WEATHER REPORT

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Japanese turn to wearable tech to beat the heat
Aug 18, 2023 (AFP)
Japan -- like other countries -- is seeing ever-hotter summers. This July was the warmest in 100 years, with at least 53 people dying of heatstroke and almost 5...
French government holds crisis meeting as heatwave mounts
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
Senior civil servants from Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's office as well as the interior, health, agriculture and transport ministries attended the meeting, t...
'In a sauna': Hong Kong's labourers swelter as temperatures rise
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
"The longer you work, the more it feels like it's raining inside the (suit)... it's just like being in a sauna," said Wah, 63, who asked to be identified only b...
Where summer heat hits hard: Mideast and North Africa
Aug 17, 2023 (AFP)
- A tool of the trade in Syria - Heat is a tool of the trade for blacksmith Murad Haddad in the city of Idlib in northwest Syria. "We make everything by hand he...
NASA clocks July 2023 as hottest month on record ever since 1880
Aug 15, 2023 (SPX)
"Since day one, President Biden has treated the climate crisis as the existential threat of our time," said Ali Zaidi, White House National Climate Advisor. Aga...
50 pct chance 2023 will be warmest year on record: NOAA
Aug 14, 2023 (AFP)
"2023 to date has been the third warmest on record," National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief scientist Sarah Kapnick told reporters. "It is...
Morocco breaks heat record
Aug 13, 2023 (AFP)
The meteorological station in the southern coastal city of Agadir recorded on Friday the new national record of 50.4C, said the General Directorate of Meteorolo...
North China landslide death toll rises to four
Aug 13, 2023 (AFP)
A mountain flash flood in the village of Weiziping, south of Xi'an, caused a landslide on Friday which swept away two houses and damaged roads, bridges, electri...
Spanish city shatters heat record; NASA spots fierce surface temps during Phoenix heatwave
Aug 11, 2023 (JPL)
The data was captured during overnight hours (around 2 a.m.) on several days in July by an instrument called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIR...
Spanish city shatters heat record
Aug 10, 2023 (AFP)
The mercury soared to 46.8 degrees Celsius (116.2 Fahrenheit) at Valencia airport, shattering the previous record of 43.4 Celsius set on July 6, 1986, state wea...
The temperature the human body cannot survive
Aug 09, 2023 (AFP)
Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) warmth when coupled with 100 percent humidity, but new resear...
Iraq's extreme temperatures a 'wake-up call' for world: UN
Aug 09, 2023 (AFP)
Turk spoke to AFP during a visit to Iraq, which the UN says is one of the five countries in the world most touched by some effects of climate change. Iraq has b...
Scores of horses suffer sunstroke at Japan samurai event
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
Japan has recorded its hottest average July temperatures in over 100 years, and on Tuesday heatstroke alerts were in place in 26 out of 47 prefectures, with the...
July hottest month on record: EU climate observatory
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
Marked by heatwaves and fires all around the world, the previous month was 0.33 degrees Celsius higher than the record set in July 2019 when the average tempera...
Scout jamboree SOS issued to BTS megastars as evacuations begin
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
The K-pop megastars are currently on a hiatus with two members -- Jin and J-Hope -- performing their mandatory military service, and another member, SUGA, set t...
Two dead, thousands without power as storms batter eastern US
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
Millions of people were under severe weather alerts, including tornado watches, as rain, strong winds and hail swept east along nearly the entire eastern seaboa...
Flash floods, landslides kill eight in northern Vietnam
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
After months of prolonged heatwaves and drought, heavy downpours that began at the beginning of August have damaged hundreds of homes and destroyed crops. Eight...
Three-quarters of children in South Asia face extreme heat: UN
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
About 460 million children are exposed to extreme heat in South Asia, or 76 percent of children, compared to a third of children globally, the United Nations ch...
US, UK scouts abandon heatwave-hit South Korean jamboree
Aug 05, 2023 (AFP)
About 43,000 people have joined the jamboree in North Jeolla province, but an extreme heatwave has seen hundreds of scouts fall ill, forcing Seoul to deploy mil...
Japan's elderly 'gateball' players unbeaten by the heat
Aug 03, 2023 (AFP)
"Some of my friends in my generation tell me I must be crazy to go out playing gateball in this heat," Morita, 81, told AFP at a practice session of the croquet...
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