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Severe Weather Discussion => Tornado Alley Outbreaks and Severe Weather Worldwide => Topic started by: australiasevereweather on 17 June 2009, 03:00:06 PM

Title: Storm Freak Beijing storm turns day into night
Post by: australiasevereweather on 17 June 2009, 03:00:06 PM

Freak Beijing storm turns day into night


Day turned into night as a freak storm swept across the Chinese capital Beijing.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/16/2599875.htm

Title: Re: Storm Freak Beijing storm turns day into night
Post by: David C on 18 June 2009, 04:18:50 AM

Quote from: australiasevereweather on 17 June 2009, 03:00:06 PM

Freak Beijing storm turns day into night


Day turned into night as a freak storm swept across the Chinese capital Beijing.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/16/2599875.htm (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/16/2599875.htm)

and in Shanghai last week, a hail storm reportedly killed 23 people >> http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_387932.html (http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_387932.html)

and the week before that another storm killed 16 >>  http://english.cctv.com/20090605/101384.shtml (http://english.cctv.com/20090605/101384.shtml)

Title: Re: Storm Freak Beijing storm turns day into night
Post by: Jimmy Deguara on 18 June 2009, 09:31:53 AM

David,

Noted this earlier - what's that as a percentage of the total population! Nevertheless, is it their turn to get severe storms like Europe!

David, are there any satellite or radar imagery available that depicts these storms as supercells (assuming such storms would be).

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Title: Re: Storm Freak Beijing storm turns day into night
Post by: Antonio (stormboy) on 03 August 2009, 11:24:53 AM

im not to sure if you are interested but here is a video from someone taping the storm earlier in the week .
Beijing Storm pt.4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqzCWsh1BQ&feature=related#lq-hq)
storm boy