The Chief Medical Officer has said the National Public Health Emergency Team is "genuinely concerned" about the number of cases of the variant of Covid-19 first identified in India that have been detected in Ireland.
Dr Tony Holohan said data from P
Read more…Following a week-long stretch of unseasonably cool conditions across the Southeast, a heat wave now looms for the region. The upcoming surge of warmth will allow record high temperatures to be challenged by early next week, according to AccuWeather f
Read more…A historic deluge of rain this week unleashed serious flooding across portions of Texas and Louisiana, leaving roads underwater and leading to high water rescues. Now, before the week is over, more unwanted news is in store for the region. A tropical
Read more…As temperatures dipped to near-record lows on Thursday, people from Nevada to Montana to Alberta got yet another visit from Old Man Winter.
This wintry storm comes days after a spell of summerlike warmth basked the region.
Read more…The first Arabian Sea cyclonic storm of 2021 formed on Saturday morning, local time, and AccuWeather forecasters warn it will continue to bring detrimental impacts to India, which is currently engulfed in the world's largest COVID-19 outbreak.
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Read more…As the early part of the growing season continues in the northern Plains, heat will build this weekend, exacerbating drought conditions and raising concerns for an elevated wildfire risk from the northern Plains to south-central Canada.
Places like R
Read more…Relentless rocket fire and rioting in mixed Jewish-Arab towns have fuelled growing fears that violence between Israel and Palestinians that has claimed 56 lives could spiral into "full-scale war".
Israel's Defence Minister Benny Gantz vowed more atta
Read more…Hamas militants fired a large barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday, including one that set off air raid sirens as far away as Jerusalem, after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli police at a flashpoint religious site in the
Read more…Priests in around 100 Catholic churches in Germany are offering blessings to same-sex couples from Monday.
The Love Wins movement emerged after the Catholic Church said in March that God "cannot bless sin".
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Read more…The month of May started off abnormally warm for cities from Chicago to Philadelphia, but AccuWeather meteorologists say the cool spell that erased that warmth could stick around for more than a few days.
After a stretch of mild conditions in the Nor
Read more…As of Tuesday, at least 37 people, including some children, have been killed by flooding across nine provinces in Afghanistan, The Associated Press (AP) reported.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/afghanistan-flooding-death-toll-rises/9
Read more…Severe weather often grounds planes and shuts down airport operations. However, this week's stormy conditions not only left planes in a Shelby County, Alabama, hangar grounded, but flooded as well.
In Shelby County, Alabama's most populous city, Birm
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Read more…Heavy rain that has been ongoing since late April has caused severe flash flooding across southwestern Yemen, causing buildings to collapse and leaving at least 13 dead across the region. More thunderstorms in the coming days can lead to additional f
Read more…Following a slew of tornado, damaging wind and large hail reports to start the week, severe weather will continue to be a concern Wednesday. However, the threat will be lower than in recent days.
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Read more…The Seychelles, which has fully vaccinated over 60% of its population against Covid-19, is bringing back restrictions amid a rise in cases.
The archipelago of nearly 100,000 people recorded close to 500 new cases in the three days to 1 May and has
