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Enterprise Twister
ENTERPRISE, Alabama (CNN) -- President Bush arrived Saturday in storm-battered Enterprise, Alabama, where nine people -- including eight high-schoolers -- were killed when tornadoes ripped through the town of 20,000.
He told Gov. Bob Riley and Mayor Kenneth Boswell that Coffee County, where Enterprise is located, had been declared "a major disaster area." That designation means extra federal dollars for recovery.
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In all, the storms killed 20 people: 10 in Alabama, nine in Georgia and a 7-year-old girl in Missouri.CNN Storm Map
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Storms ravage USA
Powerful thunderstorms roared through the US states of Alabama, Missouri and Georgia on Thursday night. At least 17 people have been killed in Alabama and Georgia and several more injured. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning and schools have been closed.
Many of the victims had taken shelter in a high school that collapsed in southern Alabama. Several people died in the town of Enterprise, where the school building was torn open by the twister. Bob Phares, with the Enterprise High School district asked for prayers and said ‘to my knowledge we have not had a storm this severe for many decades’
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Flooding in Indonesia and Argentina
The heavy rains also caused flooding and washed away dozens of homes in six hilly districts in East Nusa Tenggara province.
Roads made inaccessible after a three-day deluge were complicating rescue operations in the affected areas.
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Meanwhile parts of Argentina are under water after sudden intense rainfalls hit several regions of the country.
In the northern city of Resistencia in the province of Chaco, the storms broke early on Friday pouring down eighty millimetres (3 inches) of rain in a few short hours.
Local residents were caught off guard and had to wade through the knee high waters and some eighty families had to be evacuated form their homes.
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These freak storms have struck other parts of Argentina in recent weeks, including the capital Buenos Aires. They are blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon which is well know for causing flooding in Peru and Bolivia.
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Summer storm leaves a wintry scene in Canberra
Severe thunderstorms have been affecting parts of southeast Australia over the last few days bringing flash floods and with damaging hail and wind. One particular violent hailstorm left a strange wintry scene in parts of Canberra’s central business district on Wednesday, leaving some parts under a metre-deep layer of ice.
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Although summer storms are not unusual in this part of Australia, the Australian bureau of Meteorology said that Canberra had already set a new record for the most thunderstorms recorded in a single month. Up to Wednesday’s storm it had already reported 14 so far in February. One resident said he had never seen hail accumulating this high before.
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Snowstorm blows through Quebec, hits East Coast
Western regions of the Maritimes are already feeling the effects of a deadly snowstorm that wreaked havoc in parts of southern Ontario yesterday.
The snow has begun to fall in parts of New Brunswick as other areas of Atlantic Canada brace for an evening of wild weather.
Up to 20 centimetres of snow are expected in some areas around the Maritimes.
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The thing is, I can't remember last time it was like this. 
This ofcourse is only if the current high pressure gets a boost the next
couple of days. That has got to be a record. 
