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© @FrankMoore56/TwitterStorm winds have brought trees down on roads, cars and at least one person in Metro Vancouver.
Winds maxing out at 90 km/h in some parts of southwest B.C. have made for dangerous conditions on roads, with downed trees and power lines. At least 400,000 homes are without power.
Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast are also experiencing damage from the winds. Environment Canada says winds peaked at 117 km/h on Saturna Island.
High winds forced the closure of Vancouver's jewel, Stanley Park, although the east side of the park re-opened Saturday afternoon.
The annual Pacific National Exhibition initially said it would close but later announced it would stay open after Environment Canada cancelled a wind warning.
Reports of golf ball to baseball-size hail were reported from near Neche, N.D., to Minnesota's Humbolt-St. Vincent and Northcote areas in Kittson County, National Weather Service Meteorologist Ryan Knutsvig said.
Pembina County Emergency Manager Andrew Kirking received his first report about the storm at about 8:20 a.m.
Meanwhile, strong thunderstorms redeveloped early Friday afternoon near Angle Inlet, Minn., on Lake of the Woods, according to a weather service reports. Boaters were being cautioned that the conditions could last through 4 p.m.
Source: Forum News Service
© Glenda MacPhailAltona got hit with baseball-sized hail, leaving behind damaged roofs and smashed car windows.
The town of Altona, about 115 km southwest of Winnipeg, got hit with baseball-sized hail, leaving behind damaged roofs and smashed car windows.
© Glenda MacPhailThe storm, that lasted a solid 10 minutes, produced hail the size of golf balls.
Glenda MacPhail, a resident of Altona, said parking lots and streets were flooded as a result of the hail storm that lasted a solid 10 minutes.
She said multiple cars around the town were left smashed up.
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NBC 6 crews in the area spotted the waterspout forming in a cloud, stirring up the water below.
WATCH: Waterspout forms offshore east of Miami Beach!: http://t.co/bASipuOHUU (video via @JuliaNBC6)
https://t.co/32gekQqe3X
— NBC 6 South Florida (@nbc6) August 28, 2015
© Nigel Britton.A waterspout provided a spectacular show of nature off Fremantle this morning.
The long funnel descending from the clouds could be clearly seen whipping up ocean spray close to Fremantle Harbour.
The weather bureau says the water spout was created by unstable air above warm, shallow coast water.
The wind would only need to be around 70 kilometres an hour to get the spout going.
Source: The West Australian
Killer floods: At least 40 are said to have died after severe weather in North Korea
Homes and building have been wrecked after 250mm of rain fell last weekend.
Video broadcast by North's official news agency KCNA on Thursday showed people walking through flooded streets, farmland and a vehicle submerge in mud.
Following the downpour, authorities in neighbouring China worked with North Korean border officials to evacuate 484 Chinese tourists, according to a Chinese news website.
© NOAA
Though the track of Ignacio remains uncertain, the Category 1 hurricane, at the low end of the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity, was heading northwest and "continues to get closer to Hawaii", the government forecaster said.
Ignacio was centered about 720 miles (1,160 km) east of Hilo and 935 miles (1,500 km) east of Honolulu on Friday evening. It was packing maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour (150 kph).
A coastal storm watch could be issued for the Hawaiian islands early on Saturday, the center said.
Six people were struck by lightning in a thunderstorm in South Darfur on Tuesday. Five died, while a fifth is in hospital with serious burns.
"Three of the victims were walking along the road between Bulbul Timbisko and Nyala [capital of South Darfur]", a listener told Radio Dabanga.
He said that three others, all members of the same family, were struck as they sheltered against the heavy rain under a tree in the area of Um Dafug.
"Two of them died instantly and the third sustained heavy burns. He was taken to the Um Dafug Hospital."
The Ministry of Public Works told Trinidad and Tobago TV station CCN TV6 that the death toll has risen above two dozen after the storm left severe flooding and triggered mudslides on Thursday.
"Erika has really, really visited us with a vengeance," Claude Weeks, assistance police superintendent, told the Associated Press during a phone interview. Because many roads and bridges are impassable, crews are trying to reach isolated communities via the ocean, he added.
Among those confirmed dead were a blind elderly man and two children in southeastern Dominica, and another man was killed in the country's capital of Roseau, the report said.
