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Rare Sowerby's beaked whale dies after becoming stranded in Wicklow Harbor, Ireland

Shane O'Brien
IrishCentral
Sun, 05 Jul 2020 13:08 UTC
The male Sowerby's beaked whale was spotted in distress in Wicklow Harbor on Saturday.
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The male Sowerby's beaked whale was spotted in distress in Wicklow Harbor on Saturday.
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) said that a male Sowerby's beaked whale was spotted in distress in Wicklow Harbor on Saturday morning after it had appeared to lose its bearings.

A rare whale has died after it became stranded in an Irish harbor on Saturday.

The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) said that a male Sowerby's beaked whale was spotted in distress in Wicklow Harbor on Saturday morning after it had appeared to lose its bearings.

Sowerby's beaked whales are normally found in the North Atlantic and the one found in Wicklow Harbor was unable to survive in the shallower waters of the Irish Sea.

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Six people killed and one missing after landslide during heavy rainfall in Bajhang, Nepal


The Kathmandu Post
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:44 UTC
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The landslide has displaced 400 people in the settlement and put 45 other households at risk of being swept away.

At least six people died and a person went missing in a landslide that occurred in Bajhang district on Saturday morning. Among the deceased, four are of the same family.

The landslide, which occurred at Mallesi Village in Ward No. 8 of Kedarsiyun Rural Municipality at around 1am, swept away 18 houses and damaged two others, locals say.

Rammati Jethara, 40, her 12-year-old son Prayag, her two daughters Shanti, 14, and Ashmita, 16, and 80-year-old Dale Jethara and 13-year-old Santu Jethara were buried to death, according to Suresh Jethara, a local resident.
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Lightning strikes kill at least 43 people in a day in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India


Business Standard
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:38 UTC
Rainfall was recorded at isolated places in Uttar Pradesh, where at least 23 people were killed and 29 others injured after being struck by lightning.

Rainfall was recorded at isolated places in Uttar Pradesh, where at least 23 people were killed and 29 others injured after being struck by lightning. Representative image
North India witnessed predominantly sultry weather, with Punjab and Haryana recording above-normal day temperatures.

At least 43 people were killed after being struck by lightning in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as rains and thunderstorm occurred in several parts of the country on Saturday, officials said.

Instances of wall collapse, uprooting of trees and waterlogging were reported in Maharashtra as heavy rains lashed large parts of the western state, including Mumbai, for the second day on Saturday. However, there were no casualties.

North India witnessed predominantly sultry weather, with Punjab and Haryana recording above-normal day temperatures.

In the national capital, the mercury oscillated between 37 and 40 degrees Celsius in most parts of the city.

Light rains and cloudy skies over the next three-four days are expected to keep the mercury in check in the national capital, Meteorological department officials said.

Comment: See in addition this report about fatalities from a day earlier: Lightning strikes kill 8 more in Bihar, India - death toll reaches over 100 in a week for the state

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Big July snowstorm at ski resort in southern Norway - at least 14 inches dumped


j2ski.com
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 11:45 UTC
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Summer snow in southern Norway
The Fonna (Folgefonn) Glacier in Norway was closed today due to a big snowstorm that deposited at least 35cm (14 inches) of fresh snow on the area (pictured above this morning).

The road up to the glacier was closed due to the snow.

Fonna is one of three glacier areas currently open to skiers in Norway and one of 11 in Europe.

It opened for the season about two months ago after teams took around two months to dig out exceptionally deep snow burying the road to it.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 8 more in Bihar, India - death toll reaches over 100 in a week for the state


The Wire
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 10:45 UTC
Representative image

Representative image
More than 100 people have died due to lightning strikes in the state in the last week.

At least eight people were killed after being struck by lightning across Bihar on Friday, officials said.

The eight fatalities were reported from five districts, with Samastipur accounting for the highest number of three deaths, the Disaster Management Department said.

Two deaths were reported from Lakhisarai and one death each was reported from Gaya, Banka and Jamui districts, it said.
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Two earthquakes shake East Hawaii


Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 10:11 UTC
Hawaii earthquakes
© Los Angeles Times
The location and shaking intensity of a magnitude 4.1 earthquake Friday afternoon near Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Two earthquakes, one Thursday night and another Friday afternoon, rattled East Hawaii.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory recorded the first, a magnitude-4.6 temblor located beneath Kilauea Volcano's south flank, at 11:20 p.m. Thursday.

The earthquake was centered about 4.3 miles south of Pu'u 'O'o at a depth of approximately 4.2 miles.

Very light shaking was reported throughout the Big Island, Maui, and Lanai. The U.S. Geological Survey's "Did you feel it?" service received more than 725 felt reports within the first hour after the earthquake.

According to HVO seismologist Ashton Flinders, the earthquake had no apparent effect on Kilauea or Mauna Loa volcanoes.

"Aftershocks are possible and may be felt," Flinders said.

Kilauea's south flank has been the site of 20 earthquakes of magnitude-4.0 or greater during the past 20 years. Most are caused by abrupt motion of the volcano's south flank, which moves to the southeast over the oceanic crust.

This quake was likely an aftershock of the 2018 magnitude-6.9 earthquake as the volcano continues to settle.
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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rain floods southern Japan, leaving many presumed dead, several missing


ABC News
Sat, 04 Jul 2020 06:05 UTC
Japan floods
© AP/Kyodo News
The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded its alert from the highest level it had initially posted to warn against floods.
Heavy rain in southern Japan has triggered flooding and mudslides, leaving at least two presumed dead, about 10 missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials say.

More than 75,000 residents in the southern prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were asked to evacuate on Saturday following pounding rains overnight.

NHK television footage showed large areas of Hitoyoshi town in Kumamoto inundated in muddy waters that gushed out from the Kuma River.

Many cars were submerged up to their windows.

Mudslides smashed into houses and floodwaters carried trunks from uprooted trees.

Several people were standing atop a convenience store as they waited for rescuers.

"I smelled mud, and the whole area was vibrating with river water. I've never experienced anything like this," a man in a shelter in Yatsushiro city, western Kumamoto, told NHK TV.

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Severe floods in China leave over 106 dead or missing - 15 million affected

Raymond Zhong
New York Times
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:12 UTC
Floodwaters surrounding a village in the Guangxi region of southern China, in a photo released last month by Xinhua, a state-run news agency
© Lu Boan/Xinhua
Floodwaters surrounding a village in the Guangxi region of southern China, in a photo released last month by Xinhua, a state-run news agency
Unusually intense rainfall has swept away buildings and ruined homes in southern China, affecting about 15 million residents. More downpours are forecast for Saturday.

In the inland Chinese city of Yichang, the murky water ran waist-high, stranding people in their cars and turning streets into canals. Near the metropolis of Chongqing, angry torrents of water swept away country roads. The tourist town of Yangshuo experienced a cloudburst that an official called a once-in-two-centuries event.

Weeks of abnormally intense rains have wrought destruction across southern China, leaving at least 106 people dead or missing and affecting 15 million residents in the worst flooding that parts of the region have seen in decades.

One of the hardest-hit provinces has been Hubei, whose capital, Wuhan, also had the first emergence of the coronavirus last year. Late last month, rescuers smashed car windows to free passengers trapped by floodwater in Yichang, a city in Hubei down the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges Dam, one of the world's largest.

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Cloud Precipitation

Flash flooding strikes Mississippi, Tennessee as state of emergency declared - 10 inches of rain in a short time

Travis Fedschun
Fox News
Thu, 02 Jul 2020 17:45 UTC
A 911 call center in Tennessee was flooded and had to be evacuated

Floodwaters overtook roads and left some vehicles stranded on Wednesday as drenching storms pounded northern Mississippi.
© Ecru Police Department
Floodwaters overtook roads and left some vehicles stranded on Wednesday as drenching storms pounded northern Mississippi.
A state of emergency has been declared for one county in Tennessee after slow-moving thunderstorms spawned flash flooding across the region Wednesday.

The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Memphis issued a flash flood emergency midday after several inches of rain fell in a short amount of time - up to 10 inches in some locations.

"It's been a hell of a day in Selmer, but we're going to get through this," Mayor John Smith told FOX13.

McNairy County Mayor Larry Smith declared the state of emergency on Wednesday morning, and it remains in effect through Thursday.

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Snowflake

Snowy start to July in Banff National Park, Canada


The Weather Channel
Fri, 03 Jul 2020 17:36 UTC
Snowy conditions observed in Banff National Park on July 2, 2020.
© Sunshine Village Ski Resort
Snowy conditions observed in Banff National Park on July 2, 2020.
It's not common, but it does happen, and it coincided with a few days of markedly cooler-than-normal temperatures in Western Canada.

Though we normally expect summer-like warmth in Canada by July 1st -- and indeed, parts of Central Canada were cooking in temperatures at or above the 30-degree mark -- an unwelcome cooldown is never completely out of the question provided the right ingredients are there.

In the case of this year, much of Western Canada found itself beneath an upper-level low that brought some unstable conditions and noticeably cooler temperatures.
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