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Australia’s natural disasters bill hits $3.5 billion in 2022, billions more to come

By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) - Floods and natural disasters that hit all but one Australian state and territory in 2022 cost the economy A$5 billion ($3.48 billion) and stoked…

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California picks up debris from latest storm, braces for the next

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Reuters) - Rain-soaked Californians took advantage of a break in a weeks-long deluge to haul away dead trees, restore downed power lines and prepare new…

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California is deluged by record rain with more storms coming

By Kate Fishman MENDOCINO, Calif., (Reuters) - The seventh consecutive atmospheric river since Christmas dumped more rain on Northern California on Wednesday, offering little relief for a state already battered…

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Europe had second-warmest year on record in 2022, EU scientists say

Europe experienced its second-warmest year on record in 2022, European Union scientists said on Tuesday, as climate change unleashed record-breaking weather extremes that slashed crop yields, dried up rivers and…

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Delhi fog delays flights, cold wave closes schools

NEW DELHI, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Heavy fog in Delhi on Monday delayed flights, and a cold wave forced authorities to defer school reopenings a week, as visibility fell and…

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UPDATED: California storm leaves over 560,000 homes without power, more rough weather ahead

Jan 8 (Reuters) - Torrential downpours and damaging winds left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power in California early on Sunday as the area braced for the…

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Many Western Australia communities isolated in ‘record-breaking’ floods

SYDNEY, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Australia's weather forecaster said on Sunday that record-breaking floods in the country's northwest had now left many communities isolated, as the days-long crisis continued. The…

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Western Australia in grip of ‘devastating’ flood emergency, Australia PM says

SYDNEY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday his government was ready to provide whatever support was needed to residents of Western Australia state as record-breaking floods…

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UK’s 2022 was hottest year on record, says forecaster

LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Britain experienced its hottest year on record in 2022, the national weather service confirmed on Wednesday, saying that human-induced climate change had made the temperature…

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Winter heat records smashed all over Europe

Temperatures for January have reached an all-time high in a number of nations across Europe. National records have fallen in eight countries - and regional records in another three. Warsaw…

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Increase of 55% in extreme weather events in Italy in 2022

2022 has been an extremely dark year for the climate in Italy with 310 extreme-weather events and 29 deaths associated with them, the climate observatory of environmental group Legambiente said.…

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Britain’s Met Office says 2022 set to be UK’s warmest yet

LONDON (Reuters) - The year 2022 will be the warmest year on record for the United Kingdom, provisional figures reported by Britain's national weather service showed, after a summer marked…

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2022 was hottest year ever in Italy

2022 was the hottest year ever in Italy, the National Research Council (CNR) revealed. The year was the hottest since records began in 1800, the CNR said. It was the…

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Buffalo, N.Y., digs out from deadly blizzard; warming could bring rain, slush

By Lindsay DeDario and Rich McKay BUFFALO, N.Y., (Reuters) - Storm-weary road crews and residents of western New York state struggled to dig out from a deadly weekend blizzard, with…

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Deadly blizzard, deemed worst in 45 years, paralyzes greater Buffalo, N.Y.

By Gabriella Borter Dec 26 (Reuters) - Road and utility crews faced the task on Monday of digging out and restoring some normalcy around Buffalo, New York, where a blizzard…

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Blizzard kills at 13 in Buffalo, N.Y., area as big freeze grips U.S.

By Gabriella Borter and Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) - A lethal blizzard paralyzed Buffalo, New York, on Christmas Day, trapping motorists and rescue workers in their vehicles, leaving thousands of homes…

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Arctic blast, blizzards disrupt U.S. travel ahead of holidays

By Rich McKay and Gabriella Borter Dec 23 (Reuters) - Arctic cold extended its grip over much of the United States on Friday, combining with snow, ice and howling winds from a…

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Italy set for warmest Christmas in 50 years

Italy is set for its warmest Christmas in 50 years, a top meteorologist said. The centre and south of he peninsula as well as Sicily and Sardinia may well see…

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EU grain crops seen withstanding cold spell

PARIS (Reuters) - A colder than usual spell in parts of Europe is not expected to cause much harm to winter grains and may benefit crops in France after a…

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Photo Story: Snow in Seoul

A woman walks amid snowfall near the Seoul city hall in Seoul South Korea, 15 December 2022. Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) is forecasting heavy snow to hit the capital and…

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Fourth British boy dies after falling into ice-covered lake in Britain

LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A 6-year-old boy became the fourth to die after the children fell into an ice-covered lake in central England earlier this week, police said. Police…

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Heavy snow disrupts UK travel; three boys die after falling into lake

By Alistair Smout and Kylie MacLellan LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Heavy snowfall blanketed parts of Britain on Monday, disrupting airports, train networks and roads, and three young boys died after falling…

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Heavy snow in Britain disrupts travel; National Grid readies two coal plants

LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Heavy snowfall blanketed parts of Britain on Monday, disrupting airports, train networks and roads in London, while two coal plants have been put on standby in case…

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Photo Story: Heavy snow in Krakow, Poland

A man walks on a street during snowfall in Krakow, Poland. Temperatures in Krakow were reported at minus 1 degrees Celsius. The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW)…

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Harsh winter weather could disrupt travel in UK for ‘at least a week’

Freezing fog, ice, sleet and snow are set to cause travel disruption for at least a week, with flights affected in the UK and Republic of Ireland, and more bitter weather…

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Heatwave sweeps South America

A heatwave has hit parts of central South America this week, coinciding with the Immaculate Conception pilgrimage attended by Catholic worshippers. A sizzling 43.5C was recorded in Santiago del Estero,…

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Photo Story: UK temperatures plunge while millions cant afford to heat homes

A woman looks out next to a coffee shop announcement of keeping its doors closed to save on energy costs in London, Britain. UK temperatures have plunged to minus zero…

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Photo Story: First snowfall of the season in Geneva

Two people are seen in a park on Friday morning during the first snowfall of the season, in Geneva, Switzerland. Via EPA-EFE/SALVATORE DI NOLFI

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Extreme cold weather grips UK

The British the Met Office warned that an Arctic blast is hitting the UK, which could cause overnight temperatures as low as -10C by the end of the week. Motorists…

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Fresh storm front to hit Italy this weekend

A fresh storm front will hit Italy this weekend after a two-day lull in the rain, www.iLMeteo.it weatherman Andrea Garbinato warned. The northeast and Sardinia will be the first to…

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Landslide hits Italian island of Ischia, one woman dead, 10 missing

MILAN (Reuters) -A woman was found dead and around 10 people were still missing on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia after a landslide engulfed buildings during heavy rain…

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Ukrainians work to restore power to nuclear plants as country freezes

KYIV, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Ukraine restored power on Thursday to two of its four nuclear power plants but much of the country remained consigned to freezing darkness by the most devastating…

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Father and son missing as floods hit northern Albania

TIRANA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A father and son were missing in Albania on Sunday after their car was swept into a river during floods in the north of the country as…

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Heavy rain batters Scotland, One person swept into river

A woman has been reportedly swept into the River Don in Aberdeenshire, as heavy rain is set to bring more disruption to Scotland as well as the northeast of England…

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Extreme weather events in Italy up 27% this year, Sicily worst affected

Italy experienced 254 extreme-weather events in the first 10 months of 2022, which is already 27% more than the number registered in the whole of 2021, environmental association Legambiente said…

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Italy set for more rain in next 10 days than rest of year

Italy is set to get more rain over the next 10 days than it has in the rest of the year so far, Italian meteorological official Lorenzo Tedici warned on…

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People rescued from cars after floods hit Valencia, Spain

Firefighters had to rescue people who were trapped in cars and homes after heavy rain caused flooding in Valencia, Spain. The popular holiday destination faced travel disruption, with the airport…

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Residents told to evacuate as flood waters rise in regional Australia

SYDNEY, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents in major regional towns across Australia's most populous state are being urged to leave homes as slow-moving floodwaters push downstream and the…

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Australia’s east braces for more heavy rain, ‘life-threatening’ floods

SYDNEY, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Large swathes of Australia's southeast were under flood evacuation alerts on Saturday as the nation's weather forecaster warned major flooding could hit parts of New…

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Photo story: The aftermath of floods in Heraklion, Crete

A street with damaged cars and debris that were dragged by floods, in the aftermath of a flood in Aghia Pelagia, Heraklion, Crete island, Greece, 16 October 2022. House and…

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California’s drought withers tomatoes, pushing grocery prices higher

FIREBAUGH, Calif. (Reuters) - A lack of rain and snow in central California and restricted water supplies from the Colorado River in the southernmost part of the state have withered…

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Florida, Carolinas count the cost of Hurricane Ian

By Brad Brooks and Jonathan Drake FORT MYERS, Fla./CHARLESTON, S.C., Oct 1 (Reuters) - Florida, North and South Carolina were on Saturday trying to recover from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian,…

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Hurricane Ian rips into western Cuba, with Florida in its sights

Hurricane Ian slammed into western Cuba on Tuesday, forcing evacuations, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people and swamping fishing villages as it tracked northward toward Florida, where residents…

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Japan issues special typhoon warning as ‘unprecedented’ storm approaches

TOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a special typhoon warning on Saturday for Kagoshima prefecture on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's main islands, as the region braces for…

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UPDATED: At least 10 dead as flash floods hit Italy’s Marche region

Ten people are dead after violent storms and flash floods hit the central Italian region of Marche, the Ancona prefect's department said on Friday, as rescuers continued to search for…

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Photo Story: Waterspout over Lake Garda in Italy

A tornado, or waterspout, is witnessed over the Veronese part of the Lake Garda, northern Italy, 08 September 2022. Although the water tornados mostly occur in tropical and subtropical areas…

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Europe’s summer shatters records

This summer was the hottest on record in Europe, according to data from EU satellite monitoring. A series of extreme heatwaves and a long running drought saw June, July and…

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Californians seek relief as heat wave continues to grip state

SACRAMENTO, Calif., (Reuters) - A man in a heat-stricken suburb of Los Angeles and a woman with two young kids in Pomona were among the Californians desperately seeking cool shelter…

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Pakistan looks ‘like a sea’ after floods, PM says, as 18 more die

SEHWAN, Pakistan, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Parts of Pakistan seemed "like a sea", Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as…

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Photo Story: Bad weather in Italy

Lightning on Sunday in the skies of the Roman coast, due to bad weather in Ostia, Italy Photo: EPA-EFE/EMANUELE VALERI

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Eastern Australia areas hit by March storms under severe weather warnings

SYDNEY, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Parts of eastern Australia were under severe weather and flood warnings, the country's weather forecaster said on Sunday, months after massive floods hit the country's…

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Italian scientists call for year-round summer time to cut energy costs

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian scientists are calling on the government to extend daylight saving time to the whole year to cut energy bills, reduce pollution and improve people's health, the…

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South Pakistan braces for yet more flooding as waters flow down from north

DADU, Pakistan (Reuters) - Southern Pakistan braced for yet more flooding as a surge of water flowed down the Indus river, threatening further devastation in a country already a third…

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Spanish toddler dies after being hit by giant hailstone

MADRID, Aug 31 (Reuters) - A 20-month-old girl died after being struck on the head during a violent hailstorm that caused havoc in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, authorities said on Wednesday.…

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England faces longer, drier summers due to climate change -Met Office

LONDON, Aug 0 (Reuters) - England is likely to experience longer, drier summers later this decade that could worsen the risk of droughts, according to British national forecaster the Met…

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Photo Story: The drought in Poland

Boats sit on the exposed bottom of one of the arms of the Solinskie (Solina) Lake, in the town of Chrewt, southeastern Poland. Due to the lack of rainfall and…

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Looks aren’t everything – British supermarkets to stock misshapen fruit amid drought

Two British supermarket chains will stock bent carrots and other misshapen fruit and vegetables on their shelves in an effort to support farmers hit by drought after a heatwave. Normally…

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