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Tropical storm Linfa brings flooding and landslides to Philippines

Manuel Mogato
Reuters
Mon, 06 Jul 2015 02:07 UTC
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© ReutersA father holds his daughter as they wade through waist-deep flooding caused by typhoon Linfa, locally named Egay, at Longos town in Malabon city, north of Manila, on July 6, 2015.
All shipping was ordered to remain in harbor and some flights were canceled in the northern Philippines, while schools were closed in the capital, Manila, on Monday due to flooding and landslides from a tropical storm, disaster officials said.

Storm warnings were issued in at least 14 areas of the main Philippine island of Luzon as tropical storm Linfa moved slowly across the north of the Southeast Asian archipelago. It was carrying maximum wind gusts of 100 km per hour (60 mph).

Alexander Pama, executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, said the storm would bring heavy rain within a 400-km (250 miles) radius. The storm was named Egay in the Philippines.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning storms hit UK: Map shows the astounding number of strikes

Alexander Sehmer
The Independent
Sat, 04 Jul 2015 10:13 UTC
lightning storm map of UK
Spectacular lightning storms were witnessed across the UK
If you were kept awake last night by lightning storms, you weren't alone.

Spectacular thunder and lightning shows were witnessed across the UK - by some estimates there were as many as 30,000 lightning strikes.

The image above from LightningMaps.org shows just some of them from midnight on Friday.



Comment: The storms have claimed three lives after two hill walkers were struck by separate lightning bolts and a boy died after getting into trouble in a river.

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Windsock

2 waterspouts form near La Union, Philippines

Andrei Medina
gmanetwork.com
Sat, 04 Jul 2015 15:43 UTC
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Two waterspouts were caught by a resident in Aringay, La Union during inclement weather there, a report from GMA's "24 Oras" said Saturday.

According to the residents who took the video footage, they first saw one of the waterspouts at sea and was approaching their houses.

They then saw another, larger waterspout building up and seemingly sucking water from the sea nearby.

The waterspouts fortunately did not pass through their houses and no one was reported hurt during the incident.

According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, waterspouts are tornados that form over water "They are associated with severe thunderstorms, and are often accompanied by high winds and seas, large hail, and frequent dangerous lightning," NOAA also said on its website

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Waterspout destroys four houses in northern Philippines

Pamela Jay F. Orias and Lynyrd Aleksei N. Corrales
sunstar.com
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:29 UTC
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A waterspout destroyed four houses in a coastal village in Misamis Oriental early Monday morning.

The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) reported that the waterspout that hit Purok 2, Barangay Tubigan, Initao town, also injured three people.

Sixteen other houses were damaged and 20 families were affected.

The injured were identified as 57-year-old Ricardo Bebangco, his wife Helen, 52, and their 13-year-old son Crilfel. They were treated at the Misamis Oriental Provincial Hospital in Initao, said Fernando Vincent Dy Jr., PDRRMO officer-in-charge.

Pag-asa weather specialist Mario Guya said waterspouts are normally associated with weather disturbances such as the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which is bringing rain to Misamis Oriental.

The waterspout left P315,000 in property damage and P36,500 in crop damage, according to the PDRRMO.

"We sent food packs to the families and currently, our team is still looking for temporary shelters," Dy said.
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Cloud Lightning

Spectacular storm in north-east England halts electricity to 40,000 homes

Mark Tran
The Guardian
Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:03 UTC
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© Owen Humphreys/PAA lightning storm hits Blyth on the Northumberland coast following the hottest July day on record.
Engineers are working to reconnect hundreds of households in north-east England hit by a power cut in a lightning storm during Wednesday's searingly hot temperatures.

The thunderstorm left 40,000 homes without electricity in parts of North Yorkshire, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland. Northern Powergrid said power had been restored to 32,500 of its customers by 7pm and work was continuing to make sure the rest were connected by Thursday afternoon.

Spectacular lightning swept across northern England and Scotland after the hottest July day on record in many places. Scores of motorists pulled over to watch as the storm moved up the Pennines. In Sheffield, people drove out of the city to watch a huge cloud flash with almost continuous lightning but without thunder or rain.

In the village of Worrall, Rick Taylor said: "I've not seen anything like this before, it's amazing. It's exactly like that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the spaceship is approaching."

Elsewhere, huge hailstones caused damage in parts of North Yorkshire and County Durham and the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation even issued a tornado warning for parts of the Midlands.

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Cloud Lightning

Heavy rains, high winds and tornadoes rage across state of Missouri

Ben Klayman
Reuters
Thu, 02 Jul 2015 17:28 UTC
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© kmov.comFlash flooding near Soulard Farmer's Market in St. Louis, Missouri July 1
Missouri officials on Thursday said one person was dead and at least two more were missing after heavy rains, high winds and tornadoes raged across the state overnight.

Emergency crews found the body of one person who appeared to have been swept from their vehicle in flash flooding south of St. Louis, Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman Al Nothum said. Crews were still searching for at least two more people missing after their vehicles were found in the waters, he said.

Floodwater also breached a levee near the small community of Festus, Missouri, south of St. Louis, flooding two mobile home parks and forcing water rescues for more than 60 people as up to six inches of rain fell overnight, according to the National Weather Service. Three people were injured and taken to a hospital during the evacuation, according to officials.
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Hailstones pound Delta 747 over China

Jim Hammerand
bizjournals.com
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:39 UTC
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© Brian WalkerHail smashed the radome of this Delta 747
Another former Northwest Airlines Boeing 747 left an Arizona boneyard for Minneapolis, where it is likely being prepared to unretire and replace the ice-battered jumbo jet that took passengers on a wild ride.

A mothballed Delta Air Lines Boeing 747 is at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and likely under maintenance to replace another 747 that was damaged by hail while flying over China.

The damaged plane, a 26-year-old Boeing 747-400, was dubbed "The Spirit of Beijing" by Eagan-based Northwest Airlines Corp. before Delta bought the airline in 2008.

Registered as tail No. N664US, the plane was flying from Detroit to Seoul two weeks ago when it encountered a hailstorm. It's not clear whether the jet will return to service(Delta is phasing out its 747 fleet by 2017).

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© Brian WalkerMore hail damage can be seen where the wing joins the fuselage.
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Umbrella

Waterspout seen off Clearwater Beach, Florida


wfla.com
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:55 UTC
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© Ken Watts A waterspout formed near Clearwater Beach on Tuesday.
A Clearwater firefighter captured an amazing photo of a waterspout.

Kent Watts snapped a photo of the waterspout over Clearwater Beach on Tuesday morning. The waterspout was in the northern part of the beach. The photo clearly shows the waterspout with the beach and a volleyball court in the foreground. The waterspout later dissipated and did not make landfall.

Storm Team 8 Meteorologist Leigh Spann says waterspouts develop during certain weather conditions in the Tampa Bay area. "They are more common when we get wind flow off the Gulf of Mexico," said Spann.

A News Channel 8 viewer also submitted a photo of the waterspout. Don Stansell sent a photo of the waterspout near Clearwater Beach that was taken around 10 a.m.

Waterspouts are called tornadoes once they make landfall.
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Cloud Lightning

Lightning strike kills hiker, injures several others at Mogollon Rim, Arizona

Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
The Arizona Republic
Mon, 29 Jun 2015 19:58 UTC
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A lightning strike killed a young woman and injured several more people as they tried to seek shelter during a thunderstorm near the Mogollon Rim Saturday, according to a Coconino County Sheriff's Office release.

Deputies, along with United States Forest Service officers and crews from the Blue Ridge Fire Department and Forest Lakes Fire Department, responded to the call about 30 miles northeast of Strawberry.

Crews took a considerable amount of time to reach the hikers in a remote area north of Rim Road in Blue Ridge area.

When they arrived, they found a 24-year-old woman dead and seven other people suffering varying injuries.

The hiking group left the Phoenix area Friday evening and were traveling to the Mogollon Rim area to hike and camp. On Saturday, the group was hiking when a severe thunderstorm began to move through the area.
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Lightning strikes kills 5 farmers in Adilabad district, India

S. Harpal Singh
The Hindu
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 19:03 UTC
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Lightning struck at different places in Adilabad District and killed five farmers and agriculture labourers and injured three others on Tuesday afternoon when a spell of heavy rain lashed several parts. While four deaths took place in Koutala mandal, one labourers died in Kagaznagar mandal.

According to information, the farmers and labourers busy in sowing soyabean and cotton in respective fields were caught off guard in the sudden downpour at around 3.30 p.m. The deceased were dientified as Routhu Uddhav, 40, and Kangla Mangala, aged 30 years belonging to Thatipalli village, Punjari Parvathi, 30, of Chintala Manepalli and Routhu Venkati of Babasagar, all from Koutala village.

The identity of the persons who died at Kareguda in Kagaznagar mandal was yet to be established. This is the first time in the district that so many deaths have taken place due to lightning on the same day.
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