Rare Thundersnow Strikes Ural Mountains, Ripping Off Roofs and Causing Power Outages
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Rare Thundersnow Strikes Ural Mountains, Ripping Off Roofs and Causing Power Outages
A powerful winter thunderstorm lashed the Ural Mountains region of Russia on Friday morning, with officials and media outlets reporting that high winds ripped off the roofs of buildings and caused power outages in several regions.
On the morning of Friday, 6 November, Yekaterinburg covered the snowfall, also observed a storm, reported Uralhydromet. "The winter arrived in Yekaterinburg with a breeze of wind, snowfall and a storm that the Yekaterinburg Meteorological Station observed at 10 o'clock local time," the report states.
In Yekaterinburg on 6 November, an unusual snowstorm broke out, and residents of the Ural capital observed a snowfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning flares, a combination of which is extremely rare and explained by the main synaptics of the Ural Hydrometeorological Centre of Galin Sheporenko in a conversation with URA.RU.
The weather in Yekaterinburg is blazes, the city is snowing and the sky is shining lightning, and we'll be watching what's going on at Autumn on November 6, 2026.
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