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Cargo Ship caught by Thunderstorm off the Coast of Malta.

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A cargo ship sails on through a menacing Mediterranean Sea during a thunderstorm some 20 nautical miles off the coast of Malta in September, 2017.
Image Credit: Photograph by Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty.
Source: Photos of the Week: 9/23–9/29 – The Atlantic

Surprise Sunset paints the Sheffield Sky.

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A colourful sunset follows a drab day on the rural outskirts of Sheffield.
Image Credit: Photograph by Carey Davies
The window of my room here looks south-west, over the rooftops of a Sheffield suburb draped over the foothills of the Pennines, and through it I watch the endless traffic of the sky all day; the fleets of clouds steaming past on their journey from coast to coast, the planes etching contrails that wobble tipsily in the winds.
Recently, the sky has seemed muted, in the way it often does when the light is at its leanest and the weather settles for grey neutrality.
But a marvel of midwinter is how even the most austere, threadbare days can give rise to the most lavish of sunsets.
At this time of year, the sun sets directly before the window, often inducing me to leave my desk and walk a few streets to where, in that typically Sheffield way, the city abruptly terminates, and clean-scrubbed streets of bungalows give way instantly to expanses of high-raised farmland.
Read on via Surprise sunset paints the Sheffield sky | Environment | The Guardian

A rare view of a Frozen Danube River in Budapest, Hungary.

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Photograph by Tamás Rizsavi
In Budapest’s heart the Danube river is rarely seen in this frozen state.

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It occurred 5 years ago last time, this is why it’s a special moment.

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It was worth being out in the -20 C degrees to capture its beauty.
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Source: I Captured The Rare View Of The Frozen Danube In Budapest | Bored Panda

Snowy Night on Bluemound Road, Brookfield, Wisconsin.

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In this terrific night shot traffic flows over lightly falling snow on the Bluemound Road near High Street on a Saturday night, in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Image Credit: Photograph by Peter Zuzga/Now Media Group
Source: Now Photos of the Week: Dec. 10

Monster Waves hit the Harbour Wall at Whitehaven in Cumbria.

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Winner public vote: Monster Waves at Whitehaven.
Photograph by Paul Kingston.
The Inner harbour wall at Whitehaven, Cumbria, being hit by a monstrous wave, dwarfing the surrounding man made structures.
This occurred on the day I travelled from County Durham to the west coast of Cumbria when the United Kingdom was being hit by a series of Atlantic storms sending tidal surges and strong gale force westerly winds.
See more images via Weather Photographer of the Year 2016 – in pictures | Travel | The Guardian

The Dust Bowl of The 1930s, Great Plains of America.

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A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, in 1935. Photo credit: George E. Marsh
The early European explorers thought the Great Plains was unsuitable for agriculture. The land is semi-arid and is prone to extended drought, alternating with periods of unusual wetness.
But the federal government was eager to see the land settled and cultivated. After the end of the Civil War in 1865, a series of federal land acts were passed granting settlers hundreds of acres of land. These acts led to a massive influx of new and inexperienced farmers across the Great Plains.
A stretch of unusually wet weather in the beginning of the 20th century confirmed the belief that the Plains could be tamed after all, leading to increased settlement and cultivation.
Farmers ploughed through the land eliminating the native grasses that held the fine soil in place. When crops began to fail with the onset of drought in 1930, the bare soil became exposed to the wind, and it began to blow away in massive dust storms that blackened the sky.
These choking billows of dust, named “black blizzards”, travelled across the country, reaching as far as the East Coast and striking such cities as New York City and Washington, D.C.
“The impact is like a shovelful of fine sand flung against the face,” Avis D. Carlson wrote in a New Republic article. “People caught in their own yards grope for the doorstep. Cars come to a standstill, for no light in the world can penetrate that swirling murk… We live with the dust, eat it, sleep with it, watch it strip us of possessions and the hope of possessions. It is becoming Real.”
The term “dust bowl” was coined by Edward Stanley, Kansas City news editor of the Associated Press. Originally it referred to the geographical area affected by the dust, but today the entire event is referred to as the Dust Bowl.
After the winds passed and the dust settled, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a huge project to plant hundreds of millions of trees across the Great Plains to create a giant windbreak. Known as a shelterbelt, it consisted of 220 million trees stretching in a 100-mile wide zone from Canada to northern Texas, to protect the land from wind erosion.
Read on via Source: The Dust Bowl of The 1930s | Amusing Planet