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Cloud Lightning

Lightning kills 19-year-old youth in Karnataka, India - caught on video

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© Johannes Plenio
A youth died when lightning struck him during the heavy rains accompanied by thunder and lightning lashed the village of Subramanya near here on Thursday, February 7.

The deceased person is identified as Praveen (19), son of Krishnappa, a resident of Mithamajalu house,Pallatadka village of the taluk.

Praveen was working as a mason and was presently involved in the renovation of the Aditya Nest Hotel which is near the Kumaradhara Junction of Subramanya village. When the rains started lashing the village at around 6 pm on Thursday, Praveen was covering his two-wheeler with a tarpaulin, when the lightning struck him.


Comment: Ignore the red arrow in the video below pointing at the tarpaulin and the person standing there (who runs away after the strike) and focus on the dark figure slightly to the right who was the individual hit (collapses and doesn't get up). Witness also the people who rush to that spot to help him.


Comment: Also recently lightning strikes have killed individuals in Zambia and South Africa.


Ice Cube

India's capital Delhi enjoys unusual hail storm

Delhi hailstorm
© PTIMany people compared the unusual sight to scenes from Chicago or London
India's capital Delhi was hit by a strong hailstorm on Thursday, turning the city white and leaving people stunned and delighted.

Pictures and videos posted on social media show cherry-sized ice balls and streets covered in white.

Many people compared the unusual sight to scenes from Chicago or London.

Hailstorms "are not rare for Delhi, but their occurrence is infrequent," according to US website Accuweather's senior meteorologist Jason Nicholls.

The severe weather also forced more than 30 flights to be diverted during the early hours of the evening.

However, the hail and rain storm did have an upside. Apart from delighting Delhi's residents, it also helped improve the city's notoriously toxic air quality.

Cloud Precipitation

At least five dead in Brazil after powerful storm lashes Rio de Janeiro

flood rio
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second-largest city, awoke to scenes of chaos on Thursday after thrashing wind and rain whipped through neighbourhoods, felling trees, flooding streets and sweeping away buses in a storm that killed at least five people.

Some of Rio's most iconic neighbourhoods, including tourist hot-spots like Ipanema and Copacabana, were battered by winds of up to 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph) on Wednesday night, with precarious hillside favelas hit by mudslides that closed roads.

At least five people died, with one more person potentially killed in a bus that was hit by a mudslide, Rio's mayor, Marcelo Crivella, told local news media.

"It was a lot of water that ended up causing this tragedy," Crivella said. "It was unexpected."


Cloud Precipitation

Winter brings a year's worth of water for 9 million Californians

The Almaden Reservoir
The Almaden Reservoir
California may have a reputation for persistent drought and water scarcity, but already this year the state's freshwater reserves are worth celebrating.

Storms in the beginning of January brought an influx of snow to the Sierra Nevada and heavy rains elsewhere in the state, boosting its water reservoirs exponentially.

Over the first three weeks of January, "47 key reservoirs that state water officials closely monitor added 580 billion gallons of water — as much as roughly 9 million people use in a year," according to the Chico Enterprise-Record. "The combined storage in the reservoirs ... has expanded 15.96 million acre feet on New Year's Day to 17.74 million acre feet now. Each acre foot is enough water to flood an acre of land a foot deep, 325,851 gallons."

Snowflake

This is what more than 6 feet of fresh snow looks like at a Tahoe ski resort

Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort near South Lake Tahoe.
Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort near South Lake Tahoe.
Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows ski resort got more than six feet of snow over the course of the weekend's snowstorm.


Cloud Lightning

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Unprecedented floods Australia - Winter lightning Europe

Power transformers surrounded by floodwater
© Lhey IrelandPower transformers surrounded by floodwater on Bluewater Drive at Bluewater Park.
Unprecedented floods Australia as out of flow jet streams dumping 5x monthly rains on Cains and half a years worth of rain in Townsville in a single storm front. The atmospheric compression events continue to amplify.

More atmospheric anomalies with winter lightning in Europe, over 34,000 strikes.

Magnetosphere is weakening with solar winds, and its is all related to the intensifying Grand Solar Minimum.


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Snowflake Cold

Snowstorm batters northern Japan

Heavy snowfall at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido
© ReutersHeavy snowfall at New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido
A massive winter storm has pounded Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Tuesday with authorities warning of high waves, blizzard conditions and traffic disruption.

Hokkaido Railway Company on Tuesday decided to cancel more than 100 train services on the island following the cancellation of 102 a day earlier.

Some traffic accidents took place on Monday as a low pressure system brought heavy snow and blizzard conditions to the island, according to daily newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun.

Snowflake

Sierra blizzard drops so much snow that some ski resorts close - 9 feet at June Mountain, California

Heavy snow at Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort
© Peter Morning / Mammoth MountainHeavy snow at Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort on Monday. Several ski resorts closed operations because of blizzard conditions.
Several ski resorts in the Eastern Sierra and Tahoe closed part or all operations Monday because of a blizzard that dropped as much as 9 feet of snow in the biggest storm system so far this season.

Blizzard conditions with winds up to 50 mph are forecast in both areas through Monday, bringing up to 3 more feet of snow Monday evening and into Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

Ski operations at June Mountain in June Lake closed, as did most runs and the Main Lodge at Mammoth Mountain in Mammoth Lakes. "We had so much snow it takes a while to safely open the mountain," spokesman Tim LeRoy said Monday.

Mammoth received almost 7 feet of snow and was expecting another 2.5 feet by Tuesday night. June Mountain already had received 9 feet of snow from the current storm.


Comment: Meanwhile at lower elevations and along the coastal districts of the same state: Unrelenting rain causes floods, mudslides and evacuations in Southern California.


Snowflake Cold

Chaos in Czech Republic amid heavy snowfall and blackouts

Lots of fresh snow in Mrchojedy, Domažlice, Czech Republic (460 m ASL) on Feb 3rd
© Rudolf MálekLots of fresh snow in Mrchojedy, Domažlice, Czech Republic (460 m ASL) on Feb 3rd
Heavy snow has caused major disruption in the Czech Republic, leaving approximately 30,000 homes without power.

Up to 20cm of fresh snow was reported in some locations, forcing highways to close and disrupting flights into and out of Vaclav Havel, Prague's international airport. A number of flights had to be diverted to other airports.

Strong winds accompanied the snow, with a gust of 145 kilometres per hour reported in Pribyslav, about 120km southeast of the capital, Prague.

The storm pulled down numerous trees, which resulted in the closure of roads and train lines.


Cloud Precipitation

Unrelenting rain causes floods, mudslides and evacuations in Southern California

Santa Barbara County firefighters survey the scene of a large eucalyptus tree
© Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire via APSanta Barbara County firefighters survey the scene of a large eucalyptus tree that fell into a two-story apartment complex on Bolton Walk in Goleta, Calif.

An atmospheric river over the Pacific is fueling this weekend's rainstorm


The season's strongest storm bombarded Southern California with hours of rainfall, flooding freeways and forcing evacuations in the region's wildfire burn areas.

High rainfall rates could trigger mudslides, debris flows and rock slides, and strong winds will pummel the region. The storm is being fueled by a long band of moisture over the Pacific, acting like a conveyor belt carrying rain to the West Coast.

The result is prolonged periods of rain and downpours that could triggered flash flood warnings, most of which expired Saturday afternoon. A warning remains in effect until about 4 p.m. for Orange County.

Evacuation orders were in effect for parts of Southern California, including burn areas in Ventura, Santa Barbara, Orange, Riverside and Los Angeles counties.