WEATHER REPORT

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Climate change intensifies weather and climate extremes
Aug 16, 2021 (SPX)
"Human activities are the main driver not only for the warming of the climate system, but also for the increase in weather and climate extremes. The frequency a...
New 'extreme heat belt' could form from Texas to Wisconsin by 2053
Aug 15, 2021 (UPI)
Models based on government data find 50 counties in which 8.1 million residents are expected to experience temperatures above 125°F in 2023, according to a pee...
July was world's hottest month on record: US agency
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
"July is typically the world's warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded," NOAA administrator Rick Spin...
10 dead, 60 people feared trapped in India landslide
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
A bus carrying between 20 and 25 people had been buried under rubble, said the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which is involved in the rescue efforts. "A to...
New heat record as 'Lucifer' sweeps Italy
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
The blistering temperature was recorded near Syracuse, beating Italy's all-time record of 48.5 degrees, set in Sicily in 1999, and the 1977 record of 48 degrees...
Tunisia swelters in record temperatures
Aug 10, 2021 (AFP)
The temperature in Tunis reached 48 degrees Celsius at midday (118 Fahrenheit), smashing the capital's previous record high of 46.8 degrees, registered in 1982....
Mediterranean faces fiercer heatwaves, drought, fires: UN draft report
Aug 06, 2021 (AFP)
The assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- to be published next year -- details the future impacts that carbon pollution will h...
Lightning strikes kill 16 at Bangladesh wedding
Aug 04, 2021 (AFP)
The group had just left a boat at the riverside town of Shibganj to take shelter from the thunderstorm when the lightning struck, a government administrator for...
Turkey and Cyprus surface temp 'over 50C': European agency
Aug 03, 2021 (AFP)
The worst wildfires in decades have scorched swaths of Turkey's Mediterranean and Aegean coasts for a week, while neighbouring Greece has said a record heatwave...
Greek heatwave: Seven deadly European summers
Aug 02, 2021 (AFP)
Since 2003 the continent has had to deal with seven years of fierce summer temperatures, with scientists saying climate change is likely to make heatwaves more ...
'Dangerous' heatwave hits Athens again
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
With sweat beading on their foreheads, the presidential guards rehearse their choreography in front of a cluster of tourists as a new heatwave hits the Greek ca...
Sandstorm engulfs desert city in China
Jul 27, 2021 (AFP)
Dunhuang, a tourist draw with a colourful history as a Silk Road outpost, momentarily disappeared in the dust clouds as the storm hit on Sunday. A resident surn...
Record-shattering heatwaves caused by pace of warming: study
Jul 26, 2021 (AFP)
The findings, reported in Nature Climate Change, suggest that humanity is likely to see a lot more deadly scorchers in the coming decades. "Because we are in a ...
Deadly summer of extreme weather
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
But a cascade of deadly extreme weather this summer could make 2021 the year when climate predictions became a reality that can no longer be ignored. Ahead of n...
Landslides kill 36 in India, dozens missing
Jul 23, 2021 (AFP)
As many as 40 others were missing after the three separate landslides on Thursday evening in the Raigad district of Maharashtra state, south of India's financia...
North Korea's capital swelters in heatwave
Jul 22, 2021 (AFP)
This summer the country has recorded higher-than-average temperatures that are hovering around 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital. Reside...
Severe rainstorms kill 16 in central China
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
As river embankments were breached in record downpours across Henan province, President Xi Jinping described the situation as "extremely severe" with flood cont...
NASA tracks heat wave over US Southwest
Jul 16, 2021 (SPX)
Two instruments - NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) aboard the Aqua satellite, and the agency's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on S...
Deadly mudslides hit Uzbek-Kyrgyz border region
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
Landslides hit the mountainous region every year, blocking roads and often forcing families to rebuild homes from scratch. Kyrgyzstan officials said the bodies ...
Russia warns of hot summer after June records
Jul 13, 2021 (AFP)
Moscow was hit by a historic heat wave at the end of June, with temperatures reaching a 120-year record. "We estimate that temperatures will be high in the coun...
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