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Hong Kong saw 9,437 cloud-to-ground lightening strikes across a 14-hour period beginning at 9pm on Tuesday, as severe storms lashed the territory, according to the Observatory. The Observatory said that heavy showers and squally thunderstorms will continue during Wednesday’s May Day holiday: “Showers will be heavy at times. Moderate east to northeasterly winds, gusty at times.” The thunderstorm warning was first hoisted at 7.17pm on Tuesday and remained in force on Wednesday morning alongside an amber rainstorm warning. Delays continued at Hong Kong’s international airport, with several planes...
Hong Kong Free Press
Airlines have hit back against EU plans to monitor contrails from aircraft, claiming too little is known about their climate impact to regulate them. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says it’s too soon to implement regulations as there are still “gaps” in scientific knowledge about their impact. New EU regulations will see airlines required to measure and report non-CO2 emissions from flights from January 2025. That would include contrails, nitrogen oxides and sulphur. Contrails or condensation trails are created when ice crystals form around tiny particles of carbon emitted ...
Euronews (English)
The risk of avalanches can be predicted by artificial intelligence (AI) just as well as by humans, according to the findings of a three-year research project in Switzerland. The Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) released their report in Davos on Tuesday. The researchers say that machine-trained algorithms and humans have different strengths and weaknesses and can therefore complement each other well. The SLF has been working with AI models for three years, and found that their predictions are often good. "Sometimes they are clearly not, but even we are sometimes wrong," sai...
DPA Breaking News
Global wine production reached a historic low in 2023 and climate change could be to blame, a new report has revealed. The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) says the drink hit its lowest level since 1962. This intergovernmental organisation has 50 member states, representing 75 per cent of the world’s vineyard area. Experts blame “extreme environmental conditions” including droughts and fires that have been driving the downward trend in production. Though climate change is not entirely to blame, the OIV says, these conditions are the greatest challenge the industry is facing. V...
Euronews (English)
Late spring overnight frosts in Germany's wine-growing regions have raised concerns among winemakers about potential impacts on the harvest. The German Winegrowers' Association (DWV) fears that the cold temperatures could damage wine yields this year: "The frosts at this point in time are so devastating because the vegetation is already well advanced after the recent months of record heat," DWV President Klaus Schneider told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain on Friday. "The young, fertile shoots are now freezing, and those that grow back may not be fertile," he said. That means that wineg...
DPA International
Late spring overnight frosts in Germany's wine-growing regions have raised concerns among winemakers about potential impacts on the harvest. The German Winegrowers' Association (DWV) fears that the cold temperatures could damage wine yields this year: "The frosts at this point in time are so devastating because the vegetation is already well advanced after the recent months of record heat," DWV President Klaus Schneider told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain on Friday. "The young, fertile shoots are now freezing, and those that grow back may not be fertile," he said. That means that wineg...
DPA
Late spring overnight frosts in Germany's wine-growing regions have raised concerns among winemakers about potential impacts on the harvest. The German Winegrowers' Association (DWV) fears that the cold temperatures could damage wine yields this year: "The frosts at this point in time are so devastating because the vegetation is already well advanced after the recent months of record heat," DWV President Klaus Schneider told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain on Friday. "The young, fertile shoots are now freezing, and those that grow back may not be fertile," he said. That means that wineg...
DPA Breaking News
Dacca (AFP) - Des milliers de fidèles musulmans ont prié pour la pluie mercredi dans les mosquées et les campagnes du Bangladesh où sévit une vague de chaleur extrême qui a incité les autorités à fermer les écoles. Les températures ont atteint plus de 42°C la semaine dernière dans ce pays. Selon les services météorologiques nationaux, les températures maximales moyennes dans la capitale Dacca cette semaine ont été de 4 à 5 degrés Celsius supérieures à la moyenne des 30 dernières années sur la même période. "Avril est généralement le mois le plus chaud au Bangladesh. Mais ce mois d'avril a été ...
AFP (Français)
By Ludovic EHRET Qingyuan (Chine) (AFP) - Les habitants touchés par de graves inondations survenues dans le sud de la Chine tentent mercredi de sauver leurs biens des eaux boueuses, à l'approche de nouvelles pluies torrentielles contre lesquelles les autorités locales ont mis en garde la population. Des pluies diluviennes frappent depuis jeudi la province méridionale du Guangdong. Quatre personnes ont perdu la vie et plus de 100.000 habitants ont été évacués. Les importantes inondations sont très inhabituelles en cette période de l'année dans cette région verdoyante et subtropicale. Le gouvern...
AFP (Français)
Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average, two top climate monitoring organisations reported on Monday, warning of the consequences for human health, glacier melt and economic activity. The latest five-year averages show that temperatures in Europe are now running 2.3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, compared to 1.3C higher globally, a joint report published Monday by the UN's World Meteorological Organization and the European Union's climate agency, Copernicus, said. “Europe saw yet another year of increasing temper...
Euronews (English)
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