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Fresh August snowfall in the Alps


Inthesnow.com
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 18:04 UTC
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There's been fresh snowfall reported above around 3,000 metres on glaciers in the Alps over the past few days.

The currently closed (for skiing and boarding) Stubai Glacier near Innsbruck in Austria is the latest to report a dusting of summer snow, following fellow Tirolean glacier ski area Hintertux last week (below).

Hintertux is one of five glaciers currently open for August skiing and snowboarding, along with Les 2 Alps in France, Zermatt and Saas Fee in Switzerland and Passo Stelvio in Italy.
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Huge snow dump hits the southern skifields of New Zealand - up to 24 inches in 24 hours

Hanna McCallum and Jonathan Guildford
Stuff
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 17:49 UTC
Tekapo's Roundhill Ski Area received about 50cm of new snow on Tuesday.
© ROUNDHILL SKI AREA
Tekapo's Roundhill Ski Area received about 50cm of new snow on Tuesday.
Some southern skifields received a decent dumping of snow as a cold front made its way up the South Island on Tuesday.

Canterbury skifields received the majority of the heavy snowfall over the 24 hours to Tuesday evening, according to the SnowNZ website.

The Arrowsmith, Ragged, and Palmer ranges, operated on by Methven Heliski, led the way with a mammoth 62 centimetres of new snow. Tekapo's Roundhill Ski Area received 50cm, while Mount Cook Heliski region got 40cm, Temple Basin ski area near Arthur's Pass got 20cm, Ōhau got 15cm, Porters had 10cm, Wānaka's Treble Cone got 7cm, and Broken River got 5cm.
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Windsock

Strong winds batter China, ripping up records and roofs - wind speeds reach 98 mph


South China Morning Post
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 17:31 UTC
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Strong winds have battered northern and central China's Hebei and Henan provinces, breaking local speed records. Residents were seen struggling to walk in the gales, and roofs were seen flying into the air.

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Attention

Brown bear attacks group of campers, killing and eating one in southern central Russia

Bethany Dawson
Insider
Sat, 31 Jul 2021 11:45 UTC
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As a group of hikers on a camping trip unpacked their belongings, one was attacked and killed by a brown bear in Russia.

The group was hiking in the popular Ergaki national park in southern central Russia when the tragedy occurred on July 27.

Krasnoyarsk regional news service reports that the men scaled a wall of rocks once they saw the "drooling" bear - but one man, Yevenggny Starkov, 42, lagged behind.

One of the survivors told the local news that they watched their friend get devoured before fleeing further into the forest after the bear caught sight of them.
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Attention

Woman killed in bear attack in northern Alberta

Kellen Taniguchi
Edmonton Sun
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 11:33 UTC
The witness at the scene said she believes it was a black bear that attacked her co-worker.

The witness at the scene said she believes it was a black bear that attacked her co-worker.
A 26-year-old Alberta women is dead after a reported bear mauling in a wooded area northwest of Swan Hills Saturday.

Swan Hills RCMP said they received a complaint of the bear attack shortly after 3 p.m. The victim was a tree planter from around the hamlet of Peers, working in the Swan Hills area with her co-worker.

"She was evacuated by her co-worker on a helicopter and brought back to the Swan Hills Airport where they met up with an ambulance, emergency crews, and she was subsequently declared deceased at the airport," RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said Monday.

The witness at the scene told RCMP she believed it was a black bear, but RCMP said they have reached out to Alberta Fish and Wildlife who are taking the lead on the investigation to determine what type of bear it was and try to locate it.

Swan Hills is approximately 221 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

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Cloud Lightning

Hundreds of lightning bolts hit dry Oregon, start 50 new wildfires

Andrew Selsky
The Seattle Times
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 11:00 UTC
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Lightning bolts struck the parched forests of southern Oregon hundreds of times in 24 hours, igniting some 50 new wildfires even as the nation's largest wildfire continued to burn less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) away, officials said on Monday.

State, federal and contracted firefighters, augmented by helicopters and planes dropping fire retardant, pounced on the new wildfires in national forests in southwest Oregon before they could spread out of control. The largest one was estimated at up to 5 acres (2 hectares).

Thunderstorms unleashed some 700 lightning bolts that hit the ground and also brought rain to some places, but left others dry while triggering multiple fires, said Margueritte Hickman, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service.

Firefighters and support personnel worked through the night to locate and extinguish fires.

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Seismograph

Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes near Nicobar Islands, India - EMSC

Maria Ponnezhath
Reuters
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:48 UTC
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An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck about 310 km (190 miles)south southeast of Port Blair, India, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Tuesday.

The quake was at a depth of 40 km, EMSC said.

Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill
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Attention

ANOTHER cliff collapse on the UK's Jurassic coast prompts warning as cracks appear at two different beaches


BBC
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:14 UTC
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© Dorset Council
More movement was expected as fresh cracks had appeared on the cliff top
A section of cliff has collapsed cutting off a stretch of beach on the Jurassic Coast.

The large rock fall, which happened on Saturday, blocked off the beach between Eype and Seatown in Dorset.

Dorset Council warned the fall had "not yet settled" and the ground inland was "relaxing with more cracks opening up".

The authority has urged people to obey the safety signs and not cross the cordons or climb on the debris on the beach.

Comment: In just the last year or so there seems to have been a significant uptick in the number and severity of landslides, rockfalls and sinkholes: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes 6 people, kills 2 in Joypurhat, Bangladesh


NEW AGE
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 10:39 UTC
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Two farmers were killed by lightning strike on Ratanpur-Salua field in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat on Monday morning.

The deceased are Dulal Hossain, 59, and Mofazzal Hossain, 52, of Ratanpur village.

Four other farmers were seriously injured in the incident.

The police said some farmers of Ratanpur village went to plant Aman paddy around 9:00am.

A thunderbolt struck six of them, leaving two dead on the spot.

Later, local people rescued the injured.

Palash Chandra Deb, officer-in-charge of Panchbibi police station, said the injured were admitted to Joypurhat Adhunik Hospital.

Source: United News of Bangladesh
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Cloud Lightning

3 die in lightning strike in West Bengal, India


India Today
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 10:34 UTC
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Three persons including a couple died on Monday as lightning struck them in West Bengal's Birbhum district, police said.

They were working on an agricultural field in Santoshpur village under Nalhati police station. When it started raining, the three took shelter in an abandoned hut which was struck by lightning killing them.

Of the three deceased, Jagannath Tudu and his wife Sumi Tudu were residents of Santoshpur, while Dilu Hembram hailed from Jharkhand, police said.

The bodies were sent for post-mortem examination.

Source: Press Trust of India
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