EXTREME WEATHER ANOMALIES: Freak Hailstorm And Tornado Strikes Saudi Arabia - Covering Desert, Streets And Entire Cities With White Icy Stones! [PHOTOS + VIDEOS]

April 9, 2016 - SAUDI ARABIA - An unusual freak hailstorm hit Saudi Arabia on April 6, 2016 covering the desert, streets and entire cities with white icy stones.

The thunderstorms were so powerful that they created a tornado just 100km way from Riyadh.

Stormy conditions are growing and sweeping across Saudi Arabia since Monday, April 3, 2016.

The storm line has now reached central Saudi Arabia where the desert suddenly turned white on April 6, 2016.

The low is sweeping from North to South and is currently flooding the city of Ta'if in biblical proportions.

Extreme wind gusts are also accompanying the stormy weather.

So there is cold air coming from the north and warm air coming from the south.

As the clash in the center of the country, they create a kind of belt, responsible for this extreme weather phenomenon.


WATCH: Freak hailstorm in Saudi Arabia.

Sometimes the strong winds are creating sand tornado and sandstorms. This one was captured just 100km away from Riyadh!

This extreme weather also reached Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and western Yemen.

Anomalous is the best terminology I can find! - Strange Sounds.

INFRASTRUCTURE COLLAPSE: Plane Crashes On Takeoff From Tacloban Airport - As Tropical Storm Mekkhala, Packing Winds Of 62 Miles Per Hour, Hit The Philippines; Ferry Services Suspended; Thousands Stranded!

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) confirmed reports that a Philippine-registered Bombardier GL5T type aircraft with a seating
capacity of 19 and with tail number RP-C9363 operated by Challenger Aero swerved upon takeoff and rolled due to the effect of crosswind.
It is now parked 50 meters from the grassy portion of the runway.

January 17, 2015 - THE PHILIPPINES - A plane carrying top aides of Philippine President Benigno Aquino that was following Pope Francis overshot a runway as it tried to take off in stormy weather at Tacloban airport on Saturday.

Police told local media that the plane had difficultly while attempting a take off but no one was injured in the incident.

Two more planes on the Pope's entourage were not able to take off at press time as the Bombardier was obstructing the runway. Airport ground
personnel are trying to extricate the aircraft from its spot to bring it to the remote parking bay to normalize airport operations.

CAAP ground personnel who immediately responded to the accident said all passengers are safe and air accident investigators are now looking into the matter.

Pope Francis on Saturday left the typhoon-hit region four hours ahead of schedule because of the approaching storm.

Tropical Storm Mekkhala, packing winds of 62 miles per hour, suspended ferry services to Leyte province and stranded thousands of travellers including some who wanted to see the Pope.

WATCH: Plane overshoots Tacloban runway with Filipino govt officials onboard.

WATCH: One dead and a plane crash - Tropical Storm Mekkhala / Amang makes landfall.

- Telegraph.

INFRASTRUCTURE COLLAPSE: South Korean Ship Sinks Off Russia's Chukotka Peninsula - One Person Killed; Over 50 Missing!

The Bering Sea (RIA Novosti / Alexander Liskin)

December 1, 2014 - CHUKOTKA PENINSULA, RUSSIA - Rescuers are searching for 54 people who were on board a South Korean vessel that sank near the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East.

An emergency on board the Oryong 501trawler started sometime before 17:30 local time (0530 GMT) on Monday, when information the ship being in peril was sent to local rescue services.

The vessel reportedly did not send a distress call.

There were 62 people on board, rescuers said.

Eight people were recovered alive, but one died later due to overexposure.

The remaining 54 people are not accounted for and are feared dead.

Four Russian fishing boats were the first to respond to the disaster and led the rescue effort.

But their task is a difficult one due to nightfall and a stormy weather in the Bering Sea, where the Korean ship sank.

WATCH: South Korean trawler sinks off coast of Chukotka - 1 dead, 50+ missing.

Waves up to six meters high and wind gusts up to 27 meters per second hit the vessels, Interfax reported, citing the rescue services.

One of the people rescued is a Russian citizen, an official from the local fishery regulator, the report said. The sailor whose body has been identified is from South Korea.

Other crewmembers include citizens of Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea. - RT.

MASS FISH DIE-OFF: Hundreds Of Dead Blue Gill Sunfish Found Floating In Grenadier Pond In High Park Pond, Canada?!

August 04, 2013 - CANADA - City crews will begin cleaning up the hundreds of dead fish that are floating along the shores of High Park’s Grenadier Pond on Saturday in a phenomenon conservation officials call a die-off.

“Small die-offs are not uncommon, but this seems to be bigger than usual,” according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Die-offs can occur in hot or stormy weather, from temperature shifts in the water or a change in oxygen levels, a spokesperson says.


WATCH: City to remove hundreds of dead fish in High Park pond.

 

But there is no immediate explanation for the deaths of the blue gill sunfish in Grenadier Pond this week.

Three city staff will begin removing the dead fish from the water early Saturday morning using skimmers.

David Chapman, parks supervisor for the York Etobicoke District, said the workers won’t be venturing into the water and will return in the coming days to see if more fish have surfaced.

Fish sent for testing

The fish are visible all along the edge of the water, and there is a strong smell coming from the pond. Four fish have been sent to the University of Guelph to uncover the cause of the mass death.

Water samples were also taken to check for contaminants in the water. Test results will come back in several weeks.

Until then, it’s up to the city to clean up the dead fish. The ministry says both humans and pets are asked to avoid eating any dead or dying fish. - CBC.

MASS FISH DIE-OFF: "Marine Graveyard" - Thousands More Starfish Wash Ashore Dead In Cleethorpes, England; The Fourth Time This Year?!

April 06, 2013 - ENGLAND - ONCE again Cleethorpes beach has been carpeted with starfish. These pictures were snapped by reader Louise Riley as she was walking along the beach on Friday.

Picture by Geoff Peck.

Picture sent in by Louise Riley.

This is now the fourth time this year the area has become a marine graveyard, full of dead crabs, starfish and razorfish that have been washed up onto the shore. - Grimsby Telegraph.

MASS FISH DIE-OFF: Number Of Farmed Salmon Die At Eastern Shore Aquaculture Plant In Nova Scotia, Canada?!

March 11, 2013 - CANADA - A number of fish at the aquaculture facility in Owl’s Head, N.S., died because of a recent cold snap, says Snow Island Salmon Inc.

A male Atlantic salmon is shown swimming in salt water. (CBC).

The company could not say how many fish died.

The fish deaths have sparked concerns among residents who live in the area, but company manager Robert Taylor said the fish died because of the stormy weather over the past few weeks.

“We’ve had a provincial veterinarian; she was out on the site on Thursday. She took samples of the fish and it’s consistent with what we reported. The fatalities are weather related. They will confirm it later this week,” he said.

“[The fish] have cold water sores. They have net marks on them. When they touch the net and the water temperatures are cold it removes the protective layer and some of the fish continually bumped into the net and that caused their death."

Taylor said the dead fish were taken to a rendering plant.

Snow Island Salmon Inc., is the Canadian subsidiary of Scottish aquaculture company Loch Duart Ltd. - CBC.

MASS FISH DIE-OFF: Thousands Of Starfish Wash Up On Lincolnshire Beach Following Stormy Weather In The United Kingdom!

January 24, 2013 - UNITED KINGDOM - Thousands of dead starfish have washed up on a beach in Lincolnshire after a period of stormy weather.  Shocked photographer Simon Peck estimates that 4,000 starfish - along with whelks' eggs and pieces of shell - had surfaced on Cleethorpes beach.  Experts think that the animals were dislodged by rough waters in the recent wintry weather, with a similar incident happening at the same time last year.  Richard Harrington, communications manager at the Marine Conservation Society, said: 'These are all common starfish Asterias rubens.

Puzzle: Photographer Simon Peck was shocked to find around 4,000 starfish and bits of shell on the beach.

'The fact that there's what appear to be whelk eggs and different shells in these pictures, both shallow water residents, along with the common starfish, would back up the likelihood that it is simply stormy weather that has caused this big strand.  'We were aware of a strand like this in the region at this time last year, too.  'Mass strandings of starfish and sea potatoes, a kind of sand-dwelling sea urchin, happen quite regularly in different parts of the coast.  'They seem to occur most in winter, and around sandy areas, when it's likely that rough seas in shallow water dislodge them in large numbers.

Coastal confusion: Similar 'mass strandings' have happened in the past - mostly in winter, around sandy areas.

 'Strandings like this may be associated with breeding, indicated if all of the specimens that washed up are mature adults, but the common starfish tends to aggregate and spawn most in spring and summer - so that is unlikely.'  Millions of common starfish live in British seas. About the size of a hand, they are pinky orange when alive, but turn a bright orange when dry.  Their ideal feeding ground is a mussel bed, where millions of starfish will congregate at any one time. And it's here where they are most at risk.  Violent storms can send terrifically strong currents through the mussel beds where they are feeding, pluck them off their prey, carry them to the shore and dump thousands at a time on to a beach.  In the past, some mass strandings have been blamed on overfishing - with dredgers used to scrape the sea floor for mussels dislodging starfish or covering them with mud and sand. - Daily Mail.

WATCH: Bad weather to blame for dead starfish washed up in Cleethorpes area.

MASS FISH DIE-OFF: 50,000 Dead Starfish Found on Irish Lissadell Beach!

November 12, 2012 - IRELAND - Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach.  A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo. 

Lissadell Beach, Co Sligo, strewn with dead starfish. © Unknown.

The adult starfish, measuring between 7cm and 20cm in diameter and estimated to be up to 50,000 in number, stretched along 150 metres of the strand.  Marine biologist and lecturer at Sligo Institute of Technology Bill Crowe speculated that they had been lifted up by a storm while feeding on mussel beds off shore.  "The most likely explanation is that they were feeding on mussels but it is a little strange that none of them were attached to mussels when they were washed in," he said.  He added that if they had died as a result of a so-called 'red tide' or algal bloom, other sealife would have been washed ashore with them.  "These were almost all adult size and the typical starfish variety that is found in the North Atlantic but there was nothing else mixed in with them," he said. 

Surveying the unusual scene, he placed some in a bucket of seawater to test whether they were alive, but while this prompted a slight response from one or two of the creatures, the vast majority were dead.  Tim Roderick, District Conservation Officer with the National Parks and Wildlife Service, agreed the phenomenon was most likely caused by recent bad weather.  "They turned up almost certainly as a result of an exceptional storm event.  "A storm hit the seabed where these sub-tidal animals were and lifted them up and washed them ashore," he said.  A spokesperson for the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government said that investigations were continuing into how they came to be washed ashore but initial indications pointed to the stormy weather, which has been a feature in the north-west in recent days.  In a similar episode earlier this year, thousands of dead starfish washed ashore on Youghal Beach in Co Cork.  Scientists speculated that they, too, had been thrown on to the beach by an underflow, which was probably caused by a storm at sea. - Belfast Telegraph.

EXTREME WEATHER: Stormy Weather in Indonesia - Wooden Ferry Sinks off Eastern Indonesia, Four Dead, One Hundred Rescued!

A wooden ferry carrying people home for the Christmas holidays sank Wednesday in stormy weather in eastern Indonesia, officials said. Most of the 100 passengers were rescued, they said.

Four bodies were recovered from waters off the Maluku islands, including those of an 11-year-old boy and a baby, said Nus Sileti, a transportation official. Earlier reports had said at least seven people had died.

He said he did not expect the toll would climb much higher.

The ship sank close to shore after running into bad weather and rescuers were quickly on the scene, pulling survivors from the choppy waters, he said.

Indonesia, a secular nation of 240 million people, is predominantly Muslim. But there are large Christian populations, mostly in the east.

It was the second boat sinking in less than a week. Boats are a popular form of transportation in Indonesia, which has more than 17,000 islands. They are often overcrowded and safety regulations are poorly enforced.

On Saturday, a boat packed with asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Iran capsized off Java island, hundreds of miles (kilometers) to the west, leaving as many as 200 dead.

Forty-three bloated bodies were pulled from the water on Wednesday. - Washington Post.