Three climbers died after being struck by lightning while hiking in Austria's Tyrol region at the weekend.
The victims were a married couple, both aged 60, and the wife's 62-year-old brother, police said on Monday.
The three were ascending the 2,600-metre-high Mittagsspitze, in the far west of the country, on Sunday when sudden and severe weather changes forced them to turn back.
Concerned relatives alerted local authorities when the group failed to return to the valley. An emergency helicopter crew located the three bodies near a marked trail at an elevation of around 2,300 metres.
Medical examiners later confirmed that all three died from a lightning strike.
Marek Kučera mkweather.com Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:28 UTC
8.5 cm hail in Olby, Auvergne Region, France on June 14th 2025.
On June 14, 2025, a powerful hailstorm swept through the Auvergne and Bourgogne regions of France, delivering hailstones up to 9 cm in diameter. The storm caused significant damage to agriculture, vehicles, and infrastructure. Reports from the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) and eyewitness accounts confirm the severity of the event.
The most intense hailstorm occurred in Olby, Auvergne, France, on June 14, 2025, at 20:15 UTC, where hailstones reached a maximum diameter of 8.5 centimeters. This event represents the largest hailstones recorded in the dataset, indicating a highly severe storm.
Close behind was the hailstorm in Sougy-sur-Loire, Bourgogne, France, on the same day at 20:48 UTC, with hailstones measuring up to 8 centimeters. This storm was also quite severe and likely caused significant damage.
Following these were hailstorms producing hailstones around 4.5 centimeters in Brinay at 21:25 UTC and La Machine at 20:55 UTC, both in Bourgogne, showing a strong and persistent hail-producing system in the region.
P.Gosselin NoTricksZone Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:25 UTC
The Germany-base European Institute For Climate And Energy (EIKE) has issued its latest video featuring Antarctica. Good news! The alleged catastrophic warming remains a myth there.
Antarctica experienced record low temperatures in late 2023, particularly during late winter (July-August). These extreme cold events were observed across a wide area, impacting both East and West Antarctica, including the Ross Ice Shelf and the Antarctic Peninsula, according to The Watchers here.
The irony just couldn't be greater, as all we hear in the fake media are stories about big icebergs breaking off somewhere, and everyone being (mis)led to believe the South Pole is melting when clearly as a whole it is not.
Residents in 54 villages in Khongxedon district, Saravan province, are suffering from flash floods after heavy rain in recent days, unleashed by tropical storm Wutip.
The district has been flooded since June 13, affecting farmland, houses, schools and animals, while roads are unusable. Fortunately, there have been no reports of injuries or deaths, according to the disaster management committee in Khongxedon district.
Currently, the Khongxedon district authorities are moving residents, vehicles and animals to safe places, and authorities continue to monitor the flood situation, especially in villages along the Xedon River.
They have also prepared for the situation, such as 24-hour patrols, 13 rescue boats, life jackets, food, drinking water and other necessary items.
Flash floods destroyed five entire villages in the Andarab Valley after a large reservoir wall collapsed early Saturday, local residents said, leaving no trace of homes and sweeping away farmland, bridges, and livestock.
According to residents, the deluge began around 7 a.m. when the wall of a major water reservoir above the Taghank gorge in Pul-e-Hisar district gave way, unleashing water that surged through the valley. The villages of Shurabak, Upper and Lower Mad Naj Khil, Qishlaq-e-Kalan Taghank, and Darband-e-Tirgaran were completely washed away.
"There's nothing left," one resident said, describing the devastation that also destroyed six footbridges, four vehicle bridges, five mosques, and hundreds of hectares of farmland. Nearby villages like Seyedabad, Dahyak, and Nowbahar were also severely damaged.
Residents said the initial landslide-like surge gave people time to escape, preventing loss of life. Taliban officials conducted two helicopter rescue missions and distributed limited food aid, but humanitarian groups have yet to fully respond. The Red Crescent is currently conducting assessments but has not delivered assistance.
Jean-Yves Kamale ABC News Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:28 UTC
Detail from Kinshasa, Photo: Screenshot/Youtube
Major flooding hit several neighborhoods in Congo's capital Kinshasa, killing at least 19 people and causing severe damage, authorities said Saturday.
Heavy rains Friday through Saturday triggered floods and landslides in Kinshasa's western neighborhood of Ngaliema, killing at least 17 people, the local mayor, Fulgence Bolokome, told the radio station Top Congo. Two avenues in the city were also cut off, he added.
Two other people died when the deluge toppled a wall in the southern neighborhood of Lemba, Mayor Jean-Serge Poba said. A police camp and a bridge were damaged.
"It was around 3 a.m. when we heard a loud noise. When we went outside, the neighbors' wall had collapsed. The man and his wife both died, leaving behind five children who made it out unharmed," resident Clovis Kalenga told The Associated Press.
In April, floods in Kinshasa killed at least 22 people and cut off access to over half the city and the country's main airport.
Affected by a second landfall of this year's first Typhoon Wutip along the western coast of Leizhou, South China's Guangdong Province, waterspouts appeared near Guangzhou's Nansha passenger port on Saturday afternoon. Meanwhile, torrential rains triggered by the typhoon have caused a deadly mudslide in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, resulting in three fatalities.
According to the Guangdong provincial meteorological observatory, the center of the typhoon made landfall again in the western coastal area of Leizhou around 12:30 pm Saturday, packing maximum force 11 winds near its core, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
At around 10 pm Saturday, the official Weibo account of Guangzhou emergency early warning information release center stated that a waterspout occurred south of the Humen Bridge between 2:36 pm and 3:00 pm Saturday, followed by another waterspout east of Longxue island between 3:00 pm and 3:30 pm, the Chinanews reported on Sunday.
No disaster reports have been received regarding these waterspouts, said the report.
Mount Raung erupted on Saturday afternoon, June 14, 2025, with an eruption column reaching 1,500 meters above mountain peak.
Mukijo, the Observation Post Officer of Mount Raung in Kampung Mangaran, Sumber Arum Village, Songgon District, Banyuwangi Regency, East Java, mentioned in his report that the eruption occurred at 04:53 p.m. local time. "The ash column was observed to be grayish black in color with moderate to thick intensity, leaning toward the southwest and west," said Mukijo in his written report on Saturday afternoon, June 14, 2025.
As per the release of this article, there has been no change in the volcanic activity level of Mount Raung, which administratively and geographically covers Banyuwangi, Jember, and Bondowoso regencies.
The Center of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG) announced that the volcanic activity of Mount Raung remains at Level II, which caution visitors to avoid 3-kilometer radius of the crater.
Meanwhile, the seismic observations in the last 24 hours until early Saturday morning mentioned several seismic activities, including 5 times of eruption tremors with an amplitude of 4-5 mm and earthquake duration of 36-52 seconds.
Virendra Vanvasi, his wife, and two daughters died after lightning hit their house in Prayagraj; bodies sent for postmortem.
Four members of a family were killed after being struck by lightning in Sonvarsha Hallabor village here, officials said on Sunday.
Additional District Magistrate (Finance and Revenue) Vinita Singh said the family was sleeping in their thatched house on Saturday night when the incident took place.
The deceased have been identified as Virendra Vanvasi, his wife Parvati and daughters Radha and Karishma.
The age of the deceased is yet to be ascertained, Singh said, adding the bodies have been sent for postmortem.
Lightning strikes in the sky along Church Street in Witham, Essex, early this morning
More than 30,000 lightning strikes were recorded overnight as powerful thunderstorms swept across the UK (and the bad weather is set to continue).
The Met Office said the "vast majority" of the lightning struck over the sea, but torrential downpours also hit land, causing significant flooding and disruption in Kent.
A major storm reached the county at around 10pm on Friday (June 13), prompting an amber weather warning and leaving homes in Dover under water.
It comes as late on Friday, the Environment Agency issued five flood warnings, where flooding is expected and immediate action is needed.
It also issued 49 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.
A further six flood alerts have been put in place by Natural Resources Wales in South Wales.
"The purpose of GLADIO was to attack civilians, the people - women, children, innocent people, unknown people, far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the State and demand greater security. Under a strategy of tension, you 'destabilize in order to stabilize', to create tension within society and promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies."
~ Italian neo-fascist whose prosecution led to the discovery of NATO's 'Gladio' networks across Western Europe
- Vincenzo Vinciguerra
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