as the massive Lake Baikal and Angara River have begun to burst their banks. At least 350 people have been injured, 100 of whom have had to be treated at local hospitals.

At least 10,000 people are affected by the floods brought on by torrential rains. At least 50 villages on the shores of Lake Baikal are inaccessible, and the larger city of Bratsk has also been affected. More than 4,000 buildings have been destroyed as well as many bridges and roads.


Comment: View more dramatic film: 500 people evacuated from flood-stricken town in eastern Siberia - water 13 meters deep

Update: TASS reports on July 1:
A spokesman for the local emergencies services said that 13 people were also reported missing

rescue
© Kirill Shipitsin/TASS
The death toll from heavy floods in Russia's Siberian Irkutsk region has reached 14 people. Thirteen more people are missing, a spokesman for the local emergencies services told TASS on Monday.

"According to preliminary data, 14 people died, 13 more are rmissing. As many as 153 people, including one child, were hospitalized," he said.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko said earlier 12 people had died in the floods and nine were missing.

Floods in the Irkutsk region began in late June after torrential rains. A state of emergency was declared in the flood-affected areas. The water level in the river Iya has risen seven meters above the critical mark. As many as 83 settlements in six districts have been affected by the disaster. More than 6,600 residentail houses, which accommodate more than 32,000 people, have been flooded. On Sunday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the city of Bratsk on the situation in the flooded areas.
Update: TASS on July 8 reports:
Twenty-three people have died in the area hit by a powerful flood in the Russian region of Irkutsk, eight more people are being searched for, a spokesperson for the regional emergency agencies told TASS on Monday.

"Another dead body was found in the emergency zone. The overall number of those who died [in the flood] is twenty-three. Eight more people are missing," the spokesperson said.

Per earlier reports, 22 people died and 11 were missing. According to the data available on Monday morning, 233 residential buildings remain flooded in the Oktybrisky settlement in the Chunsky district and in the town of Tulun. In total, 10,900 residential building, where 34,234 people live, were flooded in 110 communities since the flood struck in late June.

floods
© Kirill Shipitsin/TASS


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Snowflake Cold

Several record temperature lows in the Trans-Baikal territory, Russia

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 13:37 UTC
frost
5 July 2019 - In Char, the thermometer dropped to 1.9°C, a new absolute minimum, the previous + 2.4 was observed nineteen years ago.

Mogocha saw a weak frost of -0.8°C, easily beating the previous minimum for this day of +2.3°C set in 1965.

In Sretensk on July 5 a new record low of +4.8, which is 1.7 degrees lower than the previous one set in 1965.
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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rainfall triggers floods in eastern China


Floodlist
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 13:12 UTC
Rainfall in China 80 June to 07 July, 2019.
© China’s National Meteorological Center
Rainfall in China 80 June to 07 July, 2019.
Heavy rain has triggered floods in parts of eastern China. Disaster authorities report that 6,351 people have been relocated and a total of 228,000 affected in Jiangxi Province.

Severe weather has been affecting the province since last week. Jiangxi province activated a state of emergency on 05 July. Since then further heavy rain has fallen in the province. According to China's National Meteorological Center, 225.6mm of rain fell in Guangchang in 24 hours to 07 July. Lichuan, also in Jiangxi Province, recorded 169.5mm during the same period.

Chinese news agency Xinhua, quoting Jiangxi Province flood control headquarters, said that a total of 14,900 hectares of cropland have been affected with 900 hectares destroyed. The floods also destroyed 34 houses. Direct economic losses are estimated at around US$45 million.


Comment: A week ago in the city of Chongqing:



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Snowflake Cold

"There is no heat out there" — Anomalous cold continues across Europe's Nordic nations

Cap Allon
Electroverse.net
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 13:02 UTC
MAP NORWAY
Europe's Nordic nations will remain decidedly colder-than-average over the coming days with still no sign of summer in sight, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

"There is no heat out there," says FMI Meteorologist Jari Tuovinen.

Instead, Tuovinen adds, there will likely be a new cold record-or-two set along Finland's Eastern border on Monday, July 08 — a chilly 10C (50F) is predicted, which could bring new low daily-max temperature records for the month of July to the region.

Norway is expecting even colder temps — locally, a few degrees C below zero is in the forecast.
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