A German tourist has died during a storm in Italy, in the latest death after a week of terrible weather.
The woman was struck by lightning on the Italian island of San Pietro, near the larger island of Sardinia, a spokesman for the Civil Protection agency told dpa Saturday.
The woman was hiking with her husband and son, according to news agency Ansa, when bad weather moved in, causing the family to end the outing on Friday afternoon.
Before they returned to their car, the woman was hit by lightning and thrown several metres into the air.
Ben Clatworthy The Times Sat, 03 Nov 2018 12:37 UTC
While much of Europe has been basking in the warm afterglow of summer, winter has arrived unexpectedly early in the Alps in this year of freakish weather. Thanks to two giant snowstorms, the tills are already ringing merrily in some ski resorts, more than a month ahead of schedule.
Yesterday Verbier in Switzerland was able to open a handful of slopes for ardent skiers in what is believed to be the earliest start to the season. More than three metres of snow has fallen in parts of the southern Swiss Alps and northern Italian Alps this week.
More than 60cm fell in Verbier. "The Indian summer has ended and [given] way to winter," Téléverbier, the ski lift company, said.
"Welcome to the next Little Ice Age!" says reader."SEVERAL FEET of Global Warming hit Northern Spain on October 31st and Basque farmers were caught out very badly."
"The video shows them digging sheep out from heavy, wet snow. This amount of snow this early is almost unheard of in the modern climate record."
"Herd casualties across the whole of Europe and Eurasia, are already exceeding historic records for the time of year."
Gorbea, Basque mountains (max elevation 1481 m), north Spain
Recovering sheep buried deep in fresh snow on Gorbea, Basque mountains (max elevation 1481 m), north Spain on October 31!
120 people rescued as heavy snowfall blocks Mughal road in J-K (Representative Image)
Over 120 persons, mostly truckers, were rescued from Peer Ki Gali along the Mughal road, which recorded the season's first heavy snowfall over the past couple of days, a senior traffic police officer said Saturday.
Some of the rescued people, including an aged woman, were sick and shifted to hospital, but none of them is serious, Deputy Superintendent of Police, traffic, Mohammad Rafiq told PTI.
Over three feet of snow had accumulated in the high altitude Peer Ki Gali stretch of the road, connecting the twin districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu with south Kashmir Shopian.
"A joint rescue operation was launched last evening after it was reported that over 70 vehicles, mostly trucks, were left stranded on both sides due to the heavy snowfall and subsequently over 120 persons were rescued and shifted safely to Surankote," Rafiq, who led the rescue operation, said.
Three children were killed as a result of flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Alishang district of eastern Laghman province Wednesday night, an official said on Thursday.
The floods also destroyed large swaths of farmland in Alishang, Alignar and Dawlat Shah districts, said the governor's spokesman, Asadullah Dawlatzai.
The floods killed three children in Alishang district and the body of one child was still missing, he said.
Dawlatzai said the children died in Aini village where local people were searching for the missing child's body.
A tiny island in northern Japan. Or so authorities fear, prompting plans for a survey to determine if the outcrop has been washed away, ever-so-slightly shrinking the country's territorial waters.
The island, known as Esambe Hanakita Kojima was only officially surveyed and registered by Japan's coastguard in 1987, who couldn't even say exactly how big it was.
Until recently, it rose 1.4-metre above sea level, and was visible from the very northern tip of Japan's northern Hokkaido island.
But now, it has disappeared.
"It is not impossible that tiny islands get weathered by the elements," a coastguard official told AFP.
The disappearance of the island "may affect Japan's territorial waters a tiny bit", she added, but only "if you conduct precision surveys".
A Latam Brasil Airbus A320-200 which was set for Santiago, Chile made an emergency landing in Argentina due to a severe hailstorm.
Only 80 minutes into its flight after took off from Sao Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday, the plane flew through a severe hailstorm over the province of Misiones, Argentina.
Wind gusts of up to 200km/hr battered the plane and the aircraft was forced to descend 1,500 metres before it made an emergency landing at Ezeiza airport at Buenos Aires.
Argentinian's Accident Investigation Board confirmed nobody was injured on the flight.
All the passengers were promptly transferred to other flights and made it to their final destination in Chile.
The damaged plane has been kept at the airport in Buenos Aires.
Three minor children died when struck them while they were playing in the rain on Sunday.
The incident occurred at village under Teyai police outpost of Begusarai .
Police sources said Dataram Kumar, Shubham and Anand all aged below 12 years, were playing in an orchard beside a village temple when lightning struck them.
While Dataram, son of Tuntun Sah and Shubham, son of Dilip Choudhary were residents of Raghunandanpur village, Anand was a resident of Madhurapur village under Teghra police station of the district and had come to his maternal grandmother's house.
Bhagwanpur block development officer (BDO) Ajay Kumar later visited the family of the victims.
The district administration announced an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh to kin of each of the deceased.
An official said the nomadic families camping in Kund Karyote area were on way to their homes in Lamberi and Teryath areas of district last night when lightning struck, killing 108 goats and sheep.
Over 100 goats and sheep were killed by a lightning bolt in Kund Karyote village area of Thanamandi tehsil of Rajouri district, officials said on Friday.
An official said the nomadic families camping in Kund Karyote area were on way to their homes in Lamberi and Teryath areas of district last night when lightning struck, killing 108 goats and sheep.
There was no report of any human loss in the incident, he said.
A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the north of Chile, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The quake was registered at 22:19 GMT on Thursday, 118 kilometers (73 miles) to the northeast of the coastal city of Iquique.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located at the depth of 91 kilometers.
There have been no immediate reports about casualties or damage caused by the quake.
The 24 Horas news outlet noted that the tremors provoked the mass exodus of people from Iquique beaches, adding that no tsunami warning had been issued.
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