Earth Changes

Global cooling: Record-setting early snowfall covers the top of Hokkaido mountain in Japan

Nobuyuki Yokota and Yoshimasa Abe
The Mainichi
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:54 UTC

An area near the peak of Mount Kurodake in central Hokkaido is covered with the first snow of the season in the early morning of Aug. 17, the earliest snowfall recorded since 1974.

© Rinyu Kanko Co.
An area near the peak of Mount Kurodake in central Hokkaido is covered with the first snow of the season in the early morning of Aug. 17, the earliest snowfall recorded since 1974.

Mount Kurodake in the town of Kamikawa in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido had its first snow of the season on Aug. 17, the earliest snowfall observed there since records began being kept in 1974.

The snow near the peak of the 1,984-meter-high mountain among the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group was more than a month earlier than last year's, which fell on Sept. 28.

The previous earliest snowfall date on record was Aug. 21, 2002. The average date is Sept. 18.

Comment: See also: August snowfall for resort in Georgia

'Get me out of the water' man yells following first shark attack in years at Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Noah Feit
The Island Packet
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:31 UTC

© Merrily Cassidy
A sign warns visitors to Long Nook Beach of recent shark sightings, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018 in Truro, Mass. A man swimming off Cape Cod was attacked by a shark on Wednesday and was airlifted to a hospital. It was the first shark attack on a human on the popular summer tourist destination since 2012.

A man was attacked by a shark while swimming off a Cape Cod beach Wednesday, and suffered what one witness called a "very serious" injury, Cape Cod Times reported.

A town official in Truro, where the attack occurred, said the 61-year-old man suffered "deep puncture wounds to the hip and torso area," and had to be taken to the hospital by helicopter, according to boston25news.com.

Before he was taken to a hospital in Boston, the man said he was standing in ocean water 30 yards from the Long Nook Beach when he was attacked by the shark, per WCVB.

There is no word on the man's condition, but the beach was closed after he was attacked at about 4:15 p.m., the Boston Globe reported.

3 killed by lightning bolt in Jharkhand, India

The Indian Express
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:04 UTC

Three persons including a couple were killed after being struck by lightning at a village in Khunti district, a district official said Friday.

A woman was also injured in the lightning strike at Tirilpidi village Thursday, the official said.

The victims have been identified as Sunil Bhengra (30) his wife Sushma Bhengra (28) and Paulina Bhengra (25).

The couple and their relatives - Paulina Bhengra and Asran Bhengra - were working in a paddy field when rain accompanied by thunderbolt hit the area Thursday afternoon, Khunti Sub-Divisional Officer, Pranav Kumar Paul said.

Comment: Also in the past week across India lightning strikes have killed 6 in Bihar and 4 in Odisha.

2 French rivers disappear - Geologists suspect through cracks in the ground

Strange Sounds
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:00 UTC

The Doubs river flows normally in Franche-Comté, France. But since about a week or so, the river has totally dried up over a length of more than 1 km, between Pontarlier and Morteau, although precipitation has been abundant this winter and spring. The river has disappeared, and with it, the fauna and flora. Everything is dead. Two weeks ago, 13km of the Risle River in Normandy also disappeared underground in a large crater. According to geologists, this unprecedented event is due to large cracks and craters in the riverbed.

The cave of Remonot is located near the village of Morteau along the Doubs. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, this Chapel-Cave contains miraculous water and is visited each year on August 15, 2018, day of the Assumption. But during this year's annual pilgrimage, the cave was dry! The first time ever!

Nearby, the Doubs river is also dry. No water, just pebbles and dead fish.

Comment: It's true that winter and spring brought double the average rainfall to France, but it wasn't just France, huge swathes of Europe were flooded. Summer is here and this time vast stretches of the northern hemisphere are experiencing unprecedented drought leading to massive crop failures. But the issue of disappearing bodies of water is seemingly due to another phenomena: Sinkholes: The groundbreaking truth

Also check out SOTT's monthly documentary: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - July 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

Very shallow M6.4 earthquake hits Ogasawara region, Japan - preceded by another mag 6 just a minute earlier

The Koz Telegram
Fri, 17 Aug 2018 01:14 UTC

Off the coast of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter scale.

Strong fluctuations recorded in the U.S. geological survey (USGS).

According to the report on their website, the epicenter of the earthquake was located at a depth of 11 kilometres, approximately 420 kilometres South-East of the village of Ogasawara.

According to preliminary data, victims and destructions, these tremors did not cause. Tsunami threat to local services is also not announced.

In notifications about emergencies that send Google, specified, in addition to Japan, the tremors could also be felt in the territory of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific ocean.

Comment: From Earthquake Track:

6.0 magnitude earthquake
about 19 hours ago
UTC time: Thursday, August 16, 2018 18:21 PM
Your time: Thursday, August 16 2018 7:21 PM
Magnitude Type: mb
USGS page: M 6.0 - 263km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 0 people

A minute later came the larger quake:

6.4 magnitude earthquake
about 18 hours ago
UTC time: Thursday, August 16, 2018 18:22 PM
Your time: Thursday, August 16 2018 7:22 PM
Magnitude Type: mww
USGS page: M 6.4 - 252km SE of Iwo Jima, Japan
USGS status: Reviewed by a seismologist
Reports from the public: 0 people

No earthquake recorded in New South Wales, Australia, despite reports of rumbling

Liz Langdale
Camden Haven Courier
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:30 UTC

A Geoscience Australia spokesperson says there were no seismic events recorded for the area, despite residents reporting tremor-like activity on Tuesday, August 14.

Around lunchtime residents from locations including the Camden Haven, Redbank, King Creek, Rosewood and Wauchope reported feeling their houses shake and some heard a loud rumble noise.

A spokesperson from the Department of Defence said a single F/A-18 Hornet was conducting a navigational flight from RAAF Base Williamtown in the region on August 14.

The spokesperson said the aircraft flew over during the lunchtime period.

However the spokesperson said fast jets are authorised for supersonic flight no less than 37 kilometres (20 nautical miles) out to sea from the coastline.

Thousands displaced as rivers continue to rise in Colombia and Venezuela

Richard Davies
FloodList
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:43 UTC

Thousands in Colombia and Venezuela continue to be affected by flooding from several rivers including the Orinoco, Caroní and Inírida rivers. Flooding first struck in June but worsened after a period of heavy rain in July.

Venezuela

In Venezuela, authorities said that a red alert has been declared on the Orinoco and Caroní rivers where flooding has reached historical levels.

The government says aid and relief operations have been deployed in the states of Amazonas, Delta Amacuro, Apure, Monagas, Guárico, Bolívar and Táchira.

Four interesting events in the tropics over the past week

Linda Lam and Brian Donegan
The Weather Channel
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 17:57 UTC

Several interesting things caught our eye in the tropics in the past week, including Hurricane Hector's length of time as major hurricane in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Debby's formation in the Atlantic Ocean, an active eastern half of the Pacific Ocean and Typhoon Shanshan's scrape with Japan.

Below, we'll go into greater detail about each of these notables.

Hurricane Hector Sets Record in Northeastern Pacific Ocean

Hurricane Hector passed well south of the Big Island of Hawaii on Wednesday as a major hurricane, one classified as Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Hector generated high surf and breezy conditions on the Big Island, with no more than a few outer rain showers scraping portions of that island.

As of Saturday morning, Hector was still maintaining Category 3 intensity about 1,000 miles west of Hawaii. That means it had been a major hurricane for at least 7.5 consecutive days, the longest duration any hurricane in the northeastern Pacific Basin has held that intensity, according to Colorado State University tropical scientist Dr. Phil Klotzbach.

Earth undergoing unexplained major cooling event - scientists ignore it

Javier
Watt's Up With That
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:33 UTC

A most remarkable climate phenomenon is taking place under our very noses without anybody paying attention to it.

As nearly everybody knows, the planet is warming. Since its short-term rate of temperature change hasn't changed much, the warming is essentially accomplished because the planet spends less time cooling than warming. Therefore, periods of cooling have become shorter and result in less cooling.

In the figure below, we can see the top 10 biggest periods of cooling in terms of temperature decrease since 1950. The data used is a 13-month centered average of the monthly HadCRUT 4.6 global dataset found here.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:16 UTC

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Earth Changes

Global cooling: Record-setting early snowfall covers the top of Hokkaido mountain in Japan

'Get me out of the water' man yells following first shark attack in years at Cape Cod, Massachusetts

3 killed by lightning bolt in Jharkhand, India

2 French rivers disappear - Geologists suspect through cracks in the ground

Very shallow M6.4 earthquake hits Ogasawara region, Japan - preceded by another mag 6 just a minute earlier

No earthquake recorded in New South Wales, Australia, despite reports of rumbling

Thousands displaced as rivers continue to rise in Colombia and Venezuela

Four interesting events in the tropics over the past week

Earth undergoing unexplained major cooling event - scientists ignore it

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: How fast the climate is going to change from 2019-2021 - A forecast

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