Europe heatwave: Paris latest to break record with 42.6C
From BBC Paris saw a record high temperature of 42.6C (108.7F) on Thursday, amid a heatwave that broke records across Western Europe. A red alert was issued in north France. Germany also set a new national temperature record of 41.5C,…
Caribbean 2017 Hurricane Season: an evidence-based assessment of the Early Warning System
From Relief Web REPORT from World Meteorological Organization Foreword The 2017 hurricane season in the Caribbean was unprecedented. High-powered, high impact hurricanes, including Irma and Maria, left a path of destruction, infrastructure damage and casualties in more than a dozen territories…
Undercurrents: World Meteorological Organization improves weather research in Caribbean
BY BERNETIA AKIN From St Croix Source A regular Source column, Undercurrents explores issues, ideas and events developing beneath the surface in the Virgin Islands community. You may never have heard of an organization called Météo-France, but it just signed…
On March 24th 2015 Antarctica may have just set its highest temperature on record
BY ANDREW FREEDMAN From Mashable Antarctica, Earth’s coldest, most barren continent, may have just set a remarkably unusual weather record. An Argentinian research station on the rapidly warming Antarctic Peninsula recorded a high temperature of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees…