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Severe winter weather warnings stop trains throughout Austria


The Local At
Wed, 04 Jan 2017 17:42 UTC
Snow Austria
© Ximeg/Wikimedia
A violent winter storm pattern will thrash through all of Austria this Wednesday. Recent forecasts have put the entire country under red alert and are predicting very difficult winter conditions that have gone so far as to impact the national train service.

According to Heute, the region of Upper Austria is currently under heavy snowfall and the outskirts of Vienna have already been hit by incredible wind speeds, peaking at 131km/hr. Within the city itself, gusts of up to 100km/hr were measured, which has lead to the closure of many major public parks, including the Augarten, Burggarten, Volksgarten, the grounds of the Belvedere Palace and Glorietteberg.

Even the city's central ice rink located in front of town hall known as the 'Wiener Eistraum' was forced to shut down due to potential dangerous conditions. City police have also reported trees toppling over onto the street, one even crushing a parked car in the district of Ottakring.
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Seismograph

Rare M3.9 earthquake hits Sydney, Australia; Government urges calm


Stuff.co.nz
Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:26 UTC
Sydney earthquake map

A 3.9-magnitude earthquake hit south of Sydney.
A small, rare earthquake has rattled Sydney, but Australian government officials are urging locals not to panic.

The 3.9 magnitude quake was centred 16km south of Campbelltown and struck at 1.13am (3.13am NZT).

According to Geoscience Australia, the quake would have been felt 56km from its epicentre.

Local MP Jai Rowell told his constituents to remain calm.

"It is hard to believe that we have had an earthquake in Wollondilly but we have," he said on Facebook.

He reminded locals to report any damage or injury to emergency services. There are currently no reports of damage.
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Eye 2

Eastern brown snake found consuming python in Ipswich, Australia

Daniel Uria
UPI
Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:09 UTC
Snakes
© N&S Snake Catcher
Snake catchers in Australia responded to an unusual call, arriving on the scene to find one deadly snake eating another.

N&S Snake Catcher shared video of a deadly eastern brown snake devouring a carpet python inside a home in Queensland on Monday.

"We will be here for a little while," the snake catchers wrote alongside a photo of the strange scene.

Eastern brown snakes are known to eat other snakes, including other eastern browns, alongside their typical diet of mice, frogs and lizards, but Sally Hill. co-owner with her husband of N&S Snake Catcher, told ABC News this scene was unlike anything they'd ever seen.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills man in Thakurgaon, Bangladesh


The Financial Express (Bangladesh)
Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:30 UTC
lightning
A man was killed by lightning strike at Vutdangi village in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon district on Tuesday.

The victim was identified as Sairul Islam, 38, son of late Saber Ali of the same village, according to a news agency report.

Sources said Sairul was struck by the lightning strike while he was working on his farm land.

He died on the spot.
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Igloo

Up to 32 inches of snow in 1.5 days for Longmont, Colorado

Robert
Ice Age Now
Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:02 UTC
Infrared map of the Western US
© NOAA

Comment: According to the NOAA, Longmont, Colorado has had an average annual snowfall of 41.0 inches in the past 30 years. An ice age cometh?


Up to 32 inches (75 cm) of snow Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday night for Longmont, Colorado (near Estes Park).

Today

Snow showers before 3pm, then snow after 3pm. Temperature falling to around 10 by 5pm. Wind chill values as low as -10. Windy, with a west wind 23 to 25 mph, with gusts as high as 40 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.

Tonight

Snow likely. Cloudy, with a temperature rising to around 14 by 4am. Wind chill values as low as -11. Windy, with a west wind 23 to 26 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.

Wednesday

Snow. Areas of blowing snow. High near 18. Wind chill values as low as -7. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches possible.

Wednesday Night Snow. Areas of blowing snow. Low around 3. Wind chill values as low as -15. Breezy, with a west wind 15 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible.
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Attention

Rare whale found dead at Island Beach State Park, New Jersey

Carly Baldwin
Middletown Patch
Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:45 UTC
A Blainville beaked whale
© NOAA
A Blainville beaked whale
There have been two incidents of dead marine mammals washing ashore along the New Jersey Coast over the past week, Bob Schoelkopf of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine told Patch Tuesday. The first was a whale that washed ashore at Island Beach State Park before the New Year's weekend, and the second was a dead dolphin that washed ashore at Sandy Hook on Friday. The dolphin had a large shark bite in her, but it was healed and appeared to be from one to two years ago, he said.

On Friday, Dec. 30 a dead female dolphin washed up on the bay side of Sandy Hook. It was first spotted by some birders in the area. Marine Mammal Stranding Center volunteers picked the dolphin up Saturday, and she was taken to a state lab for testing. At first the dolphin appeared to be pregnant, but an exam revealed she was not, Schoelkopf said.
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Attention

3.9 magnitude tremor strikes off UK coast - biggest quake for nearly a decade

Ross Parker
Daily Mail (UK)
Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:43 UTC
Scarborough coastline earthquake

The earthquake, at 6.52pm, was spotted by the monitoring station at Scarborough and showed up on the seismograph (pictured)
The largest earthquake to hit Britain for almost a decade was felt in North Yorkshire on Tuesday evening.

The tremor measuring 3.9 on the Richter Scale happened in the North Sea 100 miles east of Scarborough at 6.52pm, the British Geological Survey said.

Although the British Isles are not at risk of a devastating earthquake bringing widescale destruction or mass casualties, it is thought 20 to 30 minor movements happen each year.

Yesterday's quake was the largest since a 5.2 magnitude tremor hit Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, in February 2008. It was felt as far away as Aberdeen and Ireland.

The largest earthquake ever recorded in the UK measured 6.1 and happened on Dogger Bank, in the North Sea, in 1931.

The most destructive was around Colchester, Essex, in 1884, measuring 4.6 on the Richter Scale. Some 1,200 buildings needed repairs, chimneys collapsed and walls were cracked, the British Geological Survey said.

It was 60 miles offshore but was still powerful enough to cause minor damage to buildings on the east coast of England.

The British Geological Survey said on its website that earthquakes on the east coast of the UK are relatively rare.
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Bizarro Earth

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes off Fiji


RT
Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:33 UTC
Fiji Earthquake
© earthquake.usgs.gov/Reuters
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has struck off the coast of Fiji, according to the US Geological Survey.

The quake centered some 221 km southwest of Nadi at a depth of 15.2 km, the USGS said.

Tsunami waves are possible for coasts located within 300 kilometers of the earthquake epicenter, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has warned.

The PTWC stressed that based on available data, there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii and only "parts of the Pacific located closer to the earthquake" are at risk.

Tsunami waves, according to the PTWC, are expected to reach Suva, the capital of the South Pacific island nation of Fiji at 10:45pm GMT.
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Attention

Mysterious 'boom' shakes homes in Connecticut


NBC News - Connecticut
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:35 UTC
Southington Connecticut neighborhood
© NBC News
A loud 'boom' rocked homes in Southington and surrounding towns on Monday morning. Police were unable to determine what caused the explosion-type sound.
Authorities investigated a loud bang after residents reported the noise shook homes in the Southington, Wolcott and Cheshire areas, but found no explanation.

Southington police said they received between 30 and 40 calls reporting a loud explosion around 10:30 a.m. Many of the calls came from the southwest part of town. Both the police and fire departments responded to investigate the calls, but found nothing out of the ordinary.

Police said they did not receive any reports of power outages, damage, or smoke. Southington officials also consulted with surrounding departments, which also received calls, but turned up nothing.

Energy companies also checked in and reported nothing amiss.

The nature of the boom and where it came from are unclear at this time.
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Water

These seabirds are choking on a plastic ocean

Nick Paton Walsh
My Wabash Valley
Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:49 UTC
Plastic
Shock, combined with a little wonder at the unnatural. That's how I feel as I watch the knife slice through the sternum of a dead Laysan albatross.

Inside its ribcage: a sickening array of plastic.

A red bottle top from a well-known soft drink brand. A cigarette lighter. Or two. Long thin items I couldn't begin to identify.

It looked like the bird had swallowed the contents of an entire trash can whole.

Yet this wasn't because it dined on a refuse site. I was on Midway Island, in the remote Pacific Ocean, at least 1,500 miles from the nearest one of those. This disgusting and otherworldly sight exists because we're throwing the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic into the oceans every minute. By 2050, a number of researchers expect the world's oceans to contain more plastic than fish, by weight.

Matt Brown, from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, used to live on the island and is now our guide.
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