WEATHER REPORT

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March saw 10th straight month of record global heat: monitor
Apr 09, 2024 (AFP)
It is the latest red flag in a year already marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions, spurring fresh calls for more rapid action to limit ...
Austria sets heat record: national weather service
Apr 07, 2024 (AFP)
The announcement by Austria's federal Institute for Geology, Geophysics, Meteorology and Climatology came as countries around the world have seen ever more extr...
Hundreds of Philippine schools suspend classes over heat danger
Apr 02, 2024 (AFP)
The country's heat index measures what a temperature feels like, taking into account humidity. The index was expected to reach the "danger" level of 42 degrees ...
Greece hit again by high temperatures, Saharan dust
Apr 01, 2024 (AFP)
The dust storms, which had already affected Greece last week as well as regions such as Switzerland and Southern France, made breathing difficult for many peopl...
Saharan dust smothers Switzerland, southeast France
Mar 30, 2024 (AFP)
The phenomenon, which began in Switzerland on Friday, brings with it "a very clear worsening of sunlight and visibility. Added to that is an increase in concent...
Climate change is slowing heat waves, prolonging misery
Mar 29, 2024 (AFP)
While previous research has found climate change is causing heat waves to become longer, more frequent and more intense, the new paper differed by treating heat...
Four bodies found, six missing after Indonesia landslide
Mar 27, 2024 (AFP)
Cibenda village in West Java Province became inundated just before midnight on Sunday evening after hours of torrential rain when many villagers were asleep. Te...
Brazil races to save flood victims as storm death toll rises
Mar 25, 2024 (AFP)
A weekend deluge pounded the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo, where authorities described a chaotic situation due to flooding. The death toll in Esp...
Nine missing after Indonesia landslide, flooding
Mar 25, 2024 (AFP)
Cibenda village in West Java Province became inundated just before midnight on Sunday evening after hours of torrential rain when many villagers were asleep. "N...
Planet 'on the brink', with new heat records likely in 2024: UN
Mar 19, 2024 (AFP)
The annual State of the Climate report by the UN weather and climate agency confirmed preliminary data showing 2023 was by far the hottest year ever recorded. A...
More than 20 dead in Papua New Guinea floods, landslides
Mar 19, 2024 (AFP)
Acting Director for the National Disaster Centre, Lusete Man said a mother and child were among the dead as bad weather hit multiple communities. "The 23 were b...
Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro
Mar 18, 2024 (AFP)
The heat index measures what a temperature feels like, taking into account humidity. The actual maximum temperature in the city was 42C on Monday, the Alerta Ri...
South Sudan schools close due to extreme heatwave
Mar 16, 2024 (AFP)
Heatwaves are becoming increasingly common in the East African country, which is particularly vulnerable to climate change, but temperatures rarely exceed 40C. ...
Powerful tornadoes roar through US Midwest, killing 3
Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)
The powerful storms raked through the adjoining states of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. "We have three known fatalities," Sheriff Randall Dodds, of Logan County i...
Sprawling storms, tornadoes kill 3 in US midwest
Mar 15, 2024 (AFP)
More than 13 million people in the central United States were under tornado watches, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. A "very dangerous half-mile-wide t...
Five dead, three missing after French weekend storms
Mar 11, 2024 (AFP)
On Sunday, a man was found dead in the village of Gagnieres in the Gard department in his car that had been swept away by floods, authorities said. Also on Sund...
February marks 9th straight month of record-smashing global heat: climate monitor
Mar 07, 2024 (AFP)
The last year has seen an onslaught of storms, crop-withering drought and devastating fires, as human-caused climate change -- intensified by the naturally-occu...
Greece records warmest winter on record: expert
Mar 05, 2024 (AFP)
Kostas Lagouvardos, research director at the Athens national observatory, told AFP that winter temperatures in 2023-2024 on average stood at 11.8 degrees Celsiu...
US, Canada see record February heat
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
The midwestern city of Saint Louis, in Missouri, saw the mercury hit 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) on Tuesday, the highest temperature ever recorde...
Lightning bolt scorches four people near Sydney Opera House
Feb 19, 2024 (AFP)
The four were struck beneath the tree in the Botanic Gardens, ambulance workers said, just a stone's throw from the harbourside architectural masterpiece. "They...
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