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Lightning strike kills 100 animals in Poonch, Kashmir

Sumit Bhargav
Greater Kashmir
Fri, 24 May 2019 09:23 UTC
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© Johannes Plenio
Two nomads hailing from Rajouri district suffered a major loss after their animals got killed in lightning in dhoks of Loran area of Poonch district.

As per official reports, the incident took place on Thursday evening after lightning struck dhoks located in Loran.

Sixty goats and sheep of Mohammad Qasim son of Ghulam Hussain Bakerwal resident of Prat Nowshehra and 40 sheep and goats of Mohammad Junaid son of Abdul Aziz resident of Mangaldei Nowshera were killed.

"Police party was rushed to the spot," SSP Poonch Ramesh Angral told Greater Kashmir. "A loss report was entered in daily dairy of police station Loran".
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Flights cancelled after Bali's Mount Agung volcano erupts again, sending rocks 3kms away


9news.com.au
Sat, 25 May 2019 09:06 UTC
agung volcano
© Reuters / Wayan Kartika
Mount Agung erupts in Bali, Indonesia on May 24, 2019
Bali's airport has cancelled flights following an eruption of the Mount Agung volcano that spread ash over the Indonesian island's south.

The national disaster agency said Friday night's eruption lasted four minutes and 30 seconds and spread lava and incandescent rocks about three kilometres from the crater.

Nine villages experienced thick ash fall. But the agency said it wasn't raising the alert level for the volcano and its exclusion zone remains a four kilometre radius around the crater.


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Monster tornado that ripped 20-mile trail of destruction through Missouri capital was almost a mile wide

Amanda Schmidt
AccuWeather
Sat, 25 May 2019 08:22 UTC
This aerial image shows severe storm damage in Jefferson City, Mo., Thursday, May 23, 2019, after a tornado hit overnight.
© AP Photo/Jeff Roberson
This aerial image shows severe storm damage in Jefferson City, Mo., Thursday, May 23, 2019, after a tornado hit overnight.
A clearer picture emerged Friday of the size and scope of the powerful tornadoes that tore across Missouri on Wednesday night, leaving trails of destruction in their paths. The state's capital, Jefferson City, was among the hardest-hit places, struck overnight by a tornado with a peak wind speed of 160 mph that has been given preliminary rating of EF3.

The monstrous nighttime tornado that struck Jefferson City, a city with a population of about 42,000, was almost a mile wide and was on the ground for nearly 20 miles, toppling homes, ripping roofs off homes and business below. At least 20 citizens were transported to local hospitals, according to Jefferson City Police, but no fatalities were reported.

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Storm Hannah washes away beach to reveal petrified remains of Bronze Age forest in Wales


Daily Mail
Fri, 24 May 2019 19:29 UTC
A prehistoric forest of hundreds of trees which died more than 4,500 years ago has been uncovered on a Welsh beach after low tides and a storm

A prehistoric forest of hundreds of trees which died more than 4,500 years ago has been uncovered on a Welsh beach after low tides and a storm
A prehistoric forest which was buried under water and sand more than 4,500 years ago and inspired a local legend has been uncovered on a Welsh beach.

The forest near the village of Borth, Ceredigion, Mid Wales, used to stretch for up to three miles along the shore between Ynys-las and Borth but eventually was buried under layers of peat, sand and saltwater.

The eerie remains of these ancient trees under Borth's beach have led to the local legend of the mythical Sunken Kingdom of Wales, called Cantre'r Gwaelod.

Folklore has it that Cantre'r Gwaelod, or the Sunken Hundred, was a once-fertile land and township stretching for 20 miles, but was lost beneath the waves in a mythical age.
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Cloud Precipitation

Crops in the Spanish region of Murcia hit once again by hail - up to 100% loss in some districts


Fresh Plaza
Fri, 24 May 2019 19:14 UTC
hail apples
The fields of Murcia have again been hit by storms and hail this spring, and this has caused serious damage to crops in the municipalities of Cieza, Blanca and Jumilla.

Manuel Martínez, vice-president of the agricultural cooperatives federation Fecoam, said that "up to one hundred percent of the harvest has been lost in some areas, such as the Macetúa area, where there was a lot of rainfall and hail." The actual extent of the damage has yet to be evaluated.

The stone fruit harvest was in full swing in these areas of the Region, so these products are the most affected.

Other areas that could have been affected are La Carrichosa, La Corredera, El Horno, Elipe or Venta del Olivo, says Martínez.
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Cloud Precipitation

Colorado is now drought-free, and even more snow is on the way

Chris Spears
Denver.cbslocal.com
Fri, 24 May 2019 18:55 UTC
An avalanche near Durango in March 2019.
© Bonds Construction
An avalanche near Durango in March 2019.
A report released this week from the US Drought Monitor shows Colorado is now 99.99% drought-free. According to the Colorado Climate Center in Fort Collins this is the lowest coverage of drought in our state since the US Drought Monitor was established in 2000. The previous low was 99.87% drought-free in May 2001.

The dramatic improvement is thanks to an active jet stream pattern that set up over Colorado during the middle of February. It brought a parade of storm systems across the region through early March that dropped heavy snow and created a record cycle of avalanches.
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Cloud Precipitation

Wet spring delays California crops, snow elsewhere in west


Claims Journal
Fri, 24 May 2019 18:46 UTC
berries
California growers are frustrated by an unusually wet spring that has delayed the planting of some crops like rice and damaged others including strawberries and wine grapes.

The state's wet conditions come as much of the West is experiencing weird weather. Colorado and Wyoming got an unusually late dump of snow this week. Meanwhile temperatures in Phoenix have dropped 15 degrees below normal.

Large swaths of California have seen two to five times more precipitation than is normal for this point in May, the National Weather Service said. A series of storms soaked much of Colusa County where rice grower Kurt Richter was forced to wait weeks to seed his land.

"You should be seeing green lawns of rice out there right now," Richter said Tuesday from his farm about 120 miles north of San Francisco. "But it's just flooded fields, with nothing sticking out of the water."

Comment: California cherry crop devastated by storms

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Springtime blizzard strikes Russia's Urals Region


TASS
Fri, 24 May 2019 14:02 UTC
snow
© Andrei Tkachev/TASS
The snow cover is 12 cm deep

Two months' worth of snow fell in the city of Salekhard in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Region overnight into Friday, a spokesperson for the city administration told TASS.

"We got two months' worth of precipitation. The new snow cover is 12 cm deep, yet the monthly average is six centimeters. It just keeps snowing," she said.

Comment: Significant spring snowfall also struck a day earlier in another part of northern Russia at Norilsk:






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Attention

Dead gray whale found on island is Alaska's third this year


abcnews.go.com
Wed, 22 May 2019 09:21 UTC
GRAY WHALE
A third gray whale has been found dead in Alaska.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a gray whale was spotted Tuesday on Kodiak Island.

Carcasses also were found this spring near Cordova and south of Anchorage.

NOAA in release says the dead whale on Kodiak was along a rocky shore below a steep cliff and inaccessible for a necropsy.

Comment: In addition recently and further south off the same Pacific coastline of North America: Dead gray whale washes ashore in Point Reyes - 12th for the San Francisco Bay Area this year

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Dead gray whale washes ashore in Point Reyes - 12th for the San Francisco Bay Area this year


abc7news.com
Thu, 23 May 2019 09:13 UTC
Dead whale
Another dead whale has washed up on Bay Area shores. The latest was found at Point Reyes Thursday morning.

This makes at least 12 whale deaths in the Bay Area this year.

Most have been gray whales that likely died from starvation during their migration to Alaska, according to officials.

ABC7 News has contacted the Marine Mammal Center about the latest whale.

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