Strange cloud phenomenon over Ashville, Alabama
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Strange cloud phenomenon over Ashville, Alabama
"Really never seen anything like this before. Dealt with a lot of storms but this was the biggest," Jewell County EMS Director Shannon Meier said.
Meier was out storm spotting that night. As he watched the funnel cloud he was caught in the hail and had to pull over to the side of the road. His truck was smashed and he took cover as glass flew around him.
"My concern then was there were other vehicles out so I had requested that we get units out to do a search of the highways," Meier said.
NASA astronaut captures stunning pictures of hurricane Genevieve from space
Genevieve had a been a powerful Category 4 hurricane with winds of 130 mph (215 kph) on Tuesday, but weakened to Category 1 strength as it pushed past the Los Cabos region, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Meanwhile a new tropical depression formed in the Atlantic and it was expected to become a tropical storm that would move near or north of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
The center said the hurricane was expected to stay out in the Pacific while moving northwestward along the Baja coast and weakening Thursday and Friday. But it was raking the shore with tropical storm-forces winds and hard rains that carried the potential for dangerous flooding.
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Vehicles ply on waterlogged Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway near Narsingpur after heavy rains, in Gurugram
Vehicles ply on waterlogged Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway near Narsingpur after heavy rains, in Gurugram
Heavy monsoon rains have flooded parts of India's capital New Delhi and its suburbs, throwing life out of gear for millions of people, as the death toll from the annual deluge across South Asia rose to nearly 1,300.
In New Delhi's suburb of Gurgaon, dubbed the Millenium City, roads, underpasses and residential areas were flooded on Wednesday forcing power cuts in several areas. Rafts were put into action to evacuate people in some areas.
The monsoon is vital to the densely populated region, revitalising land and waterways amid scorching summers. But it also causes widespread death and destruction.
Achham, a hill district in Sudurpaschim Province, has been hit hardest as gushing floodwaters from Kailash Khola entered several settlements in Ramroshan Rural Municipality causing a massive human and property loss.
At least six people died in the disaster while 11 others are missing, according to the district police.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Yogendra Singh Thapa said four bodies were recovered from Koseda area in Darna of Bannigadi Jayagad Rural Municipality while two other bodies were found at Lamatna and Seri in Mangalsen Municipality. Search was underway for the missing people until late Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Chongqing Emergency Response Bureau, the water at the Cuntan station was measured at 191.51m, 0.1 meter higher than the devastating flood which left 1.5 million people homeless in July 1981.
More than 8,660 sq km of arable land in the province were flooded. The direct economic loss caused by the floods was about 2 billion yuan (S$394 million).
Its authorities upgraded its flood-control response to Level I on Tuesday, the highest rung in the four-tier emergency response system for floods.
A tornado warning was issued for the area as strong storms passed through the region. It expired at 4:15 p.m.
The National Weather Service visited the area Wednesday to assess the damage and determined an EF-2 tornado touched down.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office tweeted, "Significant storm damage, Pine St, DeLand," along with several photos, one of which shows a house with a collapsed roof. Another photo showed downed power lines and trees.
Multiple Florida residents captured video of a waterspout sliding up the coast.
A massive waterspout rose up out of the sea and briefly came onshore as a tornado Wednesday, snapping trees in half and causing some anxious moments for residents on both sides of the Miami-Dade/Broward border.
The National Weather Service says the waterspout was first spotted around 1:14 p.m. off Sunny Isles Beach and came onshore around 1:20 p.m. in northern Golden Beach, becoming a tornado.
It quickly went back offshore and then dissipated, but not before its winds tore down trees, tossed around some outdoor furniture and damaged the metal gates of several ocean-facing homes. No injuries have been reported.
"I started seeing chairs flying in the air and that's when I knew something big was coming in," said Julio Grisales, who works nearby.
He tried to take cover in a garage, but the pressure from the wind kept the doors from closing.
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Two of the whales washed up on the beach, while the other four were left stranded in shallow water.
Two of the whales washed up on the beach, while the other four were left stranded in shallow water.
The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) attempted to help the whales, but it was too late already, as six of them have already died. Only one managed to survive and went back to the sea. Experts believe that its survival rate is low, but Sibeal Regan of the IWDG is 'cautiously optimistic.'
The authorities believed that the acoustic trauma caused by humans perhaps is the reason for the whales to be stranded on the shore.
Regan said that although the death of the six whales is unfortunate, the only consolation to that is that they are no longer suffering. For the lone survivor, she said its survival is low given that they have come up to the shore when they are naturally deep divers.
IWDG later said that they would remain on the shore just in case the whale gets stranded again.
One whale seen here lifting its head to breathe has refloated itself and swam out with the incoming tide. We are cautiously optimistic it will make it out but IWDG will standby and check to see if it restrands. Video by Nicola Coyle/IWDG pic.twitter.com/8NRzsBPBQu
— Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (@IWDGnews) August 19, 2020
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A person is hit by a wave crashing on the Front Strand in Youghal, County Cork
A person is hit by a wave crashing on the Front Strand in Youghal, County Cork
TrafficwatchNI reported fallen trees in all six counties in Northern Ireland, with County Fermanagh worst affected.
NIE Networks is currently reporting a number of power cuts, affecting about 430 customers, some of which it has attributed to severe weather.
In the Republic of Ireland, power cuts affected at least 194,000 customers.
Southern, western and midland counties in the Republic of Ireland bore the brunt of the storm, but County Cork saw the strongest winds and coastal flooding.
In County Fermanagh, six people were rescued from two boats at Devenish Island when the vessels began breaking their moorings in the early hours of the morning.
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