Earth Changes
The deceased individuals have been identified as 50-year-old Islam Uddin, 12-year-old Anuwar Hussain, 12-year-old Sharif Uddin, 10-year-old Dilwar Hussain and 9-year-old Abidha Begum.
According to reports, the family was struck by lightning while all of them were inside their home. While five succumbed to injuries on the spot, two other minors sustained severe injuries. They were rushed to the Karimganj civil hospital where they are undergoing treatment.
Many Capetonians awoke to a scene that looked like snow... but was in fact bucket-loads of hail.
Whilst in other parts of the Western Cape, residents were treated to mountains of actual snow.
SAWS posted a satellite image of the cold front over the central interior of SA this morning. The weather service announced "very cold temperatures" across the western, central and southern parts of the country, and warned of heavy showers still being possible over the Western Cape with snow on the mountains.
A report by the Coventry Telegraph said several "mini tornadoes" were spotted by local residents above the Brandon area of Coventry on Wednesday.
Video filmed by Twitter user @Mattmoopoo shows the funnel cloud in the sky around midday, according to the uploader.
#tornado formed over Brandon,Coventry this lunchtime 😮! #metoffice #bbcnews #bbcweather pic.twitter.com/X5zE3hxlkd
— Mattmoopoo (@Mattmoopoo) June 10, 2020
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Hours of heavy rainfall caused the Taludaa River to break its banks and triggered flooding in Sawawa, Sawawa Tengah, South Sawawa and Botu Pingge districts. Flood waters reached 1.5 metres in some areas.
According to Indonesia's National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB), 3 people have been injured, 5,407 affected. Floods have damaged or destroyed 1,479 houses, with around 600 families displaced. Flooding also damaged or destroyed 3 bridges in the area.
"A short while ago, a tornado was noticed in the city of Gavar, a rare meteorological phenomenon in Armenia. Photo by Edgar Stepanyan."

Scour marks in a field lead right to a barn with its roof torn off in Belmont, Ont. following a tornado on Wednesday, June 10, 2020.
A dark funnel cloud outside Glencoe, Ont. was captured on video. It shows the storm swirling and throwing up dust. It downed power lines, felled trees and damaged buildings.
Less than an hour later, at about a quarter to nine, a tornado touched down in Thames Centre.
Environment Canada has confirmed two tornadoes touched down as a line of severe thunderstorms moved through the area, leaving thousands without power for hours.
Tornado warnings had been issued for both areas as the evening went on.
According to a statement by the Metropolitan Municipality of Ankara, more than 1,500 calls were made to emergency services to report floods across the capital, with some parts of the city seeing as much as 30 centimeters per square meter of rain.
The SMB gains occurring right now across Greenland are truly astonishing.
Data-driven FACTS reveal vast regions to the south have been GAINING RECORD/NEAR-RECORD LEVELS of snow & ice all month.
Never before in June has the Greenland ice sheet grown by more than 4 Gigatons in a single day (since 1981 when DMI records began), but now the past week has gone and delivered two such days — June 3, and now yesterday, June 10.
In fact, yesterday's gains actually neared 5 Gts — you can see from the chart below how anomalous that gain is for the time of year:
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Intense thunderstorms localized over Ajaccio at around 11:30am local time on Thursday. The flooding began with an initial shower which dropped 40mm (1.5 inches) of rain in half an hour.
The storm then gathered pace as it continued into the afternoon and, after drainage systems were overwhelmed, city workers scrambled to replace burst sewer drain covers.
As eyewitness footage from the scene shows, cars and dumpsters were tossed around like toys by the flood waters.














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