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Twister: Video footage catches powerful tornado in southern Spain

While in Spain's capital, Madrileños were dealing with storms that closed the metro, flooded roads and washed cars away, reisdents of a town in Malaga were dealing with their own unusual weather phenonomen: A tornado!

Published: 27 August 2019 10:25 CEST
Twister: Video footage catches powerful tornado in southern Spain
Photo: MeteoCampillos / Twitter

Here it is caught on camera heading towards Campillos, a town in the hills above the Costa del Sol to the northwest of Malaga.

And here is the moment an electricity pylon was caught in the tornado..watch for the spark!

And from another angle:

 

The tornado brought down trees and electricty lines but no further damage was recorded.

Much of Spain was hit by electrical storms on Monday with more than 9,800 lightning strikes recorded across the country.

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Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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