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Two dead as dozens of forest fires burn in Syria and Lebanon


France24
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:01 UTC
smoke
Forest fires in Syria and neighbouring Lebanon have killed two people and burned swathes of land since Thursday, state media and officials said.

Syrian state television on Saturday morning broadcast scenes from the affected areas, where firefighters were working to extinguish the blazes.

It said hundreds of hectares had burned in the countryside of Syria's coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces, and in the central Homs province.

The health ministry said two people died in Latakia province on Friday as a result of the fires, and that 70 people in the area were taken to hospital suffering breathing difficulties.

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Cloud Precipitation

Hailstorm and flooding hits Izmir, Turkey

НОВОСТИ И ПОЛИТИКА
YouTube
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:18 UTC
Hail storm and flooding hits Turkey, Izmir.

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Umbrella

Tropical Storm Delta brings heavy rain and flood threats to Tennessee Valley after slamming US Gulf Coast

Michael Guy, Christina Maxouris
CNN
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 12:55 UTC
Hurricane Delta floods the gulf coastal town of Sulphur, Louisiana.

Hurricane Delta floods the gulf coastal town of Sulphur, Louisiana.
More than 5 million people are under flash flood warnings across the lower Mississippi River Valley after Delta made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane and continued to drench the Southeast.

Delta, now a tropical storm, dropped over a foot of rain in Louisiana and its powerful winds pounded communities already ravaged by Hurricane Laura weeks ago. In its wake, it left nearly 730,000 homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast without power, according to poweroutage.us.

Flash flood emergencies were also issued following the heavy rain, with parts of southwest Louisiana receiving up to 17 inches of water. Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter, who rode out the storm in a downtown building, said the experience felt a little like "deja vu."

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Snowflake

It's snowing in October in parts of Nova Scotia, Canada

Osobe Waberi
Narcity
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:11 UTC
snow
© gushuemushue | twitter antigonishgolf | instagram
It's snowing!? That is the question being asked after some Canadians woke up to a blanket of white snow this morning, in October.

Residents from a town called Antigonish, in Nova Scotia, were in for a big surprise when they looked out of their windows and saw snow covering the ground and in some cases, mounted on their cars.

They quickly took to social media to share the news and show the rest of Canada just how epic the precipitation got so early in the year.

One resident woke up to her car covered in snow, but was very cheerful and welcomed the unexpected mix of seasons into town.
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Doberman

Man killed, woman injured after attack by their own pit bull in Moses Lake, Washington


KOMO News
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 11:39 UTC
PIT BULL ATTACK
A man is dead and his wife was seriously injured Thursday after they were attacked by their own dog at a mobile home park in Moses Lake, sheriff's officials said.

The dog was identified as a pit bull or pit bull mix, said Kyle Foreman of the Grant County Sheriff's Office.

The incident unfolded at about 11:20 a.m. when a neighbor called 911 to report a dog attack at the Harvest Manor Mobile Home Park in the 4800 block of Airway Drive.

Deputies and medics responded to the scene and found the man and woman with severe injuries consistent with a dog attack.

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Cloud Lightning

Something new in the realm of sprites


Spaceweather.com
Sat, 10 Oct 2020 02:48 UTC
Sprite-Halo with Feet
© Frankie Lucena
Sprite-Halo with Feet and a Red Sprite on September 28, 2020 @ Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Frankie Lucena of Puerto Rica has made a discovery. Some jellyfish have feet. Jellyfish sprites, that is. "On Sept. 28th, I photographed an outburst of upward directed lightning over the Caribbean," he says. "Their jellyfish forms included something unusual. I call them 'feet.'" Note the bright endpoints at the bottom of the sprite's dangling tendrils.

"This feature in a sprite event hasn't been documented yet," says Lucena, who has spent years documenting sprites and gigantic jets above electrical storms near Puerto Rico. "After checking my database I was only able to find three others that have this feature, so I compiled all four into a single image. My best guess is that the electrons were only able to propagate downward to a certain point and they accumulated there, causing the tips of the tendrils to brighten."

Comment: With the surge in sightings of red sprites in recent years (which are still considered 'rare' by some) it seems the electrical nature of our weather and changing atmosphere is becoming more apparent:

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Snowflake

Heavy early snow hits Iran

Meteored
YouTube
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:45 UTC
SNOW
In recent days, significant thicknesses have accumulated, especially in the East Azerbaijan province.

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Attention

Death from above! Face of Mexican 'Day of the Dead' symbol 'the Elegant Skull' appears in volcanic ash cloud weeks before the annual festival

Chris Jewers
Daily Mail
Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:27 UTC
Netizens commented that the shape formed by the plume of smoke was similar to that of the ‘La Calavera Catrina’ (The Catrina Skull), the unofficial face of the ‘Day of the Dead’ festival

Netizens commented that the shape formed by the plume of smoke was similar to that of the ‘La Calavera Catrina’ (The Catrina Skull), the unofficial face of the ‘Day of the Dead’ festival
'The Elegant Skull', the face of Mexico's 'Day of the Dead' festival, appeared in a volcanic ash cloud during an eruption weeks before the annual festivities.

A photograph of the cloud shared on social media soon had netizens likening its shape to the character - also known as The Catrina Skull - and saw the sighting as a reminder of the festival held on November 1 and 2 every year.

The picture of the Popocatepetl volcano eruption, located between the central Mexican states of Puebla, Morelos and Mexico, was taken on Wednesday.

Authorities from Puebla issued a warning on Wednesday morning notifying citizens the volcano was showing moderate activity, however, what made headlines was the viral picture of the cloud of ash it was producing.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills 2, injures 5 others in Nigeria

Festus Ahon
Vanguard
Fri, 09 Oct 2020 19:17 UTC
lightning
Tension heightened at mile 5, Ugbolu, Oshimili South Local Government Area, Delta State after lightning killed two yet to be identified persons during a heavy downpour. Vanguard correspondent reports that the two dead persons, a male and female were in a makeshift shop when the incident occurred. They both died on the spot, it was also reported that five other persons sustained serious injuries.

Although the identity of the victims were unknown at press time, the man was said to be an Evangelist who hailed from the community while the woman was said to be a cassava farmer.

One of the survivors, Mrs. Gladys Okah, who spoke with newsmen, said she ran into a meat shop owned by one Mrs. Ortega due to the heavy downpour when the thunder struck.
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Attention

Up to 1,500 birds flew into skyscrapers in Philadelphia

Frank Kummer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:57 UTC
Some of the 400 birds Stephen Maciejewski collected in Center City Philadelphia Oct. 2,
© STEPHEN MACIEJEWSKI
Some of the 400 birds Stephen Maciejewski collected in Center City Philadelphia Oct. 2, during what Pennsylvania Audubon says a rare event with from 1,000 to 1,500 birds colliding into buildings in just a three block area.
Stephen Maciejewski dropped to a knee on a Center City sidewalk Wednesday morning and gently scooped up a yellow-billed cuckoo that had smashed into a skyscraper and died on its way to Central America or the West Indies.

"This probably happened yesterday," said Maciejewski, a 71-year-old retired social worker and volunteer for Audubon Pennsylvania. He labeled a plastic bag with the time, date, and location, tucked the slim migrator into it, and continued his rounds.

Maciejewski gets emotional when he speaks about all the birds he finds, but nothing, he says, prepared him for what happened Friday.

"So many birds were falling out of the sky, we didn't know what was going on," he said, choking up. "It was a really catastrophic event. The last time something like this happened was in 1948."

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