Severe thunderstorms swept through several Eastern states.
At least five people were killed; four of them were killed after a tornado destroyed homes in upstate New York.
The disaster also destroyed and damaged a lot of houses and caused a power cut off to nearly 200,000 people.
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People sort through debris of a destroyed house after Tuesday night’s storm, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Smithfield, N.Y. The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado destroyed the homes in upstate New York where four people were killed. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
People sort through debris after Tuesday night’s storm, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Smithfield, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Debris from Tuesday’s storm sits along a road on Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Smithfield, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Debris from Tuesday’s storm sits along a road on Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Smithfield, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
People sort through debris of a destroyed house after Tuesday night’s storm, on Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Smithfield, N.Y. The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado destroyed the homes in upstate New York where four people were killed. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
A downed tree lays atop a crushed car Wednesday, July 9, 2014, in Philadelphia. About 228,000 homes and businesses across Pennsylvania remain without power after severe thunderstorms raced across the state. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Passing motorist Charles Jenkins, right, helps Lynchburg firefighters move branches of a tree that was blown over during the storm, blocking the southbound lanes of U.S. 501 through Lynchburg, Va. Thursday, June 13, 2013. About 140,000 homes and businesses remain without power in Virginia after a powerful storm pummeled the state. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Parker Michels-Boyce)
Massive thunderstorms have swept across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, knocking out power to thousands of people and causing some flash flooding in certain areas.
CBC News reported that a cloud formation called a mammatus appeared in the skies above Regina and area following a thunderstorm Tuesday night, June 26, 2012.
Regina is the capital city of Saskatchewan in Canada.
This is a rare atmospheric phenomenon.
Mammatus or mammatocumulus looks something like cotton balls, puffs and bubbles.
I think it looks spooky 🙂
I love to look at the clouds and try to identify their types but I have never seen mammatus.
The types of clouds that we see can give us some clues about the weather of the day.
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Police officers walk near the wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed in the Caribbean resort island of San Andres, August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Handout/Navy Press
On Monday a Boeing 737 plane crash landed in San Andres Island, Colombia.
1 person died and 6 were seriously injured.
The plane crashed in a thunderstorm at 1:49 am.
It slided on the runway and broke apart.
The report says that the pilot’s name is Wilson Gutierrez.
He is a great pilot because he can stop the plane from hitting the airport.
The wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed in the Caribbean resort island of San Andres, August 16, 2010. (AFP/ Richard Garcia)
If the plane hit the airport, more people will be killed.
** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XBOG102 ** A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died. (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)The wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed at San Andres island airport, August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Courtesy-RCN/TVNewsThe wreckage of a Colombian passenger plane that crashed at San Andres island airport, August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Courtesy-RCN/TVNewsThe wreckage of the plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno/ Richard Garcia)
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