Hurricane IRMA

Irma broke a bunch of meteorological records

Here are few of the biggest records the giant storm(Irma) broke:

• Irma sustained 185-mph winds for 37 hours, the longest any cyclone on the globe has maintained that intensity.
• Irma's maximum sustained wind speed of 185 mph made it the strongest storm that's ever existed in the Atlantic outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Including those regions, it's the second strongest (after Allen, which reached 190 mph).
• Irma tied an unnamed 1932 Cuba hurricane for the longest lifetime as a Category 5 storm: 3.25 days.
• Since 1966 (when the satellite era began), Irma spent more time as a Category 5 hurricane than any other storm.
• Irma generated the most Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) - a measure that takes into account hurricane intensity, size, and duration - of any cyclone on record in the tropical Atlantic. It had the second-highest cyclone energy of all recorded Atlantic hurricanes, trailing only Ivan.
• Irma also broke the record set by Hurricane Allen in 1980 for the most Accumulated Cyclone Energy in a 24-hour period.
• In fact, Irma generated enough cyclone energy on its own to satisfy the NOAA definition of an "average" hurricane season. Since 1966, there have been 18 entire hurricane seasons that didn't generate as much total energy as Irma did

What Is The Blue Whale Game?

The Blue Whale Game is said to have taken its name from the beaching of whales. In it, there are 50 challenging tasks that a player has to perform in as many days. The tasks increase in their extreme nature every day. While it may start with something uneventful like watching a scary video or listening to a song, a player is later asked to inflict self-harm. 

A list of the tasks doing the rounds on social media sites (the authenticity of this list is unknown) says the victims are asked to carve a whale on their arms, poke their own cheeks with needles, cut their lips and climb on top of a crane. For nearly twenty continuous days, they are asked to get up at ungodly hours and contemplate suicide. Finally, on the 50th day, the participants have to jump off a building.

A curator reportedly monitors the progress of a player and asks them to submit photographic evidence of the completion of each task. If a player tries to back out, they may threaten to harm them, their friends or family. How the curators manage to get details or have they ever threatened anyone has never been reported.