Tag Archives: Weather
London Recruits Justin and Sigourney Beaver To Save City
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It's been 400 years since beavers were hunted out of London, but with waters on the rise due to climate change, it's their time to shine once more - beginn...
Mar 25, 2022
The Kentucky Meat Shower Of 1876
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Strange rain has long fascinated humanity, and people have written a lot about it over the years. For example, in June 2009, residents of Japan's Ishikawa ...
Mar 10, 2022
Freezing Florida Temps Knock Iguanas From Trees
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Tourists flocking to Florida in search of a reprieve from last weekend’s bombogenesis storm in the Northeast (and regular old winter in the Midwest) ...
Feb 04, 2022
Rare Phenomenon Makes It Rain Fish On Texas
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! After a year full of strange weather patterns with destructive wildfires blazing along the West Coast, tornadoes ripping through the East, and Texas actual...
Jan 07, 2022
Woman uninjured after snow-weighted tree falls in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - A woman was temporarily trapped, but wasn't hurt after a tree tumbled over, taking three poles with it on the way down.It happened Thursday, Jan 6 at about 10 a.m. on Vancouver Ave. at Cypre...
Jan 06, 2022
Rare white Christmas in store for Nanaimo, Oceanside region
NANAIMO - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.Environment Canada Meteorologist Brian Proctor said a series of systems bringing sporadic snow and freezing rain has led to snow on the ground Chr...
Dec 24, 2021
How The UAE Is Using Drones To Control The Weather
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Humanity has reached a crucial point in the battle for the future of the planet. If temperatures continue to rise, both floods and droughts will leave popu...
Dec 09, 2021
Coldwater River breaches banks, City of Merritt issues flooding evacuation orders
MERRITT - The City of Merritt has issued evacuation orders for multiple properties, due to flooding from the Coldwater River. In a noticed posted to the municipality's website earlier this morning (No...
Nov 15, 2021
Australia Pelted With Grapefruit-Sized Hail
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! It’s currently the middle of spring in Australia, and yet earlier this week the land of giant spiders, snakes, and crocodiles endured storms that pum...
Oct 22, 2021
Nanaimo experiences hottest summer on record
NANAIMO - Paced by several suffocating heatwaves and limited rain, summer 2021 was one for the record books.Environment Canada's meteorological cycle considers June, July and August the summer season ...
Sep 09, 2021