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Temperatures in Hong Kong reached as high as 33.4 degrees Celsius (92 Fahrenheit) on Sunday, with cooler conditions forecast by midweek as showers and thunderstorms approach the region. The hot weather brought large crowds to the city’s major beaches during the Easter long weekend. The Hong Kong Observatory said on Sunday that an anticyclone aloft…
Dozens of people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rains flooded the capital, Kinshasa, in the last few days, and destroyed hundreds of homes. The Ndjili River running through the megacity of 17 million people, one of the largest on the continent, burst its banks and submerged major roads, including Lumumba…
Lo más probable es que varios tornados extremadamente fuertes arrasen partes del centro de Estados Unidos el miércoles, antes de que inundaciones que podrían ser únicas en la vida azoten la misma región del Medio Oeste y el sur, dijeron los meteorólogos. Las oficinas del Servicio Meteorológico Nacional advirtieron de la posibilidad de un “brote…
A noodle shop owner in China who gave free food to travellers who intervened after a car accident has discovered that the victim they helped was his son. On March 7, a woman and her friend were driving in Guangdong province, southeastern China, when they came across a car accident. A white sedan was diagonally…
SYDNEY Gusts and torrential rain have blacked out more than 300,000 properties and swamped parts of Australia‘s east coast, officials said on Sunday, with one driver confirmed dead and a dozen troops injured in the wild weather. After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400-kilometer stretch of…
One person was missing, hundreds of thousands of homes were without power and communities were at risk of major flooding in eastern Australia on Saturday after the weakened storm formerly known as Tropical Cyclone Alfred neared the coast, still bringing heavy rains and dangerous winds. Australia’s third-largest city, Brisbane, which had been in the cyclone’s…
Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Friday afternoon in northwestern Australia, bringing intense rain and destructive winds to a sparsely populated region of the country that is home to ports and mines critical to the global economy. The authorities ordered residents to stay indoors. Australian meteorologists said the storm had made landfall at 12:30 p.m….
Happy Saturday, everyone! Make sure to enjoy the “warmer” temperatures today and tonight while they last. We have arctic air on the way that will make temperatures plummet starting Sunday night. Temperatures will remain BELOW FREEZING between Sunday night and Tuesday night – this includes both high and low temperatures. The high today will be…
K-pop star Rain put in a brief but much-anticipated appearance at the opening of the Longines Hong Kong International Races at the Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong on December 8. The 42-year-old singer and actor, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon, has appeared in a string of Korean dramas including Full House (2004) and…