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District collector Tara Chand Meena and Rajendra Prasad Goyal, SP Chittorgarh visited the place. The victims were migrating with the herd of sheep from Madhya Pradesh towards Marwar. The shepherds with the herd had halted in the jungle near Dhamancha village. Late in the night heavy rains with thunder and lightning lashed the area.
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Men sit beside a coach buried under a landslide on KKH in Khushi area of Upper Kohistan on Wednesday.
Men sit beside a coach buried under a landslide on KKH in Khushi area of Upper Kohistan on Wednesday.
District education officer Sharafat Khan told reporters here that he had declared three days vacation in schools for the disposal of rubble and floodwaters.
The residents said the Karakoram Highway was blocked in Khushi area early morning by the heavy mudslides from mountains.
They said a landslide hit a passenger coach bound for Mansehra from Khushi area but four people travelling in it remained unhurt and came rushing out of it.
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Social media footage shows flooding in Williamsburg area of Brooklyn
Social media footage shows flooding in Williamsburg area of Brooklyn
Some people were trapped in the flooded basements of their homes, while one body was retrieved from a vehicle that was swept away.
The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called it a "historic weather event".
At least 8cm of rain fell in just one hour in New York's Central Park.
The US National Weather Service declared a flood emergency in New York City, Brooklyn and Queens, and issued tornado warnings for parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Street turns into river as flash floods wreak havoc in Toledo
On Thursday, parts of mainland Spain as well as the Balearic Islands were on the national weather agency Aemet's yellow alert level for rain and thunderstorms.
Train services were still affected on Thursday morning. At 8.30am, the railway company Renfe notified interruptions on the high-speed Madrid-Toledo line between the stations of La Sagra and Toledo, as well as additional disruptions on the Tarancón-Huete line (between Aranjuez and Cuenca) and the Teruel-Zaragoza line (at Cariñena).
In Catalonia, weather stations recorded rainfall of 77mm in just 30 minutes. The heavy rain triggered flash floods on city streets and damaged ground-floor properties in municipalities of the Montsià and Baix Ebre areas of Tarragona province. In the small coastal town of Alcanar (population 9,300), record rainfall of 167mm caused flash floods that dragged vehicles out to sea.
Most locations were also about one-half to one degree cooler than normal.
Greybull had its wettest August on record, according to the NWS in Riverton. Greybull saw 1.12 inches of precipitation. To put that in terms some Wyomingites may be more familiar with, Greybull saw the equivalent of about 14.56 inches of snow.
Many places in the city were filled with deep water and cars were almost flooded to the windows.
At 11:20 am, the Qingdao Municipal Meteorological Observatory upgraded the rainstorm yellow warning to rainstorm orange warning.
Jimmy Patrick Okema, police spokesperson for North Kyoga region, said in a statement that the incident happened on Wednesday.
"Lightning struck a house in which six people were sleeping, killing four people instantly, and another died later," Okema said.
He added that the deceased included three children aged between two and six.
In August last year, nine children were killed by lightning in the northwestern district of Arua.
Source: XINHUA
© Clouds loom over Brighton in East Sussex
This region received only 129 hours of sunshine this month compared to its usual average of 192.5 hours, figures from the Met Office show.
This region received only 129 hours of sunshine this month compared to its usual average of 192.5 hours, figures from the Met Office show.
Figures from the Met Office show Southern England experienced its third dullest August since records began, beaten only by 2008 and 1950, with the region receiving only 129 hours of sunshine this month compared to its usual average of 192.5 hours.
Meanwhile East Anglia also experienced the third cloudiest August on record with the area seeing just 127.2 hours of daylight compared to the average 195.7 hours usually seen during the month.
For the UK overall - August was the 12th dullest on record with 127.4 hours of sunshine - the figure is 78 per cent of the 163 hours of sun usually seen.
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After moving over the western coast of central Mexico, Tropical Cyclone NORA has weakened to a Tropical Depression and on 30 August at 3.00 UTC, its centre was located about 60 km north-west of Culiacan City (central Sinaloa State) 50 km south-west of Guamuchil State (north Sinaloa), with maximum sustained winds of 55 km/h.
Heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge were reported across Michoacan, Colima and Jalisco States, triggering floods and landslides. According to the Government of Jalisco, one person died and another one is missing near Puerto Vallarta City, after the overflow of the Cuale River. In Cihuatlan City, up to 500 houses were damaged and several people were displaced.
NÓRA is forecast to move northwards over the coast of northern Sinaloa and southern Sonora and is expected to dissipate on late 30 August. Heavy rain and high waves are forecast along the west coast of Mexico, from Nayarit to the southern Sonora Štates on 30-31 August.
Comment: From Floodlist: UPDATE 02/09/2021: Meanwhile the flooding continues: