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First snowfall of 2017-18 season recorded for Lake Tahoe

Claire Cudahy
Tahoe Daily Tribune
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:22 UTC
Kirkwood Mountain Resort reported 3 to 4 inches of snowfall on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 13.
© Kirkwood Mountain Resort
Kirkwood Mountain Resort reported 3 to 4 inches of snowfall on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Lake Tahoe had its first snowfall of the season on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Kirkwood Mountain Resort reported around 3 to 4 inches of wet snow early in the morning. The resort's base is at 7,800 feet.

Sierra-at-Tahoe, located at 8,800 feet, also reported snow.

"Much cooler temperatures along with showers and isolated thunderstorms are in store for today," the U.S. National Weather Service Reno Nevada posted on Facebook Wednesday morning.
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Early snowfall at Rogers Pass, Montana


Independent Record
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:11 UTC
It's snowing in Montana!

Snow is finally falling in Montana, and not a moment too soon.

For now, it's only at Rogers Pass, but wet weather is expected across more of Montana this week.


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First snow of winter hits Ben Nevis, Scotland; less than 2 weeks after summer ends

Alistair Grant
The Scottish Sun
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:54 UTC
Running coach Paul Lind poses next to first snow on Ben Nevis

Running coach Paul Lind poses next to first snow on Ben Nevis
The first snow of winter has fallen just days after summer ended.

Scotland is now shivering in a four-day polar chill with frost, snow and hail forecast.

An inch of snow fell on Ben Nevis in the Highlands yesterday less than two weeks after summer finished.

Running coach Paul Lind - who scaled the mountain and caught a glimpse of the snow - said: "Ben Nevis had 2cm of fresh snow on the summit ridge."

Snow expert Iain Cameron added: "The first UK snow of the 2017-18 season is confirmed."

Hikers also battled 45mph polar gales making 0.7C temperatures feel like -8C yesterday on Cairngorm.
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Boy killed in dog attack in Riceton, Saskatchewan

Stephanie Taylor
CBC News
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:38 UTC
canine attack
© Angela Antunes / CC by 2.0
Six-year-old Cameron Mushanski, who died after a dog attack in Riceton, Sask., was the light of his family's life, says an aunt.

Cassandra-Marie Mushanski said the boy was at the home of his grandparents—who own the dogs—when the attack happened Wednesday evening.

"He was a happy, go-lucky boy," Mushanski said Thursday. "This is beyond a tragedy."

The family has since started a GoFundMe page to raise money for funeral expenses.

"He walked into a room and everyone smiled just with one word coming out of his mouth," Mushanski said.

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Another record-breaking year for whale and dolphin strandings around Ireland

Ann Robinson
Coast Monkey
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:17 UTC
Record-breaking year 2017 has seen another increase in cetacean strandings
© Jochen Duerr
Record-breaking year 2017 has seen another increase in cetacean strandings
2017 has been another record-breaking year for whale and dolphin strandings.

By 31st August there had already been 201 validated strandings logged - a massive 30% increase compared to the previous two years, according to the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG).

The number of dead common dolphins recorded this year has been very high with 78 recorded since the end of August, accounting for 39% of all strandings. In the last seven years the numbers of dead common dolphins washing ashore in late winter/spring has become usually high. The true extent of the dolphin deaths are unknown with many going unrecorded as only a small number are washed ashore whiled others aren't identifiable.

The IWDG has been working with the Marine Institute, National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture on a post-mortem scheme to better understand what is causing the death of these cetaceans.

Comment: See also this report from February: Dolphin and whale deaths on the Irish coast rise fivefold with 56 cetaceans washing up

In addition, for 2016 see: Record year for cetacean strandings in Ireland as fin whale washes up on Dublin beach

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Methane outgassing discovered in Siberia's Yamal peninsula crater hole say scientists

Anna Liesowska
The Siberian Times
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 05:27 UTC
Measuring methane samples from Yamal Peninsula
© Anton Sinitsky, The Siberian Times
Measuring methane samples from Seyakha crater, Yamal Peninsula
Gas bubbles from waters filling crater hole on Yamal peninsula two months after volcanic-style explosion in thawing permafrost.

Fresh analysis of a new geological phenomenon shows how gas is still gushing from a submerged crater caused by a fierce methane gas explosion in northern Siberia in June.

A 'pillar of fire' from the eruption was caused by stones and pebbles being thrown together as they were thrust out of the ground, sparking the swoosh of gas, like in an oven, a leading expert believes.


Comment: 'Big bang' and 'pillar of fire' as two new craters form on Yamal peninsular, Siberia


Reindeer and dogs from a nearby nomadic encampment fled in terror at the fireball, with some debris thrown as far as 200 metres from the epicentre.

A 50-metre deep funnel or crater was immediately filled by water from the Myudriyakha River flowing beside the site of the explosion.

The video shows Dr Anton Sinitasky, director of the Arctic research Centre in Yamalo-Nenets region, in a small boat measuring gas - previously trapped in the frozen permafrost ground - which continues to leak from under the murky waters.


Comment:
As the man-made global warming hoax spirals out of control, evidence suggests that the world is on the brink of a new ice age. The 'warming' that is taking place nowadays is likely due to increased volcanic activity (connected with a minute slowdown in planetary rotation), especially under the Arctic Ocean, where methane clathrate deposits are being ruptured in enormous quantities these days, releasing methane gas into the atmosphere.

The degassing process is a normal phenomenon in permafrost regions containing quantities of methane. With lightning strength and frequency increasing (an ignition source) and more venting of enormous mounds of methane (a source of fuel) occurring, potentially catastrophic explosions could result.
SOTT Exclusive: The growing threat of underground fires and explosions

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Storm Sebastian kills three people across Germany with hurricane-force winds


The Local Germany
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:29 UTC
Windstorm Sebastian damage in Germany
© picture-alliance/dpa/C.Charisius
Sebastian's winds caused scaffolding to fall on pedestrians in Hamburg, killing one man
Windstorm Sebastian killed at least three people in Germany on Wednesday as hurricane-force winds of up to 150 kilometres per hour were recorded in the north of the country.

A man in a wheelchair was found dead in a river in the northern city of Hamburg, according to local firefighters.

Witnesses saw him fall into the water and despite a rescue effort that included divers, a boat and a helicopter, he could not be saved.

A pedestrian also died in Hamburg after he was hit by scaffolding that fell from the seventh floor of a building, police said. He was taken to hospital where he later died.

A 53-year-old man was the third person to be killed in the storm after being crushed by a tree near the west German spa town Brilon. The man was working in the forest when a 20-metre tall spruce tree fell on him, local police said.

The first autumn storm of the year also managed to uproot numerous trees across Germany. According to the Deutsche Bahn, trees had to be cleared from tracks and damaged overhead lines had to be repaired.

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Large sinkhole destroys entrance to Florida country club


WPTV
Mon, 11 Sep 2017 12:18 UTC
Indian Town sinkhole
© WPTV
The Martin County Sheriff's Office said Sunday that a large hole destroyed one of the entrances to the Indianwood Golf and Country Club in Indiantown.

Shopping carts and yellow tape were placed in front of the hole to prevent anyone from driving into it.

There is another entrance to the 55+ community.

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Halo surrounds the sun in eastern North Carolina

Corey Friedman
The Wilson Times
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 22:00 UTC
Wilson NC sun halo
© Corey Friedman/The Wilson Times
Members of St. Therese Catholic Church noticed a halo around the sun visible in Wilson early Sunday afternoon.

Solar halos form when ice crystals in high clouds refract the sun's light, bending the light and producing a ring shape, according to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The phenomenon can also occur with light reflected from the moon, creating lunar halos.

Comment: Another sun halo was seen the same day, 120 miles away, in Greensboro, North Carolina:
My beautiful wife and I, and our son and future daughter-in-law, went to Greensboro today for the North Carolina Folk Festival this afternoon. Weather people had said that he outer clouds from Irma would be responsible for cloudiness today. We could see some clouds approaching from the south by 10 AM. By the time we had gotten to downtown Greensboro, the sky was filled with a very high haze, and about 1-1/2 hours later at 1:03PM I noticed an intense halo around the sun. I took this with my iPhone. It got less and less intense from this time onward. I looked for but did not see a circumhorizontal arc.
Greensboro sun halo
© Cloudy Nights/Surveyor 1


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Attention

3 water main breaks cause sinkhole in Woodland Hills, California


Woodland Hills Patch
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:09 UTC
Woodland Hills sinkhole
© J.T. Alpaugh
A break in three water mains today opened up a sinkhole in a street in Woodland Hills.

About 25 customers were without water service as a result of the ruptured lines, which were reported about 2:30 p.m. in the 23000 block of Hatteras Avenue, according to the Department of Water and Power.

Crews shut off the water and were expected to be working on repairs until at least 10 p.m., according to a DWP spokeswoman who said two 6-inch mains and one 4-inch line broke.

The cause of the breaks was under investigation, she said.
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