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The British Isles and other parts of northwestern Europe occasionally report thunder and lightning during sleet or (usually wet) snow showers during winter and spring. Scotland registered an episode of thundersnow in the early hours of 4 December 2020, the unusual noise causing alarm among local people. [ 7 ]
1.3 Fire. 1.4 Flood. 1.5 Oceans and bodies of water. ... Rain and snow mixed; Snow grains; Snow roller ... (ignition of wildfires is sometimes by lightning strike ...
The Frye Fire was a wildfire that burned 48,443 acres (19,604 ha) in Graham County, Arizona, United States, from June 7 to September 1, 2017.The fire was ignited by a lightning strike on Mount Graham, within the Coronado National Forest, and spread rapidly until it was mostly contained on July 12.
A winter storm emerging from the Rockies is forecast to bring rain, snow and ice to a large part of the U.S., ... Open up a cabinet (and that) allows more heat to get to the pipes."
Other physical injury can be caused by objects damaged or thrown by the lightning strike. For example, lightning striking a nearby tree may vaporize sap, and the steam explosion often causes bark and wood fragments to be explosively ejected. Lightning strikes can also induce a transient paralysis known as 'keraunoparalysis'. [3]
Although heat waves do not cause as much economic damage as other types of severe weather, they are extremely dangerous to humans and animals: according to the United States National Weather Service, the average total number of heat-related fatalities each year is higher than the combined total fatalities for floods, tornadoes, lightning ...
The Mount Lubra bushfire, also called the Mount Warrinaburb bushfire, was a bushfire, started by a lightning strike, that burnt approximately 184,000 hectares (450,000 acres) from late on 19 January 2006 until mid-February 2006 near The Grampians in, Victoria, Australia.
Jo Ann Robinson was a civil rights activist, whose name deserves a spot next to Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. After Parks’ iconic refusal to get up from her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., Robinson used the energy of that action to bring about even more change.