Southern #Switzerland hit with golf ball-sized #hailstones

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/southern-switzerland-hit-with-golf-ball-sized-hailstones/48763932

Possible #tornado kills 1 in #Switzerland

A strong storm tore through Switzerland on Monday that produced massive #hailstones the size of softballs and a potential tornado that is being blamed for at least one fatality.

By Adriana Navarro, AccuWeather staff writer

Published Jul 25, 2023 4:08 PM EDT | Updated Jul 25, 2023 4:08 PM EDT

"At least one person has died in Switzerland following a violent #storm that swept through central #Europe on Monday.

"Strong winds tore through the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds, located in the northwestern part of the country, on Monday morning, where the storm 'unfortunately caused the death of a person in their fifties following the fall of a building crane,' Neuchâtel local police said in a press release.

"In addition to the death, around 15 other people were injured and were treated by the emergency services. Their injuries were not life-threatening.

"A wind gust of about 135 mph (217 km/h) was recorded at the Swiss weather service's station at La Chaux-de-Fonds Monday morning 'under a thunderstorm cell that suddenly strengthened as it reached the region,' #MétéoSuisse said on Twitter.

"The country's weather service later said that a probable tornado associated with a rapidly developing storm cell along the #JuraMountains hit the town, causing violent gusts of wind and significant damage. Photos of the area following the storm showed significant roof damage."

Read more:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/possible-tornado-kills-1-in-switzerland/1563974

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Climate #Weather #ExtremeWeather

An impassable park and a flock of house martins in Valencia this morning. #111Words #HouseMartins #Birds #Valencia #Thunder #Hailstones https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-impassable-park-and-flock-of-house.html

Thanks to @wdefnews12 viewer Jason Hodge from #HixsonTN for a view of #hailstones from storms earlier Thursday afternoon.

Got storm pictures from this afternoon? Send them to News@WDEF.com

Last night's #hailstones in #dublin

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Hailstones, literally the size of #hailstones here in #Dolgellau tonight and all illuminated by flashes of #lightning and rolling #thunder.
#Cenllysg #Stormus #TaranAMellt

I went out and picked a bucket of flowers from my garden in the sleet. #melbourneweather is crazy at the moment and we had #hailstones!! It is November!!! I had to hunt back out my winter jumpers!

"Climate change could make giant hailstones more common, research suggests."

"In a 2021 paper in the Nature journal, scientists from Universität Bern, the University of New South Wales, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology investigated the impact of climate change on hailstorms."

“In most regions, hailstorm severity is expected to increase with climate change,” they concluded.."

#Climate #ClimateChange #Weather #Hail #Hailstones

https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/09/01/extreme-weather-climate-change-may-make-hailstones-bigger-research-warns