Earth Changes

Freak snowfall brings winter to New Zealand resorts in summer!

Stuff
Sun, 22 Jan 2017 00:44 UTC

Guests at Cardrona Alpine Resort, near Wanaka, have woken to a winter wonderland - in the middle of summer.

Light snow began falling on Saturday afternoon, but increased to heavy falls overnight, leaving a 30-centimetre base, Cardrona marketing coordinator Matt McIvor said. The white stuff was still falling on Sunday morning.

In five years at the resort McIvor said he had never seen these conditions in January.

Tennessee couple lose home to large sinkhole

Bill Mitchell
WDEF
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:13 UTC

Most of us don't expect to suddenly lose access to our home and belongings because they fell into a sink hole.

But that's what happened to Cecilia Lanzar and her husband who live in East Brainerd last December.

They are now stuck in limbo as their insurance company and engineers figure out what to do next.

Cecilia Lanzar had been hearing "creeking" noises in her home for several weeks, but on December 1 st she never expected to see what was happening that morning.

CECILIA LANZAR, HOMEOWNER "So, I opened the blinds and the deck was tilting." A big sinkhole had opened up almost overnight. She knew that water had been flowing across her lawn from a broken water pump that belongs to Amberleigh Apartments on the hill above her home. And, according to city inspectors it had weakened her lawn .

Double sun halo captured in Fairbanks, Alaska

Space
The Earth Chronicles of Life
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 15:08 UTC

Winter storm walked through the city of Fairbanks in Alaska. During its peak, "he left a lot of ice crystals in the air," says a local resident Bernard Marsha. "We saw a beautiful sight — a sun halo, including a double, January 17," he says.

The inner ring — a common 22-degree solar halo, which was formed by passing sunlight through ice crystals in the form of hexagonal prisms. The outer ring — something a little more exotic. "This is the 46-degree halo, explains atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. — They are more rare than is written in the textbooks and on websites".

And 22-degree and 46-degree halos are formed due to the same ice crystals in the form of hexagonal prisms, but the 46-degree halo is very dim, and they are almost always impossible to see. Therefore, when the outer ring is seen, usually it's some other phenomenon. "Upper tangent arc, halo, — defines Cowley. — They are formed when the hexagonal columnar crystals arranged in a horizontal row in the air, and can impersonate the 46-degree halo."

Series of eight earthquakes recorded in Colorado overnight

Chris Sorensen
Kiowa County Press
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:17 UTC

Eight earthquakes rocked the mountains in Pitkin and Gunnison County area Thursday night according to the United States Geological Surey.

The first occurred shortly after 8:00 p.m., and was in Pitkin County 17 miles south of Carbondale. It measured 2.8 on the Richter Scale and occurred about three miles beneath the surface.

A second quake, less than 10 miles away, occurred about 45 minutes later, also measured 2.8, at a similar depth. It was in Gunnison County ,17 miles west of Snowmass Village.

Fifteen minutes later, another quake, measuring 2.3 in nearly identical location to the second, struck the area.

Comment: Update: Colorado earthquake count rises to 12 in 36 hours

Animals struggle with heavy snowfall, winter weather in Idaho

The Spokesman-Review
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:06 UTC

While Idaho residents are lamenting heavy snowpack and icy roads, wildlife in the state has been struggling in the backcountry.

Idaho Fish and Game officials told the Post Register that the tough winter will likely mean higher mortality rates for elk and deer that are coping with heavily crusted snowpack.

The deep snow makes it harder for game to move around, with each step requiring more energy and sapping more of the animals' fat supplies, Idaho Fish and Game Regional Wildlife Manager Curtis Hendricks said. The crusted snow also makes it hard for deer and elk to uncover winter forage, further depleting their fat stores.

In Valley County, more familiar animals are struggling due to the snow. A pair of horses has become stranded in a remote area near Boulder Lake. The Valley County Sheriff's Office is working to save the animals, KTVB-TV reported.

Chinstrap penguin makes rare 1500-kilometre trip from Antarctica to Macquarie Island

Cate Grant
abc.net.au
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 10:43 UTC

What makes a tiny penguin set out on an epic journey through a vast ocean with seemingly little hope of returning home in one piece?

Antarctic researchers are not actually sure, but when one little chinstrap penguin made a very rare appearance on remote Macquarie Island recently there was great excitement.

The chinstraps are cousins of the more common adelie penguins, but the nearest colony of chinstraps is about 1,500 kilometres south of Macquarie Island

There have only been five chinstrap sightings on "Macca" since 2013, and 44 since 1953.

14 buried in central China landslide

Xinhua
Sat, 21 Jan 2017 08:51 UTC

Around 14 people were buried in a landslide which hit part of a hotel in a central China town on Friday night, local authorities said.

The landslide hit the hotel at the town proper of Nanzhang County, Hubei Province around 7:30 p.m. Friday.

© Xinhua
A landslide hit part of a hotel in Chengguan town of Nanzhang on Friday night. The casualties are still unclear.

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Man has an incredible escape as lightning strikes in the same place twice in Singapore

Kara O'Neill
Daily Mirror
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 21:35 UTC

A man had an incredibly lucky escape when he was metres away from a lightning bolt - that struck twice in the same place.

Delivery driver Fahrol Razi, 30, sitting in his van in the Sim Lim Tower car park in Singapore, had already witnessed one bolt of lightning strike nearby.

He got out his phone to video the scene when another bolt struck in almost exactly the same place.

The clip shows a frightening orange blaze of light and a large chunk of a tree being blasted off the trunk and into the car park, with splinters of wood sprayed widely.

Dead whale washed ashore on Outer Hebrides, Scotland

The Press and Journal
Fri, 20 Jan 2017 08:26 UTC

Humpback whale

The public are being warned to stay away from a dead giant whale that washed ashore in the Outer Hebrides yesterday amid fears that it could explode.

The badly-decomposed animal is believed to be a humpback whale.

Humpback whales were once hunted to the brink of extinction in Scottish waters, but in recent years the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust has noticed an increase in the number of sightings. Though still relatively rare there were more than 20 last year.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said a member of the public had raised the alarm at 9.40am after coming across the whale on a beach in Benbecula.

Several parts of Morocco to be hit with large drops in temperature

Robert
Ice Age Now
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:33 UTC

Several parts of Morocco will be hit by a great drop in temperature until the end of this week, according to the Direction de la Météorologie Nationale (DMN).

These are the provinces of Midelt, Tinghir, Azilal, Al Haouz, Béni Mellal, Boulemane and Ifrane where low temperatures will vary between -11 and -5 ° C, and max temperatures will range between -3 and 0 ° C.

(...) It is the poor and deprived population of the regions, particularly the mountainous massifs of the Atlas and the Rif, that suffer from this great drop in temperatures.

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Earth Changes

Freak snowfall brings winter to New Zealand resorts in summer!

Tennessee couple lose home to large sinkhole

Double sun halo captured in Fairbanks, Alaska

Series of eight earthquakes recorded in Colorado overnight

Animals struggle with heavy snowfall, winter weather in Idaho

Chinstrap penguin makes rare 1500-kilometre trip from Antarctica to Macquarie Island

14 buried in central China landslide

Man has an incredible escape as lightning strikes in the same place twice in Singapore

Dead whale washed ashore on Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Several parts of Morocco to be hit with large drops in temperature

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