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The planet has stopped warning us with bad weather. Now it is shouting in the language of disasters. A volcano that had been dormant for at least 12,000 years has awakened in Ethiopia. In Indonesia, scorching ash reached the stratosphere. And in the Thai city of Hat Yai...
On November 23, Ethiopia experienced a sudden and powerful eruption of the Haili-Gubbi volcano.
Unprecedented floods have unfolded in South-Central Vietnam: the amount of rainfall has exceeded all historical norms. In less than 24 hours, major rivers broke decades-old records: the Dinh River surpassed the mark from 1986, the Kilo River exceeded the peak of 2009, a...
The province of East Java in Indonesia was struck by a powerful eruption of Mount Semeru. Since mid-November, it had shown increasing activity. For several days, ash clouds rose above the summit, but on November 19 at 2:13 p.m. local time, the first powerful pyroclastic...
From 12 to 18 November 2025, the planet experienced unprecedented weather chaos: Storm “Claudia” unleashed tornadoes and floods across Europe, 16 people were buried by a landslide in Indonesia, and an extratropical cyclone brought winds of 352 km/h to Patagonia. These a...
The storm “Claudia” developed from a broad area of low pressure that had already brought early cold weather and snowfall to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States in early November. As the system moved over the Atlantic, it strengthened, and after slowing dow...
A destructive EF-4 tornado, as if straight out of a Hollywood movie, hit the streets of the Brazilian city of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu, becoming the most powerful tornado in Brazil’s recent history. Winds of up to 300 km/h reduced entire neighborhoods to rubble, leaving aro...
A rare and unusually early snowstorm struck southeastern Canada on November 9, 2025, covering the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
On November 7, several states in Brazil were hit by powerful storm winds accompanied by heavy rain and hail, caused by an extratropical cyclone. The states most affected by the disaster were Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná.
Residents of the Philippines had barely recovered from a series of natural disasters when the fierce Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, struck the country. It hit the province of Cebu on November 4, bringing torrential rains, landslides, and catastrophic flooding.
Natural disasters struck six continents in one week: Cyclone Monta affected 2 million people in India, an earthquake in Afghanistan destroyed the famous Blue Mosque, and Australia recorded 8 million lightning strikes (DTN data). Here’s a chronicle of the disasters and t...
On October 28, Tropical Cyclone “Monta”, with wind gusts reaching up to 68 miles per hour and torrential rainfall, struck the eastern coast of India.
Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm, struck Jamaica with wind speeds nearing 300 km/h — making it the most powerful hurricane in the 174-year history of observations in the region. In Vietnam, the city of Huế was submerged after a record-breaking 1,739 mm of rain fell...
On October 30, a severe storm struck the northeastern United States, including the states of New York, New Jersey, and neighboring regions. Rain fell in sheets, and gusty winds intensified the destructive consequences.
On November 3, around one o’clock in the morning local time, a powerful earthquake struck the Tashkurgan Gorge area in Afghanistan, registering a magnitude of 6.3. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), its epicenter was located near Khulam in Samangan...
Starting on October 23, storm Benjamin swept across Europe, bringing hurricane-force winds, torrential rains, and severe flooding. An orange level of danger was declared in seven countries — Switzerland, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, and P...
Tropical hurricane Melissa formed off the coast of West Africa, reaching tropical storm status on October 21. As it moved westward across the Caribbean Sea, it rapidly intensified into a Category 5 hurricane, undergoing what meteorologists call rapid intensification. Ac...
Late in the evening on October 27, the district of Sındırgı in Turkey’s Balıkesir Province was struck by a powerful earthquake measuring 6.1 in magnitude. It occurred at 10:48 p.m. local time, with the epicenter located at a depth of approximately three point seven mile...
In this episode — 7 emergencies in 7 days: from anomalous hail in Bolivia (snow-like drifts up to 2 meters!) and an IF2 tornado near Paris, to hurricane-force winds of 33.5 m/s in Wellington and a destructive landslide in the Philippines.
On October 20, the French department of Val-d’Oise, near Paris, was hit by a powerful tornado. The whirlwind swept through several municipalities — Ermont, Aubonne, Franconville, Sannois, Andilly, Montmorency, and the commune of Argenteuil — leaving behind serious damag...