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Reykjavik, Iceland
Reykjavik, Iceland
ALSO: slew of reports about major destruction of crops by hail storms.
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ALSO: slew of reports about major destruction of crops by hail storms.
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The European Union is worried about this year's harvests. This is according to June's JRC MARS Bulletin. This document contains the harvest forecasts for the season. In general, estimates have been adjusted downward. The map below shows the areas of concern. From these, the division in Europe immediately becomes obvious. The north is dealing with a drought while further to the south there has been too much precipitation.
According to WVLT News in Knoxville, Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said former school board member Everett Massengill was hit by lightning Friday.
Sheriff Stockton said Massengill had just finished mowing his lawn and was walking to his home when he was hit by lightning and killed instantly.
It happened on the 200 block of Walnut Grove Road in Kingston just before 5 p.m. Friday.
According to the Russellville Fire Department, it happened around 1:30 p.m. near the 1500 block of Lands End Point South.
According to River Valley Now, the victim's wife called 911, and said her husband was out in the yard and she saw him get struck by lightning.
Officials say it had been raining, but had stopped at the time the man was outside.
Leonel Sanchez, 23, died from a lightning strike Thursday while working on a roof in eastern Kansas City.
Leonel Sanchez, 23, and another man fell from a roof at a residence near 49th Street and Raymond Avenue. They were taken to a hospital.
Another roofer called Sanchez's cousin, Martin Contreras, and the cousin's girlfriend, Lizeth Garcia, to tell them that Sanchez was dead, Garcia said in a phone interview on Friday.
Sanchez had been in the U.S. for about seven months and was planning to return to his hometown of Tierra Nueva in central Mexico, Garcia said. He lived and worked with Contreras in Springdale, Ark., before relocating to Kansas City to work with some other cousins.
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Two women were injured after a tree fell over her residence in Al Khawaneej area.
Comment: More video showing just how fierce the storm became in parts of Dubai:
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High-elevation tornado near Weston Pass Fire in Colorado.
High-elevation tornado near Weston Pass Fire in Colorado.
Doubly rare event only sixth tornado recorded in Park County
A tornado has touched down at the edge of a high-elevation wildfire in Colorado, a doubly rare event that apparently caused no damage and had little effect on the fire.
The National Weather Service says the twister touched down at about 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Park County south of Fairplay, a central Colorado town about 10,000 feet above sea level.
National Weather Service meteorologist Russell Danielson says the tornado appeared to be near or on the edge of a wildfire that has burned about 17 square miles.
Danielson says tornadoes are rare at that elevation and rare at any wildfire.
Comment: Other rare or unseasonal tornadoes have formed around the planet in recent times including countries such as Germany, Austria, South Africa, Turkey, Netherlands, Mexico, United States, Russia and China.
Study: Tornado outbreaks are increasing - but scientists don't understand why. A coauthor of this paper states "What's pushing this rise in extreme outbreaks is far from obvious in the present state of climate science."
Recently other climate scientists were saying hurricane Harvey "should serve as a warning", as they continue to push the man-made climate change/global warming lie. They are not considering the importance of atmospheric dust loading and the winning Electric Universe model in their research. Such information and much more, are explained in the book Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.
The accumulation of cometary dust in the Earth's atmosphere plays an important role in the increase of tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes and their associated rainfalls, snowfalls and lightning. To understand this mechanism we must first take into account the electric nature of hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones, which are actually manifestations of the same electric phenomenon at different scales or levels of power.Increasing cometary and volcanic dust loading of the atmosphere (one indicator is the intensification of noctilucent clouds we are witnessing) is accentuating electric charge build-up, whereby we can expect to observe more extreme weather and planetary upheaval as well as awesome light shows and other related mysterious phenomena.
'Night-shining' noctilucent clouds forming 50 miles above Earth's surface are becoming more common
A new media narrative emerges anticipating signs in the sky -- and blaming them on Global Warming. Extreme flooding, hail, and temperature events worldwide are destroying agriculture, heralding the arrival of the modern Grand Solar Minimum. Start growing food today.
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Somewhere in this carpark (Strathclyde Park Aquasports Center) near Motherwell/Glasgow is a Stevenson Screen with a thermometer used to measure climate. So far after hours of looking, I’m unable to locate it. The Lat/Lon is provided by the Met Office.
Somewhere in this carpark (Strathclyde Park Aquasports Center) near Motherwell/Glasgow is a Stevenson Screen with a thermometer used to measure climate. So far after hours of looking, I’m unable to locate it. The Lat/Lon is provided by the Met Office.
From Mike Bastasch at The Daily caller and the "told you so, again, and again" departmentU.K. meteorologists won't be declaring a June 28 temperature reading as the hottest recorded in Scotland since the early 20th century after discovering a car parked near the weather station may have contaminated the data.
The city of Motherwell, southeast of Glasgow, recorded a record-high temperature of 91.8 degrees on June 28, according to Met Office figures, breaking the previous record of 91.2 degrees set in Greycrook in August 2003.
The record temperature reading even found its way into the Washington Post. The Post's Capital Weather Gang included Motherwell's heat in a round-up of record-high temperatures around the world.
"No single record, in isolation, can be attributed to global warming," the Post reported, trying to link summer weather to global warming. "But collectively, these heat records are consistent with the kind of extremes we expect to see an increase in a warming world."
Comment: This isn't the first time "record-breaking" announcements had to be withdrawn
- Author of IPCC flagship paper admits error in urban heat islands
- 'Inconvenient Result' - July 2012 NOT a Record Breaker
- Cities affect weather thousands of kilometers away: study
- Study: Air Conditioners Heat Up Cities
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A call came in at 6:36 p.m. saying that a 74-year-old man was hit by lightning at the Fairfield Rec Center on Rosemont Parkway.
An employee at the club said the lightning hit the tree and then the man, who was trying to get into the rec center and had an umbrella up.. The fire official also said that the man was under a tree when the lightning hit.
"We heard a loud boom and we heard people hollering and crying," said swim club manager Maurice Thorpe. "The lightning struck, split the tree, came down hit the top of the umbrella and hit him in the right hand."
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