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Humpback whale carcass found on coast of the United Arab Emirates


Gulf News
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:46 UTC
The whale was found motionless and floating in the water by fishermen
© M. Sajjad
The whale was found motionless and floating in the water by fishermen
A dead whale carcass measuring 16 metres has been found floating off shores near Khor Fakkan port, an official said on Monday.

The carcass was spotted by a fisherman who reported the find to UAE Coast Guard around 6am.

Hana Saif Al Suwaidi, Chairman of Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah, told Gulf News that they are working to tow the whale's body to the shore.

Al Suwaidi said the humpback whale is found in waters stretching from Asia toward the Horn of Africa.

Initial examination is leading marine authorities to speculate the whale died from injuries sustained from collision with a tanker.
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Lightning bolt kills 3 women in Tamil Nadu, India

Deepak Karthik
The Times of India
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:31 UTC
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Three women agriculture labourers died on the spot after being struck by lightning near Thirumanur in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu on Monday.

The incident happened while a group of nine women agriculture labourers were involved in paddy cultivation activities in Karuppur village. It was raining, and lightning struck six of them.

Three women, identified as Unnamalai, 48, Senthamizhselvi, 40, and Anjalai, 50, died on the spot.

Three others, identified as Ponnarambu, Annakodi and Selvi, sustained injuries. They were rushed to Thanjavur Medical College Hospital.

The Thirumanur police retrieved the dead bodies with the help of villagers. The bodies were sent to the Ariyalur Government Hospital for postmortem.

The police registered a case.

Comment: Another woman was also killed by lightning elsewhere in Tamil Nadu a day prior to the above incident.

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150,000 people to evacuate Bali's erupting Mount Agung, airport closes for another day

Adam Harvey
ABC Online
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:35 UTC
Bali's Mount Agung erupting
© AP
Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency raised the volcano's alert to the highest level Monday and expanded an exclusion zone to 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the crater in places from the previous 7 1/2 kilometers.
About 150,000 people will leave their homes on the slopes of Mount Agung, Bali's Governor says, as the volcano's eruptions grow more powerful, while the island's main airport will close for another 24 hours due to ashfall.

Governor Made Pastika said the evacuation period for people living within 10 kilometres of the crater could easily last as long as a month.

Indonesia's disaster management agency said the evacuation is so far orderly and without panic.

Mount Agung has been hurling clouds of white and dark grey ash about 3,000 meters into the atmosphere since the weekend and lava is welling up in the crater, sometimes reflected as a reddish-yellow glow in the ash plumes.

Its explosions can be heard about 12 kilometres away.


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Cloud Lightning

Odisha state in India sees 473 lightning deaths during 2017 monsoon season; compares with about 400 for each of the 2 previous years

Sanjeev Kumar Patro
The Pioneer
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:34 UTC
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Odisha for third year in succession has topped the country with highest deaths owing to lightning during this year's monsoon. The State recorded almost three deaths every day. Notably, while Odisha has emerged as the country's lightning graveyard, Jharkhand has come to be known as top thunderstorm cemetery.

As per the available data with the Met Office, Odisha recorded a total of 173 lightning deaths in just the first two months of the 2017 monsoon period and alone accounted for nearly 49 per cent of lightning deaths in the country. Jharkhand alone accounted for half of the total thunderstorm casualties nationally.

The worry for Odisha is deaths due to lightning have been the highest this monsoon as the lightning casualties touched the 300-mark during June to September, and the deaths were reported from as many as 25 districts. For this, the Indian Met Office has put Odisha on the climate change watch list by labelling it as a 'significant' weather event observed in State.
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Volcanic eruptions and atmospheric compression events increasing

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:25 UTC
A view of the Mount Agung volcano erupting in Karangasem, Bali, on Monday
© AP
A view of the Mount Agung volcano erupting in Karangasem, Bali, on Monday
Volcano awakens after 290 years of silence in Iceland, Mexico and Bali eruptions continue sending ash to 30,000 ft. Atmospheric Compression events in Jamaica and Saudi Arabia and a balmy -55C in Siberia.


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Dead whale found in Chesapeake Bay near Lynnhaven, Virginia


wtkr.com
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:47 UTC
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A dead whale was spotted floating in the water in Chesapeake Bay west of the Lynnhaven Fishing Pier Sunday.

The whale was brought ashore by members of the Virginia Aquarium's Response Team earlier this afternoon, but the reason for the whale dying and other details are not known at this time.

The Virginia Aquarium did confirm that is would be performing a necropsy at the beach the whale was brought ashore on Monday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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Strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of Papua New Guinea

Christine Younan
The Star (UK)
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 10:27 UTC
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea
© USGS
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Papua New Guinea
The huge quake was recorded 6.0-magnitude and measured 57.8km in depth.

It hit 78 miles east of the town of Rabaul at 7.11am UTC.

The country is situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire - at the point of collision of several tectonic plates.

In the region, a number of active volcanoes and eruptions are frequent.
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Powerful Bering Sea storm undergoes incredible bombogenesis, producing 90 MPH winds in Alaska's Aleutian Islands

Chris Dolce
The Weather Channel
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:25 UTC
Bering Sea storm
© CIRA/RAMMB
Visible satellite image of the powerful storm on Saturday.
A rapidly intensifying storm has brought wind gusts in excess of 90 mph to Alaska's Aleutian Islands this weekend while also presenting spectacular views on satellite imagery.

The storm easily met the criteria for what meteorologists call bombogenesis, which is an atmospheric pressure drop of 24 millibars in 24 hours. In general, a lower atmospheric pressure correlates with a more intense low-pressure system.

In the case of this weekend's storm, the pressure dropped an incredible 55 millibars in 24 hours (1002 millibars 10 p.m. Friday Alaska time to 947 millibars 10 p.m. Saturday Alaska time). The pressure reading continued to drop and was at 944 millibars as of early Sunday, making it the strongest storm on Earth based on pressure at that time.

Winds gusted up to 92 mph and 91 mph at Atka Island and Adak Island, respectively, as the storm swept into the Bering Sea late Saturday into early Sunday. The winds on Atka Island gusted in excess of 70 mph at least once per hour for 12 consecutive hours (11 p.m. Saturday Alaska time to 11 a.m. Sunday Alaska time).
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Rare waterspout filmed near the island of Aruba

Kyle D'Amato
You Tube
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:29 UTC
waterspout
Rare sighting of a waterspout in the Caribbean Island Aruba.

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Man badly bitten in shark attack off Monterey Coast, California


CBS San Francisco
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23 UTC
shark attack
A man was bitten by a shark Friday when fishing in Stillwater Cove near Pebble Beach in Monterey County, sheriff's officials said.

The man was spear-fishing when he was attacked by the shark, suffering massive blood loss, sheriff's officials said. Two off-duty sheriff's deputies luckily were also fishing in the cove and they took care of the man, as did an on-duty deputy summoned to the scene.

One of the deputies on the scene, trained in emergency field medicine, applied a tourniquet to the man's leg, stopping the blood loss, sheriff's officials said.

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