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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Gale-force winds and floods struck several countries in Northern Europe as the region braced for more heavy rain on Friday. In Scotland, at least two people were reported dead and authorities searched for a man thought to be trapped in his vehicle. On Friday, the Met Office issued a new “red” warning for parts of eastern Scotland for further flooding throughout Saturday. Water levels were expected to begin dropping again on Saturday morning, Swedish meteorologists said. On Germany’s North Sea coast, the high winds had the opposite effect to the flooding on the Baltic coast, pushing the water further out and leading to very low water levels.

Persons: — Gale, van, ”, Scotland’s, Humza Yousaf, —, Skanetrafiken, ” Skanetrafiken, Pan Pylas, Geir Moulson Organizations: Met Office, Met, Danish Meteorological Institute, ” Police, Denmark —, Bergens Tidende, Swedish Transportation Authority, Ferries, Associated Press Locations: COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Northern Europe, Scotland, Denmark's Jutland, Danish, Baltic, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Angus, Marykirk, Brechin, England, Norway’s, Ferries, Flensburg, Kiel, Wismar, Gedser, Rostock, London, Berlin

[1/2] Storelv river flows through Hoenefoss Center as the extreme weather "Hans" is expected to cause significant water damage in the coming days, in Hoenefoss, Norway, August 9, 2023. NORWAY OUT. Strong winds, intense rain and landslides hit the Nordic region earlier this week, knocking out power lines and bringing public transport to a standstill. According to the institute, data shows that precipitation in Norway has increased by around 18% over the last 100 years, with the biggest rise taking place in the last 30-40 years. Jana Sillmann, a research director at the Oslo-based Centre for International Climate Research, said extreme weather events, such as the torrential rain seen this week, will be more frequent as the climate warms.

Persons: NTB, Annika Byrde, Read, Ingvild Villa, Jana Sillmann, heatwaves, El, Sillmann, Terje Solsvik, Christina Fincher Organizations: Center, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, International Climate Research, UN, El Nino, Thomson Locations: Hoenefoss, Norway, NORWAY, OSLO, Oslo, Sweden, Nordic

☆ Train derails and roads flood as Sweden, Norway hit by torrential rain
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view of passenger train which was carrying more than 100 passengers and derailed between Iggesund and Hudiksvall in Sweden, August 07, 2023. TT News Agency/Mats Andersson via REUTERSSTOCKHOLM, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Heavy rainfall drenched southern Scandinavia on Monday, causing a train to derail and roads to flood in what officials in Sweden and Norway warned could become the most extreme wet weather system to hit the region in decades. A train carrying more than 100 passengers derailed in eastern Sweden as the rain partly washed away the railway embankment, injuring three people who were taken to hospital, police said. "This is an effect of climate change, with wilder and wetter weather in Norway," Stoere told public broadcaster NRK. Reporting by Anna Ringstrom in Stockholm and Terje Solsvik in Oslo; Editing by Sharon SingletonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mats Andersson, Gale, Hans, Jonas Gahr Stoere, wilder, Stoere, Anna Ringstrom, Terje Solsvik, Sharon Singleton Organizations: TT News Agency, REUTERS, Sweden, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway's, NRK, Thomson Locations: Iggesund, Hudiksvall, Sweden, REUTERS STOCKHOLM, Scandinavia, Norway, North, Denmark, Finland, Stockholm, Oslo

☆ Climate change role in July heatwaves 'overwhelming', scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( David Stanway | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Guglielmo... Read moreSINGAPORE, July 25 (Reuters) - Human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme heatwaves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to an assessment by scientists published on Tuesday. Without human-induced climate change, the events this month would have been "extremely rare", according to a study by World Weather Attribution, a global team of scientists that examines the role played by climate change in extreme weather. "European and North American temperatures would have been virtually impossible without the effects of climate change," said Izidine Pinto of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, one of the study's authors, during a briefing with journalists. They also drove up the North American heatwave by 2C and the one in China by 1C. "The events we have looked at are not rare in today's climate," said Friederike Otto, a scientist with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change in London, speaking at the briefing.

Persons: Roberto Klarich, Guglielmo, Izidine Pinto, El Nino, Friederike Otto, It's, David Stanway, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, Read, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Grantham Institute, Thomson Locations: Canada, Italy, Rome, SINGAPORE, North America, Europe, China, United States, Rhodes, London

☆ Is this extreme weather the ‘new normal?’ There’s no such thing, some scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Just over halfway through July and already a slew of extreme weather records has been broken. Southern Europe is experiencing one of its most extreme heat waves on record, with wildfires raging in Greece, Spain and Switzerland. It’s a shifting baseline of ever-more devastating impacts as long as the Earth continues to warm.”For scientists like Mann and Cloke, this year’s extreme weather has largely not been surprising. Extreme heat could be quickly followed by heavy rainfall impacting society, agriculture, and ecosystems in unusual ways,” she told CNN. The planet is around 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was before the industrial revolution – still short of the 1.5 degrees scientists are warning the planet should stay under.

Persons: Petteri Taalas, ”, Hannah Cloke, Kim Hong, Reuters Michael E, Mann, we’ve, Cloke, Brandon Bell, Peter Stott, –, ” Mann, Vikki Thompson, ” Thompson, ” Read Organizations: CNN, Southwest, World Meteorological Organization, University of Reading, Reuters, University of Pennsylvania, UK Met Office, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Locations: Northern, Southwest United States, Phoenix , Arizona, Southern Europe, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Asia, China, South Korea, Japan, India, Cheongju, Antarctica, North, Phoenix, “

REUTERS/Remo CasilliLONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - The world is baking under extreme heat - with Asia, Europe and the United States all dealing with scorching temperatures. LESS OBVIOUS RISKSAir pollution also poses a health risk, with serious potential effects from wildfire smoke including inflammation and tissue damage. Dr Vikki Thompson, Climate Scientist, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, said extreme heat often contributes to poorer mental health, as well as a rise in car crashes and drownings. Location matters, too; people are at higher risk in places where they are not used to such heat, including parts of Europe. It is also important to check on the vulnerable, including older and isolated people, they said.

Persons: Remo Casilli, Liz Stephens, Dr Vikki Thompson, Modi Mwatsama, Heatstroke, Jennifer Rigby, Kate Turton, Catherine Evans Organizations: REUTERS, Remo Casilli LONDON, WHO, heatwaves, Britain's University of Reading, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, Wellcome, Public, Thomson Locations: Italy, Rome, Asia, Europe, United States, London

☆ Extreme weather in Latin America unlocks vicious cycle that further fuels climate dangers
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Nelson Acosta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

HAVANA, July 5 (Reuters) - Extreme weather is wreaking havoc across Latin America, racking up billions worth of damage and unleashing a vicious cycle that leads to higher demand for fossil fuels and more climate change, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. Temperatures have warmed an average 0.2 degree Celsius per decade over the past 30 years – the highest rate on record, according to the State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 report. As temperatures rise, extreme weather events become more common, with often unexpected consequences that stoke climate change, the report said. “Many of the extreme events were influenced by the long-running La Nina but also bore the hallmark of human-induced climate change," said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. "We are facing increasingly strong impacts from climate change, but the decisions adopted in climate negotiations for the implementation of the Paris Agreement do not advance at the same rate," she said.

Persons: Petteri Taalas, Daniel Becerril, Elba Rosa Perez, Nelson Acosta, Dave Sherwood, Marguerita Choy Organizations: World Meteorological Organization, stoke, Nina, REUTERS, El Nino, for Research, Meteorological Institute, Environment, Development, Thomson Locations: HAVANA, America, Latin America, Caribbean, South America, Monterrey, Mexico, El, Havana, China, Cuba, Paris

☆ The North Atlantic is experiencing a ‘totally unprecedented’ marine heat wave
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Temperatures in parts of the North Atlantic Ocean are soaring off the charts, with an “exceptional” marine heat wave happening off the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland, sparking concerns about impacts on marine life. Parts of the North Sea are experiencing a category 4 marine heat wave – defined as “extreme” – according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And in 2021, an extreme heat wave cooked around a billion shellfish to death on Canada’s West Coast. As climate change intensifies, marine heat waves are set to become more common. The frequency of marine heat waves has already increased more than 20-fold due to human-caused global warming, according to a 2020 study.

Persons: ” Stephen Belcher, ”, Mika Rantanen, Richard Unsworth, “, ” Unsworth, Albert Klein Tank, Rantanen Organizations: CNN, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, UK Met, Met Office’s, Finnish Meteorological Institute, biosciences, Plymouth University, UK Met Office, Met Office Hadley Locations: United Kingdom, Ireland, Iceland, Europe, Gulf Coast, Texas, West Coast, El

☆ The Arctic may be sea ice-free in summer by the 2030s, new study warns
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Rachel Ramirez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications found Arctic sea ice could disappear completely during the month of September as early as the 2030s. The researchers analyzed changes from 1979 to 2019, comparing different satellite data and climate models to assess how Arctic sea ice was changing. They found that declining sea ice was largely the result of human-caused, planet-heating pollution, and previous models had underestimated Arctic sea ice melting trends. Arctic sea ice close the coast of Svalbard, Norway, April 5, 2023. There has already been a rapid loss of sea ice in the region, with September sea ice shrinking at a rate of 12.6% per decade, according to NASA.

Persons: –, ” Seung, Min, Lisi Niesner, ” Min, Mika Rantanen, ”, Rantanen, “ Organizations: CNN, Nature Communications, Pohang University of Science, Technology, UN, NASA, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Finnish Meteorological Institute Locations: South Korea, Svalbard, Norway

☆ Climate Change Powered the Mediterranean’s Unusual Heat Wave
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Raymond Zhong | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The NewsThe early-season heat wave that broiled parts of Algeria, Morocco, Portugal and Spain last week almost certainly would not have occurred without human-induced climate change, an international team of scientists said in an analysis issued Friday. Mainland Spain set an April record of 101.8 degrees Fahrenheit, or 38.8 Celsius, in the southern city of Córdoba. In Morocco, the mercury climbed to more than 106 degrees Fahrenheit in Marrakesh, according to provisional data, very likely smashing that nation’s April record as well. A three-day stretch of such scorching heat in April is already quite rare for the region in the planet’s current climate, with just a 0.25 percent chance of occurring in any given year, according to the new analysis. Because of climate change, last month’s hot spell was at least 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer on average than a similarly improbable one would have been in preindustrial times, the scientists found.

☆ U.K. saw hottest-ever year in 2022 as Europe’s climate warms
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON — Britain had its warmest year on record in 2022, official figures showed Thursday, the latest evidence that climate change is transforming Europe’s weather. The Met Office weather agency said the provisional annual average temperature in the U.K. was 10.03 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit), the highest since comparable records began in 1884. The previous record was 9.88 Celsius (49.8 Fahrenheit) set in 2014. France’s average temperature was above 14 Celsius (57.2 Fahrenheit) in 2022, making it the hottest year since weather readings began in 1900. The archipelago’s average temperature for June, July and August was 7.4 Celsius (45.3 Fahrenheit), the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said.

☆ Bus crashes in Costa Rica, nine dead and 55 rescued
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the Red Cross and firefighters work at the scene of a deadly bus accident, where a landslide reportedly hit the vehicle, throwing it off a cliff, in Cambronero, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica in this social media handout image released September 18, 2022. Cruz Roja/Handout via REUTERSRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterSAN JOSE, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A bus crash caused by heavy rains in Costa Rica left nine dead people on Saturday night, officials said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterHundreds of families had to be evacuated due to the severe damage caused by the heavy rains, the statement added. "This situation in which many families lose their belongings is really sad and worrying," said Costa Rica President Rodrigo Chaves, who decreed on Sunday a three-day mourning. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Alvaro Murillo; Writing by Carolina Pulice; Editing by William Mallard, Lisa Shumaker and Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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