WEATHER REPORT

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China says July was its hottest month since records began
Aug 01, 2024 (AFP)
China is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists say are driving climate change and making extreme weather more frequent and intense...
Extreme heat claims 175,000 lives a year in Europe: WHO
Aug 01, 2024 (AFP)
Of the some 489,000 heat-related deaths recorded each year by the WHO between 2000 and 2019, the European region accounts for 36 percent or on average 176,040 d...
Mediterranean heatwave 'virtually impossible' without climate change
Jul 31, 2024 (AFP)
A deadly heatwave brought temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) to southern Europe and North Africa, where such extreme summer spells are ...
Heat warning issued for Paris during Games on Tuesday
Jul 29, 2024 (AFP)
The agency put in place a "yellow alert" -- the second of four levels -- for the capital as a heatwave brings searing temperatures to other Olympic venues acros...
Central China landslide kills 15: state media
Jul 28, 2024 (AFP)
Officials initially believed that 18 people had been buried by the landslide but rescuers have since found fifteen bodies and six injured survivors, the officia...
Iran shuts Sunday to tackle heatwave
Jul 27, 2024 (AFP)
At least 225 Iranians have been hospitalised due to the extreme heat since Friday, the national emergency service said, while officials reported record energy c...
Surging heat stress for workers in Europe, Central Asia: UN
Jul 25, 2024 (AFP)
Data from the United Nations' International Labour Organization shows that more than 70 percent of the global workforce was exposed to excessive heat during 202...
Morocco heatwave kills more than 20 people in 24 hours
Jul 25, 2024 (AFP)
The meteorology department said soaring temperatures affected much of the North African country from Monday to Wednesday, reaching 48 degrees Celsius (118 Fahre...
Humanity suffering from 'extreme heat epidemic,' UN chief warns
Jul 25, 2024 (AFP)
"Billions of people are facing an extreme heat epidemic -- wilting under increasingly deadly heat waves, with temperatures topping 50 degrees Celsius around the...
July 22 second day in row to break global heat record: EU monitor
Jul 24, 2024 (AFP)
Preliminary data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) showed the daily global average temperature was 17.15 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit...
Tearful locals search in mud for Ethiopia landslide victims
Jul 24, 2024 (AFP)
Humanitarian agencies scrambled to rush emergency relief aid to the stricken community after the deadliest such incident recorded in Ethiopia, a country highly ...
Over 100,000 schools in Pakistan remain closed due to the heat
Jul 24, 2024 (AFP)
Pakistan is increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather conditions resulting from climate change, including heatwaves that are hotter and more frequent and monso...
'It's unbearable': heatwaves scorch southern and eastern Europe
Jul 18, 2024 (AFP)
There was no let up Thursday as the mercury again hovered near or above 40 degrees Celsius in many countries, with worse expected in the coming days. Europe is ...
Father, daughter die hiking during heat wave in western US
Jul 16, 2024 (AFP)
Two of the victims, a 52-year-old man and his 23-year-old daughter, died Friday in Canyonlands National Park after they had "gotten lost and run out of water," ...
Families buried, livelihoods lost as Afghan storm toll hits 47
Jul 16, 2024 (AFP)
Some 350 people were injured and 400 houses razed as rain and hail lashed eastern Nangarhar on Monday evening, according to the provincial disaster management a...
The Bronx, a steaming symbol of climate inequality in US
Jul 15, 2024 (AFP)
Reinaldo Morales, a 68-year-old military veteran, went to a seniors' community center with air conditioning because turning it on at home is too costly. "We liv...
Hungarian airport suspends operation after heatwave damage
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
Despite a typically temperate climate, Hungary has been experiencing daily highs exceeding 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in recent days, and temper...
More than 60 missing after Nepal landslide sweeps two buses into river
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
Dozens of search and rescue personnel were combing the site for survivors of the accident in the central district of Chitwan, district official Khimananda Bhusa...
Flooding, damage as storms batter S.Africa's Cape Town
Jul 11, 2024 (AFP)
The city's disaster operations centre said informal settlements, including the major township of Khayelitsha, had been particularly affected by flooding. Nearly...
Deadly, record-breaking heat wave grips western US
Jul 10, 2024 (AFP)
Approximately 162 million people -- nearly one-half of the US population -- were living in areas under active heat warnings, according to the National Weather S...
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