Dog walker films winds lifting forest floor during Storm Babet in Scotland
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A dog walker in Stirlingshire captured footage of winds lifting a forest floor as Storm Babet moved across Scotland - bringing high winds, heavy rain and flooding.
David Nugent-Malone was walking his dog Jake in Mugdock on a path the pair often visit.
"We’ve walked through that particular section literally hundreds of times before and have never seen anything like that", Mr Nugent-Malone told the BBC.
The forest around them was relatively calm after the strongest winds hit through the night before, but that particular pocket of woods seemed to "focus the wind to allow it to lift up the woodland floor," he added - saying the meshed together tree roots lifted like a "muddy table cloth".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-67180162
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Watch: Mount Etna puffs 'smoke rings' in rare display
17 hours ago
Italy's Mount Etna has been putting on a show by blowing near-perfect circles into the Sicilian sky.
A new crater opened on the summit of Europe's largest active volcano leading to an unusual display of the so-called 'smoke rings'.
The rings are made of gases and propelled by a circular vent in the volcano.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68752290
17 hours ago
Italy's Mount Etna has been putting on a show by blowing near-perfect circles into the Sicilian sky.
A new crater opened on the summit of Europe's largest active volcano leading to an unusual display of the so-called 'smoke rings'.
The rings are made of gases and propelled by a circular vent in the volcano.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68752290
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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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Actually, even a solar eclipse qualifies as a rare and bizarre phenomenon when you think about it
Remember that its only "perfect" temporarily as the moons orbit changes and it moves further away from Earth.
It wasn't perfect a few million years ago and it won't be perfect in a few million years.
It's just a coincidence that we happen to exist in this same, astronomically speaking, brief window.
IIRC, there's only I think one other place in the solar system where a "perfect" solar eclipse can occur, and even then it's only for a few seconds at most. Most other total eclipses (usually on Jupiter and Saturn) have moons completely and overwhelmingly block out the sun from the perspective of the planet.
Remember that its only "perfect" temporarily as the moons orbit changes and it moves further away from Earth.
It wasn't perfect a few million years ago and it won't be perfect in a few million years.
It's just a coincidence that we happen to exist in this same, astronomically speaking, brief window.
IIRC, there's only I think one other place in the solar system where a "perfect" solar eclipse can occur, and even then it's only for a few seconds at most. Most other total eclipses (usually on Jupiter and Saturn) have moons completely and overwhelmingly block out the sun from the perspective of the planet.
And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
