• Tornado sweeps through Hamburg, Germany

    A powerful tornado has swept through the northeast Hamburg late Tuesday, June 7, 2016, blowing off the roofs of buildings, uprooting more than 50 trees, damaging cars and disrupting power supply. This is just one of many severe weather events in Germany over the…

  • Powerful tornado hits Venice, injures 2, Italy

    A powerful tornado has hit a beach in Venice, Italy on June 4, 2016, causing infrastructural damage and injuring two persons. The event started as a waterspout in the Chioggia marina around 06:30 UTC, before hitting a popular sandy beach, La Nuova Venezia reported….

  • Tornado hits Hainan leaving 1 dead and 11 injured, south China

    At least one person was killed and 11 others injured after a tornado hit the county-level city of Wenchang, south China's Hainan province on Sunday, June 5, 2016, local authorities said today. Four of the injured suffered serious injuries. According to the…

  • A rare sight: Twin tornadoes form in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    After severe thunderstorms and flooding that hit southern Germany last week, a rare weather phenomenon for Germany was observed and recorded in the country's north. On June 5, 2016, residents of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany,…

  • Wettest day in history of Vero Beach, Florida

    Severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rainfall swept through Vero Beach, Florida on May 17, 2016. The day was recorded as the wettest day in the history of the city, as two months worth of rainfall was received in one day. The widespread flooding was also…