Snow at Silver Star Ski Resort on June 10, 2018
BC was hit this past weekend with about a foot of snow in some areas, or for those of us using the metric system, anywhere from 22 - 40 cms of snow accumulated in parts of the province.
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Snow at Silver Star Ski Resort on June 10, 2018
BC was hit this past weekend with about a foot of snow in some areas, or for those of us using the metric system, anywhere from 22 - 40 cms of snow accumulated in parts of the province.
The three, all in their 20s, are among the seven persons killed in lightning strikes across the state on Sunday. Other than the hockey players, three were killed in Balasore and one in Mayurbhanj.
Those killed in the hockey match, which was being watched by a crowd of 700-800 villagers, have been identified as Rabi Narayana Tanty, Sumanat Gouda and Susanta Goudain.
Eyewitnesses said the victims had stopped the match midway and took shelter under a big banyan tree when it started to rain heavily.
The match was being played between the host village and a neighbouring village with a goat as the trophy.
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The roof of a detached house stands ablaze following a lightning strike.
The roof of a detached house stands ablaze following a lightning strike.
As flames tore through the home in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, residents in neighbouring properties watched and posted photos of the scene on social media.
The blaze could be seen burning through the roof.
The resident family - a couple and two children - managed to safely escape after neighbours alerted them to the blaze.
Comment: The nature of weather is changing and the danger associated with it is increasing:
- 'Mother of all thunderstorms': UK hit by up to 20,000 lightning strikes overnight
- France doubles its record with 182 000 lightning strikes in May, 4 killed in recent storms
- Nine people and over 120 animals killed by lightning strikes in just one month across Turkey
- Gamma rays from lightning creates anti-matter, crowd-funded discovery shows
- At least 14 people killed as 41,025 bolts of lightning strike in 16 hours across Andhra Pradesh, India
- Unusual outburst of red sprites during storm over Europe, and cosmic ray mapping expands
- Lightning strikes children in Paris and Germany, over 40 injured; bolt kills man in Poland
- Firefighters battle for second day three large wildfires which broke out in different areas of Scotland's west coast
A sailor spotted the unusual body floating in the water on Saturday outside Graal-Müritz, a picturesque town along the Baltic coast that is popular with tourists, and sounded the alert, according to Northern German Radio (NDR).
A team of rescue workers were then forced to use tractors and fire engines to drag the body of the whale, which is believed to be a young female, to the beach, which is in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and load it onto a truck to be towed away for a post mortem.
It is extremely rare for dead whales to wash up on German shores. Sometimes dead seals and porpoises can be spotted along the coastline, but a humpback whale is an "absolute exception," Timo Moritz, head of science at the German Maritime Museum, said on Sunday.
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The sky turns orange as lava flow covers a road near Pahoa on Hawaii's Big Island on Friday. Kilauea began erupting on May 3
The sky turns orange as lava flow covers a road near Pahoa on Hawaii's Big Island on Friday. Kilauea began erupting on May 3
Kilauea, on Hawaii's Big Island, first start erupting on May 3, resulting in lava oozing over residential communities and heading towards the Pacific Ocean. The lava first met the ocean on May 20.
While the lava flow has received lots of attention for destroying neighborhoods, it has also been quietly covering Hawaii's famed tide pools, hot springs and coastal waters, changing the shoreline in the process.
The patient was said to be surfing when he felt the bite.
Paramedics treated the patients lower left leg for a possible bite.
Ocean Safety is patrolling the area this morning and posting warning signs until tomorrow.
This is an unguarded beach. Federal lifeguards at next door White Plains are notified.
Fire chief Roman Clark confirmed the lightning strike happened near the tennis courts in Patterson Park Saturday afternoon.
"She just said that they got struck by lightening, just be careful," Ashley Blackford of Baltimore said.
Baltimore fire officials say the victims were transported to an area hospital with serious injuries.
"I mean, we've had rain for the last month. You just don't expect something horrible to happen from it," Kim Jolley of Baltimore said.
The identities of the victims or any other information has not been released.
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Red Sprites June 8, 2018 @ Nýdek, Czech republic
Red Sprites June 8, 2018 @ Nýdek, Czech republic
Sprite lightning storm over Europe
This weekend, a powerful mesoscale convective system (MSC) of thunderstorms over central Europe produced a furious outburst of sprites. "It was unreal," says Martin Popek of Nýdek, Czechia, a veteran photographer of the upward directed bolts. "I recorded more than 250 sprites in only 4.5 hours of observation! That's nearly as many as I typically see in the entire summer thunderstorm season."
This is a jellyfish sprite--so called because it resembles the eponymous sea creature. Jellyfish sprites are typically very large, stretching as much as 50 km between the tops of their heads to the tips of their tentacles below. "Regular jellyfish sprites are associated with very strong positive cloud-to-ground lightning strokes in the underlying convective storms," notes lightning scientist Oscar van der Velde of the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain.
However, not all of the jellyfish were regular. Some were "decapitated"--without heads. "I recorded about 20 sets of tentacles only," says Popek.
Here is one example of many:
Comment: We're seeing a surge of unusual phenomena on earth and in tandem similar changes are happening in our skies:
- Strange skies: Red Sprites in Oklahoma, aurora Steve in Canada, iridescent clouds in Illinois and noctilucent clouds in Denmark
- "Earth splits in two" - Huge fissures appears in the ground in Saudi Arabia (VIDEO)
- Floods Everywhere: Europe Battered By Sheets Of Rain, Hail and Thunderstorms
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Steaming from Great Sitkin Volcano as visible from the town of Adak (40 km or 25 miles to the SW).
Steaming from Great Sitkin Volcano as visible from the town of Adak (40 km or 25 miles to the SW).
Seismicity at Great Sitkin volcano was at elevated levels over the past 5 days, the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) reported 21:26 UTC on June 11, 2018.
This activity was followed by a signal at 19:39 UTC that may represent a short-lived steam explosion detected by seismic data.
AVO has thus raised the Aviation Color Code to Yellow and Alert Level to Advisory.
The last time the observatory raised Aviation Color Code to Yellow and Volcano Alert to Advisory was on November 22, 2017. The status was unchanged until January 18 of this year.
Comment: Volcanic acitivty appears to be on the rise:
- Guatemala warns of falling ash from Fuego volcano which is now covering half the country endangering crucial agricultural areas
- Yellowstone's Steamboat Geyser has now erupted eight times in less than three months intriguing scientists
- Experts scramble to keep an eye on long-dormant volcano in Iceland
- Russia's Hephaestus mud volcano erupts chucking muck hundreds of meters (VIDEO)
- 'Red notice' issued to airlines as Sinabung volcano eruption shoots ash 16,000ft in Indonesia (VIDEOS)
- Worldwide volcanic activity raises concerns of US West Coast's chain of 13 active volcanoes
Geologists say the earthquake was recorded at 8:59 a.m. Saturday about 16 miles (26 kilometers) east of Cherokee, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City. The earthquake was recorded at a depth of five miles (8 kilometers).
Comment: Fracking is likely to be a contributor to the quakes but it seems that geologic activity in general is on the rise:
- GARGANTUAN sinkhole swallows several cars and building is evacuated in Rome (VIDEO)
- Guatemala hit by eruption from SECOND volcano: Pacaya spews lava just miles from Fuego
- Monster cracks appear in the ground after landslide and heavy rains destroy over 100 buildings in Cusco, Peru (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
- More cracks reported in Kenya as Africa's geographical divide deepens
- "Earth splits in two" - Huge fissures appears in the ground in Saudi Arabia (VIDEO)
- Lava fountains, tremors, fissures, toxic fumes: Hawaii braces itself as Kilauea boils over in unusual outburst
Comment: Additionally across Asia over the last 2 days lightning strikes have killed 2 children in Pakistan, another 2 in Nepal and one individual in Calcutta, India.