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Severe hailstorm brings winter to Barrhaven, Ontario

Blair Crawford
Ottawa Citizen
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:59 UTC
Sudden hail storm, June 28,2017. Shot in Manotick
© Julie Oliver
Sudden hail storm, June 28,2017. Shot in Manotick
Environment Canada has ended a severe thunderstorm warning for the Ottawa area.

The news release had also stated that hail of two to three centimetres in diameter was possible in Kanata, Ottawa North and Orléans.

The warning had been issued at 5 p.m., even though an brief, intense summer storm had already pelted parts of Barrhaven with hail on Wednesday afternoon.

The icy burst lasted about three minutes, but covered parts of the suburb in icy, pea-sized pellets.

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Snake bites, though rare, are on the rise in US

Susan Scutti
CNN
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:35 UTC
Eastern Cottonmouth
Meg Trammell, age 11, had just eaten suppera fter her first day of school at Advent Episcopal School in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. "My mom and I decided to take the dogs on a walk," recalled Meg, now 12 years old, as she described the late mid-August evening in the suburbs of Birmingham. "As we were walking out, I heard something jingle in the door, so I turned around and it was my mother's car keys from when we took in the groceries," said Meg. Ignoring the keys, she continued down the steps, pulled by dogs eager for a romp in the yard.

The front stoop is just two steps leading down from the front door, said her mother Suzanne Scott-Trammell. Azalea bushes bookend the steps of the house, which sits on a lawn in front of a creek that runs through the town, home to 33,000.

"I felt something sting my toe," said Meg, who was wearing sandals at the time. "I immediately started crying. I thought: 'A snake bit me and I'm gonna die!'"
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'Crazy weather': Waterspout seen over Hudson, Florida


98.5 QYK
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:34 UTC
Waterspout over Hudson, FL
© Tish Korengel
Wow... weather got pretty crazy tonight around Tampa Bay. Check out this video Steve Garner got with his cell phone of a waterspout that formed in Hudson.

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Cloud Precipitation

Severe storms leave flooding in Rockford, Illinois

Steve Kahn
WGN
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:26 UTC
Rockford IL flooding radar
© NOAA
Heavy rain pounded the Rockford area Wednesday night. Tornado warnings were issued and severe thunderstorms dropped torrential rainfall across portions of north central Ilinois Wednesday evening with severe flooding reported in around Rockford. Numerous cars were stranded, viaducts are flooded and Kent Creek is out of its banks.

Many basements are flooded as the heavy rainfall continues. Doppler estimates indicate that 3 to upwards of 5 inches of rain have already fallen in the area. The Rockford Airport has measured 2.37 inches within two hours with the rain still falling.
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Sun

Sensational sun halo hovers over Bangkok, Thailand


Coconuts Bangkok
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:23 UTC
Sun halo over Bangkok
© Macutd/Twitter
At around 10am today, Bangkok witnessed a sun halo, a phenomenon in which a full 360 degree rainbow is seen encircling the sun.

Netizens tweeted pictures of the beautiful rainbow from many corners of Bangkok this morning.

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Teenager is 48th victim of lightning this year in Cambodia

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:22 UTC
LIGHTNING
A 14-year-old boy from Battambang was struck and killed by lightning in Sangke district on Tuesday afternoon as he was walking to tend to his parents' rice field with his three siblings, local authorities said yesterday.

Ran Saroeut, O'Dambang II commune police chief, identified the victim as Chhoem Phearun, from Tuol Lvieng village. "At the site, we found the boy's body with burn marks, and his hair was burned as well. The body was [laying] on its chest in the rice field," he said.

The death is the 48th this year, as of yesterday, said Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management.

Of those victims, 14 were women. Forty-nine people have suffered nonfatal injuries from lightning strikes, while 50 head of cattle have been killed.
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From Japan to Germany, the world's newly-formed islands revealed

Sadie Whitelocks
Daily Mail
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:48 UTC
For more than a month an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean spewed ash and magma to the surface, and high into the air. This build-up created a new island, just off the coast of Tonga, in a region known as the Ring of Fire

For more than a month an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean spewed ash and magma to the surface, and high into the air. This build-up created a new island, just off the coast of Tonga, in a region known as the Ring of Fire
These newly-formed islands emerging from plumes of smoke and bubbling magma reveal how the earth's surface is constantly changing.

Over the past decade, several significant land masses have been confirmed, most recently a sandbar off the coast of North Carolina nicknamed Shelly Island.

Scroll down for some of the newest places making their marks on the map, with many more set to be discovered...

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Cloud Grey

Dramatic 'line of clouds' captured over Puget Sound, Washington

Scott Sistek
KOMO News
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:45 UTC
Line clouds over Puget Sound, WA
© Jerry Erickson
Tuesday evening not only brought a gorgeous sunset, but also a rather peculiar looking cloud that piqued the interest of several residents out enjoying the evening.
(Tuesday) night just before sunset at our house in Shoreline..., I noticed that there was this very dramatic line of clouds across the entire sky from west to east, with the sky covered in clouds to the south of the line," wrote Jerry Erickson. "To the north of the clouds it was clear. Later the cloud formation moved to the south. I have never seen something like this before with such a clean edge of clouds.
Indeed you can in photos the dramatic edge to the clouds. What was up?
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Sun

The sun is set to 'change form,' says NASA

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:35 UTC
solar minimum image
© NASA
During a solar minimum, certain types of activity, such as sunspots and solar flares will drop - but NASA also expects the development of long-lived phenomena including coronal holes.

The sun's magnetic field weakens during solar minimums, thus providing less shielding to the earth. With our protective shield thus weakened, the number of galactic cosmic rays that reach the earth's upper atmosphere increases.

The video is from NASA.

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Unique pink grasshopper seen in the Netherlands

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:30 UTC
Pink grasshopper
© Natuurmonument/Twitter
Pink locust spotted in Oisterwijk, 27 Jun 2017.
Forester Wim Hoogstraaten from Oisterwijk almost couldn't believe his eyes when he spotted a bright pink grasshopper at the visitors' center of Natuurmonumenten in Oisterwijk on Tuesday. Luckily he got over his shock quickly enough to snap a picture.

Forester Frans Kapteijns describes the pink grasshopper as a "very special species", and very rare in the province of Noord-Brabant. "You mostly see them in limestone areas", he said to Omroep Brabant.

According to Natuurmonumenten, a nature conservation organization in the Netherlands, the pink color is very rare. The phenomenon is called erythrism, and is comparable to albinism in humans.
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