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Double waterspouts filmed over Lake Victoria, Uganda

Harvey Day
Daily Mail
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:04 UTC

© Chris Austria
A wildlife photographer has captured the incredible sight of double waterspouts on Lake Victoria in Uganda

A wildlife photographer has captured the incredible sight of double waterspouts on Lake Victoria in Uganda.

Photographer Chris Austria, who lives in Ethiopia, was in Uganda filming chimpanzees at the animal sanctuary on Ngamba Island.

He said: 'This was an epic moment on Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa.

'I was so happy to capture this.'

In the video uploaded to Instagram last week two enormous waterspouts can be seen extending from the lake surface to the clouds.

Swarm of 12 earthquakes strike Washington region near Lake Stevens and Granite Falls

kiro7.com
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 11:31 UTC

Twelve earthquakes have struck the same area of Washington within hours of each other — two of which registered above 3.0.

The USGS reports that a magnitude-3.4 earthquake shook near Lake Stevens and Granite Falls around 11:36 a.m. Friday. Four people recorded feeling the quake as of 11:53 a.m. More than 10 people recorded feeling the quake by 11:55 a.m.

Initial reports pinpointed the first quake was about seven miles from Lake Stevens. That was soon changed to about 8.7 miles away from Lake Stevens and 6.2 miles from Granit Falls.

Flash floods kill 30 people in northern Pakistan

The Hindu
Sun, 03 Jul 2016 06:42 UTC

Pakistani officials say flash floods overnight have killed 30 people in northern Pakistan, near the Afghan border.

Maghfirat Shah, the mayor of Chitral district, says heavy monsoon rains and flash floods overnight washed away a mosque and several houses in Arsun, an area of Chitral.

A spokesman for the disaster management authority, Yousuf Zia, says search crews have recovered the bodies of seven worshippers swept away when the mosque was struck by floods.

Chitral is in the far north of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan's Badakhshan province.

Shark encounters, sightings of other marine animals along California coast at highest level in decades

Phys.org
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 20:37 UTC

Experts say the El Nino weather pattern has led to unusually warm waters in the eastern Pacific, meaning sharks and other species are not migrating and moving closer to shore

Shark encounters and sightings along California's coast are at their highest level in decades, scientists say, warning that warmer waters mean beachgoers will have to be on the lookout for the predators all summer.

The latest near-deadly encounter came in late May when a 52-year-old woman was mauled by a shark near Los Angeles, prompting beach closures for several days.

Chris Lowe, director of California State University's Long Beach Shark Lab, said there have been more sightings of great white sharks this year than in the previous 30, and that even hammerheads have been spotted along the coast.

He said the El Nino weather pattern of the last two years has led to unusually warm waters in the eastern Pacific, meaning the sharks and other species are not migrating—and are moving closer to shore.

"They are going to hang out near our beaches all summer," Lowe told AFP.

The high water temperatures are having an effect on other marine life as well, with whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions increasingly spotted off the coast.

Florida declares state of emergency over 'toxic soup' algae

RT
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 03:29 UTC

Renowned for its turquoise-colored waters, Florida declared a state of emergency as a blue-green algae outbreak caused miles of waterways and beaches to be swamped in a toxic soup that caused skin rashes and drew concern for the fate of marine animals.

US Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) called on President Barack Obama to declare a state of emergency to help businesses harmed by the algae bloom in Florida's southern rivers and beaches.

"I hope the president will have an emergency declaration, because that will open up the full portfolio of aid that the federal government can provide local businesses and communities that are being impacted by this," Rubio said, the Associated Press reported.

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Waterspout filmed over Buckhorn Lake, Ontario

Jessica Nyznik,
The Peterborough Examiner
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:35 UTC

Jordan Trudell took this photograph of Friday afternoon's waterspout on Buckhorn Lake.

@JHarringtonTV Water Spout/Tornado Upper Buckhorn Lake, Ontario pic.twitter.com/1SZSBrQfrU

— Jordan Trudell (@Air21turtle) July 1, 2016

When a funnel cloud touched down in Upper Buckhorn Lake Friday afternoon, Jorg Klein was quick on the draw.

He immediately grabbed his phone and recorded the waterspout as it passed by The Birches Resort in Buckhorn.

Jorg Klein posted this video to Facebook of the Buckhorn Lake waterspout as seen from The Birches resort:

It happened around 3:45 p.m., about 300 metres away from the resort.

"It came down, swirled around a bit, wasn't too intense - it was quite awesome to look at, actually," said Klein.

Waterspouts caught on camera over Lake Erie

Jen Steer
fox8.com
Fri, 01 Jul 2016 16:14 UTC

Several viewers reported seeing waterspouts over Lake Erie Friday evening.

FOX 8 News received photos from people in Madison, North Perry and Geneva-on-the-Lake.

There are two types of waterspouts. Tornadic waterspouts are associated with severe storms, according to the National Weather Service. Fair weather waterspouts form in light wind conditions and move very little.

Intense thunderstorms slam Las Vegas with golf ball-sized hail, winds, lightning and flash flooding

Las Vegas Sun
Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:26 UTC

Intense thunderstorms pounded the Las Vegas area on Thursday with golf ball-sized hail, gusty winds, destructive lightning and sheets of rain that swamped busy intersections and left at least one person hospitalized after she was plucked from a flooded wash, authorities said.

The woman was believed to have suffered a heart attack while she and two other people were rescued from rushing water near the Hard Rock Casino Hotel east of the Las Vegas Strip, Deputy Clark County Fire Chief Jeff Buchanan said.

Firefighters reached two other people and their dogs in another wash near Boulder Highway, about 5 miles east of the Strip, and rescued another two people at another site shortly after 6 p.m., Buchanan said.

At least 21 airline flights were diverted from busy McCarran International Airport, where the National Weather Service said wind gusts were clocked at 56 mph during the height of the storm.

Several vehicles stalled with water up to their headlights in one flooded intersection in nearby Henderson.

"People don't realize just a few inches of rain can really cause some damage," said Kim Becker, a Henderson city spokeswoman.

Little Ice Ages deliver famine and disease

Robert Felix
Ice Age Now
Sat, 02 Jul 2016 13:58 UTC

The Frozen Thames, 1677

Retired U.S. Navy Physicist warns of what is to come.

Several centuries ago the Earth underwent a very dramatic shift in climate known as the Little Ice Age, says retired U.S. Navy Physicist James Marusek. This coincided with a period of minimal sunspot activity called the Maunder Minimum.

During the Maunder Minimum, average temperatures dropped approximately 1.5º C below current levels, says Marusek. The cold and extreme weather caused a reduction in the growing season, which lead to disastrous harvest failure.

"Hunger became the heart of this crisis," says Marusek. "Plagues, smallpox, typhus, measles and fever belong to a cluster of deadly diseases that correlate closely with harvest yields."

What's killing hundreds of young gulls in Buffalo, New York?

wgrz.com
Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:33 UTC

While kayaking on the outer harbor, one of our Channel 2 employees recently found himself paddling through areas where the water's surface was literally covered with dead birds.

A marina proprietor also confirmed for Two on Your Side that in recent weeks, hundreds of dead birds have been washing up on the shore near Gallagher Beach and the Union Ship canal.

They are ring billed gulls, mostly juveniles or fledglings.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) says it is aware of the bird kill, but has thus far determined it to be a natural occurrence.

According to a DEC spokesperson, Wildlife Biologists from the agency responded to observations and reports of dead birds along the Lake Erie Shoreline from Wilkerson Point to Union Ship Canal and investigated the entire length of the shoreline area.

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Earth Changes

Double waterspouts filmed over Lake Victoria, Uganda

Swarm of 12 earthquakes strike Washington region near Lake Stevens and Granite Falls

Flash floods kill 30 people in northern Pakistan

Shark encounters, sightings of other marine animals along California coast at highest level in decades

Florida declares state of emergency over 'toxic soup' algae

Waterspout filmed over Buckhorn Lake, Ontario

Waterspouts caught on camera over Lake Erie

Intense thunderstorms slam Las Vegas with golf ball-sized hail, winds, lightning and flash flooding

Little Ice Ages deliver famine and disease

What's killing hundreds of young gulls in Buffalo, New York?

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