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Lightning kills 35 in eastern India Patna, India (AFP) June 29, 2009 
At least 35 people including eight children were killed after they were struck by lightning in the adjoining eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, officials said Monday. Around 18 people were killed late Sunday by bolts of lightning across Bihar, including six children, State Disaster Management Minister Devesh Chand Thakur said. "The children were playing in the pre-monsoon show ... read moreDry Autumns And Winters May Lead To Fewer Tornadoes In The Spring 
Athens GA (SPX) Jun 29, 2009Global warming will likely mean more unpredictable weather, scientists say, and a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia pins down, possibly for the first time, how drought conditions in an area's fall and winter may effect tornado activity the following spring. The study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, is specific to Georgia and the Southeast ... more
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Lightning kills five Cambodians in a day: newspaper
Phnom Penh (AFP) June 28, 2009Lightning strikes killed five people in Cambodia in a single day, a local newspaper reported Sunday. Two people were killed in Kampot province, in Cambodia's south, while three were killed in the central provinces of Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Speu, according to the newspaper Rasmei Kampuchea Daily. It said four of the victims, all killed on Friday, were farmers working in the fields ... more Stormy weather leaves 1,200 homeless in Cape Town 
Cape Town (AFP) June 25, 2009Storms, driving rain and gale force winds have battered Cape Town, leaving some 1,200 people homeless after flooding in shanty towns, South African disaster management officials said Thursday. "We had heavy downpours and in our informal settlements we had about 600 dwellings that have been affected, leaving about 1,200 people seeking temporary shelter," disaster management spokeswoman ... more More than 100 reported dead in Indian heatwave 
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) June 25, 2009An acute heatwave roasting much of India has claimed at least 100 lives, with more deaths feared because the annual monsoon rains have yet to come, officials said Thursday. In the eastern state of Orissa, at least 58 people have died due to sunstroke since April, disaster management official Durgesh Nandini Sahoo told AFP in the state capital Bhubaneswar. Local newspapers have reported ... more Eight dead as storm sweeps Philippines: govt 
Manila (AFP) June 25, 2009At least eight people were killed while 12 others remained missing after tropical storm Nangka swept through the central and northern Philippines, officials said on Thursday. The dead and missing were mostly fishermen whose boats were damaged at sea or who were washed away by floods. The storm also forced more than 44,000 people to flee their homes due to rising waters, the civil defence ... more |
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Lightning kills young couple on China's Great Wall: report
Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2009A young Chinese couple were killed by a lightning strike as they climbed a rugged part of the Great Wall near Beijing, state media reported Sunday. The two, both aged 27, were in a group of five visiting the Great Wall Saturday despite thunder and strong rainfall, the Beijing News reported. When the couple were hit by the lightning they fell about 30 metres (yards) down a slope, and were ... more Scientists Use High-Energy Particles From Space To Probe Thunderstorms 
Melbourne FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2009Florida Institute of Technology researchers are trying to solve one of the great mysteries in nature: how thunderstorms make lightning. Because, in principle, lightning is a big spark it should behave like other sparks-like the ones created when we touch a door knob on a dry day. Scientists have accumulated evidence, however, that lightning sometimes behaves in very un-spark-like ways. ... more Five killed as storms batter northern Vietnam 
Hanoi (AFP) May 28, 2009Five people, including three children, were killed as heavy rain lashed Vietnam's northern Nghe An province, an official said Thursday. "The five were killed in a landslide overnight on Tuesday in the Yen Tinh district," said Vi Van Hoi, vice-president of Tuong Duong district council. "More than 800 millimetres (31 inches) of rain has fallen on the province over the last few days and it ... more Purdue Swept Up In Largest Tornado Field Study In History 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 26, 2009Purdue University researchers could improve tornado warnings and unveil trends in their occurrences as part of the largest tornado and storm field study in history. A project led by Jeff Trapp, an associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, is part of the second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment, or VORTEX 2, field study. The more than $9 mill ... more |
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