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Flooding in Nahariya, January 8, 2020. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
January 8, 2020, 2:14 pm
Person reportedly missing after vehicle overturns in flooded north
Emergency services scramble to rescue people trapped in cars on water-logged roads; snowy conditions force school closures on Golan
By Stuart Winer
View of the Jordan River after heavy rains in northern Israel, on December 27, 2019. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
December 29, 2019, 1:32 am
Days of heavy rainfall raise Sea of Galilee by some 20cm
Temperatures expected to rise slightly over coming days with clearer skies, but forecasts show the downpours resuming next weekend
By TOI staff
Rescue teams search for a teen boy who was caught in a flood near the northern village of Yarka, December 26, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)
December 26, 2019, 11:33 pm
Record-setting downpour drenches north as rescuers search for lost teen
Up to 150 millimeters of precipitation recorded in northern Israel, 200mm on Mount Hermon; rains expected to continue through weekend
By TOI staff
Illustrative: People walk in the rain in the northern Israeli city of Sefad, on a stormy winter day, December 9, 2019. (David Cohen/ Flash90)
December 25, 2019, 11:34 am
Winter storm blows in, bringing dust, pollution, and rain
Sea of Galilee closed to swimmers due to windy weather; Environmental Protection Ministry warns of poor air quality caused by grime swept in from northern Egypt
By Stuart Winer
In this illustrative photo from July 16, 2014, file photo, what was once a marina sits high and dry due to Lake Mead receding in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
November 28, 2019, 4:07 pm
Scientists say it is too late to stop climate change
Greenhouse gas emissions are expected to heat the planet’s surface by another three or four degrees by 2100
By Marlowe HOOD
Surging waves hit against the breakwater and a lighthouse as Typhoon Hagibis approaches at a port in town of Kiho, Mie prefecture, central Japan, October 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Toru Hanai)
October 14, 2019, 6:41 am
Japan rescuers seek survivors after Typhoon Hagibis kills 35
Powerful storm causes landslides, fills rivers until they burst as 110,000 responders search for the missing and trapped
By Shingo Ito and Sara Hussein
In this file photo dated July 25, 2019, a bird sits on a straw bale on a field in Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises during a heatwave in Europe. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
August 15, 2019, 11:56 pm
Scientists confirm July set new global heat record
Hottest July measured on Earth since records began in 1880 backs up climate change predictions; 9 of the 10 warmest Julys in past 140 years have occurred since 2005
By Frank Jordans
The sun rises near power lines in Frankfurt, Germany, as a heat wave scorches Europe, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
August 5, 2019, 8:49 pm
July was the hottest month ever measured across the world
Record-breaking temperatures have ‘rewritten climate history’; 2019 is on track to be one of the warmest years
By Marlowe HOOD
The sun rises near power lines in Frankfurt, Germany, as a heat wave scorches Europe, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
July 27, 2019, 4:20 am
From Europe to the Arctic, temperature records tumble in 2019
Planet is getting hotter at a rate unparalleled in two millennia, and atmospheric CO2 levels are at their highest in 3 million years
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS and Patrick Galey
A man cools off in a beach shower during a hot summer day at the beach in De Haan, Belgium, July 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
July 26, 2019, 7:03 am
Europe melts, temperature records shatter under Sahara heat wave
Climate scientists warn that searing weather could be the new normal for temperate continent
By Angela Charlton and Kirsten Grieshaber
A picture taken on June 28, 2019 shows a pharmacy screen sign indicating the temperature of 44 degrees Celsius in Carpentras, south-eastern France. (Patrick Valasseris/AFP)
June 28, 2019, 4:54 pm
France records all-time highest temperature as Europe bakes in extreme heatwave
Weather blamed for deaths across continent as temperatures surpass 45°C; major Spanish wildfire said sparked by spontaneous combustion of chicken dung pile
By Agencies
Roman Brown moves part of a wall out of his way as he looks for a friend's medicine in their destroyed home along Seely Drive outside of Hamilton, Mississippi, after a storm moved through the area on April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jim Lytle)
April 15, 2019, 11:28 am
Strong storms in US south kill at least 8, injure dozens
Nearly 90,000 without electricity in Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Georgia as severe weather leaves trail of destruction
By AP
Water vapor rises above St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River beneath the Stone Arch Bridge during frigid temperatures on January 31, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Kerem Yucel / AFP)
February 2, 2019, 4:05 am
US thaws from Arctic deep freeze, as death toll hits 21
Two days of bitter cold with temperatures lower than Antarctica gripped the American Midwest, grounding flights, knocking out power and closing schools and businesses
By Nova SAFO
Gary Verstegen clears a sidewalk as a winter storm moves through Wisconsin on Monday, January 28, 2019, in Little Chute, Wisconsin. (William Glasheen/The Post-Crescent via AP)
January 30, 2019, 6:34 pm
Life-threatening deep freeze envelops American Midwest
Cities fear for their homeless as temperatures drop low enough to freeze skin in minutes; Chicago running idling, heated buses as temporary shelters
By BLAKE NICHOLSON
Stranded vehicles at the entrance to Jerusalem December 13, 2013. (Israel Hatzolah)
January 15, 2019, 4:56 pm
Jerusalem braces for rare winter snowstorm Wednesday
City dusts off its snowplows and salting machines for first time in several years
By TOI staff
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