Food production is collapsing. Finland posted its worst grain yield this century; the situation is dire across Europe. Orange peels and sour watermelons are the only thing keeping some livestock alive in Australia. Damages due to weeks of rain in Japan. Christian shares reports from farmers on the ground, and makes clear the very real effects on food production and prices globally. Start preparing now.
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At least 37 people are known to have died because of monsoon rains which have triggered house collapses and flooded wide areas of land in northern India.
Weather officials have predicted more rains in the next 48 hours in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.
The deaths have been occurring since Thursday night, government spokesman Awanish Awasthi said.
Most of the victims died on Friday in Agra, the northern city where the white marble Taj Mahal is located.
The dead included four members of a family whose house collapsed, he said.
A Chinese passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing after it was damaged while flying through a hailstorm, according to news reports.
The Tianjin Airlines Airbus A320 was flying from Tianjin to Haikou on the southern island of Hainan when it was hit by the storm 9,800 metres (32,000 feet) above central China on Thursday morning, news portal Thecover.cn reported.
The windscreen was left badly cracked, the nose was damaged and a weather radar stopped working after the incident, which forced the plane to divert to an airport in Hubei province.
Some 175 passengers including four babies were on board at the time of the incident, local newspaper Daily News reported.
Apocalyptic scenes of dust cloud rolling over a city in north China are captured by residents
A huge sandstorm yesterday swept across a city in northern China within minutes.
Apocalyptic video footage, taken by residents, shows how the cloud of thick dust more than 100 feet tall engulfed the city of Golmud in Qinghai Province.
A severe thunderstorm brought nasty weather to some parts of southwestern Alberta on Monday.
A warning was ended for Calgary and Rocky View County — including Canmore, Cochrane, Bragg Creek, Tsuut'ina Reserve and Ghost Lake - but not before the storm brought loonie-sized hail, heavy rain and dangerous wind gusts across the region.
Environment Canada said golf ball-sized hail and damaging wind gusts upwards of 100 km/h were possible in the Calgary area.
The weather agency was advising residents to stay inside as hail and lightning can cause damage and injury.
Folks in Southern Colorado could be seen shoveling, yes shoveling, hail off their property Monday.
The region was slammed with hail, heavy rain and flooding over the weekend and into Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
The flooding led the government of Manitou Springs City, about 80 miles southwest of Denver, to close offices and advise residents to evacuate to higher ground. An evacuation center opened at a community church.
One highway in Teller County, about 100 miles southwest of Denver, was covered with 3 feet of mud, the county's Sheriff's office said in a tweet Monday. Mudslides had been reported in other areas of the state as well.
A total of 74 sheep were killed by a lightning strike in Turkey's eastern province of Iğdır on July 23.
Two herds of sheep, belonging to a man named Mahmut Biter, were gathered together as protection against the torrential rain while they were out in the field at the 2,000-meter altitude Serbarbulak plateau in the Aralık district.
Lightning struck the animals, killing 74 of them. Saddam Aras, the shepherd, escaped the incident unharmed as he took shelter in a nearby rocky area.
Yusuf Süre, a local farmer, said the lightning caused a substantial financial damage.
In June this year, in a similar incident, 105 goats perished in the Kırkağaç district of the western Manisa province when a lightning struck as the animals were grazing in the field.
And in May, the lightning killed a total of 23 cattle in the Tut district of the southeastern province of Adıyaman.
Huge thunderclouds caused an electric storm in Turkey's Marmara region, particularly hitting Istanbul with thousands of lightning bolts in the early hours of July 24.
In total 43,388 flashes were observed in 24 hours as of 9 a.m. on July 24 especially in the northwestern provinces of Istanbul, Kocaeli, Edirne and Tekirdağ, according to the Turkish State Meteorological Service.
"There are various types of storms in the air. An electric storm is a phenomenon just like a dust storm, a snow storm or a rain storm ... If the important factor is the wind, we call it a wind storm whereas if the important factors are thunders and thunderbolts we call it a thunderstorm," Miktad Kadıoğlu, a faculty member of the Istanbul Technical University, told Demirören News Agency on July 24.
The stormy weather over the Outer Banks this weekend spun up a waterspout around midday Sunday off Ocracoke Inlet.
Amanda Swan of Gordonsville, Va. was on the beach near South Point on Ocracoke Island when she captured pictures and video of the waterspout that appeared several miles to the south towards Portsmouth Island and then moved offshore as it grew.
Waterspouts are tornadoes over the water, but are much weaker than those that form over land. Local fisherman say it's not unusual to see multiple waterspouts form well offshore.
