BEIJING: The first snowfall of winter arrived in Beijing early Monday (Jan 11), covering the Chinese capital with a mantle of white overnight and plunging the city into freezing temperatures, with even colder weather looming this week in northern China. Snowfall reached 5.8m on average by early Monday, with the highest snowfall of 10.2mm recorded … Read more
TWO days of weather warnings have been issued with flood alerts and 81mph gales as Storm Fergus batters Britain. The tempest made landfall on Sunday as Storm Elin battered the country with strong winds and downpours on Saturday. 7 One van was abandoned and later towed after becoming submerged in three feet of floodwater at Buttsbury, … Read more
A VAN is submerged and walkers struggle with brollies yesterday as Britain was drenched again. Storm Fergus made landfall yesterday after Storm Elin battered the nation with strong winds and heavy downpours on Saturday. 4 Storm Fergus brought downpours over the weekend – leaving this can partly submergedCredit: Stephen Huntley/HVC 4 Walkers brave the wind … Read more
AT least six people are dead and nearly two dozen others injured after possible tornadoes touched down in Middle Tennessee. Widespread damage has been reported to buildings and homes following severe weather that swept across the region on Saturday afternoon. 6 At least six people have died in Tennessee after possible tornadoes touched downCredit: Reuters … Read more
The U.S. Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a warning for a strong geomagnetic storm Saturday, saying power and communications systems could be affected in the Northern Hemisphere after a significant solar flare was observed on the sun. In a statement on its website, the agency said G3, or strong geomagnetic storm conditions, were observed … Read more
The United Nations weather agency said Thursday that 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt and heat waves in the future. The World Meteorological Organization also warned that the average temperature for the year is up some 1.4 degrees C from … Read more
This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. In Bangladesh, roughly 300,000 people have been infected with dengue this year during the country’s worst-ever outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease. … Read more
As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whip microplastics up into the atmosphere then transport them by air to otherwise pristine communities. The results, you could say, blew their socks off. “It was such, like, an astonishing result that we … Read more
A group of New Brunswick university students is one step closer to launching a mini-satellite into space. Satellite Violet is named after New Brunswick’s provincial flower and is about the size of a loaf of bread. It successfully passed the testing phase at the Canadian Space Agency in Montreal and is headed to the International Space Station … Read more
