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Huge hailstones pummel Cullman, Alabama (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

Jessica Grotjahn
whnt.com
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:22 UTC
Huge hailstones smashed Cullman, Alabama
Huge hailstones smashed Cullman, Alabama
There's a lot of storm damage in Cullman County. The Cullman County School district announced classes would be canceled on Tuesday, due to the extent of the damage.

Hail battered hundreds of cars on the lot of Mitch Smith Chevrolet. Jerry Hayes confirmed that nearly all of the windshields have busted and the vehicle bodies have sustained heavy damage. The same thing happened 23-years ago to the same dealership.

Mitch Smith salesman Clint Chapman estimated the damage could exceed $4 million.


Comment: This was the same storm that produced this extreme lightning show over the Carolinas:

Electric storm at 30,000ft: Passenger captures astounding pyrotechnics through airplane window

Just a day earlier there was a similar event elsewhere in the US:

Extreme hailstorm pounds Brazos Valley, Texas (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

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Incredible images after trio of nor'easters batter New Brunswick, Canada (VIDEO,PHOTOS)

Pam Wright
The Weather Channel
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 06:16 UTC
snowdrift in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada
© Ashley RicardUnreal snowdrift in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, after 3 Nor’Easters in a row.
Canada's New Brunswick province was slammed this month by a triple trio of nor'easters, and photos emerging from the area have been incredible.

More than 5,500 residents in the province found themselves without power Wednesday after the third nor'easter, Winter Storm Skylar, targeted eastern Canada and dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the region, according to the Canada Broadcast Corporation.

Like many in the northeastern United States, residents in Canada are as eager as their southern neighbors for spring to arrive after these back-to-back storms. However, a fourth nor'easter in 14 days now looks possible.

Ashely Ricard captured these stunning photos of her Bathurst neighborhood as they attempted to dig out from the snow.


Comment: For more information on extreme weather from around the world, check out our Earth Changes Summaries. The latest video: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - February 2018: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Cloud Precipitation

Extreme hailstorm pounds Brazos Valley, Texas (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)


kbtx.com
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:05 UTC
Hailstones
An aggressive hail storm hit parts of the Brazos Valley Sunday afternoon leaving some golf ball and baseball size hail behind.

KBTX received reports and photographs of dented cars and broken windows on vehicles across the Brazos Valley.

Caldwell and northern Walker County were especially hit hard, with many residents seeing larger than baseball sized hail in their yards.

The storms that blew through packed a ton of wind, too. Emergency management in northern and northeastern Walker County reported several trees down, some of which had fallen on homes. Wind gusted near 80 mph, but it is unclear if a tornado caused the damage.

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Cloud Precipitation

At least 17 die and 15,000 affected as Tropical Storm Eliakim slams Madagascar (VIDEOS)


Daily Nation (Kenya)
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:26 UTC
A section of the road washed away by floods in Maroanstetra District in north-eastern Madagascar following the landing of tropical storm Eliakim on the island nation on March 17, 2018.
© RIVONALA RAZAFISONA section of the road washed away by floods in Maroanstetra District in north-eastern Madagascar following the landing of tropical storm Eliakim on the island nation on March 17, 2018.
A powerful tropical storm which swept through Madagascar has left 17 people dead and affected thousands of others, according to an official toll published on Sunday.

Storm Eliakim packed winds of up to 105 kilometres (65 miles) an hour after hitting the northeast of the Indian Ocean island on Friday and barrelling down the east coast.

15,000 Affected

The death toll was announced by the country's disaster management office, which also said 15,000 people had been affected by the storm.

Madagascar, one of the poorest countries on the planet, has been hit by about 40 cyclones and tropical storms over the past 10 years.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Cosmic rays, atmospheric floods and record snows - are they connected? (VIDEO)


Adapt 2030
Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:41 UTC
Flash flood
Torrential rain causes flash floods in Belo Horizonte in Brazil
Cosmic rays are intensifying, there are now so many sources saying so. Now add into this the weakening magnetosphere, wandering jet streams and out of season extreme weather, then you see that the 400 year cycle in our Sun termed a Grand Solar Minimum, is here. Atmospheric compression event in Brazil, records snows on tap for Europe and Japan, but still the media won't connect the cosmic ray dots.


Comment: See also:

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills two schoolboys in Bangladesh


UNB
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:07 UTC
lightning
Two schoolboys were killed and a house wife was injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Matiranga, Guimara and Mahalchhari upazilas of the district on Saturday.

The deceased were identified as Sadhan Tripura, 15, a class five student of Matiranga Model School in Matiranga and Mikita Tripura, 10, a student of Shwashanpara Primary School of Guimara.

In Mahalchhari, Shefalika Chakma, 25, a house wife survived with critical burn injury during lightning around 4:30pm and was taken to a local healthcare centre.

Comment: Elsewhere recently lightning killed an individual in Kenya.

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Trees roll down streets, powerlines explode and roofs are ripped off buildings as Tropical Cyclone Marcus smashes Darwin, Australia (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)

Emily Pidgeon
Daily Mail
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:26 UTC
Darwin was ripped apart after Tropical Cyclone Marcus tore through earlier today
Darwin was ripped apart after Tropical Cyclone Marcus tore through earlier today
Darwin has been battered by 130km/h winds as Tropical Cyclone Marcus sent trees flying through the streets and brought down powerlines, prompting the rescue of people from a sinking boat near the city.

The eye of the category two storm has now moved past the city but emergency services say it's still not safe to go outside.

Marcus is now headed towards the Timor Sea and is expected to hit Western Australia's Kimberley Coast on Sunday, bringing wind gusts of up to 150km/h.

The storm brought down hundreds of powerlines and trees and damaged property across Darwin and also affected the city's drinking supply.

Residents have been told to boil drinking water as a precaution until further notice.

Meanwhile, water police were called out to rescue two people from two boats that collided after one of them slipped its moorings in Sangove Creek as the storm struck.

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Cloud Precipitation

Severe hailstorm leaves behind injuries and havoc in Lesotho (PHOTOS)

Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban
AfricaNews
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 10:31 UTC
hailstones
The southern African country of Lesotho experiences a devastating hailstorm earlier this week, which incident left in its wake death and destruction of public and private properties.

The event which took place in the southern Quthing district left the windows of cars, homes and other facilities smashed. People caught in the storm were also bruised by the impact as the hailstones left them with cuts on their heads and other parts of the body.

Local media reported that emergency personnel treated a number of school children who were caught out in the open during the storm.
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Attention

Blue penguins washing up sick and injured on beaches in Auckland and Northland, New Zealand

Nicole Lawton
Stuff
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:27 UTC
Birds NZ have found 64 little blue penguins dead on the east coast of the upper North Island, from Mangawhai to Kauri Mountain, in January.
© Birds NZBirds NZ have found 64 little blue penguins dead on the east coast of the upper North Island, from Mangawhai to Kauri Mountain, in January.
This year's unusually hot and stormy summer has taken a toll on Auckland and Northland's seabirds with thousands of dead and ill birds found on the regions' beaches.

Little blue penguins have been particularly hard hit, with hundreds of them washing up dead or exhausted.

Seabird experts said a combination of bad weather, a lack of food, heat and a change in the prevailing maritime wind directions had coincided with when the little blues like to come ashore to moult - putting them under great stress.

Karen Saunders, director of the National Bird Rescue on Waiheke Island - an established penguin breeding ground - said she'll remember this summer as the summer of seabird starvation.

Comment: See also this report from the beginning of the year: Thousands of dead penguins wash up on beaches in Northland, New Zealand

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Cloud Lightning

A bolt out of the blue? Lightning strike kills pupil, injures five others in Uganda

Robert Muhereza
Daily Monitor
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:02 UTC
lightning
The Kisoro District Education Officer, Mr Frank Munyarubanza, said that it was not even raining but lightning from nowhere struck and killed a pupil leaving others she was playing with injured.
A 16-year old primary six pupil at Kahumure Primary School in Bukimbiri Sub-County, Kisoro District was on Wednesday afternoon struck dead by lightning while her five other colleagues were left injured.

The injured pupils were rushed to Mutorere hospital for treatment while the body of the deceased was taken to Kisoro hospital for postmortem

The Kigezi regional police spokesman, Mr Elly Maate, identified the deceased as Pricila Night, a daughter to Mr Evalist Kafuku, resident of Kyogo Village Bukimbiri Sub-County.

He named the injured as; Angela Kyarisima, Anathianta Nuwamanya, Aluminanta Kyarisima, Mathias Turinawe all in primary seven and Florida Ninsiima in primary four.

Comment: Other recent fatalities due to lightning strikes include that of a teenager and a soldier in Pakistan in 2 separate incidents.

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