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Chairperson of Patarasi-4, Kali Bahadur Rawat, said that the farmers were headed toward the incident site. The details of the loss are awaited. Chief Administrative Officer Tek Bahadur Budhthapa said that the lightning hit the sheep on grazing land. Sheep rearing is the main income source for most of the locals of Patarasi area.
Budhthapa said, "Farmers will face problems in their livelihoods as lightning has killed all their sheep." Around 700 sheep had also died from continuous hailstone, rainfall and wind in 2070 BS in the district.
In Douala, the country's economic capital, flooding swamped the city's roads and damaged bridges, causing widespread traffic disruption. The districts pf Makèpe Missokè, Bepanda and Mabanda were among the worst affected, according to media reports.
Flooding also caused widespread material damages, including to hundreds of homes. Samuel Ivaha Diboua, governor of the Littoral region, told reporters that almost 900 families have been displaced due to the flooding.
The United Nations recently reported that heavy rainfall at the end of July caused rivers to overflow in Cameroon's Far North (Extrême-Nord) region, affecting over 5,000 people.
Thai Meteorological Department reports that Phrae, capital of Phrae Province, recorded almost 240mm of rain in 24 hours to 22 August 2020. The Yom river overflowed flooding areas of Muang and Sung Men districts in the province, while the Nan river broke its banks in Nan Province, where 1 person died.
Disaster authorities in Thailand report that flooding has affected 382 villages in 25 districts in the eight provinces of Nan, Phrae, Chiang Mai, Lampang, Phayao, Uttaradit, Lamphun and Mae Hong Son.
Gigantic Jets are related to sprites, only much bigger. They fly out of the tops of some thunderstorms and can reach all the way to the edge of space. That's why some people call them "space lightning." They are a sign of intense electrical activity in the storm below.
"This appears to be a rare Type II Gigantic Jet event," says Lucena. Gigantic Jets come in three types. Type II events start out as Blue Jets, then transform into Gigantic Jets. The metamorphosis is not well understood. "Out of the more than 40 Gigantic Jets I've captured over the years in the Caribbean, only three of them might be Type IIs"--so very rare indeed.
According to the National Seismologic Network (RSN)the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.2 and the epicenter was located 12 kilometers southwest of Jaco, Garabito, Puntarenas as a result of the subduction of Cocos plate.
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- 13 waterspouts seen over The Great Lakes
- Multiple waterspouts filmed swirling at once in Gulf of Mexico
- Record outbreak of 84 waterspouts last week over the Great Lakes
- 43% of Iowa corn, soybean crop hit by Monday's storm
- Three cranes collapse at India's biggest container port near Mumbai
Comment: This normally dry, hot and arid desert country has seen extraordinary heavy rainfall, flooding, thunder and hailstorms during the spring and summer this year as evinced by the following numerous video reports:
- Hailstorms and flash floods in Saudi Arabia
- Flooding strikes Najran, Saudi Arabia
- Thunderstorm causes flooding in Bisha, Saudi Arabia
- Heavy rain brings floods in Taif, Saudi Arabia
- Summer storm and flooding in Taif, Saudi Arabia
- Continuing storms and flooding in Taif, Saudi Arabia
- Summer storms and flooding in Najran, Saudi Arabia
- Summer storms cause destruction and flooding in Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Summer flooding in Jazan, Saudi Arabia
- Saudi Arabia's civil defense rescues hundreds from floods after torrential summer rain
Veneto governor Luca Zaia has signed a 'state of crisis' order after the north Italian city of Verona was hit by a sudden storm on the evening of 23 August.
Witnesses spoke of streets flooded with "rivers of hailstones" in the city centre, with the storm knocking more than 500 trees.
The 3m-long (10ft) mammal was found on Lowestoft North Beach on Saturday morning.
Experts believe it is a Sowerby's beaked whale - a species of whale which was named after naturalist James Sowerby.
They are rarely sighted and are typically found in deep waters.















Comment: ELVEs captured above Tropical Storm Laura