Earth Changes

Worst wildfire season on record in California with 1,100 fires in the first six months

Stephanie Hull
krcrtv.com
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:43 UTC

As many places in California near some of the highest temperatures seen so far this year, CAL FIRE is warning of the dangers this fire season holds.

Officials are calling this year the worst season for fires on record. CAL FIRE has responded to around 1,100 fires in the first six months. The average number of fires for an entire year is around 600 fires.

Firefighters say the high temperatures combined with the four-year drought are creating the perfect conditions for devastating wildfires. But CAL FIRE says the majority of fires in their jurisdiction are preventable. That's because 95 percent are caused by people in some way.

Some areas in the Northstate will likely see more fire activity beginning Friday as thunderstorm systems move into the higher elevations. The National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for parts of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Burney basin, the Cascade Mountains, and Modoc and Siskiyou Counties. That goes into effect Friday afternoon. The watch could be increased to a red flag warning, depending on the thunderstorm activity.

At least 40 sheep killed by giant hailstones in Nisland, South Dakota

Colleen Brunner
Rapid City Journal
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 18:07 UTC

© Sean Ryan
Jim Mickelson Jr. scratches the head of one of his sheep while walking through a pasture Thursday afternoon at his farm east of Nisland. Mickelson lost around 30 lambs and 10 ewes during a hail storm June 19, but he still hasn’t been able to get a full head count of his sheep.

In addition to suffering extreme damage to their roofs, a shed and expensive farm equipment to giant hail stones that fell last week, the Mickelson family is still reeling from a more emotional and heart-wrenching loss.

The hail that was as large as softballs crashed down upon their farm near Nisland and directly killed or led to the death of around 30 head of lambs and 10 ewes.

The loss of the animals has also taken a huge financial toll, since the family operation run by Jim Mickelson Sr., Jim Mickelson Jr. and his wife, Deanna, had planned to take the lambs to the fattened stage.

Earlier this week, Jim Jr. said he had not yet been able to get out in the pasture to check the livestock he had there.

"There may be more dead out there that drifted in the wind and rain," he said. Many of those that perished were in the small lot just south of the couple's home.

Comment: See also: Huge hailstones pound Nisland, South Dakota

Wolf hybrid bites baby boy in Culpeper, Virginia

Allison Brophy Champion
The Star-Exponent
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:23 UTC

Hybrid wolf-dog

A wolf hybrid bit a 4-month-old boy in the abdomen Friday morning in eastern Culpeper County, requiring the infant be transported by helicopter for medical treatment.

The animal remained at large as of 8 p.m. Friday.

The reported incident occurred around 8:41 a.m. in the 30400 block of Eleys Ford Road in the Richardsville area, according to a sheriff's office news release.

After biting the baby, the wolf hybrid fled the scene, but then returned. It ran away again after the baby's grandfather shot at it and the animal was last seen traveling toward an open field.

The dog is a three-year old black-and-gray wolf-Husky hybrid last seen wearing two collars: one orange and one black.

Law enforcement searched for the animal Friday with the use of police K9. Residents were asked to keep children and pets inside.

While California is bone dry, Baltimore locks up wettest June on record

Jason Samenow
The Washington Post
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC

Baltimore's official weather reporting station - logged 0.41″ from the cloudburst, elevating its June total to 9.98″, the most on record for the month. That total is more than 7 inches above the average amount month-to-date. Records have been maintained in Baltimore since 1873. Wettest Junes on record in Washington, D.C. (Southeast Regional Climate Center)

Reagan National Airport - D.C.'s weather station - picked up 0.48″, boosting its June rainfall total to 9.18″ - more than 6 inches above normal. Washington has clinched at least its 5th wettest June on record (dating back to 1872) with four days to go. Month to date, it is the 3rd wettest June on record.

With 1-3″ of rain forecast between today and the close of the month, Baltimore will extend its record as D.C. moves up the June rankings. With 1″ of rain, it will become the 4th wettest June in D.C., with 2″ the 3rd wettest, and with 2.5″ the second wettest.

Farmer injured by hyena in Prakasam village, India

The New Indian Express
Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:12 UTC

Hyena

A 41-year-old farmer was seriously injured in an attack by a wild animal in Jillalamudi village of Kandukur mandal in Prakasam district on Friday morning. Initially, it was assumed that a leopard had attacked him, but later it was confirmed that it was not a leopard but a hyena.

B Narasimha Rao along with his family members was engaged in farm work at around 11 am when suddenly he was attacked by an animal that was of the size of a big dog with spots on its fur. Alerted by his screams, others in the field rushed to the spot shouting, which drove the animal away.

Rao, who suffered a deep gash on his thigh and scratches on arms and legs, was immediately rushed to the government hospital and later shifted to a private hospital in Guntur, where his condition was reported to be stable. Alerted by villagers, the Kandukur police rushed to the spot. At the same time, receiving the news of a wild animal attack, sub divisional DFO K Mohan Rao along with Ongole forest ranger T Venkata Rao and 20 forest guards rushed to the spot.

Residents nervous from sudden appearance of sinkholes in Port Richey, Florida neighborhood

Charles Billi
wtsp.com
Sat, 27 Jun 2015 11:48 UTC

WTSP has confirmed that the Neva Lane sinkhole situation involves one confirmed sinkhole and two depressions at the residence

Renee Phillips is packing up and leaving her home on Friday night. Reason? Two possible sinkholes. One in the backyard. One in the front.

Her elderly mother is dragging her suitcase out, too, her vacation visit to see her daughter becoming frightening.

Pasco County Fire Rescue officials say the ground under the house two doors down on Neva Lane in the Gulf Highlands subdivision may be the culprit.

"For the last few couple of days, crews were already working on filling a confirmed sinkhole on the property two doors down when a depression opened up under a foundation wall," said Fire Rescue Personnel Chief Andrew Fossa.

NOAA's own data reveals that global climate has cooled over 10 years

Warren Mass
New American
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC

Data from the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that the United States has undergone a cooling trend over the last decade.

This data contradicts a recently released report from a group of authors affiliated with NOAA and National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) that attempted to refute previous studies indicating that there had been a hiatus in global warming.

Anthony Watts, a former broadcast meteorologist and publisher of the science blog Watts Up With That?, compiled NOAA/USCRN data to use the agency's own statistics to refute the recent report ("Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus") by NOAA researchers claiming there has been no 15-year "hiatus" in global warming.

Comment: Authoritarian hoaxters and governmental climate false flag? As always, false flags are perpetrated to persuade the gullible public into a programmed mindset and course of action, never in the public's best interest however (that is the hoax part). Someone (who "owns" NOAA) is sitting back and chuckling "gotcha!" Will arresting folks for not accepting false data be their next desperate move?

Another 'freak' hail storm hits Australia

Kallee Buchanan and Scott Lamond
ABC Online
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 07:43 UTC

Central Queensland grain growers say a freak hail storm that left a town looking like a "white Christmas" is unlikely to hurt the winter plant.

The storm passed through the Monto area of the North Burnett, west of Bundaberg, at about midday yesterday, blanketing a narrow path with pea-sized hail stones that resembled snow.

It continued on to parts of the Capricornia district and Gladstone, where larger hail stones were reported.

Julie South, from the Mulgildie Pub, said it was a day locals would remember.

"Absolutely amazing, I don't think anybody in the town has seen this before, it's just like snow," she said.

"White Christmas coming early.

"There [was] just white 'snow' everywhere, everything was white, the fields were white, it was beautiful."

Chairman of the Monto Grain Cooperative, Lex Dow, said the storm was highly unusual.

'It was an unusual winter thunderstorm, a lot of thunder, it was two or three storms that sort of split up and went this way and that way," he said.

"There was a fair amount of hail just in a narrow strip about a kilometre wide that went across the from the west towards the east, across the Burnett Highway near Three Moon.

"It was nearly six inches thick on the bitumen for a kilometre or so, but it was only small sized hail, so I'm anticipating that any crops that were in its path, because they are still fairly young; only probably three, four, six inches high, that the damage will be minimum."

Comment: So much for the mainstream meteorological mantra - "unusual storm is unlikely to be repeated". Another 'freak' hailstorm hit Australia only a couple of weeks ago, which turned the desert around Alice Springs white!

To see just how extreme our weather is becoming world-wide, check out:

SOTT Earth Changes Summary - May 2015: Extreme Weather and Planetary Upheaval

Russian fishermen catch monster fish with reptile head and fossilized scales

RT.com
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:25 UTC

A mysterious fish featuring the head of reptile and petrified scales has reportedly been caught by fisherman in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk region.

The mutant fish was caught in a net in the Northern Dvina River near a ferry terminal in Bereznik-Osinovo, Arkhangelsk Oblast, local media reports.

The fishermen were unable to identify what kind fish it was. The creature's head reminds one of a tortoise and its scales are fossilized. It also has thorny needle-like barbs and a sucker.

Its appearance is a bit similar to the angler, a predatory European deep-sea fish. Some people say it may be a rabbit fish which, however, is also a sea-fish - not a river one. The mouth of the fish looks like that of a sterlet - but the whole fish is a far cry from it.

Fourth shark attack in a fortnight reported in North Carolina

The Guardian
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:18 UTC

An eight-year-old boy suffered minor injuries after being bitten by a shark on Wednesday while swimming in knee-deep water in Surf City, North Carolina.

Town manager Larry Bergman says the town does not plan to warn visitors about the shark bite or tell swimmers to get out of the water, but it has increased police beach patrols.

The Surf City incident is the fourth shark bite in shallow water off a North Carolina beach in the past two weeks.

"It really comes down to a joint decision on public safety officials, including myself," Bergman said. He said he would have decided to close the beaches "if there was a big hazard, if there was an imminent danger".

The town does not have an official lifeguarding staff, instead employing police officers and water-rescue-trained firefighters to patrol the beaches on four-wheelers. Beachgoers swim "kind of at their own risk", Bergman said.

He said some people have approached police officers after hearing about the bite on social media.

"News travels really fast," he said.

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Earth Changes

Worst wildfire season on record in California with 1,100 fires in the first six months

At least 40 sheep killed by giant hailstones in Nisland, South Dakota

Wolf hybrid bites baby boy in Culpeper, Virginia

While California is bone dry, Baltimore locks up wettest June on record

Farmer injured by hyena in Prakasam village, India

Residents nervous from sudden appearance of sinkholes in Port Richey, Florida neighborhood

NOAA's own data reveals that global climate has cooled over 10 years

Another 'freak' hail storm hits Australia

Russian fishermen catch monster fish with reptile head and fossilized scales

Fourth shark attack in a fortnight reported in North Carolina

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