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Earth Changes
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It looks like a rainbow, but it is actually called a circumhorizontal arc.
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Monarch Pass, August 4, 2017
Monarch Pass, August 4, 2017
Case in point? These photos of Monarch Pass. Yup - it's kinda snowy up there! And the pics are from Aug. 3. That's in the summer.
Brad Shilling lives in Gunnison and took the photos en route to the seasonal state swim championship in Lamar. When they got to the top of the pass, Shilling says rain turned into freezing hail, and then pea-sized hail.
Other cars started to fishtail and lose control in what he described as "slush-snow-rain."
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It's no super hero, but it is super cool and more common than you might think.
The atmosphere is made up of all kinds of gases. The one that we see the most is water vapor in the form of clouds, fog, and precipitation. At high levels of the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere where are weather happens, it is cold enough to freeze some of that water vapor to make clouds out of ice crystals.
When the sun's light passes through these crystals it gets refracted, or bent like light through a prism. That refraction spreads out the different colors of sunlight so we see them all.
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A funnel cloud spotted in Leduc on Saturday.
A funnel cloud spotted in Leduc on Saturday.
Early Saturday afternoon, a severe thunderstorm warning, including the potential for funnel clouds, was issued for Edmonton and the surrounding cities of Sherwood Park and St. Albert.
Funnel clouds were seen in the area, and Edmonton was hit with large amounts of hail in various parts of the city. Other parts flooded.
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A task force set up to patrol the area will shoot monkeys if necessary, although traps will also be used to return others to the forest.
The long-tailed macaques have been growing increasingly bold in their interactions with humans in the Boyolali district of Central Java, north of the city of Solo.
"The monkeys had started coming here two months ago," said police chief Aries Andhi. "After we shot one of them, the rest didn't come back. Now they are back again."
A task force set up to patrol the area will shoot monkeys if necessary, he said, although traps will also be used to return others to the forest.
"As long as they don't disturb the villagers, we won't shoot them," said Andhi.
According to GeoScience Australia, the quake struck in the extremely remote area of the vast state near Sturt Creek, close to Northern Territory border, around 12.21pm AWST (2.21pm AEST). Preliminary information has the tremor measuring in at a strong magnitude 5.1.
This, however, is likely to be either downgraded or upgraded once all data has been analysed. GeoScience Australia estimates that the quake could have felt by people up to 187km away and could have caused damage within a 15km radius.
A video has found its way into the collective consciousness of the internet showing a Croisières de France cruise liner being violently struck by lightning and then bursting into flames followed by a billow of thick black smoke.
The video—taken from another cruise ship, the MSC Precioza—is equal parts terrifying and enjoyable to watch numerous times. The fact that it stayed hidden for years after it was filmed is maybe the most amazing part.
It's important to note that the ship was docked. No one was hurt. Things were taken care of immediately, and the ship didn't appear to sustain any lasting damage. The only thing that may have broken was the internet when this video started making the rounds.
Police and emergency services were called to Orsa Rovdjurspark at 10:30 on Friday morning after one of the zookeepers was attacked and seriously injured. The man, who was born in 1998, received medical attention at the scene but later died of his injuries.
The CEO of the company that owns the park explained that the attack took place during a special activity for guests, where people get to go into an enclosure with the zookeepers. The enclosure was supposed to be empty, but the bear managed to get in. Police believe it may have dug its way in.
"First and foremost I want to say that this is a difficult day. I'm thinking about my colleague and his family a lot. It started out as a normal day, a family had booked the activity and normal routines were followed. I'll leave it to the police to work out what went wrong," the park's head Sven Brunberg said at a press conference on Friday.
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A flooded road in Eslöv, Skåne.
A flooded road in Eslöv, Skåne.
Earlier this week national forecaster SMHI issued a class one weather warning (the least serious on a scale from one to three) for heavy rain in Skåne, noting that there was a risk of stormwater drains overflowing and cellars flooding, and their prediction proved to be accurate.
According to preliminary figures from the forecaster as much as 36 millimetres of rain fell in some parts of Skåne on Thursday.
One video by local newspaper Sydsvenskan showed cars ploughing through deep water on a main road.
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