La Niña's Return Could Reduce Extreme Heat by 2024

par This Is Beirut, 07/03 11:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Global temperature records for the past nine months are expected to persist for a few more weeks. But the potential rapid return of the 'La Niña' weather phenomenon "could reduce the risk" of 2024 beating 2023's absolute heat record, according to specialists. The rapid return of the La Niña weather phenomenon "may actually decrease" the risk ...

California Fire Rapidly Reaches State’s Top 10 Biggest Ever

par This Is Beirut, 28/07 12:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A fire raging out of control in northern California has rapidly become among the biggest ever in the western US state, authorities said Saturday. The so-called Park Fire burned more than 350,000 acres (142,000 hectares) as of Saturday evening, making it the seventh-largest ever recorded in California history, the state agency Cal Fire said. The ...

Greece Wildfires Rage Despite 'Superhuman' Containment Efforts

par This Is Beirut, 12/08 10:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Greece ordered fresh evacuations near Athens on Monday as wildfires spread despite "superhuman" efforts to contain the flames, firefighters said. At least five more communities were told to flee by civil protection authorities on Monday, after hundreds of people evacuated on Sunday from at least eight villages. "Civil protection forces battled ...

Greece Battles Deadly Wildfire for Third Day as EU Sends Support

13/08 12:16 - Reading : less than a minute

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Mediterranean Sea Broke Daily Temperature Record Thursday

par This Is Beirut, 16/08 14:32 - Reading : less than a minute

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The Mediterranean Sea reached its highest temperature on record Thursday, Spanish researchers told AFP on Friday, surpassing the previous record set in July 2023. "The maximum sea surface temperature record was broken in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday... with a daily median of 28.90C," Spain's leading institute of marine sciences said. The ...

June-August 2024 Were Hottest Ever Recorded

par This Is Beirut, 06/09 11:46 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures ever recorded, beating last year's record and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever, the European Union's climate monitor said on Friday. The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by ...