With many of us waking up to snow and ice, and weather warnings still in place for parts of the UK in the coming days, households are bracing for freezing nights and frosty mornings. As temperatures dip, you might be cranking up the heating to turn your bedroom into a cosy cocoon – especially when…
With snow and ice forecast across parts of the UK in the coming days, many households are bracing for freezing nights and frosty mornings. As temperatures dip, it’s tempting to crank up the heating and turn bedrooms into cosy cocoons – especially when it’s bitterly cold outside. But while a warm room might feel comforting…
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By Charlie Devereux and Michael Francis Gore MADRID (Reuters) -As Madrid sweltered at the peak of one of Spain’s longest-ever heatwaves, the temperature on a street in one of its poorest neighbourhoods – Puente de Vallecas – measured 41.4 degrees Celsius (106.5 Fahrenheit) by early afternoon. A few hundred metres down the street it was…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. Hongkongers should brace for rainy, stormy and hot days ahead, as a trough of low pressure developing over central China could affect…