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Freak hailstorm hits Koolyanobbing, Western Australia

Adam Poulsen
WA Today
Fri, 12 May 2017 10:02 UTC
Koolyanobbing was hammered with hail on Thursday morning
© Ronnie Canning
Koolyanobbing was hammered with hail on Thursday morning
The Wheatbelt mining town of Koolyanobbing has experienced a spectacular hail storm, transforming it into a wintry dreamscape.

Incredible photos of the aftermath of Thursday morning's storm have surfaced on Facebook, and show thick layers of ice on the ground in scenes more reminiscent of a ski field than the Australian outback.

Ronnie Canning, who posted the photos to facebook and has worked at the local iron ore mine for ten years, said he hadn't seen anything like it.

"It all happened pretty quick to tell you the truth, it escalated quite quickly. It all happened within about ten minutes, so it was quite loud and noisy really," Mr Canning said.
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Attention

Dead minke whale found on beach in Alnmouth, UK

James Willoughby
Northumberland Gazette
Fri, 12 May 2017 09:21 UTC
The minke whale.

The minke whale.
A dead minke whale has been washed up on a Northumberland beach.

The creature was discovered at Alnmouth yesterday. Experts have described it as being an incredibly underweight juvenile and about 4.25metres in length. The cause of death is unknown at this stage.

Jane Hardy, from Alnwick, is a volunteer marine mammal medic for British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and she arrived at the scene at just after 6pm.

She told the Gazette last night: "I am sad to say that I was called out to a minke whale on Alnmouth beach. It was first reported at 5.30pm. Amble Coastguards assisted the BDMLR and samples were being taken. It was dead when it breached, but the cause of death is unknown. It was an incredibly underweight juvenile.

"Coastguards were trying to organise to move it further up the beach so the next tide didn't take it."
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Cloud Precipitation

Canada floods: Kelowna braces for worst flooding on record

Blaine Gaffney
Globalnews.ca
Wed, 10 May 2017 16:24 UTC
Ellison Lake flooding
© GARY NYLANDER/The Daily Courier / PNG
Residents with houses along Duck Lake, also known as Ellison Lake, are seeing water creep up to the edges of their property.
It's being called "the perfect storm" and it could lead to thousands of people being evacuated in Kelowna later this week.

The triple-whammy of above normal snow pack levels and already saturated ground in the mountains, warming temperatures and forecasted heavy rainfall could combine to create a once-in-200 year flood event in the city.

"We are planning for the worst and hoping for he best," says Emergency Operations Centre director Brian Reardon. "Citizens should be doing the same. Last week's flooding may prove to be just a dress rehearsal for a much larger event "

He says upwards of 2,500 Kelowna residents could have to leave their homes.

Reardon advises people living in low-lying areas near water courses to start sandbagging now and to prepare a grab-bag of essential items should they be evacuated for an extended period.

About 100 forests ministry personnel will be in the city later Wednesday to help with sandbagging.

"Today is a call to action," says Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran. "This is a serious issue heading our way we need to be prepared."

Comment: Record precipitation levels threaten to trigger widespread flooding in Canada



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Attention

Small earthquake shakes Seattle area days after swarm near Kitsap Peninsula

Bob Young
Seattle Times
Thu, 11 May 2017 12:21 UTC
Kitsap earthquake map
After more than a dozen earthquakes, including two early Thursday, struck around the Kitsap Peninsula since early May, another small temblor off Whidbey Island shook the Seattle area

After two earthquakes early Thursday, part of a swarm of minor quakes that have struck the Kitsap Peninsula, another earthquake was detected at 10:56 a.m. off Whidbey Island.

The first quake hit at 12:34 a.m. Thursday, with a magnitude of 3.6 and an epicenter 3.4 miles from Bremerton, according to the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN). More than 700 people reported to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) that they felt some intensity of shaking in places from Vashon Island to Bellevue to Lynnwood.

The second, smaller temblor came at 2:36 a.m., with a magnitude of 2.6 and an epicenter 2.1 miles from Bremerton.

Comment: 20 small earthquakes strike near Kitsap Peninsula, Washington

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 3 in Habiganj, Bangladesh


en.prothom-alo.com
Thu, 11 May 2017 20:14 UTC
Lightning
Three people were killed and another was injured in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Baniachang and Nabiganj upazilas of Habiganj on Thursday, reports UNB.

Mozammel Haque, officer-in-charge of Baniachang police station, said Madhu Mia, 45, of Baghhata village in Baniachang upazila was killed on the spot when a thunderbolt struck him amid rain around 10 am.

In another incident, Anhat Ali, 18, of Haldarpur village in the same upazila, was killed when a thunderbolt hit him while he was returning home in the morning.

Besides, a streak of thunderbolt struck Kimmot Ali, 52, and Walidur Rahman of Ramganj village in Nabiganj upazila while they were working on a filed in the morning, leaving them seriously injured.

They were taken to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital where doctors declared Kimmot Ali dead.
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Cloud Lightning

19 sheep and dog killed by lightning bolt in Karnataka, India


The Hindu
Fri, 12 May 2017 20:06 UTC
Lightning
Mid-summer rain accompanied by gusty winds and hailstorm created havoc in Yadgir district on Thursday.

As many as 19 sheep and a dog were killed after being struck by lightning in Halegera village in Yadgir taluk.

The sheep belonged to Hanumantha of Halagera. The incident occurred when they were grazing.

At least 50 bags of paddy stored in a house were damaged completely.

About 50 kg of wheat and jowar flour was completely soaked after rainwater entered the flour mill after a tin-shed was blown away in Sagar village in Shahapur taluk of the district, according to Mahadevappa Halli, owner of the flour mill.
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Cloud Precipitation

Floods kills 14, displace thousands in Kenya; 9 inches of rain in 24 hours for Mombasa

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Wed, 10 May 2017 18:46 UTC
The flooding Mbadi River.
© Kenya Red Cross
The flooding Mbadi River.
Torrential rain has caused deadly flooding and landslides in southern and eastern parts of Kenya. According to WMO, 235 mm of rain fell in Mombasa in a 24 hour period between 08 and 09 May, 2017.

At least 6 people have died in Mombasa as a result of the heavy rain. Mombasa Governor H.E Hassan Ali Joho, said via Social Media, "I am deeply saddened by the death of six people who were crushed by a perimeter wall which collapsed near Mbaraki Primary due to heavy rains."

He added, "Let's all exercise great caution at this time. There have been higher than expected rains and this poses unusual stress on our infrastructure."

Local media report that over 5000 people in Taveta, Taita Taveta County near the Kenya coast have been displaced by flooding and heavy rain. Local Red Cross said that over 900 families were affected.

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Attention

Grizzly bear attacks, injures man near Cody, Wyoming

Christine Peterson
Casper Star Tribune
Thu, 11 May 2017 18:37 UTC
Bear attack
A grizzly bear attacked and injured a man looking for shed antlers Tuesday northwest of Cody, according to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

The man was bitten on his arm and leg, but none of the wounds were punctures or required serious medical attention, said Brian DeBolt, large carnivore conflict coordinator for Game and Fish.

"Luckily, it was real minor injuries considering he was attacked by a bear," DeBolt said.

The man told Game and Fish officials that he was walking through a hilly, timbered area when he surprised the bear, which was likely on a day bed. The bear briefly attacked and then fled, DeBolt said.

The man walked to his vehicle and drove himself to a hospital.

Game and Fish officials will not look for the bear, as they do in some attacks, because the bear was acting naturally.
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Bizarro Earth

Earthquake magnitude 5.4 along the Tashkurgan Fault takes lives in western China

David Jacobsen
Temblor
Thu, 11 May 2017 18:34 UTC
village of Kuziguncun,
© Li Jing/Xinhua via AP
In the village of Kuziguncun, 3 km north of the epicenter of today’s earthquake, many buildings collapsed. What is evident from this picture is that poor build quality was a major factor in why there was so much damage in a M=5.4 quake.
A M=5.4 earthquake at 5:58 a.m. local time (11 May 2017) struck western China's Taxkorgan county, along the border with Tajikistan. The earthquake collapsed 180 buildings and homes, and killing at least eight people, and injuring 23. According to the USGS, severe shaking was felt close to the epicenter, in what is a mountainous, sparsely populated region of China. This shallow (10 km) earthquake was primarily a normal faulting (extensional) event, though there was a very small component of strike-slip movement. But due to the remoteness of this quake, reports are still coming in as search and rescue continues.

Despite the small size and modest shaking of the M=5.4 mainshock, the poor building quality in the region meant structures were susceptible to collapse, especially close to the epicenter (see picture below). In this portion of western (Xinjiang) China, the majority of homes are made of wood, mud bricks, or rock. This illustrates how important construction quality is to earthquake resilience. Here, buildings were reduced to rubble, resulting in fatalities.
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Ice Cube

'Global Warming Surprises'

Dr. Fred Singer
Watts Up With That?
Thu, 11 May 2017 17:23 UTC
earth on fire

Guest essay by Dr. Fred Singer

Exploring some of the intricacies of GW [Global Warming] science can lead to surprising results that have major consequences. In a recent invited talk at the Heartland Institute's ICCC-12 [Twelfth International Conference on Climate Change], I investigated three important topics:

1. Inconsistencies in the surface temperature record.

2. Their explanation as artifacts arising from the misuse of data.

3. Thereby explaining the failure of IPCC to find credible evidence for anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

A misleading graph

In the iconic picture of the global surface temperature of the 20th century [fig 1, top] one can discern two warming intervals — in the initial decades (1910-42) and in the final decades, 1977 to 2000.

Although these two trends look similar, they are really quite different: the initial warming is genuine, but the later warming is not. What a surprise! I wouldn't exactly call it 'fake,' but it just does not exist; I try to demonstrate this difference as an artifact of the data-gathering process, by comparing with several independent data sets covering similar time intervals.
Fig 1 20th century temps; top—global; bottom– US

Fig 1 20th century temps; top—global; bottom– US
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