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Residents picking up pieces after severe hailstorm pummels Roundup, Montana

Zoe Zandora
ktvq.com
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 18:27 UTC
Hail pounds Roundup
Hail pounds Roundup
Roundup residents are busy today cleaning up after the devastating damage done from a storm Thursday evening.

"It broke the window. It shredded the blinds, and then it forced the glass inside. We were holding the curtains down, and it was still coming through," says Roundup resident Gail Armstrong said.

Residents were busy Friday picking up shards of glass, boarding up windows and assessing what some said is the worst storm they have seen come through the city

Wind gusts reached up to 60 miles per hour and precipitation rates reached well above 2.5 inches per hour and about 2.5 inches wide.

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Big mudslide closes US 395 near Nevada-California state line


Facts Wanted
Tue, 22 May 2018 17:28 UTC
Mudslide
A huge mudslide has forced closure of U.S. Highway 395 at Topaz Lake just north of the Nevada-California state line.

The California Department of Transportation says Monday's mudslide is 100 feet (30.5 meters) in length and up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) deep.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 13 goats in Ganjam, Odisha, India


Orissa Post
Sat, 02 Jun 2018 09:06 UTC
LIGHTNING KILLS GOATS
As many as 13 goats were killed after the animals were struck by lightning at Gayaganda Adivasi Colony under Jagannathprasad block in Ganjam district, Friday.

Tarsingh veterinary officials reached the village and seized the carcasses. They sent the carcasses for autopsy. Later, the carcasses were buried on the premises of the veterinary department.

Meanwhile, officials of the veterinary department have launched a probe and prepared a report on the losses suffered by the goat owners.

Comment: A number of sheep were also recently killed by lightning during a severe thunderstorm in Donegal, Ireland.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 8 across West Bengal, India


Millennium Post
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:52 UTC
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Lightning killed eight people in different districts of Bengal, during the intermittent but heavy rainfall that the state witnessed since Friday morning.

The regional meteorological department has predicted similar weather to continue on Saturday as well. The eight people who were killed include a woman and her mother-in-law, at Goaltore in West Midnapore.

The other six were from places including Arambagh in Hooghly, Nanoor in Birbhum and Mongalkote in East Burdwan.

Comment: Elsewhere in India 7 people and 20 sheep were killed by lightning in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Cloud Precipitation

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Atmospheric rivers increase in size, floods and winds globally exceed the norm


Adapt 2030
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:48 UTC
ellicot city flooding
Two years after '1-in-1,000-year event' floods Maryland, Ellicott City and Baltimore inundated AGAIN
Coincidentally there has been a global news push of the Geophysical Letter's Research about intensifying Ark or Atmospheric Rivers increasing in intensity over the last month. Now we see that across the globe, indeed these ARK storms and wind events are bringing incredible dust and salt storms, record flooding and electrified skies that frighten country populations.


Comment: The world is seeing a rapid upsurge in extreme weather according to a recent report. For more information on these events from around the world, check out our Earth Changes Summaries. The latest video: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - April 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

To understand how and why these extreme weather events are occurring read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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Fire

Wind turbine catches fire after thunderstorm in Doddington, UK


BBC
Wed, 30 May 2018 14:14 UTC
The turbine fire was reported after storms hit the Fens overnight
© Cambs Fire and Rescue ServiceThe turbine fire was reported after storms hit the Fens overnight
An 89m (292ft) wind turbine caught fire after storms hit Cambridgeshire overnight.

Firefighters were called to the blaze at the top of the turbine in Benwick Road, Doddington, at about 07:50 BST.

Parts of it have broken off, with debris scattered in the area but there is no danger to the public, the fire service said.

Residents reported thunder and lightning overnight. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

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Cloud Lightning

Three women killed by lightning bolt as heavy storms hit southern China

Louise Moon
South China Morning Post
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:38 UTC
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Three women have died after being struck by lightning as extreme storms struck southern China, according to an online news portal.

The women from Baise city in Guangxi autonomous region, died instantly after being struck on Wednesday afternoon, Thepaper.cn reported on Thursday.

The report said they were on top of a mountain at Dongmen Forest Farm in Pingshun village just outside the city when they were struck.

No other information about the incident was given.
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Cloud Precipitation

Storm Alberto delivers deadly floods and landslides to North Carolina


FloodList
Thu, 31 May 2018 10:20 UTC
House collapse in Watauga County North Carolina, USA, after heavy rainfall from Storm Alberto, May 2018.
© Boone Police DepartmentHouse collapse in Watauga County North Carolina, USA, after heavy rainfall from Storm Alberto, May 2018.
After making landfall as a Subtropical Storm near Laguna Beach in Florida on 28 May, Alberto has continued to move north as a Subtropical Depression, bringing heavy rain to areas that had already seen one of the wettest Mays on record.

As of 31 May, 2018, North Carolina was by far the worst hit state. Flooding has affected areas of Alabama and Georgia, as well as parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 2, injures 2 others in Calbayog City, Philippines


Inquirer.net
Thu, 31 May 2018 15:17 UTC
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Two persons were killed while two others were hurt after they were struck by lightning while on board a passenger boat docked at the Calbayog Port past noon on Thursday.

The fatalities were identified as Reynaldo P. Delabajan, 28, an operator of National Power Corp. (Napocor), and Pedro N. Alimoot, a fisherman, both from Samar.

The two were on board the banca Justine Joy, which was reportedly hired by Napocor to transport diesel to the island-town of Sto. Niño in Samar.

Police said a bolt of lightning hit the area where Delabajan and Alimoot were sitting. They were killed on the spot.

Two other boat passengers were hurt and were brought to the hospital for treatment. They were identified as Peter S. Alimoot, 26, a student; and Jovane P. Campoanor, 26, a boat crew.

Comment: On the same day lightning strikes killed 2 people in Bangladesh.

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Ice Cube

Storm dumps knee-deep hail on Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada


Toronto Star
Wed, 30 May 2018 23:11 UTC
Street covered in hail in north Moose Jaw
© Patty Yuzek-Woytuik/SubmittedStreet covered in hail in north Moose Jaw after an early morning storm May 30, 2019.
People in parts of Moose Jaw, Sask., had to use shovels after a storm dumped piles of hail on some neighbourhoods.

There was so much hail Wednesday morning that a school bus got stuck on a residential street.

The Prairie South School Division thanked bus drivers for getting students to class safely.

The school board also expressed gratitude to people who helped clear a path for the vehicles through the hail, which was knee-deep in some places.

Around parts of the city culverts were blocked with the ice.

There are reports that more than 50 millimetres of precipitation fell during the brief storm.

Comment: Intense and unseasonable hail storms are being increasingly recorded all over the world. In Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. Such devastating hail across the planet is being under reported in the media.

It is likely that atmospheric dust loading from increased comet and volcanic activity is contributing to these 'intense' or 'freak' hailstorms, the cooling effect of which causes ice crystals to form.

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