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© Richard Young PhotographyA waterspout formed off the coast of Broome yesterday.
Storm-chaser Richard Young filmed the moment the spout formed at Gantheaume Point as a storm rolled in yesterday afternoon.
"With a very active wet season in the north west town of Broome, today's early afternoon storm producer a spectacular waterspout off the coast," he said.
"Initially the cloud base below the storm produced a broad area of rotation with a thin connection to the water and then continued on to produce a beautiful...thick waterspout."
It lasted close to seven minutes and then moved away from the coast line, Mr Young said.
Seri Alam police chief Supt Jokhiri Abdul Aziz said in the 5pm incident, the victim known as Suhardi, 26, sought shelter on the raft with his friend due to heavy rain, before being struck by lightning and causing him to fall into the sea.
"The police received a report on the incident at 11pm on the same day and mobilised a search and rescue (SAR) team of 18 people comprising the marine police, Fire and Rescue Department as well as the fisherman's association and the villagers," he said here today.
A park in Kabul is blanketed in snow
Over 40 people have been confirmed dead on Sunday as snowstorms wreak havoc on various parts of Afghanistan, prompting the government to declare Sunday a public holiday.
The unprecedented snow in a decade has led to the closure of main highways leaving many people stranded, out of power and other supplies.
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© Xavier Leoty/AFPA man cuts the branches of a tree fallen on a road in the village of Angoulins near La Rochelle.
Gale-force winds battered France's southwestern Atlantic coast on Saturday, leaving more than quarter of million homes without power, the national electricity grid Enedis said.
National weather agency Meteo France said winds reaching speeds of up to 148 kilometres per hour (92 miles per hour) had battered the coast and warned that in some places they could even reach 160 kph.
Three western regions were put on red alert as the storm felled trees and brought down powerlines, cutting off roads although there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Enedis said that power had been cut to more than 250,000 homes in the departments of Gironde and Charentes with another 1,000 affected in the neighbouring region of Landes.
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One person was injured in the blaze following the crane collapse on Dubai's busy Sheikh Zayed Road, according to officials cited by AFP.
Three vehicles were also destroyed in the fire.
ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said paramedics were called to the scene by local authorities.
Meiring said paramedics found five people sitting under a tree with onlookers gathered nearby.
Meiring said one of the men, believed to be in his late 20's, had sustained numerous injuries and showed no signs of life.
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Storm warnings have been announced every few days throughout the past month, with the latest declared on Sunday night, as a warm cyclone hit the city. Temperatures have risen from about -25C to -15C, but a third of the expected monthly snowfall fell on Sunday night alone, and precipitation has not subsided since. Average snow cover has reached seven inches.
Winds have regularly exceeded 25 km/h, and have on occasions reached 40 km/h, which is defined by Russian meteorologists as a "black blizzard" - a severe weather event. Visibility has fallen below 1 km, but videos posted by locals show that it is hard to make out the houses on the sides of the road even during daytime - which only lasts five hours - without streetlights.
© Leonora PolicePolice in Leonora, 830km north-east of Perth, tweeted this picture of a massive thunderstorm rolling into town on Monday.
The maximum temperature in Perth on Monday reached just 20.3 degrees, making it one of the coldest January day's on record. The coldest ever was 19.7 degrees back in 2007.
The average maximum temperature for Perth in January is typically a much warmer 31.6 degrees.
A total of 31.8 millimetres of rain fell in the Perth gauge between 9am Monday and 9am Tuesday making it the wettest January day in Perth since 2000 and the heaviest rain Perth has seen since July 17 last year when 32.8 millimetres fell.
For the entire month of January, Perth has recorded 45.4 millimetres of rain, making it the sixth wettest January on record.
The average is just 9.7 millimetres.
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