Tens of millions of Americans are set to spend the final days of fall basking in a December heat wave that will send temperatures soaring as high as 30 or even 40 degrees above normal in the days ahead.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather
Read more…Bushfires raging in Western Australia's Margaret River region have forced evacuations and scorched over 6,000 hectares of land.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-59604211
Read more…At least one person was killed when rivers burst their banks in northern Spain, engulfing cars and flooding homes and roads.
The River Argal reached levels not seen for 20 years and left houses in the town of Huarte almost completely submerged
At least 70 people are dead after a tornado ripped through the southeastern US state of Kentucky, its governor told reporters, as storms ravaged large swathes of the country.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/1211/1266164-us-tornadoes/
Read more…Met Éireann has issued Status Orange and Yellow wind warnings as Storm Barra is expected to bring very strong winds on Tuesday and into Wednesday morning.
https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2021/1205/1264941-storm-barra/
Read more…https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/1205/1264938-covid-ireland-restrictions/
They are approaching a mandatory vaccine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UK media reported something similar:
Mandatory vaccinations: Three reasons for and against
Read more…Rescuers in Indonesia are searching for survivors in villages buried by hot ash, after Mt Semeru on Java island erupted on Saturday.
Fourteen people are known to have died and dozens were injured, emergency authorities said.
As thermometers continue to display unusually high temperatures for the month of December across the contiguous United States, the states outside of the lower 48 are facing extreme weather situations of their own, from blizzard warnings in Hawaii thi
Read more…And it wasn't just Phoenix that experienced record weather. Every corner of the region rewrote its record books in November, including some century-old records that fell during the month's final days.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/phoe
Read more…The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season was the second hectic season in a row following the record-breaking 2020 season, with new storms spinning up in rapid fashion and very few breaks between each new system. However, due in part to an almost entirely i
Read more…Residents in southern Queensland are on high alert as major floods inundate towns.
Two people lost their lives this week when their vehicles were swept away by rising waters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-59501162
Read more…The ban is expected to come into effect at midnight on Sunday, following full cabinet approval.
Israel has so far confirmed one case of the potentially more infectious Omicron variant first detected in South Africa.
Dutch health authorities have found at least 13 cases of the new Omicron strain among 61 quarantined passengers who tested positive for coronavirus after arriving from South Africa.
"The Omicron variant has so far been identified in 13 of the positiv
Read more…The storm-weary Northwest can’t seem to catch a break as another atmospheric river will cause more soaking rain to impact the region, as well as British Columbia, through this weekend.
After months of heat waves and drought, weather in the Pacific N
Read more…The Netherlands will tighten its partial Covid lockdown with the early closure of bars, restaurants and shops to curb a spike in cases, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/1126/1263417-netherlands-covid-latest/
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