Authorities in Thailand report that heavy rainfall in the country since 17 July has caused flooding in at least 7 provinces, plus the country's capital Bangkok.
Flooding struck in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, on 17 July after heavy rain caused the Nong Kradon Reservoir to overflow, inundating areas of Phimai District. Around 200 residents were affected.
Thailand's Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) reported flooding in Khok Yai, Tha Li District, Loei Province on 20 July 2022. Around 25 homes were flooded.
Also on 20 July floods struck in areas of Bangkok, causing widespread traffic disruption. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) reported flooding in 26 locations across the city as of late 20 July. No injuries or fatalities were reported.
According to DDPM, heavy rain and flooding also affected the provinces of Khon Kaen, Rayong, Chon Buri, Samut Prakan and Nonthaburi from 20 July. A total of 190 homes were damaged by floods in Wang Chan District, Rayong. One fatality was reported in Chon Buri.
Odisha witnessed 21.73 lakh lightning strikes that claimed 5,706 lives in the last two decades. The deaths due to lightning continue to be on an upward spiral, revealed a global study that mapped main risk areas of lightning fatalities between 2000 and 2020 over Odisha.
Researchers from six universities in India and Brazil found lightning-induced deaths are among the most unnoticed disaster fatalities and often ignored as it is not considered as a public health issue.
Odisha has been hit by over 10,000 strikes every year between 2000 and 2020 except for 2001, 2017, and 2018. Despite the variabilities, lightning activities showed a clear increasing trend during the past 20 years.
Rescue operation in central Israel home went on for 4 hours, complicated by fears of secondary collapse; another man pulled in by receding water managed to exit with light injuries
A man was found dead Thursday afternoon, hours after a sinkhole opened up in an inground swimming pool at a private home in central Israel, with the receding water dragging him away along with another man who managed to climb his way out.
Search teams at the scene in the town of Karmei Yosef found the body following a complex rescue operation that took four hours and required the assistance of Go-Pro cameras hooked to the helmets of the staff workers as they were lowered deep underground
Police in Japan are searching for a wild monkey that has attacked 10 people in the space of a fortnight.
The attacks began on 8 July in the Ogori district of Yamaguchi prefecture in the country's south-west. In the most serious incident, it badly scratched an infant after invading a family home.
"I was vacuuming when I heard my child crying, so I turned around and saw the monkey had grabbed her by the legs while she was playing on the floor. It looked like it was trying to drag her outside," the baby's mother told local media.
Last weekend, the monkey opened the screen door of a first-floor apartment and scratched the leg of a four-year-old girl, leaving her with minor injuries, before attacking other people nearby, according to the Kyodo news agency.
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"There's much snow. It is a spectacular day, with a lot of people, the truth is that we started the season in a very nice way", says the head of operation of the Batea Mahuida, Manuel Calfuqueo and invites the Snow Park. This season they improved the service at the refuge, with more menus and better facilities.
"It's a lot of snow, it's been a couple of years since it snowed so much. I think that until October, we will surely have snow", says Manuel from the hill. He accompanies his words with photos from there, in which he sees the shelter with snow up to the roof and clarifies that the hill is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the hours and services are subject to weather conditions.
It's just that it hasn't stopped snowing for a few weeks.
As extreme summer heatwaves deepened droughts and fueled wildfires in the Northern Hemisphere, winter storms brewed south of the equator. In July 2022, back-to-back weather systems eased rainfall deficits in central Chile and added to the snowpack atop the Andes—a critical reserve of water for the coming summer.
The blanket of fresh snow along the mountain range between Chile and Argentina is visible in the image above, acquired on July 16 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite. Heavy rain and snow fell in the area despite La Niña conditions offshore in the Pacific that typically bring dry winters. The precipitation brought at least some temporary relief to an area suffering a decade-long drought.
A sinkhole opened up and swallowed a van in the Bronx after a day of torrential rain and flooding across the area.
Crews were still working on Tuesday to repair the 58-foot long, 15-foot wide and 20-foot deep hole on Radcliff Avenue in Morris Park.
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection responded to investigate the scene.
Crews say repair work will be extensive, and the block will remain closed for a week or so to rebuild subsurface infrastructure and restore the roadway.
Officials said everything will be considered as part of the investigation, including if weather played a role.
At least 14 people were killed and another 16 injured after being struck by lightning in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, officials said.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced a financial assistance of ₹ 4 lakh each to the families of the people who have died, they said.
According to the details provided by the relief commissioner's office, four deaths due to lightning were reported from Banda, two from Fatehpur and one each from Balrampur, Chandauli, Bulandshahr, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Kaushambi, Sultanpur and Chitrakoot districts.
Mr Adityanath expressed grief over the deaths and directed the concerned district magistrates to immediately provide ₹ 4 lakh each to the victims' families, the statement said.
The chief minister also directed officials to ensure that proper treatment is provided to the injured, it added.
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