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Lightning strikes 4 as violent storms hammer St. Louis

Lauren Fox
AccuWeather
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 02:11 UTC
St. Louis lightning
© EarthcamLightning strikes in front of the St. Louis' Gateway Arch Sunday evening.

As violent thunderstorms rattled south St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night, four people in the city were struck by lightning.

At 9:35 p.m. on Sunday, the St. Louis Fire Department released information regarding the lightning strikes on social media. The department reported that the four victims -- all of whom were men -- were transported by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and one was in critical condition.

"Thunderstorms with a tremendous amount of cloud-to-ground lightning affected Greater St. Louis Sunday evening," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Samuhel said.
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Waterspout hits Sochi, Russia

Disaster Compilations
YouTube
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:22 UTC
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(Translated from Russian): At noon, the tornado approached the beach area in the Imeretinskaya lowland and disintegrated when it came ashore. None of the people were hurt. Beach equipment was damaged by gusts of wind. A storm warning was announced at the resort in advance, and the beach was closed. The authorities also warned in advance that there is a risk of tornadoes forming over the sea, - the Sochi administration's press service commented.

Read more (article in Russian).

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Three nomads and hundreds of animals killed by lightning strike in Surankote, India


Universal News Timeline
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:07 UTC
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Three nomads were killed while dozens of their cattle got perished by the lightning at Gumsar village of Poonch district.

Officials told the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the incident took place in the intervening night of Monday- Tuesday.

They said the lightning hit a seasonal dhok in Gumsar, leaving three nomads dead on the spot who belong to Surankote area of the district.

They added that many animals including goat and sheep, whose number is believed to be in several hundreds, also got perished in the incident.

Sub Divisional Magistrate Surankote, Saleem Qureshi said that teams are rushing to the spot to assess the loss.

Comment: A lightning bolt also killed 16 goats in Pakistan on July 20.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Summer snow, 500-year storms & volcanoes - natures alert


Adapt 2030
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:08 UTC
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Summer snow India, 500 year storm New Zealand along with new data showing no warming in the country for the last 130 years. Brazil record cold in 23 municipalities and multiple volcanic eruptions across Japan. Is it a sign from nature that the changes begin ?

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10 killed in lightning strikes in Bihar, India - 160 such deaths in 3 weeks for the state


New Indian Express
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:40 UTC
A representational image of lightning.
A representational image of lightning.
Ten people were killed after being struck by lightning in Bihar on Sunday and heavy rains inundated low-lying areas in Delhi, with a man drowning while trying to maneuver his truck through a waterlogged underpass.

In Assam, the death toll in flood-related incidents increased to 84 after five more fatalities were reported, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking to Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on the flood situation in the state.

The total number of people losing their lives in flood and landslides in Assam this year is 110.

While 84 died in flood-related incidents, landslides claimed 26 lives.

Floods have affected over 25 lakh people in 24 of the 33 districts of Assam and has destroyed houses, crops, roads and bridges at several places.

Comment: On the same day 2 were killed by lightning strikes in the state of Jharkhand and 2 boys were killed by a strike on the prior day in Feni, Bangladesh.

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Snow 23 FEET deep in the Andes - international crossings closed

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 20:05 UTC
Copahue and the surrounding village are covered by snow, which reaches seven meters in this Neuquén paradise.
© Rio Negro/Nicolás CanterCopahue and the surrounding village are covered by snow, which reaches seven meters in this Neuquén paradise.
As the storm passed through Argentina and Chile, heavy snowfalls left international crossings closed, with walls on both sides of the route of up to 5 meters (16 1/2 ft) of snow (national 242); extreme temperatures with thermometers that have marked 23 negative degrees.

The storm in Ecuador in the Andean area of ​​Píllaro, in the center of the country and entrance to the Llanganates National Park, left a snowy surprise of up to 30 cm (12 inches).

Since the end of June, Patagonia has been punished with heavy snowfalls and severe low temperatures which make it difficult or impossible to travel between towns and cities. Asphalt or gravel roads are the basis of these accumulations of ice and snow, which in many cases are very dangerous to travel. For example, National Route 40 at night, in some sections, is closed. Route 237 that goes to Neuquén also presents a similar panorama.

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Almost 4 million people and 3.3 million animals affected by ongoing floods in Assam, India - over 13 million hectares of crops damaged

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Xinhua
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 18:52 UTC
Gagolmari village in Marigaon
Gagolmari village in Marigaon, Assam
Flooding in India's northeastern state of Assam has affected over 3.9 million people, officials said Friday.

The floods have hit 27 districts in the state.

According to officials at Assam Disaster Management Authority, the ongoing flooding has affected 3,218 villages and damaged cropland spreading over 13 million hectares, besides affecting over 3.3 million animals.

On Thursday, the floods claimed five lives, which took the death toll to 71.

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Massive sea tornado appears off the coast of New South Wales, Australia


3w-News
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:12 UTC
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A giant tornado formed over the sea this week as an east coast low continues to batter the New South Wales coastline with heavy rain, damaging winds and huge waves.

A fisherman in a boat near Stanwell Tops, 57km south of Sydney, captured the moment a terrifying wind tunnel shot from a dark cloud into the ocean on Tuesday.

'It is just the cloud refuelling isn't it?' the fisherman is hearing joking, as the water spout extended into the sky.

A vortex continued to churn for several seconds before its tail began to fade and the funnel was slowly sucked up into the cloud.

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Large waterspout spins off Louisiana's Black Bay


Yahoo! News
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:54 UTC
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A waterspout was seen spinning off Black Bay in Plaquemines County, Louisiana, on Tuesday, July 14. Justin Derouen captured the video while working aboard a jack-up barge boat in the area, he said.

Derouen told Storyful he shot the video from a distance of a mile and a half. "[I] was able to get pretty amazing footage of Mother Nature at work," Derouen said.

The National Weather Service in New Orleans gave a significant weather advisory for the southeastern Plaquemines Parish area on July 15. The storm was expected to bring winds reaching up to 30 mph (48 km/h).


Credit: Justin Derouen via Storyful
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Hailstones up to baseball-size destroy thousands of acres of crops in Western Minnesota

John Lauritsen
CBS Minnesota
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:38 UTC
DAMAGED
Much of the weather talk lately has centered around tornadoes in Ottertail County.

But a hail storm last weekend did significant building and crop damage from Kandiyohi County to Nicollet County. Wind speeds reached 50 miles an hour and at times the storm dropped baseball-sized hail. It was a blow for farmers when commodity prices are already down.

"We had a wonderful crop. Best we've had in this area in five years," said Curt Burns, farmer and crop consultant.

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