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Andre Beyzaei, who captured this footage, told Storyful it's not common to see this amount of snow around western Newfoundland at this time of year. "We usually see something like this in January or February," he said.
Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning on Wednesday for the Rocky Harbour area due to the continued snowfall.
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© YouTube/The World (screen capture)Large dust storm hits Najaf, Iraq.
More than 60 people were also injured after the storm swept through several cities on Monday.
A video filmed in Najaf, where local media reported one person had died, shows a huge sand-coloured cloud slowly descending on the city.
Photos and video footage shared on social media show extensive damage to buildings and cars crushed by the storm.
Victims are said to have suffered from injuries including suffocation and wounds caused by falling debris.
© HO/AFP/Getty ImagesTropical Cyclone Fani gathers force in the Bay of Bengal. It is set to hit the east coast of India on Friday.
Emergency crews deployed to Odisha state as storm packing 205km/h winds bears down on the east coast
India has begun the evacuation of 800,000 people and deployed emergency personnel as the country's east coast braces for a severe cyclonic storm.
Tropical Cyclone Fani, located in the Bay of Bengal and packing wind speeds up to 205 km (127 miles) per hour, is expected to make landfall on the coast of Odisha state on Friday.
The state's authorities said they hoped to have evacuated 800,000 people from the state's coastal districts by Thursday morning.
Odisha has also moved in thousands of disaster management personnel to help those living in mud-and-thatch homes in low-lying areas take shelter from Fani.
"We are making best efforts to inform them about the cyclone and move these vulnerable people to cyclone shelters," Bishnupada Sethi, the state's special relief commissioner, said.
The neighbouring coastal states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have also been put on high alert.
India's national disaster management authority (NDMA) said sea conditions were "phenomenal" over the west-central Bay of Bengal area.
Over two dozen tornadoes were reported yesterday after a severe weather system crashed through Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri.
Kenneth Eppler, spokesman for the Bryan County Emergency Management, confirmed the death of 58-year-old Debby Boyd Tuesday in Bokchito, Oklahoma.
Eppler told weather.com her husband, Allen Boyd, was also injured when the storm tore through the town in Bryan County, about 150 miles southwest of Oklahoma City. He is hospitalized with undisclosed injuries.
In east Tulsa, the body of a 55-year-old man was recovered from a vehicle that was found submerged in about 15 to 20 feet of water in a flooded creek, Andrew Little, public information officer for the Tulsa Fire Department, told KJRH on Wednesday. The identity of the man has not been released pending family notification.
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Comment: Erratic seasons and extreme weather devastating crops around the world
Crop and cattle losses are on the rise everywhere, whether it is due to extensive drought, massive hail, epic flooding, huge dust storms, unexpected frosts, and even epidemics. See also:
- More than 1 million acres of U.S. cropland ravaged by floods
- Video: US grain bins collapse under catastrophic Iowa floods
- Blizzard kills thousands of Washington dairy cows
- Italy sees 57% drop in olive harvest - The worst in 25 years
- Huge crop losses expected as Hurricane Florence battered North Carolina just before harvest
- Extreme weather affecting crop harvests in Europe - North too dry, south hit by hail
- Preparing for crop losses? China successfully harvests saltwater rice that could feed another 80 million people
- 'This is a crisis' - Unusually brutal winter doubles farmers' costs and endangers cattle in Montana
- More than half of Nova Scotia blueberry crop wiped out by JUNE killer frost
- Unusual 'killer' spring frost damages crops across the Canadian Maritimes
- Flooded fields, frost and frozen corn affecting farmers across USA
- 70% crop losses due to extreme weather in Australia
- Potato crop in Jersey, UK hit by worst early season in 40 years due to severe frost
Pounding rain from Cyclone Idai turned the region around the city of Beira in central Mozambique into an inland sea
Cyclone Kenneth, which smashed into northern Mozambique late Thursday, hit "an area where no tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite era," the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement.
Kenneth struck barely a month after Cyclone Idai cut a path of destruction through central Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, leaving more than 1,000 dead.
"There is no record of two storms of such intensity striking Mozambique in the same season," the WMO said, labelling Kenneth an "unprecedented tropical cyclone."
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The 10 consisted of two from Bengkulu city, six from Central Bengkulu district. and two from Kepahiang district. Chief of the Bengkulu Provincial Disaster Mitigation Board (BPBD) Rusdi Bakar said on Sunday.
Incessant rains caused several rivers in Bengkulu to overflow their banks on Friday night, flooding several parts of the province.
The flood also caused landslides, cutting off land communications among districts in Bengkulu and between the province and other provinces, including South Sumatra and Lampung.
Comment: Update: Al Jazeera on the 29th of April reports:
Floods sparked by torrential rains have killed 29 people in Indonesia with a dozen more still missing, officials said on Monday, marking the latest calamity for a disaster-prone nation.
Landslides and floods are common, especially during the monsoon season between October and April, when rains lash the vast Southeast Asian archipelago.
On Monday, Indonesia's disaster agency confirmed 29 deaths and said at least 13 more people were missing after days of pounding storms on the island of Sumatra.
Some 12,000 people have been evacuated from water-logged Bengkulu province with hundreds of buildings, bridges and roads damaged.
Hardest hit was Bengkulu Tengah district, just outside of the provincial capital, where 22 people were killed along with hundreds of livestock.
Authorities have set up temporary shelters and public kitchens for the evacuees.
Meanwhile, a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Sumatra's Lampung province on Saturday killed a family of six and disrupted transportation links to neighbouring regions.
Flooding in parts of the capital Jakarta during the week killed at least two people and forced more than 2,000 to evacuate their homes.© [Diva Marha/AFPResidents are salvaging belongings as floodwaters submerged their homes
Comment: This deadly dust storm is just the latest extreme weather event to hit the region recently. See also: Flash-flooding, dust-storms, hailstorms, and even snow: Entire Mid-East & North Africa regions pummeled all month long with extreme weather