April records in Spain are beginning to fall. As temperatures rise into the 30s Celsius and heat across southern Iberia continues to intensify, local records are being passed. AEMET, the Spanish Met. Service has highlighted 38C for Cordoba and Seville with heat advisories on Thursday. Exceeding that value at this time of year would be "something absolutely unusual, very outstanding."
Seville has already seen 33C, Madrid's April record is 30.1C and forecast to see 31 even 32 by Friday. Jerez Airport in the south looks to have exceeded its monthly record too. They are toppling and there are more days of heat to come. This is more like a summer setup and around 10 degrees warmer than usual.
Comment: Meanwhile towards the southeastern end of the Eurasia landmass at roughly the same latitudes as southern Iberia:
On March 24th, Alta Ski Area broke its all-time season snowfall record of 748″ set in the winter of 1981-82. It took less than a week to surpass 800″.
Today, after getting 7″ of new snow in the last 24 hours, the legendary Utah ski area has surpassed 900″ of total season snowfall for the first time in its history.
Wow.
Alta is currently sitting at 901″ with a 195″ base.
Despite being the resort with the most snow in North America, if not the world, Alta closed on Sunday, April 23rd. However, the resort will continue to measure snow through the end of April.
For the second consecutive day, parts of Trinidad recorded more than an average April month's rainfall in a few hours. The torrential rain triggered street and flash floods across parts of central, north-central, and northwestern Trinidad during the afternoon on Monday.
Which areas were affected?
As thunderstorms and heavy rainfall swept across Trinidad, flooding was first reported in Claxton Bay, along the Southern Main Road. As rain moved north, floods quickly began in Port-of-Spain along the typical flood-prone areas. Flooding occurred along Richmond, Edward, St Vincent, Charlotte, Park, Pembroke, Abercromby Streets, and Independence Square North and South. City Gate at South Quay in Port-of-Spain temporarily became impassable. Only one of the four eastbound lanes on St Joseph Road, exiting Port-of-Spain, was passable early Monday afternoon due to flooding.
A rare strong cold front has put the brakes on spring warmth, with most parts of China seeing the mercury drop sharply since Thursday.
Temperatures dropped by as much as 20 C in parts of Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, which were hit by heavy snow, the National Meteorological Center said.
Long periods of rain and snow are rarely seen in April, the center said, adding that some areas had experienced their latest spring snowfall since records began.
Elsewhere, heavy rain, thunderstorms and hail hit some areas in Guizhou, Hunan and Guangdong provinces, the center said.
On Thursday in Shanxi, as much as 24 centimeters of snow fell in some areas while others were hit with heavy rain, according to the provincial meteorological service, which added that many weather stations in southern Shanxi had record precipitation for late April.
A tragic incident occurred when a couple and their two children were struck by lightning while seeking shelter under a tree during a sudden rainstorm. The family had been returning from a wedding ceremony in Sarwadi and had stopped their bikes under the tree when the tragedy occurred.
A tragic incident occurred on Kurkheda-Desaiganj road in Tulsiphata where a family of four was struck by lightning while seeking shelter under a tree during a sudden rain and thunderstorm. The lightning strike killed all four on the spot. The victims were identified as Bharat Rajgade (35), his wife Ankita Rajgade (29) and their two children Bali Rajgade (2) and Devashi Rajgade (4). The incident happened around 6:45 pm.
Lightning which struck livestock, has killed six cows, two sheep and two goats at Kundakere village in the taluk yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon, rains accompanied by thunder and lightning began to lash in the village during which two goats, two sheep and five cows belonging to one Rajappa and one cow belonging to one Basavanna of the village died when lightning struck them leaving the owners of the livestock in distress as this was the only way for them to earn their livelihood.
A strong undersea earthquake has sent streams of people fleeing to higher ground in western Indonesia, after a tsunami warning was briefly triggered.
Footage released by the National Disaster Mitigation Agency showed how streams of people in a village on Mentawai Island fled to the highlands by foot and motorcycles under the rain in darkness early Tuesday, while some patients at the village's hospital were evacuated to its yard as cracks showed in the facility's floor.
The shocks were felt in districts and cities of West Sumatra and North Sumatra provinces, and some places ordered evacuations to higher ground.
Residents in parts of West Sumatra province, including the provincial capital of Padang, felt the earthquake strongly for about 30 seconds, disaster agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari said.
In shocking incidents, two kids have been mauled to death in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh and Moradabad districts.
As per reports, in Aligarh, a three-month-old infant was mauled to death by a stray dog on Sunday when her family was attending a wedding near their house while she slept unattended. The incident took place under Quarsi police station limits, reported IANS.
The infant's father, Pawan Kumar, a daily wager, told IANS: "My two sisters were getting married and we had stepped out to attend the function. The baby was asleep unattended. In our absence, a dog took away our child and mauled her to death. When I returned, I could not find my daughter. When I looked for her, I saw the stray tearing into her in a nearby plot."
SHO Arvind Rathi said: "The family cremated the body without informing us. A police team later inspected the spot, and higher officials have been informed about the incident."
A man died Saturday after he and two others were caught in an avalanche in a closed-off area of Lake Louise Ski Resort.
In a statement, the resort in Banff National Park said the avalanche happened around 2:20 p.m. in the West Bowl area.
When crews arrived at the scene, they determined that a group entered the closed-off area and triggered a size 3 avalanche. None of the people were wearing avalanche safety equipment, the resort said.
According to AHS EMS, three people were buried in the snow, two partially and one fully. The two people partially buried suffered minor injuries while the fully buried individual died.
Two persons were killed in a lightning strike in the Chandwak area here on Sunday evening, officials said.
Santu Ram (65) and Jeera Devi (45) were grazing goats in Ramgarh village when suddenly it started raining. They were struck by lightning while they were taking the herd to a safer place, District Magistrate Anuj Kumar Jha said.
The bodies have been sent for postmortem, the officials said.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has expressed grief over the loss of lives, the CM's office said.
The chief minister has instructed that Rs 4 lakh each be paid to the family members of the deceased, it said.
An earthquake of 7.1 magnitude hit the Kermadec Islands region near New Zealand on Monday, stated the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles). USGS initially reported the magnitude of the earthquake at 7.3 but later downgraded it to 7.1.
The US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre stated that the tsunami threat which occurred from the earthquake that jolted the Kermadec Islands region has now passed.
As per the National Centre for Seismology, the earthquake's longitude was -178.02 and its latitude was -29.95.
The National Centre for Seismology tweeted that New Zealand's Kermadec Islands were rocked by an earthquake of 7.2 magnitude on Monday.
Comment: Meanwhile towards the southeastern end of the Eurasia landmass at roughly the same latitudes as southern Iberia: