“Temperatures reached 11.2C in Örebro [Sweden] on Wednesday – the hottest January day the city has seen since records began, and a full 0.7C hotter than when it broke its temperature record last week.
“Even still, the central Swedish city was not the warmest spot in the country.
“Oskarshamn in south-eastern Sweden recorded 12.1C, a new record for the town in January.”
https://www.thelocal.se/20200116/the-swedish-city-of-orebro-just-set-a-new-temperature-record-again
“A seal that is normally native to the Arctic area has been rescued in Co Clare [Ireland].
“The juvenile Arctic Ringed seal was found on a beach in Quilty in west Clare on Sunday. The mammal is thought to be only a few months old and was in a very weak state.”
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2020/0115/1107646-arctic-ringed-seal/
“For the second time in less than two weeks, Vicksburg [Mississippi] was deluged by record-setting rainfall…
“Vicksburg street department superintendent Skipper Whittington said there were scattered reports of flooded roads in the city, and problems with landslides on North Washington.”
https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2020/01/15/record-rainfall-causes-flash-flooding-and-road-closures/
“You aren’t wrong, it was extremely cold this morning in Prince George (Jan. 15).
“Environment Canada Meteorologist Matt Macdonald says a temperature of -44.4 C was recorded at 8 a.m. today, which shattered the previous record of -41.2 on Jan. 15, 1979. Records in Prince George began way back in 1912…”
“The amount of land in the Amazon where deforestation has taken place has increased dramatically under the presidency of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro – amid concerns his environmental stance has emboldened those keen to turn one of the most important regions in the world for biodiversity into agricultural land.”
“Back in 2015–16, about 62,000 dead or dying common murres — a North Pacific seabird — washed ashore between Alaska and California.
“Only a fraction of the dead birds made it to shore, and the total number of deaths was estimated to be close to a million birds. Researchers think it was the largest seabird die-off in recorded history.”
“New Zealand’s famous kiwi birds are suffering from dehydration as drought affects many northern areas of the country, with conservationists warning chicks may soon perish too.
“There are 68,000 kiwi left in New Zealand but their number is declining at a rate of 2% a year.”
“The severe drought, stagnant water and devastating bushfire have combined to cause the death of thousands of fish in the Macleay River [NSW, Australia] since late November last year.
“Recent rainfall across the region has washed organic matter, sediment and ash from the Carrai East fire into the Macleay River.”
https://www.bellingencourier.com.au/story/6582237/thousands-of-fish-die-in-macleay-river/?cs=483
“…climate change is pummeling Australia on top of its notoriously volatile weather that can bring jarring shifts year to year, or even in the same year.
“That’s a big reason Australia is so vulnerable to extremes and why the continent is experiencing some of the world’s worst climate-related disasters.”
“After one of the driest December’s on record, multiple states around the country [Australia] have seen more than a month’s rain in just 24 hours…
“The rainfall is expected to continue into this weekend meaning some communities could get more than 100mm by next week.”
“Floods triggered by heavy rainfall in Samarinda, East Kalimantan [Indonesia], have submerged three districts and six subdistricts since Tuesday morning, affecting at least 7,213 residents.
“Aside from causing flooding, the downpour also caused landslides in Samarinda.”
“Last year was Singapore’s joint warmest year, with an annual mean temperature of 28.4 degrees Celsius, the Meteorological Service (MSS) said on Thursday (Jan 16).
“That is the same as the annual mean temperature in 2016 and 0.9 degrees Celsius higher than the 1981 to 2010 long-term average.”
“Several spy satellite images have revealed details about Mount Everest. According to what the researchers have found, glaciers surrounding Mount Everest have lost far more ice than once thought…
“…the glaciers along Mount Everest’s flanks had shrunk significantly from the top down and this happened in between 1962 to 2018.”
https://www.indiatvnews.com/science/mount-everest-is-melting-satellite-photos-show-580085
“A budget of one trillion rials (nearly $25 million at the official rate of 42,000 rials) was allocated to meet urgent needs in flood-hit provinces of Iran…
“Unprecedented heavy rainfall which began on January 10 has led to flash flooding in [Iran’s] southern provinces of Sistan-Baluchestan, Kerman, and Hormozgan…”
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/444204/25m-allocated-to-meet-urgent-needs-in-flood-hit-areas
“Temperatures in some parts of Oman dropped to below zero on Wednesday as heavy rain caused flooding across the Sultanate and residents are braced themselves for a further downpour…
“The Met office said more rain is expected over the next two days across the country. In Muscat, strong winds and rainfall caused chaos for many residents and some abandoned their houses in low-lying areas of the capital.”
“The past decade was the hottest on record, the UN said on Wednesday, warning the higher temperatures were expected to fuel numerous extreme weather events in 2020 and beyond…
“The United Nations said last year that man-made greenhouse gas emissions needed to tumble 7.6 percent each year to 2030 in order to limit temperature rises to 1.5C…”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/2019-hottest-year-warmest-decade-200115180358403.html
“The past five years – and the past decade – are the hottest in 150 years, the latest research has shown. It is bringing increasingly severe storms, floods, drought and wildfires, with one scientist saying the records being broken year after year is “the drumbeat of the Anthropocene”.
“We look at what the five hottest years look like in pictures:“
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