On Majorca the death toll has risen to six after the storms last night. Nine people were also officially reported missing, three wounded and two hundred people were expelled from their homes. That says the coordination center of the 112 emergency services.
Around the cargo ships that collide on Sunday in the Mediterranean Sea is an oil slick of hundreds of square meters. The oil has leaked from one of the ships, according to ARD.
The greatest exercise of NATO since the end of the Cold War starts in Norway at the end of this month. Because an extra American aircraft carrier with 6,000 people participates, the total number of participants comes to 50,000, said the American admiral James Foggo at a press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels.
In Central America, 12 people died in recent days due to floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfall. The rain started Thursday and has not stopped since. Countries throughout Central America are plagued by the rain.
Jokers in the US have been diving over each other since yesterday to weather the weather forecasts.
In the first weekend of the Oktoberfest in Munich, it is estimated that more than 800,000 visitors have come to the festival. That was considerably more than in 2017, when it was about 600,000.
Ships from several countries are in a race against time to save a wounded solo sailor. Indian Navy officer Abhilash Tomy participated in the Golden Globe Race, according to CNN, when his boat ran into trouble at some 3300 kilometers southwest of the Australian city of Perth.
Because of the hurricane Mangkhut, at least 65 people died in the Philippines. Especially in the north of the main island of Luzon many people have become victims of landslides. In a series of landslides, some 45 people are still missing in the province of Benguet, according to Filipino media.
A reporter from The Weather Channel gets the scorn of thousands of social media users. His TV report from hurricane Florence went viral because he somewhat diminished the power of the storm. While the reporter pretends he can stay on his feet with difficulty, two men walk quietly in the background.
In a press conference at the end of a climate summit, the governor of California, Jerry Brown, has announced that he wants to include a weather satellite himself to find out what sources of air pollution are. The state is working with Planet Labs to launch the satellite.
The number of deaths from hurricane Florence in the states of North and South Carolina in the United States has risen to five. There may be more, local media reports. Florence has meanwhile been watered down to a tropical storm.
The heavy typhoon Mangkhut has reached the Philippines. The storm came to the land at Baggao in Luzon, the largest Philippine island.
Hurricane Florence leaves a trail of vandalism in the United States. Because of the storm, trees are blown away and streets run under water. In the city of New Bern, according to CNN, at least two hundred people were saved who had been in trouble because of high water.
The diminished, but still dangerous, whirlwind Florence goes ashore in the American state of North Carolina. The severe weather associated with the hurricane has caused flooding and other nuisance for some time. In more than 300,000 households in North Carolina the power has already failed, reported local media.
Hurricane Florence has further weakened on the way to the American coast. It is now a storm in the second category, reports the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami. Nevertheless, heavy rainfall and possible flooding are still taken into account.
The National Hurricane Center has scaled heavy hurricane Florence to category 3 on Wednesday. However, the danger that is particularly threatening for the coastal areas in South and North Carolina remains unchanged. Houses with huge waves and enormous amounts of rain are expected.
Sint Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius must take extreme weather conditions into account this week. Weeronline reports that hurricane Isaac, according to most computer calculations, draws on the Windward Islands on Thursday or Friday.
It was always a nice picture for the TV viewer in West Virginia, when newsreader Erica Bivens and female resear Chelsea Ambriz came to bring the latest news, but behind the scenes of TV station WSAZ-TV it rumbled fiercely.
A swarm of thousands of bees has chosen a special location on Tuesday around lunchtime to settle: on top of a hot dog stand at Times Square in New York.
Europe will be hosting a new satellite on Wednesday. It is the Aeolus, who will have to map out exactly how the wind blows on the earth in the coming years. This is unknown in many places and that makes weather forecasts uncertain.
The launch of the ultra-modern weather satellite Aeolus, scheduled for Tuesday evening, has been postponed by exactly one day. The reason for the postponement is the strong wind that blew at the planned time at the launch site in Kourou, in French Guyana. The satellite has been developed to measure wind on Earth in new ways.
At least five hikers were killed after they were dragged along by rising water in the south of Italy. The victims were in a ravine in Calabria. Heavy rainfall caused the water to rise in a stream, reports Italian media.
The Aeolus is a hypermodern wind vane that has to go into space this Tuesday. The satellite must, from 320 kilometers altitude, chart the wind on earth. There is still relatively little known about this.
The death toll due to the floods in the South Indian state of Kerala is rising rapidly. According to local media, the unprecedented heavy and long-term rainfall has killed some 324 people. The authorities report 186 deaths. Thousands have become homeless.
It is never wrong to occasionally celebrate a holiday. For the heat you do not have to go to the warm south, but it is also possible to enjoy the weather in the backyard. And if we are still in the backyard, why do not we go all the way with Go Vacation?
The more than 300 families that were evacuated after the collapse of the road bridge in Genoa can not go home. Rescue workers from, among others, the fire brigade have also ceased their work in a creaking pylon of the destroyed bridge. It also seems to go wrong.
At the brigade in the Italian city of Genoa, no Dutch people are involved. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports this Wednesday.
The death toll after the collapse of a traffic bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa has increased to 31. The civil protection service has confirmed this, reports the newspaper La Repubblica. There are two children among the dead. Five bodies still have to be identified.
Fortunately, the heat also has positive consequences. For the first time in fifteen years, a rare group of andean flamingos have laid eggs in a reserve in Great Britain. Because of the warm weather the animals have gotten meaning to reproduce.
The monsoon rains, which have persisted for days, have killed at least 37 people in the south of India. Most victims in the state of Kerala drowned or were swept away by landslides. The authorities have informed that.
