WEATHER REPORT

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S.Leone capital's 'heat officer' makes helping poor a priority
Dec 02, 2021 (AFP)
Eugenia Kargbo, the chief heat officer, is in charge of the response to rising temperatures in the seaside West African city. Helping the poor will be a priorit...
Wild winds in Turkey kill four, close Bosphorus strait
Nov 29, 2021 (AFP)
Turkey's directorate general of coastal safety tweeted that the strait -- the only maritime connection between the Mediterranean and Black seas -- was closed to...
Two dead as powerful storm batters UK
Nov 27, 2021 (AFP)
One woman tweeted a video of her flight from Paris struggling to land in Manchester, northwest England, in high winds late Friday. Passengers' nervous laughter ...
Lightning strikes 13 Zimbabwe prisoners having lunch
Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)
Deputy spokesman for the prison services Peter Chaparanganda told AFP that the incident occurred on Friday at the jail in the town of Hwange. "The inmates were ...
Three dead in Algeria landslide after heavy rain
Nov 11, 2021 (AFP)
A 17-year-old boy and two men were killed before dawn in the collapse of the "precarious" building in the Rais Hamidou district of northern Algiers, the fire an...
World faces growing threat of 'unbearable' heatwaves
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
And if nothing is done to slow climate change, the record temperatures and deadly heatwaves it brings will only get worse, experts warn. "Climate (change) is so...
'Water, shade and rest': Extreme heat threatens US workers, economy
Oct 28, 2021 (AFP)
"It's worrying," Gomez says. "It could happen to any of us." Rising temperatures are increasingly threatening workers in the United States, endangering their he...
Over 600,000 homes without power in eastern US due to storm
Oct 27, 2021 (AFP)
The state of Massachusetts was the hardest hit, with 495,000 homes without power as of 9:00 am (1300 GMT), according to the poweroutage.us website. The National...
Sierra Leone capital names 'Chief Heat Officer' in African first
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
On Friday, Chief Heat Officer Eugenia Kargbo told AFP that her dedicated role, which involves planning for dangerous heatwaves, is the first such position on th...
4 killed by high winds in Poland
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
Firefighters said they had been called out 3,200 times by 1230 GMT. All four deaths occurred in the Lower Silesia region. One person was killed when a van was b...
California hiker family's mystery deaths 'due to heat': sheriff
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
The bodies of Briton John Gerrish, 45, his wife Ellen Chung, 31, and their one-year-old daughter, Miju, were discovered a short way from a trailhead in the Sier...
Grapefruit-sized hailstones hit Australian town
Oct 20, 2021 (AFP)
The giant hailstones measured more than 16 centimetres (six inches) in diameter, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said Wednesday. They hit Yalboroo when a stor...
Urban heat exposure has increased 3-fold globally since 1980s, study finds
Oct 04, 2021 (UPI)
The growing number of days with extreme heat and humidity in urban areas now affects nearly one-quarter of the global population and is the combined result of b...
Seven killed in Indonesia landslide
Oct 01, 2021 (AFP)
A day after the landslide hit two adjacent houses in Padang Pariaman district on Wednesday, seven bodies were pulled out of the mud, while another person was re...
Tornado damages Australian homes, power lines
Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)
The tornado damaged "houses, power lines and trees" near the town of Bathurst, the weather bureau said. "We have indications of damage over a 25 to 30-kilometre...
Lake Maracaibo, lightning capital of the world
Sep 23, 2021 (AFP)
Holder of the Guinness World Record as the place with the highest concentration of lightning, South America's largest lake receives an average of 233 flashes pe...
Lightning strike kills 14 in northwest Pakistan
Sep 12, 2021 (AFP)
The incident took place in Torghar, a mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where torrential monsoon rains and landslides have caused havoc since W...
Tornado kills two on Sicily island
Sep 10, 2021 (AFP)
The whirlwind "hit and overturned six cars", the agency said in a post on Facebook, with photographs showing one vehicle thrown against a house and another lyin...
Climate crisis triggers spike in lightning strike deaths in India
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
Scores of people have met similarly gruesome ends this year in the western desert state of Rajasthan, where deaths caused by thunderstorms used to be uncommon. ...
Oil-rich Gulf faces prospect of unlivable heat as planet warms
Aug 31, 2021 (AFP)
Daily temperatures in the coastal metropolis regularly top 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for several months of the year and are exacerbated by hig...
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