WEATHER REPORT

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Flights cancelled and schools closed as Beijing hit by storm
Jul 12, 2021 (AFP)
City authorities issued warnings to residents to stay home as the Chinese capital faced its biggest storm this year. As much as 100 millimetres of rain is predi...
AIRS tracks record-breaking heat wave in Pacific Northwest
Jul 12, 2021 (JPL)
In many cases, the highs exceeded previous temperature records by several degrees or more. On June 28, Quillayute, Washington, set an all-time high temperature ...
Millions sweltering in US west as Canada takes emergency steps
Jul 12, 2021 (AFP)
In Canada, with wildfires continuing to spread -- including 50 more blazes erupting in the past two days -- the government announced new emergency measures aime...
Spain roasts in sizzling heat
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
National weather office AEMET issued heat warnings for most of the country, with the mercury expected to rise above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) ...
30 million people under heat alerts as western US swelters
Jul 11, 2021 (AFP)
Sweltering conditions have hit much of the Pacific seaboard and as far inland as the western edge of the Rocky Mountains over the weekend, with forecasters warn...
India's poor can't afford to beat the heat
Jul 10, 2021 (AFP)
While people in richer nations can find some respite from a warming planet with air conditioners and other modern luxuries, many here -- and elsewhere in India ...
Iraqis protest round-the-clock blackouts as mercury soars
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
"We want electricity to be restored and if it isn't we're not leaving this plant. We're going to stay put and shut it down," demonstrator Diaa Wady told AFP out...
N. America heat wave 'virtually impossible' without climate change: study
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
The World Weather Attribution group said that global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, made the heat wave at least 150 times more likely to happen. P...
Heatwave hits Nordic countries, 34C recorded in Arctic
Jul 05, 2021 (AFP)
The latest figures came after Finland's national meteorological institute registered its hottest temperature for June since records began in 1844. Kevo, at the ...
Canada, US heat wave 'on steroids' due to climate change, say experts
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
The US states of Washington and Oregon, as well as British Columbia in Canada, boiled this week in all-time high temperatures that have caused dozens of deaths....
Scores dead as record-breaking heat wave grips Canada, US
Jun 30, 2021 (AFP)
At least 134 people have died suddenly since Friday in the Vancouver area, according to figures released by the city police department and the Royal Canadian Mo...
Exceptional heat hits Pacific Northwest
Jun 30, 2021 (SPX)
The heat began to build up late last week, and the effect is apparent in this map (above) which shows land surface temperatures on June 25 in Washington. The da...
More record-smashing heat forecast as Canada, US northwest bake
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
Lytton in British Columbia broke the record for Canada's all-time high Monday, with a temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (47.9 degrees Celsius), just one day...
Brutal storms lash Germany, Switzerland and France
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
Several road tunnels were flooded and rail services were completely suspended in and around the German city of Stuttgart on Monday night, according to police an...
Brutal summer storms lash Germany and Switzerland
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
Several road tunnels were flooded and rail services were completely suspended in and around the German city of Stuttgart, according to police and rail operator ...
'Heat dome' in western US, Canada brings scorching temperatures
Jun 28, 2021 (AFP)
Hotspot Lytton in British Columbia -- about 250 kilometers (155 miles) northeast of Vancouver -- broke the record "for Canada's all time maximum high" with a te...
Canada and US northwest bake under record-smashing heat wave
Jun 28, 2021 (AFP)
The village of Lytton in British Columbia broke the record for Canada's all-time high, with a temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius (116 Fahrenheit), said Environ...
Five dead after rare tornado hits Czech Republic
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
A retirement home and zoo were badly damaged after tennis-ball-sized hail battered a number of towns Thursday evening, also causing extensive power outages and ...
Deaths reported as tornado razes Czech homes
Jun 24, 2021 (AFP)
"Unfortunately we can confirm there have been victims, but I can't tell you the exact number," local emergency services spokeswoman Hedvika Kropackova told AFP....
After Covid, could the next big killer be heatwaves?
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
This is a scene from a new sci-fi novel, but the suffocating horror it describes may be closer to science than fiction, according to a draft UN report that warn...
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