Christopher Dexter Argus Leader Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:29 UTC
Streets were most deserted during Saturday's snowstorm, but not everyone stayed home.
You need only look outside your window to know that it's been quite a day in Sioux Falls.
Well, according to the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls, the day has been magnified by the trifecta of records broken by today's snowfall of 13.1 inches as of 11 p.m.
Four persons were killed in lightning strike as untimely rains lashed Umarkhed, Mahagaon, Darwha and Yavatmal today.
Four persons were killed and as many were injured after being struck by lightning at village Veni in Mahagaon tehsil of Yavatmal district this afternoon, officials said.
The victims had taken shelter under a tree during rain when the tragedy took place.
An ice storm pelting parts of southern Ontario has knocked out power to thousands of people and wreaked havoc on the roads.
A provincial police spokesman said more than 550 crashes had been reported in the Greater Toronto Area by late Saturday.
"We've got cars in the ditches, we've got cars on the concrete wall, we've got cars facing the wrong way," Kerry Schmidt said. "We've got problems all over the place."
A pall of gloom descended on Nuagaon village in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district after two persons were killed in lightning while they were cremating one of their fellow villager's body this afternoon.
According to reports, lightning struck Josen Majhi and Kuanra Soren when both of them among others villagers had taken one of their fellow villager's body to the shamshan ghat (cremation ground) to cremate his mortal remains.
Hearing the news, the local police rushed to the spot and took the bodies of Majhi and Soren to Betnoti Community Health Centre (CHC) for postmortem.
Following the tragic incident, the grief-striken villagers demanded compensation for the family members of the deceased persons.
Two tornadoes caused minor damage and flight delays in Florida
A round of strong storms hit Florida on Tuesday, sparking lightning that reportedly injured one person and spawning two confirmed tornadoes.
Two tornadoes were confirmed in Broward County on Tuesday. One tornado was in progress in downtown Fort Lauderdale and the other was spotted at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to the National Weather Service.
Both twisters were rated EF0 after damage surveys, the NWS also said.
In Palm Beach County, a reported twister whipped up winds that took down tree branches and toppled a lifeguard post at Lion Country Safari, according to the amusement park's Twitter page.
Southern Spain snows continue along with Morocco in the multiple foot range. We were fed that "Your Children will Never Know what Snow Is", now we get record late snows in these already warm locations. South Africa experiencing the same as Canada and the USA with cold smothering the grain belts with 10-20F below normal temperatures. Grand Solar Minimum grain staples price increases have begun.
Hudson Bay is still at 100% ice coverage with no end in sight of warm enough temperatures to allow melting to begin. Strangely the Canadian Ice Service has not updated any weekly ice coverage charts against 30 year average in their data sets. All other products are updated except that data set. Blizzard begins to rip across USA and Canada dropping temperatures along the storm front by 73 F. Another Atlantic Low heads toward UK and Europe.
A hailstorm hit Rajasthan on Wednesday evening, leading to the death of twelve people in Dholpur and five people in Bharatpur, reports ANI. Several others were injured, who are currently undergoing treatment.
Train movement along the Agra-Dholpur line was also affected by the hailstorm.
ANI further reports that the roads flanking the respective regions were completely water-logged as a result of the storm, making it difficult for the locals to commute.
The amount of large hail coming from our skies is increasing day by day. Now come in reports of arrow shaped hail. What these accounts have in common is that 2lb hail and arrows from the heavens match with accounts from the Maunder and Sporer Grand Solar Minimums. We have snow storms in Saudi Arabia in April, 23 feet of snow pack in Switzerland, massive injuring hail across India, Bangladesh and Nepal but the media is downplaying it as a one off. Now twice in a month a new world record hail stone is found.
Comment: A small selection of severe hailstorms and giant hail posted on SOTT.net from around the world during the last year include:
It is likely that atmospheric dust loading from increased comet and volcanic activity is contributing to these 'intense' or 'freak' hailstorms, the cooling effect of which causes ice crystals to form.
The weather in Morocco is raging. Heavy snowfalls, heavy rains and strong winds are forecast until Friday in several regions of the kingdom, says the National Meteorological Directorate (MND) in an alert bulletin.
Major snowfalls from 1,500 m are scheduled from Thursday from 18:00 to Friday at 24:00 in the provinces of Ifrane, Beni Mellal, Midelt, Khenifra, Azilal, Al Haouz, Sefrou, Boulemane, Taza, El Hajeb, Ouarzazate, Tinghir and Taroudant.
The course of life and labour reminds me of a long journey I once took on the railway. Suddenly, there was a breakdown ahead, and passengers took the event in various ways. Some of them sat still resignedly, and never said a word. Others again, went to sleep. But some of us leaped out of that train, and ran on ahead to clear the road of all obstructions.
- Michael Collins
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