WEATHER REPORT

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Italy storms kill 10 sparking pre-vote climate change debate
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
Water swept through towns and villages, turning streets into rivers after about 400 millimetres (16 inches) of rain reportedly fell in two hours. Emergency serv...
France sees record heat for September; Hong Kong breaks heat record twice
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
The thermometer hit 39.1 degrees Celsius (102.4 degrees Fahrenheit) at Mont-de-Marsan in the southwestern Landes department and 39C at nearby Dax. Regional capi...
Firefighters brace for mudslides as storm moves into California
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
The remnants of a hurricane that hit Mexico were bringing strong winds that are likely to fan the Fairview fire, prompting wider evacuation orders. The 27,000-a...
Heatwave batters Spain's Mediterranean mussel crop
Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)
With the country hit by a long and brutal heatwave this summer, the water temperature in the Ebro Delta, the main mussels production area of the Spanish Mediter...
2022 Europe's hottest summer on record: EU monitor
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
The five hottest years on record have all come since 2016 as climate change drives ever longer and stronger hot spells and drier soil conditions. And that creat...
Children among 15 dead in Uganda landslide
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
The disaster in the town of Kasese on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo has left an unknown number of people missing and wiped out homes. "15 bod...
Western US heat wave to wane, but more fire danger ahead: forecast
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
California and neighboring states have endured a week of triple digit temperatures that have already brought deadly wildfires and the daily threat of power blac...
China logs hottest August since records began
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
Southern China last month sweltered under what experts said may have been one of the worst heat waves in global history, with parts of Sichuan province and the ...
California opens cooling centers for heat wave vulnerable
Sep 03, 2022 (AFP)
"We don't have air conditioning at our house, we only have a fan," Amaya, a retiree, told AFP. "We come here because we can't stay at home." Amaya is one of hun...
Lightning strikes kill 23 people in eastern India
Sep 03, 2022 (AFP)
The deaths in Bihar state occurred during fierce weather between Wednesday and Friday, with the victims largely being farmers and labourers. Bihar Chief Ministe...
Heat waves: what you need to know; California opens cooling centers for vulnerable
Sep 03, 2022 (AFP)
Climatologists say the kiln-like conditions in California, Nevada and Arizona are caused by a heat dome -- a huge bubble of stationary high pressure that is tra...
Hailstones kill toddler in Spain
Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)
The hailstone "fell on her head" and "she did not survive," Carme Vall, a city councillor in the Catalan town of La Bisbal de l'Emporda, told radio RAC1. "The h...
France sweltered under 2nd-hottest summer on record
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
With 33 days of extreme heat overall, average temperatures for June, July and August were 2.3 degrees Celsius (4.1 Fahrenheit) above normal for the period of 19...
'Dangerous' heat wave hits southwestern US
Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)
Forecasters said the mercury could reach as high as 112 Fahrenheit (44 Celsius) in the densely populated Los Angeles suburbs as a heat dome settles in over part...
Heatwave-hit Chinese province resumes power to factories
Aug 29, 2022 (AFP)
Parts of Sichuan province and neighbouring Chongqing saw rainfall and lower temperatures beginning Sunday, after weeks of record temperatures higher than 40 Cel...
Hot dogs: UAE's perspiring pooches get air-conditioned workout
Aug 28, 2022 (AFP)
As the Gulf's increasingly fierce temperatures become dangerous to health amid fears over the pace of climate change, those who can afford not to work outside i...
Gimme shelter: older Chinese take refuge from heatwave in subways
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
Multiple Chinese provinces are sweltering under a heatwave, prompting power curbs that have forced factories to close and lights to dim on some of the country's...
'Dangerous' heatwaves likely to grip the tropics daily by 2100: study
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
In the most likely scenario, the world would miss those targets -- potentially subjecting people across the tropics to harmful temperatures most days of each ty...
Half of China hit by drought in worst heatwave on record
Aug 25, 2022 (AFP)
The world's second-largest economy has experienced over 70 days of heatwaves, flash floods and droughts -- phenomena that scientists say are becoming more frequ...
Power cuts and sleepless nights in China's record heatwave
Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)
The region is suffering through its longest continuous period of high temperatures since records began more than 60 years ago, with scientists warning such hot ...
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