WEATHER REPORT

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Lockheed Martin Marks Defense Meteorological Satellite Program 50th Anniversary
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
Fifty years ago, a small weather satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Calif. It was the first in a series that would later become known...
Nine dead as storms rip across South America
Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)
Fierce storms packing 140-kilometer (87-mile) an hour winds tore across the heart of South America on Wednesday, killing five people in Paraguay, two in Uruguay...
World's hottest temperature cools a bit
Sep 19, 2012 (SPX)
If you think this summer was hot, it's nothing compared to the summer of 1913, when the hottest temperature ever recorded was a searing 134 F in Death Valley, C...
Five dead as storm rips across South America
Sep 19, 2012 (AFP)
A fierce storm packing 140-kilometer (87-mile) an hour winds tore across the heart of South America on Wednesday, killing five people in Paraguay and wreaking h...
Europe's second polar-orbiting weather satellite is aloft
Sep 18, 2012 (SPX)
The second Metop satellite was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, atop a Russian Soyuz launcher. Metop-B will ensure the continuity of the we...
Last look at weather satellite
Sep 14, 2012 (ESA)
As preparations for the launch of Europe's latest weather satellite continue on track, the team in Kazakhstan has said farewell to MetOp-B as it was sealed in t...
What a scorcher: California ousts Libya for heat record
Sep 13, 2012 (AFP)
The world's all-time heat record lowered a tad on Thursday, as the World Meteorological Organisation declared a phenomenal 58 degrees Celsius (136.4 degrees Fah...
Weather satellite to be delivered in orbit to Eumetsat
Sep 12, 2012 (ESA)
Later this month, Europe's newest meteorology satellite, MetOp-B, will blast into space from Baikonur Cosmodrome. For mission control teams at ESA, liftoff mark...
Year so far the hottest in US history
Sep 10, 2012 (AFP)
The continental United States has recorded its warmest ever year so far with all but one of the 48 states clocking temperatures above the historical average, of...
Two tornadoes hit New York City
Sep 08, 2012 (AFP)
Two small tornadoes touched down in New York City on Saturday, stunning residents who associate twisters more with the US Midwest, the National Weather Service ...
Interactive map shows heatwave risks for European cities
Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)
The European Environment Agency (EEA) on Tuesday unveiled an interactive map indicating the heatwave risk for European cities six decades from now on the basis ...
Storms kill 20 people in Algeria
Sep 02, 2012 (AFP)
Storms sweeping across northeast Algeria have killed 20 people and injured 56, the state news agency APS on Sunday cited emergency services as saying. It said n...
Heatwaves to Move Toward Coasts
Aug 31, 2012 (SPX)
A new study by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, suggests that the nature of California heatwaves is changing due to global warm...
Bosnia on red alert during hottest summer on record
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
Bosnian authorities put the entire country on red alert Thursday against a heatwave that has seen the Balkan nation bake in its hottest summer on record, the na...
Fueling to begin with the MetOp-B weather satellite for Starsem's next Soyuz mission
Aug 23, 2012 (ESA)
The European MetOp-B satellite to be orbited from Baikonur Cosmodrome on the next Soyuz mission of Arianespace's Starsem affiliate has been prepped for its fuel...
Italy heatwave brings down historic wall section in Rome
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
A section of wall dating back to the early 19th century overlooking one of Rome's most historic squares -- Piazza del Popolo -- crumbled on Wednesday due to the...
Mercury hits record high in Czech Republic
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
The mercury hit an all-time high of 40.4 degrees Celsius (104.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Czech village of Dobrichovice, south-west of the capital Prague, the ...
Cuba-Florida swimmer paddles on after lightning storm
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
US distance swimmer Diana Nyad paddled onward Monday after an overnight storm threatened to sink the 62-year-old's fourth bid to swim from Cuba to Florida throu...
Honey ice-creams keep pandas cool in French heatwave
Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)
Two Chinese pandas in a French zoo are chilling out in the current summer heatwave with the help of honey and apple ice creams. With temperatures set to touch 4...
Forecast heatwave puts France on alert
Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)
Temperatures in some parts of France will reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) this weekend, forecasters predicted Thursday, triggering an alert sy...
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