Today could be HOTTEST day yet
Ahmedabad: Thursday could be the hottest day of the season in the city with prevailing heat wave conditions making life even more difficult for denizens.
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Mayors focus on "local warming," urge Obama to act
Reeling from an historic drought, the hottest year on record and more frequent wild weather, mayors from a number of U.S. cities urged the White House this week to take the lead on setting an agenda to
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Quantifying the impact of climate change on extreme heat in Australia
Climate change is making Australia hotter. Hot days are happening more often while heatwaves are becoming hotter, longer and more frequent. While it has been clear for many years that climate change is
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50 die of heat wave in 2 days
Some 50 people have died in the last two days in Pakistan, succumbing to the deadly heat wave. Over 150 others fainted due to sizzling heat in various parts of Sindh and Punjab
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Heat wave on Amdavadis forced indoors
Deepshikha Dhawan Ahmedabad: The heat wave continued giving no respite to the city that recorded 42 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, three degrees above normal. According to weather officials, there is no respite from the rising mercury level in the near future.
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UP reels under intense heatwave
LUCKNOW: The state was reeling under severe heat wave on Sunday with unrelenting sun and hot gusty winds people to crave for early respite from the hard weather. As Allahabad, Varanasi, Kanpur and Lucknow vied for being the hottest on the day, it was Allahabad that baked at 46 degrees Celsius. The city witnessed the hottest day of the year so far with the mercury touching the highest mark.
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Delhi still battling heat wave
NEW DELHI: The Capital continued to reel under heat wave conditions with the mercury again soaring to 43.0 degrees Celsius on Sunday, which is seven degrees above normal. The minimum temperature too remained 10 degrees above normal at 30.6 degrees. Worse still, the weather department has forecast that the maximum temperature will settle at around 44 degrees on Monday.
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Heat wave claims 80
A severe heat wave sweeping across the country, with temperatures of almost 44 C, has killed at least 80 people so far, officials said on Sunday.
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Global climate risk index 2013
This new edition of the Global Climate Risk Index presented by Germanwatch at the UN climate summit in Doha analyses to what extent countries have been affected by extreme weather events and has taken into account the most recent available data from 2011 as well as for the period 1992-2011.
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Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming
<p>New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude (wavy) jet-stream configurations
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Australia's highest temperature in 15 years
Moomba in the far northeast of South Australia yesterday recorded a maximum temperature of 49.6 degrees, which makes it the highest temperature recorded in Australia in 15 years. The last time a higher
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A proposed case-control framework to probabilistically classify individual deaths as expected or excess during extreme hot weather events
<p>Most excess deaths that occur during extreme hot weather events do not have natural heat recorded as an underlying or contributing cause. This study aims to identify the specific individuals who died
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WMO provisional statement on the status of the global climate in 2016
It is very likely that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures even higher than the record-breaking temperatures in 2015. Preliminary data shows that 2016’s global temperatures
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WMO provisional statement on the status of the global climate in 2016
It is very likely that 2016 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures even higher than the record-breaking temperatures in 2015. Preliminary data shows that 2016’s global temperatures
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Exploring the influence of short-term temperature patterns on temperature-related mortality: a case-study of Melbourne, Australia
<p>Several studies have identified the association between ambient temperature and mortality; however, several features of temperature behavior and their impacts on health remain unresolved. We obtain
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The global climate in 2011–2015
The World Meteorological Organization has published a detailed analysis of the global climate 2011-2015 – the hottest five-year period on record - and the increasingly visible human footprint on extreme
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The global climate in 2011–2015
The World Meteorological Organization has published a detailed analysis of the global climate 2011-2015 – the hottest five-year period on record - and the increasingly visible human footprint on extreme
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Extreme weather events
There has been evidence since 1950 of changes in climate extremes. Observed changes in climate extremes reflect the influence of anthropogenic climate change in addition to natural climate variability,
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Pakistan floods, Russia heat fit climate trend
<br />Devastating floods in Pakistan and Russia
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Warmer and wetter winters: characteristics and implications of an extreme weather event in the High Arctic
<p>One predicted consequence of global warming is an increased frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves, droughts, or heavy rainfalls. In parts of the Arctic, extreme warm spells and heavy