June 03, 2014 - EARTH - The following stories constitutes some of the latest incidents of Earth changes across the globe.
It is now the month of June and there is still ice hovering on the southern shores of Lake Superior making it now the latest this much ice has been on the lake this late in the season. The last time ice was around this late into the year was back in 2003 when the frozen water finally melted on May 29th. Here is what the shores of northern Michigan looked like on Saturday...
Ice has all collected on the southern end of the lake and can be seen by satellite image... this one taken this past Thursday.
The lake is now 2.1% ice covered but is expected to be ice free by the weekend.
- FOX9.
Road workers got more than they bargained for when the pothole they were sent to inspect turned out to be a gaping chasm 11ft deep.
The giant sinkhole - which measured 16ft wide, was found by workers at Somerset County Council.
The huge pit was so deep it needed 200 tonnes of stone to fill it before draining and resurfacing works could take place.
Harvey Siggs, cabinet member for highways at Somerset County Council, said it was unclear what caused the massive hole.
He said: "Our roads have been hit hard following the severe weather over the last couple of years but our teams have worked exceptionally hard throughout.
"Somerset County Council repaired over 25,000 potholes during the last financial year which is nearly 70 every day - thankfully extreme incidents like this one are very rare.
"I'd like to praise the highways staff and contractors involved in this repair project."
The road, in Green Ore, Wells, was forced to close while work was carried out and reopened last week. - Mirror.
The man, who was driving on the A8 motorway on his way home near the Polish city of Wroclaw, was eager to film the adverse weather and so decided to attach a camera to his windscreen.
However, his footage of the torrential rain also captured a more shocking moment.
The driver, who uploaded the video to YouTube after the incident, is heard shouting an expletive at the tense moment the lightning appears to create a ball of fire, as it crashes onto the roof of the lorry.
The footage has already gone viral with over 120,000 views.
WATCH: Lightning strikes truck on Polish highway.
Polish road safety expert, Jozef Wieczorek, said: "Instances where vehicles are hit by lightning are extremely rare simply because they are sitting on rubber tyres, and that means they don't earth the electricity through the vehicle.
"When it does happen all that usually takes place is that the electricity goes round the vehicle, and that seems to be the case here.
"If you look at the video you can see that the lightning seems to go round the lorry before it hits the central reservation and the central crash barrier, leaving a red hot glowing spot that quickly vanishes behind the car.
"It seems as if the lightning was destined for the crash barrier which is metal and the truck was simply in the way.
"The reason there was no report of an accident is because the truck was probably not damaged although it would have made a deafening bang inside the cab." - Express.
A hurricane hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Saturday, leaving over 100 people stranded on a highway.
WATCH: 100 hundred rescued from hurricane force winds in China.
The gale force winds also created a sandstorm, with visibility dropping to less than seven feet.
Firefighters and highway traffic policemen arrived at the site with an armoured personnel carrier to rescue the travellers. They tied rope to the travellers' cars to help the passengers pull themselves into the rescue vehicle in the high winds.
All the people standed on the highway were rescued. - Telegraph.
At least eight persons were killed and two others went missing in
separate incidents of boat capsize and other mishaps, when a severe
northwester hit Jharsuguda and Bargarh districts of western Odisha early
on Sunday morning.
While seven persons were killed, including five in four boat mishaps in the Hirakud reservoir on the river Mahanadi, in Jharsuguda district, a woman died in a boat tragedy in Bargarh district, sources in the Special Relief Commissioner's (SRC) office said.
The body of Purnima Mallick (45) was fished out of the reservoir at Pudubagh, while Tejraj Kalo (65) and his son Bibhuti Kalo (35) died after their boat capsized in Hirakud at Khebra, they said.
Similarly, bodies of Jagannath Dhurua (35) and Khusiram Sa (28) were fished out of the reservoir from different places in Jharsuguda district. A man was missing after a boat mishap in Lakhanpur area.
One Biswambar Bhoi (60) died when lightning struck at Singeipalli in Jharsuguda district.
Eight-year-old Bibek Seth was killed when an uprooted tree fell on him during a storm in Lakhanpur area. Similarly, a woman Hemakanti Dhurua drowned when a boat sunk at Ambabana in Bargarh district while her husband Ashok
Dhurua went missing, SRC office sources said. Most of the victims were fishermen as the disaster lashed the region when they had gone out for fishing in country boats. Efforts were on to locate the two missing persons.
Rescue and search operation has been launched by the personnel of fire brigade and Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), they said. - Indian Express.
Emergency services rushed more than 1600 people to hospital suffering
from heat stroke and heat exhaustion due to a week of unseasonably hot
weather through June 1, Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency said
Tuesday.
According to the agency, temperatures in some areas in Japan soared to above 35 degrees Celsius, with the heatwave causing a preliminary total of 1,637 people to be rushed to hospital, with four of them dying from their symptoms.
The figure for those taken to hospitals by ambulance was some seven times higher than for the same time a year earlier, the agency said, with the worst cases seen as the mercury spiked on May 31 and June 1.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, in Tatebayashi in Gunma Prefecture and Ibigawa in Gifu Prefecture, temperatures rose to as high as 36.3 C.
The heatwave was still punishing Tuesday and showing no signs of abating, the meteorological agency said Tuesday, with temperatures hitting 37.8 C in the town of Otofuke in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture.
The agency said that record temperatures for the year were logged at 12 points around Japan and an official heat alert had been issued for the majority of Hokkaido and Akita Prefecture, in Japan's northeast.
The disaster agency confirmed Tuesday that more than 40 percent of those requiring hospital stays were aged 65 or older. - Shanghai Daily.
WATCH: Signs of change - May, 2014.
Lake Superior Breaks Record With Ice Still Around
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| Lake Superior May, 31th 2014. @LAKSuperiorFoto |
It is now the month of June and there is still ice hovering on the southern shores of Lake Superior making it now the latest this much ice has been on the lake this late in the season. The last time ice was around this late into the year was back in 2003 when the frozen water finally melted on May 29th. Here is what the shores of northern Michigan looked like on Saturday...
Ice has all collected on the southern end of the lake and can be seen by satellite image... this one taken this past Thursday.
The lake is now 2.1% ice covered but is expected to be ice free by the weekend.
- FOX9.
Huge 16 FOOT Wide Sinkhole Uncovered By Highway Engineers In Summerset, UK
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| The road workers were expecting to find a small dent in one of
Somerset's roads but were instead faced with a real sinking feeling. A gaping chasm measuring 16ft wide in Somerset |
Road workers got more than they bargained for when the pothole they were sent to inspect turned out to be a gaping chasm 11ft deep.
The giant sinkhole - which measured 16ft wide, was found by workers at Somerset County Council.
The huge pit was so deep it needed 200 tonnes of stone to fill it before draining and resurfacing works could take place.
Harvey Siggs, cabinet member for highways at Somerset County Council, said it was unclear what caused the massive hole.
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| Deep: The hole needed 200 tonnes of stone to fill |
He said: "Our roads have been hit hard following the severe weather over the last couple of years but our teams have worked exceptionally hard throughout.
"Somerset County Council repaired over 25,000 potholes during the last financial year which is nearly 70 every day - thankfully extreme incidents like this one are very rare.
"I'd like to praise the highways staff and contractors involved in this repair project."
The road, in Green Ore, Wells, was forced to close while work was carried out and reopened last week. - Mirror.
Dramatic Film Of Lightning Bolt Striking Lorry On Motorway In Poland
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| A motorist was caught in the eye of the storm, when he saw an intense bolt of lightning strike a lorry traveling in the opposite direction. The lorry appears to be engulfed in flames. CEN |
The man, who was driving on the A8 motorway on his way home near the Polish city of Wroclaw, was eager to film the adverse weather and so decided to attach a camera to his windscreen.
However, his footage of the torrential rain also captured a more shocking moment.
The driver, who uploaded the video to YouTube after the incident, is heard shouting an expletive at the tense moment the lightning appears to create a ball of fire, as it crashes onto the roof of the lorry.
The footage has already gone viral with over 120,000 views.
WATCH: Lightning strikes truck on Polish highway.
Polish road safety expert, Jozef Wieczorek, said: "Instances where vehicles are hit by lightning are extremely rare simply because they are sitting on rubber tyres, and that means they don't earth the electricity through the vehicle.
"When it does happen all that usually takes place is that the electricity goes round the vehicle, and that seems to be the case here.
"If you look at the video you can see that the lightning seems to go round the lorry before it hits the central reservation and the central crash barrier, leaving a red hot glowing spot that quickly vanishes behind the car.
"It seems as if the lightning was destined for the crash barrier which is metal and the truck was simply in the way.
"The reason there was no report of an accident is because the truck was probably not damaged although it would have made a deafening bang inside the cab." - Express.
Hurricane Force Winds In China Force Rescue Of 100 People From Highway
Footage emerges of firefighters battling against gale force winds to
rescue over 100 people stranded on a highway during a hurricane in China
A hurricane hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Saturday, leaving over 100 people stranded on a highway.
WATCH: 100 hundred rescued from hurricane force winds in China.
The gale force winds also created a sandstorm, with visibility dropping to less than seven feet.
Firefighters and highway traffic policemen arrived at the site with an armoured personnel carrier to rescue the travellers. They tied rope to the travellers' cars to help the passengers pull themselves into the rescue vehicle in the high winds.
All the people standed on the highway were rescued. - Telegraph.
Eight Killed, Two Missing As Storm Hits Odisha, India
While seven persons were killed, including five in four boat mishaps in the Hirakud reservoir on the river Mahanadi, in Jharsuguda district, a woman died in a boat tragedy in Bargarh district, sources in the Special Relief Commissioner's (SRC) office said.
The body of Purnima Mallick (45) was fished out of the reservoir at Pudubagh, while Tejraj Kalo (65) and his son Bibhuti Kalo (35) died after their boat capsized in Hirakud at Khebra, they said.
Similarly, bodies of Jagannath Dhurua (35) and Khusiram Sa (28) were fished out of the reservoir from different places in Jharsuguda district. A man was missing after a boat mishap in Lakhanpur area.
One Biswambar Bhoi (60) died when lightning struck at Singeipalli in Jharsuguda district.
Eight-year-old Bibek Seth was killed when an uprooted tree fell on him during a storm in Lakhanpur area. Similarly, a woman Hemakanti Dhurua drowned when a boat sunk at Ambabana in Bargarh district while her husband Ashok
Dhurua went missing, SRC office sources said. Most of the victims were fishermen as the disaster lashed the region when they had gone out for fishing in country boats. Efforts were on to locate the two missing persons.
Rescue and search operation has been launched by the personnel of fire brigade and Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF), they said. - Indian Express.
Freak Heatwave Kills 4, Hospitalizes 1,600 In Japan Last Week
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| Pedestrians use their parasols to shelter from the strong sunshine in Tokyo on June 1, 2014 AFP Photo/Yoshikazu Tsuno |
According to the agency, temperatures in some areas in Japan soared to above 35 degrees Celsius, with the heatwave causing a preliminary total of 1,637 people to be rushed to hospital, with four of them dying from their symptoms.
The figure for those taken to hospitals by ambulance was some seven times higher than for the same time a year earlier, the agency said, with the worst cases seen as the mercury spiked on May 31 and June 1.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, in Tatebayashi in Gunma Prefecture and Ibigawa in Gifu Prefecture, temperatures rose to as high as 36.3 C.
The heatwave was still punishing Tuesday and showing no signs of abating, the meteorological agency said Tuesday, with temperatures hitting 37.8 C in the town of Otofuke in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture.
The agency said that record temperatures for the year were logged at 12 points around Japan and an official heat alert had been issued for the majority of Hokkaido and Akita Prefecture, in Japan's northeast.
The disaster agency confirmed Tuesday that more than 40 percent of those requiring hospital stays were aged 65 or older. - Shanghai Daily.
Stunning Video Of Extreme Weather In May
Large scale disasters continue to strike with regularity, causing
catastrophic damage to multiple areas around the globe, and leaving
hundreds of thousands of people displaced. Rare, strange, unusually
extreme and 'biblical' weather conditions have taken place the past week
or so. Also included are some dramatically breathtaking weather events
caught on video last month.
WATCH: Signs of change - May, 2014.
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