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legend Temperature anomaly in Northern Europe in July 2018 The 2018 European drought and heat wave was a period of unusually hot weather that led to record-breaking temperatures and wildfires in many parts of Europe during the spring and summer of 2018. It is part of a larger heat wave affecting the northern hemisphere, caused in part by the jet stream being weaker than usual, allowing hot ...
August 31–September 18 – Hurricane Florence killed 54 people (24 direct and 30 indirect) and caused $24.23 billion (2018 USD) in damage across West Africa, Cape Verde, Bermuda, the East Coast of the United States (especially the Carolinas), and Atlantic Canada.
In 2018, several heat waves with temperatures far above the long-time average and droughts were recorded in the Northern Hemisphere: [1] The earth's average surface temperature in 2018 was the fourth highest in the 140 years of record keeping. [2]
Man dies in Italy, more measures in Greece, while US also sees heatwave and Spain records 40C ground temperature
The 2018 Britain and Ireland heatwave was a period of unusually hot weather that took place in June, July and August. It caused widespread drought, hosepipe bans , crop failures , and a number of wildfires .
The European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) collects and verifies reports on dust, sand- or steam devils, tornadoes, gustnadoes, large hail, heavy rain and snowfall, severe wind gusts, damaging lightning strikes and avalanches all over Europe and around the Mediterranean.
A heat map for Europe has turned to dark red and even black in areas because of the severity of the extreme weather, with forecasters noting that the heatwave could last for up to two weeks. One ...
A deep-focus earthquake of magnitude 8.2 (the strongest recorded in 2018) strikes the South Pacific Ocean near Fiji. No threat of tsunami is immediately detected. 19 August 2018 Lombok earthquake. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing 14. (The Guardian) 2018 Pacific typhoon season