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An ultra-rare phenomenon of a red ring of light called ELVE emerges from the thunderstorm clouds looming over Italy.

And really it's going to help monitor tropical cyclones in the western pacific, aumps malso ma possible to study the distribution of volcanic ash and aerosols which you know is crucial for the aeronautics and airline industry. volcanos and volcanic ash can down airlines easily. we try to avoid those when we're flying. interestingly enough, himawari-8 is monitoring the clouds across eastern asia -- himawari-9 will take over from 8. it's on standby until the year 2022. here's an example of that rapid scan continuous monitoring. do you see how quickly and how well defined this latest typhoon is a...

The boat was carrying more than 500 people when a fire broke out on the lower deck. at least 150 people have been rescued, but more than 300 others are still trapped. another tragic boating accident happening not far from the fire. at least one crew member is dead and several missing after rough seas and poor weather conditions. and intense clashes between islamic state terrorists and kurdish fighters in kobani. fighters have been advancing there with the support of iraqi government troops. >> the disappearance of airasia flight 8501 marking the second time this year that the major airliner ac...

Crashed in 2006 during take offdue to terrible weather causing wind shear. this one crashed earlier this year during landing trying to avoid a thunderstorm. of those flights, flight 612 could be easily compared. flight 612 crashed in eastern ukraine in august 2006 killing all 170 people on board due to a thunderstorm. flight 612 was cruising at an altitude of 35,000 feet. that's about the same as the airasia flight. during this flight, pilots attempted to climb over thunderstorm clouds avoiding weather. those thunderstorm clouds were unusually high. it climbed fast entered an area of severe tu...

How the pilots react to that turbulence that is to critical 37 with this satellite imagery it's so clear some of these thunderstorm cloud tops were towering well over 40,000 feet, and with some of the latest statements coming from airasia that the plane or the pilot asked to divert and ascend to 38,000 it is clear that the thunderstorms that they did encounter they were not able to make their way over the tops of the thunderstorm clouds and this causes significant concerns. let's teal look here at the latest as it took off from surabaya and head north toward singapore singapore. this was the t...