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The footage was uploaded to social media and has since gone viral, garnering more than 7,000 views in less than 24 hours.
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The footage was uploaded to social media and has since gone viral, garnering more than 7,000 views in less than 24 hours.
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An adult ivory gull, pure white with yellow tip on black bill, sits in the parking lot at the Lake County Fairgrounds on Jan. 3, 2018.
An adult ivory gull, pure white with yellow tip on black bill, sits in the parking lot at the Lake County Fairgrounds on Jan. 3, 2018.
Known throughout the nation as a gull expert and the administrator of the North American Gulls Facebook page, Ayyash of Orland Park has found plenty of rare gulls for birders to look at.
Still, Ayyash said it was pure luck that he discovered on a bitterly cold January day a very rare, small, all-white gull that flew into the parking lot and landed next to his car near several other much more common gull species called herring gulls.
Ivory gulls nest in Russia, Greenland and Canada, and, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, spend winter on icy waters north of Newfoundland. The gull's population is estimated to be at the most 27,000 individuals in the world, according to Birdlife International.
"It's a dream bird," said Ayyash. "It's one of the holy grails. There are not a lot of people who get the chance to find their own ivory gull in the lower 48 states."
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Infrared image of Winter Storm Grayson collected on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
Infrared image of Winter Storm Grayson collected on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.
Update: Preliminary analyses from NOAA/NWS Weather Prediction Center as of midday Thursday show that Grayson deepened by an incredible 59 millibars in just 24 hours, which would be a record for midlatitude storms in this part of the Northwest Atlantic. The central pressure at 10 AM EST was analyzed by WPC at 951 mb.
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- "Bomb cyclone" Storm Grayson brings travel mayhem, high winds and icy flooding to US northeast - UPDATE
- 15k New Yorkers lose heat, airports close amid 'very serious storm'
- Storm Eleanor causes havoc across Europe, gusts of 100mph/161kmh reported
- Record flooding unleashed in Massachusetts as Winter Storm Grayson hammers Northeast U.S.
Residents examine a crack in the ground after a mysterious bang in Alberta Beach, Alta., Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018
Some residents of a village west of Edmonton awoke earlier this week to a very loud bang, and in the morning they reported cracks in homes and the ground.
Alberta Beach mayor Jim Benedict says people thought something had hit their houses -- or that something had fallen on their houses -- very early Tuesday morning.
Alberta Energy Regulator spokesman Jordan Fitzgerald says staff at the regulator's Alberta Geological Survey confirm there were two seismic events of approximately 2.0 magnitude late Monday night.
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The European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) has put the strength of the tremor at 5.1 magnitude. The epicenter of the earthquake was located some 36 km east of Tokyo.
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More cancellations are expected Friday as the storm lingers in New England.
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Thousands of New Yorkers were left in the cold as parts of the city were blanketed under more than a foot of snow. All inbound and outbound flights at JFK and LaGuardia airports were temporarily suspended.
Winter Storm Grayson hit New York City hard Thursday, causing more than 6,500 New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) apartments to lose power. Six NYCHA developments, which house more than 15,000 people, all lost heat, hot water, or both at some point, according to New York City Patch.
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California braced for the big one as series of earthquakes hit San Andreas fault
California braced for the big one as series of earthquakes hit San Andreas fault
In the last 48 hours, the southwestern State in the US has been rocked by eight tremors, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
All but three of the tremors have come along the San Andreas fault - a deadly line which runs through California and is one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
The strongest of the quakes came in Berkeley, near the east coast of California, which measured 4.4 on the Richter scale.
Californian residents took to social media to share their experiences of the earthquakes, with many fearing that the worst is yet to come.
Comment: Nobody knows when the dreaded 'big one' will come - yet it will come.
- The San Andreas' sister faults are active in Northern California
- Enormous earthquakes occur on both sides of the Pacific: Experts warn that San Andreas could "unzip all at once"
- Signs of past mega-quakes show wide-ranging implications of major rupture on California's San Andreas fault
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Klyuchevskoy Volcano
Klyuchevskoy Volcano
"The volcano emitted ash as high as 5.5 km [above sea level.] The volcano itself is 4.75 km high," the response team specified. The ash spread 92 km in a north-western direction from the volcano.
This is the third time Klyuchevskoy erupted ash in 2018. On January 3, it spewed up ash as high as 6 km, and on January 4 an orange hazard code was declared for aircraft after the second eruption at the same height.
Locations from the British Isles into France, Netherlands and Germany all endured powerful winds, rain and coastal flooding.
Comment: Three cliff falls in just two days near iconic Seven Sisters, UK; woman killed