The governor of Mexico’s Quintana Roo state, Mara Lezama, urged locals to stay safe on July 5 as Hurricane Berryl approached landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Lezama posted this footage early on Friday, showing strong winds and heavy rain, which she said was captured in Tulum.
The governor issued a red warning for
Summer temperatures are set to return with a bang next week with the mercury set to hit 32C, as weather maps show exactly which areas are set to roast in the sweltering heat.
Extremely dangerous heat is dragging on in the West along with heat and humidity in the eastern US.
More than 199,000 customers were without power across Texas early Monday, about an hour after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, according to PowerOutage.us. Many of those outages were along the Gulf Coast, where the Category 1 hurricane made landfall, according to the tracking website.
Heavy rain could hit Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix in the afternoon.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley and held the East in its hot and humid grip.
Beryl began lashing coastal Texas with rain and intensifying winds Sunday as residents boarded up windows, left beach towns under evacuation orders and prepared for the powerful storm that has already cut a deadly path through parts of Mexico and the Caribbean. Beryl remained a tropical storm late Sunday as it churned toward the middle Texas coast but was expected to regain hurricane strength in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall early Monday, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm was projected to come ashore around Matagorda Bay, an area about 100 miles (161 kilometers) south of Houston.
After causing deaths and shattering records in the West over the weekend, a long-running heat wave will again grip the U.S. on Monday, with triple digit temperatures predicted for large parts of the East Coast. The dangerous temperatures caused the death of a motorcyclist in Death Valley. The U.S. heat wave came as the global temperature in June was record warm for the 13th straight month and it marked the 12th straight month that the world was 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times, the European climate service Copernicus said in an early Monday announcement.
Another visitor in same motorcycle group hospitalized for ‘severe heat illness’ as other four members treated at scene
STORY: :: July 6, 2024::Stranded tourists flock to Cancun airportafter Hurricane Beryl causes flight cancellations::Fabiana, Tourist from Florida"It was a little hard. We had to change our flights two times, but it was okay, it wasn't that bad."::Lynn Hayes, Tourist from Kansas"Friday was obviously scary. Thursday night, scary. But the hotel did an amazing job of preparing the hotel and the guests for whatever was to come and kept us fed and kept us safe. And it was great. We commend them."::Cancun, MexicoTravelers crowded in front of airline check-in counters to try and get flights after more than 300 flights were canceled, waiting in long lines as the airport slowly returned to operational mode on Saturday.Beryl weakened to a tropical storm as it passed over Mexico's top beach destinations on Friday (July 5), bringing strong winds and heavy rain but without doing major damage, after forging a deadly trail of destruction across the Caribbean.Mexico's civil protection agency said on Friday, there were zero reports of casualties as a result of the storm.
West Norfolk Council is to spend £10,000 on a study into the Gaywood River, one of Norfolk's rare chalk streams, which campaigners say is under threat from pollution and abstraction.
A Met Office warning is in place from 4am tomorrow
The joint leader of the Green Party is planning to oppose net zero plans backed by the Labour Government to build pylons in Suffolk to transport offshore wind power.
Florida wildlife biologists conducting an electrofishing survey of Silver Glen Springs made an odd catch that resembled one from a few weeks ago.
Hurricane Beryl hit the Yucatán peninsula as a category two hurricane after making landfall in Jamaica as a category five hurricane. CNN’s Michael Holmes reports on the devastation left behind.
An extreme heatwave in the US has seen record-breaking temperatures with warnings issued to around 130 million people and heightened concerns over wildfires. San Francisco saw the thermometer hit a blistering 47C (117F) over the weekend while Las Vegas topped out at 46C - a high last reached in 2007. Phoenix recorded 45.5C, just shy of the record of 46.7C set back in 1942.
Average number of heatstroke-related deaths each year has increased six fold since 1995
On the Texas gulf coast where Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to hit, preparations to keep people safe and protect property are underway. A voluntary evacuation order was issued on Friday as some chose to board up their houses and leave, others plan to take their chances and stay put.
Watch as tourists remained stranded at Cancun airport on Saturday (6 July) after Hurriance Beryl made landfall on the Mexican coast. Beryl is now heading toward Texas after making landfall at the popular Mexico tourist destination Tulum on Friday morning with 85mph winds and dangerous storm surge.
The northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, was plunged into dark after Russian strikes late Friday damaged energy infrastructure, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said. Hours later, the Ukrainian public broadcaster reported that Russian drones hit the provincial capital, also called Sumy, cutting
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