WEATHER REPORT

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Australia swelters in record-breaking heatwave
Dec 28, 2018 (AFP)
The mercury is up to 16 degree Celsius (29 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than usual for this time of the year for southern Australia, with numerous towns setting n...
Sydney pummelled by hail the size of tennis balls
Dec 21, 2018 (AFP)
The authorities issued a severe storm warning, but that was not enough to prevent damage that is already running into the tens of millions of dollars. "As of 6:...
Heatwave death threat soars for elderly, city dwellers
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
In a worldwide stocktake of public health trends, dozens of international agencies said people over 65, those living in large cities, and sufferers of heart and...
Flooding, traffic chaos as heavy rains lash Sydney
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
Severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall lashed Australia's largest city, with the local Bureau of Meteorology reporting more than 106 millimetres of rain fell i...
Extreme heat increasing in both summer and winter
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
A new study in the in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, examined absolute extreme temperatures - hi...
Northwest China hit by sandstorm as Beijing is smothered in smog
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
Video from state broadcaster CCTV showed a grey wall of sand hitting Zhangye City in Gansu province on Sunday, casting a yellow fog across the city. Images from...
Raindrops keep falling: Climate change makes storms worse - study
Nov 14, 2018 (AFP)
The findings are based on extensive modelling that involved millions of computing hours on a supercomputer, and they show that climate change is already affecti...
'Total disaster' as Italy storms kill at least 30
Nov 04, 2018 (AFP)
After a river burst its banks, the bodies of the family including children aged one, three and 15 were discovered in the coastal town of Casteldaccia east of th...
US tornado frequency shifting eastward from Great Plains
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
The study, by meteorology professor Victor Gensini of Northern Illinois University and Harold Brooks of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Okla...
Six Tanzanian schoolchildren killed in lightning strike
Oct 17, 2018 (AFP)
The lightning hit Emaco Vision primary school, in the mountainous Geita region, during the morning. "It was about 9am, six pupils were killed and 25 were injure...
Tornado batters area near Canadian capital Ottawa
Sep 22, 2018 (AFP)
After visiting the hard-hit Dunrobin area, in the city's west, Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson likened it to an aerial bombing, adding that Friday's tornado was among "...
Toll jumps to 29 in central Philippine landslide
Sep 21, 2018 (AFP)
Dozens were still missing as authorities probed whether a nearby rock quarry could have played a role in the massive hillside collapse Thursday that hit rural c...
Two killed as storm hits Britain and Ireland
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
Storm Ali brought gusts of more than 90 miles (145 kilometres) an hour and intense rainstorms. Officials said the Swiss woman died in her sleep when her caravan...
Perfect storms: hurricanes and typhoons
Sep 13, 2018 (AFP)
- A cyclone by any other name - Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are different names for the same type of giant tropical storms that form in oceans near the A...
Prague records hottest summer on record
Sep 06, 2018 (AFP)
"Record heat was recorded in Prague this summer, with average temperatures the highest since observations began 244 years ago," the Hydrometeorological Institut...
Nice sunny days can grow into heat waves
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
A team of scientists now presents the first comprehensive review of research on summer weather stalling focusing on the influence of the disproportionally stron...
Stalling summer weather patterns set stage for extreme heat
Aug 20, 2018 (UPI)
As a result of summer weather stalling, a string of warm days are more likely to turn into a heat wave, and light showers are more likely to become a torrential...
Shanghai heat turns shopping street into giant slumber party
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
Normally bustling Nanjing East Road has turned into an open-air slumber party on recent nights as local residents try to escape the heat of their cramped nearby...
Study finds possible connection between US tornado activity, Arctic sea ice
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
The United States has experienced many changes in severe-weather behavior over the past decade, including fewer tornado touchdowns in than in the past. A new st...
Monsoon, landslides kill 20 in southern India
Aug 09, 2018 (AFP)
The monsoon, which lasts roughly from June to September, is heralded by millions of Indian farmers but the relentless rain wreaks death and destruction every ye...
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