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40-min hailstorm leaves a trail of destruction in Mathura, India

Amit Bhattacharya
The Times of India
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:47 UTC
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© Arun KumarMassive pieces of hail caused damage to crops in Mathura district's villages.
It was 3.30pm on Friday. The hailstorm started suddenly as Bhura Singh Meena of Bilauthi village in Mathura district was working in his field. "The hailstones were pretty big and hurting. We ran for cover to the local school," said Meena.

The storm subsided in a few minutes but what happened next is something Meena hasn't seen in his 60-odd years. It started again, but this time there was no rain, just hail. "It was like hard white balls falling from the sky," he said.

Three spells of hail took place in a span of around 40 minutes in the district. The storm started over Vrindavan and move north-northwest leaving a trail of smashed car windshields, hole-ridden asbestos roofs, scores of dead birds and animals as well as injured people. A house in Nagla Imam Khan village collapsed, killing two persons.

"Hailstones weighing up to 1kg fell during the storm," said district revenue official Ranvir Singh. There was no way of confirming the claim, but thousands of hectares of flattened wheat fields through the district told their own tale of the storm's fury.

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Cloud Lightning

Tornado touches down in Tennessee, damages roofs and buildings


Times Free Press
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:00 UTC
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© elperiodicomediterraneo.comA tornado captured on film
A tornado touched down in Williamson County damaging some roofs and outbuildings, snapping trees and blowing a carport down a hill.

The Tennessean reports the National Weather Service designated the Friday afternoon tornado an EFO -- the smallest rating on the Enhanced Fujita scale.

Meteorologists said it touched down between 5:22 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., reaching wind speeds of up to 85 miles per hour. Its damage path was 5.6 miles long and 75 yards wide.

Comment: For more on the nature of tornadoes and other air-spiral phenomena, check out the book "Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection":
Electricity seems to play a major role in air spiral phenomena, including hurricanes. To better understand these electric phenomena, let's first consider lightning, which, as we will soon see, is closely related to hurricanes, depressions, tornadoes and their accompanying cloud masses.[...]

Hurricanes are to sea surface what lightning bolts are to ground surface. They are both caused by upward electron flows and they both rebalance elctric charges by returning electrons to the ground: rainfall in the case of hurricanes, lightning in the case of electrical storms.


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Cloud Lightning

Tornado touches down near Ider, Alabama

Ben Benton
Times Free Press
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:07 UTC
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The National Weather Service and DeKalb County emergency management officials confirm an EF-1 tornado touched down Friday night near Ider, Ala., damaging a handful of homes while leaving residents unharmed.

"We got a little bit of damage, but it was major to the individuals that were affected," DeKalb County Emergency Management Agency deputy director Michael Posey said early Monday. "We had five homes that were impacted in some form; two of those sustained major damage. There were no injuries."

The small storm hit the Sand Mountain community of Cartersville, just north of the town of Ider, a little before 10:30 p.m. CDT Friday.

National Weather Service meteorologist Jennifer Saari said the tornado had estimated winds of 105 mph and cut a path about 75 yards wide for a little more than two miles.
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Cloud Precipitation

At least 5,000 birds killed by hailstorm in Bangladesh


The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:24 UTC
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© StarA large number of birds lie dead at Moukori village in Shailakupa upazila under Jhenidah district as hailstorm lashed the area yesterday.
20 hurt, 500 houses damaged, 5,000 birds also killed as the seasonal storm hits Kushtia, Jhenidah

Nor'wester lashed Kushtia and Jhenidah districts yesterday, leaving two people killed and 20 others injured.

The deceased are Nisarunnesa, 55, of Baghdanga village, and Rahela Khatun, 65, of Afzalpur in Kushtia Sadar upazila, reports our correspondent.

Locals said the two died when the sheds of their houses collapsed on them during the storm that lashed Baghdanga and Afzalpur villages at around 3:30am.

Deputy Commissioner Syed Belal Hossain visited the areas in the morning.

A number of houses in the areas were also damaged by the storm, said the DC.

Away in Jhenidah, a storm hit over 50 villages in Shailakupa upazila of the district early yesterday, leaving at least 20 people injured and damaging around 500 houses.

Of the injured, 11 were admitted to the upazila health complex while the rest given first aid, reports our correspondent.

The affected villages include Mirzapur, Diknagar, Kacherkool, Sarutia, Hakimpur and Monohorpur.

At least 5000 birds of different species also died during the storm that lasted for about 30 minutes from 4:00am, said locals.
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Blizzard in Mongolia leaves one dead and 98 lost

M.Zorjargal
ubpost.mongolnews.mn
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:13 UTC
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Cars stuck in snow, Mongolia.
Heavy snowfall and blizzard left 98 people lost, 140 cars and more households covered in snow, and numerous livestock dead nationwide last week.

A total of 98 people were reported missing in Arkhangai, Dundgovi, Uvurkhangai, Tuv, Uvs and Bulgan Provinces. From them, 96 were found safe while one was found dead and one is still missing.

Dundgovi Province Police reported that the last missing person to be found is a 50-year-old herder of Erdenedalai soum, who was reported missing during a blizzard while herding. He was found far from his home in another soum, Luus.

The herder said he found a winter quarter of another herder and took shelter until the blizzard died.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning bolt kills 5, injures 18 at Easter mass, Tanzania


ippmedia.com
Tue, 07 Apr 2015 12:53 UTC
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Lightning struck while Easter Mass was in progress at a Tanzania Assemblies of God church in Chato District, Geita District, leaving five people dead and 18 injured.

Geita Regional Police Commander Joseph Konyo confirmed the incident, saying those killed are Daud Medard (20), Daud Lazaro (20), Saimon Marco (15), Haile Shija (20) and Monica Sumuni (19).

He said four of the injured are admitted to Bwanga Dispensary, naming three of them as Mabula Mathias (8), Fabian Ezekiel (10) and Edina Leonard (21) and adding that the identity of the fourth was yet to be established.

Doctor In-charge at the dispensary Deogratias John, confirmed having received the 18 injured, saying 14 of them were discharged the very day they were admitted but the remaining four are still getting treatment at the health facility.

Commenting on the incident, the Councillor of the ward, Mahobe Chiza, said the incident was one of its kind to have taken place during Easter festivities.
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Cloud Precipitation

Massive flooding in Kentucky leads to declaration of a statewide emergency


WLKY
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:07 UTC
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Storms cause major flooding in Kentucky
Gov. Steve Beshear has declared a statewide emergency allowing officials immediately access to resources to assist in public safety and recovering efforts.

"We have reports of heavy damage in some areas of the state already, but the threat of thunderstorms and further flooding has not cleared Kentucky yet," Beshear said. "By declaring a state of emergency for the entire state, we can deploy any needed state assistance, such as National Guard troops, without delay."

Comment: Kentucky's massive storms are part of a much bigger picture. Check out: SOTT Earth Changes Video Summary - March 2015: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, and Meteor Fireballs

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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strikes kill 3 Chittagong, Bangladesh


Dhaka Tribune
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 16:46 UTC
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Three people including two fishermen and a farmer have been killed by separate lightning strikes in Chittagong city's Sadarghat area and district's Boalkhali upazila.

The deceased were Md Kabir Hossen, 30, son of Dowlat Mia and Md Mofiz, 26, son of Abu Samad, and Abdul Baki, 60, said police sources.

Nayek Jahangir Alam of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) police outpost said a thunderbolt struck on five fishermen at Fishery Ghat Jetty No 1 area of Sadarghat under Kotwali police station at around 12:00pm on Monday while they were sewing fishing net near the bank of Karnaphuli River.

In critical condition the five were rushed to the CMCH where the on duty doctors declared Kabir and Mufiz dead, added Nayek Jahangir.

The other injured fishermen Amir Hossen, 32, Helal, 22 and Sona Mia 22, were admitted to CMCH.

In another incident, Abdul Baki was killed when a lightning hit him when he was working in his farm near his house at Hazirpara of Boalkhali upazila.

Mohammed Soaib Reja, Chairman of No 7 Charondip Union under the upazila said a lightning struck on him when he was working at his farmland at Hazipara area, leaving the person dead at around 1:30pm.
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Lightning bolt kills three on boat in Kolkata, India

Rupak Banerjee
The Times of India
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 14:19 UTC
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Three persons were killed and 12 were seriously injured when lightning struck a boat carrying 20 pilgrims from Belur Math in Howrah to Dakshineswar in North 24-Parganas across the river on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened near Nivedita Setu, a bridge parallel to the old rail bridge across the River Hooghly, near Bally Badamtala around 3.35pm.

Other boats, which were passing through the route, immediately informed police and fire brigade. A team from Bally police station rushed to the spot and rescued the passengers of the thunder-struck boat.

The pilgrims were rushed to Belur Shramajibi Hospital, where three were declared brought dead. They are Bikash Kaiputra (27), Panchu Kaiputra (45) and Seema Kaiputra (32). All of them are from the same family.
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UFO on video during lightning storm in Nebraska

Justin Berk
Just In Weather
Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:00 UTC
Nebraska UFO
I understand the title alone about a UFO on video is an attention grabber and may spark the conspiracy theorists. But I hope that my reputation stands up here and what I am sharing has been scrutinized: A UFO appears out of a storm! My purpose is not to sensationalize but rather simply get an explanation of what was captured on video.

I even watched this with my father over the holiday weekend, who is a long time scientist that does not jump to conclusions. We agreed this unexplained description justifies what was seen on video during a lightning storm in Nebraska on April 2, 2015. KeriLeigh Shriver was riding (in the passenger seat) between Alma and Republican City and used her phone to try and get some of the lightning on video. The strange object that appears in the upper right corner seems to be at a low altitude and traveling very fast. It is cylindrical, spiraling, and appears out of nowhere with disappearing trail. The resolution is grainy, but this seems legit- NOT a hoax. In fact this fits with objects that many have captured on video for over a decade.

A documentary video about Rods, or the Extra Dimentional Skyfish mystery seems to fit this. That video is at the bottom of this post. Before you laugh or snort in derision, the start of that documentary includes weather video from a local TV station in Albany, NY in 2002, and another from tornado coverage across Oklahoma City in 1999 both showing something similar.


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