Cars were submerged and a major roadway was shut down due to flooding in the Scotch Plains, New Jersey area Wednesday afternoon.
U.S. 22 was shut down between County Road 55, Bonnie Burn Road and Park Avenue in Scotch Plains Township and Mountain Avenue in Mountainside, officials told CBS2.
All lanes were closed in both directions. Parts of the road later reopened, 1010 WINS reported, but the closure at the Park Avenue overpass in Scotch Plains remained in effect as of 9:35 p.m.
By 11 p.m., the westbound lanes of Route 22 had reopened, but the eastbound side remained closed.
Route 78 was also affected by flooding.
A baby was killed and his grandmother critically injured in a rain-triggered landslide in Bandarban Sadar upazila yesterday morning.
Overall flood situation in Bandarban, Khagrachhari, Sylhet and Sunamganj districts has worsened, report our correspondents.
In Bandarban, Sajib Hossain, one and a half-year-old son of Inu Haque Chowdhury, died and Inu's mother, 60, was badly injured as chunks of mud from a hill fell on their house at Ghonapara in New Gulshan area of Sadar upazila, said Ranadhir Dutta, stationmaster of Bandarban fire service unit.
Two persons were struck dead by lightning as sky remained overcast and dark clouds hung low over Thanjavur district on Tuesday. Drizzle and sharp showers wetted some parts of the district.
B. Bhanumathy (60) of Karthikai Thottam near Sarukkai village was struck dead by lightning near her house on Monday. Kapisthalam police are investigating.
Similarly, a farmer Panchanathan of Kovilur village near Orathanad who was grazing his cow near his house was hit by lightning and dropped dead along with his cow.
The columnar vortex travelled over the North Pacific Ocean very close to the shore of the state of Oaxaca
This incredible footage captured the intensity of a waterspout that hit a beach in Mexico.
The incident occurred earlier this month and the amateur video was recorded by a visitor to the San Agustinillo beach in Tonameca.
In the clip the columnar vortex can be seen travelling over the North Pacific Ocean very close to the shore of the state of Oaxaca.
Other beachgoers can be seen staring up at the perfectly funnel-shaped cloud that sways from left to right slightly but stays straight and tubular throughout.
The sound of the strong wind can be heard throughout the video and the short clip concludes with the non-supercell tornado heading away from the filmmaker and along the coast.
* Over 200 birds were found dead at 9th and Elgin in downtown Tulsa today.
* The purple martins are a rare species protected by state and federal law.
* The game warden says that he is looking into whether someone criminally poisoned the birds, because thousands
of them nest in trees nearby, but there is also the possibility that last night's rain knocked them out of the trees and was too much for them to bear, causing them to essentially drown on the sidewalk during a downpour.
* TU researchers have taken most of the birds away for analysis because it is a rare species.
Dozens of birds were left dead on downtown Tulsa sidewalks due to what is being called a "rare weather phenomenon".
Many of the birds at 9th and Detroit were cleaned up by Wednesday evening. Those who work in the area said they felt like they walked into a horror movie.
Hawkkey Davis' latest video compilation of extreme weather events (and general environmental chaos) from the past month or so.
The Solomon Islands, Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the Bay Area, Indonesia, Queensland and Maryland are rocked by earthquakes; Reunion Island (the site of the alleged MH370 'wreckage' found earlier this month) and Mexico by volcanoes. The Queensland quake was the biggest in a century. Flash floods in Arizona, northwest China, Iran, Pakistan, Florida, India, Myanmar, Colorado, and Argentina. Wildfires in France, Spain, Montana and California. The Dead Sea tourism industry is threatened by unprecedented sinkholes. All this, plus storms, tornadoes, sand, fireballs, record-breaking heat and more!
Two men were killed in Kratie province on Monday afternoon after being struck by lightning, according to police.
Nhan Saoyun, deputy chief of staff at Snuol district police station, said the incident happened at about 4:30pm while Heang Vannareth, 35, and Chorn Chetra, 25, were working on a rubber plantation owned by Vietnamese company Binh Pheuk 2.
"Heang Vannareth was struck on his head and Chorn Chetra was struck on his neck," he said, adding "It was an accident of nature, so no one could have predicted it."
According to Saoyun, the deaths brought the number of fatalities caused by lightning in the area so far this year to four.
The incident came just days after two farmers - a father and son - were struck by lightning in Ratanakkiri province and rendered unconscious. Both have since recovered.
A report released at the end of June by the National Committee for Disaster Management showed a 50 per cent rise in storm frequency but fewer lightning-related deaths in the first half of 2015 as compared to 2014.
Four residents of a neighborhood in Alaska were missing Tuesday after heavy rain caused several landslides, emergency responders said. The rainfall caused the City and Borough of Sitka to declare a state of emergency, according to CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA.
Search and rescue personnel were looking for the missing people in Sitka, where three landslides were reported Tuesday morning after 2.5 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. One sinkhole also was reported.
The people who were unaccounted for were all in the same neighborhood hit by one of the landslides, Sitka fire spokeswoman Sara Peterson said. She did not know if the people were all together when the landslide occurred.
"The areas are so unstable," Peterson told KTVA. "We've got crews from the city that are out and about, from the fire department, from various agencies including the Alaska State Troopers and other volunteers are helping."
A downpour in Budapest triggered flash floods in the Hungarian capital, triggering power failures, while extreme weather elsewhere further damaged the country's already weakened agricultural industry.
Firefighters rescued stranded passengers from cars and helped pump water from flooded basements and subway stations across the city on Monday evening, the Emergency Services agency said in a statement on its website. No injuries were reported. Some people were evacuated from their homes.
The storm dumped more than 80 millimeters (3 inches) of rain in the span of an hour on Monday evening, more than the monthly average of 55 millimeters to 60 millimeters for August, the National Weather Service said on its website.
Comment: See also: SOTT Earth Changes Summary - July 2015: Extreme Weather and Planetary Upheaval