More than 1,600 people have been evacuated in the south of France due to flooding after the very heavy rainfall. This mainly concerns campers, including many Dutch people. Especially campers in the popular holiday regions Gard, Ardèche and Drôme have been given a heavy choice.
The destructive forest fire that has been raging in the Algarve for a week is on its way. A spokesperson for the Portuguese population protection service said that the intensity has decreased and 'there are no more active fire fronts'. In addition to the efforts of more than 1400 firefighters, military personnel and volunteers, this is also due to a weather change. The temperature on the south coast dropped significantly, to around 25 degrees.
The Gard region in the south of France is affected by severe weather and flooding. Many campsites have also been evacuated.
Pia Douwes is being pampered in Thailand. The musical star, who gives a one-off concert in the Thai capital Bangkok next week, called the reception 'overwhelming.'
With a view to expected severe weather, no air traffic is possible from and to Frankfurt, the largest airport in Germany.
Two mountaineers and a hiker died in the Austrian Alps on Wednesday. According to the police of the Ellmau region, the duo wanted to go up along the so-called Kopftörlgrat in good weather on the Wilder Kaiser, without a fuse by ropes. They plunged hundreds of meters into the depths.
The emergency services in Indonesia found more bodies between the rubble of collapsed buildings after the earthquake on Lombok. The death toll has risen to 131, reports a spokesperson for the emergency response service BNPB. According to him, the number of deaths will increase even further.
The death toll due to the earthquake on Lombok has increased further. A spokesperson for the BNPB emergency response service spoke about 105 deceased victims.
Japan must once again brace itself for extreme weather. A powerful hurricane approaches the Japanese main island of Honshu with wind speeds of more than 180 kilometers per hour.
The ongoing heat in Japan has led to new local temperature records. In the city of Kumagaya, northwest of the capital Tokyo, the mercury rose to 41.1 degrees. Never before was the Japanese meteorological service so hot in that part of the country, which has been plagued by extreme weather conditions in recent months.
Severe weather has caused flooding and other flooding in southern Poland and northern Slovakia. Hundreds of tourists in the beloved Tatra Mountains have left or evacuated. Residents also give way to flooding.
A tidal wave of about 1.5 flooded Tuesday morning asked the beaches on holiday island of Mallorca and the nearby Menorca.
A heat wave killed five people in Japan and 1500 people had to be admitted to the hospital. It was the hottest in Hiroshima. In that region the mercury increased to 38 degrees, Japanese media reported.
After the unprecedented heavy rainfall and flooding, the disaster area in western Japan is now plagued by great heat and a lack of clean (drinking) water. In the meantime, the number of deaths as a result of the severe weather has risen to 195.
A summit this week between the EU and Japan, in the presence of the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, has been postponed to 17 July for one week and moved from Brussels to Tokyo. That was decided in connection with the severe weather in Japan. Abe does not want to leave the country now.
The death toll in Japan as a result of the heavy rainfall and flooding has risen to over 100. Dozens of people are still missing, the Japanese authorities report. Because of the heavy thunderstorms and associated torrential rains, parts of the south and west of the country are flooded.
The rescue operation to get the Thai football players and their coach back to the civilized world is in full swing on Sunday. Meanwhile, they are stuck for sixteen days in the Tham Luang cave, in the northern province of Chiang Rai. On Sunday afternoon the first two boys of the group saw the light of day for the first time, according to Thai media. By now, four boys would have been liberated.
The death toll due to the heavy rainfall in Japan has risen to at least 66. Sundays, too, rivers ran off their banks, forcing millions of people to leave their homes, Japanese media report. Dozens of people are still missing.
The rescue operation to liberate the twelve Thai footballers and their trainer from a flooded cave has begun. Eighteen divers have been sent into the cave to save the boys. This was communicated to the manager of the operation at a press conference.
The death toll due to the extreme weather in Japan has risen to fifteen. Approximately fifty people are still missing. At least 1.6 million people had to be evacuated. That is what Japanese media report.
A re-paved road in Australia caused a lot of trouble when the weather changed. Soon after the construction, the rain came down from the sky, after which the sun caused extreme heat. And then things went wrong.
Severe weather in the southwest of France caused a power outage in hundreds of thousands of households. Storm and thunderstorms mainly affected the Dordogne department. There, in more than 110,000 households, the power went out on Wednesday. It was the most severe thunder in Dordogne in ten years, reported local media.
The weather will determine whether there is a hasty rescue operation for the Thai football players locked up in a cave or that they can come out of their plight on foot. It is expected that within a few days, and certainly on Saturday, there will be so much rain in the Chiang Rai region that a tidal wave will flood the place where the boys find themselves. But if the tropical rain showers wait a little longer, the cave, from which water is pumped with all its might, falls so dry that the football players can escape on foot or floating with lifejackets.
Another six people died from the ongoing heat in the Canadian city of Montreal. The thermometer has been indicating temperatures above 33 degrees for days. The number of victims is therefore twelve. The weather services issued a heat alarm for Montreal. Also for a large part of Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick warnings were given for the heat.
Thai Seals yesterday succeeded in penetrating a little deeper into the flooded cave complex, where twelve teenagers and their football coach have been missing for more than a week. After days of heavy rainfall, the weather is finally favorable and the water level in the cave, located near Chiang Rai, has decreased slightly.
The Belgians have a serious shortage of drinking water due to the drought. They now get the advice to share swimming pools in the garden, but even to shower together and save water.
The captain of the ship Lifeline, from the German aid organization Mission-Lifeline, is being prosecuted by the judiciary in Malta and must be prevented on Monday. The Maltese lawyer of the organization announced this on Thursday.
The captain of the ship Lifeline, from the German aid organization Mission-Lifeline, was heard for the second time by the Maltese police on Thursday. Captain Claus-Peter Reisch was allowed to berth his boat, after days in bad weather on the Mediterranean Sea, to build in Malta on Wednesday evening. He had about 230 migrants on board. Shortly afterwards, Reisch was already questioned by the police.
The controversial boat Lifeline of the German organization Mission-Lifeline walked into the port of Maltese Valletta on Wednesday. The crew had previously been allowed to dock in Malta on Wednesday. On arrival in Valletta, emergency services brought three babies and another person to the hospital directly.
