Coin-sized hailstone pellets pelted Harbin for some 10 minutes on Sunday before a heavy rainstorm moved in, causing flooding up to 20-centimeters high in some places.
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Coin-sized hailstone pellets pelted Harbin for some 10 minutes on Sunday before a heavy rainstorm moved in, causing flooding up to 20-centimeters high in some places.
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While the summer months can be unbearable in terms of heat in the Southwest, temperatures will climb to 10-20 F above average for the middle of June during the pattern.
"The core of the heat will be centered on Arizona, where portions of the state, including Phoenix, could approach their highest temperature on record for any calendar day," according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Kristina Pydynowski.
Temperatures may not only reach levels not felt in the past several years but could challenge the highest mark on record in some cases.
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A residential building is seen partially collapsed following an explosion in Milan, Italy, June 12, 2016.
A residential building is seen partially collapsed following an explosion in Milan, Italy, June 12, 2016.
The incident happened in a residential building on Via Brioschi.
Among those injured were two sisters, aged seven and 11, who were hospitalized with severe burns, and their father. Their 43-year-old mother died in the explosion, which is thought to have been caused by a leak from a stove in an apartment rented by a couple, who were also among the victims, Ansa reported.
The couple, from the Marche region, were students, both aged 27.
All three victims and the nine injured lived on the third floor of the building, where the gas leak is thought to have occurred.
"The explosion sounded like a bomb - at first I thought it was an attack," a resident on Via Brioschi was quoted by Ansa as saying.
Comment: A couple of months ago a massive mysterious explosion obliterated an apartment block in Paris.
Onlookers watch the cars sink in a hole by a construction site by Phnom Penh's Olympic Stadium after a heavy rain on Wednesday, June 8, 2016.
The city is thought to be at high risk of sinkholes due to its position astride numerous lakes, which the government has filled in over the years to expand the land on which it can build.
Residents living close to a large skyscraper project next to the sinkhole have become concerned.
Hout Hang, 60, who saw the road collapse during a rainstorm on Wednesday, said he had watched in amazement as the tarmac gave way.
"It just suddenly happened, and three cars fell into the sinkhole," he said. "Luckily the cars were just parked there, otherwise, if people were driving, it would be dangerous and could have killed people," he said.
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Those who live near the sinkhole say they have been working on fixing the damage left behind for most of the morning.
"It washed out our waterline for horses, and I have been working on that all day," says Steve Smith. "But the road is the least of our worries. It washed out our crops, we had some hail north of here, the roads the minor compared to what we've dealt with."
Deputy Brian Koob with the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff's Office says many road ways are blocked with water and folks need to try and avoid areas that completely covered.
"It is something that just pops up," says Deputy Koob. "We ask the driver to be vigilant, when we have heavy downpours and flash flooding this could happen to any roadway. It's hard to detect when the colvert is going to giveway unless you see the bowing in the road or anything of that affect."
As for Smith, he says this isn't the first time he has seen a sinkhole and it certainly wont be the last.
"I've seen it numerous times, when you get 4 inches in 15- 20 minutes it's going to happen," he says.
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Murad Gazi, 33 and his daughter Rajia Sultana Sonali, 7, were killed at Modbari village under Koyra Upzila of the district in the morning as lightning struck them at the balcony of their house, Officer-in-Charge of Koyra Police Station confirmed.
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Monoara Begum, 35, wife of Shah Alam of Kachua Village, was killed at the yard of her house also in the morning, Officer-in-Charge of Kochua Police Station Sheikh Shamser Ali said.
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At 10 am, lightning killed a fire service official, Milon Miah, 28, son of Bulbul Miah of Raghunathpur village under Kaliganj Upazila of the district. Kotchadpur Fire Service Station Manager Alauddin said.
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Polar mesospheric clouds, also known as noctilucent clouds, form between 76 to 85 kilometers (47 to 53 miles) above the Earth's surface, near the boundary of the mesosphere and thermosphere, a region known as the mesopause. At these altitudes, water vapor can freeze into clouds of ice crystals. When the sun is below the horizon and the ground is in darkness, these high clouds may still be illuminated, lending them their ethereal, "night shining" qualities.
In the late spring and summer, unusual clouds form high in the atmosphere above the polar regions of the world. As the lower atmosphere warms, the upper atmosphere gets cooler, and ice crystals form on meteor dust and other particles high in the sky. The result is noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds — electric blue wisps that grow on the edge of space. Polar mesospheric clouds can be observed from both the Earth's surface and in orbit by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
The victims have been identified as Bishnu Maya Pakhrin (17) and Khil Kumari Rumba (20) of Aambhanjyang-4 in the district.
Police said they were inside their house when the bolt of lightning struck them.
Severely injured after the lightning struck them, they were being rushed to the Hetaunda Hospital for treatment. They, however, breathed their last on the way, according to the Makawanpur District Police Office.
Pakhrin was a student of grade VIII while Rumba was of grade XII at a local school, police added.
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Travis Hafield posted the video above to his YouTube channel Saturday, showing what appears to be either a tornado forming, or a very well-defined funnel cloud, as tornado sirens wail in the background in the Montana town of Baker.
That video does not show the funnel making contact, but Hafield posted a second video later, as he and his family fled the scene, showing what appeared to be a debris cloud at ground level, though the bottom of the tornado is not visible.
It's not clear if that is the same tornado confirmed by the National Weather Service to have moved through Baker Saturday night a little after 7 p.m. Officials in the county reported late Saturday that a second tornado was believed to have touched down, according to KX News.
Though no deaths or serious injuries have been reported, county officials reported at least two homes were destroyed, with another 10 damaged.
"I've lived here my whole life. It's the worst destruction I've seen," Fallon County commissioner Steve Baldwin told the Billings Gazette.
On June 8th, high above a thunderstorm in Colorado, an enormous ring of light appeared near the edge of space. Amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft photographed the phenomenon using a low-light video camera.
"It only lasted about a millisecond," says Ashcraft, "but it was definitely there. The ring was about 300 km wide," he estimates.
This is an example of an ELVE (Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources). First seen by cameras on the space shuttle in 1990, ELVEs appear when a pulse of electromagnetic radiation from lightning propagates up toward space and hits the base of Earth's ionosphere. A faint ring of light marks the broad 'spot' where the EMP hits.
© Thomas Ashcraft
This is an example of an ELVE (Emissions of Light and Very Low Frequency Perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources). First seen by cameras on the space shuttle in 1990, ELVEs appear when a pulse of electromagnetic radiation from lightning propagates up toward space and hits the base of Earth's ionosphere. A faint ring of light marks the broad 'spot' where the EMP hits.
Comment: Wild swings of weather are a marker of larger earth changes, possibly of cosmic origin. See also:
SOTT Earth Changes Summary - May 2016: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs