Liuzhou Weather
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Thunder Crashing
We had a bit of a thunderstorm storm yesterday. It was a hot sunny morning, but around 2:20pm the sky suddenly darkened and within minutes there was a wild howling wind, the trees outside my window were almost bent double (and they are big trees). Indeed many trees around the city were uprooted. Then came the thunder and lightning and the rain.
Most seriously, a Liuzhou primary school lost two classrooms and 11 pupils were injured, some seriously. They are officially reported to be in stable conditions.
An hour later, it was all over, although temperatures remained somewhat cooler. Today we are back to the warm sunshine. This weather is totally normal. Spring is so changeable. It can go from 30°C to 10°C overnight then back up again the next day. We can have weeks of total dryness followed by weeks where it literally never stops raining. By May it should have settled down, then we enter the rainy season.
There is a Liuzhou climate chart here.
UPDATE (19th April): I have learned that two people died in Liuzhou and 15,000 people have had injuries or economic losses as a result of the storm. A middle aged man died when his workplace dormitory collapsed while he was having a nap and a 68 year old woman left her house to investigate tiles being blown from the roof and was crushed by a falling tree. She died later in hospital.
We had much the same weather out here in Sanjiang yesterday as well. It was
not nearly as violent, but certainly as sudden. The sky darkened, wind up,
and brief rain and lightning. Within an hour, it was all over. Sounds like
Liuzhou had it much harder, though.
UPDATE (19th April): I have learned that two people died in Liuzhou and
15,000 people have had injuries or economic losses as a result of the
storm. A middle aged man died when his workplace dormitory collapsed while
he was having a nap and a 68 year old woman left her house to investigate
tiles being blown from the roof and was crushed by a falling tree. She died
later in hospital.