https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An American woman died on Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn mountain on Sunday after she and her hiking companion were caught in a violent storm. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170802/woman-dies-after-being-struck-by-lightning-on-matterhorn Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:36:13 +0200 woman-dies-after-being-struck-by-lightning-on-matterhorn Some parts of Switzerland experienced the hottest August 1st since measurements began, meteorologists have said, before storms and hurricane-strength winds ended the day. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170802/record-temperatures-storms-and-landslides-on-switzerlands-birthday Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:00:50 +0200 record-temperatures-storms-and-landslides-on-switzerlands-birthday Two houses in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg were struck by lightning during a violent storm on Monday night, police have said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170712/two-homes-hit-by-lightning-during-fribourg-storm Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:33:20 +0200 two-homes-hit-by-lightning-during-fribourg-storm A storm front that passed across Switzerland on Tuesday evening wreaked havoc in many areas and caused the death of a man in the canton of Zurich. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130807/man-killed-by-falling-tree-as-storms-strike Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:13:00 +0200 man-killed-by-falling-tree-as-storms-strike