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Spectacular Aurora Borealis display dazzles northern Sweden


The Local - Sweden
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 12:33 UTC
Northern Lights over Sweden
© Jan-Åke Fors
Spectacular Northern Lights lit up parts of Sweden over the weekend. Social media was awash with beautiful depictions of the dazzling show.

The sky in northern Sweden lit up in mysterious shades of blue and green at the weekend, prompting amateur and professional photographers alike to try to capture the magic caused by the natural phenomenon also known as an Aurora Borealis.

Jan-Åke Fors, a photographer in Kiruna in northern Sweden, was one of the lucky spectators, hashtagging his pictures of the show with #awesomenight.

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Cloud Lightning

Saint Martin is slammed by 185mph winds of Hurricane Irma

Kelly Mclaughlin
Daily Mail
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 20:24 UTC
Dramatic pictures have started to emerge on social media showing the scale of the flooding on St Martin

Dramatic pictures have started to emerge on social media showing the scale of the flooding on St Martin
St Maarten's famous international airport, Princess Juliana, has been destroyed by Hurricane Irma.

The storm ripped through the airport on Wednesday, with 185mph winds blowing over safety fences and battering nearby Maho beach.

Huge rocks smashed into planes, and boarding walkways were slammed to the ground by the downpour of rain and gusts of wind, which also brought loads of sand on to the runway.

Inside the airport, which lies on the Dutch side of Saint Martin island, the check-in lounge was flooded and walkways were damaged by the storm.

Parts of the building had broken off during the storm and were seen lying on the runway after the storm passed.

Photos of the damage were documented by a hurricane rescue team, who went in after the storm passed.

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Over 100 aftershocks rattle Idaho as earthquake swarm continues


NBC News
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:45 UTC
Idaho sign
© UIG via Getty Images
More than 100 aftershocks have rattled southeastern Idaho since a 5.3 magnitude quake hit near the town of Soda Springs late last week, and experts say they could continue for another week or so.

The 5.3 quake hit was the second in the series, and it hit about 6 p.m. Saturday. There were no reports of injuries or damage, though officials say 17,000 people reported feeling the 5.3 quake from as far away as Salt Lake City, Utah.

Soda Springs resident JoAnna Ashley was in nearby Georgetown visiting her parents when the biggest earthquake hit. She grabbed onto the shaking refrigerator and watched as a bottle of tiki torch fuel perched on top wobbled toward the edge. Her kids, ages 5 and 8, grabbed onto Ashley during the shaking.

"They didn't scream, but were all, 'Momma, what's happening?' in that worried voice," Ashley said.

Comment: The swarm won't stop: 62 earthquakes strike southeast Idaho in one day

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Cloud Precipitation

Irma is now the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside of the Gulf and Carribean

Jenny Staletovich
Miami Herald
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 19:00 UTC
hurricane Irma 9.5.17
© RAMMB / CIRA @ CSU
Irma spun into a monster storm Tuesday morning with sustained winds topping 180 mph, becoming the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean, National Hurricane Center forecasters said in their 11 a.m. advisory.

As the hurricane churns closer to the U.S. coast, its path becomes more certain, with South Florida, particularly the Keys, increasingly likely to take a hit. Tropical storm force winds could arrive as early as Friday. Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency for all 67 counties and has all 7,000 members of the state's National Guard to report to duty on Friday.

UPDATE: Irma's winds have intensified. To read the latest, see http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article171330777.html

Because Irma is so large, forecasters urged caution in paying too much attention to its exact track. The storm is continuing to roll west at 14 mph, with winds expected to begin battering the Leeward Islands today. A powerful high pressure ridge is steering the storm and will likely stay in place over the next few days, forecasters said. In five days, a trough moving across the U.S. should begin weakening the western edge of the ridge, allowing the storm to slide north. Where Irma makes the turn will determine impacts to Florida.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 16 goats in Odisha, India


Odisha Sun Times
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:30 UTC
dead goats
As many as 16 goats were killed in lightning at Koshala village under Chhendipada block here today.

According to reports, Anjulata Sahoo, wife of Bijay Kumar Sahoo of Bankataragadia village had taken the goats for grazing them near the house. At around 3 pm when rain started with lightning and thunder, she stood under a tree after keeping the goats under another tree.

The goats were killed in the lightning.

Despite MeT prediction about possibility of lightning and thunder in some of the districts every day, the casualties are still taking place in the state.
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Attention

Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica sends up 1km column of ash

Wendy Anders
Costa Rica Star News
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 17:17 UTC
Turrialba Volcano

Turrialba Volcano
The Turrialba Volcano near Cartago, Costa Rica started churning back to life yesterday after a few weeks of calm.

Yesterday, Sept. 5, 2017, the volcano started spewing a column of ash 1,000 meters above its crater, reported the National University's Volcanology and Seismology Observatory (Ovsicori-UNA).

Ash has been flowing out of the crater since yesterday, and ashfall has been reported in areas to the north and northwest of the volcano in Coronado, Moravia, and San Isidro de Heredia.

The plume of gas, steam, aerosols and ash is rising out of the colossus' western crater.

With Monday's strong earthquakes and Tuesday's airplane crash in the headlines, it seems Costa Rica's Turrialba felt it was the right week to join in on the drama.
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Cloud Lightning

Hurricane Irma takes out electricity, damages rooftops in Caribbean

Amanda Batchelor
local10.com
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:13 UTC
Hurricane Irma leaves path of destruction in Guadeloupe

Hurricane Irma leaves path of destruction in Guadeloupe
Hurricane Irma has caused serious damage to rooftops and knocked out all electricity on the French islands of Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

France has requisitioned planes and sent in emergency food and water rations.

The regional authority for Guadeloupe and neighboring islands said in a statement Wednesday that the fire station in Saint Barthelemy is under more than 3 feet of water and no rescue vehicles can move.

They said the government headquarters in Saint Martin is partially destroyed and the island is in a total blackout.

Electricity is also partially down on the larger island of Guadeloupe, where the threat receded, despite the danger of heavy flooding.

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Sun

Powerful solar storm headed towards earth, bringing rare light shows


Fast & Company
Tue, 05 Sep 2017 00:00 UTC
CME, solar storm
© NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO
The Space Weather Prediction Center has upgraded a geomagnetic storm watch for September 6 and 7 to a level only occasionally seen, but scientists say it's nothing to be too alarmed about.

They do recommend looking for an unusual display of the aurora-the northern lights caused by a disturbance of the magnetosphere-in areas of the U.S. not used to seeing them.

"The big takeaway from this level of storming would be just increased chance of seeing the aurora, really in the upper tier of the United States," says Robert Rutledge, lead of operations at the center, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Here's an animation of the CME from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.)
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Snowflake Cold

Australia shivers through coldest start to September EVER: Freezing weather and record Spring snowfall turns coastal towns white

Josh Hanrahan
Daily Mail
Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:50 UTC
A massive dump of snow led to one home being 'snowed in', with this incredible photo showing the severity of the snowfall

A massive dump of snow led to one home being 'snowed in', with this incredible photo showing the severity of the snowfall
As the calendar flips over to Spring much of the nation prepares for warm weather in the knowledge summer is not far away - but not Victoria.

While Winter may have come and gone for almost every other state, the mainland's south-east has been lashed by massive amounts of snowfall in the past 24 hours.

But while it's not unusual for a blanketing to hit mountain areas this time of year, the chilly temperatures have seen coastal towns such as Lorne and Apollo Bay turned to white and some homes incredibly 'snowed-in'.

Incredible images posted to social media show the thickness of snow which covered parts of the state on Tuesday.

Towns at sea level turned white with alpine areas receiving up to 30 centimetres and the temperature dropping to as low as -7.5 degrees.

The cold snap caught out two men who found themselves stuck in their vehicle high in the alps for three days before being rescued by the Victorian SES.

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Arrow Down

Residents awaken to find their home being swallowed by sinkhole in Falmouth, Nova Scotia

Susan Bradley and Anjuli Patil
CBC News
Sun, 03 Sep 2017 14:13 UTC
When the family in the house first awoke, they thought the sounds downstairs were home invaders.
© Anjuli Patil/CBC
When the family in the house first awoke, they thought the sounds downstairs were home invaders.
When family members inside a Hants County home woke up early Sunday morning, they feared the racket they heard coming from their basement was created by home invaders.

A call to 911 followed but when officers arrived, they found a catastrophe that wasn't man-made.

A sinkhole had developed under the Mountain View Drive home in Falmouth and the danger was created by Mother Nature.

'Everyone is safe'

Chris Strickey lives at the house with his wife and two daughters who are 13 and 16. He and his 13-year-old daughter weren't home at the time the sinkhole opened.

"I received a phone call at one minute before 4 a.m. from my wife to tell me that literally the house had collapsed," said Strickey.

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