Heavy rain and thunderstorms have brought on havoc in Switzerland and northern Italy over the previous week. Switzerland was badly hit on Friday 21 June, with downpours delivering greater than 100mm throughout many areas – greater than half of this inside one hour.
Flash flooding and landslides swept away automobiles and homes, with not less than one particular person identified to have died, alongside widespread injury to move infrastructure. The mountain resort of Zermatt was totally lower off attributable to a mix of flood water, highway closures and suspended practice providers.
Unsettled situations endured across the Alpine area over the weekend, earlier than pushing farther south into Italy, bringing related downpours to Emilia-Romagna and northern Tuscany on Tuesday. Between 100mm and 200mm of rain fell throughout a lot of the world, which brought on rivers to overflow their banks and resulted in widespread flooding. Elsewhere, water ranges in Lake Garda reached their highest degree since 1977, whereas a powerful thunderstorm in Veneto produced a twister close to Rovigo, which introduced down a number of bushes and broken buildings.
Heatwaves across the northern hemisphere have continued to dominate climate headlines. Temperatures in Saudi Arabia soared above 50C (122F) at instances final week as thousands and thousands undertook the hajj pilgrimage, with greater than 500,000 individuals taken to hospital and as much as 1,300 deaths subsequently attributed to heat-related diseases.
A number of Balkan nations skilled energy cuts final Friday as temperatures within the excessive 30Cs spurred a spike in the usage of air-con items. Within the US, greater than 100 million individuals have been affected by warmth alerts over the previous week, with each day temperature information smashed in some north-eastern states on Friday and Demise Valley in California hitting 49C on Sunday. In Pakistan, lots of of deaths have been reported for the reason that weekend as temperatures broadly exceeded 40C every day.
Within the southern hemisphere, nevertheless, elements of Australia have seen an early chilly snap this winter. Components of Queensland recorded in a single day temperatures greater than 10C under common, whereas the south-east might have skilled its coldest begin to winter for a number of many years. Lows hit 7.7C in Brisbane, 2.2C in Melbourne, and -3.3C in Canberra. Minimal temperature information for June have been damaged in not less than 5 locations because it dropped under freezing. A number of locations in Victoria and South Australia recorded their coldest June day in many years. Temperatures stubbornly refused to rise above single figures.
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