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Russia swelters in heat wave, Moscow breaks 1917 record

July 4, 2024394 Views

Russians were braving some of the hottest weather seen in more than a century on Thursday with Moscow breaking a 1917 record and cities across the world's biggest country sizzling in temperatures well above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit). In Moscow, where temperatures can fall to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the legendary Russian winter, the mercury rose to 32.7 degrees Celsius on July 3, breaking the 1917 record for that day by half a degree, the FOBOS weather centre said. Records were broken from Russia's Pacific coast and the wilds of Siberia to the European parts of Russia, FOBOS said. A man lies near a fountain in a park during hot weather in Moscow, Russia July 2, 2024. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina The hot weather triggered soaring demand for air conditioners and fans,...

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11 months on trot of world’s record-breaking temperatures

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May 9, 2024446 Views

The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday. Each month since June 2023 has ranked as the planet's hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin. People walk as water is sprayed by a system to alleviate the high temperatures caused by a heat wave, at the Gerardo Barrios square, in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas Including April, the world's average temperature was the highest on record for a 12-month period - 1.61 degrees Celsius above the average in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period. S...

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March marks yet another record in global heat

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April 10, 2024625 Views

The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Tuesday. Each of the last 10 months ranked as the world's hottest on record, compared with the corresponding month in previous years, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a monthly bulletin. The 12 months ending with March also ranked as the planet's hottest ever recorded 12-month period, C3S said. From April 2023 to March 2024, the global average temperature was 1.58 degrees Celsius above the average in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period. File Photo: A woman protects herself from the sun with an umbrella during a heatwave in the centre of Sao Paulo, Brazil March 15,...

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Spring came early: February likely warmest on record amid climate change

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February 29, 2024581 Views

The world likely notched its warmest February on record, as spring-like conditions caused flowers to bloom early from Japan to Mexico, left ski slopes bald of snow in Europe and pushed temperatures to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 C) in Texas. While data has not been finalised, three scientists told Reuters that February is on track to have the highest global average temperature ever recorded for that month, thanks to climate change and the warming in the Eastern Pacific Ocean known as El Nino. FILE PHOTO: Graciela Perez blows a hand fan amid a heat wave with temperatures rising towards 35 degrees Celsius (95F), in Buenos Aires, Argentina February 7, 2024. REUTERS/Mariana Nedelcu If confirmed, that would be the ninth consecutive monthly temperature record to be broken, according to ...

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Heat wave and then deep freeze, weather has gone wild here!

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February 27, 2024608 Views

Some U.S. residents will be going from wearing Bermuda shorts to snow pants in less than 24 hours, forecasters said on Monday, as a heat wave in the central Plains and South gives way to weather more typical for this time of year. Temperatures on Monday in states like Nebraska and Iowa were in the mid-70s Fahrenheit (low 20s Celsius), some 40 degrees F (22 degrees C) above averages for this time of year, while cities in the South, such as Dallas, Texas, sizzled in the mid-90s F (mid-30s C). A drone view shows ice formations near the Mackinac Bridge, which spans the Straits of Mackinac between Lakes Michigan and Huron in Mackinaw City, Michigan, U.S. February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio This week's heat wave follows other unusual weather across the U.S. this winter - from "atm...

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One of the driest places on Earth has got a lake

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February 24, 2024496 Views

Kayakers paddle in Death Valley after record rainstorms Kayakers have been paddling in one of the driest places on Earth after a series of record rainstorms battered California’s Death Valley and replenished Lake Manly. Park Ranger Nichole Andler said Badwater Basin at Death Valley National Park, which runs along part of central California’s border with Nevada, “is normally a very beautiful, bright white salt flat.” This year it is a lake. Vinaya Vijay, right, and Vijay Parthasarathy wade through water at Badwater Basin, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. The basin, normally a salt flat, has filled from rain over the past few months. (AP Photo/John Locher) In the past six months, Death Valley has received more than double its annual rainfall amou...

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Deadly winter weather keeps icy grip across much of the US

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January 21, 2024579 Views

Winter storms and biting cold that have gripped much of the United States in recent days with deadly consequences are expected to persist through this weekend, the National Weather Service (NWS) reported on Saturday. Even as frigid temperatures were forecast across two-thirds of the country for the days ahead, along with snow, freezing rain and heavy showers, CBS News said it has tallied 83 confirmed weather-related U.S. fatalities over the past week. Tennessee accounted for 19 lost lives attributed to severe weather, and Oregon 16 more, CBS reported, including three people who died of apparent electrocution from a power line that fell onto the vehicle they were riding in on Wednesday. People walk through Times Square as the snow falls during a winter storm in New York City, U.S....

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A weekend of intense winter weather could see low-temperature records in US

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January 14, 2024617 Views

Icy winter weather blanketed the U.S. on Saturday as a wave of Arctic storms threatened to break low-temperature records in the heartland, spread cold and snow from coast to coast and cast a chill over everything from football playoffs to presidential campaigns. As the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend began, the weather forecast was a crazy quilt of color-coded advisories, from an ice storm warning in Oregon to a blizzard warning in the northern Plains to high wind warnings in New Mexico. “It’s, overall, been a terrible, terrible winter. And it came out of nowhere — two days,” Dan Abinana said as he surveyed a snowy Des Moines, Iowa. He moved to the state from Tanzania as a child years ago, but said “you never get used to the snow.” In Portland, freezing r...

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Out-of-control wildfire scorches Spain’s Tenerife island

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August 17, 2023803 Views

Firefighters on Thursday struggled to contain a wildfire that broke out in a mountainous national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife amid hot and dry weather, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 4,500 people. "This is the most complex fire we've had in the Canary Islands in the last 40 years," the region's leader, Fernando Clavijo, told a news conference. He added they were racing to control the blaze before an expected increase in temperatures at the weekend. Pine trees burn in a forest fire in Candelaria on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain August 16. REUTERS/Borja Suarez The blaze, which started Tuesday night, is centered on a craggy, mountainous area, which is difficult for emergency brigades to access. Spanish authorities said their main goal is to co...

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World hits record land, sea temperatures

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July 3, 2023878 Views

Climate change fuels weather extremes in 2023 The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early June to prepare for this year's annual climate talks in November, average global surface air temperatures were more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for several days, the EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said. FILE PHOTO: Josh walks along an avenue under the intense heat as the temperature past over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) in Yuba City, California, U.S., June 30, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Though mean temperatures had tempora...