meteorology
Much of Europe has been baking over the last few days as the continent faces the latest in a series of scorching heatwaves. It has left many questioning when the unbearably warm weather will end. Almost all of France has seen several days of high-temperature alerts with thermometers soaring over 30C across the country. The extreme heat came as the country faced the anniversary of the 2003 disaster that saw 15,000 people die due to the extreme heat on 11 August. Italy has been engulfed in almost constant heatwaves since the middle of June. Parts of the country have been forecast to see record t...
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Four people have died in Italy this week due to extreme heat, with temperatures reaching 38 degrees Celsius in Rome. Multiple regions are under red high temperature warnings, which are expected until the end of the month across parts of the Mediterranean. Last month, unusually hot weather killed six tourists in Greece, as experts predict another record-hot year driven by climate change. But it can be hard to gauge how dangerous heatwaves are to you in particular. A new tool seeks to bridge that gap by forecasting how likely you are to die when hot weather hits different places in Europe. The d...
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Geneva (AFP) - The amount of dust in the air eased slightly in 2023, the United Nations said Friday, warning that poor environmental management was fuelling sand and dust storms. The UN's weather and climate agency called for greater vigilance in the face of climate change, as drier surface soil leads to more dust being carried in the wind. "Every year, around 2,000 million tons of dust enters the atmosphere, darkening skies and harming air quality in regions that can be thousands of kilometres away, and affecting economies, ecosystems, weather and climate," the World Meteorological Organizati...
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By Robin MILLARD Genève (AFP) - La quantité de poussière dans l'atmosphère a légèrement diminué en 2023, a indiqué vendredi l'Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM), avertissant qu'une mauvaise gestion environnementale augmente le risque de tempêtes de sable et de poussière. Chaque année, environ 2.000 millions de tonnes de poussière pénètrent dans l'atmosphère, "obscurcissant le ciel et nuisant à la qualité de l'air" dans des régions pouvant se trouver à des milliers de kilomètres de là, mais aussi "affectant des économies, des écosystèmes, la météo et le climat", s'est alarmée l'OMM. Mai...
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Sitting on the tiny Thai island of Koh Mak as lightning flashed on the horizon, my eyes were glued to the AccuWeather app. I was mesmerised by the storm tracking feature, which followed the weather front as it erratically skirted my cliffside bungalow. On an island so obscure that it was absent from the world map up until the late 1960s - when German tourists became some of the first European visitors to what they dubbed the ‘Lost World’ - I wondered how a US weather service could so accurately predict the conditions here. So I decided to find out. What does it take to deliver some of the worl...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Climate change caused overwhelmingly by human activity is the primary source of the unprecedented forest fires regularly ravaging the western United States, according to a study published Monday. Fires destroyed an average of 13,500 square kilometers (5,200 square miles) per year in the American west between 2001 and 2018 -- twice as much as between 1984-2000. "It's happened so much faster than we previously anticipated," Rong Fu, who led the study published by the US National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), told the Los Angeles Times. In order to understand what contributed to...
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