Yahoo News UK weather: Warnings of heavy snow, strong winds and blizzards as cold snap grips country
The UK cold snap is expected to worsen for many on Thursday, with more snow predicted across large parts, bringing the threat of power cuts and travel delays.
The UK cold snap is expected to worsen for many on Thursday, with more snow predicted across large parts, bringing the threat of power cuts and travel delays.
Mercury is set to rise overall and reach 15C in parts as the week progresses
The storm made auroras visible as far south as New Mexico in the US
The Norwegian arms firm Nammo Morten Brandtzæg, told the FT the demand for artillery rounds was 15 times higher than normal.
Some 700 firefighters were battling Spain's first major forest fire of the year Saturday, which was raging out of control 48 hours after it began, forcing 1,500 people to flee. In an update on Twitter, the regional emergency services said the fire in Villanueva de Viver, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Valencia, was a "highly-complex blaze taking place in weather conditions similar to those of the summer"."700 people have been mobilised for the operation (to fight the fire). It has affected 3,900 hectares and has a 35-kilometre perimeter," they said, indicating the number of people forced out of their homes on Friday, some 1,500, had not changed. They said the huge blaze remained "very voracious" with the work to put it out "very complicated". Firefighters tweeted that they had deployed some 20 aerial units to help tackle the fire."Clearly the fire has not stabilised because it is still burning with great ferocity given that the weather conditions are almost like summer," Ximo Puig, leader of the Valencia region told Spain's RTVE public television. The fire began just after midday (1200 GMT) on Thursday. Firefighters said the blaze was more typical of summer than of late March. With the vegetation dried out by a lack of moisture in the atmosphere in recent months and large amounts of combustible biomass in the forests, conditions were "perfect" for such a blaze, Manolo Nicolas of the Castellon firefighters had told public radio on Friday. In 2022, which was a particularly bad year for wildfires in Europe, Spain was the worst-hit country with nearly 500 blazes that destroyed more than 300,000 hectares, according to figures from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).hmw/giv
The massive tornado killed at least 26 people and injured dozens more
WTVA meteorologist Matt Laubhan was heard saying, ‘Dear Jesus, please help them’, as he urged local people to seek safety. Sheila Flynn hears from a grateful local resident who took cover when she heard him say ‘deadly’
Households could need as many as seven bins to comply with new national waste-collection plans being drawn up by the Government.
Berlin and the EU have reached an agreement in their dispute over the future of cars with combustion engines.
Car manufacturers will be required to produce a set proportion of electric vehicles from January 2024 under a new “mandate” to be announced this week.
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Several towns devastated in Mississippi and Alabama, thousands without power
The cephalopod was twisting in a mud flat before a group of people sprang to the rescue.
A praying weatherman in Mississippi helped to save lives with his dire warnings of deadly weather approaching one small town, one resident has said. TV meteorologist Matt Laubhan regularly warns of tornados in the area with an unfazed attitude but on Friday night he had a severe sence of urgency. “Oh man, north side of Amory, this is coming in,” Mr Laubhan told viewers.
A ceremonial tree has just been planted in a popular Glasgow park.
STORY: While tornado outbreaks in the region are common, they are usually not as powerful as the one that ripped through Rolling Fork. "The Rolling Fork Mississippi tornado was extremely, extremely high above the 95th percentile for all significant tornadoes, which are EF2 or greater," Emmerson told Reuters on Saturday.Emmerson said two of the indicators of a powerful tornado are the height to which it lifts debris as well as its rotational velocity on the weather radar. The Rolling Fork tornado lifted debris upto 30,000 feet."In that subset of strong tornadoes, this was way, way up in the higher, higher parts of the distribution for both of those metrics. So it's a very, very high caliber, very intense tornado by most estimates," he said.
Households are facing a decade of higher energy bills from the race to hit net zero and inflated gas prices, KPMG has warned.
We would like to speak to people in England and Wales about how they will cope with their water bill increasing next month
Criminal syndicates recruit gangs on the ground, supplying weapons and finances in return for wildlife products
Australian scientists have found a way to produce hydrogen directly from seawater, skipping the need for desalination and its associated cost
Experts call it the first Australian legislation in a decade that would regulate greenhouse gas pollution