FEARS Tropical Cyclone Seven will STRIKE the Florida Keys on US Labour Day public holiday
9/2/2018, 11:55:48 PMA POTENTIAL Tropical Cyclone, known as Seven, is expected to move through the Florida Keys today, bringing heavy rainfall and gusty winds. ✔ The system is about 275 miles east-southeast of Marathon in Florida ✔ Maximum sustained winds are near 30mph and it is moving to the west-northwest at 15 mph ✔ If it reaches tropical storm status, it will be named Gordon ✔ The heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding in some areas
Tropical storm Florence path: Where is tropical storm Florence? Will it hit Bermuda?
9/2/2018, 7:24:47 PMTROPICAL storm Florence is currently whipping up the Atlantic Ocean, spinning with strong winds and stirring up major waves. Where exactly is tropical storm Florence and will it hit Bermuda? ✔ AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Rob Miller said: By the middle of the week, Florence will once again move over some warmer water ✔ While during August it's about 40 percent of all hurricanes that become major and in October it's about 35 percent of all hurricanes that become major
'No meaningful assistance': NFU blasts Gove over rural drought response
9/2/2018, 11:02:30 PMUK farmers are struggling under the weight of the summer heatwave with the NFU saying "no meaningful assistance" had materialised despite assurances from Environment Secretary Michael Gove. NFU President Minette Batters, who wrote to the Secretary of State last month on this subject, compared the Government's approach which the situation in Scotland, Wales and even across Europe, where she said measures had been put in place to assist farm businesses to cope with the dire impact of soaring temperatures. ✔ These rules and schemes, as it stands, mean many farmers can’t graze or cut grass from certain areas of land ✔ This is Government’s opportunity to show meaningful support for the British farms that have been left so exposed to the extreme weather ✔ Express.co.uk has approached Defra for a comment about the situation
Florida weather 2018: Tropical WAVE brewing for Gulf Coast, will it become a major storm?
9/2/2018, 7:47:43 PMA TROPICAL wave is threatening to turn into a storm near the Mexican Gulf, with the potential of reaching Florida. Where is the wave and could it become a fully-fledged storm? ✔ By Tuesday, the storm is expected to produce local gusty winds and rain ✔ However, with a north westerly direction, the system could soon target Bermuda ✔ As Florence moves over warmer water, the storm could begin to gather steam, and keeping the right trajectory could see Bermuda in the path of a much larger threat
'Very strong' typhoon projected to hit Honshu on Tuesday
9/2/2018, 4:19:01 PMA “very strong” Typhoon Jebi, currently in the Pacific Ocean and headed toward the Chugoku region, prompts weather authorities to issue warnings for high waves, flooding and landslides. ✔ Local media said the typhoon, which is still hundreds of kilometers away in the Pacific, could be the strongest storm to hit the nation this year ✔ More rain might be welcome in other parts of Japan, which has also been sweating through a deadly heat wave
The land falls silent: Australian farmers battle life without rain
9/2/2018, 11:43:21 PMYears of drought across New South Wales and Queensland force graziers to question their future ✔ Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian The last big drought was from the late 1990s to 2010, known as the Millennium drought, when southern Australia suffered persistent dry periods but northern Australia got above average rainfall ✔ Even in the worst times, you have to get away, go to the beach for a week and that’s for sanity as much as anything
Strong typhoon approaching southern Japan
9/2/2018, 10:26:53 PMJapan on Monday braced for a very strong typhoon, with authorities warning of high waves, floods and landslides, including in areas hit by deadly flooding earlier this year. Typhoon Jebi, packing winds of up to 252 kilometers an hour, is expected to make landfall on the country's main island on… ✔ The path of the typhoon appeared to cover the western Chugoku region, where record rainfall in July unleashed flooding and landslides, killing around 220 people in Japan's worst weather-related disaster in decades ✔ Jebi is to follow Typhoon Cimaron, which made landfall on August 23 disrupting transport links, but injuries and damages were limited
Abe vows further efforts to attract 40 mil foreign visitors by 2020
9/2/2018, 10:14:19 PMPrime Minister Shinzo Abe says the government will beef up efforts to achieve its target of 40 million foreign visitors to Japan by 2020 as the country seeks economic growth through tourism. Already, the number of visitors to Japan this year is estimated to have surpassed 20 million on Aug… ✔ Abe instructed his ministers to take measures to that end ✔ In discussions on how to recover from the negative impact of the torrential rain and a major earthquake that rocked northern Osaka Prefecture in June, a tourism promotion body in the disaster-hit region demanded conditions be eased for government subsidies to tourists visiting the affected areas ✔ It has eased visa requirements and increased the number of low-cost carrier and other flights from overseas to boost inbound tourism
Apache forest management fights wildfires
9/2/2018, 9:27:59 PMThe catastrophic blazes that thrive in eastern Arizona’s thickly forested yet arid landscape have a way of fizzling once they jump from the dense national forests to the Apache reservations, and that’s not by chance. ✔ The catastrophic blazes that thrive in eastern Arizona’s thickly forested yet arid landscape have a way of fizzling once they jump from the dense national forests to the Apache reservations, and that’s not by chance ✔ It’s not just about what we can do here locally [on the reservation], but on a landscape basis
Brits sizzle as Indian Summer sweeps in - and 30C is just around the corner
9/2/2018, 4:35:43 PMBeaches across the south-east were packed as temperatures soared to as high as 26C today - and we can expect the good weather to continue ✔ Brits basked in the last of the summer holiday sunshine today - but there is no need to pack away the BBQs just yet ✔ The term was first used in the UK in the early 19th century and went on to gain widespread usage ✔ I found the funnel cloud fascinating to watch and am keen on photography so loved taking the photos
Opinion | The Puerto Rico death toll will only get higher
9/2/2018, 11:45:27 PMThe island is still recovering from the storm, and there’s no end in sight. ✔ By Irwin Redlener September 2 at 4:35 PM Irwin Redlener directs Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness and is a professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ✔ A month after the George Washington researchers completed their data collection, Wendy Matos, who runs the island’s largest network of medical specialists, noted that complications from chronic medical conditions had increased by at least 10 percent
Mollie Tibbetts’s dad: Don’t use her death to push ‘views she believed were profoundly racist’
9/2/2018, 4:39:10 PM"Do not appropriate Mollie’s soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist” Rob Tibbetts wrote. “The act grievously extends the crime that stole Mollie from our family." ✔ An undocumented immigrant has been arrested in her killing ✔ But in Tibbetts's death, the president and some conservatives found ammunition to defend his statements on illegal immigration and, some say, a distraction from damaging news ✔ You saw what happened to that beautiful, incredible young woman ✔ There was a common national will that did transcend opinion, race, gender and geography
Thousands protest against pension law despite Putin's rollback
9/2/2018, 7:51:35 PMSeveral large rallies have taken place in recent months against an unpopular proposal to raise the retirement age. ✔ Around 9,000 people took to the streets, according to White Counter, an NGO that counts participants at rallies ✔ Critics say in some regions, the new retirement age would exceed life expectancy ✔ In Search of Putin’s Russia In Search of Putin's Russia: Kremlin Rules
Payne heads to Pacific meeting with a nod to neighbours' climate fears
9/2/2018, 9:23:04 PMNew Foreign Minister Marise Payne has acknowledged she will carry the baggage of “an extremely difficult week” over Australia’s approach to climate change when she faces Pacific island leaders. ✔ We continually see in terms of that abatement target that is required to meet the 2030 commitments that gap is closing with each update, he said ✔ And asked why the Pacific affairs portfolio had been downgraded from a ministerial to an assistant ministerial position, she said she would be leading from the front in making the Pacific a priority
Japan's new marines to stage drills to deter China
9/2/2018, 6:22:44 PMBrigade to train with US and Philippine forces in South China Sea ✔ The amphibious force is designed to take back islands in the case of a foreign occupation ✔ Yoshinori Yamaguchi has accepted the deployment but negotiations with local fishermen remain ✔ Without the deployment of Ospreys, we will not be able to respond swiftly to contingencies, said a concerned Defense Ministry official
Japanese utilities stop funding for nuclear fuel reprocessing
9/2/2018, 9:59:37 PMJapanese utilities that operate nuclear power plants have stopped funding for the reprocessing of nuclear fuel since fiscal 2016, their financial reports showed Sunday, a step that may affect the resource-scarce country's nuclear fuel recycling policy. The 10 utilities including Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc and Japan Atomic Power… ✔ Currently, only two reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co's Takahama power plant, one reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co's Ikata plant and one reactor at Kyushu Electric Power Co's Genkai power plant use MOX fuel in so-called pluthermal power generation
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier rubbishes Theresa May's trade plan
9/2/2018, 11:19:27 PMMichel Barnier told a German newspaper her proposal to keep tariffs on goods roughly the same as inside the EU but put services outside it “is not practical”. ✔ Dr Fox said: Can you think back to where the Treasury have made predictions that were correct 15 years out ✔ I can’t, they didn’t predict the financial crisis that happened, no one could ✔ A poll of 18,772 voters for today’s Women for a People’s Vote launch revealed 58% of women support a second referendum
Trump blasted ‘Lyin' Ted’ Cruz again and again. Activists want to remind Texans with a billboard.
9/2/2018, 11:15:14 PMA mobile billboard is on the way to remind Texas voters what President Trump has said about Sen. Ted Cruz. ✔ (Antonio Arellano/GoFundMe) By Alex Horton and Cleve R ✔ But it's 2018 now, and Democratic voter mobilization and an unlikely challenger have mounted an improbable campaign for a reliably Republican seat ✔ The group raised $9,760, then turned away further donations, he said ✔ He hopes to have the truck on the road in the next two weeks
Aretha Franklin funeral eulogy slammed; pastor stands firm
9/2/2018, 8:15:09 PMATLANTA (AP) — A fiery, old-school pastor who is under fire for saying black America is losing "its soul" at Aretha Franklin's funeral stands firm by his words with the hopes crit ✔ ATLANTA (AP) A fiery, old-school pastor who is under fire for saying black America is losing its soul at Aretha Franklin's funeral stands firm by his words with the hopes critics can understand his perspective ✔ Franklin, 34 years ago, said he was appointed by the family to handle the eulogy at her funeral
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