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Lightning strikes kill two teenage boys in Thane, India


Outlook India
Wed, 24 May 2017 12:12 UTC
LIGHTNING
Two teenage boys were killed in separate incidents after lightning struck them in Murbad here, police said today.

According to district rural police, Murbad taluka experienced heavy thundershowers last evening, disrupting normal life.

In the first incident that occurred in Modal Wadai village, 15-year-old Sandeep Pokhla sustained serious burn injuries after lightning struck his house yesterday at around 5 pm, reducing it to ashes.

Sandeep succumbed while he was being taken to the nearby government hospital, police said.

In another incident, a 18-year-old boy, identified as Gotya Ugada died after lightning struck him while he was standing under the shade of a mango tree in Zadghar village.

Police have registered a case of accidental death in connection with both the incidents.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 41 in 5 months across Cambodia


Malaysian Digest
Wed, 24 May 2017 09:33 UTC
LIGHTNING
Forty-one Cambodians, mostly rural dwellers, had been killed by lightning strikes in the first five months of 2017, slightly up from 40 deaths over the same period last year, a spokesman said on Wednesday, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

Besides the fatalities, thunderbolts had injured 44 others during the January-May period this year, slightly down from 48 injuries over the same period last year, said Keo Vy, the spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management.

"Lightning strikes occur every year, especially during the rainy season (from May to October)," he told Xinhua, adding that "to avoid the dangers of lightning strikes, people should stay inside houses or shelters when there is rain."

In addition to lightning casualties, storms had also claimed two lives and injured 35 others during the first five months of 2017, the spokesman said.
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Bizarro Earth

14-year-old boy electrocuted in central Laredo, Texas during severe thunderstorm


LMTOnline
Tue, 23 May 2017 21:16 UTC
lightning in storm

Motorists drive on South Zapata Highway by the Sacred Heart Children's Home as a severe storm moves into the area Sunday, May 21, 2017. The storm brought heavy rain, hail and strong wind gusts.
A 14-year-old boy died Sunday after he came into contact with a downed power line in central Laredo, according to authorities.

Laredo police said Aldo Jordani Rojas was electrocuted in the 5300 block of Alabama Avenue, off East Hillside Road. He was an eighth-grade student at Clark Middle School

"UISD sends heartfelt condolences to the Rojas Lopez family," Clark Middle School Principal Melissa Ramirez said in a statement. "He was an excellent student who was well liked by his teachers and peers. This is a difficult time for everyone, but I know our students and staff will lean on each other as they fondly remember their classmate."
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Attention

Signs and Portents: Ewe gives birth to two-headed lamb in Boorowa, Australia


Boorowa News
Wed, 24 May 2017 20:48 UTC
sheep
When Boorowa farmer Robert Riles' ewe was having trouble giving birth to twins last Thursday, he believed an unusually large head on one of the unborn lambs was the problem.

"It was Thursday morning when I went down and I noticed she was having a lamb and I thought I'd give her a couple of hours, so I came to town, did my chores," Mr Riles said.

"I went back and she still didn't have it so I gave her another hour or two and it's no different. You could see she was uneasy and knew she was in trouble.

"I pulled it and it got to the shoulders and I couldn't pull it anymore, it was just too hard.
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Bizarro Earth

The San Andreas' sister faults are active in Northern California

David Jacobson
Temblor
Tue, 23 May 2017 20:12 UTC
Maacama Fault northern CA
© Trulia
The city of Ukiah, in Northern California sits right next to the Maacama Fault, which is capable of M=7.5 earthquakes and poses a significant threat to the region.
In California, when most people think about faults, their thoughts are immediately drawn to the San Andreas, and to a lesser extent, the Hayward Fault. However, in Northern California, there is almost no seismicity on the San Andreas. Instead, the majority of the earthquakes occur on faults that are parallel to and east of the San Andreas. These faults are part of the greater San Andreas system, and are capable of generating large magnitude earthquakes. Today, we thought we'd take a look at two of them.

The Maacama and Bartlett Spring faults lie approximately 50 km and 80 km east of the San Andreas respectively. All of these faults are members of the greater transform boundary between the Pacific and North American plates, a margin primarily composed of nearly pure right-lateral strike-slip faults. Both the Maacama and Bartlett Springs faults are known to be active based on seismicity and creep. Creep implies there is very slow, relatively continuous motion on a fault due to tectonic deformation. While faults that creep tend to not rupture in large earthquakes, the Hayward Fault running through the San Francisco East Bay creeps and has ruptured in M=7+ quakes. So, it is not a black and white rule.
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Bizarro Earth

Massive landslide buries California's iconic coastal Highway 1 under 40 feet of rock and dirt


SFGate
Tue, 23 May 2017 18:33 UTC
highway 1 landslide
© John Madonna, Associated Press
In this aerial photo taken Monday, May 22, 2017 provided by John Madonna showing a massive landslide along California's coastal Highway 1 that has buried the road under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt.
A massive new landslide along California's iconic coastal Highway 1 has buried the road under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt, the latest hit in winter of crippling slides and flooding.

A swath of the hillside gave way in an area called Mud Creek on Saturday night, covering about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) of road and changing the Big Sur coastline immediately below, Colin Jones, a spokesman with the California Department of Transportation, said Monday night.

"A massive slide. We've never seen anything like that," Jones said.

The state already had closed that part of Highway 1 to repair buckled pavement and remove debris after an earlier slide triggered by one of California's rainiest winters in decades.

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Ice Cube

Arctic ice melt - Fake news update

Paul Homewood
Not a lot of People Know That
Tue, 23 May 2017 18:49 UTC
Arctic Ice Melt
© Not A Lot of People Know That
Climate fraudsters would not be able to get away with their scam without the active support of the media.

Almost everyday there is some apocalyptic piece about the melting Arctic. If journalists bothered to check the facts, their headlines would be somewhat different.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills one, injures 29 at school in northwestern Thailand


Xinhua
Tue, 23 May 2017 17:41 UTC
lightning
One pupil was killed and 29 pupils and teachers were injured after lightning hit a school in Thailand's northwestern Tak province on Tuesday.

According to daily newspaper Thai Rath, the pupils and teachers of Ban Mae Klong Yai School were relaxing under a big tree outside their classroom when lightning hit the tree at about 3 p.m. local time.

The injured were rushed to a local hospital as they suffered numbness and temporary deafness.

A 12-year-old boy died of serious injury in an intensive care unit at the hospital.
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Nebula

Birkeland currents glowing in Earth's skies as the atmosphere electrifies further

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Tue, 23 May 2017 17:23 UTC
Steve
Just one month after "Steve" a new type of plasma streamer in glow mode due to strong electrification in Earth's atmosphere in April 2017, that never before observed phenomenon is back again, but this time the intensity is so strong that the field aligned currents are visible twisting in the skies. Follow that with ground to sky lightning and sprites, blue ionospheric lightning all while we still have a 6x increase in intensity ramp up into the grand solar minimum.


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Snowflake Cold

Increase in moss growth turning Antarctic Peninsula greener

Michelle Z. Donahue
National Geographic
Fri, 19 May 2017 14:25 UTC
antarctica moss
© Matt Amesbury
Icebergs dot the sea off the moss-covered coast of Green Island in Antarctica.
Rising temperatures have boosted the growth rates of seasonal moss on the southern continent over the last 50 years.

The icy landscape of Antarctica is getting decidedly greener.

By drilling down into layers of moss that have accumulated on the southern continent over the last 150 years, researchers discovered that those diminutive plants have done more growing than usual in the last five decades.

Comment: There could be many reasons this particular area of Antarctica is seeing greater moss growth. But it would be foolish to apply that to the entire planet. Other studies indicate the period of increased growth may be at an end.

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