On June 23, a powerful storm hit the Russian city of Barnaul, located in Siberia. The unexpected weather event caused substantial damage and several people were injured.
Footage of a powerful storm in Russia has recently emerged online. Eyewitnesses call the storm "apocalyptic," given its scale and the damage it has inflicted.
Comment: More images from the storm:
On the 20th a similar down burst was reported in the same area:
And more signs of the changing weather in Russia was a plague of mosquitoes brought about by the record breaking floods and unusual heat.
Australian ski resorts are celebrating the best start to the southern-hemisphere ski season in 18 years, with heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures.
Resorts on the south-eastern coast of the country were hit with blizzard conditions at the start of this week - the storm, which has been nicknamed Stormin' Norman, battered resorts for six days.
Severe weather warnings were issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for the regions of Victoria and New South Wales.
It's an extreme weather pattern than mimics the series of storms that hit the Alps at the start of last winter.
Australia's top five resorts have all benefited from Norman's snowy onslaught. Perisher, arguably the most well-known resort, and part of Vail Resort's Epic Pass, received 71cm of snow in the space of three days and is opening new parts of its ski area daily.
Berndt Petersen wsbtv.com Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:05 UTC
More crews are working to repair two major sinkholes Friday that opened up near a busy Gwinnett County shopping center.
Rain slowed Thursday. Venture Drive is currently blocked as crews work to repair a pair of 20-to-30-foot sinkholes along the road.
Channel 2's Berndt Petersen was at the scene as trucks carrying heavy equipment arrived to start repairs, but by Thursday afternoon, none of the major repair work had begun.
A bull was killed by lightning, while a farmer was tilling his field in Vemula village of Midjil mandal on Friday.
According to farmer Doddau Venkataiah, while he was tilling his field, he left the plough tied with the bull in the field and came out to take shelter from the sudden thunder showers.
However, as soon as he came out of the field, sudden lightning struck the bull, killing it on the spot.
Venkatiah has lost his bull worth Rs. 50,000 and he is helpless to carry out his farming without the bull.
Seventeen cows were killed after they were struck by lightning at Longki Teron village in Balipathar locality of Bokajan subdivision on June 20.
According to local people, the incident took place late Tuesday night.
"Our family is devastated and especially at this time when tilling of paddy field is in full swing. We don't know what we will do and how are we going to till our land," the owner said.
Strong storms and heavy rain has caused severe flooding in parts of western Pennsylvania, spurring dozens of evacuations and damaging numerous vehicles and other property. Pictured are crews working to clean up floodwaters in Baldwin Street, Bridgeville, on Wednesday night
A woman was found drowned in a creek and cars washed away down streets on Wednesday after a violent storm dumped nearly four inches of rain on parts of western Pennsylvania.
The body of 64-year-old Wendy Abbott was discovered in McLaughlin Run, Bridgeville, after she was swept away during flash floods. Abbott, who lived locally, was reported missing by family after going for a drive.
Floods also ravaged nearby Bethel Park where diners at the Trolley Shop Inn stood on tables as they waited to be rescued while cars floated in surging floodwaters outside.
'All of a sudden, water started coming in the one door and they tried to squeegee it,' patron Shirley Maurin told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 'And then it just rushed in.'
Maurin said the water rose quickly, forcing diners on top of tables 'until they were able to come in and take us out one by one in the water with the life jackets'.
Storms moving across the Upper Peninsula washed out several roads in the Houghton and Hancock areas and created dozens of sinkholes across the Keweenaw Peninsula.
MLive.com reports that the storms that swept through the area early Sunday prompted officials in southern and central Houghton County to declare a Flash Flood Emergency.
Residents of the area say there have been emergency evacuations in some areas and some people are stranded.
As of 10 a.m. Sunday, at least four major roads in the area were closed due to washouts and other complications from the flooding, WLUC-TV (Channel 6) reported.
Joshua Rhett Miller New York Post Mon, 18 Jun 2018 20:31 UTC
A science teacher in North Carolina got the shock of his life last week — when he was nearly struck by a bolt of lightning while recording an incoming storm outside his home.
Shawn Hicks was broadcasting a feed on Facebook Live last Monday as dark, forbidding clouds lurked above his home in Lillington.
"Oh Jesus," Hicks said while surveying the approaching storm. "You can tell it's about to rain by looking at the tops of the trees and how they look white. If you kind of look at this one right here, that's usually a dark green tree but it's white right now. And then all of these are kind of lightish color. I'm safe, I think."
Two people were killed and three others injured as a thunderbolt hit them while enjoying boat journey on Madhumati River in Vellakandi area of Mohammadpur upazila on Saturday evening.
The deceased were identified as Md Ramjan Ali, 30, and Shorif Ali, 25, of Datidah village in the upazila.
Tariqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station, said Ramjan and Shorif along with three others went on a pleasure trip by boat in the river.
Suddenly, they a thunderbolt struck them around 6 pm leaving the duo dead on the spot and others injured.
Later, the injured were rushed to Mohammadpur Hospital immediately.
A case of unnatural death was filed with the police station, the OC added.
Comment: Elsewhere across the world in the last 2 days lightning has killed single individuals in the countries of India, Belize and Georgia.
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
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Comment: More images from the storm:
On the 20th a similar down burst was reported in the same area:
And more signs of the changing weather in Russia was a plague of mosquitoes brought about by the record breaking floods and unusual heat.