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More than a month's worth of rain (6.7 inches) pummels Sydney, Australia in less than 24 hours


Daily Mail
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 13:27 UTC
While the rain had mostly cleared in Sydney on Sunday morning, Mr Narramore said there could be a few more 'light and isolated' coastal showers
While the rain had mostly cleared in Sydney on Sunday morning, Mr Narramore said there could be a few more 'light and isolated' coastal showers
After receiving more than a month's worth of rain in less than one day, Sydneysiders can finally put their umbrellas away and enjoy some sunshine.

However, flood warnings remain in place around the Hunter area, with minor flooding on the Williams River and moderate flooding on the Wollombi Brook River, BOM senior meteorologist Dean Narramore said on Sunday.

Mr Narramore said hazardous surf and beach conditions would also continue until Monday for southern and central coastal areas of NSW.

This comes after rain lashed the state on Saturday, with persistent moderate to heavy rainfall seen over the Sydney and Hunter areas.

Mr Narramore said the heaviest rainfall on Saturday was around Sydney, with 171mm of rainfall in Rose Bay, 159mm in Little Bay and 143mm in the city itself.

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29 stranded hikers rescued from Germany's highest mountain Zugspitze, after over 6 feet of unexpected June snowfall


SnowBrains
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:53 UTC
29 hikers had to be rescued after becoming stranded on the Zugspitze.
29 hikers had to be rescued after becoming stranded on the Zugspitze.
A rescue operation was launched on Saturday, June 1, to evacuate dozens of hikers who found themselves stranded on Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, due to treacherous weather conditions.

According to the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service, 29 hikers attempted to scale the 2,962-meter (9,718-foot) peak despite heavy snowfall and poor visibility. At around 2,500 meters (8,202 feet), the hikers could not continue their ascent due to the accumulation of fresh snow, which reached depths of up to 2 meters (6.6 feet) in some areas.

The Mountain Rescue Service, in collaboration with staff from the Zugspitze mountain railway company, mobilized to locate and extract the stranded hikers. The rescue efforts were further complicated by the freezing temperatures, which caused partial icing of the cable car equipment, rendering it inoperable at times.

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Denver metro hit by largest hail in 35 years as baseball-sized stones pummel area

Chris Oberholtz
Fox News
Fri, 31 May 2024 17:06 UTC
Large hailstones fall in Denver on May 30,2024.
© @Quidnunciac / XLarge hailstones fall in Denver on May 30,2024.
The Denver metropolitan area experienced an intense hailstorm Thursday, which led to the largest hailstones recorded in the county in the last 35 years, resulting in widespread damage.

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a 'destructive' Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the Denver area late Thursday evening, emphasizing the life-threatening situation with baseball-sized hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph.

The largest hail report in Denver County measured 2.75 inches in Commerce City on Thursday. It's the largest hail report in the county since 1989, the FOX Forecast Center said.

"The hail was just pounding many of these areas for almost an hour," said Jim Hooley with FOX 31 Denver.

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Lightning strike kills man during thunderstorm near Moscow


Pravda
Fri, 31 May 2024 10:09 UTC
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Lightning struck a man with an umbrella in the town of Balashikha near Moscow. The incident happened as the man was walking to a shopping mall.

The man died on the spot.


The last day of spring became the hottest day in the last 17 years in Moscow. On May 31, 2007, temperatures hit +31.7°C. On May 31, 2024, afternoon heat of 29.8°C was replaced with strong thunderstorm in the evening.

The heat is to subside next week.

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Lightning kills farmer couple in West Bengal, India


The Statesman (India)
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:55 UTC
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A couple, while at work in their vegetable farmland died after being struck by lightning at a village in Barjora block here this morning.

Nirod Santra (64) and Tararani (59) of Nutangram in Barjora, as was learnt, had been to pick ladies finger and pumpkin from their cultivation this morning while it was drizzling. The couple used to collect vegetables from their farmland and sell in nearby Durgapur market everyday. The local farmers told police that a lightning struck the couple and they fell on the ground. The locals shifted them to Barjora super specialty hospital where they were declared as brought-dead.

Barjora and some other parts of Bankura recorded substantial rainfall followed by frequent lightning since yesterday evening.
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Texas town of Marathon deploys snow plows after 50-degree temperature swing and 2 feet of hail

Bill Hutchinson
abcnews.go.com
Thu, 30 May 2024 13:40 UTC
In this screen grab from a video, an accumulation of hail is shown in Marathon, Texas, on May 29, 2024.
© Harry WeinmanIn this screen grab from a video, an accumulation of hail is shown in Marathon, Texas, on May 29, 2024.
As severe weather continued Thursday through the Great Plains, residents of a southwest Texas town reported a dramatic temperature drop on Wednesday and hail so deep they had to deploy snow plows to clear the streets.

The temperature in Marathon, Texas, fell more than 50 degrees on Wednesday afternoon as thermometers tumbled from around 105 degrees to the mid-50s in about an hour, Brian Curran, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service Midland, Texas, told ABC News.

Curran attributed the wild decline in temperature to the severe hail storm that hit Marathon.

"It was like an air conditioner," Curran said.

Brad Wilson, chief of the Marathon Fire Department, told ABC News that it was as if conditions turned from summer to winter in an hour.

"There was about two feet of hail on our main street right in the center of town. It looked like snow," Wilson said. "We went out there with a tape measure last night before the road crews came and plowed the roads."

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Lightning bolts killed 544 in last 6 years in Andhra Pradesh, India


Times of India
Fri, 31 May 2024 11:03 UTC
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As many as four districts of Andhra Pradesh namely, Vizianagaram, Guntur, Srikakulam and Prakasam districts, reported highest number of deaths due to lightning. Despite new technologies, programmes and alerts, lightning continues to claim up to 80 lives in the state every year. Majority of these death were reported in rural pockets and only five to six percent deaths were reported in urban settings.

As per the Andhra Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority (APSDMA), 544 persons were killed due to lightning between 2017 and 2023 in AP. The data said that Vizianagaram, Guntur, Srikakulam and Prakasam district were the worst-affected regions with highest number of thunderbolt deaths.

Between 2017 and 2023, lightning claimed 98 lives in Vizianagaram district. This was followed by 80 deaths in Guntur, 66 in Srikakulam and 65 in Prakasam district. Most lightning-related deaths were recorded in rural areas involving farmers, cattle grazers, fishermen, agriculture labourers, and children. This apart, lightning also kill wild animals and livestocks, cause substantial damages to properties and injure people and animals trapped in the damaged properties.
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One killed, one seriously injured in Greeley, Colorado storm that brought 2-inch hail, flooding

Jessica Seaman, Katie Langford
The Denver Post
Wed, 29 May 2024 11:11 UTC
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One person was killed and another seriously injured after a severe storm pummeled east Greeley with 2-inch hail and heavy rain Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, flooding homes and businesses and damaging vehicles.

Emergency crews from Greeley, Evans, Windsor and Platte Valley responded to dozens of calls during the night, rescuing people trapped by floodwaters in structures and vehicles during the storm, city spokeswoman Becca Vaclavik wrote in an email.

First responders answered 47 calls for people needing assistance because of the storm and 10 rescues, Vaclavik said.

Photos posted by the Greeley Fire Department on Facebook showed a firefighter wading through chest-deep water into a basement apartment to rescue a trapped resident. City staff reported floodwaters as high as 18 inches on some roads and used snowplows to remove the hail, Vaclavik said.

Vaclavik declined to release additional information about the person who died but confirmed the death and injury were both storm-related.

The Weld County Coroner's Office did not have any cases of "obvious flood-related deaths" as of Wednesday night, said Chief Deputy Coroner Jolene Weiner.

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Moment lightning strikes Empire State Building captured in dramatic video

Lucy Leeson
Independent (UK)
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:30 UTC
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This is the moment lightning strikes the Empire State Building in New York City.

Dramatic video shows lightning strike the city's iconic skyscraper on Wednesday night (29 May) as thunderstorms hit Manhattan.

A lightning bolt also struck the One World Trade Center.

According to its website, the Empire State Building is hit by lightning 25 times per year on average.

Its antenna is designed to absorb the shock of a lightning bolt, so the building itself and the people inside are safe from electrocution.

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Tornado strikes Ohio lake, rips up dock and boats on May 17


Unofficialnetworks.com
Tue, 28 May 2024 14:51 UTC
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A tornado was confirmed in Carroll County, Ohio, after footage caught a tornadic waterspout hitting Leesville Lake.

The tornado only appears as it hits the water, ripping up a dock and sending multiple boats in several different directions. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado was rated an EF0, traveling just a quarter mile with max wind speeds of 80mph.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), two types of water spouts are possible, fair weather water spouts and tornadic waterspout. Tornadic waterspouts have the same characteristics as a normal, land tornado, often moving from land to water or forming over water.

Fair weather waterspouts, unlike their tornadic alternatives, form on the water's surface and build their way upward. These are often formed in light wind conditions and aren't associated with thunderstorms. The video above shows a tornadic water spout.

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