Two international airports in the Chinese city of Shanghai have canceled all flights and authorities banned outdoor activities as Typhoon In-Fa lashed eastern China with high winds and heavy rains.
According to forecasters, another snowstorm has brought 70 mph icy blasts and up to 25 cm (10 inches) of snowfall, painting Britain white, as temperatures dropped to 5 degrees below zero Celsius.
The Iranian city of Ahvaz shattered national regional temperatures records on Thursday when the heat rose to 128.7 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest in Iran’s history. The temperature was also a record for June heat in the Asian mainland.
A number of transatlantic flights from Ireland have been cancelled due to the adverse weather conditions forecast for the eastern coast of the United States.
Flooding, snowfall and high winds have swept across the UK and continental Europe. Airport cancellations and power outages have resulted from the wintry conditions.
A cold air mass gripped the Japanese archipelago, bringing heavy snow and gusty winds to a wide area of western and central Japan on Sunday, forcing airlines to cancel many flights and West Japan Railway Co. to reduce the speed of bullet trains on sections of the Sanyo Shinkansen lines.
The U.S. capital city of Washington, D.C. on Friday nervously braced for a potentially historic winter storm, two days after botched response by local authorities to a snowfall paralyzed the whole town.
Low-level alert issued after Copahue Volcano began spewing ash, but officials say no need yet to evacuate people. Southern Chile's Copahue Volcano has begun spewing plumes of ash
skyward, prompting authorities there and in neighbouring Argentina to
issue a low-level alert. The 2,965-metre-high Copahue volcano, which straddles in Argentina's
Neuquen province and Chile's Biobio region, began belching ash and gas
early on Saturday, but officials said on Sunday it's still in an early
eruption stage.