Strong hail storms hit in several settlements in Altai region, breaking car windows, damaging roofs of buildings and destroying greenhouses.
In some areas it wiped out future harvests.
Subscribers of Barnaul22, a public group on Vkontakte, say a thunderstorm with hail hit Polkovnikovo village in Kosikhinsky district and ruined all crops there.
Similar carnage was in Nalobikha village and along the Buysk highway.
On June 20th, a thunderstorm in Austria unleashed a spectacular display of lightning. Observers on the ground witnessed blinding flashes of crackling light. The most amazing aspect of the outburst, however, was to be found high above the clouds. 80 km high, to be exact, in the realm of the sprites:
Martin Popek photographed the display from his private observatory in Nýdek, Czechia, more than 500 km away from the storm. Such distances are ideal for seeing above the tops of towering thunderclouds:
"Jellyfish sprite events like these are produced by very impulsive cloud-to-ground lightning flashes draining positive charge from the stratiform rain region in large thunderstorms," explains lightning scientist Oscar van der Velde of the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain. Somehow, in a process that researchers only partially understand, the resulting electric fields draw jellyfish forms out of the cloudtops.
It was the second death this year caused by lightning. The first occurred in Colorado on May 7.
According to an incident report, construction worker Guadalupe Salinas was working on a pool and clubhouse in northern Martin County when he was struck.
He was taken to Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart and transferred to St. Mary's Medical Center.
A rare tornado ripped through Hamburg on Thursday, causing travel chaos as many regional and long-distance train services were canceled.
German rail operator Deutsche Bahn had to shut down several lines in the north of the country, including its well-traveled lines from Hamburg to Berlin and Hannover, after strong winds blew trees and branches onto the tracks.
Regional train provider Metronom also said several of its services were facing similar disruptions while they worked to clear the tracks of trees and other debris.
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Two dozen people had to be rescued from a flooded parking lot in Georgia, where the water was chest-deep on Tuesday. Pictured, the water reaching up to the car's windows
Tropical Storm Cindy has claimed its first victim after a 10-year-old boy was struck by a log washed in by storm surge while he was on vacation with his family on the Alabama coast.
The storm's center, which is still off the coast of Louisiana, is expected to hit land by late Wednesday or early Thursday, before traveling north to Arkansas and east towards Tennessee.
More than 17 million people along the Gulf Coast are bracing themselves for life-threatening flash floods and scrambling to batten down the hatches as tropical storm warnings were issued in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Torrential downpour and winds nearing 60 miles per hour have already hit the region, and more than a foot of rain threatens southeastern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle by Thursday.
'It's kind of like a slow-motion disaster for us now. It's not wind, it's rain we're concerned about,' said Greg Flynn with the Mississippi Emergency Management Service.
Some brief power outages and several downed tree limbs were all that law enforcement had to report following Saturday's severe weather that hit northeast Missouri, but the real damage reports started rolling in Monday at local insurance offices.
The National Weather Service reported "Severe thunderstorms tracked across eastern Iowa, northeast Missouri, and north central Illinois Saturday afternoon and evening. Large hail, torrential rain, and damaging winds up to 65 mph were reported. Very large hail fell in Muscatine, IA and Antioch, MO, where golf ball and baseball size hail was reported respectively."
The heavy rains and high winds did minimal damage in Scotland County, but hail ranging in size from golf ball to as big as baseballs, was reported, leading to hundreds of claims for hail damage to vehicles, homes and businesses.
At least 11 people have died in western Guatemala after heavy rains caused a mudslide that swamped homes, spilled onto a highway and buried two buses early on Tuesday, emergency services said.
The buses were hit following the collapse of part of a hillside in the municipality of San Pedro Soloma, national disaster center Conred said in a statement.
Ten of the fatalities were in a bus that was buried, and another was inside one of the homes, Conred added. Nine people were injured, it said.
Emergency services were working with local officials to establish how many homes may have been buried and how many people are missing, the statement noted.
Heavy monsoon rains coupled with thunder and lightning on Monday claimed at least nine lives in several districts of Bengal, police said. Five persons from West Bengal's Hooghly district died after being struck by lightning while three more were injured, police said. "Three people from Chinsurah and two more from Dhaniakhali died due to lightning.
Three more from Chinsurah were also injured," Hooghly Superintendent of Police Sukesh Jain said. There were more deaths in East Burdwan district as heavy rains and lightning lashed the state on Monday evening.
With heavy rains lashing out continuously in since last evening, lightning claimed six lives in the past 24 hours. Another person succumbed to death in a wall collapse.
Heavy rain of 52 cms was recorded in Karimnagar where the downpour continued for three hours. Lakes and streams are already overflowing, roads seem to be waterlogged at various junctions.
While paddy and cotton farmers are content with the rains, drainage has caused a huge problem with overflowing water in Hyderabad with people living in these areas are finding it difficult to travel.
Lightning strikes have killed at least 22 people in Bangladesh in the last 48 hours, authorities said Tuesday, a week after monsoon rains triggered a series of deadly landslides in the country.
The deaths came as storms swept the country on Sunday and Monday, the head of the disaster management department Reaz Ahmed told AFP.
Among the dead were a couple and their young daughter who were were working on a peanut farm when they were struck by lightning.
Hundreds of people die every year from lightning strikes in Bangladesh and experts say climate change has exacerbated the problem.
They also blame deforestation and the loss of taller trees like palms that used to act as lightning conductors.
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