A woman has died after she was attacked by two dogs in a horrific incident in Galway. Emergency services were called to the scene in the village of Moycullen at approximately 3pm yesterday.

Independent.ie has learned that the woman, named locally as Teresa McDonagh, who was aged in her 60s, was attacked by two bullmastiff dogs at a home.

The animals were shot dead by neighbours who came to Ms McDonagh's aid at a house in Knockarasser, near Moycullen, Co Galway. It is believed she was visiting a relative at the time.

Ms McDonagh suffered horrific injuries in the attack and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her remains were moved to University Hospital Galway yesterday evening. A post-mortem is now expected to take place on the woman's body.

All spring I chase storms across the United States to collect footage of supercells, lightning, tornadoes and whatever I might find. Generally I don't release any time-lapse clips from those chases until I put out my final end of season compilation film. But last night in North Dakota was too unreal to let sit on my hard drive for months.

We were chasing northeast of Bismarck, North Dakota and as storms were dying out, we decided to go for a lone cell on the backside of a line of storms. We knew it had a hail core on it and we were hoping that we might get some nice sunset color at least on the storm as it moved past us, and hopefully some lightning bolts. But we had no idea what we were about to encounter. The clouds were taking on a very different, curvy, wave-like appearance and suddenly we knew what we were seeing.

Undulatus asperatus clouds are a rare phenomenon and actually the newest named cloud type in over 60 years. I've seen tons of photos of them, but never anything like what we witnessed last night. We had a storm with hail in front of us and flashing lightning which was fantastic. But then we had this layer of undulatus clouds flowing across our view.

A large halo around the sun was seen from various locations in Singapore yesterday afternoon.

Photos of it posted online were taken in places such as Changi, Marina Bay and Toa Payoh.

The optical phenomenon, which is not uncommon, typically occurs when there are thin clouds so high in the sky that they are made of ice crystals rather than water droplets.

The crystals act as tiny prisms, reflecting and refracting light in such a way that a ring is seen around the sun. Such a halo is referred to as a sun halo, solar halo or 22-degree halo, where 22 degrees is the angle formed between one's eye and the edge and centre of the halo.

A reader once asked if it was possible to forecast when something like this would happen.

Video from Alberta, Canada on Friday shows a monstrous tornado touching down as cars continue to drive towards the storm on a nearby highway.

Environment Canada, the government agency tasked with sending out weather alerts, said the tornado was produced by a thunderstorm, CTV reported.

Environment Canada had issued a warning for parts of the Kneehill County area shortly after 5 p.m. Friday due to an "eyewitness report" of a possible tornado, CTV reported. By 5:27 p.m., the storm had produced a tornado.

If the blathering blowhards of the dinosaur media and the Chicken Littles of the Twitterverse are to be believed, the world has officially come to an end. And in a way, maybe it has. Not "the" world, of course, but their world.


That's because, as you will no doubt have heard by now, Trump just announced that the US will be pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord.

"I am fighting every day for the great people of this country," Trump boasted in his Rose Garden press conference announcing his decision on the agreement, adopted in Paris in December 2015. "Therefore, in order to fulfill my solemn duty to protect America and its citizens, the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord..."

...If only he had stopped there. However, after a brief applause break greeting the announcement of the withdrawal, the Dissembler-in-Chief completed the sentence thusly: "but begin negotiations to re-enter either the Paris Accord or a really entirely new transaction on terms that are fair to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people, its taxpayers." And then, just to make sure he added enough political hogwash to confuse everyone, he pressed on: "So we're getting out. But we will start to negotiate, and we will see if we can make a deal that's fair. And if we can, that's great. And if we can't, that's fine."

Ok, then. So the US is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement not because it is the leading edge of the $100 trillion carbon swindle wedge. Not because it is based on the fake science of fundamentally flawed models with fundamentally incorrect inputs. Not because it brings us one step closer to the Edmund Rothschild-articulated vision of a "global conservation bank" to steward over the world economy or the century-old technocratic dream of an energy-based economy where people will be assigned "carbon credits" and forced to ration their activities in response to the dictates of a de facto world government. No, not for these reasons, but because the "deal" wasn't "fair" for "American workers?" And the Trump Administration is going to immediately begin negotiations to re-enter the agreement?

Sigh.

Bahamas Press is confirming a reported shark attack in the area of Athol Island just around noon today.

A guest to the island was snorkeling with a supervised group along the coastline of Athol Island, just east of Paradise Island, when the incident occurred.

The arm of the female guest was bitten off, and immediately she was rushed into surgery. She is alive and recovering from the attack.

Three persons were killed and one injured in separate incidents of lightning strike amid heavy rains and thunderstorm in the district.

Eight houses were damaged and nearly 12 cattle also died in different talukas of Nashik after heavy rains occurred yesterday, a source at the collector's office here said.

Nashik city and the talukas of Malegaon, Igatpuri, Trimbakeshwar, Nandgaon and Niphad in the district experienced heavy pre-monsoon showers, leading to water-logging and disruption of power supply at various places.

Samadhan Sumrao (30) and Sunanda Gaikwad (32), from different villages in Malegaon, and Vithal Ughade (25), from Igatpuri, were killed after lightning struck them.

Campers hoping to pitch a tent in Pinware River and Pistolet Bay provincial parks will have to wait a bit longer because the sites are inaccessible due to snow, with drifts as high as 20 feet in some places.

"It was impossible [to open this weekend] ... This is the first time I've ever seen this much snow," said Les Peddle, who has worked at the Pinware River site for 20 years.

"We have a building, an activity centre, in the day use area ... right now, the snow is still not down to the top of the door."

Pinware River Provincial Park is located in southern Labrador, while Pistolet Bay Provincial Park is on the tip of the Northern Peninsula.

In different incidents, five persons were killed due to lighting in Mancherial and Nirmal districts on Saturday evening.

In the first incident, two daily wagers died on the spot and three laborers sustained critical injuries following a lighting strike when they were standing under a tree at Chintapudi-lingala village in Kannepalli mandal of Mancherial district. Medical condition of the two of the injured is said to be critical.

Sources said that the deceased were Choudari Chandraiah (45) and Sidem Bapu (64), residents of Chintapudi-lingala village. The injured included Elkari Shankar and Choudari Shankar belonging to similar village and another laborer from Jilleda of Vemanapalli mandal.

Marapi Mount in West Sumatra erupted again today (4/6). Until this afternoon, the mountain situated in Agam Regency has erupted three times.

Bukittinggi Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency (PVMBG) observer Bujang said that the first eruption occurred at 10:10 in the morning by spewing 300-400 meters high of volcanic ashes. "It was followed by the next eruption at 10:22 in the morning with 600 to 700 meters high of volcanic ashes," Bujang added on Sunday (4/6).

The third eruption took place at 10.46 with volcanic ashes up to 400 meters. Bujang explained that the biggest eruption was the second taking place at 10:22 AM. He added that seismic reading was detected during the eruption. The amplitude of the seismic waves was 6 milimiters with 22 to 35 seconds of earthquake duration.

The status of hazard of Marapi was issued from Agustus 2011 through PVMBG recommendation letter number 1385/45/BGL.V/2011 on 3 August 2011 on the increase of Gunung Marapi status from (level I) to alert (level II). Until now, the status has not been revoked.