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Guatemala warns of falling ash from Fuego volcano which is now covering half the country endangering crucial agricultural areas

Sofia Menchu
Reuters
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:21 UTC
Fuego volcano eruption
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Fuego volcano eruption on June 3rd 2018, Guatemala's deadliest since 1902
Guatemalan officials warned of falling ash from the Fuego volcano late on Thursday and urged caution with flights as the Central American country recovers from devastating eruptions that have killed at least 109 people.

The seismological, volcanic and meteorological institute Insivumeh advised the civil aviation authority to take precautions with flights amid renewed activity from the peak, which produced a massive eruption on Sunday.

The death toll from Fuego's most violent eruption in four decades has been gradually rising and now stands at 109, the Guatemala's disaster and forensic agency Inacif said earlier on Thursday.

Authorities have said a communication breakdown between CONRED and volcanologists in Guatemala delayed evacuations from the surrounding area.

Comment: Adding to the misery, another Guatemalan volcano has just erupted: Guatemala hit by eruption from SECOND volcano: Pacaya spews lava just miles from Fuego

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Attention

Missing Florida woman's arm found in alligator

Peter Burke & Jeff Weinsier
ABC 10 News
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:56 UTC
captured alligator
An arm was found inside an alligator that was caught in a Davie lake Friday, sources told Local 10 News.

The body part is believed to be that of a missing woman who disappeared while walking her dogs at the Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Rob Klepper said evidence from the necropsy indicates that the woman was bitten by the 12-foot, 6-inch gator.

"The FWC believes that the victim is deceased and we will continue recovery efforts on the lake with local authorities," Klepper said.

Klepper identified the woman as Shizuka Matsuki, 47, of Plantation.

Davie police Detective Vivian Gallinal said a man saw a woman walking her dogs in the park. A short time later, he said, he saw the dogs wandering alone.
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Question

Bizarre sea creature washes ashore on Namibian beach


RT
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:47 UTC
sea creature
© Namibian Dolphin Project / Facebook
A weird 20-foot-long decomposing carcass was found washed up on a beach in Namibia, drawing speculation over just what animal the remains derive from.

The strange-looking creature was found by researchers from the Namibian Dolphin Project as they walked along Sandwich Harbour in Dorob National Park last week.

"We noticed an unusual object lying just above the high-water mark on the beach," the group explained on Facebook. "The body was in an advanced state of decomposition - making it look rather un-whale like."

The flattened body of the creature made the group wonder, "Where are the bones?"
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Cloud Precipitation

Over 70,000 evacuate as floods and landslides hit in the wake of Typhoon Ewiniar in East and South China - nearly 10 inches of rain in 24 hours

Richard Davies
FloodList
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:45 UTC
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Depression Ewiniar on June 7 at 2:05 p.m. EDT (1805 UTC) and saw coldest cloud top temperatures (purple) around the center of circulation in a small area on the southeastern China coast.
© NASA JPL/Ed Olsen
NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Depression Ewiniar on June 7 at 2:05 p.m. EDT (1805 UTC) and saw coldest cloud top temperatures (purple) around the center of circulation in a small area on the southeastern China coast.
Typhoon Ewiniar has brought torrential downpours to China's Guangdong Province, with some areas recording over 250 mm of rain in 24 hours, 08 to 09 June, 2018.

Guangdong provincial civil affairs department said that rainfall from Ewiniar affected Meizhou, Jiangmen, Yangjiang, Zhanjiang and Yunfu.

As of 08 June, 73,000 people had been evacuated to safe locations. The storms also led to flight delays in Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong.

Heavy rain from Typhoon Ewiniar triggered landslides in the city of Yunfu, causing houses to collapse and landslides that killed five people. One person is still missing according to Guangdong civil affairs officials.

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Bizarro Earth

Bad news: Study claims hurricanes' translational speed is slowing down, potentially increasing damage

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:04 UTC
hurricane


From the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON and the "yes but we need Category 6 now due to violently increased wind speeds" department comes this gloom and doom study.

MADISON, Wis. - Some hurricanes are moving more slowly, spending increased time over land and leading to catastrophic local rainfall and flooding, according to a new study published Wednesday (June 6) in the journal Nature.

While hurricanes batter coastal regions with destructive wind speeds, study author James Kossin says the speed at which hurricanes track along their paths - their translational speed - can also play a role in the damage and devastation they cause. Their movement influences how much rain falls in a given area.

This is especially true as global temperatures increase.

"Just a 10 percent slowdown in hurricane translational speed can double the increase in rainfall totals caused by 1 degree Celsius of global warming," says Kossin, a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate. He is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Comment: An interesting and alarming study, although we do not believe that the cause of these changes is 'global warming'. For an alternative, more likely explanation, see:



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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 8, injure 7 in the Indian state of Odisha


Daily Pioneer
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:06 UTC
lightning
Lightning on Friday wreaked a havoc in different parts of the State, killing eight people and injuring seven others.

In the first incident, two youths were killed and two others were injured after lightning struck them at Tanar village of Kendrapada district.

The deceased were identified as Himanshu Gahan and Sudhansu Gahan. Sources said there was heavy rain accompanied by lightning in the area in the afternoon.

The incident took place when both the deceased and their injured friends had gone for a picnic near the village. Both Himanshu and Sudhansu died on the spot.

Comment: On the same day in the state of Jharkhand, 9 were killed and 8 injured while other states reported a total of at least 18 fatalities with 13 injured.

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Attention

Guatemala hit by eruption from SECOND volcano: Pacaya spews lava just miles from Fuego

Ciaran McGrath
Daily Express (UK)
Thu, 07 Jun 2018 12:26 UTC
Pacaya volcanic eruption in Guatemala on June 6, 2018.

Pacaya volcanic eruption in Guatemala on June 6, 2018.
A statement issued by the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction of Guatemala (CONRED) said the country's National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology of Guatemala (INSIVUMEH) had confirmed that the Pacaya volcano, located less than 20 miles from Fuego, had begun expelling lava yesterday morning.

It explained: "A lava flow of approximately 50 metres long and 20 wide was formed.

"This activity is typical of the volcano and has no relation to the recent activity of Fuego volcano.

"The Executive Secretary of the CONRED carries out the corresponding monitoring of this activity through the departmental delegates and the Volcano Prevention Unit (UPV).

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Attention

Six dead seals found on beach in Middletown, Rhode Island

R.J. Heim
NBC10 NEWS
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:11 UTC
1 of 6 dead seals that washed ashore Second Beach in Middletown

1 of 6 dead seals that washed ashore Second Beach in Middletown
Folks from the Mystic Aquarium Rescue program released a gray seal back into the ocean Friday morning.

"Eluthera," a female seal, was saved in Maine in April. She was treated for pneumonia and anemia.

Now healthy, the seal is back in the wild.

But some seals are not so lucky.

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Fire

Kilauea lava flows destroy 600 homes, marking its most destructive eruption in modern times


The Weather Network
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:51 UTC
Kilauea lava flows
© REUTERS/Terray Sylvester
Lava destroys homes in the Kapoho area, east of Pahoa, during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, U.S., June 5, 2018.
Approximately 600 homes have been swallowed by lava flows from Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island since early last month, marking its most destructive eruption in modern times, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said on Thursday.

The latest estimate of property losses from Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, far surpasses the 215 structures consumed by lava during an earlier eruption cycle that began in 1983 and continued nearly nonstop over three decades.

Kim said Kilauea, one of five volcanoes on the Big Island, formally known as the Island of Hawaii, has never destroyed so many homes before in such a short period of time.

The latest volcanic eruption, which entered its 36th day on Thursday, stands as the most destructive in the United States since at least the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state that reduced hundreds of square miles to wasteland, according to geologist Scott Rowland, a volcano specialist from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

A similar, extremely violent eruption from Fuego volcano in Guatemala this week killed more than 100 people as it ejected deadly super-heated "pyroclastic" flows of lava and ash through nearby towns.


Comment: For an update see: Guatemala's Fuego volcano toll reaches 109 with almost 200 missing and presumed dead, criticism grows over evacuation


The latest damage appraisal from Kilauea came moments after Governor David Ige, on a visit to Hawaii County Civil Defense headquarters in Hilo, the island's biggest city, signed a memorandum of understanding furnishing $12 million in immediate state disaster relief to the island.


Comment: Earth in upheaval: Hawaii has been hit by over 12,000 earthquakes during last 30 days

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Bizarro Earth

Earth in upheaval: Hawaii has been hit by over 12,000 earthquakes during last 30 days

Michael Snyder
The American Dream
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
Kilauea eruption, hawaii volcanic eruption
We haven't seen anything like this since Hawaii first became a state back in 1959. Kilauea began erupting on May 3rd, and it hasn't stopped rumbling yet. In fact, authorities are telling us that Hawaii has been struck by "over 12,000 earthquakes" during the last 30 days. That is an extraordinary amount of shaking, and many are now becoming concerned that fundamental physical changes are happening to the islands. As one USGS official has noted, we have never seen earthquakes happen on the Big Island with this sort of frequency ever before...
While most of the earthquakes have been relatively mild at magnitude 2 or 3, the largest earthquake was a massive 6.9 magnitude tremor on May 4, along with a 5.5 magnitude quake on June 4.

Brian Shiro, a supervisory geophysicist at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, said the island was witnessing the highest rate of quakes ever measured at the summit.

Comment: The planet is witnessing a rapid upsurge in extreme weather according to a recent report. For more details on these events from around the world, see our Earth Changes Summaries.

Related articles: To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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