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Driver snaps black smoke rings floating in the sky above the M9 motorway in Scotland

Paul Harper and Patrick Knox
The Sun
Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
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This smoke ring was spotted over the M9 motorway in Scotland by a stunned driver
THIS eerie footage captured by a Scottish driver shows MORE spooky black rings floating in the sky near a motorway as the mystery concerning what they are deepens.

The sinister spectacle reappeared near the M9 in Linlithgow, Scotland, following similar sightings in West Yorkshire, the US and Russia.

Stunned driver Michael Georgeson said that he's 'never seen anything like this before' . Sinister unexplained black smoke rings have been spotted in the US, Russia and now Scotland

Dubbed "smoke vortexes", they have been appearing in remote spots in Siberia and the American Midwest - with another recent one being spotted in the UK.
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Hurricane expert Dr. Philip Klotzbach: #Irma at landfall comes in 7th behind 1935 Labor Day storm

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:50 UTC
While this won't be of much comfort for those that are squarely in it's path right now, it is a small bit of good news. Dr. Philip Klotzbach has compiled rankings of both hurricane Irma and Harvey when they made landfall. Compared to the 1935 Labor Day storm, Irma is a distant 7th, tied with the 1928 Lake Okeechobee storm.

Comment: See also: Winds, fire, floods and quakes: Mother Nature's recent nutty run

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Riders on the storm: Sailor livestreams Hurricane Irma from his boat in Key West, Florida (VIDEO)


RT
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 13:53 UTC
Sailor livestreams storm
© S/V Andromeda / Facebook
A man livestreamed Hurricane Irma from his boat in Key West, as the Category 4 storm prepared to make landfall over the lower Keys.

The footage was broadcast from the sailing vessel Andromeda on the boat's dedicated Facebook page.

Footage was interrupted on a number of occasions, finally cutting out as the eye of Hurricane Irma was just 20 miles east-southeast of Key West.

Rough seas were seen and strong winds could be heard as the sailor, Ryan Stone, pointed out debris in the water from his docked vessel.
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Cloud Precipitation

Floods kill at least six in Livorno, Italy; 15 inches of rain in 4 hours


The Straits Times
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 14:14 UTC
A police officer stands in a flooded crossing in Livorno, Italy, on Sept 10, 2017.
© EPA
A police officer stands in a flooded crossing in Livorno, Italy, on Sept 10, 2017.
At least six people have died in violent rainstorms sweeping across Italy on Sunday (Sept 10), with the Tuscan city of Livorno taking the brunt of the flooding, fire services said.

Four people from the same family were found dead in a flooded house in the city, where 40cm of rainfall in four hours transformed streets into rivers and washed away cars.

The Corriere della Sera daily said the dead were a little girl, her parents and a grandparent.

A fifth body was found in an area devastated by landslides. Three other people were missing, the fire brigade said.

"The situation is very difficult, it's critical. We fear a disaster," Livorno mayor Filippo Nogarin said.

Italy's civil protection service issued a code orange alert for Florence as the storms, which began in northern Italy overnight, swept down the country towards the south.

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Attention

Surfer bitten by great white shark at Iluka beach, New South Wales, Australia

Alina Rylko and Ashleigh Gleeson
The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:58 UTC
A surfer was bitten by a shark at Iluka on the NSW North Coast.
© Amber Hopkins
A surfer was bitten by a shark at Iluka on the NSW North Coast.
A surfer has been described as "the luckiest man on earth" after a shark snapped his board in half before biting his hip on the NSW north coast this morning

Byron Bay local Abe McGrath, 35, was lying on his board off Main Beach, about 300m north of the Illuka Wall, just after 6am when a shark "latched" its jaws onto his surfboard.

Fellow surfer Bryce Cameron, 34, said the shark, believed to be a 3.5m juvenile white pointer — also known as a great white shark — came up from underneath Mr McGrath, snapping his board in half then piercing his hip.

"He was laying on his board and he got attacked from below really aggressively, the force of the attack snapped his board," Mr Cameron, who was on the beach and about to head into the water when the attack occurred, said.
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Attention

Flesh-eating fungus threatens to wipe out fire salamanders across Germany


Deutsche Welle
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 10:55 UTC
fire salamander

Fire salamander
A deadly flesh-eating fungus responsible for decimating fire salamander populations in Europe is spreading in Germany, according to researchers.

The Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans fungus first arrived in Europe from Southeast Asia in 2010, wiping out fire salamander populations in Belgium and resulting in severe declines in the Netherlands.

It was first detected in western Germany's Eifel region in 2015, but has recently been found in Essen, nearly 100 kilometers away (60 miles).

"This is a rapid spread and it can occur throughout the country," Sebastian Steinfartz, a researcher at TU Braunschweig's Zoological Institute, told news agency DPA.

The black-and-yellow spotted fire salamander is one of the best-known species in Europe.
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Eye 2

Signs and Portents: Electric worker finds two-headed snake in Forrest City, Arkansas

Kally Patz
Arkansas Online
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:44 UTC
two headed snake
While inspecting a home Wednesday, an electric worker in Arkansas found an oddity he had never seen beyond magazines and TV: a two-headed snake.

Rodney Kelso, who works as the operations director at Woodruff Electric in Forrest City, said the snake was sunning itself when he found it outside a home on Arkansas 248.

"Fifty years on the ridge and never have seen such," Kelso said by phone Friday morning.

He put on a pair of gloves and eased the snake into a box.

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Bizarro Earth

Rare phenomenon caused by Hurricane Irma sucks the water from Bahamas beaches

Kaileen Gaul
Daily Mail (UK)
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 01:42 UTC
Bahamas beach disappears
© Twitter@deejayeasya
Before: Hurricane Irma temporarily changed the shape of the ocean after hitting the Bahamas on Friday
Extraordinary footage from the Bahamas show the shoreline receded much farther than normal, exposing what is usually the ocean floor.

Twitter user @Kaydi_K from Long Island, Bahamas wrote on Friday: 'I am in disbelief right now... This is Long Island, Bahamas and the ocean water is missing!!! That's as far as they see #HurricaneIrma.'

The strange video shows her walking on the exposed ocean floor which is dry and covered in large shells. Another Twitter user tweeted a photo of the exposed beach at a different beach in the Bahamas and showed it was back to normal within less than a day.

Hurricane Irma, which hit the Bahamas on Friday, is so powerful that it has altered the shape of the ocean in Long Island, but it will likely be back to normal by Sunday afternoon.

Pressure in a hurricane's center is low and Irma is so strong that it is pulling water into its core, sucking it away from the ocean, according to the Washington Post.


Comment: Last month the Atlantic Ocean dramatically receded off the coasts of Uruguay and Brazil. See also:

Meteotsunami? Ocean dramatically recedes on South American Atlantic coast as huge waves batter the Pacific side

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Seismograph

5.7 magnitude earthquake hits Mexican coast


Sputnik
Sun, 10 Sep 2017 08:02 UTC
Seismograph
© AFP 2017/ PEDRO PARDO
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake occurred in waters off Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported Sunday.

Quakes have been registered at 22:07 on Saturday local time (03:07 GMT on Sunday). The epicenter is located 80 kilometers (49) to southwest of the town of Paredon at the depth of 33 kilometers (about 32 miles).
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Paradise islands devastated by Hurricane Irma (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)


RT
Sat, 09 Sep 2017 18:30 UTC
St Martin
© Lionel Chamoiseau / AFP
Orient Bay on the French Carribean island of Saint-Martin, after the passage of Hurricane Irma.
Images of the devastating impact of Hurricane Irma have filled social media, showing how the deadly storm system has reduced tranquil Caribbean island paradises to ruins.

More than 20 people died as extreme weather barrelled across the Caribbean bringing winds of up to 150mph. Whole neighborhoods have been turned-upside down on islands such as Barbuda, St Barts and the Virgin Islands.

Irma continues to travel west towards Florida, and the US Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that it will bring "life-threatening wind, storm surge and rainfall hazards".

As islanders struggle to come to terms with the natural disaster, and as MSM coverage continues to focus on Florida, here is the latest on the worst-hit Caribbean regions.

Comment: See also: Hurricane Irma: Florida declares State of Emergency as storm upgraded to Category 5 - UPDATES

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