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Giant 25ft python attacks Indonesian man, villagers rescue him then kill and eat snake


Daily Mail
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:50 UTC
snake

Villagers stand beside the 7.8 metre (25.6 foot) long python which was killed after it attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island
A giant python attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, before hungry villagers chopped up the reptile and ate it, a police chief said Wednesday.

Security guard Robert Nababan crossed paths with the giant creature while patrolling an oil palm plantation in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island on Saturday.

"The python was 7.8 metres long (25.6 feet), it was unbelievably huge," local police chief Sutarja, who like many Indonesians only has one name, told AFP.

Sutarja said the 37-year-old Nababan, who sometimes liked to eat snake, tried to catch the giant python and stuff it in a gunny sack.
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Seismograph

Shallow magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off eastern Japan; few hours later M5.4 quake strikes near Iwaki


RT
Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:06 UTC
The 6.3 quake struck just off Japan's eastern coast
© USGS
The 6.3 quake struck just off Japan's eastern coast
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale has been recorded off the east coast of Japan, Reuters reports, citing the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The quake's epicenter was recorded out at sea and is located parallel to the Fukushima prefecture.

The nation's meteorological agency is reporting a depth of 10 kilometers, with the earthquake measuring at least 6.0 on local seismic recording equipment.
Prelim M6.0 earthquake off the east coast of Honshu, Japan Oct-6 07:59 UTC, updates https://t.co/5BUwzWA3i4

— USGS Big Quakes (@USGSBigQuakes) October 6, 2017

Comment: A few hours later a 5.4 magnitude quake struck off the coast of Iwaki, just 35 miles (56.5km) south of the now-disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Fireball 2

Did a meteorite cause a brush fire in New Hampshire?


boston.cbslocal.com
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:33 UTC
The blaze near Lost River Gorge seen overnight.
© Jack Varin/Real World New Hampshire
The blaze near Lost River Gorge seen overnight.
Investigators and fire officials in New Hampshire are looking into the possibility that a meteor may have started a brush fire that has currently burned through about 25 acres in the White Mountains.

Crews were working to contain the fire in the Lost River Gorge area Wednesday, and said that it was still spreading. A driver first called it in around 6:20 a.m. Tuesday.

Mackay told WBZ-TV a man walking through the area Wednesday told them he saw something - possibly a meteor - hit the side of the mountain while he was driving by the night before.

"He swears that something come out of the sky and hit the side of the mountain where the fire is," Chief Mackay said. "We can't confirm it or deny it, we just took his word. We don't know if that is the cause."

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Snowflake

Yes, it's Spring in South Africa, but it's snowing in Lesotho and the Drakensberg

Queenin Masuabi
Huffpost
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:00 UTC
Snow in South Africa

Snow in South Africa
Mountaintop residents of Lesotho and Drakensberg were surprised on Thursday when they woke up to a spring snowfall.

South African Weather Services forecaster Victoria Nurse said this occurs from time to time.

"It is not that common, but we have seen it before," she said.

"Today there was a thick band of moisture over the central parts of the country. This, combined with the passage of a previous cold front, caused temperatures to drop and snow to fall in Lesotho and the Drakensberg."
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Attention

Humpback whale washes up on Block Island, Rhode Island

Lars Trodson
Block Island Times
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:40 UTC
The carcass of a humpback whale was found on Ballard's Beach on Block Island, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017
© Lars Trodson/Block Island Times
The carcass of a humpback whale was found on Ballard's Beach on Block Island, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017
A beached humpback whale was found at Ballard's Beach this morning, Tuesday, Oct. 3. It does not appear to be the carcass of the humpback whale that was found beached at Mohegan Bluffs a little less than a month ago, as that whale had tests performed on it by a team from Mystic Seaport.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called a "declared unusual mortality rate" for whales beginning in April 2016 for an area stretching from North Carolina to Maine, which is still ongoing. Some people in New England are claiming that the existence of the five turbines comprising the Block Island Wind Farm are causing the unusual mortality rate, while so far NOAA said it has not found any link between the deaths of the whales and the unusual mortality rate.

Comment: See also this report from last month: Dead whales found on Narragansett, Block Island shores in Rhode Island

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Attention

Man killed by bear in Odisha, India


Kalinga TV
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:35 UTC
bear print
An elderly man was killed in wild bear attack at Kucheijor village under Narla block Tuesday morning.

The deceased has been identified as Dhanu Bag.

Dhanu had gone to a forest located near the village to collect firewood when the bear attacked him. He died on the spot. His body was recovered by some villagers later in the morning.

The M Rampur police reached the spot and sent the body for autopsy.

BEAR ATTACK
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Butterfly

70-mile-wide wave of butterflies picked up on radar in Denver, Colorado area


Time
Wed, 04 Oct 2017 17:19 UTC
In this Oct. 3, 2017, radar images show a 70-mile-wide wave of butterflies drifting across the Denver metro area.
© National Weather Service
In this Oct. 3, 2017, radar images show a 70-mile-wide wave of butterflies drifting across the Denver metro area.
A lacy, cloud-like pattern drifting across a Denver-area radar screen turned out to be a 70-mile-wide (110-kilometer) wave of butterflies, forecasters say.

Paul Schlatter of the National Weather Service said he first thought flocks of birds were making the pattern he saw on the radar Tuesday, but the cloud was headed northwest with the wind, and migrating birds would be southbound in October.

He asked birdwatchers on social media what it might be, and by Wednesday had his answer: People reported seeing a loosely spaced net of painted lady butterflies drifting with the wind across the area.

Schlatter said the colors on the radar image are a result of the butterflies' shape and direction, not their own colors.
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Cloud Lightning

Six killed, three injured by lightning bolt in Karnataka, India


The Hindu
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:35 UTC
lightning
Six persons were killed on the spot when they were struck by thunder bolt and lightning at Nandinathapura village of Periyapatana taluk in Mysuru district on Wednesday.

The incident took place around noon and the victims were tending to cattle when there was a sudden downpour. They rushed to a temple to take cover from the rains.

"But a thunder bolt and lightning stuck the place, killing six of them instantaneously, while three others were injured," said the local police.

The deceased were identified as Sujay, Puttannaiah, Sudeep, Suvernamma, Umesh and Thimmegowda. The injured were identified as Nagesh, Mahesh and Vishwa. The injured have been shifted to K.R. Hospital in Mysuru for treatment, but their condition is critical, according to Periyapatana police which have registered a case and are investigating.

Periyapatana and surrounding areas are receiving heavy rains since morning and it is being accompanied by thunder and lightning, said the police.

Comment: Elsewhere recently lightning strikes caused 3 fatalities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Attention

Whale found stuck to bow of ship near docks in Sheerness, UK

John Nurden
KentOnline
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:01 UTC
Jack Smedley and the whale carcass he and his crew brought into Sheerness docks

Jack Smedley and the whale carcass he and his crew brought into Sheerness docks
First it was Greenpeace protestors. Now Sheerness docks has had an unexpected visit from a whale.

The body of what is thought to be a 25-feet long pilot whale was found stuck to the bow of the 49,000-tonne car transporter American Highway as it arrived.

Dad-of-three Jack Smedley, 25, of Yarrow Drive, Minster, was working for Sheerness firm Medway Marine and Shipping Services when he had the surprise call to remove the whale.

He said: "It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It's not the type of job you expect to end up doing on Sheppey."

Veteran dockworkers have told him there have only been three whales found in the harbour over the past 50 years.

Skipper Peter Sands guided the Mabel 6 mooring boat into position while Jack, a scaffolder by trade, lassoed the whale's fin with rope.
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Cloud Precipitation

Houston breaks annual rainfall record set in 1900 with 73.51" of rain so far this year

Zach Despart
Houston Press
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:05 UTC
Hurricane Harvey Houston
© Abrahan Garza
Hurricane Harvey accounts for more than half of Houston's 2017 rainfall.
As of Tuesday morning, Houston had received more rainfall than in any other year on record - with nearly three months left in 2017 to add to that total.

George Bush Intercontinental Airport received 1.46 inches of rain overnight, the Houston/Galveston branch of the National Weather Service announced, pushing its annual rainfall total to 73.51 inches.

Hurricane Harvey, which dumped nearly 40 inches of rain at Bush Airport and more than 50 inches in other areas of Houston, accounts for more than half of the city's 2017 rainfall to date.

"When you have tropical storms and hurricanes like we have, like Harvey, which was such a big rainmaker, you're going to have higher rainfall totals," said Nikki Hathaway, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Hathaway said forecasters are unable to project how much more rain Houston will get this year, but if Houston gets average rainfall in October, November and December, it can expect about 13 more inches of precipitation. That would bring the yearly total to an astounding 86.51 inches - the height of Houston Rockets great Hakeem Olajuwon, plus two inches.

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