Here again are some weather-related stories from around the world during the past couple days which you may not have heard. But first - I got this beautiful lightning strike last night over the mountain behind my house (videocaptured from VHS). There will be eventually a report up there but until then here's the lone pic I had time to grab tonight: http://www.weatherwatchers.org/1998/0505/Image6.jpg Now on to the "newsworthy" news: Rare Tornadoes in San Francisco http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/1998/may/05/050500692.html Thousands of Houses Flooded In Russia http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=2550322&p_section_name=&p_art_type=191619&p_subcat=Disasters+%26+Tragedies&p_category=Earth $25 Million In Claims to Insurance For April's Severe Weather in US http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=2549050&p_section_name=On+Target&p_art_type=191619 Lightning Kills One and Injures Several National Guardsmen in Tents http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=2545157&p_section_name=On+Target&p_art_type=191619&p_subcat=lightning&p_category= -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org "And here a twister comes... here comes the twister." --Talking Heads || ICQ No. 136862 ||