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MELBOURNE, Feb 14, 2024 (AFP) – Storms packing powerful winds toppled trees, killed one person and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in eastern Australia, officials said Wednesday. The wild weather hit large swathes of Victoria on Tuesday, dumping torrents of rain and unleashing some gusts of more than 150 kilometres per hour (90 miles per hour), officials said. A 50-year-old dairy farmer was killed in the storm, apparently struck […]
MANILA, Dec 12, 2023 (AFP) – The Philippines has so far endured fewer storms in 2023 than in any of the past 25 years and now faces potentially the worst drought in decades, officials said Tuesday. The tropical archipelago nation — which is ranked among the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change — is usually affected by around 20 major storms a year. So far this year, only 10 have made landfall […]
Rolling Fork, United States | AFP | by Inès BEL AIBA A brick house reduced to rubble, its floors strewn with personal effects like a pink backpack and a bottle of shampoo, somehow standing upright. That’s just one of many scenes of the utter devastation left by a tornado that ripped through the southern US state of Mississippi Friday night. And shell-shocked residents of the shattered town of Rolling Fork are now grappling with […]
🚨Per Amory, Mississippi fire scanner: “All of north Amory is gone”. Multiple gas leaks and major damage reported after tornado. Responders having hard time moving through streets due to debris. Forecast Center says debris was being lofted at least 16,000 feet in the air.🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/cebsgts3WP — BIG DAVE (@2bz4thot) March 25, 2023 #SilverCity #Mississippi A wedge tornado reportedly 2mi at the base has destroyed multiple towns in Mississippi and Alabama. Multiple reports of towns […]
by Daxia ROJAS NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) — Chester Lastie clearly recalls Hurricane Katrina, which devastated his neighborhood in eastern New Orleans, 16 years ago to the day. The memories are made all the more vivid by the gusts of wind from Hurricane Ida currently battering his white house. “We were sitting in the yard about 11:00 when the levees broke” on August 29, 2005, he tells AFP. He quickly jumped in his truck […]
by Michelle FITZPATRICK with Deborah COLE in Berlin Agence France Presse MAYEN, Germany (AFP) — Heavy rains and floods lashing western Europe have killed at least 59 people in Germany and nine in Belgium, and many more people are missing as rising waters caused several houses to collapse on Thursday. In Germany, which is experiencing one of the worst weather disasters since World War II, desperate residents sought refuge on the roofs of their homes […]
by Sara HUSSEIN Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Warmer seas caused by climate change are making hurricanes stronger for longer after landfall, increasing the destruction they can wreak on impact, a new study has found. Researchers warn the finding suggests inland communities — which may be less prepared than coastal regions to face hurricanes — are increasingly at risk. The effects of climate change on tropical storms including hurricanes are still being studied, although […]
Rolly (Goni) forecast to weaken further into a tropical depression (Eagle News) — ROLLY” (Goni) rapidly weakens into a tropical storm as another storm “Siony” (Atsani) which has earlier entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) slightly weakened while moving over the Philippine Sea. In Sunday’s 11 p.m. bulletin and today’s 4 a.m. bulletin of PAGASA, it said “ROLLY” is expected to exit the country on Tuesday morning. It is even forecast to further […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain and Ireland were lashed by howling winds and inundated with driving rain Sunday as Storm Ciara left homes without power, wiped out sports events and disrupted travel around northern Europe. The bad weather also hit France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany throughout Sunday, causing scores of flights to be canceled. In Britain, more than 30,000 homes were left without power, largely in eastern England. The highest wind speed […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse Paris, France (AFP) — Overlapping environmental crises could tip the planet into “global systemic collapse,” more than 200 top scientists warned Wednesday. Climate change, extreme weather events from hurricanes to heatwaves, the decline of life-sustaining ecosystems, food security and dwindling stores of fresh water — each poses a monumental challenge to humanity in the 21st century. Out of 30 global-scale risks, these five topped the list both in terms of likelihood […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — At least 27 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a freak storm hit southern Nepal, destroying houses, uprooting trees and toppling electricity poles, officials said. The thunderstorm swept through the district of Bara and adjoining areas late Sunday killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 600, according to the home ministry. “The winds took away everything, my home and my family,” Ram Babu Patel, 45, who lost […]
(Eagle News) — These pictures taken by Sarah Ejorcadas show floodwaters engulfing roads as torrential rains pounded Taiwan in recent days. Taiwan experiences around 2,500 millimeters per year of rainfall. Much of the rainfall comes from typhoons.
