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Lightning bolt kills man in Largo, Florida


wptv.com
Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:30 UTC
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An 81-year-old man was struck and killed Friday morning by lightning, police said.

Jay Freres, who had a lengthy career with the U.S. State Department, was out for a walk when a storm developed, police said.

Lightning struck him about 11:30 a.m. in a residential area near Sandpiper and Egret drives.

He was alone at the time.

During his career, Freres served as deputy chief of missions in Bahrain, according to the State Department. He also served in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Afghanistan, among other countries.

His first tour was in 1963 in Guatemala. He became a deputy chief of missions in 1989.

Freres also worked in the department's counter terrorism office from 2002 to 2005.
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Strong 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattles Greece

Anastasios Papapostolou
The Greek Reporter
Tue, 09 Jun 2015 08:43 UTC
earthquake near Athens, Greece
An earthquake with magnitude 5.2 occurred near Athens, Greece at 01:09:02.90 UTC on Jun 9, 2015. There have been no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

According to the Geodynamic Institute in Athens, the quake occurred early Tuesday morning in the Gulf of Northern Evia, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Athens. Its epicentre was located 5 km deep near the city of Chalkida on Evia island. There have already been reported two smaller scale aftershocks.

"It was certainly felt, but so far we have not received any calls for assistance," a Greek fire brigade official in Athens said.

Earthquakes are common in Greece and have historically caused widespread damage across central and southern Greece, Cyprus, Sicily and other neighboring regions. Last year, a series of strong earthquakes on the island of Kefalonia damaged hundreds of homes and injured more than a dozen people.
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Cloud Precipitation

2 killed by flash floods in Switzerland

Richard Davies
floodlist.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:50 UTC
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Floodwater in Switzerland
Rain and thunderstorms over central parts of Switzerland late on Sunday, 07 June 2015, caused flash flooding in several cities and the deaths of two people in a village in Lucerne canton.

Zurich and Bern, as well as Lucerne, were all affected. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) the Swiss broadcaster, reported the deaths of the 2 victims - a mother and daughter - earlier today. Reports say that the victims died in the basement of their home in Dierikon, in the canton of Lucerne. Swiss police say that the force and speed of the floods took the victims by surprise.

Swiss police also said that the floods and storms caused severe damage in the municipalities of Lucerne, Sörenberg, Adligenswil, Udligenswil, as well as Dierikon. Flooded streets were also reported in Bern and Zurich earlier today, where emergency crews responded to 100s of call outs. The heavy rain, which followed a period of high temperatures in the country, also caused landslides which have blocked several roads.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 2, injures 7 in Nashik, India

Himanshu Nitnaware
The Times of India
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 18:02 UTC
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Pre-monsoon thunderstorms and lightning on Saturday claimed two lives in the district and injured three. Four people were injured on Sunday afternoon after being struck by lightning.

The district collectorate has registered 16mm of rainfall on Saturday evening across four talukas. The city received fresh spell of showers on Sunday afternoon which lasted for about half an hour.

Pithi Kashinath Valhekar (45) and Gauri Shravan Waghmare (35) died after being struck by lightning in Mahalkeda, Yeola taluka on Saturday. Nikhil Lakshman Walhekar (10) was injured in the incident.

An official from the district collectorate said that the victims were labourers from Raigad district. Cows and sheep were also killed due to lightning.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill three in Bangladesh


The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:54 UTC
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Three people were killed by lightning in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts on Saturday.

In Sylhet, a man was killed by lightning at Noagaon village in Osmaninagar upazila of the district.The deceased is Azam Ali, 50, son of Haris Ullah of the village.

Police said a thunderbolt hit Azam while he was working at a cropland near his house around 6:30pm.

Away in Sunamganj, two children were killed by lightning in Sadar and Dharmapasha upazila of the district the same day.

The victims are Afzal Mia, 12, son of Ayub Ali of Rupabali village in Jamalganj upazila, and Phulmati Begum, 8, of Tepikona village in Dharmapasha upazila.

Police said Afzal, a Class VI student of Rupabali Government Primary School, was struck by lightning in Dhopakhali area in the town around 7:30pm. He died instantly.

A thunderbolt hit Phulmati while she was playing in the yard around 7:00pm.
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Incredible time-lapse footage of supercell storm forming over Kansas which spewed hailstones bigger than baseballs

Jack Crone
Mail Online
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:49 UTC
supercell storm in Kansas
© Robert Sinner / LSM / Barcroft
Formidable: The giant rotating thunderstorm was captured on camera on Wednesday as it spread across the countryside in Kansas
This incredible sped-up footage captures a supercell storm evolving and moving across Kansas last week.

The phenomenon was filmed on June 4 by extreme weather fan Robert Sinner and shows the rotating thunderstorm moving across the countryside in Hanston.

Supercells are among the most powerful weather formations found on land and the latest to terrorise Kansas spewed hailstones larger than baseballs.

supercell storm in kansas
© Robert Sinner / LSM / Barcroft
Astonishing footage: A bolt of lightning shoots across the sky as the rare weather phenomenon tears through Hanston in Kansas last week
Describing Wednesday night's supercell, Mr Sinner said: 'I have chased hundreds of storms, but finding a rare low precipitation supercell with a sunset, which is isolated with no other storms around is rare.

'It had a breathtaking structure showing the rotation and updraft of the cell, along with the biggest hail stones I have ever seen, which measured over three inches wide.

'In the video you can see the updraft rotating and the storm topping out between 48,000 to 50,000ft is a perfect mix for large hailstones.'

Disabled army veteran Robert, 34, who lives in Kansas, became interested in storm-chasing four years ago.

He said: 'I was already a keen photographer when I chased my first storm and tornado in 2011.

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Attention

Bear attacks teenager in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park


knoxnews.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:08 UTC
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Black bear
Officials with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have closed several trails and backcountry campsites in the Hazel Creek section of the park because of a bear attack Saturday night.

According to the park, a 16-year-old Athens, Ohio, boy was pulled from his hammock at about 10:30 p.m. by a bear and injured at backcountry campsite 84, which is 4.5 miles from the Fontana Lake shoreline near Hazel Creek in North Carolina. The father was able to drive the bear off from the area, officials said.

Immediately following the incident, the boy and his father hiked to the lakeshore where they were transported across the lake to Cable Cove boat dock by campers at backcountry campsite 86 who had a boat. Graham County Rescue EMS transported them to a landing zone where the injured party was flown by Mountain Area Medical Airlift to Mission Hospital in Asheville at approximately 3 a.m. Sunday.
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Fish

Massive fish kill at Stanley, Hong Kong


ejinsight.com
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:56 UTC
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© Google Map, Apple Daily
Thousands of fish stuggle in the water off Stanley. Many washed ashore dead or dying (inset).
Tens of thousands of dead white fish have washed ashore in Hong Kong's Stanley district but authorities don't know what killed them.

The massive fish kill covered a big swath of St. Stephen's Bay in a silvery hue, Apple Daily reported Monday.

Most were sardines, thousands of which were spotted struggling in the water.

A man, surnamed Chui, described the scene as "breathtaking", with the water covered in a film of silver from dead or dying fish for about 30 minutes on Sunday.

He said he tried to push some of the fish back out to the water but there were just too many of them.

Most had died, he said.
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Attention

Humpback whale dies off Scotland's north-east coast

Chris Foote
news.stv.tv
Mon, 08 Jun 2015 15:46 UTC
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Humpback: Whale died after becoming tangled in rope.
A humpback whale has died after becoming tangled in rope off Scotland's north-east coast.

A rescue was launched after a fisherman spotted the whale near the village of Helmsdale on Thursday.

A British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) team was scrambled, but choppy seas and stormy weather hampered the search.

The whale is believed to have drowned on Saturday and its body was recovered by the BDMLR on Sunday.

A BDMLR spokeswoman said: "The body was retrieved yesterday and it was confirmed dead on Saturday.

"It was brought back and pathologists from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) will perform a post-mortem.

"It was entangled in rope which could have made the whale weak and unable to feed and drown."
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Cloud Lightning

Massive Colorado thunderstorm appears to spawn rare 'twin' tornadoes

Andrew Freedman
Mashable UK
Sun, 07 Jun 2015 13:23 UTC
Twin tornadoes in Colorado
© Kelly Delay
A supercell thunderstorm produces two tornadoes at the same time near Simla, Colorado on June 4, 2015
Storm chaser and professional photographer Kelly Delay took an epic picture of a particularly productive supercell thunderstorm near Simla, Colorado, on June 4.

The storm produced at least four tornadoes, according to reports and footage from Delay and other chasers who also followed the storm. At least one of these tornadoes destroyed a handful of homes.

Delay captured the image, which shows two tornadoes at the same time, or possibly one tornado on the right and a landspout funnel on the left.

Landspouts are tornadoes that are not spawned by the larger area of rotation in a supercell thunderstorm, which is known as the mesocyclone. These tornadoes generally form underneath thunderstorms, even non-severe ones, and are often thought of as the landform of waterspouts because they are weak tornadoes.

It is possible that this particular thunderstorm, though, produced two tornadoes at the same time. Twin tornadoes were observed in one Nebraska storm last year, and are not regarded as freak events, but rather just relatively rare occurrences.
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