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Giant lightning bolt photographed in Toowoomba, Australia

Andrew Backhouse
Chinchilla News
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 20:23 UTC
Garry Wilkinson captured the stunning moment a giant lightning bolt hit Toowoomba.
© Garry WilkinsonGarry Wilkinson captured the stunning moment a giant lightning bolt hit Toowoomba.
An amateur photographer has captured the stunning moment a giant lightning bolt hit Toowoomba.

Garry Wilkinson captured the impressive photo last night to the south-west of Toowoomba.

The photo shows dark clouds looming over the city.

He snapped his photo from Glenvale just at the moment a huge bolt of lightning struck close to homes.

The Bureau of Meteorology had warned yesterday that storms could hit the city, but they bypassed Toowoomba, bringing hail to the east including Brisbane and Kilcoy.

Heavy rain did fall in parts of the city late last night.
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Floods, accidents and lightning strikes as storm hits Gauteng, South Africa


Eyewitness News
Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:55 UTC
N3 Gillooly's floods.
© Intelligence Bureau SA N3 Gillooly's floods.
Heavy rains in Gauteng have seen several car accidents, flooding on several roads and reports of lightning strikes.

Flooding in Bedfordview at the Gillooly's Interchange Traffic brought traffic to a standstill with some vehicles left submerged. Traffic was also brought to a standstill on the R24 westbound due to flash flooding while Boksburg, Rondebult and Northrand are also heavily flooded.


Lightning bolt strikes a palm tree in Bedfordview this afternoon. More here: https://t.co/n5KJY4NAsM pic.twitter.com/u9oFrS5Zsv

— Eyewitness News (@ewnupdates) November 9, 2016
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Huge hailstones and 3,000 lightning strikes hit Brisbane, Australia

Ollie Gillman
Daily Mail
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:31 UTC
Brisbane was battered by huge hailstones and more than 3,000 lightning strikes as fierce storms rolled into Queensland
Brisbane was battered by huge hailstones and more than 3,000 lightning strikes as fierce storms rolled into Queensland
Brisbane was battered by huge hailstones and more than 3,000 lightning strikes as fierce storms pounded south-east Queensland.

More than 2,000 homes were without power after the storm on Tuesday afternoon, which saw 18mm of rain fall in just 30 minutes.

Shocked residents filmed as massive hailstones crashed to the earth, with 5cm chunks of ice coming down in Ipswich, west of Brisbane.

The ferocious storm is the just the start of the bad weather in Queensland this week, with four more days of thunder and lightning ahead.

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Golf-ball sized hailstones batter southeast Queensland, Australia


9news.com.au
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:40 UTC
Large hail stones have pelted parts of Ipswich on Tuesday afternoon.
© BoM QueenslandLarge hail stones have pelted parts of Ipswich on Tuesday afternoon.
Golf-ball sized hailstones, damaging winds and a thunderstorm have hit southeast Queensland this afternoon.

Ipswich, the Scenic Rim and the Brisbane Valley were hit by winds of up to 30km/hr and "golf ball-sized" hail as a the powerful storm worked its way to Brisbane, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

"Hammered out in the west," social media user and Moggill resident Quentin Hull captioned a photograph of the deluge.

A car-owner in Collingwood Park used towels to protect their vehicle from the pelting hail.

"The wild weather is expected to pass through Brisbane this evening before reaching the coastline", BoM senior forecaster Sean Fitzgerald said.

High winds and hail are expected to deteriorate as the conditions move east.

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Deadly tornado strikes near Rome, Italy


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 19:33 UTC
tornado in Ladispoli, Italy
A tornado has hit the coastal town of Ladispoli, Italy, with local media reporting at least one person dead.

According to reports, a man died in hospital after being struck by falling building fragments. The tornado caused two of the floors in the eight story building to collapse in Via Ancona.

Il Messaggero says the victim was a 36 year old Pakistani man.

Two others have been injured. Shops, cars and trees have also suffered damage.

Locals have begun sharing images and video of the aftermath, with one woman showing a broken window frame inside her home.

Italy has been hit by powerful storms that have left branches strewn across roads and flooding in some areas. A road in Rome was partially closed to traffic due to large branches blocking some of the roadway.

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Lightning bolt kills farmer and injures 4 others in Sylhet, Bangladesh


The Financial Express
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 20:38 UTC
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A young farmer was killed and four others injured by a lightning strike at Hussainpur village in Balaganj upazila under Sylhet on Friday.

The deceased was identified as Amros Ali, 38, a resident of the village.

Police and witnesses said Amros along with some farmers was cultivating his land beside Kapna beel (wetland) in the area when a thunderbolt hit them around 10:00am, leaving Amros dead on the spot and four others injured.

The injured were admitted to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital, according to a news agency.

Source: ZR
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Lightning bolt kills pupil and injures 4 others in Zimbabwe

Winnie Masara and Patience Mutsiwi
The Chronicle (Zimbabwe)
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 20:17 UTC
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One pupil died while 19 others, including a teacher, were hospitalised following a lightning strike and destructive winds in Binga and Nkayi on Wednesday.

There was anxiety at a top prison in Gweru after some of its buildings, some of them cells housing up to 500 inmates, were destroyed in a storm on Thursday.

The prisoners slept outside on Thursday night and were busy yesterday trying to reconstruct the roofs over their cells.

A bolt of lightning struck four pupils and a teacher at Mabobolo Primary School in Binga.

One of the pupils died on admission at Kamativi Hospital while four others including the teacher were rushed to the same hospital with serious burns.
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Demon dog? 7-year-old girl recovering after unprovoked pit bull terrier attack in Charlotte, Noth Carolina

Coleen Harry
wbtv.com
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 14:25 UTC
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Briana Caviness has 55 stitches on her face, and nine more in her head. All the seven year old was doing was visiting and playing with her toys in her grandmother's front yard.

"It was like everything slowed down," said Phyllis Roary. "It was like a dream. It was unreal."

Roary said Briana and her other grand children were outside when someone at her neighbor's house opened the neighbor's front door and their pit bull ran outside, and went into Roary's yard.

Briana saw the dog too late.

"And when she looked up and she said nice doggy you come to play - that's when he grabbed her by the face and swung her" Roary said.

She said someone tried to kick the dog off Briana. The other kids ran and jumped on top off a jeep.

Their screams brought neighbors and relatives out.

Roary said her son, Briana's father, ran to his daughter.

"When I got out to the front door I saw my son throw the dog and the dog jumped up from there. My granddaughter was running to me. She said grand mommy he tore my face, he tore my face."
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Lightning bolt kills man and his 14 goats in Tamil Nadu, India

Padmini Sivarajah
The Times of India
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:05 UTC
​Lightning kills man, 14 goats in Tamil Nadu​
​Lightning kills man and his 14 goats in Tamil Nadu​
Lightning killed a man and 14 of his goats near Kovilpatti in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu on Friday evening.

Mariappan of Ganapathypatti village near Kovilpatti was herding his goats when heavy rain lashed the area.

Mariappan and his goats died on the spot when lightning struck them.

This is the second death due to lightning in the region after the northeast monsoon set in a few days ago.
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Stunning waterspout filmed near Amalfi, Italy

J.J. Gallagher
abcnews.go.com
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 16:37 UTC
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Tourists and locals taking in the view near the picturesque town of Positano on Italy's Amalfi Coast got a rare treat on Thursday.

A violent storm swept over the area, according to local media reports, and in its wake came a perfectly-formed waterspout. The term refers to small, weak tornadoes that form over water, according to the National Weather Service.

The weather phenomenon provided a dazzling sight before dissipating as it ran into land, causing no damages, according to local media.


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