Reader Darren Cornish shot the photo above of a funnel cloud forming out of the stormy skies.
And Andy Popham captured the video below over the village of Mark near Burnham-On-Sea.
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Reader Darren Cornish shot the photo above of a funnel cloud forming out of the stormy skies.
And Andy Popham captured the video below over the village of Mark near Burnham-On-Sea.
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Flash floods in Žarnovica District, Slovakia, May 2021.
Flash floods in Žarnovica District, Slovakia, May 2021.
Severe flash flooding struck the village of Rudno nad Hronom in Žarnovica district on 17 May 2021. The dam of a reservoir near the village is thought to have broken after recent heavy rainfall.
The ensuing flood waters damaged homes and dragged vehicles through streets of the village. Slovakia's Fire and Rescue Service (HaZZ) said one person was swept away and was later found without signs of life. HaZZ also carried out some evacuations.
The Ministry of the Interior said that the flooding also destroyed multiple bridges and damaged gas connections. The mayor of the village declared an emergency situation in the village.
It's the first confirmed fatal shark attack in Australian waters this year, though it's believed another man was killed by a shark off South Australia in January.
Paramedics were called to the beach, just north of Forster, about 11:20am on Tuesday, after the man in his 50s was bitten while surfing.
Police say the man suffered serious injuries to his upper thigh.
He was pulled from the water but died despite the efforts of bystanders and emergency workers to revive him.
Below was the scene on May 8 in northern England:
"May time blizzard makes us shiver," tweeted the YorkshireSpeherdess, who runs a successful sheep farm.
"You can't believe this is May," she says in the video.
"It's just like the middle of winter."
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The financial hub of Mumbai was lashed with heavy rain and strong winds, forcing authorities to suspend operations at the city's airport and to close some main roads due to flooding. Mumbai's urban rail system, one of the world's busiest, was also affected as tracks flooded. Witnesses saw trees uprooted and stranded cars and buses in the city.
Cyclone Tauktae brought gusts of up to 210 kmph that would put it on par with a Category 3 hurricane, rating it one level below the IMD's super cyclone category. The storm also forced Mumbai and Gujarat to temporarily suspend their COVID-19 vaccination drives.
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Only trouble is, no one can figure out just what is causing the booms.
Glenda Mayes, who lives on Newsome Street, said she's been hearing — and feeling — the loud noises and accompanying shock waves multiple times over the past few weeks. She said the most recent one was around 2 a.m. on May 1.
"It just about knocked me out of bed," she said, admitting that while that might be a bit of an exaggeration, the noise was extremely loud and shook her house.
She's not the only one hearing and feeling the booms.
"They felt something here, I'm not sure exactly what it was," said Mount Airy Police Department Sgt. J.W. Watson. While Watson said he didn't hear or feel anything — he works day shift while others at the station who did hear it work night — he said his colleagues did hear the noise, and felt the police department shake.
"Officers rode around the south end of town because they kept getting calls, but they never found the source of what it was," he said.
Mayes said the noises have been going on for several weeks, sometimes sending both her and her neighbors scrambling from their homes searching for the source.
Sun halos and sun pillars are created from ice crystals in the sky refracting sun light, but the both look different and can form at different times of the day.
Sun halos are created when sunlight or moonlight is reflecting off ice crystals in the sky. These crystals will then form a halo around the sun. Most of the ice crystals are found in cirrus clouds or cirrostratus clouds. It usually forms a white circle or even sometimes you will see rainbow colors in the halo.
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There was brief tension at the spot as villagers, irked by repeated tiger attacks in the area, refused to lift the body for some time. Sources said Kirtiram Kulmethe (35) from village Janala had gone into the compartment no. 718 in Chiroli beat of the range.
A tiger moving through the area attacked and killed him on the spot. Foresters rushed to the spot upon getting information, but a large crowd of villagers had gathered by the time. Forest officials pacified them and removed the body.
Earlier, one Kalpana Wadhai from Agadi village was killed in a tiger attack on March 31 in the same area.
Later, Vanita Gedam from Janala village was injured by a tiger on May 4 while she was out to collect Mahua flowers. She died while undergoing treatment at Nagpur on Tuesday.
This is the 15th incident of human kill in predator attacks this year. Of them, 12 have been killed by tigers, two by leopards and one by elephant.
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A humpback whale known as Kayak, seen on a Haida Gwaii beach on Saturday, May 15, 2021.
A humpback whale known as Kayak, seen on a Haida Gwaii beach on Saturday, May 15, 2021.
The Marine Education and Research Society (MERS) said the female whale, known as Kayak or BCX0977, was believed to be about 18 years old when she died.
She was found on a beach near the mouth of the Tlell River on the east side of the largest island in the archipelago off B.C.'s north coast, the group said.
"We want to share her story to aid thinking of whales as individuals," the organization said in a Facebook post.
"Sightings of Kayak go back to 2004. She was older than a year then as she was not with a mother and calves stay with their mothers for a year. When we first saw her in 2007, our observation was that she was small / young."
Comment: Another dead whale was found off the coast of Majorca, Spain on May 16.
The whale's body was floating near Es Carnatge.
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An ambulance in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on February 14, 2020
An ambulance in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on February 14, 2020
One person died and 21 were injured, two seriously, after a storm system struck the Shengze area of Suzhou city in eastern China's Jiangsu province.
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Back-to-back tornadoes killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said Saturday.
Eight people died in the inland city of Wuhan on Friday night and four others in the town of Shengze, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east in Jiangsu province, local governments said.
The first tornado struck Shengze about 7 p.m., damaging homes and factories and knocking out power, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The Suzhou city government, which oversees the town, said in a social media post that four people had died and 149 others had minor injuries. Shengze is near Shanghai on China's east coast.
Another tornado hit Wuhan at about 8:40 p.m. with winds of 86 kilometers (53 miles) per hour, destroying more than two dozen homes and triggering a power outage affecting 26,600 households, Xinhua said. Officials in Wuhan said at a news conference Saturday that eight had died and 230 were injured.
They said that 28 homes collapsed in Wuhan, another 130 were damaged and put economic losses at 37 million yuan ($5.7 million), the Hubei Daily newspaper said. Construction site sheds and two cranes were also damaged, while downed power lines knocked out electricity, Xinhua said.
Photos showed a swarm of rescuers searching through building debris in Wuhan after midnight Friday and workers clearing metallic debris at a factory in Shengze in the morning.
Wuhan is the city where COVID-19 was first detected in late 2019.
Tornados are rare in China. In July 2019, a tornado killed six people in the northeastern Liaoning province, and another tornado the following month killed eight on the southern resort island of Hainan.
In 2016, a tornado and accompanying hailstorm killed 98 people in the eastern Jiangsu province.
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