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The situation was exacerbated by the fact that Europe was still recovering from the Napoleonic Wars, adding to the socio-economic stress. North America also faced extreme weather conditions. In the eastern United States, a persistent "dry fog" dimmed the sunlight, causing unusual cold and frost throughout the summer months.
October 1952 – Romania was hit by very hot weather. Temperatures reached 39.0 °C (102.2 °F) on 2 October, with Bucharest reaching 35.2 °C (95.4 °F). Temperatures on the night of 2–3 October were also just under 26 °C (79 °F). 1955 – 1955 United Kingdom heat wave was a period of hot weather that was accompanied by drought. In some ...
A powerful high-end F3 tornado struck Holstebro in Denmark, causing devastating damage. More than 100 houses were badly damaged or destroyed, making this event the most devastating tornado in Denmark's history, and the third strongest tornado documented in Denmark. Many injuries were reported, but the number is not exactly known.
People cross a snow covered railway in Helsinki, Finland, on April 23, 2024, as an unusual weather system brought trams in the city to a halt. - Alessandro Rampazzo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. [1] The volcanic winter was caused by at least three simultaneous eruptions of uncertain origin, with several possible locations proposed in various continents. Modern scholarship has determined that in ...
These heat waves were the deadliest meteorological events in 2022. The highest temperature recorded was 47.0 °C (116.6 °F) in Pinhão, Portugal, on 14 July. [3] In June 2022, temperatures of 40–43 °C (104–109 °F) were recorded in parts of Europe, with most severe temperature anomalies in France, where several records were broken. [4] [5]
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
Portions of southern Germany, France and Switzerland were pummeled by damaging hailstorms that also triggered flash flooding on Monday and Tuesday as an active stretch of severe weather continued ...