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On the second day of spring a nesting bald eagle is caught on camera buried in snow in Hays, Pittsburgh

Mary Ann Thomas
Tribune-Review
Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:42 UTC
Bald eagle buried in snow

Bald eagle buried in snow
Neither snow nor rain nor ... more snow stopped the Pittsburgh Hays bald eagle from tending to her two eggs Wednesday.

A live webcam caught the eagle seemingly buried in snow while incubating eggs that are expected to hatch today or in the next week, according to Rachel Handel, spokeswoman for the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania.

The Pittsburgh winter doesn't stop the nesting progress of these birds.

The once endangered raptor is quite hardy and acclimated to the snow and cold with the nation's largest population living in Alaska.

Comment: Also in Pennsylvania but further east at the Codorus State Park the following video recording was recently taken:
Mounting snow is burying the bald eagle sitting on eggs in the nest at Codorus State Park near Hanover that is monitored by a livestreaming webcam through the Pennsylvania Game Commission website.



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Attention

Farmer killed by wild boar in Maharashtra, India - second such local death in days


Business Standard
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 14:11 UTC
Wild boar
A farmer was today killed and a woman injured in two separate attacks by wild boars here, police said.

In the first incident, a 65-year-old farmer, identified as Babarao Ramji Rathod, died while undergoing treatment in a local hospital after he was attacked by a wild boar in Daheli village today morning, officials said.

In another incident, police said, a wild boar attacked Kanta Wankhede (30), a resident of Ambika Nagar here, and she is currently admitted in a local hospital.

In the past few days, two people, including a woman, have died in such attacks, police informed.

Inspector Rita Uikey of the Darwa police station said a case of accidental death had been registered and further investigations were underway.

Source: Press Trust of India
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Spain, Germany and Romania blanketed with snow and ice as the spring gets off to freezing start in Europe (PHOTOS)

Chris Pleasance
Daily Mail
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:40 UTC
Snow fell across large parts of Europe on Tuesday despite it being the first official day of spring. Spain was particularly badly affected, with snow and ice warnings in force for much of the north, including in Vitoria, in Basque country (pictured)

Snow fell across large parts of Europe on Tuesday despite it being the first official day of spring. Spain was particularly badly affected, with snow and ice warnings in force for much of the north, including in Vitoria, in Basque country (pictured)
Snow fell across large parts of Europe on Tuesday as the continent remained in the grip of cold weather despite it being the first official day of spring.

The Spanish islands of Menorca and Majorca saw a dusting of flakes as seven regions across the north of the country were put under snow and ice warnings and dozens of schools were closed in Catalonia.

Snow also fell across the majority of Germany with Berlin particularly badly affected. Temperatures in the city were not set to rise above 3C.

In Croatia, melting snow and ice has caused record flooding around the capital Zagreb while flakes continue to fall further to the east.

According to authorities, the Sava river had reached record water levels, surpassing the previous record by four inches.

The flooding has meant that residents are refusing to leave their properties, resulting in supplies being taken to them by emergency crews.

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Music

Strange sound heard in the skies of Billingshurst, UK


Sott.net
Mon, 05 Mar 2018 01:03 UTC
Strange sounds in Billingshurst, UK
© YouTube/Lee Ahern
YouTube user 'Lee Ahern' reported that the noise occurred around 7:00 am and sounded 'like a wood plainer, but different.'

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Attention

Yellowstone's Steamboat geyser sees rare eruption weeks after tremor swarm (VIDEO)


news.com.au
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:43 UTC
Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, erupts.
© AP Photo/Robb Long
Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, erupts.
Just weeks after Yellowstone National Park was rocked by more than 200 earthquakes, the world's tallest geyser (also at Yellowstone) has erupted.

Employees at the park, which is located in Wyoming, USA, had reported seeing an eruption coming from the Steamboat Geyser on Thursday.

The geyser has not erupted since September 3, 2014, according to Newsweek.

"We don't really know the exact duration for the eruption at this time," Wendy Stovall, a US Geological Survey scientist with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, told the news site, adding that it's possible it will erupt again.

Comment: Our planet is rocking:

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Cloud Precipitation

Fourth Nor'easter this month to bring snow and on the first day of Spring - and we can expect more to come

Jessa Schroeder
Daily Mail
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:54 UTC
FOURTH Nor'easter this monthon the first day of Spring bringing up to 11 INCHES of snow in NYC and New Jersey... and it WON'T be the last

Heavy wet snow of between five and 11 inches is predicted for North Jersey, New York City and lower Hudson Valley. Eight to 10 inches are expected in Bergen, Passaic, Essex and Morris counties
The first day of Spring is set to bring the fourth Nor'easter in the North East this month with up to 11 inches of snow predicted between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Earlier on Monday just three inches was predicted for the area but as the day progressed the National Weather Service anticipated that the snowfall would be heavier than first thought.

Heavy wet snow of between five and 11 inches is predicted for North Jersey, New York City and lower Hudson Valley.

Eight to 10 inches are expected in Bergen, Passaic, Essex and Morris counties.

The potential snow and rain storm is predicted to arrive on Tuesday and continue through midweek and the Nor'easter likely won't be the last of its kind for the season.

'Spring starts tomorrow, but snow is in the forecast,' the New York National Weather Service said on Twitter Monday morning.

Comment: Winter in the Northern hemisphere began brutally and has shown no signs of waning; weather in the southern hemisphere has been equally bizarre - all signs are pointing to our entry into an ice age:

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Ice Cube

The coming grand solar minimum can cause global cooling

Anthony Watts
Watts Up With That?
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:24 UTC
There's a lot of evidence mounting that solar cycle 25 will usher in a new grand solar minimum. Since about October 2005, when the sun's magnetic activity went into a sharp fall, solar activity has been markedly lower, with solar cycle 24 being the lowest in over 100 years.
solar cycle progression
© NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Interplanetary magnetic field
Meteorologist Paul Dorian at Vencore weather writes:
All indications are that the upcoming solar minimum which is expected to begin in 2019 may be even quieter than the last one which was the deepest in nearly a century.
Some scientists are even saying that we are on the cusp of a new grand solar minimum, and the upcoming cycle 25 may have even lower cycles after it.
This empirical modeling of solar recurrent patterns has also provided a consequent multi-millennial-scale experimental forecast, suggesting a solar decreasing trend toward Grand (Super) Minimum conditions for the upcoming period, AD2050-2250 (AD 3750-4450).
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Cloud Precipitation

Huge hailstones pummel Cullman, Alabama (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

Jessica Grotjahn
whnt.com
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:22 UTC
Huge hailstones smashed Cullman, Alabama

Huge hailstones smashed Cullman, Alabama
There's a lot of storm damage in Cullman County. The Cullman County School district announced classes would be canceled on Tuesday, due to the extent of the damage.

Hail battered hundreds of cars on the lot of Mitch Smith Chevrolet. Jerry Hayes confirmed that nearly all of the windshields have busted and the vehicle bodies have sustained heavy damage. The same thing happened 23-years ago to the same dealership.

Mitch Smith salesman Clint Chapman estimated the damage could exceed $4 million.


Comment: This was the same storm that produced this extreme lightning show over the Carolinas:

Electric storm at 30,000ft: Passenger captures astounding pyrotechnics through airplane window

Just a day earlier there was a similar event elsewhere in the US:

Extreme hailstorm pounds Brazos Valley, Texas (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

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Cloud Precipitation

Record rainfall for a March day causes flash floods in the north of the Dominican Republic

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:29 UTC
Puerto Plata
© José Urtecho
Floodwater in Puerto Plata
Record rainfall in northern parts of the Dominican Republic have caused flash flooding in Puerto Plata province.

Local media report that over 500 homes and businesses have been damaged. Comedores Económicos del Estado (CEED), the social service agency in the Dominican Republic, has distributed almost 6,000 meals as well as food supply packages to the affected populations, including the areas of Montellano, Sosúa, Playa Oeste, Aguas Negras and Rescate Ambar.

The severe weather struck during the evening of 15 March when it rained non-stop for around 7 hours. Further rain during the following days caused the San Marcos river and other smaller streams to overflow, flooding the neighborhoods (barrios) of Invi, Barrio Haiti, Los Domíngues and Las Mercedez.

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Attention

Ambae volcano in Vanuatu rumbling again, fresh ashfall


RNZ
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:05 UTC
The volcano on Ambae erupting in 2017.

The volcano on Ambae erupting in 2017.
Volcanic activity on Vanuatu's Ambae island has picked up again, with fresh ashfall reported across the island's west and south.

The entire island was evacuated late last year when the volcano at the island's centre erupted, blanketing the island in ash, suffocating crops and contaminating water.

The population returned when the eruption settled down after a month, but last night, the volcano's alert level was raised from level 2 to 3 -- what's called a "state of minor eruption."
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