International 'Cerberus' Heatwave Threatens to Break Records in Southern Europe

[LeonardoBjj]

UK set for hottest day of year on Sunday at 27C – followed by thunderstorms​

Top temperatures expected, but heavy rain to follow with weather warnings in place for week ahead

Robin McKie
Sat 11 May 2024 17.53 BST

Britain will experience its hottest temperatures of the year on Sunday – before thunderstorms and heavy rain bring an end to the sunny conditions that the country has enjoyed over the past few days.
The Met Office forecasts temperatures will peak at around 27C before the wet weather arrives. Western areas, including parts of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, will be the first to encounter the storms.

Saturday was the warmest day of 2024 so far in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Met Office said.
Herstmonceux in East Sussex recorded the top UK temperature of 25.9C on Saturday, with Cassley in northern Scotland reaching 25.7C.

Gogerddan in Wales saw 25.1C, while temperatures in Northern Ireland peaked at 23.8C in Magilligan.
However, record temperatures are likely to be broken again on Sunday as areas of the UK experience warm, humid conditions. Simon Partridge, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said central and south-eastern parts of England were likely to be the hottest.

The change in weather will occur because the high-pressure conditions that have blocked incoming rain clouds for the past few days are likely to retreat to Scandinavia. As a result, pressure will fall across the UK.

The Met Office said three yellow thunderstorm warnings were now in place for parts of the UK on Sunday.

One covers most areas of the west of the UK, including the majority of Wales, where thunderstorms are expected between midday and 10pm. The second warning is for the western half of Northern Ireland between 11am and 7pm. The third warning is for western parts of Scotland and runs between 2pm on Sunday and 4am on Monday.

People in areas with a yellow warning should expect some disruption, especially to travel. Spray and sudden flooding could lead to difficult driving conditions and there is a slight chance of power cuts, the Met Office added.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...uk-weather-warnings-hottest-day-thunderstorms

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Mexico heat wave melts temperature records in ten cities, including Mexico City​

MEXICO CITY, May 10 (Reuters) - Ten cities in Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.

In the normally temperate high-altitude capital of Mexico City, North America's largest metropolis, thermometers on Thursday peaked at 34.3 degrees Celsius (93.7 degrees Fahrenheit), a tenth of a degree higher than the record hit just a month earlier.

Neighboring Puebla broke its previous record of 34.3 C - set in 1947 - when it reached 35.2 C on Thursday.

In Ciudad Victoria, in the northern border state Tamaulipas, across from Texas in the United States, the temperature hit a sweltering 47.4 C on Thursday, breaking the previous high set in 1998.

The intense heat caused blackouts lasting several hours in some areas of Mexico this week, mainly in the north, and caused classes to be suspended in the central state of San Luis Potosi, which this week reached 50 C.

In a weekly report published on Thursday, Mexico's health ministry reported seven heat-related deaths this heat season between its start on March 17 and May 4, a tally that could rise after this week's brutal heat.
Human-caused climate change and El Nino have been pushing up temperatures worldwide and causing deadly heat waves.
Mexico's electricity system regulator issued several alerts this week as demand in some parts of the country exceeded supply.

Business chambers and sector analysts criticized the blackouts, accusing the government of not investing in energy transmission networks or in sufficient generation to cover demand.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who leaves office in October, described the blackouts as "exceptional" and assured that Mexico has sufficient generation capacity.

The heat wave comes amid a severe nationwide drought that has caused a worsening water crisis in much of Mexico, making water a key issue in June general elections.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...-ten-cities-including-mexico-city-2024-05-10/

-This week i overhead a guy say that heat doesn't offer risks to human life!
The numbewr of people suffering strokes of failing for heat increased. But he said it's was the vacine!

 

[dirtypablo]

This summer should be interesting. High likelihood the hurricane season will be very extreme.

 

[LeonardoBjj]

This summer should be interesting. High likelihood the hurricane season will be very extreme.

- Were getting severed here in the south!

 

[Osculater]

Mexico heat wave melts temperature records in ten cities, including Mexico City​

MEXICO CITY, May 10 (Reuters) - Ten cities in Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.

In the normally temperate high-altitude capital of Mexico City, North America's largest metropolis, thermometers on Thursday peaked at 34.3 degrees Celsius (93.7 degrees Fahrenheit), a tenth of a degree higher than the record hit just a month earlier.

Neighboring Puebla broke its previous record of 34.3 C - set in 1947 - when it reached 35.2 C on Thursday.

In Ciudad Victoria, in the northern border state Tamaulipas, across from Texas in the United States, the temperature hit a sweltering 47.4 C on Thursday, breaking the previous high set in 1998.

The intense heat caused blackouts lasting several hours in some areas of Mexico this week, mainly in the north, and caused classes to be suspended in the central state of San Luis Potosi, which this week reached 50 C.

In a weekly report published on Thursday, Mexico's health ministry reported seven heat-related deaths this heat season between its start on March 17 and May 4, a tally that could rise after this week's brutal heat.
Human-caused climate change and El Nino have been pushing up temperatures worldwide and causing deadly heat waves.
Mexico's electricity system regulator issued several alerts this week as demand in some parts of the country exceeded supply.

Business chambers and sector analysts criticized the blackouts, accusing the government of not investing in energy transmission networks or in sufficient generation to cover demand.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who leaves office in October, described the blackouts as "exceptional" and assured that Mexico has sufficient generation capacity.

The heat wave comes amid a severe nationwide drought that has caused a worsening water crisis in much of Mexico, making water a key issue in June general elections.

https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...-ten-cities-including-mexico-city-2024-05-10/

-This week i overhead a guy say that heat doesn't offer risks to human life!
The numbewr of people suffering strokes of failing for heat increased. But he said it's was the vacine!

He must be a man of God not science

 

[LeonardoBjj]

He must be a man of God not science

-I bet it's his sign in whats app: God, family, Brazil and Israel.

 

[king hippo]

 

[LeonardoBjj]

An unusual autumn freeze grips parts of South America, giving Chile its coldest May in 74 years​

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans are bundling up for their coldest autumn in more than 70 years mere days after sunning in T-shirts — a dramatic change of wardrobe brought on this week by a sudden cold front gripping portions of South America unaccustomed to bitter wind chills this time of year.

Temperatures broke records along the coast of Chile and in Santiago, the capital, dipping near freezing and making this month the coldest May that the country has seen since 1950, the Chilean meteorological agency reported.

An unusual succession of polar air masses has moved over southern swaths of the continent, meteorological experts say, pushing the mercury below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit) in some places. It’s the latest example of extreme weather in the region — a heat wave now baking Mexico, for instance — which scientists link to climate change.

“The past few days have been one of the longest (cold fronts) ever recorded and one of the earliest ever recorded” before the onset of winter in the Southern Hemisphere, said Raul Cordero, a climatologist at Santiago University. “Typically the incursions of cold air from the Antarctic that drive temperatures below zero occur from June onwards, not so much in May.”

The cold front sweeping in from Antartica has collided with warm air pushing in from the northwestern Amazon, helping fuel heavy rainstorms battering Brazil, according to that country’s National Meteorological system.



Chile’s government issued frosty weather alerts for most of the country and ramped up assistance for homeless people struggling to endure the frigid temperatures on the streets. Snow cloaked the peaks of the Andes and fell in parts of Santiago, leading to power outages in many areas this week.

“Winter came early,” said Mercedes Aguayo, a street vendor hawking gloves and hats in Santiago.

She said she was glad for a boost in business after Chile’s record winter heat wave last year, which experts pinned on climate change as well as the cyclical El Niño weather pattern.

“We had stored these goods (hats and gloves) for four years because winters were always more sporadic, one day hot, one day cold,” Aguayo said.

This week’s cold snap also took parts of Argentina and Paraguay by surprise.

Energy demand soared across many parts of Argentina. Distributors cut supplies to dozens of gas stations and industries in several provinces to avoid outages in households, the country’s main hydrocarbon company, CECHA, said Thursday.

https://apnews.com/article/chile-argentina-paraguay-cold-weather-e0aee88ea6475f0665283aa08cf0a313

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave​

High temperatures in Mexico have been linked to dozens and perhaps hundreds of deaths of howler monkeys

It’s so hot in Mexico that howler monkeys are falling dead from the trees.

At least 83 of the midsize primates, who are known for their roaring vocal calls, were found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. Others were rescued by residents, including five that were rushed to a local veterinarian who battled to save them.


“They arrived in critical condition, with dehydration and fever,” said Dr Sergio Valenzuela. “They were as limp as rags. It was heatstroke.”

While Mexico’s brutal heatwave has been linked to the deaths of at least 26 people since March, veterinarians and rescuers say it has killed dozens and perhaps hundreds of howler monkeys.

In the town of Tecolutilla, Tabasco, the dead monkeys started appearing on Friday, when a local volunteer fire-and-rescue squad showed up with five of the creatures in the bed of the truck.


Valenzuela put ice on their limp little hands and feet, and hooked them up to IV drips.

So far, the monkeys appear to be on the mend. Once listless and easily handled, they are now in cages at Valenzuela’s office. “They’re recovering. They’re aggressive ... they’re biting again,” he said, noting that was a healthy sign for the usually furtive creatures.

Most aren’t so lucky. Wildlife biologist Gilberto Pozo counted about 83 of the animals dead or dying on the ground under trees. The die-off started around 5 May and hit its peak over the weekend.

“They were falling out of the trees like apples,” Pozo said. “They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died within a matter of minutes.” Already weakened, Pozo says the falls from dozens of yards (meters) up inflict additional damage that often finishes the monkeys off.

Pozo attributes the deaths to a “synergy” of factors, including high heat, drought, forest fires and logging that deprives the monkeys of water, shade and the fruit they eat.

“This is a sentinel species,” Pozo said, referring to the canary-in-a-coalmine effect where one species can say a lot about an ecosystem. “It is telling us something about what is happening with climate change.”

Pozo’s group has set up a special recovery stations for monkeys – it currently holds five monkeys, but birds and reptiles have also been affected – and is trying to organize a team of specialized veterinarians to give the primates the care they need.

By 9 May at least nine cities in Mexico had set temperature records, with Ciudad Victoria, in the border state of Tamaulipas, clocking a broiling 117F (47C).

With below-average rainfall throughout almost all the country so far this year, lakes and dams are drying up, water supplies are running out and authorities have had to truck in water for everything from hospitals to firefighting teams. Low levels at hydroelectric dams have contributed to power blackouts in some parts of the country.

Humans are feeling the heat as well. On Monday, the nationwide chain of OXXO convenience stores – the nation’s largest – said it was limiting purchases of ice to just two or three bags per customer in some places.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/monkeys-mexico-heatwave

 

[no fat chicks]

Just normal Republican things. Let's just outlaw talking about it and it all goes away. . .

 

[PEB]

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Just normal Republican things. Let's just outlaw talking about it and it all goes away. . .

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Scorching heat and humidity have descended over parts of Texas, the Gulf Coast and South Florida this week — a bout of early-season extreme heat that has experts bracing for what’s to come.

A full month before the official start of summer, Miami is already in the midst of its hottest May on record, according to experts.

The city’s heat index — a measure of what conditions feel like when humidity and air temperatures are combined — hit 112 degrees Fahrenheit over the weekend, smashing the previous daily record by 11 degrees, according to Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami. The weekend heat index also beat Miami’s monthly record by 5 degrees, he wrote in a post on X.

“Even if it had been two or three months from now, like July or August, it still would have been pretty astounding to have two consecutive days with 112 degree heat index here,” McNoldy said. “For any time of the year, that would be extraordinary. But for mid-May, it was completely unprecedented. Not even close.”

Last summer was the hottest on record for Miami — and the entire planet. Forecasters say above average temperatures are likely for much of the country over the next three months, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last week that 2024 is already on pace to rank among the five warmest years in recorded history.

Miami’s recent 112-degree heat index reading was recorded both Saturday and Sunday, marking only the second time in the city’s recorded history that there have been back-to-back days of heat index values at or above that level, according to McNoldy. The other instance was Aug. 8 and 9, 2023.

“It’s certainly warmer now than 2023 was to this point,” McNoldy said. “I don’t know what the rest of 2024 has in store for us, but I hope this is not foreshadowing of breaking the 2023 records.”

I cannot wait till people beg to move up north my property values will go sky high . I love Climate Change.

 

[dirtypablo]

The scenes from some of the Midwest tornadoes are pretty wild, and the next few days are supposed to have even more strong storms.

 

[ShadowRun]

Bigot weather ! Trust the science bro

 

[emefer]

Bigot weather ! Trust the science bro

Well it is as many black communities are located in tree deserts.

 

[ShadowRun]

Well it is as many black communities are located in tree deserts.

they became deserts over nights ? what about the arabs, biggest desert in the world is in the south pole.

 

[ShadowRun]

 

[emefer]

they became deserts over nights ? what about the arabs, biggest desert in the world is in the South Pole?

became deserts overnight?
I don’t know how you jumped to that.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Bigot weather ! Trust the science bro

damn that lady is a fox. i would eat the corn out of her shit.

 

[ShadowRun]

became deserts overnight?
I don’t know how you jumped to that.

based off what you posted, what were you implying ??

 

[Siver!]

Heavy storms and prolonged rainfall on the rise in UK and Ireland, study shows

Farmers nurse losses of £1bn after climate change triggers floods and devastates crops

www.ft.com

Heavy winter storms across the UK and Ireland, which caused devastating floods and left farmers nursing revenue losses of almost £1bn, were more intense due to human-caused climate change, a study has shown.

Global warming made stormy rainfall between October and March 20 per cent heavier, found research by the World Weather Attribution group of leading international academics and scientists, conducted alongside the national weather organisations of the UK, Ireland and Netherlands.


Last winter was the second wettest on record in the UK, according to the scientists, and the third wettest in Ireland. Climate change had contributed to a 15 per cent rise in total rainfall.

The “seemingly never-ending rainfall” experienced over the autumn and winter is projected to become commonplace, said Mark McCarthy, science manager of climate attribution at the Met Office, in a statement.

“In the future we can expect further increases in frequency of wet autumns and winters. That’s why it is so important for us to adapt to our changing climate and become more resilient to increases in rainfall,” he added.

Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a non-profit climate advocacy group, found that arable farmers could lose almost £1bn in revenue because of the wet months of 2023-2024.

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Sadly a girl in Yorkshire died during a mudslide yesterday amid unseasonal (or soon to be seasonal) flooding.

But go on.

Post a graph, or a lone voice denying there's anything that can be done.