Flooded streets as heavy rains hit Taif, Saudi Arabia - 12 May 2020 | امطار غزيرة تغمر الطايف
Taif is a city in the Mecca Province of southwest Saudi Arabia. It's known for 20th-century Shubra Palace, a grand, white-walled building with latticework windows. Now the Taif Regional Museum, it exhibits artifacts from Islamic and pre-Islamic periods. In the west, King Fahad Garden has grassy lawns, restaurants and a lagoon. Just east is Taif National Park, with trees and a large dam.
Chris Pleasance Daily Mail Mon, 11 May 2020 05:03 UTC
An earthquake of magnitude 3.3 struck Fonte Nuova, 10 miles north of the Italian capital, at 5.03am on Monday - prompting calls to fire services but no reports of injuries or damage
A mild earthquake shook Rome on Monday morning as the city tries to adjust to life following coronavirus lockdown.
The quake had a magnitude of 3.3 and struck at 5.03am with an epicentre in Fonte Nuova, a small town around 10 miles outside the capital.
Firefighters said they had received numerous inquiries from people who had been shaken awake, but no reports of damage or injuries.
Residents reported hearing a loud roaring noise for around 30 seconds just before the shaking started, sending people scrambling into the streets.
'People woke up, screams of fright were heard from our building,' a man identified only as Fayruj told Italian news site AGI.
Robert W. Felix Ice Age Now Mon, 11 May 2020 15:38 UTC
10 May 2020 - "Very rare" May snowfall surprises residents of Ardahan.
Flaky snowfall imbued the center of the city with white.
Trees that were prepared to bloom in May were covered by so much snow that branches of some trees were broken.
Turkey News: Snow surprise in May. 09.05.2020
The snow falling in Erzurum in May turned the Palandöken Ski Center to white. The snow reached 5 cm at an elevation of 1890 meters and exceeded 10 cm in high sections. Municipal teams carried out snow removal in the hotels area.
After warm, sunny conditions in southern and central Finland on Sunday, the week began with a sudden shift in the weather.
Winter staged a surprise return, bringing more than 5 cm of snow to parts of southern and central Finland. Yle meteorologist Anne Borgström explains that the quick change was the result of a cold pulse from the Arctic Ocean.
"In the east the temperature was more than 18 degrees Celsius while at the same time it was less than five degrees on the west coast. The interface between these cold and warm fronts has produced this precipitation," Borgström says.
While the precipitation was mostly over by early evening in Uusimaa and other southern areas, Northern Karelia and Kainuu were still expecting up to 5 cm of snow locally.
Charodinsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is 1,010 square kilometers (390 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Tsurib.As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 11,777, with the population of Tsurib accounting for 19.0% of that number.
Parts of Scotland were white this morning as winter made a comeback despite it being May.
People in the Highlands woke up to a blanket of snow, with icy roads and frosted fields.
Traffic on the A9 between Inverness and Aviemore ploughed through the conditions, snow covered cars in Tomintoul, while lambs gambolled in frezzing fields near Tomintoul.
The white stuff also covered the scene near Nethybridge.
Travis Fedschun Fox News Sun, 10 May 2020 13:53 UTC
Snow accumulation near Readsboro, Vermont can be seen on Saturday, May 9, 2020.
Thousands of people were without power in Maine after a punishing spring storm brought snow and high winds Saturday to New England.
The frigid cold, caused by a polar vortex that blasted in from the north, set a number of records across the region, forecasters said.
The National Weather Service said unusually chilly conditions are expected to linger Sunday across the Central Plains, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast ,with freeze warnings and frost advisories in effect.
"We have another really cold morning across parts of the Northeast," Fox News chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth said on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "It is going to get better. In fact, temps today are going to be back up into the 60s for a lot of people, so that snow that we had yesterday will be gone, but we do have one more chilly morning to get through with this."
Alex Trelinski EuroWeeklyNews Sun, 10 May 2020 13:08 UTC
As the Costa del Britain enjoyed some sizzling spring heatwave weather over the first part of the weekend, Spain's Costa Blanca got a real taste of winter with some massive hail storms.
The UK hot spell did not last, with a big change this Sunday (May 10), but photos from the resort of Torrevieja certainly got people wondering whether the two countries had done a deal to swap their regular weather!
The local weather group, Proyecto Mastral, posted some photos taken of the effects of the hailstorm pummelling parts of the Costa Blanca city early this morning.
Comment: A day earlier the municipality of Pozohondo in the central region of Castile-La Mancha experienced unusual flooding:
As many as 12 people are thought to have died in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Ethiopia.
Local media said the landslide struck in Ale Special Woreda in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNP). Six houses were completely destroyed and several families displaced. Seven bodies have been found, with 5 still missing. Search operations were continuing but has been hindered by unstable terrain.
Heavy rain, floods and landslides have affected SNNP since mid-April. Eight people died in Gamo zone in a period 11 to 18 April. Flooding in Jinka town on 25 April damaged infrastructure and livestock.
In a horrific incident, a leopard stole a three-year-old boy from his house in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The child's half-eaten body was later recovered from the bushes nearby.
According to local reports, the incident took place in a village in Magadi Taluk in Ramanagara. Residents were asleep when the leopard stealthily sneaked into a house and picked up the boy. The door of the house was kept open because of the summer heat and the lack of electricity, local residents said.
When the family members found the boy was missing they started a search. During the early hours, people found the half-eaten body of the boy.
The forest department launched an investigation and set up a trap to capture the animal.
This is not the first time an incident related to a leopard took place in the state.
Comment: Just two weeks ago in Rome: Sinkhole opens up at Pantheon