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Mud volcano erupts again in Taiwan

Phillip Charlier
Taiwan English News
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:54 UTC
mud volcano
A mud volcano in Pingtung County erupted yesterday, July 8, in a field adjacent to the site of the last eruption last year.

Fortunately for the affected farmer, the field had already been harvested, but the Wandan Township government urgently dispatched an excavator to divert mud away from neighboring cropland.

Mud spewed out to a height of over one meter during yesterday's eruption.

Farmers expressed the hope that the government would set up a system of subsidies for farmers affected by the eruptions. The mud that accumulated during last year's eruption had still not been cleared, and now the adjacent field is being inundated with a mud flow.

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Waterspout filmed near St. George Island, Florida


wctv.tv
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:46 UTC
waterspout
A waterspout was seen on Tuesday afternoon near St. George Island as a thunderstorm rolled through the area.

The video above was sent to WCTV from viewer, Mellisa.

The waterspout was also seen from the WCTV studio from The WeatherSTEM camera at the St. George Island Bridge

It lasted about four minutes and dissipated before reaching land.

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Cloud Precipitation

Torrential flooding in Spain's Navarre leaves one dead and towns under water


The Local (Spain)
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:19 UTC
flood
A man drowned in his car in Spain's northern Navarre region on Friday after a huge downpour caused a local river to burst its banks and flood several nearby towns.

Residents of the Navarre towns of Tafalla, Olite and Puello couldn't believe their eyes when a sudden and gigantic downpour burst the banks of the local Cidacos river on Friday evening, flooding streets and local shopping centres as well as dragging cars through the streets.

One man was reported by Navarre authorities to have drowned after his car was dragged by the floodwaters several kilometres downstream.


Comment: On the same day another region of the country saw an extreme hailstorm:




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Snowflake Cold

Record cold in Brazil

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:09 UTC
ice brazil
The thermometer reached -9.2°C at the station Epagri-Ciram in Urupema, the lowest temperature ever recorded. The previous record of -8.8°C was set on June 28, 2011.

If I'm reading this correctly, this is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Urepema. Not just for the day, not just for the month, but EVER.

Urupema is a municipality in the state of Santa Catarina in the South region of Brazil.

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Red Flag

Toxic algal bloom halts fishing, swimming on entire Mississippi shoreline


wymt.com
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 13:01 UTC
Beach signs and flags in Hancock County, Miss
© WLOX/Gray News
Beach signs and flags in Hancock County, Miss., warn residents and visitors which areas of the beach are off limits to swimming and fishing.
The entire shoreline of the Mississippi Gulf Coast is now under the same water warning tied to the blue-green algae bloom. Pascagoula's two beach testing sites joined the list Sunday morning.

The dangerous condition is called a Harmful Algal Bloom, or HAB, which is when algae grows quickly on the surface of the water.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an algal bloom can look like foam, scum, or mats on the surface of water and can be different colors. The blooms can produce toxins that have caused a variety of illnesses in people and animals.

The overgrown of harmful algae can occur in warm fresh, marine, or brackish waters with abundant nutrients and are becoming more frequent with climate change.
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Attention

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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Cloud Precipitation

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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Cloud Precipitation

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
fissure
© 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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