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Cold in Kuwait

Yasser Al-Zayyat, AFP
Posted at Jan 23 09:03 PM

January is the coldest month in Kuwait City, with temperatures reaching an average of 13.5 to 18.4 degrees Celsius. Read more »

Baguio chills at 12C on Christmas Eve

Jacque Manabat, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 24 07:18 PM

Residents and tourists in Baguio City were covered in layers of clothing as the temperature dropped in the City of Pines before Christmas Day. Read more »

Oil, gas firms production plans spell 'catastrophic' warming: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 08 10:20 AM

Oil and gas companies are spending billions of dollars on new fossil fuel production that would push global temperatures to catastrophic levels, research found. Read more »

Europe temp rise more than twice global average: UN

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 03 07:54 AM

A UN report found that last year, high-impact weather and climate events – mainly floods and storms – led to hundreds of deaths. Read more »

San Juan sets up vaccine site for students

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 22 12:53 PM

Elementary students, accompanied by their parents, get their Pfizer booster shots at the San Juan Elementary school in San Juan City. Read more »

Temperature check at San Juan school

Jire Carreon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 22 08:51 AM

A teacher checks students’ temperature for the second time as they assemble at the San Juan Elementary School on the first day of in person classes after a 2-year hiatus. Read more »

Last month one of hottest Julys on record: UN

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 09 10:21 PM

Last month marked one of the three hottest Julys ever recorded, with global temperatures measuring nearly half a degree above average, the United Nations' weather agency said Tuesday. Read more »

US heat wave soars as California wildfire rages

David McNew with Becca Milfeld in Washington, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 24 07:53 AM

Tens of millions of Americans already baking in a scorching heat wave braced Saturday for record-setting temperatures to climb, while a major fire ravaged part of California. Read more »

Europe counts cost of heat wave as Spain PM says more than 500 died

Daniel Silva with Agence France-Presse European Bureaus
Posted at Jul 21 04:12 PM

Spain's prime minister said 'more than 500 people died' during a 10-day heat wave as Europe counts the cost of a record period of extreme temperatures. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 19, 2022

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 20 12:13 AM

Here are the day's top stories in photos. Read more »

Scorching heat and wildfires hit southwest France

Thibaud Moritz, AFP
Posted at Jul 19 03:43 PM

Firefighters put gas tanks for safety in the swimming pool of the 5 star hotel La Corniche in the town of Pilat sur Merle, southwest of France on Monday, as smoke from a fire in La Teste de Buch is seen in the background. Read more »

France, Spain experience hottest June

Stefano Rellandini, AFP
Posted at Jun 19 01:22 PM

A man cools off in The Trocadero Fountains in Paris on Saturday, amid record high temperatures sweeping across France and western Europe. Read more »

US gun violence spikes in warm weather. Here's why

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 07 08:02 AM

From the Texas school massacre to a Tulsa hospital shooting and many less-reported incidents, a recent spate of gun violence across America bears out a trend police departments have long sworn by: murders go up in warmer weather. Read more »

Metro Manila logs lowest temperature this Amihan

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 16 11:06 AM

Metro Manila on Sunday recorded its lowest temperature so far this Amihan season at 19.7 degrees Celsius, according to PAGASA. Read more »

China powers up new nuclear reactor

Echo Xie, South China Morning Post
Posted at Dec 21 06:00 PM

The domestically developed high-temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) – at the Shidaowan nuclear power plant in China’s eastern Shandong province – is currently the world’s only one in commercial operation. Read more »

Coldest temperature this Amihan season recorded in Benguet

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 07 11:30 AM

Benguet on Tuesday recorded the lowest temperature in the country this Amihan season at 10.8 degrees Celsius, the state weather bureau said. Read more »

Puerto Galera buys freezer but no COVID vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 29 11:24 AM

The local government of Puerto Galera said the ultra-low temperature freezer they bought to store COVID vaccines remains empty as no supply came for almost two weeks now. Read more »

Last month was world's third-hottest July on record - EU scientists

Kate Abnett, Reuters
Posted at Aug 05 04:03 PM

Last month was one of the world's hottest Julys on record, behind only 2019 and 2016, EU scientists said on Thursday. Read more »

Seeing snow for the first time at 62: Brazilians revel in icy snap

Reuters
Posted at Jul 30 02:42 PM

Temperatures dropped across Brazil on Thursday - with rare snowfall overnight in some places - as a polar air mass advanced toward the center-south of the global agricultural powerhouse, threatening coffee, sugarcane and orange crops with frost. Read more »

Record-shattering heatwaves caused by pace of warming, says climate study

Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 28 05:00 AM

The findings, reported in Nature Climate Change, suggest that humanity is likely to see a lot more deadly scorchers in the coming decades.   Read more »