With gusts at 160 km / h, Fiona had passed, this Friday, September 23, in category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale which is 4. Off the coast of Bermuda, the cyclone has wreaked havoc in the Caribbean where no casualties or greater damage is been observed. Electricity supplier Belco said 15,000 of the 36,000 homes … Read more
Guadeloupe is facing storm Fiona. The island, put on red alert for heavy rains and thunderstorms since Friday by Météo-France, was hit by violent rainfall for several hours. The sixth tropical system of the season on the Atlantic basin, Storm Fiona, which formed Thursday in the middle of the ocean, “crossed the archipelago of Guadeloupe … Read more
In the early afternoon of Friday, the town of Chandler was engulfed by a large sandstorm. This gigantic wall of dust, 80 km large and 2 km high, is advancing and gradually engulfing the neighborhoods of this Arizona metropolis of 30,000 inhabitants situated 30 km southeast of Phoenix. This phenomenon, also identified as “haboob” – … Read more
On the other side of the bridge, a few kilometers away, you come across an arm of the Loire, which has completely dried up. Continuing the road towards Orée-d’Anjou (Maine-et-Loire), walkers admire the view, but worry about the biodiversity of the place. The flow of the Loire has reached its alert threshold and the rain … Read more
ITALY ON ALERT Italy faces the hottest day of the current heat wave on Friday, with 16 cities on alert from north to south of the peninsula, some regions of which are also ravaged by fires. To the north, Milan, the capital of Lombardy, should touch 40 degrees, and peaks of 39 degrees are expected … Read more
First hail and thunderstorms. Then very quickly, violent showers fell on a farm in the Sarthe, in Domfront-en-Champagne. They flood a hangar, as can be seen in the TF1 report at the top of the article. The owner is not at the end of his surprises. On his way to his fields, Julien Lep discovers … Read more