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OK, who ordered the ice? Chinese pilots are forced to land plane 'blind' after hailstones smash windshields

Qin Xie
Daily Mail
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:25 UTC
Both windshields of the China Southern Airlines plane were severely damaged during a hail storm as it descended towards its destination of Chengdu
Both windshields of the China Southern Airlines plane were severely damaged during a hail storm as it descended towards its destination of Chengdu
A China Southern Airlines plane was severely damaged during a hail storm as it descended towards its destination of Chengdu.

The battering by hailstones caused multiple cracks across both windshields, obliterating the view and forcing the pilots to fly virtually 'blind'.

Fortunately, the crew managed to land the aircraft safely at the Chinese airport and there were no injuries reported.

According to AV Herald, the Airbus A320 was travelling from Guangzhou to Chengdu on July 9.

Flight CZ3483 encountered the hail storm as it descended towards the southern Chinese city.

AV Herald described the windshield as having become 'basically opaque'.

This meant the pilots had to navigate using their instruments rather than by sight.

The nose of the plane had most of its paint stripped off by the hailstones with the metal bodywork showing
The nose of the plane had most of its paint stripped off by the hailstones with the metal bodywork showing

Comment: See also: What's up with the weather? Huge hail stones damage multiple commercial planes

Rome to Milan plane encounters violent hailstorm, destroys its nose cone and shatters cockpit window

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Lightning bolt kills 2 children and injures 11 in Kenya

Irissheel Shanzu
Standard Digital
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:08 UTC
Lightning
Two children were over the weekend struck dead and 11 injured by lightning.

The Saturday afternoon incident that occurred during a heavy downpour also left a grass-thatched house in ashes.

The lightning also killed a calf that had been sheltered in the house. Kapkanyuk village in Lelan ward, West Pokot County, was plunged into mourning by the death of the two children.

Lelan ward MCA Paul Yaraki said the two boys aged 15 and 13 were sheltering in the house together with the 11 people who suffered injuries.

"A calf was also within the kitchen of the house. Immediately the lightning struck, the whole house went up in flames, burning the two boys and the calf. The rest managed to escape but with injuries," said Mr Yaraki.
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Super typhoon Nepartak: Six dead in China as tens of thousands flee storm


The Guardian (UK)
Mon, 11 Jul 2016 06:20 UTC
damage in China after super typhoon Nepartak
© Zhang Guojun/APA man walks over the wreckage of houses hit by super typhoon Nepartak in Putian city in Fujian province on Saturday.

Nearly 2,000 homes destroyed as storm brings chaos to China's south-eastern coast after hitting Taiwan

A tropical storm in China has killed six people, with at least eight more missing, reports said, after super typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan.

By late Sunday more than 200,000 residents in 10 mainland cities had been temporarily relocated and 1,900 homes destroyed, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the civil affairs ministry.

Power was cut for hundreds of thousands in the south-eastern province of Fujian, while five airports were closed and hundreds of high-speed train journeys cancelled, the Global Times newspaper reported on Monday.

The economic cost was estimated at 860m yuan ($129m).


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Hong Kong hit by 10,000 lightning flashes within 12 hours

Ernest Kao
South China Morning Post
Sun, 10 Jul 2016 11:07 UTC
Twelve hours of thunder, lightning and rain has the city talking about a night to remember
Twelve hours of thunder, lightning and rain has the city talking about a night to remember
The city was hit by a whopping 10,000 bolts of lightning during an epic 12-hour overnight thunderstorm, with even meteorologists taken aback by the intensity.

Hong Kong residents were barely starting to cool down from the hottest July day in half a century when the Observatory issued a thunderstorm warning at 6.45pm on Saturday, alerting the public to seek shelter and get off high ground.

In more than five hours up to 12am, the Observatory recorded 5,905 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, most of them hitting Lantau Island and the New Territories. An amber rainstorm warning was issued on top of that at 9.55am, as downpours lashed parts of Hong Kong with more than 30 millimetres of rain.


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3 inch hailstones bombard Glen Arbor, Michigan

Mark Torregrossa
mlive.com
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 12:10 UTC
Large hail churning the waters of Lake Michigan around 11 a.m., July 8, 2016.
© Paul May Large hail churning the waters of Lake Michigan around 11 a.m., July 8, 2016.
A severe hail storm formed over Lake Michigan and moved onshore in Leelanau County July 8, 2016.

There were official reports of three inch hail in the Glen Arbor area around 11 a.m. July 8, 2016.

Here is a video shot by Pete Kurty at the Homestead in Glen Arbor. You are looking at the Crystal river as it is bombarded by large hail.

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62 killed and 140 injured by lightning strikes since mid-April in Nepal


The Kathmandu Post
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:28 UTC
Lightning
As many as 109 people have been killed—47 in landslides and flooding and 62 in lightning bolts—and 197 others have been injured in such natural disasters since April 13, Minister for Home Affairs Shakti Basnet told Parliament on Friday.

According to the data prepared by the Ministry of Home Affairs, lightning was the leading cause of death across the country and Makawanpur and Dhading are the districts where the highest number of casualties by lightning was recorded.

According to Basnet, 121 cases of flood and landslide were reported during the period. At least 16 persons from around a dozen districts have gone missing. Similarly, 112 houses have been destroyed, while 160 houses have been partially damaged due to rain-induced disasters.
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Lightning bolt kills three people in Bangladesh


bdnews24.com
Sat, 09 Jul 2016 10:20 UTC
Lightning
Three people in Amtali Tea Estate in Bahubal of Habiganj have been killed by lightning, police say.

The dead include brothers Sanjay Ura, 22, and Dipak Ura, 14, and their neighbour, 'Rajni', whose age could not be known immediately.

All three were labourers at the tea estate. Another, 'Biplob', 14, was injured and rushed to Habiganj Sadar Hospital for treatment.

Confirming the incident, Bahubal OC Mollah Monir Hussain said that tragedy struck in the form of lightning at 8pm on Friday and led to the instant death of the three.

The brothers were at home when the lightning struck, the OC said.
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2 tornadoes hit Eureka, Kansas causing widespread damage


KMBC Kansas City
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 20:05 UTC
Eureka tornado damage
© YouTube/KMBC 9 News Kansas City (screen capture)
The National Weather Service says two tornadoes ripped through southeast Kansas late Thursday, causing widespread damage in a small town.

No injuries have been reported.

The National Weather Service said Friday preliminary information shows that an EF2 tornado hit Eureka, a town of roughly 2,600 residents east of Wichita. The tornado damaged about 50 homes and businesses, including the Eureka Nursing Center.

The weather service also says the early data shows that another EF3 tornado hit northwest of Eureka late Thursday.


Comment: According to the National Weather Service, the EF-3 tornado that hit Eureka on Thursday was only the fifth EF-3 tornado to strike in Kansas in the month of July since 1950.

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Devastating storms hit Extremadura, Spain; crops destroyed by hurricane winds and hail


Spanish News Today
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:11 UTC
Floodwater in Spain
© EFE
Crops destroyed in Extremadura by hurricane winds and hailstorms

Much of Spain was affected by a string of thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday, with thunder and lightning accompanied by sometimes heavy rain and hailstorms on an axis running from the south-west of the country through to central northern areas.

Some of the worst of the weather was suffered in the region of Extremadura, where rain, hailstorms and hurricane-force winds destroyed crops over an area of 10,000 hectares in the Vegas Altas and La Serena areas. At the same time streets were flooded in the province of Badajoz (see image taken in the municipality of Villanueva de la Serena) in what the Mayor of Villanueva, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, described as "the perfect storm".
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Lightning kills 7 buffaloes in India


The Times of India
Fri, 08 Jul 2016 11:08 UTC
Lightning
Seven buffaloes were killed by lightning strikes in a jungle above Bhanara village of Manali late on Tuesday night, said sources.

However, the owner of the buffaloes got to know about this only on Wednesday morning. Roshal Lal, a resident of Mandi district , said he was sleeping in his tent near the pasture, when the lightning occurred during a thunderstorm.
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