“Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the season in the Pacific, killed at least 14 people as it lashed El Salvador and Guatemala on Sunday amid flooding and power outages…
“San Salvador Mayor Ernesto Muyshondt said half of those killed died in the capital.
“”We are experiencing an unprecedented situation: one top-level emergency on top of another serious one,” he said, referring to the coronavirus pandemic.”
https://www.france24.com/en/20200601-deadly-tropical-storm-amanda-hits-el-salvador-guatemala
“Caribbean islands have rarely been so vulnerable as an unusually active hurricane season threatens a region still recovering from recent storms as it fights a worsening drought and a pandemic that has drained budgets and muddled preparations.
““It is crazy,” said Iram Lewis, Bahamian minister for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction. “No one could have imagined this.””
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Battered_Caribbean_prepares_for_hurricanes_amid_pandemic
“A tropical system developing near Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean could set the record as the earliest, third-named storm to take shape ahead of the official hurricane season…
“There have never been three named storms recorded before the Atlantic hurricane season.”
“According to Sue Mauger, a stream ecologist at Cook Inletkeeper who has been monitoring salmon streams in Alaska for nearly two decades, temperatures as high as last year’s match the projections for 2069.
““We knew it was warming, but we didn’t expect to see that result that quickly,” Bursch said.”
https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.6/north-climate-change-has-setnetters-worried-about-alaskas-sockeye
“The Met Office confirmed that the community of Cromdale in Strathspey in the Highlands had the UK’s highest temperature of the year, 28.3C, on Friday.
“Spring in Scotland has been the sunniest since records began in 1929, with March, April and May delivering more than 500 hours of sunshine for the first time.”
“The winter of 2019/20 was exceptional, breaking records for both high temperatures and high rainfall, with the highest UK December temperature on record and the wettest UK February on record.
“Coinciding with this, there have been reports of more external parasites being found in sheep flocks e.g. lice, ticks and maggots which will have enjoyed this mild winter and had good survival rates.”
https://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/livestock/18486528.sheep-parasites-rise/
“Farmers [UK] have warned of produce price rises after sunny weather led to a reduction in crop harvesting.
“It has been the sunniest spring in the UK since records began in 1926, according to the Met Office, and it is believed that we have had the driest May for 124 years.”
https://news.sky.com/story/farmers-warn-of-food-price-rises-after-warmest-may-in-decades-11997396
“Wildfires raged around beauty spots across the country [UK] yesterday as temperatures continued to soar.
“Firefighters in Scotland, Surrey and Lancashire were tackling ‘significant’ blazes yesterday after warning that scarce rainfall and dry vegetation would provide ‘all of the ingredients’ for wildfires to spread.”
https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/31/wildfires-rage-across-uk-country-continues-bake-12782509/
“At least seven people lost their lives, Friday, due to violent showers driven by hurricane-type strong winds which beset the capital city of the Republic of Somaliland.
“Six of the deceased were swept away in cars after deceptively strong floods caught them crossing river beds.”
“Kenya is experiencing some of the worst flooding for generations, adding a third layer of crisis to a nation buckled by the threat of Covid-19 and battling a massive locust invasion that is destroying vast areas of crops…
“About 233,000 people have been affected by the floods…”
“Two more people have died in flash flooding in caused by a tropical storm that continues to lash Oman’s southern city of Salalah, taking the total number of deaths to three in the last two days.
“The Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances said a man died after the roof of his house collapsed on him and another when his car was swept away by water…”
https://www.alkhaleejtoday.co/international/106318/Three-dead-in-Salalah-flash-flooding.html
“The depression in the Arabian Sea is likely to intensify into a severe cyclone and cross the north Maharashtra and south Gujarat coasts on June 3…
“…and will have an impact on Mumbai, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday.”
“Lucknow [India]: The unusual trend of weather being witnessed this year saw yet another record-breaking event on Saturday when city received the heaviest rainfall in a single day in of May in nearly seventy years…
“…at state Met observatory recording 57.4 mm rainfall in just 60 minutes of downpour that broke 61-year old record of 57m recorded on May 28, 1959.”
“A person drowned in the Kampur area of central Assam’s Nagaon district, taking the flood-related death toll to six in less than a week even as more than 4,000 people went back home from relief camps on Saturday…
“The floods have destroyed crop on 26,977 hectares, surface communication has been disrupted with 68 roads and half-a-dozen bridges damaged.”
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/six-dead-in-assam-floods/article31712455.ece
“It’s probably too late to save most of the glaciers outside the polar regions; continuing greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming will see to that over the next century or so.
““We need to preserve these really important archives, because they are melting away,” Margit Schwikowski, an environmental chemist at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, says. “It’s really obvious if you go to the glaciers that they are suffering. It’s happening everywhere on Earth.”“
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/glacier-melt-antarctica-vault/612343/
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