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Thunder and lightning expected to hit parts of UK on Friday and Saturday

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 20 September - 07:04

Met Office issues two yellow weather warnings, saying damage to buildings and transport disruption expected

Thunderstorms and lightning are expected to batter the UK with up to 70mm of rainfall expected within a few hours after a spell of dry, warm weather .

The Met Office has issued two yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms for Friday and Saturday, and said damage to buildings as a result of lightning strikes, disruption to public transport and flooding should be expected within the affected areas.

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Country diary: The gawky yet graceful Irish hare has a lot of history to carry | Mary Montague

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 9 August - 04:30

Ardmalin, County Donegal: Around 15,000 years ago, Ireland was ‘islanded’ from Europe before Britain. That’s when this animal began to evolve its uniqueness

As the gradient climbs, I pause for breath. The hinterland has receded to a rumpled patchwork of small fields with the sea on either side. To the east, Scotland hunkers faintly on the skyline; to the west, north Donegal’s undulating forelands lope off into the far Atlantic. I walk on, following the road’s trace, through coarse meadows, cutover bogland and tracts of heather. Across the distance, at the bluff’s rim, Malin signal tower slides like a chess piece in and out of view.

High tide glazes Ineuran Bay, where the modest sea stacks dividing the coves are overshadowed by the crags of the former coastline . This land was uplifted at the end of the last ice age as the press of the glaciers eased. Now there are choughs foraging among the crags’ grassy interstices.

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59 summer problems solved - from sunburn and sweating to wasps and wedgies

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 6 July - 06:00

Limp salad, bad barbecues, jellyfish stings and chaffing. Summer can be a tricky season - but our experts are on hand to help with your hot-weather headaches

Worr isome wasps
“If you eat near still water you’ll get a lot more insects than if you have a bit of a breeze,” says Ben Quinn, chef and founder of Woodfired Canteen . “But ultimately, if you go to mother nature’s dining room, there will be others at your table. Pack a few sacrifices to the god of the wasps in the form of diluted jam in a mug for them to focus on.” You’re better off firing up the barbecue, he adds: “The smoke annoys insects, so they avoid it.” Simon Stallard, chef and founder of the Hidden Hut cafe in Cornwall, says wait until the last second to open anything sugary: “Cakes, fizzy drinks, ketchup – that’s what they’re attracted to.”

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Tell us: are you making a change to your summer holidays?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 12 June - 09:42

Whether it’s holidaying domestically or heading to a destination with a cooler climate, we’d like to hear about anything you’re doing differently this year

As the northern hemisphere enters the summer, we want to hear from people who are planning to have a different type of summer holiday this year.

Are you visiting a cooler climate than usual? Or holidaying domestically when you go abroad most summers, or vice versa?

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New SARS-CoV-2 variant gains dominance in US amid mild summer COVID wave

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 7 August, 2023 - 22:21

New SARS-CoV-2 variant gains dominance in US amid mild summer COVID wave

Enlarge (credit: Getty | Thomas Trutschel )

For a fourth consecutive summer, COVID-19 is on the rise, though this year's warm-weather wave appears milder than those in the emergency period of the pandemic.

COVID-19 indicators of hospital admissions, emergency department visits, test positivity, and wastewater levels have all been increasing in the past month, with a peak not yet clearly in sight, according to data tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From June 10 to July 29, test positivity rose from 4.1 percent to 8.9 percent. For reference, the most recent winter wave had a peak test positivity of 10.6 percent on December 31, 2022.

On the brighter side, however, weekly COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths continue to be at their lowest points since the start of the pandemic. For now, deaths do not appear to be rising, though there are lags in data reporting. Weekly new hospital admissions are ticking up only slightly—with admissions rising to about 8,000 in the week of July 22, up from around 6,300 the week of June 24.

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