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Storm Caetano swept through France on Thursday, November 21, 2024, bringing an unseasonal winter episode with powerful winds reaching 131 km/h (81 mph) and heavy snowfall of up to 16 cm (6.3 inches). The storm caused widespread disruptions, including power outages for over 250 000 homes, severe traffic halts with 5 000 vehicles stranded, and a major accident on Route A6B near Paris that injured 36 people.
Tropical Cyclone “Bheki” passed near Mauritius and Réunion on November 21, 2024. It brought moderate rain, with sustained winds of 74 km/h (46 mph), and uncertain predictions about its future strength.
With 23 tornadoes reported in November 2024, Oklahoma has broken its previous November record of 12 tornadoes from 1958. The total number of tornadoes this year now ranks as the third-highest in the state’s history.
The Eel River at Fernbridge is forecast to reach a major flood stage on Friday, November 22, 2024, with floodwaters threatening Highway 211 and the Eel River delta starting Thursday night, November 21.
Storm Bert — the second named storm of the 2024/25 European storm season will undergo explosive cyclogenesis on Saturday, November 23, 2024, becoming a “bomb cyclone” with a rapid pressure drop of over 24 hPa in 24 hours. The system is set to bring heavy rain, strong winds, and freezing temperatures across the United Kingdom and Ireland this weekend, with warnings for flooding, power disruptions, and snow in higher regions.
A potent upper-level low is forecast to bring the first significant snowfall of the season to parts of the Northeast, Great Lakes, and central Appalachians, with accumulations of up to 30.5 cm (1 foot) expected in higher elevations through Saturday, November 23, 2024, starting Thursday, November 21.
With annual rainfall forecast to reach up to 5 000 mm (196.9 inches) from November 2024 through 2025, Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) has urged local authorities to ramp up disaster preparedness efforts for the approaching peak of the rainy season.
A landslide in Purworejo Regency, Central Java, struck on Tuesday, November19, 2024, at approximately 16:00 local time (LT), killing three people, severely damaging one house, and leaving one person missing.
A powerful, rapidly intensifying cyclone wreaked havoc across the northwestern United States and parts of Canada on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, causing at least 2 deaths and leaving more than 600 000 customers (approximately 1.5 million people) in the U.S. without power. Another 140 000 customers (approximately 335 000 people) were left without power in B.C., Canada.
Snowfall sweeping across the UK caused the closure of over 120 schools and suspended transport services on Wednesday, November 20, 2024. Temperatures plunged to as low as -11.2 °C (11.8 °F) in Aberdeenshire on Monday, November 18 making it the coldest early winter night recorded in Scotland since 1998.
