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Massive sandstorm engulfs the city of Golmud, China

Tiffany Lo
Daily Mail
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:19 UTC
Apocalyptic scenes of dust cloud rolling over a city in north China are captured by residents

Apocalyptic scenes of dust cloud rolling over a city in north China are captured by residents
A huge sandstorm yesterday swept across a city in northern China within minutes.

Apocalyptic video footage, taken by residents, shows how the cloud of thick dust more than 100 feet tall engulfed the city of Golmud in Qinghai Province.

The sandstorm was accompanied by gale-force winds of up to 20.7 metres per second, according to China Global Television Network.

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Surveys show Earth's sea surface is cooling 'dramatically'


Strange Sounds
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 23:19 UTC
snowball earth
40-year veteran meteorologist Joe Bastardi at WeatherBell's Saturday Summary shows how the Earth's surface has cooled dramatically over the past three years and that Arctic sea ice is piling up.

Our Earth is cooling

First at his most recent Saturday Summary, the 40-year meteorologist first warns that in-close developing hurricanes of the sort seen in the 1930s are a risk to the US East Coast this year, due the current Atlantic temperature pattern. The reason has nothing to do with CO2 in the atmosphere, but because of natural sea surface temperature cycles.

Next Joe Bastardi illustrates the stark sea surface cooling the globe has seen over the recent years. The following two charts show the "pretty dramatic" cooling that has occurred over the past three years, 2015 vs 2018. Bastardi calls it "a pretty big flip" and "a pretty dramatic turnaround":
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Massive sinkhole appears in farmers field in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Chad Seabrook
Sott.net
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:00 UTC
Huge sinkhole opens up in farmers field in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Images taken from: englishrussia.com
RIA Novosti reports a sinkhole measuring 32 metres wide and 50 metres deep appeared in a farmers field in Shatkovsky, Nizhny Novgoro, Russia. It was also stated that no houses are located nearby, with the nearest settlement 2 kilometres away, that the area has been fenced off and the sinkhole is being monitored.

While information in English is scarce at this early time, one report speculates the cause could be due to to water erosion of the soil or rock below.

It remains to be seen what the true cause of this particular sinkhole is but a hole of this size is not normal and to attribute its appearance solely to water erosion is most likely misleading. Because with volcanoes, earthquakes, sinkholes, fissures, landslides and a variety of other unusual and major earth movement phenomena on the increase, it would seem there are other factors at play not yet being considered.
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At least 27 feared dead in jade mine landslide after heavy rain in Myanmar (Burma)


Mizzima
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:49 UTC
lANDSLIDE
© Zaw Win Maung
At least 27 people are feared dead following a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, police said Wednesday, as heavy rains hampered the search for survivors.

The poorly-regulated and notoriously corrupt multibillion-dollar industry in remote Kachin state is frequently hit by fatal disasters, and the victims often come from poor ethnic communities.

The latest disaster hit remote Set Mu sub-township early Tuesday following heavy rains in the area, burying at least 27 people, mostly from the impoverished ethnic Rawang group, local police officer Aung Zin Kyaw told AFP.

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Landslide death toll hits 8 in Nepal


The Kathmandu Post
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:39 UTC
LANDSLIDE
Death toll in a landslide that occurred at Timure in Gosaikunda Rural Municipality-2 of Rasuwa district on Wednesday night has risen to eight. One person is still missing in the landslide.

The deceased have been identified as Shyam Shrestha, Bikram Shrestha, Mangale Tamang of Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality-5, Sindhupalchok district, Ramesh Khadka of Bhotekoshi-4, Mingmar Gumbu Tamang of Thuman, Gosaikunda Rural Municipality-1, Dorje Wanchuk Ghale of Timure, Ramesh Tamang and Sharmila Kamini of Nuwakot, DSP Santosh Tamang, Chief at the District Police Office, Rasuwa, said.

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Large sinkhole opens up on road in Upper Allen, Pennsylvania

Amanda Peterson
abc27.com
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:24 UTC
sinkhole
A water main break eroded the soil under an Upper Allen Township road and a sinkhole opened Monday morning.

The sinkhole is in the 800 block of South Market Street.

A utility pole sank and needed to be stabilized, and a home driveway is completely cut off from the roadway.

South Market is closed between East Elmwood Avenue and Shepherdstown Road and could remain shut down for a while because the other side of the road started buckling in the afternoon.

Suez Water said the severity of the break required other utilities to repair lines. Several homes and businesses last water service and are under a boil water advisory.

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Cloud Precipitation

Heat relief with a price: Thunderstorms forecast to sweep Britain; Met warns of possible hail, strong winds and flash flooding

Harriett Agerholm
The Independent
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC
Londoners keeping cool Jul 2018 heatwave
Relief from a blistering heatwave across the UK could come on Friday afternoon, when sunny skies are expected to give way to scattered thunderstorms.

Friday could be Britain's warmest ever July day - and possibly even its hottest day on record.

While temperatures of 35C to 36C are widely forecast for the south east, "there is a possibility that the July maximum temperature - 36.7C - will be reached," Bonnie Diamond, a press officer at the Met Office, said.

"There is also a 20 per cent possibility the all-time high could be reached."

The hottest temperature on record is 38.5C in August 2003.

But torrential downpours are forecast to hit parts of the UK, with as much as 30mm expected to fall in just an hour.

"Scattered thunderstorms will develop and there is a danger of flash flooding," Ms Diamond said.
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10-foot 'cliff' forms on Outer Banks beach, North Carolina

Mark Price and Abbie Bennett
The Charlotte Observer
Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:19 UTC
Officials closed the Nags Head beach on Tuesday after a 10-foot cliff came
© Wes Snyder Photography
Officials closed the Nags Head beach on Tuesday after a 10-foot cliff came "out of nowhere." Experts speculate the cliff formed as a result of king tides. Outer Banks photographer Wes Snyder captured the new cliff on video.
One of North Carolina's popular Outer Banks beaches abruptly closed Tuesday, not for deadly rip currents or sharks, but for a 10-foot cliff that seemed to come out of nowhere.

The town of Nags Head said it was closing Gray Eagle Beach Access until the newly formed escarpment could be "leveled out."

However, photos posted on Facebook of the site were instantly labeled fake on social media, including one that showed an umbrella-topped life guard tower teetering above a nonexistent beach.

"These pictures look fake," posted someone named Johna on Facebook.

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Volcanic ash blankets Vanuatu island forcing hundreds of villagers to flee

Stefan Armbruster
SBS News
Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:32 UTC
Ash cover
© John Joemeteo
The alert level for Vanuatu's Ambae volcano has been raised to level three after eruptions and the spewing of ash.

Hundreds of villagers are being evacuated from a volcanic Vanuatu island as thick ash from minor eruptions blanket the island.

The threat level of Manaro volcano on Ambae island was raised from two to three on Saturday by the country's Meteorological and Geo-Hazards Department.

Vanuatu's Red Cross reports several villages have become uninhabitable and the organisation is providing humanitarian assistance.

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Attention

Rare deep diving Cuvier's beaked whale washes ashore in Newfoundland, Canada

Adam Randell
The Northern Pen
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:19 UTC
This rare to Newfoundland waters Cuvier’s beaked whale was discovered in Lumsden on July 24.

This rare to Newfoundland waters Cuvier’s beaked whale was discovered in Lumsden on July 24.
Whale rare to Newfoundland waters, says Wayne Ledwell of Whale Rescue and Strandings

A whale rare to Newfoundland waters is drawing a lot of attention in Lumsden.

Jeremy Humphries and his wife Jenna came across what has since been identified as a Cuvier's beaked whale Tuesday afternoon (July 24) at approximately 3:30 p.m., while on an ATV ride along Lumsden's south beach.

It wasn't alive at the time of the discovery.

"It didn't look like it was there very long," said Humphries, noting it was his first encounter with a beached whale. "There were no gulls or anything in the area which there normally would be when something dead washed ashore. The tail of the whale looked red and rubbed out, other than that it looked perfectly fine."
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