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Rainbow appears in Taiwan for 9 continuous hours as experts claim it has broken record

Tiffany Lo
Daily Mail
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:38 UTC
A rainbow appeared near Chinese Culture University in Taiwan for almost nine hours yesterday

A rainbow appeared near Chinese Culture University in Taiwan for almost nine hours yesterday
A rainbow appeared in the sky above Taipei for nine hours continuously yesterday, claimed a meteorology expert.

It's said to be the world's longest-lasting rainbow which was visible from 7am to 4pm in the capital of Taiwan.

The expert, who is a professor of Atmospheric Science, said the previous world record was six hours and it was observed in Sheffield, United Kingdom, in 1994.

He also explained that the rainbow yesterday lasted for such a long time because monsoon was effecting northern Taiwan.

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Powerful Cyclone Ockhi kills at least 16 across India and Sri Lanka


The Straits Times
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:29 UTC
A major storm left three dead, two missing and more than a dozen injured across Sri Lanka on Nov 30, 2017
© AFP
A major storm left three dead, two missing and more than a dozen injured across Sri Lanka on Nov 30, 2017
A powerful cyclone has killed at least 16 people across India and Sri Lanka, uprooting trees and cutting power for millions amid warnings on Friday (Dec 1) that the storm would intensify.

Disaster officials said nine people were killed in India and seven in neighbouring Sri Lanka, most crushed by trees ripped up by destructive winds raging at 130km per hour.

Warships have been deployed to comb the southeastern coast for fishing boats missing in wild seas, India's Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.

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Third plasma filament eruption in as many weeks; Grand Solar Minimum threat

Oppenheimer Ranch Project
You Tube
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:18 UTC
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Solar wind is calming and solar flaring remains low. The next coronal hole stream is not due until the weekend but a small, weak CME may impact earth today from the filament eruption center-disk 3 days ago. On top of this, the third plasma filament in less than tree weeks just ripped off the top side of the sun. What the heck is happening on our sun?

It is becoming very clear that CME via, plasma filament destabilization may be one of our most pressing issues moving forward. Certainly, these filaments will add to the mix as we document the descent into this historic Earth changing time. Heads up.


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Cloud Precipitation

Torrential rainfall, floods paralyze Albania; 1 person dead


Daily Mail
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:38 UTC
Local resident Nue Shkreta looks at a collapsed bridge at the entrance of his village Mamuras, northern Albania, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017.
© Florent Bajrami
Local resident Nue Shkreta looks at a collapsed bridge at the entrance of his village Mamuras, northern Albania, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017.
At least one person has died during heavy rainfall that flooded many parts of Albania, paralyzing its ports and causing flights from its only international airport to be suspended, authorities said Friday.

Three other people were injured and 18 houses were destroyed in weather-related incidents over the past 24 hours, the government said in a statement.

Many roads remained blocked across the Balkan country, while some 71,000 residents were affected by power cuts.

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Earthquake of magnitude 6.0 hits off northeast Papua New Guinea

Tom Westbrook and Jane Wardell
Channel News Asia
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:25 UTC
The quake hit at a depth of 60km, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
© USGS
The quake hit at a depth of 60km, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck the northeast coast of the Pacific Ocean nation of Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the United States Geographical Survey (USGS) said.

The quake hit at 0250 GMT at a depth of around 53 km (37 miles), according to USGS. No tsunami warning was immediately issued.

Quakes are common in Papua New Guinea, which sits on the Pacific's "Ring of Fire", a hotspot for seismic activity due to friction between tectonic plates. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties after the tremor.

Friday's quake was downgraded from an initial measurement of 6.3 magnitude by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).

Source: Reuters
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IFAW probes latest right whale death on Nantucket, Massachusetts


CapeCod.com
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:43 UTC
The remains of a North Atlantic right whale found this week on Nantucket, Mass.

The remains of a North Atlantic right whale found this week on Nantucket, Mass.
Scientists say they cannot determine what may have killed the right whale that washed up on Nantucket over the weekend.

A whale carcass was discovered on a Medaket beach on Sunday. Research teams from the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution arrived on Monday but were unable to gather much information.

The animal had decomposed to the point where scientists could not determine its gender or what may have led to its death. The length of the whale was somewhere between 13 and 14 meters.

Comment: See also: North Atlantic right whales close to extinction again

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Bizarro Earth

Powerful 6.0 earthquake hits city of Kerman in north eastern Iran


RT
Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:07 UTC
Kerman Earthquake
© CSEM/EMSC
An earthquake with a magnitude of up to 6.3 has hit eastern Iran near the city of Kerman, seismological centers report.

The earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 10km (6.2 miles), some 60km (37 miles) from the city of Kerman, which has a population of over 800,000, including suburbs.

The quake's magnitude was initially reported at 6.3 by the US Geological Survey (USGS), cited by Reuters, and at 5.9 by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC). Both later revised it to 6.0.
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Rare 4.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Dover, Delaware

Vince Lattanzio
NBC 10
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 21:34 UTC
Earthquake map
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake has rumbled the Philadelphia region Thursday afternoon.

The United States Geological Survey says the tremor struck along the Delaware Bay near Dover, Delaware. It's a short distance north of the Dover Air Force Base.

The quake was shallow with a depth of 5 miles. It was first recorded with a magnitude of 5.1, but was revised to 4.1 around 5:10 p.m.

Comment: The USGS said it received more than 6,500 responses within an hour of the quake from people who felt the temblor throughout the Mid-Atlantic - as far south as suburban Washington, D.C., and as far north as the Poughkeepsie, New York, area.

USGS geophysicist, Cheng Shengzao, said the East Coast quake was surprising, "This is wild. It's not often that this happens."

Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the USGS's earthquake information center in Colorado, said he didn't expect any significant damage from the small quake, which he described as unusual.

"I was talking with the other seismologists and we said, 'Wow, we don't ever remember a quake in Delaware," he said.

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Very strong shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.4 hits central Mid Atlantic Ridge

Armand Vervaeck
Earthquake-Report
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:48 UTC
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Most important Earthquake Data:

Magnitude : 6.4

Local Time (conversion only below land) : Unknown

GMT/UTC Time : 2017-11-30 06:32:50

Depth (Hypocenter) : 10 km
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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rainfall floods parts of Andalusia, Spain

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:15 UTC
Flood damage in Campillos, Spain, November 2017.
© Ayuntamiento de Campillos
Flood damage in Campillos, Spain, November 2017.
A short period of heavy rain in Andalusia, southern Spain, caused flash flooding in the provinces of Malaga, Granada, Seville and Cadiz on Wednesday, 29 November 2017.

A train was derailed near Seville with at least 21 people injured, 2 of them seriously. Local media said the derailment was caused by the heavy rain.

Houses were damaged in several areas, including Jerez in Cadiz, Badolatosa in Seville, and the town of Campillos in Malaga.
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