Storms and Floods

Landslide in Umbria, Italy

Landslide in central Umbria, Italy has injured twenty five people. The train traveling towards the city of Perugia got derailed by landslide.

Tropical Cyclone Imelda

Tropical Cyclone Imelda forms in the southern Indian Ocean 490 nm west-southwest of Diego Garcia. It is forecast to cause a potential threat to Mauritius.

Other News:

Albanian authorities say continuous rainfall is hampering efforts to address severe flooding that has left hundreds of homes swamped and without electricity or drinking water for the past three weeks.

Floods sweep across several Russian regions, people evacuated. Hundreds of people have been forced from their homes, their houses ‘particularly flooded’, in a number of Russian regions where river floods have intensified over the past 24 hours due to record snowfalls.

Tornado near Denver, in Colorado, USA has destroyed one mobile house and damaged two others.

Hailstorms with hail from 1 to 2 inches diameter hit Trego, Ellis and Rush counties in northwest Kansas, USA.

Wildfires

A wildfire driven by strong winds has forced the evacuation of the tiny town of Crookston in northern Nebraska. Wildfires also burning in Boone, Cherry, Fillmore, Holt, Knox, Merrick and Nance counties across Nebraska, accounting for an estimated 58,000 acres.

Wind-fueled wildfire wipes out the small North Dakota town of Bucyrus; 27 people displaced.

Air tankers are being called in as wildfires in southwestern Colorado continue to threaten homes.

Storms and Floods

Tornadoes in Mississippi and Arkansas, USA leave thousands without power. Severe storms in Mississippi and Arkansas toppled trees and damaged mobile homes, leaving thousands of residents in the dark across the states. At least seven people were injured by the storms as they crossed through Mississippi. Meanwhile, crews in Denver, Colorado, are working to restore electricity after high winds knocked down powerlines.

A satellite image of decaying typhoon, tropical storm Prapiroon, shows a massive swirl and a rarely observed “street” of mini-swirls. These vortices in the western Pacific adjacent to one another are examples of a decaying typhoon and a phenomenon known as a "von Karman vortex street".

 

Prapiroon is no threat to land, safely positioned 325 nautical miles south of Yokosuka, Japan and is headed out to sea.

Wildfires

Wildfires are burning near Rocky Mountain National Park in northern and southwest Colorado, USA.

Floods and Storms

Typhoon Saola dumps torrents of rain on the Philippines. 7 people have been reported to have died with several others missing. 40 000 people in Manila evacuated.

More heavy rain in an already flooded North Korea causes more flooding.

25 people die in a mudslide in a China mine.

Tornado hits near the summit of Mount Evans in the Colorado mountains, USA.