February 27, 2020 10:31 PM WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - When Hurricane Dorian crashed into the Atlantic Coast in September, President Donald Trump assumed a take-charge role in response. But he undermined his own effectiveness after it became apparent that before displaying a map in front of the television cameras in the Oval Office, he had altered it with a Sharpie pen to match his inaccurate forecast of where the storm was headed.
Storm Jorge may bring 70mph winds on coast and downpours in Wales and northern England People living in flooded areas are facing more misery as the third storm to hit the UK in a month takes hold over the weekend. Storm Jorge is expected to batter coastal areas with winds of up to 70mph, while downpours of up to 80mm could fall on already flooded areas. Continue reading...
Five people have died, three are missing and thousands were forced from their homes after severe floods in Jakarta while an earthquake also rattled the country today.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has stopped a multiyear study of strategies and projects meant to protect the New York City region against catastrophic storm surges and rising seas.
Roope Hintz had a goal and two assists and the surging Dallas Stars rode a three-goal first period to a 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday night.
Floods that have crippled much of Indonesia’s capital intensified on Tuesday, inundating thousands of homes and buildings, including the presidential palace, and paralysing transport networks, officials and witnesses said.Overnight rains caused more rivers to burst their banks in greater Jakarta starting on Sunday, sending muddy water up to 1.5 metres deep into more residential and commercial areas, said Agus Wibowo, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s spokesman.Floodwaters entered parts…
Floods that have crippled much of Indonesia’s capital worsened Tuesday, inundating thousands of homes and buildings, including the presidential palace, and paralyzing transport networks
"I got off the ice (Saturday) and I think I had 160 text messages," David Ayres said.
The Panasonic Wild Knights maintained their perfect start to the Japan Rugby Top League season Saturday, beating the NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes 40-3 at Hanazono ...
One worker at Hampton House had been turning up in a kayak, its manager said.
In homes metres away from the river, residents say they are constantly on alert Kelly Ramsden hardly sleeps a wink when heavy rain is forecast. Last Saturday, when the army was deployed to Yorkshire’s Calder Valley to build flood defences in preparation for Storm Dennis, the 39-year-old was up half the night fretting. She doesn’t have to wait for flood sirens to know if she needs to switch from slippers to wellies. The window of her attic bedroom looks up towards the moors and she can gauge how soggy her kitchen will be by the amount of water rushing down the hillside towards the cobbled alley at the back of her house. From her living room, she can guess whether the River Calder, speeding along just 15 metres away behind a waist-high wall, is going to cause problems downstream in Hebden...
A winter storm is bringing dangerous road conditions and black ice for drivers Friday morning in the Southeast.
Severe weather brought heavy rain and strong winds and flooded hundreds of properties Flooding and damage left in the wake of Storm Dennis, which swept across the UK on 15 and 16 February, is estimated to cost £225m in insurance claims, taking the total insurance costs from two February storms to £425m . The severe weather brought heavy rain and strong winds to England and Wales, which led to record high river levels and flooded hundreds of properties. Continue reading...
Downpours continue as some areas struggle to cope with flooding in the wake of Storm Dennis.
Coping with storm surge fueled by rising seas in the Keys means elevating homes, buyouts in vulnerable areas, protecting important places like hospitals and wastewater plants and stabilizing parts of the Overseas Highway that could get washed out in storms.
Three Met Office warnings for rain are issued, as 1,400 properties are already affected by floods.
The huge storm, bringing thunder, lightning sideways rain and 100kmh winds, hit the city at shortly before 11pm and lasted about 40minutes before moving into the ocean.
Mangrove forests in the Florida Everglades benefit from nutrients and sediment washed up during some major hurricanes, and that helps coastal areas adapt to rising seas, a study concludes.
February 18, 2020 5:00 AM LONDON • Britain began to clear up yesterday after Storm Dennis battered the country over the weekend, leading the government's weather agency to issue a rare "danger to life" warning amid widespread flooding and high winds.
Although the severe weather associated with Storm Dennis has passed, there is further wet and windy weather to come this week.
Britain has issued six severe flood warnings, advising of life-threatening danger in central England after Storm Dennis roared through
Dennis has become one of the most powerful nontropical cyclones on record in the North Atlantic, packing hurricane-force winds and turning a vast swath of seas into a churning, ship-sinking cauldron with individual waves topping 30m....
A man died after falling into a river on Sunday as Storm Dennis swept across Britain with the army drafted in to help deal with heavy flooding and high winds.The man fell into the River Tawe, in south Wales, police said.The storm also battered much of France, with some 60,000 people suffering power cuts in the northwest of the country.Britain’s government weather agency issued a rare red warning for south Wales, saying there was a risk of “significant impacts from flooding” that included a …
Roads shut and trains suspended as storm lashes large parts of country ‘Life-threatening’ flood warnings in south Wales Anger and fear across UK as second storm wreaks havoc 9.29am GMT The Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s (Sepa) highest warning level remains in force for Newcastleton and Hawick in the Borders on Sunday after they advised some residents to leave their homes. It’s been a challenging night for many parts of Scotland. 3 Severe Warnings, 49 Local Flood Warnings and 15 Regional Flood Alerts issued. Our Duty Manager spoke to @bbcbreakfast this morning (Part 1 of 2). Live flood updates https://t.co/EZKe42l5DN #StormDennis #floodaware pic.twitter.com/qYzLqs5r84 Severe flood warnings for areas in the Scottish Borders have been issued tonight as we...
February 16, 2020 5:00 AM LONDON • Britain is suffering a second weekend of downpours and destructive winds as Storm Dennis sweeps in from the Atlantic just days after the last cyclone battered the country.
Two people died yesterday and tens of thousands faced travel chaos as Storm Dennis swept across the country, heaping further misery on already flood-hit areas.
Storm Dennis forms in the North Atlantic taking aim at the United Kingdom with hurricane force winds.
Follow the day’s developments as high winds, heavy rain and flooding expected to bring havoc in UK 3.41pm GMT The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company has suspended services between the island’s capital, Douglas, and Heysham in Lancashire. The firm says there may be no sailings until Monday morning because of Storm Dennis but “the situation will be checked regularly in case any can run”. 3.30pm GMT Environment Agency Midlands has warned that Storm Dennis could bring some heavy rain to Lincolnshire overnight and tomorrow. Continue reading...
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More than 200 flights cancelled as military is sent to Calderdale to bolster preparations for latest storm Storm Dennis will batter the UK this weekend with winds of up to 70mph and more than a month’s rain expected to fall in just two days in some areas, as fears are heightened that hundreds of homes may be flooded. With the country hit by horrendous weather for the second weekend in a row, the military is being sent to Calderdale, West Yorkshire, on Saturday to support the recovery and bolster preparations for the latest storm. Continue reading...
The 1,200-mile wide 'Dennis the Menace' storm - which will bring 60mph winds and 100mm of rain in some areas - is to cause mayhem for towns in Yorkshire's Calder Valley.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Devils were starting to get a little momentum recently, but Friday’s loss put a sudden stop to that. Andrei Svechnikov scored on a perfectly executed rush in the second period to push his point streak to six games and help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 5-2. Mirco Mueller...
South Florida residents have grown used to the looming threat of hurricanes crashing into the coast and disrupting their lives for days or weeks. But Spirit Airlines has had enough. The airline, one of only a handful still operating out of South Florida, is relocating its operations department to somewhere much less likely to get leveled by a hurricane — Tennessee. The Operations Control Center, a computer-packed hub at Spirit’s headquarters in Miramar responsible for coordinating more than 650 daily flights, will relocate to Williamson County, Tenn. come 2021. Twice previously, Spirit has been forced to move the center’s 240 employees out of state temporarily during hurricanes — once to Detroit during Hurricane Irma in 2017 and once to Atlanta during Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Read more at...
Storm Dennis will bring very heavy rain and strong winds to the UK this weekend, with a risk of flooding and travel disruption in some areas.
One week after Storm Ciara lashed the United Kingdom with heavy rain and extreme wind gusts, another storm is knocking at the door.
It's a near certainty flood tides will swamp communities along the Upper Mississippi River this spring, perhaps reaching within a few feet of last year's historic floods.
Elsewhere in the country rainfall offered relief from the bushfires, but caused flash flooding as well Tropical Cyclone Damien made landfall in Western Australia over the weekend and lashed north-western parts of Australia with heavy rain and damaging winds. Unrelated to the cyclone, eastern Australia also recently had some substantial rainfall totals. While rain came as welcome relief after the severe bushfires, flash floods have now swept across the region. Storm Hervé marked the end of unseasonable warmth across parts of France and Germany last week as the system brought a cooler airmass, strong winds, and fresh, heavy snowfall to the Alps. Prior to this, south-west Europe as a whole was experiencing exceptional heat, and temperatures rocketed to 29.6C in Valencia in Spain on Tuesday...
World meteorological agencies decide when a storm gets a name and what to call it In Europe storms are named as a joint enterprise between the UK’s Met Office, Ireland’s Met Éireann and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). The list is set in advance, runs in alphabetical order and usually alternates between names associated with male and female gender. In 2020, Ellen, Francis, Gerda and Hugh are to follow Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis in turn. According to the Met Office, the decision for a storm to be named is “based on a combination of both the impact the weather may have, and the likelihood of those impacts occurring. A storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red weather warning.” Continue reading...
A swell caused by storm Sabine flooded Hamburg's iconic fish market. Fish could now be swimming through the stalls where they are usually sold.
The combination of extreme weather events will have cascading impacts on fish, platypus and invertebrates, threatening some with extinction Australia’s rivers are being hit by a “triple whammy” of impacts that will have serious and long-term effects on species and could push some to extinction, according to experts. Drought, bushfires in river catchments and now widespread heavy rain in the east of the country have created a cascade of impacts on fish, invertebrates and platypus. Continue reading...
Twenty-one provinces in the North, Northeast and central region have been declared drought-hit areas, Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation director-general, Monton Sudprasert, said on Tuesday.
At least 250 unaccounted for after heavy rainfall across Pacific north-west overwhelmed cage of fish waiting to be released A pioneering tribal biodiversity project to restore the sacred Pacific lamprey population has been dealt a major blow after huge floods washed away hundreds of fish before they could be released into the wild. The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) have spent two decades reintroducing the lamprey into tributaries of the Columbia River after US government dams and industrial fishing wiped out the endemic species. Continue reading...
Dozens of flood warnings still in place with heavy wind and rain due on Saturday MPs have condemned the “completely unacceptable” failure of flood defences after parts of Yorkshire were under water for the second time in four years, with further downpours forecast. A second person died following Storm Ciara’s passage through Britain when a dog walker in his 60s was hit by a falling tree branch in Liverpool on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Wildfire prevention and water conservation are among the last topics I ever thought I’d write about. Over decades of living in Anchorage, I’ve never needed to think about wildfire prevention, other than ensuring my firewood wasn’t leaning against my house. And we’ve had so much snow and so many glaciers that conserving water was the last thing on my mind. - PUB DATE: 2/11/2020 1:04:11 PM - SOURCE: Cordova Times
Parched parts of New Zealand aren't expected to get a rainy reprieve any time soon, with the remnants of Cyclone Uesi looking likely to dodge the drought-hit north. And, until the weekend at least, a ...
Authorities across Britain warned against taking photographs during Storm Ciara after some clambered onto cliffs and sea walls to take extreme weather snaps.
Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia's weather an almost biblical feel this year. Now a recent deluge in eastern parts of the country has drenched deadly fires and helped ease a crippling drought.
Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia’s weather an almost Biblical feel this year
A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bush fires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come.The weekend drenching represented the biggest sustained run of rainfall in Sydney and surrounding areas for 30 years, dousing some bush fires and replenishing depleted dams across New South Wales, the country’s most popular state.Some rural areas received more rain in recent days than they…
Storm Ciara battered the UK and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains yesterday, halting flights and trains and producing heaving seas that closed down ports. Soccer games, farmers' markets and cultural events...
Without urgent action, rising sea levels by end of century could leave cities under water A series of detailed maps have laid bare the scale of possible forest fires, floods, droughts and deluges that Europe could face by the end of the century without urgent action to adapt to and confront global heating. An average one-metre rise in sea levels by the end of the century – without any flood prevention action – would mean 90% of the surface of Hull would be under water, according to the European Environment Agency. Continue reading...
Storm Ciara battered the UK and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains yesterday, halting flights and trains and producing heaving seas that closed down ports. Soccer games, farmers' ...
A strong winter storm that battered the British Isles and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains has moved eastward
Storm Ciara has battered the U.K. and northern Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains
A four-day downpour across Australia's east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come.
Sinn Féin’s surge leaves the republic with a political outcome that will struggle to respond to the public mood As Storm Ciara swept across Ireland on Saturday, bringing floods and power cuts and ripping up trees in its wake, Irish voters delivered an electoral uprooting all of their own. Forty years ago, Ireland’s two main political parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael – which each trace their roots to Irish nationalist divisions in the 1920s – regularly polled over 80% of the votes in most elections. On Saturday, however, they polled just 44% between them. Other parties have often gained ground since the 1980s, and did well again this time. But the standout performance was that of Sinn Féin , which came within a whisker of topping an Irish poll for the first time in nearly a century. It...
Air, rail, roads and ferries across the country are affected by severe gales and heavy rain.
Storm Ciara lashed Britain and northern continental Europe with heavy rain and wind speeds that reached more than 90 miles an hour (145 kph) in places on Sunday, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights, train services and sports matches.
Trains, flights and ferries have been cancelled and weather warnings issued across the United Kingdom and elsewhere in northern Europe on Sunday as a storm with hurricane-level winds battered the region.
The Worcestershire village of Severn Stoke has been deluged after the River Severn broke its banks following heavy rainfall in the aftermath of Storm Dennis nearly a fortnight ago.
February 26, 2020 3:13 PM JAKARTA (XINHUA) - Floods, landslides and whirlwind have forced almost 10,000 people to flee home in West Java province's district of Karawang, spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) Agus Wibowo said on Wednesday (Feb 26).
LOEI: Unseasonal drought, floods and the negative impact of hydropower projects on the Mekong River's ecology were major concerns raised by residents of northeastern provinces at a public hearing on the Luang Prabang Dam on Tuesday.
New Zealand will likely see no GDP growth this quarter as coronavirus and drought deliver a short, sharp shock to the economy, according to new forecasts by the NZ Institute of Economic Research. "Covid-19 ...
The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe thunderstorm alert for the greater Perth area on Tuesday afternoon as wind speeds of up to 126km/h were recorded at Kalannie at 4.17pm.
Floods that have crippled much of Indonesia's capital worsened today, inundating thousands of homes and buildings, including the presidential palace, and paralyzing transport networks, officials and witnesses said.
Scarcely have floods that hit Venice last year receded than the coronavirus has posed a new threat to the lagoon city's billion-euro tourism industry, shutting carnival for the first time in 50 years and fuelling fears of a second "economic" virus.
David Ayres, who played in 6-3 win after injuries to Carolina Hurricanes goalies James Reimer, Petr Mrazek, drives a Zamboni for the Toronto Marlies.
TORONTO — Emergency backup goalie Dave Ayres made eight saves in relief of Carolina’s two injured netminders in the Hurricanes’ 6-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. Ayres, who works as a Zamboni driver for the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League, was forced into action midway through the second period...
Business owners describe how they have been left counting the cost of the floods caused by Storm Dennis.
Australians on the drought, dust, fire and floods of one of the most turbulent summers in memory.
Cyclone Winston devastated Fiji’s agriculture sector, but regenerative farming may provide the solution When Tropical Cyclone Winston struck Abhishek Sapra’s farm exactly four years ago, the damage was monumental. Sapra suffered losses of over $F500,000 (US$227,000). “The trees were stripped of all their leaves, a lot of heritage trees fell over, crops were almost completely wiped out,” says Sapra. “Unless it was underground it didn’t survive.” Continue reading...
An experienced hurricane hunting crew chasing a winter storm came across a far different discovery this past weekend. In what is know as St. Elmo's fire, footage of the forking electric discharge was captured on Saturday by pilots as the spectacle flashed throughout the cockpit.The video, captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), was taken as pilots flew across the Atlantic Ocean amid thunderstorms. NOAA deployed the hunters to support a project analyzing ocean surface winds in winter storms over the North Atlantic.The flight took place as Storm Dennis chugged along in the North Atlantic approaching Ireland and the United Kingdom.While frightening and shocking on camera, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Samuhel said the...
A clip shows the Caban Coch Dam, in the Elan Valley, transformed into a waterfall as gallons of rainwater cascades over the structure's edge.
The extreme wet weather has flooded many low-lying badger setts in North Wales and damaged the structures of those on high ground.
Filed under: Forecasts, US, Weather The same storm that brought a general 3-6 inches of snow to part of the Upper Midwest on Monday was finishing up its wintry task over the northern tier of the Northeast and adjacent Canada on Tuesday.Read more... Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Five people are believed to have died in the storm after West Mercia Police announced the operation to find a woman swept away by floodwater in Tenbury, Worcestershire, is now a 'recovery one'.
Britain issued severe flood warnings Monday advising of life-threatening danger after Storm Dennis dumped weeks worth of rain in some places. A woman was found dead after being swept away by the floodwaters, the storm's third confirmed victim.
Britain on Monday battled fallout from Storm Dennis as hundreds of flood warnings remained in place after the second severe storm in seven days battered the country over the weekend. "This is not yet over," warned James Bevan, chief executive of the Environment Agency, which is responsible for flood protection. "We still have many flood warnings in force and we may still see significant flooding in the middle of this week from larger rivers," he told BBC radio.
[New Zimbabwe] At least 181 homes were badly damaged with 37 of them completely damaged, according to preliminary reports from various organisations that visited Binga to assess the extent of damage caused by floods that hit the area last week.
Storm Dennis swept across Britain on Sunday with the army drafted in to help deal with heavy flooding and high winds, and officials warning it could be “life-threatening” in South Wales.The government weather agency issued a rare red warning for the area, saying there was a risk of “significant impacts from flooding” that included a “danger to life from fast flowing water, extensive flooding to property and road closures”. This is the first such red warning in almost two years.More than 350…
Soldiers are sent to shore up defences in Yorkshire as experts warn floods could be worse than Ciara.
The storm dumped more than a month's worth of rain in parts of Wales, flooding towns and prompting evacuations.
As Dennis rages in a week after Ciara, flights are cancelled and trains are delayed amid warnings of widespread flooding Storm Dennis has wreaked havoc on Britain, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and trains, and the deaths of at least two people yesterday. As the so-called bomb cyclone battered the coastline, as much as a month’s worth of rainfall was predicted overnight and into Sunday morning in some parts of the UK. Continue reading...
Across the United Kingdom, people are enduring another weekend of strong winds, heavy rain and potential flooding as a powerful bomb cyclone hits the region.
The British army has been deployed to help with flood relief for a powerful bomb cyclone that has killed two people and threatens a host of extreme weather elements including blizzard conditions and powerful winds across Iceland and Britain through the weekend.
All the action as the Hurricanes host the Sharks in Super Rugby. Hurricanes captain TJ Perenara has been praised for his honesty after an act of sportsmanship during his side's 26-23 ...
For a second consecutive weekend, the U.K. is bracing for a hit of wild weather with an approaching storm that's expected to bring high waves, hurricane-force winds and flooding.
[263Chat] The scepter of the ghost of Cyclone Idai has once again hit the eastern province as flash floods damaged bypasses erected to allow for repair works on bridges destroyed by last year's violent rains.
Following four deaths during Storm Ciara last week, the Met Office raised the alert to amber for Dartmoor and south Devon, most of Wales, the Pennines and large swathes of Yorkshire.
Storm Denniss, 24, of Whitby, Yorkshire, was given the name Storm because he was born a particularly blustery night in March 1995.
Despite being downgraded, ex-tropical Cyclone Uesi is still powerful and communities in the lower South Island are being warned to brace themselves. And it could bring some much-needed rain to the drought-stricken ...
Die Headliner stehen bereits fest. Nun füllen sich auch die zweiten Reihen. Die Schwesternfestivals Hurricane und Southside haben ihr Line-up 2020 erweitert. Nachdem unter anderem bereits Deichkind, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Rise Against, Seeed, Martin Garrix und Twenty One Pilots als Headliner bestätigt wurden, kommen nun weitere Namen hinzu. So werden zum Beispiel Sum 41, Sam Fender, Bombay Bicycle Club, Modeselektor live, Catfish And The Bottlemen,...
Minister says he has ‘had enough’ of company’s failure to deal with waste dump that was almost breached by South Island floods New Zealand’s environment minister has threatened the mining conglomerate Rio Tinto with legal action over what he says is an “outrageous” failure to deal with toxic waste from an aluminium plant. Recent South Island floods – in which the waste’s storage facility was nearly inundated, bringing ecological and human tragedy – have infuriated locals in Mataura, where 10,000 tonnes of “ouvea premix” resides. Continue reading...
Filed under: Impact, international, Weather A snowstorm sweeping in from the Black Sea slammed the coast of Hopa, Turkey on Saturday. The storm blanketed the town in buckets of snow. A resident who shot the video said, "It was a bit scary, but at the same time it was a natural wonder," according to BBC.Read more... Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
February 12, 2020 1:50 PM BUHERA, ZIMBABWE (AFP) - Just under a year ago, Ms Alice Posha fled her home in the middle of the night and then watched as it was swept away by floods.
Cumbria, Northumberland and Scotland brace for blizzards and travel disruption Snow and ice could cause travel disruption on Wednesday before Britain is struck by another burst of heavy rain and gales from Storm Dennis over the weekend. Cumbria, Northumberland and vast swathes of Scotland have been warned of “blizzard conditions” by the Met Office as snow showers combine with strong winds. Continue reading...
A Toyota Land cruiser was captured on a security camera heading across the road at Audley Weir in Sydney's Royal National Park.
February 11, 2020 5:21 PM SYDNEY (AFP) - Heavy rain has given hope to Australia's drought-stricken regions, but scientists warned on Tuesday (Feb 11) that sustained falls were needed to end a years-long dry spell.
Filed under: Impact, international, Weather Tense footage of Storm Ciara shows the immense strength of the storm blowing through the Netherlands. Storm Ciara, also known as Storm Sabine or Storm Elsa, is an active extratropical cyclone that brought heavy rain and severe winds across much of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden and other northern regions in Europe.Read more... Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Ferocious winds, with gusts over 125 mph, lashed Corsica and whipped up a forest fire that flared overnight on the French Mediterranean island today, after a storm with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains battered Northern Europe for days, killing at least eight people and causing severe travel disruptions.
A new windstorm threat looms for Europe just days after deadly Storm Ciara triggered widespread travel disruptions from the United Kingdom to Germany.Storm Dennis was officially named by the UK Met Office on Tuesday, making it the fourth-named windstorm of the season by collaboration of Ireland, the United Kingdom and Netherlands. Windstorm season traditionally runs from September through the end of April.Dennis is expected to rapidly intensify as it tracks across the northern Atlantic Ocean with the central pressure of the storm plummeting more than 1.50 inches of mercury (51 mb) over a 24-hour period. Storm Dennis churns over the North Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. (AccuWeather) This incredible drop in pressure is more than two times greater than what is needed to be considered...
February 11, 2020 5:00 AM MELBOURNE/SYDNEY • A four-day downpour across Australia's east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bush fires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come.
Dramatic video captured how Storm Ciara turned airliners into bucking broncos as the pilots fought to take off and land at Birmingham’s airport in the UK and in Zurich, Switzerland. Britain’s biggest storm in seven years – with maximum wind speeds of 93 mph — forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights, but some pilots...
Around 240 flights to and from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, one of Europe's busiest, were canceled on Sunday as a powerful storm blew in off the Atlantic Ocean with wind gusts of up to 120 km per hour (74 mph).
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come. The weekend drenching represented the biggest sustained run of rainfall in Sydney and surrounding areas for 30 years, dousing some … Continued The post Heavy rains bring both relief and new dangers to bushfire-hit Australia appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Travel disruption set to continue with more strong winds, snow and ice in the north More than 20,000 homes have spent the night without power as the UK continued to reel from Storm Ciara. As of 5am on Monday, UK Power Networks reported more than 18,500 properties across the east and south-east of England were still without power while Western Power Distribution said more than 2,800 homes were left in the dark. Continue reading...
Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia's weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that a recent deluge in eastern parts has drenched deadly fires. But experts say it will take some time to know to what extent the rainfall has replenished dried-up rivers and soil in some inland areas most affected by the 3-year drought.
Weather warnings remain in place as the after effects of Storm Ciara continue to be felt across the UK.
Swathes of northern France were placed on orange alert with people advised to avoid the coast due to possible storm surges. Britain, which bore the brunt of the storm, remained on alert with the meteorological office warning of strong winds, heavy rain and snow.
A strong winter storm that has battered Europe with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains and killed at least five people moved eastward Monday, causing severe travel disruptions across the continent. After striking Britain and Ireland on Sunday, the storm moved on, leaving a trail of damage including power cuts for tens of thousands of homes across Europe. Two men, one in the north of Slovenia and another in southern England, also died after their cars were hit by falling trees.
Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia's weather an almost Biblical feel this year. Quentin Grafton, an economics professor and water expert at Australian National University in Canberra, said the rain had broken the drought in some towns but had not fallen evenly across all the affected areas. “At this stage, it's very good news, and certainly much more than people could have wished for or expected,” he said of the rainfall.
Evacuation orders are in place for several areas around Sydney, with thousands of homes still without power after Sunday’s rainfall. Follow all today’s updates 9.54pm GMT The Queensland town of Stanthorpe, which has had such little water in the drought that it had begun having water trucked in , had about a month’s worth of rain over the past few days. Stanthorpe could get around 15mm of rain today, but according to AAP, Southern Downs mayor Tracy Dobie says the town would need six months’ worth of water to flow into the Storm King dam in order for the water trucking to stop. 9.48pm GMT I am waiting to get data from Water NSW on what the massive amount of rain means for the state’s dam levels, but here’s an indication of just how much we think has filled Warragamba. This...
Thousands of passengers have been left stranded across the country after trains and planes were cancelled, with motorways shut as floods rip through towns and waves crash the coastlines.
Hurricane-force winds and rain rock transport network and engulf defences to bring fresh misery to flood-hit communities 3.53pm GMT Rail companies that have issued warnings against travel today included Gatwick Express, Great Northern, LNER, Northern, Southeastern, Southern, Thameslink, Grand Central Hull Trains and TransPennine Express. Avanti West Coast, which runs rail services between London and Scotland, took the decision not to run trains north of Preston. ⚠️ Oh look. This is #Bickley on the Victoria/Chatham main line, it's our second trampoline of the day and the lines are blocked and power off. Trains affected are @Se_Railway + @TLRailUK . We've got a team on its way. #StormCiara trampoline count: 2 ⚠️ pic.twitter.com/seeeB5TmjV 3.50pm GMT This is quite...
After months of crippling drought Australia's east coast has finally been blessed with a record breaking downpour, which has seen the weather switch from one extreme to another.
Hundreds of flights into and out of European airports were cancelled as Britain's biggest storm in seven years swept into Scotland, with the rest of the UK being issued with several weather warnings.