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A "river of ice" - Cardston in Alberta hit with brief but intense hail storm

David Opinko
Lethbridgenewsnow.com
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:23 UTC
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Residents and business owners in Cardston are dealing with the aftermath of a severe hail storm.

Public Works Foreman at the Town of Cardston LeNark Duce says the first hailstone dropped around 8:00 pm and, thankfully, the storm only lasted about 20 minutes.

"The hail knocked so much debris into the streets and the water was rushing - it plugged all the storm drains and so they couldn't even start to keep up. It was so much water to start with that it would've been hard to keep up with anyways."

Water and hail flowed throughout the town, flooding numerous homes and businesses.

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Cloud Lightning

Over 710,000 lightning bolts strike Western Canada in 15 hours

Derya Ozdemir
Interesting Engineering
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:38 UTC
710,117 lightning strikes in western Canada in 15 hours

710,117 lightning strikes in western Canada in 15 hours
Typically associated with milder weather, Western Canada is currently suffering a dangerous heatwave, which is being exacerbated by relentless wildfires.

Record temperatures have hit the Pacific Northwest, and with the devastating wildfires increasing in numbers, ninety percent of a small village of about 250 people in British Columbia, Lytton has been burned to the ground after recording Canada's highest ever temperature of 121 Fahrenheit (49.6 degrees Celsius).

The wildfires have spawned enormous clouds that have swept throughout the area, resulting in more than 710,000 lightning strikes in one night. These stormy clouds, known as cumulonimbus flammagenitus, form over a source of heat and pump out an intense shower of lightning strikes, potentially fueling the flames even more.

Ok, so now that I've picked my jaw up off the ground...
Yesterday was a terrible #pyroCB #lightning event in #BCwx and into #ABwx. Between 3pm June 30 and 6am July 1 (Pacific Time), the North American Lightning Detection Network detected 710,117 total lightning events. pic.twitter.com/Wj6nMHrcOX

— Chris Vagasky (@COweatherman) July 1, 2021
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 4 children in Chhattisgarh, India


Daily Pioneer
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:34 UTC
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Four children, two of them siblings, were killed when lightning struck a village in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Monday in Pahad Toli village, Jashpur Superintendent of Police Vijay Agrawal said.

While the bodies of Rajkumari (3) and Anuj (5) were found in a field on the banks of a dam on Monday evening, those of Akash (7) and Sundari (4) were found in the dam on Tuesday, the officer said. The children had gone to play near the dam. Rajkumari and Akash were siblings.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 3 in Maharashtra, India


english.lokmat.com
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 11:28 UTC
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Three people, including the police Patil, were killed after being hit by lightning. A minor boy and farmer were also injured. The incident took place on Tuesday around 3 pm in Chorkhumari tehsil in Ramtek. The deceased have been identified as Yogesh Ashok Konkan (30), Madhukar Saoji Pandharam (55) Chorkhumari, Dilip Mangal Lanjewar (42) Dongri, tehsil under Ramtek. Harisingh Dhondba Sarote and Nehal Ramsingh Kumre (12) were injured in the lightning.

According to police sources, farmer Harisingh Sarote has a farm near the village. He had hired the tractor of police Patil Yogesh Konkan for some farm related activities. Dilip Lanjewar was working in the field. Madhukar Pandharam and his grandson Nehal were grazing cattle nearby.

It started raining in the afternoon. To avoid rain, all the people came to the hut of Sarote in the farm. Unfortunately lightning stuck the hut and Yogesh Konkan, Madhukar Pandharam and Dilip Lanjewar died on the spot due to severe burns. As soon as information spread, the villagers ran towards the spot. Deolapar police team also reached the spot. The injured Harisingh Sarote and Nehal Kumre were admitted to the sub-district hospital in Ramtek. This incident has spread gloom in the Chorkhumari village.
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Ice Cube

Man died of hypothermia, trapped in his car by hailstorm in Mexico

Alicia Rivera
Milenio.com
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:47 UTC
Mexico hailstorm
The government of Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico reported that the hailstorm on Monday afternoon caused the death of a driver of approximately 40 years, who was trapped inside his vehicle in a block of ice that formed the hailstorm and trapped several vehicles in an uneven bridge that crosses the Periférico Norte. Firefighters and elements of Civil Protection of the municipality worked hard for almost three hours to rescue the body of the man, who could not get out of his Aveo car and died of hypothermia.

They also helped three men with hypothermia, but alive, out of their cars, who were taken to a hospital , as well as two firefighters who presented a decrease in body temperature, while working to rescue motorists. The social communication office pointed out that on this uneven bridge there is a block of ice approximately 80 centimeters high accumulated, where firefighters and rescuers worked to break the iceberg and free the drivers. The overpass connects De Los Maestros avenues in Atizapán de Zaragoza with Mario Colín in Tlalnepantla.


Comment: Just over one week ago a town in France was hit by a freak June hailstorm, with up to 60 centimetres of accumulated hail.

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Cloud Precipitation

Strong storm and hailstorm cause chaos in several municipalities of Mexico


milenio.com
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:23 UTC
hail
A storm with hail fell this afternoon in the municipalities of Naucalpan, Atizapán de Zaragoza , Tlalnepantla and Huixquilucan, which caused streets and roads to become flooded with levels of more than 40 centimeters of water and hail.

The level of hail covered streets, cars, gardens and garages of houses in subdivisions such as Satélite, Lomas de Bellavista, Lomas Verdes and on the Via Jorge Jiménez Cantú that communicates with the Madín dam and Zona Esmeralda.

The flooding generated traffic congestion on primary roads such as the northern peripheral, Vía Gustavo Baz, Mario Colín and Adolfo López Mateos.

In the municipal seat of Atizapán de Zaragoza and the town of Calacoaya, the water and hail reached levels of 50 centimeters in height.

They also announced that the basement and first floor of the municipal palace were flooded, as happened several years ago.

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Cloud Precipitation

Hail and downpour paralyzes life in Edirne, Turkey


medyakesan.com.tr
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:59 UTC
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While an unconscious person was taken to the hospital for treatment, floods occurred in the city, leaving the citizens stranded.

The sudden downpour in Edirne at around 19.30 affected life negatively. In the city, where the air temperature was 33 degrees, the hail and thunderstorms that followed the strong wind were effective in a short time. A person walking on the road on Çokalca Cami Street in Nişancıpaşa Mahallesi was flooded. The person who was dragged by the flood waters held onto the natural gas pipe of an apartment and remained in this state for a while. Later, the person who left his hands and was dragged by the flood waters was rescued by the citizens who saw him and taken to Trakya University Medical Faculty Hospital. The unconscious person was treated.

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Cloud Precipitation

Heavy rainstorm and floods hit Zadonsk, Russia

Sam Aranta
YouTube
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:44 UTC
Horrible thunderstorm, heavy rain and floods hit Zadonsk, Russia.

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Cloud Precipitation

Sochi in Russia hit by flooding after torrential rainfall


TASS
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:36 UTC
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© Dmitry Feoktistov/TASS
Several streets and a technical floor of a hospital have been flooded in Sochi as a result of heavy rains pouring down on the resort city since Sunday. Sochi Mayor Alexey Kopaygorodsky informed on his Telegram channel that there are emergency workers on site and that the water is subsiding.

A surge of water levels in several local rivers has been documented in Sochi. According to the Russian Emergencies Ministry's directorate for the Krasnodar Region, the downpour caused trees to collapse, the roof of an apartment building suffered damage, and a hospital was hit by flooding.

"The situation with the flooding of technical facilities in the basement and on the ground floor of City Hospital Number 3 in Khosta (a district in Sochi — TASS) is under the control of emergency workers, there is no threat to the lives and health of patients and hospital personnel, the water is subsiding," the mayor revealed.

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Cloud Precipitation

Tropical storm Elsa hits Jamaica - showers and floods all over country

KN News
YouTube
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 14:19 UTC
floods
Tropical storm Elsa in Jamaica.

Natural disaster on July 4, 2021.

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