Hailstones up to 4 inches in diameter battered Minnesota's Carver, Hennepin, and Wright counties, west of Minneapolis, on the afternoon of Monday, August 5, damaging vehicles and other property, according to people in the area.
The National Weather Service reported that "tennis ball size" hail had fallen in Watertown, Carver County, while hail four inches in diameter was reported in the Wright County town of Delano, about five miles northeast of Watertown.
This footage shows a hailstorm in Watertown. The person who shared it also posted images of a car windshield cracked in multiple places following the storm.
After an otherwise sunny afternoon in the town of Emerald Isle just off the coast of North Carolina, Joshua Lanier spotted an ominous cylindrical mass swirling just above the water's surface.
Lanier caught it on camera from his beach house shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday and posted it to Twitter, where upwards of 3,000 people have since watched the video.
The tornado-like vortex he filmed is what's known as a waterspout.
China again looking for desert or drought areas that are showing signs of new precipitation patterns forming, this time NE Queensland to set up cattle ranching.
EF5 waterspout Corsica, and hail pushes up manhole covers in Scotland.
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Many parts of Freetown - the capital of Sierra Leone, are today under several feet of water, following several hours of rainfall which according to our correspondent in the city, started in the early hours of this morning.
In the mountainous village of Regent, there are reports of huge cracks opening up on the hills, reminiscent of the causes of the 14 August 2017 mudslide, which took the lives of thousands of people living on the valley.
The country's office of national security has been informed, and are believed to be taking precautionary measures to relocate residents from the areas at risk of another deadly mudslide.
This morning's heavy downpour has left several people trapped in their vehicles as well as their homes, with little if any emergency assistance in sight, as could be seen in some of the pictures and videos below.
A strong thunder and hail storm battered parts of Edmonton and the surrounding region Friday night, with grapefruit-sized hail stones cracking windshields and damaging homes.
Environment Canada reported hail stones larger than 100 millimetres in diameter fell around Spruce Grove while wind gusts topped 70 km/h west of Edmonton.
People shared photos and videos of the hailstorm on social media and others assessed damage to their home.
Several rounds of overnight thunderstorms inundated parts of eastern Kansas with heavy rains early Thursday, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Ten inches of rain or more fell along a line that stretched from southern Jefferson County through Douglas County, Franklin County and into Anderson County, weather radar indicated.
The National Weather Service in Topeka issued a flash flood warning for those counties, saying radar and rain gauges indicated that the storms have dumped as much as 10 inches of rain across the area.
Six children aged between four and 10 died after they were struck by lightning while making tea under a mango tree in north-eastern Guinea on Wednesday, a witness said.
The storm began shortly before 7:00 pm (1900 GMT) in the town of Siguiri, close to the border with Mali, witness Mamadi Doumbouya, a local resident, told AFP.
He said eight children in total, accompanied by two of their mothers, were under a mango tree at the back of his house.
"I invited everyone to take shelter in my living room. The ladies rushed under my roof but the children stayed behind to make the last cups of tea," he added.
Once an uncommon phenomenon, Iceland has been inundated with lightning strikes since last weekend, and the reported strikes have reached an all new level.
Austurfrétt reports that these lightning strikes were especially prominent in the east, with a greater concentration in the southeast. The site of the Icelandic Met Office shows an incredible concentration of thunder and lightning in the early morning hours of Tuesday in particular.
In all, there were a whopping 1,818 lightning strikes in just the 24 hours following early Tuesday morning. This marks the greatest recorded number of strikes since measurements of them began in earnest in 1998.
The strikes occurring in the east is telling. While thunder and lightning require cold air meeting warm air to happen, unusually high temperatures have covered the country this summer, and the east is traditionally the warmest in the summer.
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