Weather

Deadly floods that have upended life in both China and Germany have sent a stark reminder that climate change is making weather more extreme across the globe.

Large swathes of China's central Henan province were underwater on Wednesday, with at least a dozen people dead in its capital Zhengzhou after the city was drenched by what weather watchers said was the heaviest rain in 1,000 years.

At least 18 people, including seven children, were killed and 16 others injured by lightning strikes in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan late on Sunday, local officials said.

A heatwave that smashed all-time high temperature records in western Canada and the U.S. Northwest has left a rising death toll in its wake as officials brace for more sizzling weather and the threat of wildfires.

Fourteen people have died and 245,212 people belonging to 60, 674 families have been affected in ten districts due to adverse weather conditions experienced in the country, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.

More than 150,000 people were left homeless in the aftermath of a cyclone that unleashed storm surges in eastern India and Bangladesh, officials said on Thursday, with heavy rains hampering relief work in some low-lying coastal areas.

The Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said there is a possibility of ACID RAINS as a result of the blazing X-PRESS PEARL container ship in the seas off the Colombo harbour.

The temperature in Delhi dipped to 23.8 degrees Celsius on Wednesday -- 16 notches below normal and the lowest for May since 1951, as cyclone Tauktae caused heavy rainfall in the national capital.

More than 200,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the Indian state of Gujarat and authorities shut ports and major airports as the most powerful cyclone in more than two decades made landfall in the state late on Monday, local time.

The Department of Meteorology said that the sun is expected to be directly over Sri Lanka from April 5 to April 14, as a result of its apparent northward relative motion.