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Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria The violent weather that battered Europe this summer caused short-term economic losses of at least €43bn, according to an EU-wide estimate, with costs expected t…
Devastating twister packs gusts of up to 168mph, injuring 89 people and leaving trail of destructionJapan has experienced the strongest tornado in its recorded history after a devastating twister tore through Shizuoka prefecture.Classified as a JEF3, l…
Downpours threatening lives and property this autumn will not provide respite from months of dry weatherFloods could hit England while the country is still in drought, forecasters have said.Heavy downpours threatening lives and property could hit this …
Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of cropsFor days, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab watched the pounding monsoon rains fall and the rivers rise with mounting apprehension. By Wednesda…
Blaze in Chinese Camp – a town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners – was caused by lightning, authorities sayMultiple structures have burned in a historic Gold Rush town in northern California after thousands of lightning strikes ignited a spate of f…
Unprecedented average temperature made about 70 times more likely by human-induced climate change, says agencyThe UK has had its hottest summer on record, the Met Office has said, after the country faced four heatwaves in a single season.The mean tempe…
Weather services of UK, Ireland and Netherlands chose list of 21 names from 50,000 suggestions by the publicMeteorologists in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands have announced this year’s north Atlantic winter storm names, chosen after 50,000 suggesti…
Duration of torrential rains from Typhoon Kajiki lead to elevated landslide risk across Laos and ThailandTyphoon Kajiki steadily intensified over the South China Sea last weekend into a category 2 storm with sustained wind speeds of 115mph. It made la…
Erin went from a tropical storm to a category 5 in about 24 hours, underscoring the danger of hurricane season amid a diminished Fema and National Weather ServiceThis season’s first hurricane – and the first of the Trump administration’s new era of met…
More than 300 dead after downpours in mountainous regions and several killed in Indian city of MumbaiHeavy monsoon rains have continued to pummel the Indian subcontinent over the past week, bringing devastating flooding and landslides and leaving hundr…