A fierce US winter storm slammed into the northern Plains and upper Midwest on Thursday, killing one firefighter, knocking out power for more than 900,000 people and causing thousands of flights to be canceled or delayed. A wide area of the northern United States from Washington state to New England was under a winter weather…
Ashley Webb, an economist at Capital Economics, said the labor market is likely to cool, but Tuesday’s data suggested it would still keep the inflationary heat in the economy for a few more months. “And given that activity ending last year was a little stronger than the Bank expected, we think the Bank of England…
The Turkish embassy in Dhaka has asked the people of Bangladesh for support in the form of essential items for the homeless as casualties continue to rise after the earthquake. Speaking at a briefing at the embassy, Turkish Ambassador Mustafa Osman Turan noted 12,391 deaths, 62,914 injuries and 6,440 collapsed buildings as of 3 a.m.…
A dangerous combination of record-setting cold temperatures and powerful winds hit the northeastern United States on Saturday, causing life-threatening temperatures and the death of an infant in Massachusetts. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington recorded an overnight wind chill – a measure of how the combined effect of wind and wind feels on the skin – of…
However, Umar Farooq, a construction worker, was an exception as he wore a thin T-shirt and lungi while working at a construction site in Mohammadpur. “When I work, my body gets hot and I don’t feel cold at all. When I stop working, I feel cold,” he said. Mohsin, a rickshaw puller, wore a long-sleeved…
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) said on Thursday morning, a mild cold wave is prevailing in Rajshahi, Pabna, Dinajpur, Panchgarh, Nilphamari, Jashore, Chuadanga and Kushtia districts and it may continue, UNB reports. A temperature between 8 and 10 °C is considered a mild cold wave, 6 to 8 °C a moderate cold wave and below 6…
Wholesale natural gas prices in Europe fell to their lowest level since November 2021 as mild winter weather dampened demand, erasing all gains seen last year amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Meteorologist Abdur Rahman said that the cold weather will continue throughout the month. When the temperature drops below 6 degree Celsius over a vast area, it is considered as a severe cold wave. If the temperature of the region remains between 6-8 degrees Celsius, a moderate cold wave forms, while the temperature hovering between 8-10…
Temperatures hit 25.1C at Bilbao airport in Spain’s Basque Country. People enjoy the sunshine while sitting outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or strolling along the Nervion River. “It always rains a lot here, it’s very cold and it’s January and it feels like summer,” said 81-year-old Bilbao resident Eusebio Folgueira. French tourist Joanna Hoste…
US winter storm death toll rises to 61
The IMD has also predicted cold wave conditions in some areas of the north-west states of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi during the next two days. Cold wave is declared in the plains of India when the minimum temperature drops to 4 °C or 4.5 °C below normal to 10 °C or below.
The NWS previously warned that blizzards in the Great Lakes region of western New York continued into Sunday, “accumulating an additional two to three feet of snow (by) Sunday night.” A couple in Buffalo, across the border from Canada, told AFP on Saturday they would not be able to make the 10-minute drive to see…
The severe cold is an immediate concern for the hundreds of thousands of power customers who were without power, according to tracker poweroutage.us. In El Paso, Texas, desperate migrants from Mexico crowded churches, schools and a civic center for warmth, Rosa Falcon, a school teacher and volunteer, told AFP. But some still chose to stay…
Cook said the lowest Friday morning temperature in the United States was recorded in Havre, Montana, where the thermometer read minus 38 F (minus 38 Celsius). But the cold may prove to be an even greater public safety threat in the American South, as those regions are less used to cold and snow. “Bundle up…
More than 3,520 US flights were already canceled Friday and another 1,900 were delayed, according to the tracking website Flight Aware, many at international hubs in New York, Seattle and Chicago’s O’Hare. US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned that holiday travel was being severely affected. “To say we’ve had the opposite of cooperative weather would…