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Dust devil interrupts baseball game in Libertyville, Illinois

Ben Hooper
UPI
Tue, 29 May 2018 20:52 UTC
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An Illinois fire department shared video of the "slight tornado delay" that resulted from a dust devil interrupting a local little league game.

The video, tweeted by the Libertyville Fire Department, shows young players watching in shock as the whirlwind kicks up a cone of dust high into the air.

The Saturday game continued after the dust devil died down.

"We had a slight tornado delay at the Libertyville Memorial Day Travel Baseball Tournament," the tweet said.

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7-year-old boy killed by lightning strike in Tennessee

Adrian Mojica
komonews.com
Wed, 30 May 2018 10:15 UTC
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A 7-year-old Tennessee boy was killed on Tuesday after being struck by lightning.

The Weakley County Sheriff's Office says a group of children were playing outside under a tree when the tree was struck by lightning.

The incident took place just before 3:30 pm as storms rolled through the state.

The Weakley County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the boy's death an accident.
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Toxic salt storm from Aral sea sweeps Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan


AKI press
Mon, 28 May 2018 17:59 UTC
toxic salt storm
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A western part of Uzbekistan was hit by a salt storm going from the Aral sea, the RFE/RL reported.

It occurred following a warm weather and rain.

The dust covered the whole city of Nukus. It became difficult to breathe and people wear facial masks.

Locals are complaining that the dust spread even through the windows. The dust contains nitrogen fertilizer, which has been collecting on the bottom of the sea for dozens of years.

Meanwhile, the Turkmen language service of the RFE/RL says that the disaster also struck Dashoguz region of Turkmenistan on the night of May 27.


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Watch Storm Alberto cause mini waterspout in Florida pool


BBC
Tue, 29 May 2018 11:38 UTC
Windy conditions from Storm Alberto caused this waterspout in Panama City Beach Florida.


Comment: Kind of cute, but ominous. More recent waterspouts:

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Cloud Precipitation

South African province pounded by rare hail the size of tennis balls

Ismail Akwei
Face2FaceAfrica
Mon, 28 May 2018 10:57 UTC
Hailstorm in Mpumalanga, South Africa
© mpumalanganews.co.zaHailstorm in Mpumalanga, South Africa
South African province of Mpumalanga was hit by a rare hailstorm on Sunday night which destroyed roofs of building and cars in several towns.

The hailstorm fell in several towns and areas in the province including Mbombela, Kanyamazane, Ntokozweni, Tekwane South, Skukuza and the southern part of the Kruger National Park.

According to reports, the hail was the size of tennis balls and they disrupted electricity supplies in many areas.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Electrical phenomenon fills UK skies, Grand Solar Minimum


Adapt 2030
Mon, 28 May 2018 20:36 UTC
The Met Office has warned of flooding and possible damage to buildings from lightning, which is pictured here striking over the city of London
© ReutersThe Met Office has warned of flooding and possible damage to buildings from lightning, which is pictured here striking over the city of London
Electrical Phenomenon Fills UK Skies over the weekend with plasma displays in the atmosphere, ground to sky lightning, horizontal lightning, filamentary lighting and 388,000 strikes and flashes of which 60,000 were over London and Southern England. Our atmosphere is changing as the Sun decreases its activity state, our Earth needs to match, hence the wild scenes in our skies. There is the timeline for electrical ferocity to uptick in our atmosphere here on Earth.


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Two women struck by lightning in Bochum, Germany - one has life-threatening injuries

Frank Jordans
ABC News
Mon, 28 May 2018 17:57 UTC
In this May 27, 2018 photo thunderbolts are reflected near Premnitz, eastern Germany.
© Julian StaehleIn this May 27, 2018 photo thunderbolts are reflected near Premnitz, eastern Germany.
Two young women suffered serious injuries after lightning struck them while they were taking selfies in western Germany, officials said Monday.

A spokesman for Bochum police said first responders found the 23 and 21-year-old women lying on the ground with their clothing torn in the city's Wattenscheid district on Sunday evening.

Paramedics had to resuscitate the 23-year-old and she remains in intensive care with life-threatening injuries, Bochum police spokesman Volker Schuette said.

The younger woman told police the last thing she remembered was walking with her friend on a footpath and recording each other with their smartphones, Schuette told The Associated Press.

"Clearly they were surprised by the storm," he said.
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Eleven killed by lightning strikes in Jharkhand, India

Sanjoy Dey
Hindustan Times
Mon, 28 May 2018 17:42 UTC
Lightning in the sky in Patiala.
© HT File Photo/Representative imageLightning in the sky in Patiala.
Lightning killed at least 11 people while thunderstorms left over a dozen others injured in the past 24 hours in Jharkhand, taking the weather-related toll to 18 this month in the state, officials said on Monday.

High velocity wind lashed parts of Jharkhand including capital Ranchi Sunday evening and a series of thunderstorms uprooted dozens of trees, electricity poles and blew off asbestos rooftop of several houses in nearby villages.

Two deaths were reported from Ranchi's Khalari area, two from Giridih, one each from Ramgarh, Hazaribag, Koderma and Lohardaga from between Sunday afternoon and midnight. At Khalari, the deceased were identified as Bittu Turi and Rahul Turi, who had come to see a religious function at Chaingarha in Khalari on Sunday. Eye-witnesses said they were standing under a tree after the function when lightning struck them in the evening.
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10 minute hailstorm of "unprecedented violence" destroys 2,000 hectares of vineyards in Bordeaux


TheLocal.fr
Sat, 26 May 2018 12:00 UTC
Bordeaux hail grape vine
© AFPVines damaged and without leaves at a vineyard near Bordeaux following a violent storm in the region.
Winemakers in western France in the famed Bordeaux and Cognac areas were inspecting damage to their vines on Sunday after an "unprecedented" storm saw pebble-sized hailstones cause widespread destruction.

The bad weather struck around midday on Saturday in the Gironde area where many of France's most well-known red wines originate, as well as further north in the Charente and Charente-Maritime regions.

"It's a shock, it was a hailstorm of unprecedented violence for 10 minutes," the head of a winegrowers association in the Cotes-de-Bourg area, Didier Gontier, told Franceinfo radio on Sunday.

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Crop losses around the world are mounting:

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Rare waterspout filmed in middle Tennessee

Anthony Glover
fox17.com
Sun, 27 May 2018 17:19 UTC
waterspot
Check out this water spout that was captured on video today at Sunset Marina in Pickett County by Madison Hill.

The waterspout in Pickett County today was a phenomena we don't see very often here in Tennessee, says FOX 17 Meteorologist Colleen Mehlberg.

It just so happened that the right ingredients lined up at the perfect time to create this spectacle, says Mehlberg. Looking back and comparing with the NWS, it seems most likely that a gust front from approaching thunderstorms brought in cooler air that interacted with warmer lake waters and the curvature of the lake itself to create a quick spin-up.
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