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Intense lightning storm recorded over Toronto, Canada

Ainsley Smith
Toronto Storeys (blog)
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:19 UTC
Toronto lightning
Toronto residents were in for a show last night, as the warm and sunny day transitioned into a dark and gloomy mess with heavy rains, accompanied by high winds, hail, thunder, and lightning.

On Tuesday, Environment Canada warned of a "severe" thunderstorm in Toronto that may produce "large hail" and the resulting storm definitely didn't disappoint. In the evening, two separate thunderstorms tracked across the region, bringing plenty of lightning, lots of rain, and some hail.

And while the bulk of Torontonians were probably asleep during the lightning storm, there were some camera-ready storm watchers who captured some wild shots.

Photos and videos shared on social media show long periods of lightning flashing up the night sky, while other shots show the city's skyline transforming into something that looks like a scene straight out of a movie.


Comment: Less than a week ago almost 87,000 lightning strikes hit Washington - nearly 2/3 of the annual average!

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Tropical Storm Cristobal makes landfall in Mexico and could loop back toward the US Gulf Coast this weekend

Jennifer Gray and Judson Jones
CNN
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:40 UTC
Tropical Storm Cristobal
Tropical Storm Cristobal
Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall Wednesday morning in Mexico, and if the storm holds together, it could loop back across the Gulf of Mexico and toward the United States by the weekend.

Cristobal made landfall in the early morning in the state of Campeche, with sustained winds of 60 mph. It hit land near Atasta, Mexico, just west of Ciudad del Carmen, the Air Force Reserve Unit Hurricane Hunter aircraft reported.

Life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides from ongoing extreme rains continued to be the biggest threat. Ten to 20 inches of additional rain could fall across this region through Friday.

Some Pacific locations in southern Mexico got 20 inches of rain over the weekend and could get up to a foot more.

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Rare derecho kills 3, cuts power to half a million people across Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Chaffin Mitchell
AccuWeather.com
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 01:10 UTC
Storm approaching Medford, New Jersey
© Twitter/mcadehavenStorm approaching Medford, New Jersey, on Wednesday evening.
At least three people are dead and more than half of a million electric customers were left in the dark when a rare derecho tore through eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey on Wednesday.

The northern Plains, Upper Midwest and eastern Great Lakes were put on alert Tuesday night when the thunderstorms erupted. Then the threat shifted east to the mid-Atlantic on Wednesday.

The National Weather Service recorded more than 185 damaging wind reports while more than 525,000 customers were without power in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. By early Thursday morning, more than 350,000 customers were still in the dark.

"The storms raced across Pennsylvania and New Jersey, moving eastward at over 80 mph at times," AccuWeather Meteorologist Brian Thompson said.
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Nisarga lashing western India after making unprecedented landfall near Mumbai

Courtney Spamer
AccuWeather.com
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:26 UTC
Cyclone Nisarga
© CIRA/RAMMBCyclone Nisarga was the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane Wednesday.
Nisarga battered western India with torrential rainfall and damaging winds into Wednesday evening after becoming the first tropical cyclone in recorded history to strike the city of Mumbai and surrounding districts during the month of June.

As a severe cyclonic storm on the India Meteorological Department's (IMD) tropical cyclone scale and the equivalent of a Category 1 hurricane in the Atlantic and East Pacific Ocean basins, Nisarga crashed ashore in the state of Maharashtra Wednesday afternoon, local time, just south of the town of Alibagh.

After moving inland, Nisarga lost wind strength quickly, and was downgraded to a cyclonic storm and then a deep depression, equivalent to a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean, Wednesday evening. The system continued weakening, becoming a depression on Thursday.

Mumbai, the country's financial center and home to more than 18 million people, is rarely impacted by tropical cyclones and, prior to Nisarga, had never been hit by one in the month of June.

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Severe hailstorm hits Lombardy, Italy


This is Italy
Wed, 03 Jun 2020 21:10 UTC
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Heavy thunderstorms, as expected, developed during the afternoon in the Alpine and pre-Alpine sectors, mainly affecting Lombardy.

An extensive and very intense storm system hit the northern area of ​​the region, in particular between the provinces of Lecco, Brescia, and Bergamo.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: New atmospheric phenomenon 'Green Ghosts' overlaps with an evaporating economy


Adapt 2030
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 20:17 UTC
Green Ghosts
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
New electrical phenomenon termed "Green Ghost" appears in Earths atmosphere with plasma ropes, record south latitude noctilucent clouds and naked eye Jellyfish Sprites. The economy is collapsing at the same time so it appears we are in a cycle witnessed before as planets are lining up as 79 A.D in 2024. Global events match heavenly body timelines.....


Comment: See also: Electric universe theory provides rational, intelligible explanations for such atmospheric phenomena as ball lightning, plasma discharges, noctilucent clouds, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes. For more information on this and much more read, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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3 dead after floods and landslides in wake of Storm Amanda in Honduras


Floodlist
Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:03 UTC
The overflowing Goascorán River in Valle Department, Honduras, 01 June 2020.
© COPECOThe overflowing Goascorán River in Valle Department, Honduras, 01 June 2020.
Three people have died and communities left isolated after the remnants of the tropical storm Amanda brought heavy rain and strong winds to parts of Honduras.

The country has experienced a spate of severe weather since mid-May. Further severe weather in the country from 26 to 28 May caused 2 fatalities.

In the latest events, over 900 people from 225 families have been affected in 10 departments after heavy rain from storm Amanda triggered flooding and landslides between 29 May and 01 June.

The country's disaster agency - Permanent Commission of Contingencies (Copeco) - reported that the worst hit areas are in the departments of Olancho, Valle, Francisco Morazán, Lempira, Ocotepeque, Copán and La Paz. Bridges and roads have been damaged or destroyed, leaving some communities isolated.

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Severe hailstorm pummels northern Portugal - all but destroyed the year's fruit harvest

Natasha Donn
Portugal Resident
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:41 UTC
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Farmers up north are counting the cost of a freak hail storm on Sunday that has all but destroyed this year's fruit harvest. Estimates so far point to over €20 million in damages in just one borough.

As the Algarve suffered simply a cloudy afternoon that 'looked like rain', areas around Viseu and Fundão, Castelo Branco, Belmonte, Covilhã and Penamacor experienced the full horror of hail, driving rain and wind.

Motorways were brought to a halt, there was localised flooding, but worst of all was the damage to this year's fruit crops, including vines.

This was actually the 3rd time in four early summers that the north has been hit by devastating, short-lived storms.

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Nisarga could become the first tropical cyclone in 129 years to hit western India in June


Latestly
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 11:16 UTC
Cyclone Nisarga
IMD predicts heavy rainfall and strong winds with a speed of 90-100 kmph in the coastal districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat on June 3
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned that Nisarga Cyclone, which has turned into a depression in the Arabian Sea, will hit Maharashtra and Gujarat on June 3.

According to a Hindustan Times report, since 1891, no weather system has turned into a cyclone and made landfall near Mumbai or along the Maharashtra coast during June.

Which means that Nisarga Cyclone could be the first tropical cyclone in 129 years to hit Maharashtra in the month of June.

The Nisarga cyclonic storm is brewing in the Arabian sea near Lakshadweep at the moment.

Experts quoted in the report said that only two depression, 1948 and 1980, have come close but never turned into a tropical cyclone during June as per records.

Once this system intensifies into Cyclone Nisarga, it will be the second cyclone over North Indian Ocean this season this year, the first being Cyclone Amphan.
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Tornado in Belgorod, Russia

Infotainment
YouTube
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 19:41 UTC
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RUSSIA - Tornado causes destruction in Belgorod, today June 1, 2020.

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