‼️#Digest 18.01.24

⚡️ #Morocco Due to a six-year-long drought, the country's dams have reached a critical level, leading to a significant reduction in irrigated land area.
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⚡️ #Congo declares a hydrological and ecological catastrophe. January 16, 2024
Record flooding of the Congo River has resulted in a catastrophic situation affecting 15 provinces, claiming over 300 lives, and impacting no fewer than 304,000 families.
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⚡️ #Russia Mount Ebeko in the Kuril Islands emitted ash up to 2 km. Aviation color code: ORANGE. Volcanic activity poses a threat to local aviation. January 18
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⚡️ #Iceland Experts confirm: Icelandic fault line awakened after 800 years. The renewed activity indicates a new episode of plate division, which may continue for several years or even decades.
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🌍 #DIGEST January 19, 2024

✔️ #Indonesia. Severe flooding after heavy rains hit three districts in Central Kalimantan. Thousands of people were affected and some displaced from their homes. January 17
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✔️ #Kashmir. A 79% rainfall deficit in December and a 100% deficit in January were recorded. In his 17 years of managing a hotel in Gulmarg, a picturesque town in Indian-administered Kashmir, Manzoor Ahmad has never seen a season without snow.
But this year, things are different: the snow-clad mountains in the region are oddly brown and barren.
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✔️ #Tonga. An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred on Thursday, January 18, in the South Pacific Ocean near the state of Tonga. The source of the seismic event lay at a depth of 219.3 km
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✔️ #Russia. In the Altai Republic, a rockfall occurred on the federal section of the R-256 highway, known as the Chuysky Trakt. The rocks that fell onto the highway bombed the asphalt. A giant hole a couple of meters deep appeared in the asphalt, and the edge of the roadway fell into the river.
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✔️ #CostaRica. The activity of the Poas volcano in the Alajuela province is increasing. According to experts, the lowering of the lake level reduced the pressure on volcanic gases, contributing to an increase in eruptions.
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✔️ #Russia. Tatarstan. A storm warning has been issued. Blizzard, zero visibility, and icy conditions. Residents are advised to prepare for possible power outages as well as restrictions on public transportation, and stock up on food and essential items for survival in case of power outages.
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✔️ #Bolivia Heavy rains caused flooding in the city of Tipuani. At least 6 people were killed and 2 more people are missing. The overflowing rivers have flooded hundreds of homes, destroyed crops in fields, and blocked roads.
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✔️ #Europe On Wednesday and Thursday, strong blizzards and freezing rain hit Northern and Central Europe. This significantly hampered transport in #France the #UnitedKingdom #Sweden #Norway and #Finland. In France, some regions faced icy conditions while others dealt with flooding. Car traffic is difficult in #Denmark #Belgium and #Luxembourg. Problems have also been reported at airports of Amsterdam and Stockholm.
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🔴 Mega storms, droughts, and global warming are manifestations of one process. Russian scientists conclude extensive study in the seas of the Far East and the Arctic. Their conclusion is unprecedented: oceans, not human activity, are driving climate change on Earth.
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🔴 Heliophysicists concerned: sunspots are abundant, yet no solar flares. The Sun's magnetic field is rapidly weakening, signaling potential intensification of magnetic storms on Earth.
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🔴 A scientist believes Russia will warm by five to ten degrees by the end of the century.
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‼️🌍 #DIGEST January 20, 2024
By clicking on the link, you will learn about numerous climate events that occurred on January 20, 2024.
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🔔#DIGEST March 21, 2024

✔️ #Australia Further evacuations out of Borroloola ahead of major flooding from ex-Tropical
#Cyclone Megan. Glencore's McArthur River Mine was impacted by #flooding on Wednesday, resulting in 200 workers spending the night in operational buildings on site.
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✔️ #Australia One in three Australians are worried extreme weather will force them to permanently leave their homes.
Rising insurance premiums to the point of unaffordability were also of big concern, as were the impacts of extreme weather events on children and young people.
People need practical solutions to deal with these escalating disasters.
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✔️ #Thailand Torrential #rain triggers chaos and flooding in Sri Racha
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✔️ #Turkey 158 settlements blocked in eastern Turkey due to #snowfall
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✔️ #Russia Employees of the Institute of the Earth's Crust of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) and the Limnological Institute (SB RAS) have discovered new mud volcanoes in the waters of Lake Baikal. Researchers suggest that they emerged due to the activity of the North Baikal Fault located along the northwestern coast of the lake.
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✔️ #Japan The sea is boiling off the coast of southern Japan
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✔️ #Japan A strong earthquake originating in the southern part of Ibaraki Prefecture rocked the Tokyo metropolitan area at 9:08 a.m. on March 21, sparking concerns of landslides and delaying several train lines.
The quake registered a lower-5 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in Shimotsuke, Tochigi Prefecture, and Kazo, Saitama Prefecture.
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✔️ #Mongolia Extreme winter in Mongolia killed 4.7 million animals. At least 2,250 herding families have lost more than 70 percent of their livestock, according to the Red Cross.
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✔️ #Italy The Campi Flegrei region near Pozzuoli in southern Italy is not settling down. #Earthquakes occur practically daily, and the ground is rising at a rate of 10 mm per month
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✔️ #Afghanistan Two persons were killed and residential houses and farmland damaged, as downpours and flash #floods hit parts of west Afghanistan's Badghis province.
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🌍 🔔#DIGEST April 10, 2024

ℹ️ A third exceptionally large wave of Saharan dust in just two weeks is moving over parts of Europe
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ℹ️ Seismic activity has increased again in Iceland - ground uplift near two volcanoes
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ℹ️ More than 13,000 residential buildings have been flooded in Russia, and over 7,700 people have been evacuated in the worst-hit Orenburg region, local media reported Wednesday.
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ℹ️ Mongolia. The number of livestock deaths caused by the extreme wintry weather known as #"dzud" has risen to 6.3 million
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ℹ️ China. Xinjiang diverts floodwater to revive forests impacted by drought
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ℹ️ Romania. In February 2023, Gorj County experienced 960 earthquakes in just 10 days, the strongest of which had a magnitude of 5.7. Neither residents nor seismologists have ever seen anything like this before.
According to the National Institute of Earth Physics, in 2023, out of the over 4,900 earthquakes registered in Romania, almost 4,200 occurred in Gorj County, which means almost 80% of earthquakes.
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ℹ️ USA Some Gulf Coast states schools, government offices close for severe weather and suspected #tornadoes.
As the workday began Wednesday morning in Louisiana, more than 100,000 customers were already without power, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide. Another 30,000 customers were without power in Mississippi.
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ℹ️ USA. Sudden hailstorm causes $1 million in damage to Tennessee Ford dealership
There were nearly 200 vehicles exposed across the lot, and all of them suffered various damages.
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ℹ️ UK. #storm Hundreds evacuated as Britain has been hit by more storms, high winds and "unprecedented" flooding on the south coast.
Littlehampton was badly hit with flooding damaging many properties
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🌍 🔔#DIGEST April 12, 2024

ℹ️USA #storm #Tornado strikes near St. Augustine, Florida and southeast Georgia, as severe weather threat moves offshore.
A Tornado Watch was issued North and Central Florida. A tornado touched down near St. Augustine, Florida, on Thursday as thunderstorms continued to track toward the East Coast after multiple days of relentless severe weather across the South.
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ℹ️USA More than 50 aftershocks have been felt across New Jersey after an #earthquake uncommonly shook the Northeast. The USGS is now deploying “aftershock kits” to better understand the effects of aftershocks in the area. Eight kits will be deployed this week to track where the aftershocks originate, how long they last, and how strong they are
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ℹ️Turkey #Flood disaster in Gaziantep: Roads turned into lakes, citizens had a hard time. Heavy #rain and #hail, effective in certain areas of Gaziantep, had a negative impact on their life
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ℹ️Russia #flooding Another 361 houses and 900 plots of land were flooded overnight in Orenburg
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ℹ️EU Last year, more than half a million (504,002) hectares, an area twice the size of Luxembourg, was scorched by #wildfires according to a report on Forest Fires in Europe. Preliminary data for the first three months of 2024 show almost double the average number of fires.
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ℹ️Kazakhstan #flooding In Kazakhstan, almost 100,000 people have been evacuated due to floods. There are currently 6,586 people in temporary accommodation centers, including 3,197 children.
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🔔#DIGEST April 13, 2024

✔️#Kenya Flash #floods kill at least 13 people in Kenya, displace nearly 15,000 others: UN #flooding
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✔️UK Wet weather, flood risks threaten Britain's food security, farmers warn
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✔️As global coffee markets tense up, prices are surging, driven by fears of decreased output from Brazil and Vietnam, which are major producers in the coffee industry, and could affect import costs and consumer prices in the US.
Amid a brewing storm of supply challenges, the price of coffee has spiked to new heights as concerns over a dry season in Vietnam threatening Robusta yields, combined with erratic weather in Brazil affecting Arabica crops, have prompted a sharp rise in coffee futures.
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✔️China A total of 515 rescuers have been dispatched to battle a forest #fire that broke out at around 4 p.m. on Friday in Kunming, the capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The fire occurred in Diantou Village, Erjie Township in Jinning District, with no settlements or important facilities nearby.
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✔️Significant M5.8 #Earthquake hit in the Solomon Sea 134km from Honiara (Solomon Islands) on Saturday Night.
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✔️#China A powerful #sandstorm enveloped the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Gusts of #wind formed walls of sandstorms that reached tens of meters in height and constantly moved forward. At times, the sky was tinged with a dark red color.
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✔️#Mongolia Strong #winds and heavy #duststorms are hitting parts of Mongolia, causing poor visibility on roads.
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✔️#Russia #flooding The water level in the Ural River near Orenburg increased by 42 cm in one day, reaching 1171 cm. Over the day, another 800 homes and 1,800 household plots were flooded in Orenburg. According to TASS, a total of 3,000 homes and 8,000 household plots in the city have been flooded.
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🌍🔔#DIGEST April 14, 2024
✔️The polar vortex has shifted into reverse – and is now spinning backwards.
With winds now blowing easterly, scientists are trying to predict what effect this might have on weather systems in the coming months.
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✔️Pakistan. lightning flooding At least 30 people were killed and several others injured in rain-related incidents in the last 48 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority said on Sunday
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✔️South Africa. #storm Sea Point hit by 135kph winds in recent Western Cape Storms
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✔️China. fire More than 2,300 people are battling a forest fire that has raged in southwest China's Yunnan Province since Friday
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✔️Côte d'Ivoire. High #heat harms cocoa production in Cote d'Ivoire. In March, the country recorded a record temperature of 39 degrees Celcius. This situation has caused production to drop from more than 95,000 tonnes in previous years to 70,000 tonnes this year.
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✔️China. China's meteorological authorities extended the blue alert for severe convective weather on Sunday, forecasting thunderstorms, gales, hail, and heavy downpours across much of the country. Sandstorms are expected in some central regions.
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✔️Oman. flooding On Sunday, Omani authorities announced that several provinces in the Sultanate of Oman have experienced heavy rains and flooding, resulting in the inundation of valleys and the closure of many roads and schools.
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✔️Afghanistan. #rain #snowfall flooding Thirty-three people have lost their lives and 27 others sustained injuries as heavy rain, snowfall and flash floods swept through parts of Afghanistan over the past three days. More than 600 houses have been damaged due to the floods. The flash floods have also destroyed 1,950 acres of agricultural lands and 75 km of roads in the country, besides killing more than 200 cattle.
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🌍🔔#DIGEST April 16, 2024
Strong magnitude 5.9 Earthquake - 143 km SE of Koshima, Japan, on Tuesday, Apr 16, 2024, at 07:38 am
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Russia eruption Orange code: in the Kurils, the Ebeko volcano spewed ash five kilometers away.
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Indonesia landslide Death toll in Indonesia's South Sulawesi landslides rises to 20
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Pakistan flooding Thirty-nine people were killed in rain-related accidents across Pakistan over the last three days.
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Italy. Earthquake in the Campi Flegrei, the seismic swarm started again. The ground shook all night until dawn.
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USA earthquake Seven more small earthquakes have been reported in central New Jersey between late Sunday night and early Monday morning, boosting the already high total of aftershocks from the main quake on April 5 to 70.
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Kenya flooding Over 100 families flee homes as floods rock Kirinyaga
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Heavy rains lash UAE and surrounding nations
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Cote d'Ivoire's government is developing a law aimed at regulating all actions on climate change in the country.
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China storm China's meteorological authority on Tuesday renewed a yellow alert for severe convection weather, forecasting thunderstorms, gales and hail as well as heavy rain in some parts of the country.
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Russia fires Over the past day, forest fire services and involved persons have extinguished 39 forest fires in 10 regions of the country.
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Floods in Kazakhstan: National Guard assists with flood relief efforts.
Over 1,200 military more from the National Guard of Kazakhstan are deployed to assist with flood rescue in the country’s west and north
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Experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) said that coral reef bleaching across at least 53 countries, territories or local economies has been confirmed from February 2023 to now.
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🔔#DIGEST April 22, 2024 Part 2

➡️Taiwan Hualien's Shoufeng Township hit by magnitude #5.9 earthquake. A total of 42 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or higher hit the central Hualien County townships of Shoufeng, Fenglin and Fengbin from 5:08 p.m. to 10:44 p.m., with 11 of them exceeding a magnitude of 5.
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➡️Kazakhstan #flooding 13,000 summer houses have been flooded in Uralsk. The majority of them are located in the floodplain of the Ural River, where the water level continues to rise. As of today, it has exceeded the critical mark by 12 centimeters.
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➡️In southern Kyrgyzstan, a powerful #mudflow has occurred. One fatality has been reported. Mudslides have also been reported in two other districts of Kyrgyzstan. The prolonged heavy rainfall is the cause of the mudslides.
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➡️The International Labour Organization (ILO) reports that over 70% of the world’s workforce faces climate-related risks, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. Workers, especially the poorest, are more susceptible to extreme climate events like heatwaves, droughts, and hurricanes due to prolonged and intense exposure.
According to the report, air pollution is the deadliest risk, causing approximately 860,000 work-related deaths annually, followed by heat-related deaths at 18,970 and UV radiation-related deaths from non-melanoma skin cancer at 18,960.
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🔔#DIGEST April 30, 2024 Part 2

✔️ China renews orange alert for severe convective weather
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✔️ Brazil has surpassed a record 4 million cases of #dengue in 2024, the highest number ever registered for the mosquito-borne disease. According to the ministry, the surge in cases this year is related to factors such as climate change and the circulation of multiple serotypes of dengue virus.
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✔️ Russia #Dust storms swept through the Irkutsk region. A powerful #hurricane has hit the region, residents are being asked to stay at home and not open their windows. Gusty winds broke tree branches and tore down billboards.
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✔️ The Philippines A government official said Tuesday that the Philippines is mulling cloud seeding to quench the country's thirst amid the #drought caused by the El Nino phenomenon, which has affected 2.9 million people.
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✔️ Kenya floods death toll rises to 169, with more heavy rains expected. #rain #flooding
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✔️ Can hydropower can hold its own against weather extremes?
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✔️ India #heat Indian authorities issue red alert amid severe heat wave.
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✔️ Cambodia ordered all public schools to reduce two hours off their regular school days due to soaring temperatures in the ongoing dry season, according to a directive released on Tuesday. #heat
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✔️ Rwanda #rain Ten people were killed due to disasters triggered by heavy rains in various parts of Rwanda over the past 10 days.
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🔔#DIGEST April 30, 2024 Part 1

✔️ India Huge #avalanche #landslide in Kashmir, India after heavy rain, #snowfall
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✔️ Ethiopia #Flooding in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has left at least four people dead, local officials disclosed on Monday. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned on Friday that more than 1.9 million people across Ethiopia are at risk of flooding as the rainy season begins.
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✔️ USA Killer #EF-4 #tornado in Oklahoma is state’s first since 2016
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✔️ Indonesia's Ruang #volcano erupts once again, more than 12,000 people evacuated.
According to the main Japanese meteorological authority, the smoke plume reached a height of 19 kilometers.
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✔️ The Philippines #heat The heat index in Iba, Zambales has reached the “extreme danger” level on Sunday at 53°C. Aside from this, 46 other areas reached a heat index of 42 to 51°C, which falls under the “danger” category.
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✔️ An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection
MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers who curated the dataset, called TorNet, have now released it open-source. They hope to enable breakthroughs in detecting one of nature's most mysterious and violent phenomena.
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✔️ Bangladesh is currently grappling with one of the most severe #heatwaves in recent years.
At least 10 people died in a week in Bangladesh due to scorching temperatures, the government confirmed Tuesday, which highlighted the danger of successive #heat waves affecting the South Asian nation.
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