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In Varna, several streets, underpasses and buildings were flooded after heavy rain battered Bulgaria’s third-largest city
As much as 71.5 mm of rain fell in 24 hours between 04 and early 05 June. According to WMO figures, the city would normally see 46 mm of rain during the whole of June.
Quoting the regional governor of Varna, Stoyan Pasev, local media said that the floods and stormy weather had damaged at least 40 houses in the areas fo Aksakovo, Kumanovo and Klimentovo. At least 1 family has been left homeless.
A dead whale has been discovered washed up on an East Yorkshire beach.
The four-metre long male minke whale was found washed up on the north side of Hornsea beach at around 8pm on Tuesday.
The Hornsea Coastguard team arrived and sadly discovered the dead whale.
In San Miguel Los Lotes close to Guatemala's most active volcano, firefighters are working hard, but hope is slim
A rescue crew emerges from an immense cloud of fine grey dust carrying two stretchers that hold bodies recovered from houses engulfed by blistering lava from the nearby erupting Fuego volcano.
The recovered bodies are tightly wrapped in dusty white sheets. One barely fills half the stretcher - a young victim of the most deadly volcanic eruption to hit Guatemala in decades.
The official death toll from the Fuego disaster is 69 but the final number is likely to be far higher, with scores of people missing from dozens of communities cut off by the devastation.
Comment: That number has since been revised to 75. Another 200 people are missing.
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Residents flee El Rodeo village after the Fuego volcano erupted.
Residents flee El Rodeo village after the Fuego volcano erupted.
The recovered bodies are tightly wrapped in dusty white sheets. One barely fills half the stretcher - a young victim of the most deadly volcanic eruption to hit Guatemala in decades.
The official death toll from the Fuego disaster is 69 but the final number is likely to be far higher, with scores of people missing from dozens of communities cut off by the devastation.
Comment: That number has since been revised to 75. Another 200 people are missing.
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It is believed a tiger shark like this one attacked the teenager.
It is believed a tiger shark like this one attacked the teenager.
Jose Ernesto da Silva had his penis ripped off by a shark as he swam with pals over the weekend, according to reports.
Shocked onlookers rushed into the water to assist the terrified young man and pulled him from the ocean.
He died in hospital Monday.
The 18-year-old had been instructed by lifeguards to come closer to shore prior to the attack, Brazilian media reported. Signs warned that deeper water could result in an attack.
Heavy hail in the Troodos Mountains temporarily turning the landscape and road network white.
The hailstorm lasted for about an hour in the early afternoon and left almost no fruit on trees. The produce the storm destroyed included pears, cherries, nectarines and peaches.
"In around a month we would have begun cutting nectarines and peaches, then apples. Now, there's nothing left to cut," producer Vlamis Avgousti from Amiandos told state broadcaster CyBC.
He said that the intensity of the hailstorm and the size of the stones had damaged trees so badly that "we will have a problem also next year".
Community leader of Amiandos, Kriton Kyriakides, said this was the first time in his life he had experienced something like this in summer.
American Airlines plane damaged by hailstorm
The Phoenix-bound flight, which had departed at 6:57 p.m. local time from San Antonio, was forced to divert to El Paso roughly an hour after takeoff.
According to reports, none of the 130 passengers or the crew members aboard the flight suffered any injuries; however, a few lunches were lost to the severe turbulence, The Dallas News reported.
Photos shared on Twitter show the plane's nose dented inward and windshield severely cracked.
American Airlines plane damaged by hailstorm
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Areas around Gander and St. John's got a light dusting of snow as temperatures dipped to about -1 C, with a wind chill of about -7 C.
Some called it a cruel Spring joke that yielded some bemused Twitter comments.
A traffic light in Torreón, Coahuila, melts in the heat.
Parts of Mexico continue to swelter in a record-breaking, prolonged heat wave that has caused at least three deaths, given a boost to the economy and even caused traffic lights to melt in two northern states.
Authorities in Chihuahua - where temperatures have been as high as 48 C - said an 18-year-old indigenous Tarahumara man and a 17-year-old male died due to heat-related illnesses.
A 33-year-old homeless man also died in Saltillo, Coahuila, due to heatstroke.
According to the National Meteorological Service (SMN), temperatures of up to 49 are expected to continue in the north of the country until next Tuesday, June 5.
". . . What we're observing is that as the heat wave progresses, the high [atmospheric] pressure is not decreasing, so it's going to strengthen in Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Léon, Durango and Zacatecas," SMN general coordinator Alberto Hernández told a press conference.
Comment: Mexico scorches while Europe is underwater and Canada is seeing unusually heavy 'spring snow':
- Floods Everywhere: Europe Battered By Sheets Of Rain, Hail and Thunderstorms
- Six gold miners buried by landslide after heavy rain in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
- Flood rescues following heavy rain in Valencia, Albacete and Murcia, Spain
Comment: This was an exceptional eruption, even for fiery Guatemala; its deadliest volcanic eruption since 1902.
Meanwhile Hawaii's Kilauea is still highly active following its strongest eruption in a century.
Earth's rockin and rollin!