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Lightning bolt kills 2 in Rautahat, Nepal


The Himalayan Times
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 09:15 UTC
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Two persons died on the spot after getting struck by a thunder bolt in Dharampur of Gadhimai Rural Municipality-6 in Rautahat district on Sunday.

The deceased have been identified as Bishwanath Rai Yadav (45) and Saroj Yadav (17), both the local residents.

The lightning struck the duo while they were herding the buffaloes in a field yesterday, said police.

Further investigation into the case is underway, said police.
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Lightning bolt kills 5, injures 4 others in Bangladesh


bdnews24.com
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 13:49 UTC
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Five people have been killed in a village in Kushtia after lightning struck them.

The incident has been reported from Mirpur Upazila of the western district on Sunday afternoon, said police.

Four others including a woman, injured in the lightning, have been hospitalised, Police Inspector Rafiqul Islam told bdnews24.com.

The lightning struck around 1:30pm when the victims were working at a crop field. Five of them died on the spot, he said.

Comment: Elsewhere in Asia recently a woman was killed by lightning in Nepal.

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Exceptional hailstorm hits Girona, Spain (VIDEOS)


Sott.net
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 05:22 UTC
Girona hailstorm
© Marc MartíClearing up after intense hail hit Spain's city of Girona on Friday 30 June.
Torrential rain accompanied by huge amounts of hail hit the city of Girona in Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia, on Friday, June 30, 2017.

According to the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC), in just 30 minutes the storm left Girona 53 liters per square meter as reported in El Periódico de Catalunya.

The Mayor of Girona, Marta Madrenas said that the city suffered "a very complicated, unusual situation, as never before had been seen in the city."

He indicated that although there were alerts for intense rainfall and to prepare for some flooding "the sanitation system was unable to absorb all water."


Comment: Some other severe hailstorms from around the world in recent months include: It is likely that atmospheric dust loading from increased comet and volcanic activity is contributing to these 'exceptional' or 'freak' hailstorms, the cooling effect of which causes ice crystals to form.

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Man killed by lightning near Moscow


Business Insider.
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:01 UTC
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Russian authorities say a massive thunderstorm around Moscow has killed at least one person, injured several others and forced scores of planes to divert to other airports.

Weather experts are describing the storm as the biggest in decades, with one comparing it to the Biblical deluge.

The regional health department says a man was killed by lightning in Dmitrov, north of Moscow, and several others were injured by falling trees.

Two passenger jets were also hit by lightning as they approached Moscow but landed safely, suffering only minor damage, according to Interfax. About 40 planes had to be diverted.
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Cloud Precipitation

Large hailstones storm pound Omaha, Nebraska

Michael O'Connor and Mara Klecker
Omaha World-Herald
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:20 UTC
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© Ryan Soderlin
People across the Omaha area called insurance agents, roofers and glass repair shops Friday after a hailstorm tore through the region Thursday night.

Rick Gobble spent his Friday morning doing what he called an "odd kind of spring cleaning": vacuuming glass shards from his car and sweeping the remnants of the back windshield from the street.

By the time he heard the "tapping, grainy sound" of hail Thursday night from inside his condo on the corner of Country Club Avenue and Colby Street, it likely already was too late to save his car from damage. Still, Gobble, 53, rushed to get the car into the garage.

When he got to the steps he hesitated, not wanting to run out into what he said looked like it was "raining billiard balls."

When he did step out into the storm, one of those hailstones ripped through his umbrella.

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Sky split open: Moscow struck by 'downpour of the century' (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)


RT
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:57 UTC
flood Moscow
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Moscow Region has been hit by a powerful storm that brought heavy torrential rains and hail. The capital has not seen such a storm in almost 100 years, according to meteorologists.

"In less than 12 hours the city expects 15-20 mm of rainfall, which is almost a third of the monthly norm. The daily maximum precipitation for June 30 is 22.3 mm, it was marked in 1923," Moscow weather services told TASS, adding that the capital hasn't seen a storm like this in 94 years.

Muscovites were awed by apocalyptically overcast skies just before the storm.


Comment: Just over a month ago Moscow was hit by the worst storm in living memory, and probably the worst since the 19th century. See also:

Updates: Worst ever natural disaster: Death toll from Moscow storm rises to 16 (VIDEOS)

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Attention

Hundreds of nutria wash ashore on beach in Hancock County, Mississippi

Mike Lacy
fox8live.com
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:38 UTC
Officials with the county road department estimate there are around 300 dead rodents on the beach
© WLOXOfficials with the county road department estimate there are around 300 dead rodents on the beach.
Tropical Storm Cindy washed more than just seaweed and drift wood onto the beach in Hancock County. Hundreds of dead nutria litter the beach.

County officials and Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality officials are on the scene assessing the problem. Officials with the county road department estimate there are around 300 dead rodents on the beach.

The nutria kill is along the shoreline in Waveland and Claremont Harbor. We don't know for sure how many are on the shore, but officials believe more will wash up with the tide.
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Cloud Lightning

Two men die as lightning bolt strikes them in Uttar Pradesh, India


The Tribune (India)
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:24 UTC
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Two men died when lightning struck at Chillaha village under Kalinjar police station area here, the police said.

Luvkush (18) and Sunil (22) were killed and two others, including a woman, received burns in the incident which occurred on Thursday evening, CO Naraini, Ajay Singh Chauhan, said on Friday.

The deceased were cousins and they were sitting outside their house when the lightning struck, the CO said, adding that the injured were hospitalised.

Source: Press Trust of India
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Six struck dead by lightning in two districts of Pakistan


The Express Tribune
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:19 UTC
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At least six people, including three women, were reportedly killed due to lightning strikes during monsoon showers in Tharparkar and Mirpurkhas districts on Wednesday and Thursday. The early monsoon showers started pouring on lower Sindh on Wednesday with the Meteorological department recording the highest rainfall of 12 millimetres (mm) in Badin district and 8mm in Thatta district.

Two young men were struck by lightning in Jhuddo town of Mirpurkhas Thursday afternoon. One of them, Belu Bheel, died and the other, Dilip Kumar, was shifted to a hospital in a critical condition.

Thirty-year-old Naseer Saandh was reportedly killed by lightning in Khaijrarhi Saandh village in the Nagarparkar taluka of Tharparkar district. Another young man, Beram Meghwadh, became a victim of lightning strike in Manjhi Rind village of Tharparkar.

Three women, whose identities were not disclosed to the local media, were also reportedly killed during lightning strikes in villages Harpar Junejo, Garryo and Shahmeer Vikya in Tharparkar.
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Quad funnel clouds battle to touch down near Saint-Casimir, Quebec

The Weather Network
YouTube
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 06:42 UTC
Quad funnel clouds near Quebec
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Count all four and watch them begin to rotate.

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