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'Upside-down rainbow' seen in Newcastle, UK sky

Sean Seddon
Chronicle Live
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 16:00 UTC
Circumzenithal arc over Newcastle
© Lewis Maudlin
Anybody spot an upside-down rainbow in the sky over Newcastle?

The phenomenon occurred over the city on Saturday evening and luckily someone got a picture.

Lewis Maudlin, 24, from Wallsend, was playing pool at his girlfriend's house in Walker when he clocked the uncommon sight.

He said: "It was lovely night, still dead sunny and clear after 7pm.
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Snowflake Cold

Global cooling: Summer solstice is approaching, but snow has piled up across the US Northwest this weekend

Angela Fritz
The Washington Post
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:28 UTC
Logan Pass at Glacier National Park in Montana.
© National Park Service
Logan Pass at Glacier National Park in Montana.
While the East simmered in humid summer weather this weekend, the Northwest got a flashback of winter.

Several inches of snow fell across Idaho and Montana over the weekend, turning places like Big Sky Resort and Glacier National Park into a winter wonderland in spite of the calendar.

On Saturday the National Weather Service warned that winter conditions would affect outdoor recreation. Across the high elevations of the Northwest, the snow plows had to be pulled from their summer hibernation.

What makes this even more interesting is the heat on the other side of Montana on Saturday. As an upper-level trough approached, winds from the south pushed temperatures into the 90s across Central Montana. Scattered, summertime thunderstorms popped up in the warm, humid air.
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Snowflake

Global cooling: Areas of British Columbia receive up to 15 inches of snow in JUNE

Elizabeth Keith
Narcity
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:03 UTC
SNOW

Snow at Silver Star Ski Resort on June 10, 2018
Welcome to Canada where seasons mean nothing and the weather changes in the blink of an eye. The latest victim of Canada's unpredictable weather patterns is none other than our western most province, British Columbia.

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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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 3 at hockey match in Odisha, India

Rajesh Mohanty
The Telegraph India
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:38 UTC
lightning
Lightning killed three persons during a hockey match at Sagbahal village in Talsara police limits, nearly 80km from here, on Sunday.

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.

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.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike burns house down in Scotland

Mattha Busby
Independent
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:11 UTC
House destroyed by fire after lightning strike in Scotland
© @impaulharper
The roof of a detached house stands ablaze following a lightning strike.
A lightning strike set a house on fire which went on to destroy the property near Glasgow.

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: For more information on our changing planet, check out SOTT radio's: Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?

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Attention

Humpback whale washes up on German beach

Abby Young-Powell
The Telegraph (UK)
Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:11 UTC
whale
The body of a 26 foot long humpback whale has washed ashore outside a small seaside town in northern Germany, shocking scientists and a crowd of curious onlookers.

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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Bizarro Earth

Hell on Earth! Hawaii volcano eruptions will affect marine and wildlife for decades

Maxine Shen
Daily Mail
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
sky after Hawaii volcano eruption
© Reuters
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 Hawaii volcano eruption is expected to impact the state's marine and animal life for decades as the environment changes in the wake of the lava flow.

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.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Surfer in serious condition after possible shark bite off Honolulu, Hawaii


kitv.com
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:58 UTC
shark attack
Honolulu EMS responded to a possible shark bite Saturday morning.

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.

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Cloud Lightning

Three people struck by lightning at Patterson Park, Baltimore


cbslocal.com
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:49 UTC
lightning
Two kids and one adult have been struck by lightning, according to Baltimore fire officials.

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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Cloud Lightning

Unusual outburst of red sprites during storm over Europe, and cosmic ray mapping expands


Sapce Weather
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:44 UTC
Red Sprites
© Martin Popek
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: For more, check out SOTTs monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - April 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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