The city was battered by wind and rain before the tornado began sweeping through the streets at around 11am local time
A tornado has ripped through a European city with hundreds rescued from its path.
A terrifying video shows roofs being ripped off into the streets of Milan, Italy that are filled with fallen trees and damaged buildings.
The city was battered by wind and rain before the tornado began sweeping through the streets at around 11am local time. The extent of the damage remains unclear, but firefighters have been sent out on more than 110 calls.
Many areas are flooded, with fears several have been injured, reports Italian weather site MeteoWeb.
A van was also swept into a canal in the village of Bubbiano. Thankfully the driver managed to get out safely.
At least seven people were killed and 16 others missing in Bhutan after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains washed away a section of a small hydroelectric plant on Thursday, local media reported.
Rescue and search teams have rushed to the area, authorities said. Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has arrived at the site and is taking stock of the situation and guiding rescue and search operation, his office said.
A section of the 32 MW Yungichhu Hydro Power Project in a remote area in the east of the country was washed away, but the main part was not hit, the Bhutanese newspaper said in a Twitter post without elaborating.
State broadcaster BBS said seven bodies have been recovered so far and another 16 were missing.
Aurora Sousanis, Nour Rahal, Frank Witsil Detroit Free Press Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:59 UTC
Severe thunderstorms ripped through southeast Michigan on Thursday, bombing the state with giant ice balls so large that some people indoors said it sounded like "bowling on the roof." The hail smashed car windows, sunroofs, and dented everything it touched.
Worse, it hurt people.
By early Thursday evening, Hope Urgent Care of Davison, a clinic in Genesee County that treats non-life-threatening medical concerns, told the Free Press that there were injuries from the hail "everywhere" and that there were "a ton of people coming in for care due to the hail right now."
Eyewitnesses observed up to six waterspouts over the Gulf of Finland on Thursday morning. A video has surfaced on social media that shows a spectacular phenomenon happening off the Estonian coast on July 20.
A waterspout can be described as a highly concentrated, columnar vortex that typically takes the form of a funnel-shaped cloud, manifesting over a body of water.
A huge waterspout was spotted off the coast of Dungeness in Kent, England on Thursday, July 20. Separate vortexes were also reported off Herne Bay earlier in the day.
Comment: Elsewhere on the same day another was filmed in Cardigan Bay, Wales, watch here.
Heavy rain in the state of Maharashtra in India has caused severe flooding and landslides over the last 2 days. A massive search operation is continuing in Raigad district where a landslide buried a number of homes, causing multiple fatalities.
Heavy rain has been falling in Maharashtra over the last few days, with areas of Raigad district seeing some of the worst of the effects. The district recorded 198.6 mm of rain in 24 hours to 20 July 2023. The Savitri River has exceeded the danger mark in Mahad, standing at 6.55 metres as of 20 July (danger level is 6.5 metres).
The heavy rain in Raigad district triggered a massive landslide in the village of Irshalwadi, burying as many as 40 homes, the district collector said. Emergency teams have been searching through the debris throughout the day. Almost 100 people have been rescued from the site. As of late (local time) 20 July, 12 bodies had been located. Adding to the tragedy, one of the rescue workers suffered a cardiac arrest and died at the rescue site.
Frank Hossack The Nanjinger Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:59 UTC
Nanjing experienced the heavens' opening yesterday. Many parts of our City were knee deep in water, while the rainfall set near records for cumulative waters. But just where was it highest? And which parts of Nanjing got off unscathed?
As the week dawned, the rains starting falling late Sunday evening in Nanjing. So who got hit hardest? And by how much?
That would be the residents of Qinglong Residential Community in Chunhua Subdistrict of Jiangning. There, a good 26.29 centimetres of water was accumulated yesterday, 17 July, according to data pertaining to the period from 00:00 to 13:00.
Elsewhere, the rainfall in multiple districts of Nanjing exceeded 10 centimetres yesterday. Data released by the Municipal Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters Office show that the next biggest-hit area of Nanjing was Jianye District, where Shuangzha Subdistrict saw a cumulative rainfall of between 8.01 and 16.6 centimetres.
Two people died, dozens more were injured and significant damage was caused when a massive storm hit Zagreb on Wednesday afternoon, July 19. Both victims were hit by falling trees.
Emergency services were still restoring power to streets and buildings the following morning. Rivers of rainwater swept down the city's main street of Ilica and public transport was shut down on certain routes. There was further destruction across the region, with fatalities reported in Slovenia and Bosnia, before the storm made its way towards Serbia.
Comment: Elsewhere on the same day another was filmed in Cardigan Bay, Wales, watch here.