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Video summary of extreme weather events of June 2013

2011Message / fidockave213
Youtube
Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:00 UTC

Comment: To put things in perspective, we have decided to put these video summaries in one place. For context on recent weather and geological changes, listen to our podcast on the subject:

Ice Age Cometh? Extreme Weather Events and 'Climate Change'




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Ice Cube

Taber, Alberta hailstorm - 'it came down in buckets'


GlobalNews.ca
Sat, 06 Jul 2013 20:01 UTC
"There's still hail sitting around now and it's like what, noon?" said Gaylene Whitley, surveying her lawn. "It's still sitting around. It came down in buckets." For Taber residents, waking up to snow on the lawn is normal in the spring. But waking to snowdrifts in July has the town speechless.

Friday evening, large thunderstorms rolled into Taber, with hail covering streets, lawns and sidewalks. Ice pellets blocked storm sewers, flooding residential streets and sending some vehicles floating in the water. "In some spots in town I bet you there was two feet of water on the road. It was a lot of water and hail," said Taber resident Cody Cook.
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Comment: Weird weather is everywhere: Over a foot of hail covers Santa Rosa, New Mexico

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Huge waves hit Chile and Peru


youtube.com
Fri, 05 Jul 2013 10:50 UTC
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Terrifying power of a tornado caught on camera as it rips dome off sports arena and sends it flying over highway

Sara Malm
The Daily Mail
Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:16 UTC
Tornado ripped off the dome on Connecticut sports arena

Dome caught on film flying over highway and landing on traffic

Minutes earlier 29 children had been forced to flee Sports World Dome

The terrifying power of a tornado has been caught on film as it blew off the dome of a sports arena in Connecticut.

The giant dome was sent flying through the air over a highway where a driver caught it on his mobile phone.

The driver can be hear shouting in panic as the dome spreads out over the cars and narrowly escaped as it lands on oncoming traffic.

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Power of nature: The dome covering a nearby sports arena is lifted off by the tornado and sent flying over a highway where it was caught on camera

'Holy s***, that's nuts!,' a male voice can be heard shouting, before adding further expletives in shock.

As the dome lands on the other side of the road he can be heard breathing a sigh of relief.
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Severe weather causes damage across Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut


WGGB.com
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:11 UTC
A strong line of thunderstorms has caused serious damage in some cities and towns in Western Massachusetts. One of our crews is on Hunt Street in Agawam, where trees and limbs have come down, with one tree falling on top of a pickup truck. The torrential, tropical rain also caused large puddles and some street flooding on Canal Street in Holyoke, Liberty Street in Springfield, and at the intersection of Grattan Street and Memorial Drive in Chicopee, along with several other roadways in the area.

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Amazing waterspouts recorded around the world: Europe, USA, Australia, Bahamas - May 2013


strangesounds.org
Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:35 UTC
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Waterspout at Injidup beach right near Swings South Western Australia – May 16 2013
Here is a compilation of Waterspouts' videos that happened around the world (USA: Arkansas and Florida, Croatia, Bahamas, Honduras) in May 2013.

Waterspout at Lake Ouchita in Arkansas - May 30 2013


A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water, connected to a cumuliform cloud.

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Waterspout off of Kefalonia Greece – May 8 2013

Comment: ...and then there were three or four off Nice in the South of France in early June, and another one recently in Louisiana.

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Eerie and giant waterspout in Grand Isle, Louisiana - June 19, 2013


strangesounds.org
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:22 UTC
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Here is the video of the Grand isle waterspout!

The eyewitness video shows the biggest waterspout many Grand Isle neighbors have ever seen, which stroke off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in Grand Isle, Louisiana, yesterday, June 19 2013. Here is the amazing video of this water twister captured by someone that lives in Grand Isle.


You can get a good idea of what is a waterspout and how they form here. For some reason these waterspouts form quite a bit in the Grand Isle/Port Fourchon area.
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Strong and violent hailstorms in Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland - June 18 to 20, 2013


strangesounds.org
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:49 UTC
It was just a matter of time! After 3 following days at 35°C, violent thunderstorms hit all over Switzerland.
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Storms sometimes accompanied by hailstones the size of ping pong balls or even as big as eggs in Zurich on June 18 2013. Yes you are not dreaming: some were even as big as eggs!
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The first thunderstorms started in Graubünden and spread over the Rhine Valley to Zurich, Winterthur and Eglisau, where it was the strongest.


Hail was accompanied by stormy gusts of wind of up to 96 kmh.
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Satellite

Electric Universe: The accelerating winds of Venus


Thunderbolts project / Youtube
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:38 UTC

The astronomers studying the atmosphere of Venus are facing a new mystery. The Venusian winds have been steadily accelerating for the last 6 years. Scientists monitoring the Venus Express orbiter since 2006 noted the stunning increase in the already super fast winds, from 186 mph to 249 mph. The astronomers acknowledge they do not understand why this enormous variation in wind speed occurred. What is it about the Venusian atmosphere that mainstream astronomers find so puzzling?
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Bizarro Earth

Texas meteorologists picked up an apocalyptic-like storm on their radar that turned out to be a huge cloud of dust, bugs, pollen and even birds


DailyMail.co.uk
Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01 UTC
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What's that in the sky?

What appeared to be an unusual and unexpected storm turned out to be a cloud of dirt, dust, pollen, bugs and even birds.

National Weather Service forecasters in Dallas-Forth Worth Texas picked up the strange phenomenon on their radar on Friday while the weather remained hot and dry, reaching record highs of 105 and 106 degrees in the Austin area to the south.

'It looked like it was raining,' Jennifer Dunn, a meteorologist for the weather service office that covers the Dallas-Fort Worth region, told the Austin American-Statesman.

'We thought something was wrong with the radar, but we checked our instruments and measurements. Everything was working fine.'

Dunn and her colleagues said their best guess was that the anomaly was a giant swarm of bugs.

But a meteorologist for the weather service office in New Braunfels, which includes Austin, told the Statesman that insects likely made up less than 1 per cent of the unusual matter in the air over the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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