The UK recorded its hottest day in August after 17 years, as temperatures reached 36.4 degrees Celsius in south-east England, the Met Office said. As of 3 p.m. on Friday, the mercury reached 36.4 degrees Celsius at London’s Heathrow Airport, making it
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The “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane, Laura struck the coast of Louisiana on Thursday, with extreme winds causing flash floods in the US state, the country’s National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The hurricane is expected to cause an “unsurvivable” storm surge as it
An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province on Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said, adding no tsunami alert was issued. The quake struck at 11.09 a.m. with the epicenter at 171 km northeast Larantuka
One person was killed on Tuesday in a 6.6-magnitude earthquake that struck Masbate province in central Philippines, police said. In an updated bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Seismology and Volcanology (Phivolcs) said the magnitude of 6.6 quake, which struck at 8,03 a.m.,
The US National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a rare fire tornado warning for the state of California after a pyrocumulonimbus cloud formed out of huge raging wildfire. Intense wildfires can sometimes create their own weather, resulting in the formation of a
The UK recorded its hottest day in August after 17 years, as temperatures reached 36.4 degrees Celsius in south-east England, the Met Office said. As of 3 p.m. on Friday, the mercury reached 36.4 degrees Celsius at London’s Heathrow Airport, making it
