Depression Monica, which is sweeping the south of France, has caused heavy rainfall and strong gusts. Ten departments are placed on orange rain-flood, violent wind, flood or avalanche alert. In Haute-Loire, the snow storm completely paralyzed Mont Mézenc, with snowdrifts more than a meter high. Fortunately the snowplow was in front, that helped us a … Read more
2023-12-11 12:59:00 NEW YORK — All five boroughs are under a travel advisory Monday, and drivers should expect a messy but manageable commute. CBS New York’s Elijah Westbrook is live in Queens, where the Belt Parkway was shut down for several hours overnight. Crews worked to clear drains and lower water level, and the roadway … Read more
2023-08-23 07:00:00 CNN — Nearly two dozen cattle died in Nebraska, more than 100 Missouri nursing home residents were evacuated and an ice cream shop in Iowa was forced to close as record-shattering heat engulfs more than 20 states. Excessive heat warnings, the most severe form of heat alert, spanned more than 1,100 miles Wednesday, … Read more
2023-10-19 16:37:00 CNN — El Niño will drive what could be a warmer or wetter winter in parts of the US this year, according to an outlook released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday. But don’t worry, snow lovers. El Niño – a natural ocean and weather pattern in the tropical Pacific … Read more
2023-10-12 17:08:00 CNN — A powerful storm will traverse nearly 1,500 miles of the US through the weekend and unload snow, severe thunderstorms and flooding rain along its path, culminating in the eighth consecutive dreary weekend in parts of the Northeast. The storm will dump the first significant snow of the season on parts of … Read more
2023-10-05 17:42:00 The global average temperature since January is the warmest ever measured over the first nine months of the year, 1.40°C above the climate of the 1850s-1900s and closer than ever to the most ambitious limit of the Paris agreement (1.5°C over several years), according to the monthly report from the European Copernicus observatory … Read more
2023-09-16 06:11:52 Six days after the violent floods that devastated the city of Derna, Libya, thousands of people are still missing while the human toll remains uncertain. On the ground, NGOs describe a “chaotic” situation and call for “urgent aid coordination”. Published on : 16/09/2023 – 08:11 3 mn Hopes of finding survivors in the … Read more
2023-09-14 01:36:14 With thousands of dead and missing, Libya paid a heavy price for Storm Daniel which struck the east of the country during the night from Sunday to Monday, particularly devastating the town of Derna. Multiple reasons explain this deadly toll. Flattened homes, cars buried under ocher mud, devastated streets… the list material damage … Read more