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Flooding in northern Italy Northern Italy has been hit by severe storms and heavy rainfall, leaving several regions, including Padua and Vicenza, submerged. Emergency services have been mobilised, using dinghies to rescue residents from flooded homes, while cars float in the inundated streets. The governor of the Veneto region described the deluge as a "water bomb," reflecting the sudden and devastating nature of the rainfall. In the early hours of Friday, the banks of the Muson dei Sassi river in the Padua area burst due to excessive rain, leading to severe flooding. A freight train was overt...
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The northern French region of Aisne suffered heavy mudslides following a bout of rain between May 1st and May 2nd. The town of Courmelles was particularly affected, with a 57-year-old woman dying after being swept away by mudslides. Her partner was also injured and taken to hospital. The mayor of Courmelles set up a centre to help those impacted by the event, and warned citizens to take protective measures. Fifty-six firefighters were deployed in order to help with search and rescue effort. In Paris, storms on Wednesday prevented around forty flights from landing, which were eventually diverte...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Spain’s drought-stricken region of Catalonia will install a floating desalination plant to help the city of Barcelona guarantee its drinking water supply, regional authorities said Thursday. Barcelona already relies on Europe’s largest desalination plant for domestic use to compensate over three years of below average rainfall that have led to a historic drought made worse by climate change. In February, Catalonia's regional government declared a drought emergency for much of the surrounding region. Now Spain’s second-largest city will get a temporary second desalination plant in its port late...
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With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood - at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralysed Dubai this week, meteorologists have said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No one reports the type of flooding that on Tuesday doused the UAE, which often deploys the technology in an attempt to squeeze every drop of moisture from a sky that usually gives less than 10 to 13 centimetres of rain a year. "It's most certainly not cloud s...
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January, February and March are likely to have been Spain’s warmest first quarter since records began in 1961. National meteorological agency Aemet said on Tuesday that the average temperature in mainland Spain during the first three months of the year was 9.5C. That is 1.9C higher than the average for this time of year and 0.1C higher than the previous record set in 1997. Final data is still needed to confirm the record but the meteorological agency has said, as January and February were already very warm months, it believes the first quarter of 2024 was the warmest in history. Temperatures i...
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Thousands of homes and businesses in the US were left without power and severely damaged infrastructure as extreme weather ripped through several states.
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Cyprus National Day - 1 April - saw temperatures of 34 degrees Celsius, sending thousands of Cypriots to the island's beaches. The beaches in Ayia Napa and Protaras were flooded with people unbothered by the fact such temperatures are well above normal for April. Cyprus is enjoying the summer temperatures due to high pressures in the region. According to weather forecasts, the summer weather on the island will continue throughout the week. Watch the full report in the video player above
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