Over 100 sheep were killed by lightning in Sarbal and Baltal areas of central Kashmir's Ganderbal on Tuesday last night
According to an official, the nomads had arrived in the area a few weeks before and had erected makeshift tents in a nearby forest. During the night as the lightning struck followed by fresh snowfall over a hundred sheep were killed.
"The shepherds had kept their sheep in the open sky. But soon after the lightning and fresh snowfall in upper reaches of Ganderbal district including Sonamarg over hundred sheep were killed.
A pretty sight in the clouds this weekend is a sure sign that summer is on the way -- and you don't even need to look at the weather forecast.
Mark Coates snapped these photos of a colorful cloud outside a Tacoma grocery store Sunday afternoon. "I have never seen a more beautiful cloud, it was the colors of the rainbow," Coates said. "The weather was pretty clear, no rain around."
Officially named "circumhorizontal arcs" (or more informally sometimes known as "fire rainbows" - although they have nothing to do with fire...or actual "rain"bows) -- the colors caused by ice crystals in the thin cirrus clouds being at just the correct angle to refract the sunlight into the colors of the prism.
These colorful clouds are fairly rare sights in the mid-latitudes, because they can only occur when the sun is 58 degrees or higher above the horizon. For the Pacific Northwest, that pretty much relegates any sightings to around 6 weeks either side of the summer solstice.
The upper reaches of Kashmir on Wednesday received rare snowfall and heavy rain leading to flooding in some areas even as plains of North India are reeling under an intense heat wave.
Rain and fresh snowfall in the upper regions of the Valley, especially in Sonmarg and Gurez led to a drop in day temperature. However, weather department officials termed the snowfall in June as a "rare" meteorological event that was "not unusual".
Sonum Lotus, director of India Meteorological Department (IMD) office in Srinagar, said widespread rain and snow was recorded in Drass, Kargil, Zojilla and Zanskar.
"Snow in June in the upper parts of the valley is not unusual but a rare event. It has happened in the past and will happen in future as well,'' he said. "Since the department has not an observatory in Zanskar so they don't have written record when the snowfall was recorded in June."
Apart from Kashmir, snowfall in higher reaches have also been reported from Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim in June.
Hailstones as big as grapefruits hammered several countries across Europe, causing chaos and damaging thousands of homes and buildings.
The fierce hailstorm has battered parts of Slovenia, Croatia and Germany since Monday as strong gale-force winds brought cold temperatures along with intense rainfall.
Enormous hailstones were found in Stari trg ob Kolpi, Deskova vas and Predgrad, Slovenia by Marko Korosec, who is a weather adviser for traffic and highways.
The 37-year-old said: "There was significant damage to cars and houses, complete destruction in some areas.
Severe hailstorm in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland on June 11th! Report: Okiem Gorzowskiego Autobusu pic.twitter.com/o8EweMoKUx
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Enormous hail in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland yesterday, June 11th! Report: Maycol Checchinato pic.twitter.com/gzR55z5X0S
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GIANT hail also reported in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland today, June 11th! Report: Sieć Obserwatorów Burz pic.twitter.com/gJA1685OrH
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Aftermath of an extremely severe hailstorm in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland yesterday, June 11th. Report: Arkadiusz Łukasz Łodziewski pic.twitter.com/pVfUwHmkcG
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Meanwhile in Poland. HUGE hail in Trzebiel, Lubusz voivodeship, W Poland today, June 11th! Report: Paulina Janiak / @Lubuscy Łowcy Burz pic.twitter.com/3L5VztVG0k
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Italy, Turkey and France meanwhile witnessed huge accumulations of hail:
HUGE hail accumulations in Vertova (BG), Lombardy, north Italy last night, June 11th! WOW! Video: Giolio Taccon via Italia Live Meteo pic.twitter.com/YNGs60Ym01
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Car buried (!!) in hail in Konya, Turkey yesterday, June 10th! Report: Extreme Weather Turkey pic.twitter.com/gPOVjF1MNc
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Severe hailstorm in Arvieux, Queyras (05), France on June 10th! Report: Lucas Blanc / Meteo-Alpes pic.twitter.com/RzAZKtAFGE
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Scientists are quite "concerned" about the huge earthquake swarm that has been shaking southern California in recent weeks, and right at this moment bubbling tar is literally coming up through the streets in one section of Los Angeles. None of this means that a major seismic event is imminent, but it is certainly not a good sign either. We have been tracking quite a bit of unusual shaking along the Ring of Fire in recent months, and scientists assure us that it is just a matter of time before "the Big One" hits southern California. And if you follow my work on a regular basis, then you already know that I am extremely concerned about the potential for major seismic activity along the west coast. So when I came across a San Diego Union-Tribune article entitled "Southern California earthquake swarm takes an unexpected turn, and that's reason to worry", it definitely got my attention. According to that article, there have been "more than 700 earthquakes" in the Fontana seismic zone over the past few weeks...
There have been more than 700 earthquakes recorded in the Fontana area since May 25, ranging from magnitude 0.7 to magnitude 3.2, recorded Wednesday at 5:20 p.m., according to Caltech staff seismologist Jen Andrews.
Campbellton, N.B., resident Geniva Anderson says she's found four dead birds in the past two days.
"We've been having a problem where little birds would fly into our window, into our cars," Anderson said. "Even if the vehicles were parked they'd fly into them, and they'd fly into our fence.
"Some do survive and then they're kind of knocked out for a little bit, but some die. They just don't make it."
Anderson said birds began "dropping like flies" earlier this week in Campbellton and surrounding areas.
Comment: As the resident and expert refer to in the interview, it has been unseasonably cold and so it is possible that the birds are starving :
The Lion Country Safari posted on their Facebook page that two giraffes , Lily and Jioni, were killed in a lightning strike.
A drive-through Florida safari park confirmed Tuesday that two giraffes were killed instantly by lightning last month.
On May 3, Lily and Jioni, two of 18 giraffes in Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, were in their pasture when a sudden thunderstorm rolled through.
The attraction did not share the news earlier out of respect for mourning the animals and because pathology tests needed to be completed, according to its Facebook page.
Spokesperson Haley Passeser told CNN affiliate WPBF that the facility has a lightning detection system. Workers operated standard protocol and opened the animal shelter area when the storm was passing through. But they cannot make the animals seek shelter.
Long before we get to the most intense effects of the Grand Solar Minimum around 2028, our modern infrastructure is already having a difficult time coping. Denver International Airport brought to a standstill from a Summer, "Winter Storm", highways and bridges washed away in biggest floods ever across America, farm machinery unable to cope with muddy fields disappearing into quicksand grow zones and these are events in May/June 2019. Where do we go from here to prepare our societies for the coming changes. Plus a look at gargoyles in metal detectors at Denver International Airport.
Strong winds, heavy rain and flash floods hit several parts of Yemen from 08 June, 2019, causing major damages and at least 3 deaths.
Yemen Meteorological Services reported that Aden saw 77mm of rain on 08 June, with most of that total falling in a 3 hour period. Satellite images showed rainfall rates of up to 35mm per hour at 14:00 UTC on 08 June in southern and western areas of the country. Further severe weather warnings have been issued.
Houses and roads in Aden were submerged. In rural areas, runoff swept down hillsides, turning wadis into raging rivers and swamping crops and roads.
Minimums were below zero in parts of central and northern Spain over the weekend
As the middle of June approaches it is safe to say that summer weather is practically guaranteed for the next three months along the Mediterranean coast of Spain and in southern inland areas, but in fact the onset of summer is a little later this year than in recent years and in the north of the country the conditions are still distinctly wintery.
Comment: View more videos: Giant hailstones hit Munich and Bavaria as storms continue across Germany
Poland was also pummeled:
Italy, Turkey and France meanwhile witnessed huge accumulations of hail: