This Canadian city given gold medal for winter misery
vendredi, 1 mars 2019 à 15:26 - You haven t got any kind of break, Environment Canada s Dave Phillips confirms
Environment Canada s senior climatologist isn t mincing words when it comes to the winter Ottawans have endured. If I was awarding the gold medal for winter misery I think it would go to Ottawa, Dave Phillips told host Robyn Bresnahan on Ottawa Morning Friday. You people have dealt with freezing rain, the ice pellets, the cold, the snow.
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The Haryana government on Monday stopped the purchase of wheat in 18 ‘mandis’ of the state for 24 hours due to excess arrival of the crop in these grain markets.
The state government has urged the farmers to bring their crops to their respective procurement centres only when they receive the SMS on their registered mobile phones for bringing their crops in the mandis, according to an official statement.
The farmers after registering themselves on ‘Mera Fasal Mera Byora’ crop registration portal can also change their schedule of bringing their crops as per their convenience, it said.
The statement added that a decision in this regard was taken in a review meeting regarding ongoing rabi procurement season 2021-22 held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar here.
Australia s bushfires circle Sydney as temperatures soar Reuters
samedi, 21 décembre 2019 à 13:54 - Six fires in the state were rated at emergency level, including two around Sydney.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Catastrophic conditions fueled massive bushfires across Australia s New South Wales state on Saturday, with two blazes around Sydney burning at emergency level, while in South Australia one person was found dead in a fire zone.
Some major roads heading to the south and west from Sydney were closed for part of the day and authorities asked people to delay travel at the start of the Christmas holiday period, warning of the unpredictability of the fires due to high winds and temperatures above 40°C (104F).
Melting permafrost splitting trees, threatening highways in Yukon
Mia Gordon
mardi, 28 juillet 2020 à 06:30 - Many communities in Northern Canada are beginning to brace for an increased threat as temperatures warm and permafrost continues to melt.
The research has told us that Canada’s North is warming faster than the rest of the country. A 2019 study entitled Canada’s Changing Climate Report says that Northern communities, like the Yukon, are warming two times faster than the rest of the world, with territories seeing a 2.3°C increase.
This change in temperatures has had several impacts in the Yukon, including changes in amounts of rain and snow, more extreme weather events, melting glaciers and sea ice, and thawing permafrost. On a recent trip to the Yukon, The Weather Network had a chance to experience the later first hand.
NASA astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX capsule after historic mission Reuters
dimanche, 2 août 2020 à 19:40 - The landmark mission, launched from NASA s Kennedy Space Center on May 31, marked the first time the U.S. space agency launched humans from American soil since its shuttle program retired in 2011.
(Reuters) - U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX s new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the capsule in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that was NASA s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years.
Behnken and Hurley undocked from the station on Saturday and returned home to land in calm waters off Florida s Pensacola coast on schedule at 2:48 p.m. ET following a 21-hour overnight journey aboard Crew Dragon Endeavor.