WEATHER REPORT

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For Iraqis a sweltering summer of 'hell' has begun
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
While Basra is used to scorching summers, this year it has started sooner than expected, bringing misery to residents in a city also plagued by chronic electric...
No relief as heat wave in US moves east
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
The National Weather Service told Americans to gird for another day of well above normal, near-record or even record-breaking heat from the central Plains to th...
Spain battles wildfires as heatwave eases
Jun 19, 2022 (AFP)
The most alarming blaze in the northwestern Sierra de Culebra mountain range has already destroyed over 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres), the regional government ...
Europe swelters in record-breaking June heatwave
Jun 19, 2022 (AFP)
The soaring temperatures were in line with scientists' predictions that such phenomena will now strike earlier in the year thanks to global warming. Emergency s...
Record early heatwave sweeps France as fires flare in Spain
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
The Meteo France weather service said it was the earliest hot spell ever to hit the country, worsening a drought caused by an unusually dry winter and spring, a...
Landslip kills six in Ivory Coast
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
Four adults and two children were killed, and two people were hospitalised with injuries, the fire brigade said in a statement posted on social media. Prime Min...
Deadly heatwaves threaten economies too
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
The prolonged and unseasonable scorchers gripping the central United States and rolling northward across western Europe, sending the thermometer above 40 degree...
France targets urban vegetation as heatwave hits; And Spain roasts
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
"The government is going to encourage the development of cool spaces in urban areas with strong support for local authorities as they adapt to the consequences ...
Heatwave grips Spain as France braces for soaring temperatures
Jun 13, 2022 (AFP)
The "unusual" temperatures in the first-half of June come after Spain experienced its hottest May in at least 100 years, Ruben del Campo, spokesman for the Span...
Southwestern US on alert for dangerous heatwave
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
Millions of people in California, Nevada and Arizona were warned to expect dangerous conditions for at least some of the weekend, with the National Weather Serv...
Pink 'soul refresher' unites wilting Indians and Pakistanis
Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)
The ultra-sweet concoction of herbs and fruits, Rooh Afza -- which translates as "refresher of the soul" -- has not only survived the 1947 partition of the two ...
Storms wreak havoc across France
Jun 04, 2022 (AFP)
In contrast, the Mediterranean island of Corsica sweltered in record temperatures for the month of June. A woman died after being trapped under a car by flash w...
Canada storms death toll rises to 8
May 23, 2022 (AFP)
Police in the province of Ontario announced on CTVNews the deaths of seven people, killed Saturday by falling trees and branches. The eighth victim was a woman ...
Climate change made S. Asia heatwave 30 times more likely
May 23, 2022 (AFP)
Before the onset of human-caused climate change, the chances of such an event occurring would have been roughly once every 3,000 years, senior author Friederike...
Spain sizzles under unusual early heatwave
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
Spain's meteorological agency AEMET said the heatwave, caused by a mass of hot air coming from North Africa, had produced high temperatures up to 15 degrees Cel...
'Tornado' in western Germany injures dozens
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
A police spokesman said the tornado also caused significant damage in the city in the North Rhine-Westphalia state, following abnormally high temperatures for t...
French towns sweat in record May heat
May 18, 2022 (AFP)
Towns such as Albi, Toulouse and Montelimar in southern France set records of between 33.4-33.9 degrees Celsius (92.1-93.0 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, whi...
Extreme temperatures compound poverty in Pakistan's hottest city
May 16, 2022 (AFP)
The 12-year-old collapsed after walking home from school under the burning sun, his day spent sweltering in a classroom with no fans. "A rickshaw driver had to ...
NASA's ECOSTRESS detects 'heat islands' in extreme Indian heat wave
May 16, 2022 (JPL)
This image, taken shortly before local midnight on May 5, shows urban areas and agricultural lands northwest of Delhi (the large red area in the lower right) th...
South Asia pummelled by heatwave that hits 50C in Pakistan
May 13, 2022 (AFP)
Swathes of Pakistan and neighbouring India have been smothered by high temperatures since April in extreme weather that the World Meteorological Organization ha...
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