A 12-day online workshop on Severe Weather and Impact-Based Warning Services was conducted to strengthen capacity and resilience in South and South East.
About 46% of the contiguous U.S. was in drought at the end of January, the most for the month since 2013.
Spain lies blanketed in heavy snow on January 12, 2021, in the wake of Windstorm Filomena, Earth’s most expensive weather-related disaster of January, with $2.2 billion in damage to Madrid alone. (Image credit: Modified Sentinel-3 satellite data from Pierre Markuse)
January 2021 was the seventh warmest January since global record keeping began in 1880, 0.80 degrees Celsius (1.44°F) above the 20th century average, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, reported February 12.
NASA rated the month as the sixth warmest January on record, as did the European Copernicus Climate Change Service. The Japan Meteorological Agency has not yet released its January numbers. Minor differences in rankings often occur among various research groups, the result of different ways they handle data-sparse regions such as the Arctic.
Two routes in Sutherland remain impassable due to snow and ice By Caroline McMorran
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Updated: 11:57, 12 February 2021
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Roads in Sutherland are still affected by the wintry conditions with two routes currently closed.
Highland Council say that the single-track A897 which runs from Helmsdale to Halladale Bridge, east of Melvich, is not passable at the moment.
Wintry weather conditions are affecting routes across the north. Picture: Adobe Stock Images
And also shut is the A894 from Skiag Bridge, north of Inchnadamph and on to Scourie and Laxford Bridge.
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15:55 Weather is fascinating, captivating and dangerous to the unprepared, which is why we forecast it. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
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As a nation of weather watchers, we are all interested to see the weather forecast to find out if we are in for yet another cold blast hitting us this weekend from the polar jet stream. Weather is fascinating, captivating and dangerous to the unprepared, which is why we forecast it.