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tass--2019-06-17--Russian military provides humanitarian aid to refugees from Syrias Idlib
| 2019-06-17T00:00:00 |
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Russian military provides humanitarian aid to refugees from Syria’s Idlib
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"They need help for they are not only facing welfare issues but psychological problems as well," he said. LATAKIA /Syria/, June 17. /TASS/. The temporary accommodation centers in the Syrian province of Latakia have received refugees from the Idlib de-escalation zone where military activities are ongoing, Spokesman for the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syria Sergei Smolinsky told reporters, adding that the Russian military had provided humanitarian aid to the refugees. Officers from the Russian Center continue to distribute food kits and bedding among refugees, while military doctors provide them with medical assistance. According to Idlib Governor Fadi Sadun, the authorities are determined to make everything possible to encourage people to return to their homes. "Many families left Idlib. According to our data, as many as 7,500 refugees reside in Latakia, 11,000 found shelter in Hama, while others moved to Homs, Damascus and other cities. Our goal is to bring them back and we will make every effort to that end. The process will begin as soon as the situation in Idlib improves," he said. In accordance with a decision made by Russia, Iran and Turkey - the guarantors of the Syrian ceasefire - de-escalation zones were set up in Syria in May 2017. They include the Idlib Province, some parts of its neighboring areas in the Latakia, Hama and Aleppo provinces, Eastern Ghouta, as well as some areas in the Daraa and al-Quneitra provinces in southern Syria. Damascus took control of three of the four zones in 2014, but the zone covering the Idlib province and certain parts of the Latakia, Hama and Aleppo provinces is still controlled by terrorists from the Jabhat al-Nusra terror group (outlawed in Russia). Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation Major General Viktor Kupchishin said earlier that the Suran checkpoint had been established to secure the exit of civilians from the Idlib de-escalation zone. According to recent data, 40,000 to 80,000 people are ready to leave the area. Temporary accommodation has been set up for them in the provinces of Hama, Homs and Deir ez-Zor.
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https://tass.com/defense/1064069
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2019-06-17 05:36:41+00:00
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tass--2019-06-18--Russian diplomats discuss Syrian refugees with Lebanese parliament speaker
| 2019-06-18T00:00:00 |
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Russian diplomats discuss Syrian refugees with Lebanese parliament speaker
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BEIRUT, June 18. /TASS/. Russia's Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev and Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin have discussed with Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri the ways to resolve the issues facing Syrian refugees. The talks were productive, Lavrentyev said after the meeting. "We have arrived in Beirut to discuss the Syrian crisis and, namely, the ways to resolve the issues of Syrian refugees currently in Lebanon, with the Lebanese leadership," the Russian envoy said. According to him, this topic will be discussed during the upcoming talks with Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Lavrentyev said that it is also important to discuss "what Russia can do to alleviate the suffering of the Syrian people and the heavy burden that befell Lebanon."
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https://tass.com/politics/1064432
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2019-06-18 22:41:38+00:00
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tass--2019-07-04--UN special envoy says refugees in Syria skyrocketing due to Idlib hostilities
| 2019-07-04T00:00:00 |
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UN special envoy says refugees in Syria skyrocketing due to Idlib hostilities
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MOSCOW, July 4. /TASS/. The number of internally displaced persons and refugees in Syria is snowballing due to the continued fighting in the province of Idlib, UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said in an exclusive interview with TASS. According to him, the stories of these refugees mirror the crux of the Syrian tragedy. "Sadly, we continue to see refugee and IDP trends moving in the wrong direction - and the fighting in Idlib is adding, not reducing, their numbers," the diplomat pointed out. "The Syrian refugees I have met with and continue to consult - and the UN surveys refugees regarding their perceptions of and intentions to return - all say that most do want to eventually return home," Pedersen stressed. "But for now, not many are. And the reality is that many of them have concerns about returning at present, because it touches on their fears for their personal safety and that of their loved ones." This is precisely the reason why the United Nations is insisting that the refugees return voluntarily, safely and in accordance with international legal standards. "I am convinced that as part of building trust and confidence, more can be done to help remove obstacles and create a better climate for returns," the UN special envoy underlined. Pedersen also called to be mindful of the responsibility that Syria’s neighbor countries like Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon assumed and continue to bear for the lives of millions of Syrians.
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https://tass.com/world/1067074
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2019-07-04 12:44:20+00:00
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tass--2019-12-06--The Refugee Camps photo project
| 2019-12-06T00:00:00 |
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The Refugee Camps photo project
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According to the UN, more than 470,000 Palestinian refugees are registered in Lebanon. These refugees are the people who left their homes during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-1949, with several generations of their descendants included. The Beirut camps that they have been living in for 70 years already, have long ago morphed into cramped city slums where poverty, overcrowding, and streets filled with trash, along with poor infrastructure reign supreme. Up until now, there has hardly been any hope for the refugees to return to their homes given the Arab-Israeli impasse. In this joint photo project, TASS and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) will present the hardships of people who have not found their appropriate homes. Burj Barajneh’s streets are so narrow that driving cars along them is utterly impossible, so the locals use motorbikes. A view of the Shatila Refugee Camp from the roof a former hospital. According to various estimates, 11,000-40,000 people inhabit an area of less than a square kilometer. A refugee’s apartment in the Sabra district, adjacent to the Shatila Camp. Previously a hospital, it is now inhabited by Palestinian families. The bulk of these apartments just have bare walls and floors. A boy in one of the houses at the Shatila Camp. Playing on such crumbling staircases in these makeshift shelters is quite dangerous. A market at the Shatila Refugee Camp. A banner with political slogans stretched out over a bazaar’s market stalls, decked with Fatah (the Palestinian National Liberation Movement) flags and images of Palestinians killed in conflicts. An elderly Palestinian woman at the Shatila Camp. Locals are usually very interested in foreign guests and permit them to take photos. Visitors from the outside are expected to observe modesty and reverence: one needs to cover their heads with anything they have. Construction work at one of the houses at the Burj Barajneh Refugee Camp. The construction of new residential premises is often very chaotic, with essential standards failing to be observed. A shop at the Burj Barajneh Refugee Camp. There are lots of them here, owners buy goods in bulk in Beirut. There are posters of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas on many walls. The Shatila Camp’s nooks and crannies. Despite all the hardships, people try to brighten up the harsh reality with vivid colors. There are simple cafes here and even beauty salons. Children at a garbage dump at the Shatila Camp. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are prohibited from working in dozens of fields, their access to medical care and education is limited. The camp’s inhabitants live in extremely poor conditions and can barely make ends meet. Pets at the Shatila Camp sometimes pop up in unexpected places. On the roof of a house, you can easily find a chicken coop, while sheep can be found devouring leftovers at an enormous market dump.
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https://tass.com/society/1095981
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Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0300
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tass--2019-12-21--Russian servicemen distribute 1,5 tonnes of food to refugees in Syria
| 2019-12-21T00:00:00 |
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Russian servicemen distribute 1,5 tonnes of food to refugees in Syria
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TARTUS, December 21. /TASS/. Russian servicemen have provided assistance to 250 Syrians in the Al-Hamidiyah refugee camp in the Syrian province of Tartus. The Syrians fled from militants in the Idlib de-escalation zone through the humanitarian corridor in Abu al-Duhur set up by Russian and Syrian servicemen. The Russian Center for reconciliation of the conflicting sides told reporters that Russian servicemen handed out 250 food sets with a total weight of around 1.5 tonnes. The Russian reconciliation center noted that such humanitarian operation has been held for the first time. Refugees have been living in the tent camp for around four years, and all of them come from the village near Abu al-Duhur in the Idlib province. "Thanks to the Russian people and the Russian army, with the support of the Syrian army, we managed to avoid big casualties among the population. In the times when militants from several terrorist organizations threatened us all at once and attacked our whole village, we thought that we are left with terror one on one. Everyone was killed, regardless of their faith or political views," head of the refugee camp community Maruf Jatul told reporters. Since the start of the settlement process in Syria, Russian servicemen have carried out over 2,000 humanitarian operations and distributed almost 6,000 tonnes of food to people in need.
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https://tass.com/world/1101951
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Sat, 21 Dec 2019 07:18:27 +0300
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thedailyrecord--2019-11-06--Support given to refugees living in Rutherglen
| 2019-11-06T00:00:00 |
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Support given to refugees living in Rutherglen
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In total, 170 individuals – including children born here – have been helped to escape the civil war which has seen almost 13 million people displaced. Last Wednesday, refugee resettlement programme advisor Andrea Sinclair spoke to the council’s equal opportunities forum about the resettlement programme. She said: “The families are geographically all over South Lanarkshire. Up to 240 individuals will be resettled in South Lanarkshire by March 2020. “It is a big learning curve for them and for us. The job is really about thinking if you went to a foreign country and had nothing, what would you need. “We work with families for what they need us for but the average is between six or 12 months.” The Syrian Civil War began in March 2011 and the UK began resettling refugees in December 2015. By March 2020, up to 3000 Syrians will have been re-homed in Scotland through the resettlement scheme which is funded by the Home Office. To date , 11 families have settled in the Rutherglen and Cambuslang area and been supported to settle into new homes, communities, schools and work places. Ms Sinclair outlined the process South Lanarkshire’s four-man resettlement team go through to help refugees settle in to their new homes . She said: “It can take a while, lots of work goes into it. It can be quite a slow process.” For the 5.6 million refugees of the conflict, the majority are currently in neighbouring countries including Turkey and Lebanon. For those who are resettled in the UK, the process starts long before they step foot on a plane. Lots of paper work has to be filled out and the resettlement team liaise with the Home Office to find out as much as possible about the family they will be working with in the months that follow. The resettlement team then contact the housing department, registered social landlords and the police to find a suitable home. Health services, schools and the DWP are all contacted to identify any issues that may crop up. An intensive two-week period follows when the families arrive. That can include emergency health treatment if any unknown problems come to light. Bank accounts are opened and benefits applied for so the family have a source of income until they can settle in and get jobs. If necessary, English lessons are also set up and help to quit smoking offered as the cost of smoking in Scotland is far greater than in Syria. Andrea commended families throughout South Lanarkshire who she described as ‘fantastic’ neighbours to the Syrian families settling in to their new homes. A number have already gone into employment - including two with the council - or obtained an apprenticeship. Several have gone to college and university to further their studies and one was named the British Heart Foundation’s volunteer of the year. The “Syrian Scots” as Andrea calls them keep in touch with each other over WhatsApp and they have been so grateful to their new communities that many give up their time to help out.
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[email protected] (Jonathan Geddes)
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/support-given-refugees-living-rutherglen-20826025
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Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:01:39 +0000
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thedailyrecord--2019-11-07--Teenage Syrian refugee who settled in Hamilton is Young Volunteer of the Year
| 2019-11-07T00:00:00 |
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Teenage Syrian refugee who settled in Hamilton is Young Volunteer of the Year
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A young Syrian refugee who has settled in Hamilton has been honoured with a prestigious volunteer award. Mohamad Najjar fled the war in Syria with his parents but sadly lost his dad to a heart attack before they reached safety and the opportunity to settle in South Lanarkshire. The 18-year-old has since been determined to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor and has been volunteering at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) store in Hamilton. He was, last month, given the title of BHF UK Young Volunteer of the Year. South Lanarkshire Council have helped support Mohamad and his mother as they build a new life in Scotland. And the council hosted a celebration event to honour the young Syrian refugee being named as a British Heart Foundation Volunteer of the Year. Depute chair of Housing and Technical Resources, Councillor Stephanie Callaghan, said: “We are absolutely delighted that Mohamad has received this well-deserved recognition as the BHF UK Young Volunteer of the Year. He is a very hard working and committed young man who is determined to make a real contribution to society.” The council’s executive director of Housing and Technical Resources, Daniel Lowe, said: “Mohamad became involved with the British Heart Foundation as a volunteer after our refugee resettlement team supported him in applying to work at his local branch so we are very proud to see what a fantastic job he is doing with them. “He saw volunteering as a great chance for him to improve his English so that he can pursue his dream of becoming a doctor and has now secured paid work two days a week as a furniture restorer at the store.” Mohamad has said that settling into a new country was a challenging experience at first, but volunteering has helped him make new friends and feel part of his local community. Annie Cunningham, regional manager at the British Heart Foundation, said: “In a relatively short space of time, Mohamad has become an integral member of our Hamilton store team, always on hand to help with a smile for everyone. “His hard working, friendly nature is so inspiring after everything he has gone through that we weren’t surprised when he was chosen as the face of our national volunteer recruitment campaign. We hope his story will help shake off the stereotypes that surround volunteering and encourage people to discover for themselves the life changing effects of becoming a volunteer.”
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[email protected] (Shirley Bartynek)
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/teenage-syrian-refugee-who-settled-20834679
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Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:12:30 +0000
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theduran--2019-07-02--US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees
| 2019-07-02T00:00:00 |
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US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees
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On June 19th, Statistica headlined “Number of forcibly displaced people reaches new high”, and when one looks at the data, one finds an even bigger story which stands behind those numbers: This new report from the United Nations documents Statistica’s headline, and it proves that America’s regime-change operations have actually created around half of the world’s refugees. It proves that America’s penchant for invading and trying to overthrow the governments that its billionaires want to replace (“regime-change”) has been by far the biggest of all single causes of refugees worldwide, vastly higher than any other government. Regardless of how bad those other governments might possibly be, the US regime is far worse — at least as being the cause, the creator, of the world’s refugee problems. Consider the countries that the US regime has recently regime-changed or attempted to: The US regime invaded Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, Syria in 2012-2019, and has been applying, in order to overthrow the Government of Venezuela, strangulating economic sanctions. All of those four target-countries (Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, and Afghanistan) lead the list of nations that are bleeding the most refugees. The US regime’s “regime-change” operations abroad are therefore certainly the leading cause of the world’s refugee-crisis. That’s the big news in the new UN report, though it is news that the report itself ignores. The biggest of these crises in 2018 were Syria and Venezuela, which were the US regime’s most recent regime-change operations. But Afghanistan and Iraq are also among the top bleeders of refugees — even now, over 15 years after the US regime had invaded them. On 26 January 2019, Britain’s Independent headlined “Venezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US sanctions are killing citizens: ‘Modern-day economic sanctions and blockades are comparable with medieval sieges of towns’” and reported: Mr De Zayas, a former secretary of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and an expert in international law, spoke to The Independent following the presentation of his Venezuela report to the HRC in September. He said that since its presentation the report has been ignored by the UN and has not sparked the public debate he believes it deserves. “Sanctions kill,” he told The Independent, adding that they fall most heavily on the poorest people in society, demonstrably cause death through food and medicine shortages, lead to violations of human rights and are aimed at coercing economic change. In order for the US regime to blame Venezuela’s Government 100% for Venezuela’s problems including the economic shortages that result from the US regime’s sanctions, the US regime stages attempts to send aid to the Venezuelan people, and this aid is, of course, blocked by Venezuela’s Government, because it is just the aggressor’s PR stunt — the US regime’s effort to take over the country in a ‘kind’ way. (After all, Hitler claimed to love the “Volk,” even as he served the interests of Germany’s armaments-firms and the billionaires who controlled them.) However, if the aggressor had honestly wanted to help Venezuelans, it wouldn’t be applying such strangulating economic sanctions, which include penalties against countries that trade with Venezuela — an economic blockade against Venezuela. Here are highlights in the new report from the UN: The report says that in 2018, there were “13.6 million newly displaced” persons. “Altogether, more than two thirds (67 per cent) of all refugees worldwide came from just five countries:” However, this chaotic UN report also states that: At the end of 2018, Syrians continued to be the largest forcibly displaced population, with 13.0 million people living in displacement. … Colombians were the second largest group, with 8.0 million forcibly displaced, most of them (98 per cent) inside their country at the end of 2018. Presumably, the reason why Colombia does’t show on the list of “newly displaced” is that most of its “8.0 million forcibly displaced” occurred during the civil war there, which peaked in 2009. “Figure 17 | Major recipient countries of new asylum applications | 2017-2018” shows that pending asylum-applications are the highest in US, second-highest is in Peru (mainly from Venezuela resulting from America’s economic sanctions against Venezuela), third-highest is in Germany (mainly from Arabic lands that America invaded), fourth-highest is in France (mainly from Arabic lands that America invaded), and fifth-highest is in Turkey (mainly from Arabic lands that America invaded). In other words: four of those five countries are lands where America’s strangulating economic sanctions, and invasions, by America’s own troops and by its proxy-forces such as Al Qaeda and other ‘rebels’, drove millions of people out. Though the confusing report doesn’t note it, most of that “highest in US” asylum-applications come from the US regime’s banana republics — Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador — where the US trained death squads etc. created (or at least encouraged) the problems, at least a decade or more ago. Consequently, even in some nations where the US regime didn’t create refugees by means of invasions, it created many by coups and other means. “Figure 18 | Major source countries of new asylum-seekers | 2017-2018” shows that in 2018, the highest number of new asylum-applicants were from Venezuela, second-highest were from Afghanistan, third-highest were from Syria, and fourth-highest were from Iraq. All of those are lands that suffer from the US regime’s past and current aggressions. (Of course, everybody expects Iran to be the next.) Venezuelan refugees and asylum-seekers grew in number during 2018. The broader movement of Venezuelans through the region and beyond, increasingly took on the characteristics of a refugee situation, with some 3.4 million living outside Venezuela by the end of 2018, as more than 3 million Venezuelans left their homes, travelling mainly elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean. “This is the biggest exodus in the region’s recent history, and one of the biggest displacement crises in the world.” It could turn out to be even worse than Colombia’s was. The report notes: “When my nine-month-old daughter died because of the lack of medicines, doctors or treatment, I decided to take my family out of Venezuela before another one of my children died. Diseases were getting stronger than us. I told myself, either we leave or we die.” – Eulirio Baes, a 33-year-old indigenous Warao from Delta Amacuro in Venezuela. He abandoned the Warao’s ancestral lands and took his entire family to Brazil after three relatives died. Lebanon continued to host the largest number of refugees relative to its national population. 1 in 6 people there was a refugee. Jordan (1 in 14) and Turkey (1 in 22) ranked second and third, respectively. Of course, those lands receive mainly Syrian refugees. At the end of 2018, Syrians continued to be the largest forcibly displaced population, with 13.0 million people living in displacement, including 6,654,000 refugees, 6,184,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) and 140,000 asylum-seekers. Colombians were the second largest group, with 8.0 million forcibly displaced, most of them (98 per cent) still living inside their country at the end of 2018. The top two foreign recipients of refugees from Colombia were Spain and Ecuador. As previously noted, Colombia’s refugees were generated by the lengthy civil war there, which peaked in 2009. The following visual, which is the most comprehensible part of this chaotic (and in places uninterpretable) UN report, doesn’t show Colombia, because these were the refugee-flows only for the year of 2018: That visual is around half of the interpretable content in the entire 28-page UN report. It’s a visual way of showing that the US regime’s regime-change operations produce around half of the entire world’s refugee-problem. The only US Presidential candidate who even so much as just mentions America’s “regime-change wars” (and she is strongly against them) is Tulsi Gabbard, and she currently scores the support of fewer than 1% of America’s Democrats in that Party’s Presidential primary polls. So, at least America’s Democrats are overwhelmingly unconcerned about their country’s causing around half of the entire world’s refugee crisis. And there is no indication that America’s Republican voters are more concerned about it than the Democratic voters are. Americans, evidently, don’t care about this matter. At least, not yet.
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Eric Zuesse
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https://theduran.com/us-government-tops-all-for-creating-refugees/
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2019-07-02 07:20:30+00:00
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theguardianuk--2019-01-24--Jonas Mekas how a Lithuanian refugee redefined American cinema
| 2019-01-24T00:00:00 |
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Jonas Mekas: how a Lithuanian refugee redefined American cinema
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“There is no other way of breaking the frozen cinematic ground than a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.” So wrote the film-maker, archivist, cine-activist, ceaseless proselytizer, art-world provocateur and avant-garde impresario Jonas Mekas in 1959 (paraphrasing Rimbaud, as any good beatnik should). More than any other single figure – more than any other 10, really – Mekas, who has died aged 96, wielded the pickaxe, broke that ground and remade American cinema from the shattered clods and shards the process yielded. Mekas and his brother Adolfas were Lithuanian refugees who spent two years in slave labor camps in Nazi Germany and five more in post-war displacement camps in West Germany, before emigrating to New York City in 1950 (a moment Jonas greeted, with his characteristic naif’s exuberance, as one of shimmering ecstasy). Back home, Jonas had been one of Lithuania’s most celebrated young poets; after some weeks in New York, he bought his first Bolex16 mm camera and began work in an altogether different realm of poetic endeavor. The brothers founded one of the great American movie journals, the quarterly Film Culture, in 1954 – at a time when mainstream culture did not think those two words belonged next to each other. The quarterly was a forum for the exchange of ideas and information about the emergent avant-garde cinema that would convulse the art and movie worlds for three decades: the new American cinema, as Mekas dubbed it, or American underground film, as it is now more commonly known. In Film Culture and his weekly column in the Village Voice (1959-1981), Mekas for years banged the drum for other and minor, alternative and iconoclastic kinds of film-making: a cinema, as he called it, “less perfect and more free”. His ecumenical approach to film culture, by no means characteristic of the wider, often schismatic avant-garde for which he was the foremost impresario, was part of his saintly appeal: if you were making film-art that was personal and sincerely conceived, Mekas was on your side, come what may. He also was responsible for securing exhibition venues in the scuzzier precincts of the old East Village throughout the late-50s and 1960s. He established Anthology Film Archives in 1970 and made it into a repository for fresh, radical, and dissenting forms of film-making. (These days, it’s a kind of establishment force of its own, now that official-culture sponsors have largely withdrawn funding support from avant-garde film-makers.) The radical new film-makers of the early 60s had been hassled from pillar to post by New York’s bluenose cops for serially frightening the horses. A screening of Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures and Jean Genet’s Un Chant D’Amour was busted under obscenity laws, one of several occasions when Mekas found himself proselytizing to a courtroom rather than his readership. Anthology was also a refuge from that kind of nonsense, a safe space to be weird in. A poet, an exile subject to the universal variant of homesickness, truly a nowhere man, Mekas was nonetheless as ubiquitous as Zelig: Jackie Kennedy was a friend, as was John Lennon, via Yoko Ono’s filmic side projects, and Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were friends and occasional collaborators. The film-makers he befriended and championed represent the full range of the American avant-garde, from Jack Smith, Taylor Mead and Andy Warhol to Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, James Broughton and Stan Brakhage. Mekas’ film-making style, he once said, was a direct result of his herculean efforts and packed schedule as a radical-culture mafioso. He was so busy that he often shot in short fragments, in diary or sketchbook style. “I had only bits of time to shoot only bits of film. All of my personal work became like notes,” he said in a lecture at New York University in 1978. His earlier movies, Guns of the Trees, described by J Hoberman in Midnight Movies as “a militantly disjointed expression of beatnik discontent, complete with stridently poetic interludes by Allen Ginsberg”, and The Brig, a documentary filming of a performance of the Living Theater’s aggressive and harrowing crowd-play, gave way to the style Mekas perfected in his greatest masterpiece, 1971-2’s Memories of a Journey to Lithuania. It unfolds in simple, often intoxicatingly beautiful poetic moments: the grass blowing in the wind, a friend playing the banjo, children singing, the village Mekas is from, the camp where he was a slave in Hamburg, all interleaved with title cards conveying Mekas’ characteristic dazed-beatnik euphoria. Mekas reworked much of this footage (and that of his earlier diary piece, Walden) over and over again, into subsequent diary-movies including Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) and As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Moments of Great Beauty (2008), all of them gorgeous and indelible. The American avant-garde cinema of the 1960s has long since been engulfed – as silent cinema also was – by the forward march of film history. But in his now-submerged Atlantean realm, Mekas was truly Poseidon with a trident, an impish poet who seemed immortal. As more than one friend observed this morning: “I thought he’d never die.” And he never will.
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John Patterson
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/23/jonas-mekas-film-appreciation-avant-garde-cinema
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2019-01-24 00:21:37+00:00
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theguardianuk--2019-02-09--Franco refugees still haunted by the past We were cold hungry and scared
| 2019-02-09T00:00:00 |
theguardianuk
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Franco refugees still haunted by the past: ‘We were cold, hungry and scared’
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It is 80 years since one of Europe’s worst – and least known – refugee crises, but memories of the Retirada (or withdrawal) are still vivid for Madeleine Morena. Her family were among 500,000 Spaniards who fled across the eastern Pyrenees to France when Barcelona fell to Franco’s forces near the end of the Spanish civil war on 26 January 1939, triggering one of the greatest exoduses of modern times. Photos and documentary footage show the incredible sight of half a million people pouring towards the border towns of Puigcerdà in Spain, and Prats-de-Mollo and Le Perthus in France – women and children, Republican fighters carrying weapons, members of the International brigades. The local French newspaper, L’Indépendant, described “a haunting cohort of civilians, armed soldiers, vehicles and animals”. “I was six years old when Barcelona fell,” says Morena, speaking in the village of Vinça, nestling in the foothills of the Pyrenees. “My father and uncle were Republican fighters so we had to flee our village near the French border. I left with my mother, brother, aunt, and grandparents. My grandfather was furious, saying: ‘Why do we have to leave? I’ve done nothing wrong.’ Everyone was panicking and I was very scared. We knew we were in danger. We just took clothes and a few possessions. I had my doll. “The roads gave out near France so we had to walk over the Col D’Ares pass. It was bitterly cold and there was snow. We had to abandon our belongings, we couldn’t carry them. We found a hut to sleep in. The man who owned it came. It turned out he was a distant relation and in the morning he took me on his shoulders and we walked into France.” Numerous events will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Retirada, which came to an end on 13 February 1939 when Franco’s army reached the French border. There will be photo displays on Argelès beach, exhibitions in every village near former camps, lectures, performances, and a new website. But for many years there has been silence and denial. “The history of the Retirada is a work in progress,” says Agnès Sajaloli, director of a memorial at Rivesaltes, near Perpignan, which served as an internment camp from where thousands were sent to their deaths. “We still don’t know the details. Everyone involved had a different story.” Once the refugees arrived in France the official reception was hostile. The French authorities opened the borders until Franco’s troops, in pursuit of the Republicans, reached Le Perthus. But they were completely unprepared for the numbers: there were no provisions, no sanitation, and no shelter from harsh mountain weather for exhausted and demoralised refugees. They were given one loaf between five people and a small cup of water at 3pm, nothing else. At Prats-de-Mollo, where Morena’s family arrived, many children died as a result of the cold. Soldiers were disarmed and the refugees were first corralled and then dispersed to camps. The French used Senegalese soldiers for the job. Morena’s family were taken to a nearby holding camp while fighters and boys over 14 were transported to hastily opened camps on the inhospitable plains around Perpignan. “They were treated worse than prisoners of war,” says Spanish civil war historian David Wingeate Pike. “They were treated like criminals.”The most notorious camps were on the beaches of Argelès, Saint-Cyprien and Le Barcarès – prone to strong winds, stinging sand storms and violent extremes of temperature. “These beach camps were terrible places,” says Helen Graham, professor of Spanish history at Royal Holloway, University of London. “They were just sand and barbed wire. They had no shelter except tents. There was a problem of fresh water, there were no washing and toilet facilities – the sea had to do for everything. The people who arrived here were already ill, so there was an immediate problem with dysentery and typhoid. Many died.” None of the refugees were released unless they could get “sponsorship” from a legitimate person outside. But the rightwing press whipped up local hostility, claiming most internees were criminals or seditious communists, mocking them for complaining about rations. The camps were still there when the second world war broke out in autumn 1939, still there when France fell in 1940, and then became part of the apparatus of Vichy’s collaborationist regime. This brought another 50,000 prisoners to the area, mainly Jews and other so-called undesirables: gypsies, gays and communists. To cope with this influx, the Spanish prisoners were used as labourers to convert 600 acres of military barracks at Rivesaltes into an internment camp. Sajaloli says: “Rivesaltes became a camp where different groups of ostracised people were held in harsh conditions. Over 2,000 Jews were sent to death camps from here.” Antonio de la Fuente y Ferraz, 89, is another survivor whose memories are still raw. The son of a Republican fighter, he was nine when his family fled Puigcerdà into France in February 1939. For the next four years he was in seven different internment camps. Rivesaltes “was the worst of all”, he says: “My family spent nearly two years there in terrible conditions. My grandmother died there. The worst part was we didn’t know where my father and uncle were. We were cold and hungry, and above all we were scared. We saw they were deporting the Jews to Germany, but we didn’t know what was going on.” Rivesaltes memorial camp only opened in 2015. “It was a 20-year fight to create it,” says Sajaloli. “The mayor wanted the barracks to be bulldozed.” But with pressure from historians and Filles et Fils de Républicains Espagnols et fils d’exodus d’Espagne, the derelict barracks were preserved and now provide a haunting setting for a museum which is the focus of a painful awakening of memory. Nearly 200,000 refugees returned to Spain – after the French encouraged them to go and Franco shamefully lied that they would be well-received. Those who remained suffered greatly, moved between camps or used as forced labour. Republican fighters who escaped joined the resistance. Others, like Morena’s family, suffered great deprivations, but were eventually absorbed into the local region, shaping its history and identity ever since. But while Franco lived, they could never return home. It is a thought that still, 80 years on, makes her weep: “My parents never saw Spain again.” Barcelona, last stronghold of Spanish Republicans, falls to Franco’s fascist troops, triggering an exodus of Republican fighters and their families. France opens its border to refugees – women, children and the injured. 11 Feb onwards Camps open across the Pyrénées-Orientales and neighbouring areas. By mid-March they will contain a quarter of a million refugees. The last refugees get over the border, now finally closed, bringing to an end the Retirada.
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Ros Coward Pyrénées-Orientales
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/09/franco-spain-refugees-haunted-by-the-past-retirada
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2019-02-09 17:00:12+00:00
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theguardianuk--2019-06-18--What is it like being a refugee with Pajtim Statovci and Dina Nayeri books podcast
| 2019-06-18T00:00:00 |
theguardianuk
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What is it like being a refugee? with Pajtim Statovci and Dina Nayeri – books podcast
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With this week’s show coinciding with Refugee Week, Richard sits down with two authors who were refugees as children: Dina Nayeri, who was eight when her family fled Iran and settled in Oklahoma, and Patjim Statovci, whose family left Kosovo when he was two and grew up in Helsinki. Statovci’s second novel, Crossing, follows two teenagers as they flee Albania for a better life in Europe. And Nayeri’s most recent book The Ungrateful Refugee, which started as a Guardian Long Read, a memoir and journalistic take on the stages in an asylum seeker’s journey, from escape to resettlement. A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea by Dina Nayeri (Allen & Unwin)
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Presented by Claire Armitstead and Richard Lea. Produced by Susannah Tresilian
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2019/jun/18/what-is-it-like-being-a-refugee-with-pajtim-statovci-and-dina-nayeri-books-podcast
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2019-06-18 09:28:05+00:00
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theguardianuk--2019-08-24--Australia is a bigger cage the ongoing trauma of Naurus child refugees
| 2019-08-24T00:00:00 |
theguardianuk
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'Australia is a bigger cage': the ongoing trauma of Nauru's child refugees
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“I don’t live in a tent any more. Now, I live in a house made of concrete walls instead of plastic,” says 21-year-old Diba*. “I don’t have to take two-minute showers under the guard’s eyes any more, no one can invade my privacy here, security officers won’t check my ID all throughout the day any more. The extreme hostile living environment of Nauru is gone. Hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees have been transferred to Australia and after a national campaign at the end of last year, all children were brought to Australia. The years on Nauru in the detention and processing system set up by the Australian government have taken a devastating toll on their mental health. Some were transferred only after a court order, despite medical reports and psychological evaluations repeatedly recommending their urgent removal from the damaging situation. Now in Australia, at least temporarily, many refugees are struggling to adjust. Accomodation is often more restrictive, and refugees have been unable to access services that doctors say are needed. In at least one case, a toddler was stopped from going to childcare despite doctors saying it was resulting in significant improvements. “Prolonged detention can cause serious mental health problems and recovery doesn’t always happen by moving in to the community, as specialist treatment is usually required,” says Dr Nick Kowalenko, from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ faculty of child and adolescent psychiatry. Diba has been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, anxious distress and anhedonia. She has difficulty sleeping, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, difficulties with memory and concentration, and recurring thoughts of suicide. She was transferred to Australia in November for acute mental health care, after five years on Nauru. Under the rules of Diba’s community detention, she “must not engage in any vocational studies or training … [or] in unpaid work, such as volunteering, unless it is approved by the department”. “There are many opportunities, but my access to them is forbidden. The Australian government is still punishing us, but through different type of deprivation,” she says. “I was enthusiastic to become a lawyer. I’ve asked from a dozen universities about the possibility of my enrolment, but I found it impossible. “I’ve experienced massive traumatic events, as a girl, as a child. But, the educational exclusion generates endless regret in me. I feel empty and numb. I am a dreamless girl now.” Says Kowalenko: “Social isolation is a risk factor for depression commencing and continuing. PTSD affects concentration badly. If a child has missed the opportunity for education this may affect them adversely and partly get in the way of recovery. “Being part of the community means actively participating in civil and social life and much of that, at the age of 16, for example, happens in educational settings. “Kids deprived of education opportunities do much worse and recovering is much more difficult and more prolonged, and kids are at much more risk of not recovering or only making a partial recovery. Education opportunity or work is a key element for successful recovery.” Three-year-old Arman and his 18-month-old brother were born on Nauru to Iranian refugee parents. A medical assessment by a senior mental health clinician, seen by Guardian Australia, said Arman had presented to South Australian child mental health services with “significant emotional dysregulation and sensory issues in the context of an attachment disorder, past and ongoing trauma, prolonged detention, and parental mental health issues which have impacted on their capacity to establish a structure and routine for [Arman]”. The Nauruan environment had been “frightening and unpredictable”, the family told the medical assessor. “The family was exposed to domestic violence in neighbouring homes, as well as violence in the community. [Arman’s mother Termeh’s] mental health continued to deteriorate after the birth of [Arman] in this context.” Termeh said her son’s behaviour included gouging walls with sharp tools, tearing curtains, and smashing into fridges with his scooter. In October, the family were transferred to Adelaide for medical treatment, and provided status resolution support services: a payment roughly equivalent to 80% of Newstart, accommodation and health assistance, as well as case management services. Childcare is an “additional service”, according to the department. Arman was put into external childcare, which one report said had resulted in “obvious improvements”. The senior clinician strongly advocated for a continuation of the childcare as an “essential part of the treatment process”, advising that if he was deprived of the childcare experience there would be a “significant deterioration in the functioning of the entire family”. Despite this, childcare was discontinued, says Termeh. “After three months, without any explanation, we were told by our caseworker that the government has stopped its support and Arman can’t go to childcare any more,” she says. The Department of Home Affairs told Guardian Australia that childcare was facilitated only on its approval. “Additional services are approved where there is evidence that the service is required, and all other alternatives have been explored by the parent in the first instance,” a spokeswoman says. “[State resolution support services] providers must clearly explain why childcare is required and demonstrate that all alternative arrangements have been explored by the parent in the first instance.” Childcare isn’t required when there are two parents present, or if other adults in the household or family network can help babysit, she says. “Where a family’s circumstances have improved and childcare is no longer required, the department may vary its approval for additional services.” Venus, a teenage Iranian refugee who arrived in Nauru at the age of nine, was transferred to Australia at 14 with her family. She was admitted to the Brisbane Children’s Hospital upon arrival, and now lives on a community detention visa with her mother in Brisbane. “Except for school, Venus doesn’t have any other activity,” her mother, Tara, says. “I’m not allowed to work and I can’t afford any activity to improve my daughter’s mood. We are living in marginal suburbs. It is a two-hour drive from even my doctor’s office.” According to hospital documents seen by Guardian Australia, Venus was diagnosed with “adjustment disorder and reactions to severe stress as a result of prolonged detention in association with fear without resolution”. “Venus regularly draws, sketching out disturbing pictures which under ordinary circumstances would be ‘a highly ominous sign’ warranting immediate psychiatric assessment and possibly hospitalisation,” says Dr Barri Phatarfod, founder and president of Doctors for Refugees. Doctors linked her stress and trauma to living on Nauru and a pervasive sense of unremitting hopelessness. “It is difficult for me to find a meaning for my life,” Venus says. “I’ve been excluded from the program that my classmates have participated in, for planning their future study at university.” Venus said every time she spoke with her government caseworker, they said they were obliged to tell her she had to return to Nauru. Phatarford says the children and young people will likely need years of intensive mental health intervention, regardless of where they end up. “When these children are left essentially untreated in the same environment which ignited such a fatalistic worldview, it is extremely damaging psychologically and very hard to adjust when they are ultimately removed,” she says. “These young children need all the nurturing and security they can get right now. These children turn into adults and we’re already actively creating a sub-generation of deeply traumatised adults who may never achieve their potential on any level. Is that what we want as a country – to be creating further problems, rather than working towards a solution?”
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Saba Vasefi
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/25/australia-is-a-bigger-cage-the-ongoing-trauma-of-naurus-child-refugees
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2019-08-24 22:00:52+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-10--Thousands of Syrian children at risk as flooding hits refugee camps
| 2019-01-10T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Thousands of Syrian children at risk as flooding hits refugee camps
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More than 11,000 children living in camps in northern Syria have been affected by torrential rains that have caused floods and washed away tents. Severe winter weather has caused misery in Idlib province, which is home to around 1.5 million Syrians who have been displaced from other parts of the country. Save the Children said on Thursday that reports of illnesses among children there are increasing, but many are unable to get to medics because of the flooding. “The conditions in the camps and settlements where displaced children are living are miserable, with families suffering through freezing temperatures with only the most basic protection from the elements,” said Save the Children’s Syria response director, Sonia Khush. “We urgently need to scale up life-saving support for children and families facing a harsh winter in Idlib and elsewhere in Syria,” she added. The unusually bad weather comes at a time when violence in the beleaguered province is rising, as rival rebel groups battle for control. The fighting has made it difficult for aid groups to respond to the crisis. Idlib is home to one of the densest concentrations of displaced people in the world, and another major offensive there could send another 700,000 fleeing for a second time. Storms have also caused havoc for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Tens of thousands have been hit by strong winds, rain and heavy snowfall, and hundreds had to be evacuated after their shelters were flooded.
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Richard Hall
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-floods-children-rain-weather-displaced-refugees-north-a8721356.html
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2019-01-10 16:24:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-19--Over 170 refugees feared dead after dinghies capsize in Mediterranean
| 2019-01-19T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Over 170 refugees feared dead after dinghies capsize in Mediterranean
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An estimated 170 refugees are thought to have drowned after two separate dinghies sank in the Mediterranean on Friday. One of the small, overloaded boats capsized off the coast of Libya after leaving the country on Thursday night. An Italian naval helicopter rescued three people who had been on board, who have been taken to hospital on Lampedusa, an Italian island, to be treated for severe hypothermia. The survivors later told staff at the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that 120 people had been on board the dinghy. “After a few hours, it began sinking and people began drowning,” Flavio Di Giacomo, of the IOM, said. A two-month old baby, 10 women and two children are among the missing and most of the passengers are thought to be from West African countries, In a second incident, 53 refugees who left Morocco’s shores on a dinghy were declared missing after a reported collision in the Alboran Sea according to Spanish non-governmental organisation Caminando Fronteras. The United Nations’ Refugee Agency said in a statement it was deeply saddened by reports of an estimated 170 people dead or missing but was unable to verify the death toll. Separately, the charity Sea Watch said on Saturday it had rescued 47 people at sea, including eight unaccompanied minors, from a rubber boat in distress north of the Libyan city of Zuwara. Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister, who has closed off Italian ports to humanitarian boats since in mid-2018, said the ports would remain closed to deter to human traffickers. These are just the latest tragedies on the central Mediterranean where, in 2018, one in 18 people died or went missing making the trip to Europe. The UN refugee agency said that though fewer people are making the journey, the rate of deaths has risen sharply. Some 2,297 refugees are said to have died in the Mediterranean last year, while attempting to reach the continent.
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Zamira Rahim
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/mediterranean-sea-deaths-libya-refugees-italy-people-smugglers-morocco-missing-a8736776.html
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2019-01-19 23:12:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-31--Dozens of children dying of hypothermia at Syrian refugee camp warns World Health Organisation
| 2019-01-31T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Dozens of children dying of hypothermia at Syrian refugee camp, warns World Health Organisation
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At least 29 children are reported to have died in an overcrowded refugee camp in northeastern Syria over the last two months, mostly from hypothermia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. Around 23,000 people have arrived at al-Hol camp after fleeing fighting in Deir ez-Zor between Isis and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, led by the Kurdish YPG militia. The influx has swelled the population of the camp, which is unheated and has a shortage of health care services, tents and sanitation facilities. “The situation in al-Hol camp is heartbreaking. Children are dying from hypothermia as their families flee to safety,” Elizabeth Hoff, WHO representative in Syria, said in a statement on Thursday. The United Nations agency appealed for unhindered access to the camp, saying the situation had become “critical” for 33,000 people, mainly women and children, who now live there in bitterly cold winter weather. Many of those who had been displaced by the fighting walked or travelled in open trucks for days, arriving malnourished and exhausted “following years of deprivation” living under the control of Isis, it said. “Thousands of new arrivals have been forced to spend several nights in the camp’s open-air reception and screening areas, without tents, blankets or heating,” the WHO added. WHO-supported teams are working around the clock in the camp to screen new arrivals, support vaccination and refer severely malnourished children to a hospital in al-Hasakah, it said. “Humanitarian access to the camp and surrounding roads is hampered by bureaucratic obstacles and security constraints,” it added, appealing to all parties to provide unhindered access for to people needing life-saving aid.
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Samuel Osborne
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-refugee-camp-child-deaths-al-hol-children-dead-hypothermia-isis-a8756861.html
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2019-01-31 16:46:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-04-07--Gigi Hadid chokes up while discussing emotional visit to Rohingya refugee camp
| 2019-04-07T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Gigi Hadid chokes up while discussing emotional visit to Rohingya refugee camp
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Gigi Hadid has spoken out about her recent visit to a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. "Even with their lives in limbo, these women and girls had such desire to do more, to be more and to get educated to better their lives," the 23-year-old model told the Power of Women event organised by Variety magazine. Asked how Unicef could help them in different ways, she said the camp's residents told her it "really boiled down to" having an identity. Hadid, who was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council in 2016, became visibly emotional as she spoke about the connection she forged with the refugees whom she met. "Although there were definitely moments of joy, of sitting, laughing, playing games and having a human connection with the refugees, I couldn’t help but continue to think about those women and what they said," she recalled. "At the end of the trip, I went home, and they were still there." She said that while donating to charity is important, and "genuinely does save lives and help people", the refugees she met wanted to inform the world of their desire for an identity. "They are human beings like all of us, and what they would do for a citizenship, for an identity," she added. "Most of us have the true gift of identity and the power to express ourselves, the power to speak out for those who cannot for themselves and the power to uplift one another." Following her trip last summer, Hadid joined forces with fellow model and Unicef ambassador Halima Aden to launch a CrowdRise page in support of Unicef's work to protect vulnerable children around the world.
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Sabrina Barr
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gigi-hadid-speech-unicef-rohingya-refugee-camp-bangladesh-a8858661.html
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2019-04-07 16:22:08+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-17--Almost one in four British children do not know what a refugee is survey says
| 2019-06-17T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Almost one in four British children do not know what a refugee is, survey says
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Almost a quarter of British children do not know the meaning of the word “refugee”, according to a new survey, amid mounting evidence of a growth in negative sentiments and scepticism towards those seeking asylum in the UK. Just over half of teachers (52 per cent) spoken to by the British Red Cross (BRC) said they had witnessed “anti-refugee” sentiments in their pupils and almost a quarter of children (24 per cent) did not know what a refugee was. The poll of 750 primary and secondary school teachers across the UK also showed that 54 per cent believed media, including social media, was a contributing factor to the children’s negative sentiments. The figures were released as the nation marked refugee week with hundreds of festivities inviting people to explore the lives of refugees living in the UK. Alex Fraser, of the BRC, said while there were a lot of positive stories in the community, negativity still existed on social media, the street and in classrooms. “We want to encourage a more informed conversation online and in schools ... and create conditions of greater shared understanding,” he said. Meanwhile, a new Ipsos global online study of 26 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific showed overall Britain remained open to welcoming refugees – albeit with some levels of concern around the validity of their claims for asylum. Seventy-two per cent of British respondents agreed people should have the right to seek refuge from war and persecution, compared with 61 per cent globally. However, there has been a growth in British who are sceptical that refugees’ claims are genuine – up to 51 per cent from 47 per cent in 2017. They were also divided over whether refugees would integrate successfully, with 45 per cent believing they would do so compared to 38 per cent who did not. Ipsos research director Kully Kaur-Ballagan said the findings showed on the whole the British were compassionate about people’s fundamental rights to seek refuge. “However, in practice there is widespread concern about people taking advantage of the system and the public remains relatively divided over the extent to which refugees will successfully integrate into their new society.” Refugee Action head of resettlement Lou Calvey said refugees were “desperate to work and contribute”. But she said it was a gruelling process for those seeking asylum – many of whom waited months with minimal financial support of £37.75 a week. Those with status also faced challenges getting access to mental health services, English language classes and getting into work that matched their skills. “I know a Syrian teacher, a bus driver, he’s happy to be working. But something is wrong if he is not able to bring that experience of teaching in Syria for 20 years back to the UK.” Emma Harrison, the CEO of IMiX, a migration communications hub, said investing in English lessons and enabling people to work while their asylum claim was being processed were key to a successful integration. “More than anything, refugees want to build a new life for themselves and their families – having made their perilous journey here and having lost so much already.” For Ahmed Osman, 53, the cost of moving to the UK has been high – he no longer felt able to talk to the family he’d left behind, he struggled with thoughts of suicide and spent a year homeless on the streets of London. The call upset his mother so much, he no longer felt able to talk to them. “I’m no young boy to cry like this…[but] I want to see my mum. Five years, I have not called my mum or called my dad. I love them so much, but I called them just one time when I arrived to say I was OK.” Osman said he’d been happy with his life working as an import-export manager in Egypt, where he helped provide for his four siblings, parents and son. And if it hadn’t been for a business deal in 2013 that went wrong when a UK-based client went bankrupt without paying up, Osman would likely never have left. Instead, having come to the UK in 2015 to attempt to recoup his losses, Osman found himself stranded and unable to return, due to threats on his life by those to whom he now owed money. “Now I can’t go back to Egypt. People are looking for me, as this money is not my money, I can’t return money to these people.” Legally unable to work while seeking asylum, he ran out of money and for a year lived on the streets around Trafalgar Square and Shepherd’s Bush. Ashamed of his living situation, Osman’s thoughts turned to suicide. “No one in my family knows my story. They will die if they know something like this – I felt bad.” Osman said today things were looking up. He’d completed a business course, found a studio apartment and had established a fruit, vegetable and juice store. He said this was all that refugees wanted when coming to the UK. “We are not lazy and crazy. We have energy, we come to work.”
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Corazon Miller
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/refugee-asylum-uk-children-immigration-red-cross-survey-a8958936.html
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2019-06-17 04:37:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-20--My family and I became refugees after fleeing Iran decades ago but the feeling of being invisible
| 2019-06-20T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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My family and I became refugees after fleeing Iran decades ago – but the feeling of being invisible has never left me
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As a reporter and documentary-maker who reports for the BBC World Service and other broadcasters, I spend a lot of time in airports and train stations. I’m sitting writing this in one right now. However, every time I approach passport control, a sense of uneasiness, and a vague sense of guilt, builds in me. It is difficult to explain why, but it is important that I try and do so. First, I have to tell you the story of a little girl. Iran, 2000. She wakes up one morning in her bedroom, the walls covered in Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys posters. It was a couple of months after her 12th birthday, and she should have been going into school as normal, but on that morning, her world was to be turned upside down. Along with her mother and 4-year-old sister, she was taken to Tehran airport. From the plane she watched the city, her birthplace, get smaller and smaller until it disappeared forever beneath the clouds. Of course, this 12-year-old girl was me. The plane landed in Denmark, the destination chosen by the smuggler who had issued our fake visas. We were put in a car, and as I looked out at the unfamiliar landscape, I was fixated by the sky; it comforted me that at least it was the same colour as it had always been. We were dropped off at an enclosure with tall brick walls covered with barbed wire. I looked at the other residents thinking they were zombies, staring at us with dead eyes. “Surely this is a prison” I recall thinking, but I was wrong. This was our first home in Denmark. Big canteens, confusion, food sanctions, fear, medical checks, clothes donations, my mum, crying. At some point I was put on a bus, leaving the temporary refugee camp for a permanent one. I was scared of every single person there. The Iraqi guy with the huge scar from his forehead to his chin, the Syrian with one eye, the Somali woman whose face was covered under a burka, the bruised eastern European lady who said she’d run away from her abusive husband, the young Palestinian who claimed to be a former terrorist, the big fat Turkish man with a huge moustache who never seemed to go anywhere without his shisha. All of them, every single one, terrified me. Whenever the camp’s bus would take us on our fortnightly shopping to the nearest supermarket about a two-hour drive away, the locals would look at us the way I had looked at the residents on my first day at the camp; we scared them. I felt myself a burden, unwanted. And I was beginning to accept it, this new identity. My identity as a refugee. Then Jeff showed up. Jeff was an old Danish man who started coming in to visit us with a camera. He didn’t understand me and I didn’t I understand him – but he saw us. He wanted to make a film featuring us refugee kids, and hearing this was a turning point for me. A thought lodged itself in my mind that I didn’t have to be invisible. I’d go to bed dreaming about being on TV one day and showing the world what I’ve been through, of speaking and being heard. Initially, it was logistics, boredom, and limited space which forced the other refugees and me to sit down and actually listen to one another. Our neighbours were from diverse backgrounds, ages, races, colours, and beliefs, and when you live in a close-knit community, your survival depends on communication. With all of us desperate to find a way to communicate, we developed a new language we called “Campie” – a mixture of Arabic, Farsi, Danish, English – and drawings. When I started listening to the other asylum seeker residents, I began to find myself mesmerised by their stories. We may have been put away by the authorities, homeless, a burden, unwanted and invisible to the society we lived in, but we saw and heard each other. Telling our stories made us feel like we mattered. I made detailed notes in my diary during these years in Denmark, so that one day I could tell the world about it. Those who had once scared me became my family; our bond made the hardship of our lives easier to bear. When I found out that the man with the huge scar on his face had been murdered, I cried harder than I had when I learnt my granddad in Tehran had passed away. But this new family, this new world, wasn’t to last. Every morning with my mum I’d go to the camp’s office to look for our names on the list announcing whose asylum application had been either accepted or rejected. One morning, our time was up. We hadn’t been granted permission to stay and had to pack our bags. We had to start all over again. From scratch. We were exhausted. The next few months were hard. Hiding from border police, being smuggled from border to border, sleeping rough on the pavements of Europe, shaking from the cold, trying not to think about food because we hadn’t eaten for so long. We had learnt by this point to live life one day at a time, and our experience at the refugee camp had taught us to make the most of the little we did have. After a few months like this, I was once again on a plane, bound for the UK. There, we were eventually granted citizenship. We were in a home that was ours and a country we felt we belonged in. This wasn’t the end of my story of course. My mother, sister and I lived on the poverty line around different cities in the UK, trying to learn English, and the emotional trauma of what we’d been through weighing heavy on us all. But the determination and self-reliance that had grown in me from my childhood experiences have built me into the journalist I am now. I recently made Me, The Refugee for the BBC World Service, telling my own story, for the first time. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever made, even after all these years, even after reporting from some of the world’s most hostile environments like Afghanistan, Mauritania, and Syria. But why am I telling you all this now? Sipping on an iced latte, I’m in a coffee shop in Copenhagen airport writing this. It is the same airport I arrived at when I first left Iran. I landed here, a confused, lost and terrified child who felt invisible. I now travel the world trying my best to amplify people’s voices, be it telling the stories of mothers in US jails or those living in Afghanistan’s only psychiatric unit. That I do this is all due to the power I found as a child when one man came to my refugee camp and listened to me, and I, in turn, learnt to listen to others. That’s why I want to tell you my story, and I want you to listen, both for the voiceless little girl in the remote refugee camp, and to show the world why listening to people with different stories to us, and being given a platform to tell them, is so important to creating a compassionate world. The memory of what it feels like to be invisible, of feeling the need to cry out for help only for your voice to disappear, never leaves you. That’s why I still get nervous in airports. But now I know that my voice matters, and that makes all the difference. You can download the podcast of Me, The Refugee from the BBC World Service on BBC Sounds and on bbc.co.uk/worldservice
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Sahar Zand
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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/world-refugee-day-iran-asylum-citizenship-world-service-a8966866.html
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2019-06-20 08:44:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-28--In photos The depth of the refugee crisis across the world
| 2019-06-28T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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In photos: The depth of the refugee crisis across the world
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Twelve-year-old Waibai Buka (centre) skips rope as a friend records a video of her with a computer tablet provided by Unicef at a school in Baigai. Waibai had to flee her village after an attack by Boko Haram. She has not seen her father since the attack and fears he might be dead. Unicef initiated a pilot project in January 2017 called “Connect My School”. Six solar-powered units help provide internet to schools in different parts of Cameroon. Two of the units were installed in schools in Cameroon’s Far North region – one in Minawao refugee camp, the other in Baigai, near the Nigerian border, where some 50 per cent of children have been displaced by Boko Haram-related violence.
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Independent Staff
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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/child-refugee-crisis-fleeing-conflict-disaster-worldwide-unicef-photos-a8976356.html
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2019-06-28 12:19:50+00:00
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theindependent--2019-09-02--Dozens more child refugees could make dangerous Channel crossing in event of no-deal Brexit chariti
| 2019-09-02T00:00:00 |
theindependent
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Dozens more child refugees could make dangerous Channel crossing in event of no-deal Brexit, charities warn
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Dozens more refugee children could risk their lives making the dangerous crossing from France to Britain if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, charities have warned. The current system of transferring asylum-seeking children in the EU to join family members in Britain is set to come to an end in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the UN refugee agency UNHCR has said. This would leave hundreds of child refugees in Europe at risk of falling into the hands of people traffickers in order to join their family members, including around 64 youngsters currently in northern France, who charities and politicians fear will turn to unauthorised routes. Currently, unaccompanied minors in Europe who have relatives in the UK can apply to join them under the Dublin III Regulation, which is part of EU law. It is a lengthy process, with children often waiting months or even years to be moved to Britain after submitting their applications, but it has enabled hundreds of youngsters to reunite with their relatives in recent years. Maddy Allen, field manager for Calais-based charity Help Refugees, said scrapping the law would “immediately put hundreds of children at risk across Europe”, including 64 youngsters currently sleeping outside in Calais and Dunkirk. “These are children who should be reunited with their family members from whom they’ve been separated,” she told The Independent. “To withdraw from the Dublin regulations for family reunification would be to further entrench the hostile environment into the fabric of Britain. It is a cruel and inhumane step that would leave unaccompanied children scattered around Europe, falling prey to smugglers and traffickers.” Lord Alf Dubs, who earlier this year passed an amendment to continue the family reunion provisions after Brexit, told this newspaper: “Given that both houses passed the legislation that we should go on having the child reunion mechanism after we’ve left the EU, I think it is disgraceful if they now say they’re going to drop it altogether. “These are vulnerable children. It’s an absolute disgrace. It’s shabby and contemptible. I am going to raise it in parliament as soon as I can. “All we’re saying is if you’ve got a Syrian boy in France who’s got an uncle in England, then the right thing is for him to be with his uncle. It makes for international cooperation, but above all it saves young people from being absolutely without any family members at all. “The whole argument for the legislation is that if we give young people safe routes, then they don’t fall into the hands of traffickers. All that will happen is that they will then resort to the traffickers. It’s a lose-lose situation.” A UNHCR spokesperson said: “The UNHCR understands that if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, the Dublin Regulation, which allows for the transfer of asylum-seeking children and adults within the EU to join family members, will no longer apply to the UK. “UNHCR urges the UK government and its European partners to work together to ensure that appropriate arrangements remain in place for asylum seekers, refugees and stateless people.” It comes amid a surge in displaced people attempting to cross from France to Britain in small boats, which has prompted fierce debate around how to prevent asylum seekers from embarking on dangerous journeys. Charities have urged ministers to roll back “brutal” border policies at Calais which they say push people into turning to illegal routes, while Boris Johnson warned that he would send any asylum seekers who successfully cross back to France. The Home Office has been approached for comment.
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May Bulman
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/child-refugees-brexit-no-deal-cross-channel-dublin-home-office-a9088626.html
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2019-09-02 11:56:26+00:00
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theirishtimes--2019-02-18--Life for refugees in Ireland We have lost hope of getting a house
| 2019-02-18T00:00:00 |
theirishtimes
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Life for refugees in Ireland: ‘We have lost hope of getting a house’
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Hanadi Wanli and her three children arrived in Ireland 2½ years ago as refugees from Damascus in Syria. They were reunited with Hanadi’s husband, who had travelled to Ireland more than a year before and applied for family reunification for his wife, children and mother. The family was temporarily given a home in the Mosney direct provision centre while they looked for accommodation. More than two years later, they’re still at the centre, and still searching. Alma Harrack (15), the eldest of the three children, who now speaks fluent English, has spent hours on property websites sending emails to landlords expressing interest in homes on behalf of her parents. They have attended numerous viewings but never hear back. “The main barrier to finding a home is that my granny has special needs,” says Alma. “She’s 83-years-old and in a wheelchair, so we had to find a house with a full bathroom downstairs. This is alongside the general difficulties of finding a home.” Ms Wanli says many landlords react badly upon hearing the family are recipients of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). “We’ve lost hope of getting a house, we’ve been waiting so long,” she said. “When you live temporarily you don’t feel comfortable. We’re being asked to leave Mosney but we can’t find anywhere.” Nearly 12 per cent of people living in direct provision (700 out of the total of 5,972 residents) have been granted asylum but have been unable to secure housing outside the centres. Five of the 400 centres in Ireland are currently oversubscribed, including the Mosney holiday camp in Co Meath, where 693 people are living. The contracted capacity for the centre is 600 people. Overcrowding in some centres has become so acute that maintenance work cannot be carried out, even as centres are being asked to create more bed spaces “without sacrificing standards”, according to internal briefings recently reported on by The Irish Times. Clara, who lives in the Globe House direct provision centre in Sligo with her husband and two children, received international protection in April 2018. Before that, she had spent seven years in direct provision after coming to Ireland from Nigeria. Like Ms Wanli, she has attended many viewings but never hears back from the landlord. Many request a reference from a previous landlord, but refuse a replacement document from the manager of Globe House. “They hear your accent and that you’re not Irish and tell you the house is gone. My son was so happy when we got our papers, he was expecting we would be leaving soon. It would mean a lot [to find a home]. We will finally experience our freedom and do things at our own convenience.” Nick Henderson, chief executive of the Irish Refugee Council, said delays in the system combined with the housing crisis and discrimination towards refugees makes it extremely difficult for people leaving direct provision to find a home. “It’s hugely difficult and deflating,” said Mr Henderson. “We would say you have two mountains to climb: the first is being recognised as a refugee and the second is getting out of direct provision and establishing your life in Ireland.”
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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/life-for-refugees-in-ireland-we-have-lost-hope-of-getting-a-house-1.3797230
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2019-02-18 01:00:06+00:00
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theirishtimes--2019-12-30--Fifty Syrian refugees arrive at Mosney Direct Provision centre
| 2019-12-30T00:00:00 |
theirishtimes
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Fifty Syrian refugees arrive at Mosney Direct Provision centre
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Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has welcomed 50 Syrian refugees to the Mosney Direct Provision centre as part of Ireland’s refugee programme. The families will initially stay at the Mosney centre in Co Meath, where they will receive supports such as English language and orientation classes, before being settled in communities around the country. Those who arrived in Mosney on Monday had been living in a UN Refugee Agency camp in Lebanon and had already been granted refugee status prior to their arrival in Ireland. They had also been interviewed by officials from the Department of Justice as part of the resettlement strand of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme. “I am delighted to have had the opportunity to meet with the families today,” Mr Flanagan said. “Their experiences over the last few years as they were forced to flee their homes have been traumatic and their stories are harrowing and deeply moving. “Their long journey to find safety and sanctuary is now over and I know that the people of Ireland will welcome them with open arms and the offer of friendship and support.”
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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/fifty-syrian-refugees-arrive-at-mosney-direct-provision-centre-1.4127544
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Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:24:50 +0000
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themanchestereveningnews--2019-03-30--The Syrian refugees whove brought a taste of the Middle East to Bury Market
| 2019-03-30T00:00:00 |
themanchestereveningnews
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The Syrian refugees who've brought a taste of the Middle East to Bury Market
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As the civil war raged on around their village in Syria, Seham Al Tamer and Ghassan Makdesi fled their home with their young daughter three-and-a-half years ago. Their nearest city, Hama, had come under siege in 2011 as the Syrian military and opposition forces clashed, with hundreds of civilian casualities. With fierce fighting still going on in the area, the couple had to make the heart-wrenching decision to leave everything they knew behind them for the sake of eight-year-old Katrina. "It was bad - too bad," says Seham. "Next to my village you couldn't go anywhere, it was all people fighting. I want my daughter to be safe." The family made the long and difficult journey - one they still don't like to talk about - through Turkey to mainland Europe before arriving here in England, eventually settling in Bury after being granted refugee status. Bringing nothing but their Christian faith and determination to build a future for Katrina, they enrolled in English classes and, with the support of several churches in the parish, they found a stall at Bury Market where they started selling their own falafels and other traditional Arabic dishes last November. "The first week when we came here we were coming to the market and my husband told me I'd like a shop," says Seham, 46, who worked in a sweet shop back in Syria while Ghassan, 53, was a driver. "It's small for the beginning but it's enough. "When I finished English last year I thought I have to get a job now, we have to earn money. I want a better life for my daughter." The stall, Falafels and More, serves Syrian and Lebanese specialities such as manaaeesh, a hot toasted flatbread topped with thyme, Middle Eastern spices and seeds, served with olives, fresh mint and salad (£2); and chicken tawouk, a flame-grilled kebab marinated in yoghurt and spices(£3.50). Falafels are freshly-cooked to order and served in flatbreads with homemade hummus, Syrian pickle, tahini relish and salad (£3.50), and are also available to take home. A range of drinks is also available including traditional Arabic coffee made with cardamom (£1.50) and Syrian mint, rose, jasmine or orange blossom teas (£1.20). The couple also offer outside catering and recently served food for the mayor and other dignitaries at an event at Bury town hall. They say they've been warmly welcomed into the market, and the wider community in Bury. "It's a nice area, we like Bury ," says Ghassan. Seham adds: "A lot of people have become friends, who we didn't know before [through the stall]. People, even those who don't know us, they say 'hello, how are you, where are you from?' and 'we're so sorry about Syria'." Now 12 and in her first year at secondary school, Katrina has made plenty of friends too and has picked up the language - and a northern accent - quickly as well. "I was fluent in Arabic and French when I came here. Now I've learned English I can't remember all my Arabic, I can only write a few words," she says. Seham adds: "Sometimes I ask her would you like to go back, she says 'no, I have friends here now'." The couple still have family in Syria although many relatives have also fled the fighting. "It is very hard to have to leave everything," says Seham. "I want all of us to be safe. We had no job, no money, nothing. [The fighting] is still around our village now. We are so sad about everything happening." For now, their focus is on their future in Bury. "We're like more catering, more customers, maybe a bigger shop," says Seham. "We are very happy to be here." Falafels and More is open at Bury Market on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, from 8am to 4pm, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 3pm.
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Emily Heward
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https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/syrian-bury-market-food-stall-16016124
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2019-03-30 12:14:07+00:00
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thesun--2019-02-16--World Refugee Day 2019 what is the theme and what are the best quotes and little known facts
| 2019-02-16T00:00:00 |
thesun
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World Refugee Day 2019 – what is the theme and what are the best quotes and little known facts?
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WORLD Refugee Day is an international observance to raise awareness of the struggles refugees face around the world. We explain when it is, how its marked and some facts about the holiday. World Refugee Day is on June 20 every year and this year it falls on a Thursday. On December 4 2000, the United Nations General Assembly decided that June 17 would be celebrated as World Refugee Day in Resolution 55/76. The General Assembly noted that in 2001 it would mark the 50 th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. The dated was later moved to June 20. The United Nations Refugee Agency and thousands of civic groups around the globe host events to raise awareness of the plight of refugees. It is observed in more than 100 countries and involves government officials, humanitarian workers, celebrities, civilians and refugees. The UNCHR encourages people to mark the day by attending local World Refugee Day events, watching and sharing videos and by raising awareness on social media. This year, World Refugee Day will also mark a key moment for the public to show support for families forced to flee. This year’s theme is Global Compact on Refugees. It calls for investment in communities that host refugees to help ease the pressure on the host and to help refugees become self-reliant. Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror 86 per cent of the world’s refugees are hosting by developing countries The largest refugee camp is in Dadaab, Kenya and is home to more than 329,000 people 51 per cent of refugees are under the age of 18 The first-ever Refugee Team competed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio
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Alahna Kindred
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8442575/world-refugee-day-2019-what-is-the-theme-and-what-are-the-best-quotes-and-little-known-facts/
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2019-02-16 16:52:08+00:00
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thesun--2019-03-30--Brit girl 9 trapped in Syrian refugee camp after ISIS dad forced family to leave UK says she dream
| 2019-03-30T00:00:00 |
thesun
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Brit girl, 9, trapped in Syrian refugee camp after ISIS dad forced family to leave UK says she dreams of returning home
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A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl trapped in a Syrian refugee camp has revealed she dreams of having pink wallpaper in her bedroom as she begged to come home. The unnamed youngster and her family was forced to leave the UK by her dad four years ago - now stuck in a camp after the defeat of the terror cell. The school girl's family had travelled to Syria to join the terror organisation, with her dad since killed in unknown circumstances. Speaking to The Times, the schoolgirl recounted hazy memories of the UK, spending time in parks and at the beach with her family. Playing at the displacement camp in northern Syria, the little girl said: "I want to go to England." And describing how she would like her room to look, she added: "Lots of pink. I like pink roses and every colour of roses. I want them in my room." The youngster cannot speak Arabic, and instead makes friends with stray dogs in the camp as her family hopes to return to the UK. She is one of reportedly hundreds of British kids living in refugee camps in Syria after the defeat of ISIS. The family reportedly escaped ten months ago, with a smuggler paid to take them out of the region. But while they had hoped to make it to Turkey, the young family was captured by Kurdish-led forces. Her mum, also unnamed, claimed she had been following her husband's orders when he made them travel to Syria. She said: "I wanted to come out long ago. I was looking for someone to take us out but it took a long time." The family's story comes after ISIS bride Shamima Begum begged to be able to return to the UK after fleeing to Syria in 2015. Critics argued the teen was a danger to the country, with the Home Office stripping her of her British citizenship. On March 20, 2019, her family have formally started their legal challenge to reverse Sajid Javid's decision Within weeks of arriving, Begum was married to ISIS jihadi Yago Riedijk, 27, from Holland. And she calmly revealed that the first time she saw a severed head “didn’t faze me at all”. But she resurfaced earlier this year, saying she wanted to come back home for the sake of her baby, having lost her first two children just weeks after they were born.
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Brittany Vonow
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8756394/brit-girl-trapped-syria-isis-dad/
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2019-03-30 20:02:26+00:00
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thesun--2019-06-20--World Refugee Day 2019 what is the theme and what are the best quotes and little known facts
| 2019-06-20T00:00:00 |
thesun
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World Refugee Day 2019 – what is the theme and what are the best quotes and little known facts?
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TODAY'S World Refugee Day is an international observance to raise awareness of the struggles refugees face around the world. We explain when it is, how its marked and some facts about the holiday. World Refugee Day is on June 20 every year, meaning that is it TODAY. On December 4 2000, the United Nations General Assembly decided that June 17 would be celebrated as World Refugee Day in Resolution 55/76. The General Assembly noted that in 2001 it would mark the 50 th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. The dated was later moved to June 20. The United Nations Refugee Agency and thousands of civic groups around the globe host events to raise awareness of the plight of refugees. It is observed in more than 100 countries and involves government officials, humanitarian workers, celebrities, civilians and refugees. The UNCHR encourages people to mark the day by attending local World Refugee Day events, watching and sharing videos and by raising awareness on social media. This year, World Refugee Day will also mark a key moment for the public to show support for families forced to flee. This year’s theme is Global Compact on Refugees. It calls for investment in communities that host refugees to help ease the pressure on the host and to help refugees become self-reliant. Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror 86 per cent of the world’s refugees are hosting by developing countries The largest refugee camp is in Dadaab, Kenya and is home to more than 329,000 people 51 per cent of refugees are under the age of 18 The first-ever Refugee Team competed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at [email protected] or call 0207 782 4368 . We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours
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Alahna Kindred
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8442575/world-refugee-day-2019-today-june-20/
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2019-06-20 09:21:08+00:00
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thetelegraph--2019-03-31--UN warnings after Calais child refugees went on hunger strike over delayed UK transfers
| 2019-03-31T00:00:00 |
thetelegraph
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UN warnings after Calais child refugees went on hunger strike over delayed UK transfers
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Calais child refugees went on hunger strike - with one attempting suicide - after the UK delayed transfers, prompting warnings from UN and French authorities. At least 35 children held at a centre in the ferry port in northern France sparked concern among senior officials at the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), who then raised the issue of their health and welfare with the Home Office. Details of the exchange was set out in a series of emails as seen by The Guardian. The newspaper reported that one of the emails sent by the UNHCR said: “In particular, it was raised that the mental and psychological state of the children had deteriorated in recent weeks, including one case of a child who has attempted suicide and 15 who are currently partaking in a hunger strike.” The majority of the unaccompanied minors had made applications under the Dublin III regulation, known as the Dubs amendment, which falls under family reunification provisions which are ratified by European law. They must be acted upon within two months, instead the children suffered “excessive delays”.
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Gabriella Swerling
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/31/calais-child-refugees-went-hunger-strike-uk-delayed-transfers/
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2019-03-31 16:59:39+00:00
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thetelegraph--2019-04-30--1000 Muslim refugees flee homes after Sri Lanka retaliation attacks
| 2019-04-30T00:00:00 |
thetelegraph
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1,000 Muslim refugees flee homes after Sri Lanka retaliation attacks
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Around 1,000 Muslim refugees in Sri Lanka have been forced from their homes in retaliatory attacks following the Easter Sunday bombings, according to Human Rights Watch. Mobs threatened to destroy the houses of Afghans, Pakistanis and Iranians - most of whom are part of minority Muslim sects such as the Ahmadiyya - who had fled to Sri Lanka after suffering persecution in their homelands. Some also reported that they had been beaten up by gangs wielding sticks and stones. A small number of Christian refugees from the three countries have also been caught up in attacks through mistaken identity. “The people in Pakistan attacked us and say we’re not Muslims,” said Tariq Ahmed, a 58-year-old Pakistani Ahmadiyya told Associated Press. “Then in Sri Lanka, people attack us because they say we are Muslims.” Around 650 refugees have sought shelter at a mosque in the city of Pasyala, near Negombo.
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Joe Wallen
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/30/1000-muslim-refugees-flee-homes-sri-lanka-retaliation-attacks/
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2019-04-30 11:07:57+00:00
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thetorontostar--2019-08-25--Rohingya refugees rally to mark 2nd anniversary of exodus
| 2019-08-25T00:00:00 |
thetorontostar
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Rohingya refugees rally to mark 2nd anniversary of exodus
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COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees marked the second anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar into Bangladesh by rallying, crying and praying Sunday as they demanded that Myanmar grant them citizenship and other rights before they agree to return. The rally was held days after Bangladesh, with the help of the U.N. refugee agency, attempted to start the repatriation of 3,450 Rohingya Muslims — a small fraction of the 700,000 who fled a 2017 security crackdown in Myanmar. None agreed to go back, citing fear for their safety and a lack of confidence in Myanmar. The UNHCR said that building confidence was essential for repatriation. The police chief in Cox’s Bazar, A.B.M. Masud Hossain, said at least 50,000 refugees protested peacefully for hours in the camps on Sunday. “We alerted all, including the aid agency officials, but the situation was under control and peaceful,” he said after the rally ended. Myanmar had scheduled Aug. 22 for the beginning of the repatriation process, but it failed for a second time after a first attempt last November. The repatriation deal is based on an understanding that the return has to be “safe, dignified and voluntary.” The refugees have also insisted on receiving Myanmar citizenship and other rights that the Buddhist-majority nation has refused to grant them. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her administration will not use force to send them back despite a huge burden on the South Asian country. More than 1 million Rohingya are currently in Bangladesh. At the Kutupalong refugee camp on Sunday, some carried placards and banners reading “Never again! Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day” and “Restore our citizenship.” They raised their hands during a prayer session and cried, many loudly, as an imam led the sermon with an emotional narration of their sufferings. The prayer was held for the victims of the killings, rape and arson attacks by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist militias. “Oh Allah, how much blood we have to give to have peace in our life? We have been shedding our blood for decades and now we are here. Please help us, we want to go back,” said the imam. “We want to tell the world that we want our rights back, we want citizenship, we want our homes and land back,” said Muhib Ullah, one of the organizers of Sunday’s rally. “Myanmar is our country. We are Rohingya.” Myanmar has consistently denied human rights violations and says military operations in Rakhine state, where most of the Rohingya fled from, were justified in response to attacks by Rohingya insurgents. A U.N.-established investigation last year recommended the prosecution of Myanmar’s top military commanders on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for the crackdown on the Rohingya. Myanmar dismissed the allegations. On Thursday, the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar released a new report concluding that rapes of Rohingya by Myanmar’s security forces were systemic and demonstrated the intent to commit genocide. The report said the discrimination Myanmar practiced against the Rohingya in peacetime aggravated the sexual violence toward them during times of conflict. Fortify Rights, a human rights group that has documented abuses in Myanmar, has called on Myanmar’s government to implement recommendations from the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, which was appointed by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2016 and led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. The commission recommended that the government end enforced segregation of Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims, ensure full humanitarian access, tackle Rohingya statelessness, “revisit” the 1982 Citizenship Law and punish perpetrators of abuses. On Thursday, the UNHCR said in a statement that the agency and the U.N. Development Program had sought effective access in Myanmar. Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch, said that concerted efforts were needed “to really raise the pressure on the Burmese generals. We’re talking about targeted sanctions, we’re talking about an arms embargo.” Alam reported from Dhaka, Bangladesh. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/JalamAP
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Tofayel Ahmad And Julhas Alam - The Associated Press
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/asia/2019/08/25/rohingya-refugees-protest-exodus-demand-rights-in-myanmar.html
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2019-08-25 09:37:13+00:00
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thetorontostar--2019-12-12--Tanzania is pressing Burundi refugees to leave, says report
| 2019-12-12T00:00:00 |
thetorontostar
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Tanzania is pressing Burundi refugees to leave, says report
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KAMPALA, Uganda - Human Rights Watch says tens of thousands of Burundian refugees face mounting pressure to involuntarily leave Tanzania amid efforts by authorities there to reduce the number of Burundians in the country. The rights group in a statement Thursday charged that the fear of violence, arrest and deportation from Tanzania is driving many of the 163,000 Burundians out of the country. Some of the refugees have since sought shelter in neighbouring Uganda. Burundi fell into instability in 2015 after President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would seek a disputed third term. The election was marked by violence and allegations of rigging. Nearly 350,000 of Burundi’s 11 million people fled. Tanzanian authorities have expressed frustration over what they say is the U.N.’s slow pace in repatriating refugees back to Burundi. More than 70,000 refugees have returned to Burundi since December 2017, and rights groups say it is hard to tell how many of those returned voluntarily. Get more of the Star in your inbox Never miss the latest news from the Star. Sign up for our newsletters to get today's top stories, your favourite columnists and lots more in your inbox Sign Up Now
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Rodney Muhumuza - The Associated Press
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https://www.thestar.com/news/world/africa/2019/12/12/tanzania-is-pressing-burundi-refugees-to-leave-says-report.html
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Thu, 12 Dec 2019 04:56:54 EST
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trueactivist--2019-12-09--Award-Winning Architect Invents Collapsible Tent For Refugees That Can Collect Water And Store Energ
| 2019-12-09T00:00:00 |
trueactivist
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Award-Winning Architect Invents Collapsible Tent For Refugees That Can Collect Water And Store Energy At The Same Time
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Syria has been suffering through a civil war since 2011, and is currently going through one of the worst humanitarian crises the world has ever seen. According to the United Nations, almost 14 million Syrians and residents have either been internally displaced or became international refugees. When Jordanian-Canadian architect Abeer Seikaly realized the long-lasting effects of civil wars and displacement, she came up with a unique idea. Refugees travel from one place to another to seek shelter. With such vast numbers of refugees migrating to other countries, the communities that take them in face problems in providing all of them with proper shelter. So Seikaly took this problem and designed something to help these people. This award-winning architect innovated an idea of ‘Weaving a Home’. Her unique solution comes with multiple benefits with providing shelter as the main one. The idea was a tent that is constructed with a high-strength plastic tubing folded into sine-wave shaped curves. This tent has the option of enclosing or expanding, depending on the weather conditions of refuge. Because of the double-layer located in the tent’s exterior, it keeps the cold and harsh winds out, but also allows cool air to enter in the summer months. It can be easily installed and broken down for mobility. Aside from all these convenient benefits, the architect also designed this tent to collect rain water from the topmost portion to be filtered down to the sidewalls and eventually reach storage pockets. If that isn’t enough to prove an amazing innovation, this refugee tent can also absorb solar heat and transform it into electric energy. The converted energy is then stored in batteries for future use. Though the design was first proposed in 2013 and won the Lexus Design Award in the same year, the project is still in its developmental stage. Seikaly is very positive that her tent design will be available to refugees very soon. Since the tent does so many things, the materialization for each and every one of them is quite rather complicated. While the design and idea behind it is amazing, the execution will take longer than expected. Once ready for the market, this collapsible tent that can collect rainwater and store solar energy will be incredibly helpful to the thousands of displaced Syrians all over the world. What are your thoughts? Please comment below and share this news!
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True Activist
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http://s24990.pcdn.co/award-winning-architect-invents-collapsible-tent-for-refugees-that-can-collect-water-and-store-energy-at-the-same-time-t1/
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Mon, 09 Dec 2019 13:58:38 +0000
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channel4uk--2019-10-30--Vietnamese communities undeterred from UK migration – despite lorry deaths
| 2019-10-30T00:00:00 |
channel4uk
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Vietnamese communities undeterred from UK migration – despite lorry deaths
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For the fishermen on Vietnam’s coastline, the sea is perilous and alluring in equal measure. It’s a dangerous living, earning just a few dollars a day in the few months the fishing season lasts. The alternative lies beyond the horizon of this one-party Communist state. Smuggle yourself into Europe 6,000 miles away. And Cao Hung is dreaming of just that. He has a nephew in France and a cousin in England. And the deaths of 39 people in the back of a refrigerated lorry last week don’t seem to have deterred him. “My cousin has been in England for 3 months”, he tells me. “He grows cannabis there. I know it’s risky if you go in a container. It is a long way and it is cold and of course there can be consequences. If I had the chance I would still go. I can earn a lot of money there.” Several of the dead in Essex are thought to be Christians and, back home in Vietnam, Father Anthony Dang Huu Nam has led prayers for them. “I know almost every family of the 39 victims,” he says. People in this small fishing community say at least twenty of their relatives have travelled to the UK in search of work. In fact, it’s official Communist Party policy in this region to encourage the export of human labour to reduce poverty and increase employment. But nobody seems to have any idea what life in the UK would be like if and when they got there. Nguyen The, a local fisherman, tells me “the only thing I think about England is that it’s a chance to make money. Maybe there are many more opportunities and life is easier. If I stay here, I can’t make anything.” Even Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary founder of the socialist republic, once emigrated from this his home province to work in the kitchens of a west London hotel. The dream of a better life abroad has not died with him. Instead it has claimed 39 lives in the back of a lorry on a British industrial estate a world away from here.
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Jonathan Rugman
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https://www.channel4.com/news/vietnamese-communities-undeterred-from-uk-migration-despite-lorry-deaths
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Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:01:07 +0000
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fortune--2019-10-05--‘American Sriracha’: How a Thai Sauce That Migrated to the U.S. Became a Global Phenomenon
| 2019-10-05T00:00:00 |
fortune
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‘American Sriracha’: How a Thai Sauce That Migrated to the U.S. Became a Global Phenomenon
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Here Are the Most Popular Beers of the 2019 Great American Beer Festival
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Naomi Xu Elegant
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https://fortune.com/2019/10/05/sriracha-thai-chili-sauce-huy-fong-david-tran/
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Sat, 05 Oct 2019 11:30:26 +0000
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sottnet--2019-02-25--NATOs Atlantic Council claims Russian brain drain but emigration rate is about 4 times lower than
| 2019-02-25T00:00:00 |
sottnet
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NATO's Atlantic Council claims Russian 'brain drain' but emigration rate is about 4 times lower than UK
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the "think tank" exists to push negative messaging about Russia NATO's propaganda wing suggests Russia is experiencing a "Putin exodus." Is it true or is the Atlantic Council just pushing a narrative?Ironically, at the same time its own lobbyists have decided to concoct some misleading headlines of their own.This is the only explanation for a bizarre report which suggests Russia is currently suffering from an exceptional "brain drain."A contention which flies in the face of facts, given the country has one of the lowest emigration rates in Europe. Indeed, Russians are around four times less likely to depart their homeland than Brits, for example.Here'sin four western cities (Berlin, London, New York and San Francisco), activists contend that "highly educated and socially aware individuals" are saying "do svidaniya." It also notes how the (mostly liberal) "political views of this group are encouraging." Which misses the point entirely. Because surely their "progressive" values have led them to domicile in large open-minded cities? And, notably, most said "they do not plan to return to Russia in the future, even if Russia's economic or political conditions improve." And their definition of "improve" most likely wouldn't be shared by most of their compatriots.For instance, only 12% approve of Vladimir Putin (against over 60% in Russia) and a whopping 72% support the "non-systemic" opposition. This includes figures such as Aleksey Navalny and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Neither of whom poll over 2% in Russian surveys.Anyway, over-analysing the Atlantic Council's work is self-defeating, given, befuddle and bewilder. Also, in interpreting this "work" we have to understand how, in line with its pro-NATO mission.The "brain drain" trope is "backed-up" here by the fact that the overwhelming majority of Russians living in these four urban areas are well-educated. But it ignores how Russia practically leads the world in educational attainment. According to the OECD ."Yet, the numbers leaving are rather small. Atlantic Council flags how "since 2000, around 1.6-2 million Russians have emigrated" (from a present population of around 146 million). This amounts to an emigration rate of between 1.1% and 1.3% over almost two decades.And given most Brits who departed previously worked in "professional or managerial" roles, it's safe to say it's also better educated people who are leaving 'Blighty'. But don't hold your breath for an Atlantic Council special on "Theresa May's brain drain."Or don't expect our heroes to report how more than 1.7 million Ukrainians have applied for Russian citizenship Incidentally, a number greater than the entire Russian outflow over a four times greater time period, from a country with a quarter of the population.So much nonsense is written about Russia that even this report merits more an eye-roll than outright rage. But it's rather bizarre to see an organization venturing onto such shaky ground just two weeks before staging its own "disinfo" seminars, which are ostensibly aimed at fighting the scourge. Perhaps the Atlantic Council can use its own report as a case study?
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https://www.sott.net/article/407983-NATOs-Atlantic-Council-claims-Russian-brain-drain-but-emigration-rate-is-about-4-times-lower-than-UK
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2019-02-25 12:03:36+00:00
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theamericanconservative--2019-05-03--Brain Drain and the Polarization of America
| 2019-05-03T00:00:00 |
theamericanconservative
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Brain Drain and the Polarization of America
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Are we more divided as a nation today than we were before? Our new research within the Joint Economic Committee’s Social Capital Project suggests that we are. The findings indicate that Americans are more frequently dividing themselves geographically and along lines of education. Highly educated Americans have increasingly moved to a handful of states over the last several decades, leaving other places behind. This “brain drain” has clear economic implications. Beyond economics though, it’s also likely draining social capital from many places, as communities lose talent and resources that would help support civic institutions. Brain drain and educational sorting exacerbate political and cultural divides as well: Americans segregate themselves into communities where they more frequently reside near those similar to themselves, decreasing the likelihood of rubbing shoulders with those who see the world differently. It’s not news that highly educated Americans are more likely to move. America’s highly educated have consistently been more prone to pack up their bags and seek opportunity outside their hometowns. But surprisingly, there have been few attempts to quantify the magnitude of the problem and assess whether it is getting worse. To rectify that, we created brain drain measures that compare the share of people leaving their birth states who are highly educated to either the highly educated share of people staying in their birth states or the share entering the states who are highly educated. We found that today, highly educated movers in the U.S. tend to leave certain states and regions of the country at higher rates than in the past and concentrate in a smaller group of states that are home to booming metropolitan areas. This leads to growing geographic divides between areas that are thriving and places that struggle. With fewer states retaining and attracting talent, more areas are left behind. A handful of states have become exclusive destinations for the highly educated. They not only hold onto more of their homegrown talent, but they also gain more highly educated adults than they lose. These talent-magnet states are along the West Coast, as well as the Boston-Washington corridor. Beyond the coasts, a few other states, like Texas, are retaining their homegrown talent while simultaneously winning a balance of talent from elsewhere. These “brain gain” states are like an elite club whose members trade among themselves. For example, California draws the greatest share of its highly educated entrants from other brain gain states: New York, Illinois, and Texas, which are ranked third, fourth, and eighth, respectively, on net brain gain. New York pulls in highly educated entrants primarily from New Jersey (ranked sixth on net brain gain) and California. Massachusetts (ranked second) is also among its top five sending states. The most common origins of Texas’s entrants include California, Illinois, and New York. New Jersey draws its highly educated from the likes of New York, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois. New York and New Jersey are among Massachusetts’ most common sending states. New York, New Jersey, California, and Virginia (ranked seventh) are among the top states sending highly educated natives to Maryland. On the opposite side of the coin are the many states that are not only bleeding highly educated adults but failing to attract others to replace them. Rust Belt states—Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri—are particularly plagued by brain drain. Several Plains states—Iowa and the Dakotas—as well as states in New England—Vermont and New Hampshire—are also experiencing high levels of brain drain. Although this is hardly a new phenomenon for the Rust Belt, it’s become a worsening problem over the last 50 years for the other high brain-drain states mentioned. Brain drain’s effects on state economies are obvious. Places that lose more of their highly educated adults are likely going to be economically worse off than those that retain or attract highly educated adults. And if the highly educated are concentrating in fewer areas, then more parts of the country will be prone to economic stagnation. But beyond the economic implications, brain drain also has an impact on social capital. If areas are drained of their most highly educated, those left behind may struggle to support churches, athletic leagues, parent-teacher associations, scouting groups, and so forth. These institutions matter for the well-being of communities, as they bring people together in purposeful relationships, ultimately creating the social fabric of our nation. Another way that brain drain’s educational divides can deplete social capital is by creating deeper political and cultural divides between Americans. The highly educated more often hold liberal political views compared to those with less than a college education. America’s major metropolitan areas (many of the states that win the highly educated are home to thriving cities) tend to vote Democratic, while most other areas of the country vote Republican. Those living in urban areas are also more likely to hold liberal political views, whereas those living in rural areas are more commonly conservative. Thus, as a result of brain drain and self-sorting, Americans are now more likely to live in communities where they are isolated from people who hold different ideologies and values. Less association between people of different viewpoints can exacerbate political divides, as people become more steeped in their own beliefs. When those who are different are further away, it is easier to cast them as a faceless group of opponents upon whom all blame for America’s problems belongs, rather than as neighbors with whom to find common ground. Ultimately, social segregation weakens the idea that, as Americans, we share something important in common with one another. A growing federal government only adds to the problem of geographic divide. Naturally, neither heartland traditionalists nor coastal cosmopolitans want to be ruled by the other camp. However, with more power at the national level, national elections have higher stakes for everyone. Each camp feels threatened when its party loses control. With less association among those with different viewpoints, political discourse turns into fever-pitched discord. The strength of our relationships is crucial to the strength of our nation. Americans will have to work to make their communities places in which not only the most highly educated benefit, but others as well. We must find ways to reach across the divides that separate us. Rachel Sheffield is a senior policy advisor in the chairman’s office of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, and Scott Winship is the executive director of the committee.
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Rachel Sheffield and Scott Winship
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/brain-drain-and-the-polarization-of-america/
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2019-05-03 04:01:08+00:00
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theduran--2019-02-24--Atlantic Council claims Russian brain drain but emigration rate is about 4 times lower than UK
| 2019-02-24T00:00:00 |
theduran
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Atlantic Council claims Russian ‘brain drain’ but emigration rate is about 4 times lower than UK
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NATO’s propaganda wing suggests Russia is experiencing a “Putin exodus.” Is it true or is the Atlantic Council just pushing a narrative? The pressure group is currently advertising a US-government backed 'Disinfo Week', with seminars in Belgium, Greece and Spain next month. Ironically, at the same time its own lobbyists have decided to concoct some misleading headlines of their own. This is the only explanation for a bizarre report which suggests Russia is currently suffering from an exceptional “brain drain.” A contention which flies in the face of facts, given the country has one of the lowest emigration rates in Europe. Indeed, Russians are around four times less likely to depart their homeland than Brits, for example. Here’s the Atlantic Council’s argument. Based on testimonies from 400 people in four western cities (Berlin, London, New York and San Francisco), activists contend that “highly educated and socially aware individuals” are saying “do svidaniya.” It also notes how the (mostly liberal) “political views of this group are encouraging.” Which misses the point entirely. Because surely their “progressive” values have led them to domicile in large open-minded cities? And, notably, most said“they do not plan to return to Russia in the future, even if Russia's economic or political conditions improve.” And their definition of “improve” most likely wouldn’t be shared by most of their compatriots. The political views of the selected respondents are completely out of whack with mainstream opinion back home. For instance, only 12% approve of Vladimir Putin (against over 60% in Russia) and a whopping 72% support the “non-systemic” opposition. This includes figures such as Aleksey Navalny and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Neither of whom poll over 2% in Russian surveys. Anyway, over-analysing the Atlantic Council’s work is self-defeating, given the outfit exists not to inform, but to confuse, befuddle and bewilder. Also, in interpreting this “work” we have to understand how the “think tank” exists to push negative messaging about Russia, in line with its pro-NATO mission. The “brain drain” trope is “backed-up” here by the fact that the overwhelming majority of Russians living in these four urban areas are well-educated. But it ignores how Russia practically leads the world in educational attainment. According to the OECD the percentage of Russians who’ve attended third-level is “54%, compared to 31% on average among OECD countries and 26% on average among G20 countries.” Yet, the numbers leaving are rather small. Atlantic Council flags how “since 2000, around 1.6-2 million Russians have emigrated” (from a present population of around 146 million). This amounts to an emigration rate of between 1.1% and 1.3% over almost two decades. And given most Brits who departed previously worked in “professional or managerial” roles, it’s safe to say it’s also better educated people who are leaving 'Blighty'. But don’t hold your breath for an Atlantic Council special on “Theresa May’s brain drain.” Or don't expect our heroes to report how more than 1.7 million Ukrainians have applied for Russian citizenship between 2014-2018 alone. Incidentally, a number greater than the entire Russian outflow over a four times greater time period, from a country with a quarter of the population. So much nonsense is written about Russia that even this report merits more an eye-roll than outright rage. But it’s rather bizarre to see an organization venturing onto such shaky ground just two weeks before staging its own “disinfo” seminars, which are ostensibly aimed at fighting the scourge. Perhaps the Atlantic Council can use its own report as a case study?
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RT
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https://www.rt.com/op-ed/452308-atlantic-council-brain-drain/
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2019-02-24 16:16:22+00:00
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windowoneurasiablog--2019-12-14--Moscow Exploiting Distinctive Experiences of Russian Emigration to Keep It Pro-Putin, Kirillova Says
| 2019-12-14T00:00:00 |
windowoneurasiablog
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Moscow Exploiting Distinctive Experiences of Russian Emigration to Keep It Pro-Putin, Kirillova Says
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Staunton, December 11 -- Many have been struck by the apparent paradox that many Russians have left their country but that even among those who do, a remarkably large percentage remain supportive of the Kremlin. Some of this has natural causes, but much of it, Kseniya Kirillova says, is the result of concerted efforts by the Putin regime. “Of course,” Kirillova says, “election results are not an absolute indicator” of the phenomenon of support for the Kremlin among Russian emigres. Many of them are seeking to assimilate to their new countries and do not take part in Russian elections, and others who oppose Putin adopted the boycott Russian opposition groups advocated. But the voting statistics do point to a remarkable fact: a large share of Russians living abroad do choose to support the Kremlin, especially on foreign policy issues. One of the reasons for this, Kirillova suggests, is that they feel guilty toward Russia because they have moved to “’a hostile country’” like the US, an action many feel subconsciously is an act of betrayal. Even if they have chosen to more abroad for purely personal reasons, the Russian journalist says, they do not want to be called “’traitors’” because for them, a conflict with the regime is “traumatic.” But what is important is that the Kremlin recognizes this feeling and is exploiting it by setting up various organizations to rope them in. Many Russian emigres, “even those indifferent to politics, are quite prepared” to voice support for the Kremlin’s polices as the price of being accepted in these often nominally apolitical groups in order to “peacefully continue to live abroad while feeling at the same time ‘forgiven and accepted’ by Russia.” And that desire is often combined with and even reinforces hostility to the country they find themselves in and often cannot adapt quickly to. Many observers write off these attitudes to “ideology, a feeling of guilt or cynicism” among Russians, but it has two broader sources, the common experiences of emigres and the actions of the Russian state. But for most groups, this stage is relatively brief. What is worth noting is that the Russian government is doing what it can to make that stage last far longer than is normally the case and is having remarkable success in many cases because the receiving countries either do not see this as a problem or do not commit resources to counter what Moscow is doing. “The Russian authorities are supporting the creation for compatriots abroad a special milieu, one ideologically and mentally isolated from the countries where they are,” Kirillova continues. This effort has succeeded as much as it has because of Russian psychology and the fact that the diaspora has brought with it “the sharp polarization of Russian society.” And it has been reinforced by market forces. Moscow puts money into Russian-language outlets that push its line, and as that line is accepted, even those outlets into which Moscow hasn’t put funds find themselves repeating the line in order to expand their audiences and subscriber base. Under these conditions, Kirillova concludes, “systematic work with the Russian-language diaspora abroad and at a minimum an attempt at creating independent media and organizations which help with the effective adaptation of emigres appears as a much more effective strategy than simply labelling all lovers of Russia ‘a fifth column.’” Unfortunately, she suggests, labeling them in that way is not only easy but cheap; and there is a lack of understanding and financing to move in a more useful direction.
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paul goble ([email protected])
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http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/12/moscow-exploiting-distinctive.html
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2019-12-14T02:26:00.002-08:00
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theirishtimes--2019-11-15--Irish emigrant says Nigerians should send as much money home as they like
| 2019-11-15T00:00:00 |
theirishtimes
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Irish emigrant says Nigerians should send as much money home as they like
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A Galway man who emigrated to England in the 1950s says foreign nationals living in Ireland should be free to send as much money home to their families as they like. Boddy Ward, who left his home in Ballygar in east Galway in 1956, said it was the responsibility of people who left Ireland in the 50s and 60s to support those at home. Mr Ward worked in construction in Coventry and London for decades, and sent money to his parents regularly before buying a house and a plot of land for their retirement in Galway. His comments came days after Galway TD Noel Grealish raised questions in the Dáil over the amount of money sent home by Nigerian people living in Ireland. “There should be freedom for all when it comes to this. We had to leave Ireland, so I’m not going to run down people who had to leave their own countries and come to Ireland,” Mr Ward said. “I never thought I’d see the day that we’d have employment like this in Ireland and people coming to Ireland looking for work. It’s fantastic. We’ve a small country – let’s hope it lasts forever. I can’t be against it in any way in the world.” Mr Ward, who still lives in Coventry with his wife, Madge, was 18 when he left Ireland in 1956 and started his first job within three hours of arriving in England. He was hired by Coen Plastering, a company founded by Mayo man Gerard Coen, and worked for them for more than 40 years. He said he was made feel very welcome by English people. “Myself and my brother sent money home all the time, of course we did. We did the best we could to help. After a few years I was able to buy a small holding for my mam and dad. That’s were they finished up. “It was the responsibility of those who left to look after the people at home if they could. The people who could did everything they could for the people left at home. “Some people couldn’t look after themselves, not to mind sending money home. They might have liked the drink too much. If things go wrong for you, it’s very hard to get back up on your feet. “People could be sending money home for years and years. It depended on the people. When you got married, and had your own family to look after, it would generally ease off.”
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https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-emigrant-says-nigerians-should-send-as-much-money-home-as-they-like-1.4084330
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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:27:00 +0000
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themoscowtimes--2019-01-16--Official Data Vastly Underestimates Russian Emigration Report
| 2019-01-16T00:00:00 |
themoscowtimes
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Official Data Vastly Underestimates Russian Emigration – Report
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Proekt’s report highlights discrepancies between official data from the Rosstat federal statistics agency and data compiled by countries where Russians emigrate to. Rosstat estimates 377,000 Russians left the country in 2017, the latest period for which figures are available and a six-year record. At least six times more Russians are leaving the country than officially estimated, a comprehensive study conducted by the Proekt news outlet said on Wednesday. “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security counted six times more Russians arriving in 2017 than Rosstat recorded [leaving],” Proekt said. “Six times more people left Russia for 24 OECD countries, where foreign data is available, for 2016.” OECD, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, groups 34 of the world’s leading economies. Meanwhile, the UN ranks Russia as having the third largest number of people living outside its borders after India and Mexico — 10.6 million. Proekt said an increasing number of highly-educated young Russians from the regions are leaving the country in search of better economic opportunities. Official data from Rosstat underestimates the real number of Russian emigres because it only counts those who have officially canceled their registration in Russia — which most emigres don’t do. The Civil Initiatives Committee, formed by Audit Chamber chairman Alexander Kudrin, previously estimated that in 2014, the real number of Russians emigrating abroad was between three to four times higher than Rosstat’s data. That report also shed light on Russia’s brain drain, with both Russian and foreign data indicating the high level of human capital leaving the country. A 2018 state-funded survey said that one in 10 Russians, including almost one-third of those aged 18 to 24, want to emigrate. A quarter of respondents named a relative or acquaintance who had moved out of Russia in recent years.
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http://themoscowtimes.com/news/official-data-vastly-underestimates-russian-emigration-report-64158
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2019-01-16 12:06:15+00:00
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cnn--2019-05-03--Roughly 8700 unaccompanied children turned over to refugee office last month
| 2019-05-03T00:00:00 |
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Roughly 8,700 unaccompanied children turned over to refugee office last month
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Roughly 8,700 unaccompanied children were turned over to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement last month, more than double the number of children compared to the previous April, a senior agency official said, as the swell of migrants at the US-Mexico border continues to strain federal resources. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of the Health and Human Services, is tasked with caring for migrant children who arrive at the border without a parent or guardian. Last April, roughly 4,300 children were referred to the office's care. Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar notified Congress that the department planned to reallocate up to $385 million for the unaccompanied alien children program. This week, the White House asked for additional funds to increase shelter capacity to accommodate the high number of children. The overwhelming majority of unaccompanied children are referred to the Office of Refugee Resettlement by Customs and Border Protection, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. ORR has been preparing for the arrivals of unaccompanied children in its care to double this fiscal year. If current trends hold, referrals of unaccompanied children to the office could surpass the record 2016 figures, when 59,171 minors were referred for care. "At this point it (would) be close to 2016 and could potentially mark a new record due to more (unaccompanied children) coming across the border," an HHS official told CNN in March. Apprehensions of children at the border has been on the rise this year. The US Border Patrol has apprehended 35,898 unaccompanied children so far in fiscal year 2019, according to the most recently available government data. Last year, during the same time period, 21,641 children were taken into Border Patrol custody. Exclusive: DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border While the numbers of border apprehensions impact the capacity in HHS facilities, it's not a direct correlation. Still, just as apprehensions fluctuate, so has the number of unaccompanied children in HHS custody over the years. Prior to fiscal year 2012, the number of children sent to the program each year hovered under 8,000. Despite a surge of unaccompanied minors in the summer of 2014, the biggest spike was in fiscal year 2016, when 59,171 children were referred.
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Priscilla Alvarez
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http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/hAR4zEzGCJE/index.html
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2019-05-03 21:54:36+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-06-18--World Refugee Week 2019 London events to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK
| 2019-06-18T00:00:00 |
eveningstandard
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World Refugee Week 2019: London events to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK
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This week is World Refugee Week, and London is buzzing with arts and educational events to celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK and encourage a better understanding between communities. The theme ‘You, me and those who came before’ will explore the lives of refugees through the generations, as well as those who have welcomed them. If you fancy getting stuck in with new food and workshops, as well as learning more about the situation of refugees around the world today, why not head down to Devonshire Square in the East of the City? WeWork are launching a week-long festival there to celebrate World Refugee Day as part of their commitment to hire 1,500 refugees over the next five years. The events, in collaboration between WeWork, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Go Fund Me, will to help fundraise for world’s first-ever pop-up shop opening in September where goods are made by refugees. There will also be sessions from UNHCR and Groundwork discussing how to hire refugees and the benefits for businesses, as well as a coaching session from LinkedIn to help refugee candidates prepare for interviews. Mathieu Proust, general manager, WeWork UK & Ireland said: “We have created a diverse range of events to take place here in London. Our aim is to bring people together, raise awareness of refugees in the UK and encourage a greater understanding of the reality of refugee experiences.” The festival is open to the general public and tickets can be bought online. A special screening of the award-winning film, CAPERNAUM, is taking place in an outdoor tent in Devonshire Square ahead of its commercial release as part of World Refugee Week. All ticket proceeds will be donated to UNHCR. Ticket includes popcorn. Enjoy live music in the courtyard of Devonshire Square with two refugee artists – star of The Voice Middle East, Hamsa Mounif and Syrian guitarist, Kareem Ghali. This informative ‘Lunch and Learn’ will discuss refugee employment in the UK, and the skills that businesses need to unlock the potential of a highly-skilled workforce. Test your kitchen skills with an intimate after-work cooking class with refugee cook, Noor. The class is available for up to 15 people. Want to spruce up your home? WeWork has partnered with UNHCR to showcase MADE51, a global brand for artisanal home décor and accessories crafted by refugees. This will be the largest public display of MADE51 products to date and to celebrate this moment, UNHCR UK is launching a crowdfunding campaign to bring the MADE51 collection to Chelsea, London, for a pop-up sale this autumn: if they meet their goals, it will be the world’s first-ever refugee-made home store. Life in Syria is an ongoing photographic project and book which aims to show the reality that millions of Syrians are forced to live every day. The book collects the imagery of five Syrian photographers, showing some of the moments that have left their mark on them between 2011-2016. On display – just outside 8 Devonshire Square during Refugee Week – will be 27 of these images, chosen by the photographers themselves. Throughout the week, lunch will be served by refugee vendors, including Nigerian inspired food by Migrateful, Ethiopian delicacies served by Delina, and Sri Lankan flavours brought to you by Papi’s Pickles.
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Sian Bayley
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https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/culturecity/world-refugee-week-wework-linkedin-the-united-nations-high-commissioner-for-refugees-a4169571.html
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2019-06-18 07:10:00+00:00
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osce--2019-06-20--Assistance to refugees in danger is an obligation not a crime OSCE human rights head says
| 2019-06-20T00:00:00 |
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Assistance to refugees in danger is an obligation, not a crime, OSCE human rights head says
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WARSAW, 20 June 2019 - On World Refugee Day and amid ever more restrictive interpretations of international legal standards to protect people in search of international protection, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) calls on governments to do more to ensure the primacy of human rights for all those seeking safety in our countries, so far away from home. “Saving the lives of those in danger is an obligation and not a crime, or even a favour,” said ODIHR Director Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir. “We need greater co-operation between national governments, border control authorities, and civil society to ensure that more human lives are not lost.” Even when refugees and migrants have reached safety, they often face intolerance and discrimination in hosting societies. “The right to life is paramount. But refugees also have the right to live free from fear of violence and discrimination,” said Gísladóttir. “Refugees can and do make an important contribution to our countries. However, this is only possible if we welcome their skills and experience into our societies.” ODIHR’s Director also expressed solidarity with the civil society organizations and individuals who work to protect their rights, saying: “These people are playing a vital role, but they are increasingly subjected to judicial harassment and criminalization, smear campaigns, threats and even attacks, right across the OSCE region. We must come to the defence of those who are defending the most vulnerable in our societies.” The work of those defending migrant and refugees’ rights is particularly important at present, as pushbacks at borders become more frequent and some states make access to asylum procedures increasingly difficult, setting up legislative and administrative barriers as a deterrent to asylum seekers. ODIHR works with countries across the OSCE to help defend migrant rights, and ensure that migration policies and legislation are effective and take into account the different needs of women and men as well as the special needs of children. At the same time, ODIHR also works to safeguard human rights defenders, enabling them to continue helping refugees and migrants, every day.
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MCausevic
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https://www.osce.org/odihr/423428
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2019-06-20 07:00:34+00:00
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activistpost--2019-03-01--Returning Syrian Refugees Were Fleeing US Proxy War Not Assad
| 2019-03-01T00:00:00 |
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Returning Syrian Refugees Were Fleeing US Proxy War, Not “Assad”
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A recent BBC segment titled, “The Syrians returning home after years of fleeing war,” contradicted 8 years of the British state media’s narratives regarding the war in Syria. A synopsis of the short BBC video segment would read: After years of people fleeing Syria and its civil war, there are now long queues to enter the country each day. Jordan opened its Jaber border crossing last October after Syrian government troops defeated rebels who had controlled the other side. Now several thousand people pass through each day. They include small-scale merchants reviving cross-border trade and returning Syrian refugees who hope to rebuild their lives. Huge numbers of Syrians have already returned to Syria – specifically to areas government forces have cleared of Western-armed and backed terrorists. This includes Aleppo, Homs, and Daraa. The flood of returning refugees to government-held areas indicates Syrians were fleeing the US-backed proxy war against the Syrian government – not the Syrian government itself. Viewers and readers who invested trust in the BBC’s narratives over the past 8 years will be shocked to hear thousands of Syrians crowding the Jordanian-Syrian border daily to return to the war-ravaged nation. The BBC has insisted for 8 years, millions of refugees had fled Syria to escape the nation’s “brutal dictator” Syrian President Bashar Al Assad – accused of “gassing his own people,” raining down “barrel bombs” that were both crude and “indiscriminate” but also paradoxically capable of pinpointing elementary schools and children’s hospitals, and whose “Shabiha” death squads lurked around every corner. In 2016, a BBC article titled, “Syria conflict: Aleppo bombing shuts largest hospital,” uncritically repeated claims made by US-funded fronts operating in Aleppo during security operations to clear it of terrorists. The BBC – along with the rest of the Western media – have depicted bombs used by the Syrian military as “barrel bombs,” claiming that because of their crude construction, they could not be aimed and therefore were “indiscriminate” in nature. The article would also claim such “barrel bombs” were, “in no sense accurate,” except of course – when they needed to be accurate for the sake of war propaganda – such as allegedly pinpointing US-funded “hospitals” in terrorist-held Aleppo. A 2017 BBC article titled, “Syria chemical ‘attack’: What we know,” would claim: The report – of course – was based entirely on “witness” accounts, with OPCW inspectors unable to investigate the site due to the fact Khan Sheikhoun was – and still is – under Al Qaeda occupation. The BBC article intentionally omits that “samples” the OPCW examined lacked any verifiable chain of custody. In other words – the samples could have come from anywhere, including labs where they were likely fabricated. The BBC has faithfully repeated every claim made by militants regarding chemical weapons throughout the war. The BBC has gone as far as claiming “Assad’s” repeated use of chemical weapons was a key factor in his victory – though failed categorically to explain how. Why would people – enjoying refugee status in neighboring countries and even in Europe, risk returning to Syria where “brutal dictator” Bashar Al Assad not only still remains in power – but has decisively defeated his opponents through the use of “barrel bombs,” “chemical weapons,” and other forms of indescribable brutality? The answer is simple – refugees were fleeing the US-backed war and the terrorists it had armed to divide and destroy the country – not the Syrian government. The vast majority of Syria’s displaced remained inside Syria – and simply moved into areas under government protection. Now with many other areas of the country having security restored by government forces with Russian and Iranian backing – hundreds of thousands more are returning from abroad, including from Europe – according to the BBC itself. Great effort had been put into misrepresenting the refugee crisis the Syrian conflict triggered – specifically because the specifics of the crisis clearly revealed who Syrians were really fleeing and why. Analysis of Syria’s internally displaced refugees was intentionally and systematically omitted by the BBC and other Western media organizations in their reports over the years to obfuscate the fact refugees were fleeing militants, and voluntarily returning once militants were pushed out of various regions across Syria. When the preferred narrative becomes unsustainable, media manage this by switching to reporting as if for years they hadn’t suggested opposite. Also, UK govt (and BBC) know that UK will again have relations with Assad, which continuing to demonise him may make difficult to sell. And, of course, the BBC knows that any viewer or reader still investing trust in its daily and extensive propaganda efforts will unlikely notice the sudden, dramatic shift in narrative regarding Syria. BBC correspondents will claim that their past articles intentionally framing Syrian President Assad as a “madman” “gassing his own people” and raining “barrel bombs” on their heads were “balanced” because in the last paragraph, brief and marginalized statements from the Syrian or Russian governments refuting such accusations were also included. A similar defense has been mounted since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq failed to turn up weapons of mass destruction after media organizations like the BBC assured the public of the necessity of that war. The BBC has all but admitted to its 8 years of war propaganda aimed at the destruction of Syria. The very refugees it now reports are returning to Syria suffered the fate they have specifically because of the inability of media organizations like the BBC to honestly inform the public. The cost of the Syrian war helps remind the public why during the Nuremberg trials following World War 2, war propagandists were sent to the gallows alongside the trigger-pullers their lies helped enable. While the BBC still enjoys vast amounts of impunity with no likelihood in the foreseeable future of ever being held accountable for its actions, it should be remembered at all times that the BBC is in the business of propaganda – and especially war propaganda – not “news.” This fact should be kept in mind whether its correspondents are covering the Middle East, South America, or Southeast Asia. Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”, where this article first appeared.
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Activist Post
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https://www.activistpost.com/2019/03/returning-syrian-refugees-were-fleeing-us-proxy-war-not-assad.html
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2019-03-01 16:18:49+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-06-17--Refugee Week UK When is World Refugee Day and what is happening over Refugee Week
| 2019-06-17T00:00:00 |
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Refugee Week UK: When is World Refugee Day and what is happening over Refugee Week?
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Today marks the start of Refugee Week, an annual programme of events taking place around the country to celebrate the contribution of refugees to British life and culture, and highlight the difficulties they face. The theme of this year's festival is 'You, Me and Those Who Came Before', an invitation to 'explore the lives of refugees – and those who have welcomed them – throughout the generations'. From exhibitions and workshops, to the Refugee Food Festival, there is much to see, do and learn over the course of the week. Find out everything you need to know below. Running from 17-23 June 2019, Refugee Week is a programme of cultural and educational events happening across the UK. Founded in 1998, the week has four aims: to use arts and educational events to promote positive interactions between refugees and the public; to showcase the wide range of talents and skills fostered by refugees; to develop ways to address the hardships experienced by refugees; and to raise awareness about their plight, through education. Events take place across the country and in London there is much going on. At the V&A museum, there is photographer Jillian Edelstein's 'You, Me And Those Who Came Before’ exhibition which highlights the unknown history of the refugees enhancing our culture, on until June 21. At the Southbank Centre, the events list includes an 'Afternoon of Music at the Clore Ballroom' on June 23, a musical piece performed by Newham's Community Opera Full Circle, inspired by the experiences of local refugee Jonathan Lofulo, who fled the DRC when he was just a child. And at Shakespeare's Globe, a trio of events are taking place at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. They include, an evening of readings on June 18 to mark the launch of 'My First Memory' anthology by Ben Holden, featuring spoken readings of works by such authors as Melvyn Bragg and Michael Morpurgo, and first-hand accounts from such renowned figures as Madeleine Albright, Alf Dubs and Yusra Mardini. World Refugee Day falls on June 20. It is observed in more than 200 countries and is lead by the United Nations Refugee Agency. Founded in 2000, each year is themed and the theme of 2019 is #StepWithRefugees. This is an initiative designed to encourage people around the world to walk, run or cycle a stipulated distance, in the hope one billion miles will be travelled over the course of the year, in recognition of the one billion miles refugees cover each year to reach safety. You can sign up or make a donation here. Now in its fourth year, the Refugee Food Festival takes place in a number of cities around the world, all at the same time. London is hosting the festival for the first time this year. In celebration, five restaurants – Ombra, Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert’s, Mercato Metropolitano, Pique Nique and Breddos Tacos – are lending their stoves to eminent refugee chefs who will share delicious dishes from their culture. At Elephant & Castle's renowned Mercato Metropolitano, for instance, Syrian Chef, refugee and human rights activist Majeda Khouri is teaming up with the market's chef executive Gabriele Bagni to host a Syrian Supper Club. For more information on what's happening at the festival, click here.
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Edwina Langley
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https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/culturecity/refugee-week-uk-when-is-world-refugee-day-and-what-is-happening-over-refugee-week-a4169276.html
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2019-06-17 15:16:30+00:00
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birminghammail--2019-01-17--Met Office forecasts snow in Birmingham after severe weather warning issued
| 2019-01-17T00:00:00 |
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Met Office forecasts snow in Birmingham after severe weather warning issued
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Birmingham will be hit by snow next week, according to the latest weather forecast from the Met Office. Forecasters are predicting snow will fall in the city on Tuesday next week. The forecast from the agency comes a day after it issued a severe weather warning for the city and surrounding region. Birmingham and swathes of the Midlands were slapped with a yellow weather warning for ice on Wednesday and Thursday. The alert expired at 11am today (Thursday) as parts of the Midlands were hit by snow. Birmingham escaped the white stuff, but flurries were registered in Coventry and Leicestershire. Now, the Met Office reckons we're in store for snow on Tuesday next week, a day before temperatures hit lows of -2C. The agency has forecast snow between 6am and 9am on January 22. Overnight frosts are expected across the weekend as Saturday and Sunday is teeth-chatteringly cold across the city. Expect plunging temperatures as the mercury struggles around the freezing mark. The Met Office five-day forecast reads: "Cold with outbreaks of rain, sleet, hill snow at times over the weekend. "Some sunshine too, although drier and brighter on the whole on Monday." A medium-term forecast on the agency's website for January 22 onwards warns snow is possible. The Met Office say: "Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow for many areas on Tuesday with a chance of snow to low levels but the details of this are currently uncertain. "Strong winds are also possible in the southwest. "Showery conditions will follow although some brighter weather is also possible later in the week. "Thereafter, remaining cold and possibly turning very cold, accentuated by brisk winds which will last through until the end of January." The agency add: "Frontal zones may arrive from the northwest at times bringing spells of rain, sleet and snow. "However, some drier and brighter interludes are still likely and these will bring overnight frosts, which will be widespread and locally severe, especially in any longer clear spells." Forecasters have urged drivers, pedestrians and cyclists to travel with care, saying untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths could be covered in ice. Temperatures dipped below freezing across Scotland and the far north of England overnight, with a low of -3.4C recorded at Great Dun Fell in Cumbria. Patchy rain and sleet was beginning to move eastwards over North Wales early on Thursday morning, bringing the risk of icy stretches on untreated surfaces for people heading out in the morning rush. Showers were starting to bring snow to parts of Scotland, with flakes falling on inland areas and higher ground, and snow fell as far south as counties around London. Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said: "Be aware that there's the potential for some icy conditions out on the roads. "Make sure you give yourself a bit of extra time - you will probably need a little longer to scrape the car as well." The yellow warning for snow and ice for Scotland remained in place until midday on Thursday. The yellow ice warning for Northern Ireland, Wales and England - excluding the far South East and Cornwall - expired at 11am. However, a new yellow warning for snow and ice will be in place for the East Midlands, East of England, North East England and Yorkshire and Humber until 10am on Friday. Britain could be facing a lengthy cold spell with a continued risk of wintry showers as cold air from the Arctic spreads across Europe.
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James Rodger
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/met-office-forecasts-snow-birmingham-15693057
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2019-01-17 14:40:11+00:00
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birminghammail--2019-04-04--Met Office forecasts ALL DAY rain hail and thunder in Birmingham amid UK snow weather warnings
| 2019-04-04T00:00:00 |
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Met Office forecasts ALL DAY rain, hail and thunder in Birmingham amid UK snow weather warnings
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Birmingham faces hours of rain, sleet, and thunder today - as the Met Office issues urgent SNOW weather warnings across the UK. Central and southern parts of England could see heavy thundery downpours throughout the day, while the best of the weather is likely to be across eastern England. Temperatures are predicted to struggle to get above 10 or 11C, but could feel as low as 7 or 8C in the wind and rain. It comes as spring got off to a wintry start across many parts of the country this week, with hill snow, hail and sleet. Forecasters previously said a deep area of low pressure is centred over the UK, bringing with it the potential to drive showers and produce long spells of wet and changeable weather. The Met Office predicts early hill snow possible in the far west on Thursday. It will be otherwise wet for many with outbreaks of rain spreading slowly northeastwards. Showers will follow, these heavy and thundery with the risk of hail. The odd glimmer of sunshine and feeling cold, the agency adds, as maximum temperatures hit double digits. The 10C highs will give way to a maximum of 13C tomorrow, with a few showers possible again. Otherwise generally dry on Friday with some bright spells of hazy sunshine. Showery outbreaks of rain will continue at first tonight, before easing to give some drier and clearer spells, with patchy frost possible. Further rain may return to the southwest later. Generally drier, brighter and warmer than of late with a mixture of sunny spells and some cloud this weekend. The cloud may be thick enough to give some light rain at times. From April 8 to April 17, the Met Office predicts: "Initially, it will be bright in the west, but largely cloudy elsewhere. "Some isolated showers are also likely, with light rain and drizzle in the east. "There will be the chance of overnight frost, especially in the north, where it will feel cold. "The brightest conditions will continue to be in the west, with mainly cloudy conditions in the east. "Temperatures will be near the seasonal average to rather warm in the south and west, and it will feel cold in many eastern areas. "There will be the greatest risk of showers across southern and some eastern areas, with many places dry. "As we head towards mid month it will gradually become more settled though, with the driest weather towards the west and northwest." And looking further ahead, the agency adds: "For the latter part of April, blocked and settled conditions are most likely to dominate the weather. These will bring a good deal of dry weather, especially across the north and northwest of the UK. "There are still likely to be some wetter interludes from time to time, these perhaps mainly affecting the south and southwest. "Temperatures are likely to be above the average for the time of year."
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James Rodger
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/met-office-forecasts-day-rain-16074620
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2019-04-04 07:15:50+00:00
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birminghammail--2019-11-09--First snow of winter 2019 arrives in UK - and forecasters are warning of more next week
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First snow of winter 2019 arrives in UK - and forecasters are warning of more next week
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Parts of Britain saw the first snows of winter 2019 today. There was heavy snow in Shropshire and Wales, as well as in Scotland, with some expected in Cumbria too. Met Office forecasts for Saturday, November 9, indicated there would be heavy snow in Birmingham followed by sleet. But the current Met Office forecast for the city is now mainly for heavy rain. However, some meteorologists are warning that Birmingham can still expect snow - and it's set to arrive next week. Weather maps show snow in and around Birmingham on Thursday, though the Met Office currently has no forecasts suggesting we are in for a covering of the white stuff. The maps show snow moving into the Midlands from 6am on Thursday, November 14. We'll all have to wait and see if that happens. Met Office weather forecaster Marco Petanga said the weather on Saturday would actually be "much improved" for those areas which were affected by heavy downpours and floods on Friday. Mr Petanga said most of the snowfall will be across the hills in Wales. "It's falling from the sky and a little bit is settling on higher grounds," he said. "It shouldn't accumulate too much. It's unlikely to cause too much of an issue." Temperatures could get down to minus 8C in parts of Scotland on Saturday with the potential of more snow on higher grounds, he added. Snow could also hit parts of Ireland next week. With forecasts changing daily, it's impossible to say for sure, but we will keep you updated.
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[email protected] (David Bentley)
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/first-snow-winter-2019-arrives-17230500
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eveningstandard--2019-01-17--UK weather forecast latest Snow and ice warnings in force amid Arctic blast
| 2019-01-17T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast latest: Snow and ice warnings in force amid Arctic blast
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Weather experts have put snow and ice warnings in force across the UK as the arctic blast freezing the nation continues. The Met Office has issued an ice warning for the majority of England and all of Wales and Northern Ireland. This ice warning also reaches up into southern Scotland, while a further warning of snow and ice has been issued for the rest of Scotland including Shetland and the Outer Hebrides. Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said: "Be aware that there's the potential for some icy conditions out on the roads. "Make sure you give yourself a bit of extra time - you will probably need a little longer to scrape the car as well." A painfully low temperature of minus 3.4C was recorded at Great Dun Fell in Cumbria overnight as many places dropped to freezing or lower. Patchy rain and sleet was moving in over north Wales early on Thursday morning, which brings the risk of icy stretches on untreated surfaces. To the north showers were starting to bring snow to parts of Scotland, while flakes were falling on inland areas and higher ground. The yellow snow and ice warning for Scotland is due to remain in place until midday on Thursday. The yellow ice warning for Northern Ireland, Wales and England - excluding the far South East and Cornwall - expires at 11am. Thursday night is set to be coldest of the week, with temperatures potentially as low as minus 5C in some areas. In to the weekend, a Met Office forecaster previously told the Standard the cold weather is here to stay. The mercury could plunge as low as -7C in central England on Saturday night then it is likely to remain chilly into Monday.
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Jacob Jarvis
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-latest-snow-and-ice-warnings-in-force-amid-arctic-blast-a4041151.html
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2019-01-17 07:13:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-01-22--UK weather forecast Met Office warns of aposthundersnowapos as it issues ice warnings amid free
| 2019-01-22T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Met Office warns of 'thundersnow' as it issues ice warnings amid freezing temperatures
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Thundersnow could strike the UK this week as temperatures plummet below zero and forecasters issue ice warnings for large swathes of the country. Weather alerts for snow and ice have been issued by the Met Office for most of UK, with wintery conditions likely to cause disruption for road and rail users on Tuesday morning. Forecasters have also warned of so-called thundersnow, which is an unusual phenomenon that normally only occurs during a few months of the year. The western Highlands are expected to face the brunt of the snow, with some areas above 500m facing up to almost 10cm of the white stuff, the Met Office said. Simon Partridge, of the Met Office, said: "Some snow could be seen on the lower levels, so it's not exclusively left to the high ground - but it could end up being rain, snow, rain. "So, on and off there could be snow from now until the early hours of Wednesday for the west of Scotland, and the best part of 24 hours." Wintry showers are on the way for northern and western parts of the country, where some outbreaks of thunder and lighting and heavy snow could be seen. A Met Office spokeswoman told Sky News: “When thunderstorms form in wintry conditions, they can sometimes give rise to heavy downpours of snow, along with the usual thunder and lightning, so it is called thundersnow. "It is considered unusual because it can only really occur during a few months of the year." Temperatures in the early hours on Tuesday were expected drop to as low as minus 2C (28.4F) in Pitlochry while Southampton may see highs of 7C (44.6F). Mr Partridge added: "The main problem is that skies become clear so there's an ice risk after midnight which could cause some big issues during the overnight period. "There'll be further showers tomorrow with some hail and sleet along the coasts, on the hills and mountains you can see it turning into snow."
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-warns-of-thundersnow-as-it-issues-ice-warnings-amid-freezing-a4045151.html
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2019-01-22 00:49:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-02-04--UK weather forecast Flood warnings as Brits face wet and windy week after deep freeze
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UK weather forecast: Flood warnings as Brits face wet and windy week after deep freeze
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Brits are facing a week of wet and windy weather as the UK recovers from the grip of a deep freeze. Met Office forecasters have warned of rain or showers across the country for most of this week after days of wintry conditions. A warning for snow and ice was in place across parts of Scotland from 9pm on Sunday until midday today ahead of a band of rain that is set to sweep over the nation in the coming days. While the Environment Agency has issued five flood alerts across the south west including Somerset, mid Bristol and the River Avon and the River Dart in Devon. Officials have warned of rising river levels due to rainfall and melting snow. Met Office meteorologist Mark Wilson told the Standard: "It's not going to be a complete washout but there will be rain or showers around for most of this week." He added that Brits should expect the chill to continue overnight into Tuesday before the mercury returns to the milder average temperatures of this time of year. "Tonight is going to be a very cold one," Mr Wilson said. Temperatures could fall as low as -9C in Scotland or -2C in the north of England and there is a chance of some freezing fog on Tuesday morning. But on the whole the UK will be "milder than last week", said the forecaster. He said: "Tuesday will be dry and bright for most but cold to start, with some freezing fog patches. "Then a band of rain will move in from the west so it will be fairly wet and windy by the afternoon." He added that Londoners should expect it to be damp later in the day. "On Wednesday there will be some sun but outbreaks of rain towards the north and west," Mr Wilson added. "We are looking at highs of 11C in the south, with a risk of rain in the afternoon in London." The forecaster added that a mixture of dry and bright weather and showers looks set to continue until Friday. Temperatures will remain mild with highs of around 10C by the end of the week, he said. It comes after the UK was hit by days of snow, ice and plunging temperatures from Thursday into the weekend. England recorded the coldest night of the winter so far on Saturday night. But Mr Wilson said forecasters are not expecting the return of the freeze "for the time being". Thousands of pupils are being affected by school and nursery closures due to snow and ice in the north of Scotland. Head teachers made the decision to either shut or partially shut when severe weather conditions caused road closures, with one school and a nursery also left with no water, heating or power. More than 7,000 pupils in the Highlands from a total of six secondary schools (4,226 pupils), 20 primary schools (2,486 pupils) and 15 nurseries (524 children) are affected. In Moray, 15 primary schools, two secondary schools and three nurseries were also either closed or partially closed by conditions. Decisions over school and nursery closures are made by teachers on a case-by-case basis.
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Ella Wills
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-flood-warnings-as-brits-facing-wet-and-windy-week-after-deep-freeze-a4057041.html
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2019-02-04 14:14:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-03-12--Storm Gareth weather forecast aposDanger to lifeapos UK warning as heavy rain and strong winds
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Storm Gareth weather forecast: 'Danger to life' UK warning as heavy rain and strong winds sweep in
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Heavy rainfall blighted the UK overnight with Storm Gareth set to swoop in later today amid a "danger to life" warning from forecasters. Yellow warnings for wind and rain are in force across parts of the UK for the next four days, the Met Office said. "Severe gales" are expected later on today as Storm Gareth hits with gales predicted to reach up to 80mph and flooding expected in some areas. In the last 12 hours, some areas have already seen nearly 5cm of rain with Capel Curig in Wales seeing 49mm. There have also been speedy winds hurtling through regions in recent hours with winds already hitting 52mph in the south-west and worse expected. Yellow warnings for wind cover most of England, Wales and Ireland until 3pm tomorrow. The Met Office issued a "danger to life" warning in Ireland. "There is a small chance of injuries and danger to life from flying debris," forecasters said. They have also warned of power cuts and delays to bus and train journeys across the UK and Ireland. A yellow warning for rain is in place in north-west England from just after midnight on Thursday to 10am on Friday. The worst of the storm is expected this evening. According to the Met Office, today's weather will see: "Heavy rain across Wales and northern England, spreading southeastwards, with gusty winds. "Brighter skies following from the north and later west, with heavy, blustery showers, wintry over northern hills. Turning very windy later, with severe gales in the northwest." However, tonight will see the worst of it and experts predict: "Very windy with severe gales in the north. Heavy and squally showers across northern and central parts with risk of hail of thunder." There is a large weather warning for wind covering much of the UK today, with public transport liable to be affected. In the north-west there is an added warning for rain, with "flooding of a few homes and businesses likely". Speaking previously, Met Office chief meteorologist Paul Gundersen said: "The strong north-westerly winds will also affect south-west Scotland late on Tuesday, spreading across much of England and Wales through Wednesday. "Gusts of 50-55 mph are likely inland and up to 65 mph along western coasts. Winds will gradually ease during the afternoon." Gusts could even reach 80mph along northern coasts in coming days, with warnings in place through to Friday. The storm has been caused by a deep area of low pressure and as well as the Met Office's warnings, the Environment Agency has also stated there is a risk of floods. It has 29 flood alerts in place and four flood warnings, two in the south west and another pair in the north west.
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Jacob Jarvis
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/storm-gareth-weather-latest-heavy-winds-and-rain-swoop-across-the-uk-with-safety-warnings-in-place-a4088986.html
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eveningstandard--2019-03-15--UK weather forecast Five warnings as 65mph winds heavy rain and snow to lash Britain this weekend
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UK weather forecast: Five warnings as 65mph winds, heavy rain and snow to lash Britain this weekend
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Forecasters have warned of snow, strong winds and downpours are set to sweep across most of Britain this weekend. Five weather warnings will come into effect on Saturday covering large swathes of the UK as a blast of wet and windy weather moves in. A developing area of low pressure will move north east across the country, bringing gusts of up to 65mph and "quite persistent rain" which could lead to flooding, according to the Met Office. It comes after separate warning for wind was in place until 3pm on Friday across the East Midlands and northern England. Warnings are also in place for snow and rain across northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland tomorrow. Heavy, persistent rain is expected to affect parts of Wales and northern England from midnight on Friday through the whole of Saturday, with forecasters warning of possible flooding. Met Office forecaster Matthew Box told the Standard more than 100mm of rain could fall on higher ground in north Wales. Elsewhere within the warning area, 40-70 mm is expected. Mr Box added that Brits should brace for gusts up to 65mph along the coast as strong winds hit the south of England and Wales on Saturday. Londoners should expect strong winds of around 45mph, the forecaster said. Meanwhile further north across Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland, an area of low pressure is due to bring snow. Up to 10cm of snow is possible above 400m, the Met Office said. While around 2 to 6cm is likely above 200-300m. Snow will mostly turn to rain over England during the morning. Temperatures are expected to start off quite cold on Saturday before warming up. Mr Box said: "It's looking like quite a contrast in temperatures. The maximum temperature will be around 13C in the south east. "Whereas in the north the maximum temperature will be around 8 to 10C. "In the morning on Saturday will it start off just below freezing across parts of the North." The forecaster added that the winds should die down by around 10pm on Saturday in London, with light winds expected on Sunday. He said: "Sunday will be bright with some scattered showers through the day and highs of 9 or 10C." The pressure will build into next week, with conditions turning drier, brighter and calmer.
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Ella Wills
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-warnings-as-65mph-winds-heavy-rain-and-snow-to-lash-britain-this-weekend-a4093266.html
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2019-03-15 17:32:58+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-04-04--UK weather forecast severe Met Office warning for snow as wintry conditions continue to grip much o
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UK weather forecast: severe Met Office warning for snow as wintry conditions continue to grip much of Britain
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A severe weather warning for snow is in place as wintry conditions continue to affect much of the country at the start of spring. The Met Office has put out a yellow alert for snow on high ground above 300 metres in Wales overnight and into Thursday morning. Forecasters are warning that some roads and railways are likely to be affected, with longer journey times for travellers. The warning, which covers much of southern and central Wales, is currently in place from 4am to 11am on Thursday. Snow showers have already been recorded across parts of south Wales this morning. Rain, sleet and snow are expected to affect driving conditions on Thursday morning, particularly in Wales and the West Midlands. A chilly Wednesday night was predicted, with forecasters warning temperatures were set to drop just above or below zero degrees in several parts of the country. The Met Office said frost and ice will form and advised people to take care on icy stretches of road. Hill snow, hail and sleet have hit many parts of the country this week as spring got off to a wintry start. London was also hit by surprise colder weather on Wednesday. Wintry showers broke out in the capital at around 3pm following a "massive" clap of thunder, according to shocked Londoners on social media. Many people reported flurries of snow throughout the city centre. The Met Office later tweeted: "#Snow in #London? It is too warm today, with temperatures as high as 10 Celsius in the city. However, there have been reports of soft #Hail known as graupel which can look like snow." Forecasters previously said a deep area of low pressure is centred over the UK, bringing with it the potential to drive showers and produce long spells of wet and changeable weather. A "sudden microburst" of hail and snow caused a 24-car motorway pile-up, Lancashire Police said early on Wednesday morning. The M55 was closed in both directions but no-one was seriously injured, the force said. The current outlook for Thursday is a day of sunshine and showers for most areas, with some places staying dry. Showers will be most frequent in the South West, with a longer spell of rain in northern Scotland. Friday could see rain in the west and far north, with conditions being brighter elsewhere. The weekend will feature drizzle in the east, with brighter spells in other parts of the country and conditions becoming warmer away from the east coast.
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Ella Wills
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-severe-weather-warning-for-snow-as-wintry-conditions-continue-to-grip-much-of-britain-a4108886.html
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2019-04-04 06:16:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-04-24--UK weather forecast Thunderstorm warning in force as Met Office warn of travel disruption and power
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UK weather forecast: Thunderstorm warning in force as Met Office warn of travel disruption and power cuts
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Heavy thunderstorms are expected to cause power loss, flooding and disrupt travel across the North and West of England. The Met Office has issued a yellow thunderstorm warning as a huge storm is set to move in across parts the country between 1pm and 9pm today. After the Bank Holiday heatwave, which saw record-breaking Easter Monday temperatures in parts of the country, stormy and rainy weather is now expected to descend across the UK for the rest of the week. The London Marathon on Sunday may escape the rainy weather as cloudy skies are currently forecast with a 10 to 20 per cent chance of precipitation. Temperatures are expected to be around 10-13 degrees from 10am to 7pm as runners take to the capital’s streets. The thunderstorm warning covers from Leicester up to Carlisle and Manchester across to York. Possible damage to a few buildings and structures from lightning strikes are expected, while short term power loss and possible delays to train services are also possible. The Met Office warns that there is “a good chance that driving conditions will be affected by spray, standing water and/or hail, leading to longer journey times by car and bus. “Flood of a few homes and businesses is possible.” Martin Bolwes, a Met Office meteorologist said heavy rain, large hail stones and gusts of 30-35mph winds will hit areas within the warning zone. He said: “The heavier showers we are expecting 20mm or 30mm in over two hours. "It is enough to cause flooding on roads, under railways and some very large puddles but only certain localised which will get those rains.” “Places outside of that area, for example, North Wales, are likely to get thunderstorms this afternoon, but these will be minor compared to the warning area which is where disruption is most probable.” He advised people planning to travel to “slow down and take extra care in heavy showers.” “Drive slower if any thunderstorms hit the area where you are driving as hail stones and heavy rain may hit the road. “Take extra care while travelling around. A good idea if you’re in a thunderstorm to take shelter if you’re out walking and wait for the storm to pass. “Anywhere in the warning area trains could possibly be disrupted."
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Rebecca Speare-Cole
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-thunderstorm-warning-in-force-as-met-office-warn-of-travel-disruption-and-power-a4125256.html
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2019-04-24 13:14:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-06-23--UK weather forecast Warnings over thunderstorms and torrential rain before temperatures soar for G
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UK weather forecast: Warnings over thunderstorms and torrential rain… before temperatures soar for Glastonbury Festival
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Forecasters have issued weather warnings across most of the UK as thunderstorms and torrential rain roll in. Three separate severe warnings for storms and rain are in place in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on Monday, with up to 80mm of rain possible in some parts. A further yellow warning for thunderstorms is in place on Tuesday, before temperatures soar towards the mid-30s. By Friday, the mercury could peak at about 33C, with Glastonbury Festival-goers expected to see some of the hottest temperatures in Britain. It comes amid a heatwave that has been forecast across Europe, potentially bringing record temperatures of 40C to the continent. Met Office meteorologist Simon Partridge told the Standard: “On Monday we are getting three weather warnings across the UK. Two run from midnight to midnight. “The first is a rain warning in eastern Scotland. 20 to 40mm of rain is expected to fall quite widely and some isolated places could see up to 80mm. “The second warning is a thunderstorm warning for the majority of England and Wales. 20mm of rain is expected to fall widely with 60mm is possible in isolated spots. “A final thunderstorm warning is in place for Northern Ireland. “There is a lot of warm and humid air across southern parts of the UK which will allow the thunderstorms to develop. “The band of rain across Scotland isn’t really going anywhere but away from Scotland there will be a mix of sunny spells and storms. It will be warm, with temperatures peaking at about 27 or 28C in East Anglia. “A more focused patch of thunder storms will move over the country on Tuesday, with another weather warning in place from midnight to midnight for southern and eastern parts of England. “60mm of rain could fall in some places but the rest of the UK will be dry with sunny spells. Temperatures could peak again at 28C in the south." The rest of the week will see warm and sunny weather for most as the mercury continues to climb, Mr Partridge added. He said: “From Wednesday high pressure will become more dominant so there will be a reduced risk of showers and thunder, there will be more sunshine and warmer temperatures. “By the time we get to Friday the hotter temperatures will be further to the south and west and we could see temperatures of 32 or 33C at Glastonbury.”
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Patrick Grafton-Green
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-weather-warnings-across-country-as-brits-brace-for-thunder-storms-and-torrential-a4173856.html
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2019-06-23 14:14:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-06-25--UK weather forecast 30C heatwave warning after Saharan Bubble causes torrential thunderstorms
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UK weather forecast: 30C heatwave warning after Saharan Bubble causes torrential thunderstorms
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Torrential thunderstorms saw a week’s worth of rain fall in one hour early today as forecasters said a heatwave was on its way. Storms caused by the “Saharan Bubble” — a 2,000-mile-wide plume of air — hit London, disrupting travel services. Up to 13mm of rain fell in 60 minutes in parts of the South-East. But following the deluge, forecasters predict temperatures of more than 30C by the end of the week. Public Health England raised the heatwave threat to Level 2, with UK temperatures set to be higher than Egypt and Thailand. Met Office meteorologist Met Office forecaster Grahame Madge said Saharan Bubble was “not a meteorological term, but it’s quite a good description of this hot air moving over northern Africa.” He said: “We’re expecting temperatures of 48 or 49C in Algeria, which will be extending across the Mediterranean and the EU. “Closer to home, France is expecting very high temperatures, with the chance of June records being broken and possibly all-time records too. “That building heat will begin to be felt in the UK because of low pressure drawing that hot air towards us. “The heat will make its way to the UK by Friday and Saturday, with temperatures in the low 30s across the south and south east. “It’s a much drier outlook, although there is still a chance of some heavier showers in some places. “All the weather warnings have now expired and most places can expect drier and brighter conditions.” A netweather.tv spokesman added: “Friday for inland south-west Britain looks the hottest spot at the moment. Up to the mid-thirties could be possible. Those at, or heading to Glastonbury could be sweltering.” In Europe, experts said temperatures could exceed 40C this week as a result of the “Saharan Bubble”, with high humidity making it feel like 47C. Officials in Paris have set up “cool rooms” in municipal buildings, opened pools for late-night swimming, installed extra drinking fountains and suspended school exams. This morning’s torrential storms flooded some of the busiest railway lines into London, causing disruption for tens of thousands of commuters. There were warnings of more delays this evening with trains and staff out of place because of the earlier problems. The wettest area was East Malling in Kent, where 19.4mm of rain fell in three hours. In Haywards Heath this morning, all services through the area including Southern, the Brighton line and Gatwick Express into Victoria and the through London Thameslink services via London Bridge from Brighton to Bedford, suffered cancellations and major delays. All passengers using the Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink services “during the afternoon and evening” were advised to leave extra time for their journeys, while services between Paddington, the West and Wales were delayed by damage to overhead power cables between Didcot Parkway and Swindon.
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-30c-heatwave-warning-after-saharan-bubble-causes-torrential-thunderstorms-a4175381.html
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2019-06-25 09:59:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-08-07--UK weather forecast Danger to life warnings as Britain braces for weekend washout of aposunseason
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UK weather forecast: Danger to life warnings as Britain braces for weekend washout of 'unseasonable' stormy weather
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Britain is bracing itself for "unseasonal" heavy wind and rain this weekend that has sparked danger to life warnings for parts of the UK, as well as yellow weather warnings for London. Much of the UK will be sunny tomorrow with relatively light winds, bringing temperatures of low 20s for most of England and Wales but high teens for Northern Ireland and Scotland. However, a band of cloud and rain coming from the south will creep in on Thursday, drenching the Channel Islands and the southern counties with showers. Forecasters said it was a sign of "things to come" as the cloud is linked to an area of low pressure that is connected to wet and "unseasonably windy weather". It will move in Thursday night and through Friday with the Met Office issuing weather warnings. Met Office spokesman Oliver Claydon said: "This unseasonable weather is due to an area of particularly low pressure from the Atlantic. "Thursday evening is when it will hit and then it will move northeastwards from Friday through Saturday, reaching Scotland and northeast England Friday evening. "There are two parts to this weather front which is the high winds and also thundery showers." The Met Office said the weather front is the kind that is normally expected in autumn and winter. They added: "It is very unusual for wind to be this strong at this time of year. Especially with trees in full leaf, it means it could impact more. "Winds will reach 40mph inland but the southeast coast, and around Bristol could see winds of 50mph. "But London, despite being in the southeast, can expect winds of 40mph." Gale force winds could be so extreme this weekend that it has led to organisers of the Boardmasters music festival to cancel the event just hours before it was due to open. The decision was based on advice from the police and independent safety advisers. In a statement, the festival said: "The safety of you, the fans and attendees, as well as performers and crew comes first, and the potential risk is too severe for the event to go ahead at this time." A danger to life warning remains in place for the River Goyt in Whaley Bridge in the Peak District. Emergency services are currently battling to prevent the Toddbrook Reservoir dam from bursting. Yellow weather warnings have been issued for London on Friday and Saturday. The capital can expect overnight heavy rain followed by scattered heavy, thundery showers. These will continue most widely through Saturday with strong gales, but the showers and winds should ease off by Sunday. There is a chance homes and businesses could be flooded and spray, as well as flooding, could lead to dangerous driving conditions. A yellow warning has also been issued for much of England and Wales.
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Matt Drake
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/danger-to-life-warnings-as-britain-braces-for-weekend-washout-of-unseasonable-stormy-weather-a4207436.html
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2019-08-07 11:07:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-09-22--UK weather forecast Met Office issues flood warnings as UK set to be battered with heavy rain and t
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues flood warnings as UK set to be battered with heavy rain and thunderstorms
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A series of weather warnings have been issued with the UK set to be battered by heavy rain and thunderstorms over the coming days. The remnants of Hurricane Humberto began moving over the country on Saturday night, putting an end to days of sunshine and warm temperatures. The Met Office has issued warnings for rain on Sunday and Tuesday, with the risk of downpours and thunderstorms across swathes of Britain. On Sunday up to 70mm of rain could fall in some places, with a warning in place into the evening for all of eastern England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Met Office meteorologist Becky Mitchell told the Standard: “Starting with today there will be spells of rain across much of the country. “A yellow rain warning is in place across a large part of the country until 7pm with a risk of localised flooding. “The situation is fairly unsettled next week with heavy showers. There is a similar forecast is similar across the whole country. “Monday starts off dry with sunny spells but later in the afternoon it will cloud over with a band of heavy rain moving in.” On Tuesday, a weather warning is in place across southern England. “It is a day of sun and showers, temperatures could reach 20C, but there is a risk of thunderstorms as well," Ms Mitchell said. “There is another yellow warning out for part of Wales, south east England and across to south west England, including London. “It will be a wet day with a risk of localised flooding.”
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Patrick Grafton-Green
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-issues-flood-warnings-with-uk-set-to-be-battered-with-heavy-rain-and-a4243346.html
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eveningstandard--2019-10-05--UK weather forecast More heavy rain hits as Met Office issues fresh weather warning
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UK weather forecast: More heavy rain hits as Met Office issues fresh weather warning
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Heavy rain has hit a large swathe of the UK just days after the country was struck by extensive flooding. The Met Office has issued an 18-hour long yellow warning, which started at midnight and which runs until 6pm on Sunday, covering Scotland and most of northern, eastern and south east England. It has also issued an amber "danger to life" warning for heavy rain in East Anglia, warning that disruption from flooding is likely. The weather warning was triggered shortly after 1pm on Sunday and is set to last until 4pm. Forecasters warned that heavy rain could cause disruption on the roads, as well as to train and bus services. Flooding is likely to affect a few homes and business, while some communities may be cut off by flooded roads, the Met Office said. Earlier this week, heavy downpours brought flash flooding across the UK and left residents trapped in their homes on the Isle of Man. Thunderstorms swept across London, the south of England, Wales and the Midlands on Tuesday, with some areas hit by a week's rain in just an hour. Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said Sunday's yellow warning was triggered by rain pushing eastwards across the UK. "It's going to stall and linger across northern and eastern parts of the UK tomorrow," he said on Saturday evening. Mr Burkill said the highest rainfall totals were expected in Scotland and northern England, but the highest rainfall rate is likely to be seen in Lincolnshire and East Anglia. He explained: "That's where we could see quite a lot of rain in a few hours, whereas further north it will be longer but not as intense." By contrast, Northern Ireland, Wales and south west England are due to see sunshine on Sunday, with some heavy showers. Beyond the weekend, further rain is forecast for Monday followed by a showery and blustery week of weather - with average to milder temperatures, Mr Burkill said. He said the unsettled weather theme will continue into November, with temperatures dropping below average "but not extremely cold".
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Bonnie Christian
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/more-heavy-rain-to-hit-uk-as-met-office-issues-weather-warning-a4255126.html
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2019-10-05 20:39:00+00:00
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eveningstandard--2019-10-13--UK weather forecast: Met Office issues flood warning across huge swathe of country with more heavy r
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues flood warning across huge swathe of country with more heavy rain expected
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A large part of England could face flooding as heavy rain sweeps across the country, forecasters have warned. The Met Office said more than two inches of rain could fall within 12 hours on Monday in some parts of the country. A yellow weather warning has been issued stretching from Devon on the south coast to South Yorkshire between midday and midnight. Cities including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Oxford and Portsmouth are also within the warning area. The Met Office said the wet weather will move northwards across much of England on Monday, with the heaviest rain forecast for the afternoon and evening. While up to 25mm is likely to fall "quite widely", forecasters said some areas could see up to 60mm (2.3 inches). "This brings a risk of flooding and disruption, but the situation is uncertain, such that the likelihood of this across any given county is small," the Met Office said. The wet weather will follow an "unsettled" Sunday across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Met Office meteorologist Mark Wilson added. Mr Wilson said the wet weather will push north throughout the day into southern Scotland. He said the rain will "ease" overnight on Sunday and will be followed by fog patches across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Despite more wet weather on Monday, Mr Wilson said there is an "improving picture" for Tuesday, with temperatures reaching up to 16C. He said while there will be some rain in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, it will be "drier" for the rest of the UK. New: Daily podcast from the Evening Standard Listen and subscribe to The Leader on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or your chosen podcast provider. New episodes every weekday from 4pm.
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Patrick Grafton-Green
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Sun, 13 Oct 2019 14:35:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-11-08--UK weather forecast: Hundreds of flood warnings still in force across England as country endures mon
| 2019-11-08T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Hundreds of flood warnings still in force across England as country endures month's worth of rain
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Hundreds of flood warnings remain in place across England today as rain continues to pummel the country, with some posing a "danger to life". A total of 125 red flood warnings and a further 118 amber flood alerts stretch from Sunderland in the north to the Isle of Wight in the south. The flash flooding caused by torrential downpours is expected to spark more misery for commuters and residents. Five 'severe' warnings are active and relate to towns and villages surrounding the River Don which are in immediate risk. The river in Doncaster burst its banks yesterday and will reach its highest recorded level today, forecasters predict. Areas such as Barnby Dun, Kirk Bramwith, Kirk Sandall, South Bramwith and Willow Bridge Caravan Site will receive severe flooding. Doncaster Council has warned some residents to evacuate their homes because the River Don is breaching its banks near St Oswald Church at Kirk Sandall. The council tweeted: “There is a Severe Flood Warning in place for Sandal Grove, Old Kirk Sandall. “Residents in these areas are advised to evacuate immediately.” Northern Rail said that, due to heavy flooding, there would be “severe disruption” to their network. Train operators are warning passengers not to travel on a number of routes through Yorkshire and the North West. This includes lines from Sheffield to destinations such as Leeds via Moorthorpe, Lincoln, Doncaster and Goole. Trains are also unable to run on routes such as Manchester Piccadilly-Cleethorpes, Leeds-Doncaster and Hebden Bridge-Rochdale. Rail replacement bus services are not being provided due to road closures and unsafe driving conditions. Network Rail, which owns Britain's rail infrastructure, said track inspections will take place "where possible". Rail firm Northern warned that disruption could continue into the weekend despite the weather improving in many areas. A spokesman said: "We are still advising customers on several routes not to travel as flooding is making rail and road travel extremely difficult. "Colleagues at Network Rail are inspecting the tracks and working hard to return them to normal, but at present we have no estimate as to when we will be able to operate services on the affected routes." He added that Northern will "try to run as many services as possible". Other train companies hit by the weather include CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, LNER, TransPennine Express, Transport for Wales and Virgin Trains. The downpours also caused mayhem on roads as several routes were blocked and some vehicles were abandoned in floodwater. Sheffield City Council said 14 of its roads were closed due to flooding as of 7am, and urged drivers to take extra care. Six of the roads were reopened by 8.20am The rail operators' ‘do not travel’ advice for passengers still stands. River Derwent in Derbyshire has also burst its banks causing people to evacuate homes and take refuge in a shopping centre. Only 18 flood warnings have been deescalated in the last 24 hours. When one months worth of rain fell in two days it wreaked havoc on areas of the country. An Environment Agency (EA) rain gauge showed Swineshaw in the Peak District saw 4.4in of rain yesterday - the highest total of anywhere across England. The average monthly rainfall total for the region at this time of year, is 3.5in. Homes were evacuated and cars submerged in water were abandoned. Thirty-five homes were cleared out as a precaution in Mansfield after a mudslide on Thursday night. Last night, dozens of people became stranded in shopping centres in Sheffield and Nottinghamshire. Police ordered shoppers, a number of which had travelled to Meadowhall Centre for a Christmas event, to stay put. Pictures taken from those stuck in the centre emerged showing people and staff in makeshift beds in a communal area and stock room. In a later statement, Meadowhall said: “Whilst the road networks have been severely affected by the floods, our centre remains dry and secure. “The majority of customers left the building before the centre officially closed at 22.00 hours but there are a small number of people who have chosen to stay with us for the time being. “We will continue to look after them until they can return home safely.” Saskia Hazelwood, 17, from Doncaster, said she was among those stranded in Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre. She said: “When we got to Meadowhall it was very hectic and we heard about the flooding and saw the river about to burst. “Our trains were then cancelled so we went to get food, then spoke to the police and security and they told us it was unsafe to leave and there was no way of getting in or out. “So we instantly started panicking and, when we found out there was no way of getting home, we went into Primark and all bought spare clothes and we bought food and drinks to keep us going throughout the night. “We were in M&S for a while on the sofas until they closed the store, and we were then moved to the Oasis food quarter. We were there until 7am.” Saskia, a student, added: “We were provided with free refreshments throughout the night and morning but it was certainly not enough. “We had to basically camp out in the food area until they finally got a taxi to us at 7am. “None of us had slept for over 24 hours. We were very tired, stressed and, of course, our families were panicking and kept keeping in touch. “My dad even tried driving to us around 11.30pm but, because the centre was gridlocked and also flooded and shut off, he wasn’t able to get to us and so he had to turn around and go home. “At the start we thought it would be fun, a nice sleepover, something to certainly remember, but after 14 hours of being stranded in Meadowhall we just couldn’t wait to get home, get into our own beds, feel safe again, and catch up on sleep.” Around 25 homes in Worksop were also evacuated due to the risk of flooding. Damien West, head of prevention and protection at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, tweeted: “In Worksop with Crews who are working tirelessly to rescue a large number of people from flooded premises. A very long, cold and hard working night.”
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Bronwen Weatherby
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https://www.standard.co.uk/standard-home/weather/uk-weather-forecast-hundreds-of-flood-warnings-still-in-force-across-england-as-country-endures-a4281976.html
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Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:09:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-11-11--UK weather forecast: Five danger to life flood warnings in place as Britain braced for further downp
| 2019-11-11T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Five danger to life flood warnings in place as Britain braced for further downpours
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Five severe "danger to life" flood warnings are in place today as the UK braces for another week of downpours. Heavy showers, expected across large parts of the country, will be a risk to communities already affected by flooding. The Met Office has placed yellow weather warning for rain issued over swathes of northern England on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Flooding and disruption to transport are likely, especially in areas where river banks and flood defences have recently been breached, forecasters said. A further 39 flood warnings - where immediate action is required - have been put in place by the Environment Agency. There are an additional 99 flood alerts, where flooding is possible and residents will be asked to make preparations. Some heavy bands of rain will sweep across England on Monday, clearing the south east around midday to make way for sunny spells and showers. There will be longer spells of rain across the north west this evening. As Monday passes, Tuesday will start out cold with sunny spells and some showers but a band of more persistent rain will make its way south throughout the day. Rain and showers will continue through the rest of the week with it becoming drier and colder as winter temperatures set in in some areas. A Met Office spokesman said: "Overnight heavy rain was brought through eastern England but is now moving out to the North sea. Behind it is a much more heavy regime of heavy rain with perhaps hail. "Tonight, areas in the very north of England and south Scotland may experience persistent rain including the Lake District, Dumfries and Galloway. But, it will eventually move southwards tomorrow into areas already affected by heavy rainfall. "It's a very unsettled picture," he continued. "Obviously there are still Environment Agency warnings in place because the rain could cause problems for communities recently devastated by rain." Snowfall could be seen in high lands in Wales and Scotland and even on lower areas in the West Midlands as temperatures dip later on this week. It will be the first snowfall this Autumn for some communities. Flooding blighted towns in northern England and the Midlands last week when areas were hit by one month's worth of rain in a day. Dozens of people were forced to sleep in shopping centres overnight on Thursday and by Friday morning dramatic images of abandoned cars submerged in water emerged. Throughout the day, teams attempted to rescue residents trapped by the floodwater. A woman was found to have died after being swept away by the high waters. Later, she was identified as former High Sheriff of Derbyshire Annie Hall. She was found in the River Derwent after being engulfed by water in Darley Dale, Near Matlock. Over the weekend, parts of Doncaster in South Yorkshire remained under one metre of water with only tractors able to get in by road. Half of the 700-person population of Fishlake had to be evacuated as water continued to rise during heavy rain. Many took refuge in the nearby Hare and Hounds pub while some sought shelter in a local church. Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Matlock on Friday and said he was "in awe" of flood-hit communities who had showed great resilience. Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour opposition, spent his weekend meeting flooded residents in Conisbrough. Snow could fall on hills and higher ground, mainly in Scotland and Wales later on this week. However, the Met Office spokesman said snowfall could also be seen in lower ground in the West Midlands, the Cotswolds and Shropshire.
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Bronwen Weatherby
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-five-danger-to-life-flood-warnings-in-place-as-uk-braces-for-further-downpours-a4283671.html
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Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:43:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-11-13--UK weather forecast latest: Met Office issues 'danger to life' warnings with Brits braced
| 2019-11-13T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast latest: Met Office issues 'danger to life' warnings with Brits braced for more downpours
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More 'danger to life' weather warnings have been issued with torrential downpours set to spread across the majority of the England and Wales over the coming days. The Met Office has issued three rain warnings over Wednesday and Thursday, bringing possible travel and power disruption while more flooding could cut off some communities in England. It comes after wet weather wreaked havoc across Yorkshire and the East Midlands over the last week as floods ripped through towns and rural areas. Thirty-five flood alerts are still in place as Prime Minister Boris Johnson urges people in affected areas to heed the warnings of emergency services. A further 80 flood alerts are in place over possible flooding elsewhere in England and seven in Wales. Areas at risk in the coming days include Somerset and East Sussex in southern England, as far north as the Lower River Nidd near Harrogate in Yorkshire, and the Holderness Drain in east Yorkshire. Forecasters say "heavy persistent rain" puts already affected areas at particular risk while snow is set to fall on higher ground. Met Office spokesman Mark Wilson said Wednesday will be "another cold day" with more "unwelcome rainfall" coming in from the west of England and Wales. "That rain will spread through many southern areas through Wednesday and Thursday and we could see some snow in higher ground in Wales overnight," he said. "And it doesn't really settle down into Friday and the weekend - on Friday we will see some more showers and winds across the country. "We do not need anymore rainfall in the UK," he added. "It will be quite cold, there will be more showers and we will keep a close eye on the amount that falls." Mr Wilson said some parts of the UK could see up to 60mm in the next few days, which is almost a months worth of the average rainfall. On Thursday one of the two rain warnings, covering Yorkshire and the East Midlands, suggests that "communities could be completely cut off perhaps for several days". "The reason we have the extra warning there is because of the recent sensitivity," Mr Wilson added. "There could potentially be bigger impact here although they are similar warnings." London also faces localised flooding, he said, while any higher ground in the UK could have the potential for wintry precipitation. "There will be some rain over the weekend but it should be a better picture," he added. "Saturday will see some more heavy ran to come across eastern England. Elsewhere further west it is looking drier for many areas." On Tuesday, the Prime Minister announced relief funding would be made available for those affected by the floods. It came amid criticism the Government had not done enough to help, as the flooding threatened to become an election issue. He said funding for locals councils to help affected households would be made available to the tune of £500 per eligible household. Up to £2,500 would be available for small to medium-sized businesses which have suffered severe impacts and which are not covered by insurance. Mr Johnson also said 100 Armed Forces personnel would be deployed to help the recovery effort in badly-hit areas of South Yorkshire. The PM chaired a meeting of the Government's emergency committee Cobra on Tuesday afternoon, as pressure mounted on ministers to take action. Speaking afterwards, he said the country had to "prepare for more floods" this winter because the ground is so waterlogged. But Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said the Government's action was "too little, too late". "Labour will provide an extra £5.6 billion in flood defence funding, to level up flood defences over 10 years," he said. It comes after Jeremy Corbyn branded the Government's response as "woeful", while Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said it was not taking it seriously enough. The Fire Brigades Union welcomed Labour's announcement to "level up" flood defences, cautioning that it must "go hand-in-hand" with a properly resourced fire and rescue service. Matt Wrack, FBU general secretary, said: “Flood defences play a vital role in protecting communities from flooding, but it is firefighters who are called in to save lives, property and businesses when floods hit. "This is a welcome announcement, but it must go hand-in-hand with a properly-resourced fire and rescue service that has a statutory duty to respond to flooding. "Large-scale floods are only going to become more likely as the climate breakdown takes hold - and both firefighters and flood defences will be crucial for keeping the public safe.”
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Rebecca Speare-Cole
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-issues-danger-to-life-warnings-with-brits-braced-for-more-downpours-a4285766.html
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Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:48:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-11-14--UK weather forecast news LIVE: Latest flood Met Office warnings and snow updates throughout Britain
| 2019-11-14T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast news LIVE: Latest flood Met Office warnings and snow updates throughout Britain
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A 'danger to life' weather warning has been issued in parts of the East Midlands and Yorkshire with half with month's rain forecast to fall on the already flooded region. Heavy rain is expected on Thursday, Friday and over the weekend, which could lead to further flooding for communities in South Yorkshire around the Lower River Don. The Met Office warned Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire could see as much as 35-45mm of rain in the next 12 to 24 hours. Thirty-six flood warnings have been issued by the Environment Agency, meaning flooding is expected, along with 124 flood alerts, which means flooding is possible.
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Bonnie Christian
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/floodhit-communities-brace-for-half-a-months-rain-in-a-day-live-a4287376.html
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Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:23:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-11-14--UK weather forecast: Snow hits parts of country as temperatures plunge amid 'danger to life&apo
| 2019-11-14T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Snow hits parts of country as temperatures plunge amid 'danger to life' warning after floods
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Snow has begun falling across parts of the country as Yorkshire prepares for more downpours after being hit with days of flooding, as “danger to life” warnings were in place. Dartmoor was pictured blanketed in snow on Wednesday evening after temperatures plummeted across parts of Devon and South Wales amid travel warnings. Police in the Welsh town of Ystradgynlais warned motorists to only use their vehicles if necessary and some roads were sealed off due to dangerous conditions. The snow was expected to continue falling throughout the night, mixed with sleet and rain, but could settle on high ground, according to forecasters. Meanwhile, the Met Office has issued a warning suggesting there could be a danger to life in parts of the East Midlands and Yorkshire as more rain is forecast to fall on the already flooded region. A yellow weather warning for rain is in place for areas around Nottingham, Sheffield, and Doncaster from 9am on Thursday, as the snow falling across the South West moves north and turns to rain. Met Office meteorologist Luke Miall said "the worst of the winter weather has now moved through" the South West, but "it's the same one that's going to push its way north and will affect the flooded areas from last week". The heaviest of the rain is expected to hit the area between 9am and 10am and continue throughout the day. Forecasters are predicting between 35mm and 45mm of rainfall, and 33 flood warnings are in place across the region after the Met Office warned there could be a risk to life "because these areas are very waterlogged already". Mr Miall added: "Even some amount of rain could cause rivers to rise." Mr Miall said the weather is looking "slightly better, but not dry" as we head towards the weekend, describing the forecast as a "mixed bag" with showers still falling across the country. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister faced heavy criticism over his response to the flooding during a visit to the worst-hit areas. During Boris Johnson's trip to Stainforth, South Yorkshire, one frustrated woman, who was pushing around a wheelbarrow, refused to speak to him. She said: "I'm not very happy about talking to you so, if you don't mind, I'll just mope on with what I'm doing. "You've not helped us up to press. I don't know what you're here today for." Another told him: "You've took your time Boris, haven't you?" The Prime Minister later paid a visit to Fishlake, where he told reporters: "We will get people back on their feet." On Tuesday, he announced that relief funding would be made available for those affected by the floods and said that funding for local councils to help affected households would be made available to the tune of £500 per eligible household.
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Sean Morrison
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-danger-to-life-warning-as-more-downpours-to-hit-flooded-regions-as-snow-hits-a4286711.html
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Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:12:25 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-11-22--UK weather forecast: Met Office issues weather warnings with two weeks of rain set to fall in 30 hou
| 2019-11-22T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues weather warnings with two weeks of rain set to fall in 30 hours
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Britain is braced for a washout weekend with forecasters warning of two weeks worth of rain in the space 30 hours. Heavy and persistent rain is expected across the country on Saturday with parts of the Midlands that have struggled with heavy flooding set to be hit by another deluge. Yellow warnings for rain have been issued for Friday, Saturday and Sunday in southwestern England and parts of Scotland. The rain was due to start in south-west England from 12pm on Friday and last until 6pm on Saturday - meaning a deluge for roughly 30 hours. About 20 to 30mm of rain is expected widely in the region, though the up-slopes of Dartmoor in south Devon could see 40 to 50mm of rain. The average rainfall for Devon and Cornwall during November is roughly 135 to 45mm. A spokesman for the Met Office added that areas such as Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire will see persistent rain arriving from the south early on Saturday morning, which will last through most of the day. According to the Met Office, rain will be heavy at times, especially on hills where the rainfall could also reach up to 40 to 50mm. The region is still recovering from heavy flooding that caused devastation in many communities in the last two weeks. Luke Miall, forecaster at the Met Office, said that although it will be a wet weekend, "temperatures will be milder". "On Saturday we're looking at temperatures between 8C and 11C, and maximum temperatures on Sunday will be around 12C," he said. Mr Miall said the next week is also looking unsettled and said forecasters are anticipating having to issue further warnings. On Friday, 19 households evacuated from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire after a landslip during the floods were allowed to return home. Some 60 residents had been forced to live with friends, family or in temporary accommodation for more than two weeks while efforts were made to stabilise the cliff face at Berry Hill Quarry site. Met Office data up to November 17 shows that Nottinghamshire has seen the most rain of all UK counties compared with the average, having seen 189 per cent of its monthly average already. There are currently 45 flood alerts and six flood warnings in place that have been issued by the Environment Agency. Four of the flood warnings are in the Midlands. Wet weather is also expected to develop across north-eastern Scotland from Saturday afternoon. The Met said that general rainfall of 20-40mm was likely through Aberdeenshire, and areas of high ground could reach 60-80 mm in addition to thawing snow.
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Katy Clifton
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-issues-weather-warnings-with-two-weeks-of-rain-set-to-fall-in-30-a4294341.html
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Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:54:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-12-07--UK weather forecast: Brits brace for gale force winds and severe weather warnings as Storm Atiyah ba
| 2019-12-07T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Brits brace for gale force winds and severe weather warnings as Storm Atiyah barrels into country
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Brits are bracing for 70mph winds, heavy rain and even snow as Storm Atiyah barrels into the country this weekend. The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for severe gales for west Wales and south west England from 3pm on Sunday through to 9am on Monday. Storm Atiyah, named by the Irish meteorological service Met Eireann, is expected to move from west to east during this period. The first named storm of the season could bring winds of 50-60 mph inland and up to 70 mph on the coast, the Met Office said. Areas outside the warning area could still see winds of between 40 and 50 mph. Widespread heavy rain will sweep across the country while snow is set to fall on higher grounds in northern England, Scotland and Wales, forecasters said. Sophie Yeomans, a Met Office meteorologist, warned that strong winds on Sunday could trigger delays on the roads and rail disruption. She urged the public to "take care around the coast" due to large swells possibly being whipped up. Ms Yeomans added: "Christmas markets with loose items, loose structures, it's one of those to check is everything secure - your Christmas lights, inflatable Santas." "Make sure that you're aware of those wind warnings," she added. She explained that the windy conditions would be worse on the Irish coast. The Met Office previously said that strong winds are also expected for western parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland, with gusts of up to 57mph overnight. The unsettled weather is expected to move to the east coast of north England and Scotland in the early hours of Monday morning with gusts up to 55mph. Ms Yeomans warned residents along the east coast of England to be wary of large waves on Monday. Looking ahead, she said conditions on Monday would be dry in general, with the odd shower in places, but still cold and windy. While it was too early to be certain, she explained Tuesday was expected to usher in another wet and windy spell mid-week. Meanwhile, Met Office spokesman Steven Keates said there will be snow on higher grounds all the way through until Thursday. "We are not collecting widespread snow in populated areas and it will be nothing unusual for this time of year," he said.
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Rebecca Speare-Cole
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-brits-brace-for-gale-force-winds-and-severe-weather-warnings-as-storm-atiyah-a4307826.html
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Sat, 07 Dec 2019 20:07:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-12-15--UK weather forecast: Severe weather warning for ice with heavy rain forecast amid plummeting tempera
| 2019-12-15T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Severe weather warning for ice with heavy rain forecast amid plummeting temperatures
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Another severe weather warning for ice is in place on Sunday night after heavy rain across a large swathe of the UK. The yellow warning has been issued by the Met Office covering northern England and southern Scotland between 3am and 10.30am on Monday. Three similar warnings were issued on Saturday night and Sunday morning, covering Northern Ireland, the east coast from Sheffield up to Perth in central Scotland and northern Wales. As temperatures plummeted, parts of the country woke up to a dusting of snow after flurries fell across western parts of Scotland and northern England overnight. Showers also caused sleet to develop in the South West, the Met Office said. Frequent rain has fallen again on Sunday in western parts of the UK, while the east experienced sunnier conditions. It was a windy day for many, especially in the South West and south coast, where gusts were expected to reach 50mph. Forecaster Matthew Box said showers are expected to die off overnight and Monday should be a drier day. Speaking about Monday morning, Mr Box said: "There will be good spells of sunshine across much of the UK." This dry spell will last until Monday afternoon when rain is forecast in the south, which should hit London in the early hours of Tuesday morning. "We will see persistent rain overnight into Tuesday," he said. While the forecast for Christmas is still unclear, Mr Box said a low pressure system could bring unsettled windy weather followed by "crisper" and more settled weather. "Whether we see an unsettled windy and wet Christmas or a dry and perhaps sunny Christmas Day remains to be seen," he said. It comes after police issued warnings to motorists in some areas of northern England on Sunday morning after a fresh covering of snow left vehicles stranded. North Yorkshire Police said the A170 at Sutton Bank, Thirsk, was closed overnight and reported problems on the A59 Harrogate to Skipton road, in the Yorkshire Dales. One traffic officer wrote on Twitter: "Blubberhouses is particularly treacherous with a number of vehicles stuck or stranded so please take care or use the A65." Further south, police warned of snowy conditions on the M62 at its highest point between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. There were also reports of a covering of snow in Cumbria and over on the east coast near Scarborough. New: Daily podcast from the Evening Standard Subscribe to The Leader on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or your chosen podcast provider. New episodes every weekday from 4pm.
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Patrick Grafton-Green
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-severe-weather-warning-issued-for-ice-with-heavy-rain-forecast-amid-plummeting-a4313886.html
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Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:47:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-12-17--UK weather forecast: Warnings over 70mph gales as Britain braced for 'two weeks' worth of
| 2019-12-17T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Warnings over 70mph gales as Britain braced for 'two weeks' worth of rain in one day'
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Forecasters have warned of 70mph gales hitting the UK as Britain braces for up to two weeks' worth of rain to fall in just one day. Nine yellow weather warnings for rain, wind and ice have been issued by the Met Office running up until Saturday. Temperatures are set to plunge across the UK on Tuesday, with areas that saw rain during the day facing a freeze overnight. Vast swathes of the Midlands have been included in a yellow warning for ice until 10am on Wednesday. London looks likely to escape the worst of the weather, with cold temperatures throughout the week making way for an unseasonably mild weekend before Christmas. Simon Partridge, a meteorologist at the Met Office, told the Standard: “The rain we’ve seen in the south east will clear away this evening. The areas that saw rain will get icy later on.” Overnight on Tuesday and into Wednesday most of country the country will see fog, with temperatures dropping to as low as -5C in England and -8C in Scotland. However, London is due to remain milder, with the mercury staying in the positive, Mr Partridge said. As Wednesday moves on it is expected to get wetter across the UK. Gale force winds are also forecast, especially in the west of the country, with a yellow weather warning predicting winds as fast as 70mph - which may cause disruption to transport links. This weather front brings with it milder temperatures but also more rain, with a warning in place for the south west of England on Wednesday evening predicting up to 60mm of water to fall in as little as six hours. Overnight the rain will push east, turning more showery as it moves across the country. However, weather warnings for rain are in place for the south east of England during Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mr Partridge added: “The weather will be unsettled heading into the end of the week. On Friday temperatures could reach 12 or 13C - three degrees higher than average. “This mild weather is blowing up from the south, alongside the earlier gales. “It will remain unsettled over the weekend and into next week. “We won’t see any more snow this week or next - it will likely stay unsettled.”
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Tim Baker
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-warning-rain-wind-weekend-a4315911.html
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Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:12:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-12-22--UK weather forecast: More than 80 flood warnings in place across country but rain will ease off, exp
| 2019-12-22T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: More than 80 flood warnings in place across country but rain will ease off, experts say
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Downpours which have blighted Britain over recent days and disrupted Christmas travel plans are easing off, but more than 80 flood warnings remain in place. The Met Office, which had put a yellow warning in place until 9am on Sunday, said the weather is improving across the UK today. But showers are still expected in eastern and western parts of the country including Wiltshire, Yorkshire and East Anglia, it said. The Environment Agency has issued 88 flood warnings – meaning flooding is expected – for the Midlands, the south, the south west and south east of England. The agency also issued 237 flood alerts - meaning flooding was possible and people needed be prepared - for the same areas and into the country's north. The Met Office has not issued any national weather warnings. The south was soaked by showers throughout Saturday. Surrey had to deal with a tornado as strong winds whipped through Runnymede and Chertsey, felling trees and damaging homes. Overnight, emergency services in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, had to rescue a mother and her three young sons who became stuck in their car in flood water in Edgecott. Thames Valley Police urged drivers not to move or ignore “road closed” signs placed on the routes most at risk of flooding. On Friday night, one officer had to strip down to his boxer shorts to check on a car stuck in Kingsey. Kent was also badly affected, with the River Medway on the verge of bursting its banks between Teston and West Farleigh near Maidstone. Elsewhere, the residents of Little Venice Caravan Park in Yalding, Kent, had to be rescued by motorboat. The Environment Agency also issued a warning, advising people to stay away from swollen rivers and not to drive through standing water. It said just 30cm of flowing flood water is enough to flood a car. So far this autumn, rainfall records have been broken for South Yorkshire, Nottingham and Lincolnshire and across the country it has been the fifth wettest autumn since records began. Met Office forecaster Luke Miall said weather is improving across the board with highs of 11C in the Midlands and south, and 5C in northern England and Scotland on Sunday. "There are more brighter spells but there will be small showers in parts of the county in the afternoon," he said. "On Monday, it improves as the day goes on across England. "Those buying Christmas food and gifts will see winds that are not so strong. "In Scotland and Northern Ireland, however, it will still shower." The brighter spell follows days of rain across southern England. Nearly 100 yellow rain warnings were in force on Saturday with experts predicting two weeks' worth of precipitation in some parts of the country. Groundwater levels across parts of the south are still very high, there are likely to be ongoing flood issues in the region. The rain will gradually clear over the next few days just in time for a crisp, sunny day on December 25 according to the Met Office.
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Ellena Cruse
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-forecast-flooding-rain-christmas-a4319801.html
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Sun, 22 Dec 2019 12:50:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-12-26--Boxing Day weather: Met Office forecasts rain and wind for UK with over 120 flood warnings or alerts
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Boxing Day weather: Met Office forecasts rain and wind for UK with over 120 flood warnings or alerts in place
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The Met Office has warned that shoppers will have to battle miserable conditions if they want to take advantage of Boxing Day sales. A huge deluge of rain is expected to sweep across the UK on Thursday, with some parts of the south west of England likely to experience up to 30mm (1.2in) of rainfall. Other regions could see as much as 20mm (0.8in) as the weather front travels across the country. The Environment Agency has issued 35 flood warnings – where flooding is expected – and 93 flood alerts – where flooding is possible. Coastal areas in the south west are also forecast to be hit by winds of up to 50mph. The conditions are set to put a dampener on what was a mostly pleasant Christmas Day for the UK with Met Office forecaster Alex Burkill predicting that “pretty much everywhere” will see some level of wet weather. “For most places there is going to be a lot of cloud and some rain around too,” Mr Burkill said. “The heaviest will be in south-west England and Wales. “Because of the amount of rain we have seen this month there could also be some localised flooding.” There is some good news for London shoppers however, with the skies expected to clear by the afternoon as temperatures reach 12C in the South and 5C further north. Looking ahead, the rain is expected to persist until Saturday in the north west of England while sunshine should return for the London and the south east in time for the weekend.
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Jason Collie
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boxing-day-weather-forecast-a4321386.html
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Thu, 26 Dec 2019 06:31:00 GMT
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eveningstandard--2019-12-27--UK weather forecast: Floods close roads as warnings remain after week's worth of rain falls in
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UK weather forecast: Floods close roads as warnings remain after week's worth of rain falls in one day
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Heavy flooding has swept swathes of the UK after more than a week’s worth of rain and 50mph winds battered the country throughout Boxing Day. The south-west has seen a number of road closures on Friday as dozens of flood warnings remain in place following yesterday’s deluge. Bastreet in Cornwall suffered the heaviest rainfall, with 31.6mm recorded over the past 24 hours, compared with a monthly average of 150mm for December, the Met Office confirmed. The Environment Agency has issued 30 imminent flood warnings across England, along with 85 alerts which suggesting flooding is still possible. Drivers in south-western England faced delays on Friday morning after the A35, A39 and A377 were all closed in Devon due to inundated roads. The fire brigade rushed to rescue motorists from a car and a lorry that became stranded earlier today because of a fallen tree and flood waters near Leigh Cross. Floods in Norfolk, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire covered roads and left cars submerged, while a burst water main in Milton Keynes affected around 50 homes. Environment Agency flood duty manager Clare Dinnis said parts of southern England and north Lincolnshire were most at risk of flooding following prolonged spells of rain. “While the weather outlook is improving, groundwater levels continue to rise after recent rainfall, meaning that there is a continued risk of groundwater flooding in parts of southern England over the next few days,” she said. “We continue to monitor rainfall and river levels closely and to operate our flood defences, reducing the risk of flooding to thousands of homes and businesses and helping to keep people safe.” The agency has been using pumps to reduce water levels at Currymoor, Somerset. Last night firefighters were called to Plymtree, Devon, to rescue a driver who was unable to leave their car because of the height of the water. A period of high pressure is expected to bring a dry end to the year for many over the weekend. However, Met Office forecaster Helen Roberts warned of a split in the forecast later today, with northern parts of the UK set for more rain, as conditions in the south improve. Saturday’s weather is expected to be similarly split, with drier, brighter spells for England and Wales, and rain for western Scotland. There was patchy fog on Friday morning, especially across Wales, the Midlands and south-west England. However conditions are expected to improve and Ms Roberts added that the high pressure will “keep things fairly quiet for the next five to 10 days or so” for much of the country.
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Harriet Brewis
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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-flood-warnings-environment-agency-met-office-a4321966.html
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Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:07:00 GMT
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newsweek--2019-01-17--California Blizzard Winter Storm Harper Forecast Life Threatening Avalanche Warning Issued
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California Blizzard: Winter Storm Harper Forecast 'Life Threatening,' Avalanche Warning Issued
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Residents in parts of California have been told to brace themselves for a potentially life-threatening blizzard. The National Weather Service said the severe winter storm which has been hammering the West coast is expected to continue through to the end of the week. Forecasters said very heavy snow is expected to hit the Sierra Nevada area, such as the Lassen Volcanic National Park, and also the mountains of northern California, including higher elevations of Western Plumas County. A blizzard warning has been put in effect for areas above 6,500 feet for Thursday morning (January 17). Heavy snowfall is also forecast in areas above 5,500 feet, with as much as six feet of snow expected to fall in some of the higher areas. “In addition to the heavy snow, heavy rain will also fall across the lower elevations, with most of it happening through Thursday evening,” The National Weather Service said in a forecast. The blizzard warning is only the fifth issued for the Sierra Nevada area in the past 10 years. Experts are warning those in affected areas to avoid travel if possible as the unsettled weather could result in people being stuck in their vehicles for a long period of time. “If you must travel, prepare for long delays and carry an emergency kit with extra food, water and clothing. If you stay home, have a backup plan in case of power outages,” a National Weather Service spokesperson said. “This is a life-threatening situation, especially in the higher elevations. Road crews and first responders may not be able to rescue you. Stay indoors until the snow and wind subside. Even a short walk could be deadly if you become disoriented.” Elsewhere, the Sierra Avalanche Center has issued a Backcountry Avalanche Warning for the areas around Lake Tahoe until Friday morning. The main affected areas are the Central Sierra Nevada mountains between Yuba Pass (Highway 49) on the north and Ebbetts Pass (Highway 4) on the south. “Blizzard conditions and existing weak layers in the snowpack have created very dangerous and complex avalanche conditions,” the center said in a statement. “Expect widespread, large, and destructive avalanche activity in the mountains. Natural avalanches are likely and human-triggered avalanches are very likely.” The center adds that “very dangerous” avalanche conditions are expected across all terrains and travel in any area is not recommended.
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https://www.newsweek.com/california-blizzard-winter-storm-harper-forecast-life-threatening-avalanche-1295621?utm_source=Public&utm_medium=Feed&utm_campaign=Distribution
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2019-01-17 13:41:23+00:00
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newsweek--2019-02-11--New York Winter Storm Warning Advisory How Much Snow Will There Be New Jersey Snowfall Forecast
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New York Winter Storm Warning, Advisory, How Much Snow Will There Be? New Jersey Snowfall Forecast
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Snow was expected to hit the Midwest and the Great Lakes Monday night and make its way east through the night into Tuesday morning. Once there the storm was expected to bring anywhere from six to 12 inches of snow, with more falling in certain areas, according to the National Weather Service. There was a winter weather advisory issued for the southern part of New York, including New York City, and for southern Connecticut. North of there and more inland there was a winter storm watch in effect. The winter weather advisory was set to begin at 6 a.m. EST Tuesday and last 24 hours until 6 a.m. Wednesday. That was issues for Southern Connecticut, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester. The winter weather advisory was set to start at 6 a.m. EST Tuesday as well but only stay in effect until midnight for New York City, Northern Nassau and Northwest Suffolk. A winter storm watch was issued for Tuesday morning through Tuesday night in Orange and Northern Passaic, according to the NWS. The snow in those areas was expected to reach one to four inches along the coastlines and four to seven more inland but in all areas, the snow was expected to impact travel. There would also be ice and rain accumulation following the snow. Upstate there was a winter storm warning for the “western and southern Adirondacks, Mohawk Valley, and Lake George Saratoga Region in eastern New York, and the southern Green Mountains in Vermont,” according to Weather Prediction Center. There eight to 14 inches of snow was expected starting around 10 a.m. EST Tuesday and lasting through most of Wednesday. In Onondaga, Madison and Oneida counties there was six to 10 inches of snow expected and was likely to begin around 6 a.m. Tuesday and last until 7 a.m. Wednesday. In Jefferson and Lewis counties even more snow was expected with estimates around 14 to 18 inches. Anyone in the area under one of the watches, advisories or warnings should be sure to check their local forecast and follow any instructions from authorities on how to prepare or what to do once the snow arrives. New Jersey would also be getting some snow, though it would be only about two to five inches and likely isolated to the northeastern part of the state. There was a winter weather advisory in effect there from 6 a.m. Tuesday until the same time Wednesday. That advisory meant that snow would cause slippery conditions that might cause travel issues and make driving difficult.
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2019-02-11 15:47:27+00:00
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thedailyrecord--2019-01-16--Forecasters issue ice weather warning for East Ayrshire
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Forecasters issue ice weather warning for East Ayrshire
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The Met Office have issued a yellow weather warning for East Ayrshire. Forecasters say that icy patches and wintry showers are expected to hit the area from this evening and into tomorrow morning. The warning is in place for Wednesday, January 16 at 10pm until Thursday, January 17 at 11am. The Met Office say that weather could result in some injuries from slips and falls on icy surfaces. Forecasters have said that there may be some ice on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths. A Met Office spokesperson said: "Icy patches are expected to develop later Wednesday evening or overnight over southern Scotland and Northern Ireland and during the early hours of Thursday over England and and Wales. "There will also be some wintry showers about, mainly over hills and mountains, but also to some lower levels at times, most likely in parts of Scotland and northern, eastern and central England. "With the exception of high ground, most places will not see any snow settling." Read more news from the Kilmarnock Standard
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Ross Dunn
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/forecasters-issue-ice-weather-warning-13863608
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2019-01-16 10:24:53+00:00
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thedailyrecord--2019-04-03--Snow and gales for Scotland as forecasters issue severe weather warning
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Snow and gales for Scotland as forecasters issue severe weather warning
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Hill snow and sleet have hit parts of the country as the wintry start to spring continues. Temperatures dipped below freezing across the board overnight and are expected to remain in single figures for most of Wednesday. Forecasters said a deep area of low pressure was centred over the UK, bringing with it the potential to drive showers and produce long spells of wet and changeable weather. Met Office meteorologist Mark Wilson said: "In the north of the UK there will be more persistent rain and hill snow today, particularly on higher ground in southern Scotland and northern England. "There is a weather warning in force in those areas for until 10 o'clock. "There could be some snow to lower levels, but essentially it's a high-ground feature and it could cause some localised disruption over high routes." Parts of Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham were in the warning area in England, while north of the border it covered parts of Dumfries and Galloway, East and West Lothian, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire. Up to 5cm of snow could accumulate above 200m and up to 10cm above 400m, the Met Office said. The band of rain and hill snow will push eastwards through Wednesday, while Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to see strong winds with coastal gales. There will be sunshine and some rain for the southern and western parts, although showers are forecast to be heavy with hail and thunder mixed in. Temperatures will remain on the cold side, with around 5C or 6C the maximum for many and 10C expected in the south-east. Little change in the conditions is expected for Thursday, although the focus for most of the showers will be in the south-west of the UK. Hill snow will persist across high areas in the north, while in the south-west some drier and brighter weather is expected to arrive. There is an improving picture towards the end of the week, with brighter, drier and warmer conditions expected for many parts on Friday and into the weekend.
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Ryan Wilkinson
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/snow-gales-scotland-forecasters-issue-14228247
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2019-04-03 08:04:09+00:00
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thedailyrecord--2019-12-02--Heavy rain to batter Scotland as forecasters issue 18-hour weather warning
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Heavy rain to batter Scotland as forecasters issue 18-hour weather warning
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Heavy rain is expected to batter large parts of Scotland this week. Forecasters have issued an 18-hour yellow weather warning from 6am on Thursday to midday on Friday, December 6. Met Office experts are anticipating persistent heavy rain which could lead to localised flooding in the Highlands. Areas expected to be affected by the heavy showers include Fort William , Tobermory, Portree and Ullapool. A spokesperson for the Met Office said: “Persistent heavy rain followed by showers are likely to produce some localised flooding and travel disruption. “Bus and train services probably affected with journey times taking longer. “Spray and flooding on roads probably making journey times longer. “Some minor interruptions to power supplies and other services are possible.”
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[email protected] (Daniel Morrow)
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/heavy-rain-batter-scotland-forecasters-21010388
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Mon, 2 Dec 2019 13:56:31 +0000
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thedenverpost--2019-02-13--Colorado weather forecast calls for red flag winter storm warnings on same day
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Colorado weather forecast calls for red flag, winter storm warnings on same day
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Nothing speaks to Colorado’s diverse landscapes, climates and weather more than Wednesday’s statewide weather forecast featuring simultaneous red flag, winter and high-wind warnings. If you are in the foothills of the Eastern Slope just west of Denver, beware of powerful winds. If you live between Steamboat Springs and Gunnison, be prepared for winter driving conditions including falling snow and icy roads. And if you live in the southeast corner of Colorado, be on the lookout for smoke plumes because the fire danger is high. In the middle of all this weather mayhem, Denver sits in a comfort zone, where sunny skies and southwest breezes will push temperatures up to around 60 degrees. Temperatures in Denver will gradually decrease through President’s Day weekend, with highs of 57 degrees on Thursday, 54 on Friday, 44 on Saturday, 32 on Sunday and 29 on Monday. During that period it could rain, snow or both beginning late Thursday night. At around 11 p.m. it could start to rain. Early Friday the rain could turn to snow in Denver. There is a slight chance for snow Sunday night, weather forecasters say. On Monday it could snow as well, the NWS says.
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Kirk Mitchell
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https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/13/denver-weather-colorado-snow-fire-warnings/
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2019-02-13 13:42:15+00:00
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theguardianuk--2019-01-16--UK weather snow and ice warnings as cold snap forecast
| 2019-01-16T00:00:00 |
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UK weather: snow and ice warnings as cold snap forecast
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Winter is predicted to tighten its grip across the country with temperatures widely dropping close to or below freezing, ending a spell of unseasonably warm weather. The Met Office has issued weather warnings for snow showers, strong winds and icy conditions for much of the UK. While the cold weather will be noticeable to most, the snow is not expected to accumulate, the Met Office said Dan Suri, the Met Office’s chief meteorologist, said: “From Thursday colder Arctic air will have spread across the country, with temperatures struggling to reach above 5C [41F] or 6C for most of us. This is close to the average January temperature for the UK, but since it has been quite a mild winter so far, many will notice the difference by the end of the week. “It’s going to feel very cold overnight with temperatures widely dipping close to or below freezing.” The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across much of the UK. There could be ice on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths, putting people at risk of slips and falls, and some commuters could experience longer journey times on the roads, and on buses and trains. Drivers have been told to take care travelling over the hills and in northern coastal areas. Colder air will move across the UK on Wednesday followed by even colder air arriving from the Arctic on Thursday. Widespread frost and icy stretches are expected from Wednesday night and will continue into the weekend, the Met Office said. Scotland, parts of the north, and eastern England could also see snow showers. The drop in temperatures does not mean the return of the “beast from the east”, which brought heavy snowfall last year. Marco Petagna, a Met Office meteorologist, said: “It has been so mild this winter that it will be a bit of a shock to the system even though temperatures will be average for this time of year or just below.” Dr Emer O’Connell from Public Health England said: “Experience shows us that every winter thousands of people are seriously affected and even die from illnesses linked to the cold.” She added: “All of us should be heating our homes to at least 18C, keeping up to date with weather forecasts and planning our days around them – simple steps can really help protect against the cold.”
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Aamna Mohdin
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/16/uk-weather-snow-ice-warnings-cold-snap-forecast-met-office
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2019-01-16 11:05:16+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-06--UK weather forecast Yellow warning issued as Britain braces for 75mph gale force winds
| 2019-01-06T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Yellow warning issued as Britain braces for 75mph gale force winds
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Gale force winds are set to batter parts of Britain on Monday as forecasters warn of widespread travel disruption. A Met Office yellow weather warning has been issued for Scotland as “very strong winds” of up to 75mph are expected to sweep across northern and eastern areas until Tuesday. The high winds are likely to cause delays to bus, rail, air and ferry services and make journeys longer in affected areas, according to the Met Office. There is also a risk of power cuts across Scotland, and possible delays for high-sided vehicles on exposed road routes and bridges. The Met Office said: “Very strong winds are expected to affect northern and parts of eastern Scotland on Monday and Monday night. “Gusts of 65 to 75mph are likely, particularly in the far north and northeast, before winds gradually ease from the west during Tuesday.” Some coastal and seafront routes in Scotland could also see spray from large waves. Met Office meteorologist Mark Wilson said: “Winds will strengthen across all areas [of the UK] but particularly in northern Scotland.” The rest of the UK will remain largely cloudy at the beginning of the week, but it is set to feel much colder as the week progresses. A chill could see temperatures of around -2C or -3C in Scotland on Tuesday morning while northern England, Wales and the Midlands will stay just above 0C. A bitterly cold start is expected on Wednesday morning with temperatures of -3 or -4C in Scotland, around -3C in Blackpool, Manchester and the Lake District, while Newcastle could manage 2C to 3C. There could also be some freezing fog in northern areas on Wednesday. A cold snap in central and eastern parts of Europe saw heavy snowfall and travel chaos over the past week. Three people died in Greece after blizzards swept across much of the country. The body of the 66-year-old woman was recovered from an overturned car in the southeastern region of Keratea on Saturday. Two men – including the woman’s husband – were found dead close by to the vehicle. It is thought the car was swept away by flood waters caused by the bad weather. Heavy snow also caused significant travel problems in Germany and forced the evacuation of one town in Austria.
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Adam Forrest
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http://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-latest-yellow-warning-gale-force-winds-scotland-travel-delays-a8714571.html
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2019-01-06 20:48:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-23--UK weather forecast Met Office issues severe ice warning as freezing temperatures drop below -10C
| 2019-01-23T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues severe ice warning as freezing temperatures drop below -10C
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The Met Office has warned of more snow and icy conditions across Britain, with falling temperatures set to make it the chilliest day of the week. A “yellow” severe weather warning for ice is in place across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the west coast of Scotland until 11am today. Motorists have been advised to be extra careful on the roads, and there is a risk of slipping on pavements and cycle paths. Police in North Yorkshire warned of “incredibly bad driving conditions” in the region overnight. The wintry conditions are expected to cause some disruption to rush-hour rail services, with Merseyrail warning of delays and cancellations, and Greater Anglia Rail advising customers of speed restrictions. Wednesday is expected to be the coldest day of the week, with northern parts of the country waking up to temperatures of -2C. In Braemar, Aberdeenshire, the overnight temperature dropped to -10.2C. Temperatures will climb to only 3C or 4C across much of the country this afternoon. While coastal regions can expect more snow and sleet showers throughout the day, most of the inland snow will be restricted to hilly areas. Eastern parts of the country will see some sunshine. Aidan McGivern, Met Office meteorologist, said Wednesday would see “widely frosty conditions (and) icy patches, so watch out for slippery roads and pavements.” He added: “It’s a mixture of sunny spells for eastern areas and showers for western areas. Temperatures will languish in the mid-single figures.” Tuesday’s hail, snow and sleet showers caused significant travel disruption in large parts of the country. Police Scotland said wintry conditions had caused 125 crashes throughout the day. There were a series of flight cancellations and delays at airports in Manchester, Belfast and Stornoway because of the icy conditions. The M40 saw severe delays as snow covered the southeast on Tuesday afternoon, while the B974 in Aberdeenshire was shut after several vehicles got stuck in the snow. Forecasters warned the freezing temperatures and icy conditions will prevail again early Thursday morning. Temperatures are set to climb slightly towards the end of the week, reducing the likelihood of frost, ice and snow for a few days before another cold snap arrives next week. Tony Wardle, deputy chief meteorologist at the Met Office, said: “Our latest forecast shows signs of a change to less cold weather from Friday due to a westerly wind pattern, rather than colder north easterly winds as previous forecasts suggested. “Beyond this briefly less cold spell, it looks like temperatures will once again take a downward turn with the chance of snow, ice and frosts returning next week.”
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Adam Forrest
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-snow-met-office-warning-ice-freezing-travel-road-train-delay-a8741756.html
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2019-01-23 09:16:09+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-24--UK weather forecast Met Office issues severe ice warning as snow and sleet hit Britain
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues severe ice warning as snow and sleet hit Britain
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Forecasters have warned of icy conditions across Britain, as the big freeze brings more wintry and potentially-hazardous conditions to many parts of the country. A “yellow” severe weather warning for ice is in place across most of Scotland, northern England, the Midlands and south-east until 11am on Thursday. Motorists have been advised to be extra careful on the roads following several motorway crashes on Wednesday. The Met Office said commuters could also experience problems getting around in the cold snap today, following yesterday’s weather-related transport disruption. Rail services in the northwest and eastern England were hit by a series of delays and cancellations, and the runway at Liverpool Airport was briefly closed because of the icy conditions. Overnight temperatures plunged as low as -8.5C at Altnaharra in Sutherland, while -5C was recorded as far south as Cavendish in Suffolk. The Met Office said the combination of sub-zero temperatures and yesterday’s rain showers could leave treacherous stretches of ice on pavements and cycle paths. More sleet and snow, expected to move south across England today, could make conditions worse. Aidan McGivern, Met Office meteorologist, said it would be “cold and frosty out there for most of us… watch out for those icy patches". He added: “We start the day with a mixture of rain, sleet and snow falling onto frosty surfaces so there’s a continued risk of ice to watch out for.” An area of cloud, rain and hill snow over central England will move towards southern areas later on Thursday. Some freezing rain is expected to affect parts of Greater London for a time. The areas behind the band of wintry weather – particularly in northeast England – could see some brighter spells of sunshine. Temperatures on Thursday will generally be milder than Wednesday, however, with highs of around 10C in the southwest. Friday will see temperatures rise slightly, as a warm front moves across the country and reduces the likelihood of ice and snow over the weekend. But wintry conditions and freezing temperatures are set to return next week. Mr McGivern predicted “a mixture of rain, sleet and snow” and more “frost and ice to watch out for”.
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Adam Forrest
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-latest-met-office-ice-warning-snow-sleet-rain-a8743926.html
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2019-01-24 10:50:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-28--London weather forecast Warnings issued as aposheavy snowapos and ice to blanket capital and So
| 2019-01-28T00:00:00 |
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London weather forecast: Warnings issued as 'heavy snow' and ice to blanket capital and South East
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London and the South East are expected to bear the brunt of an Arctic blast as heavy snow and ice hit, bringing travel disruption and power cuts. Up to 10cm of snow is expected to fall overnight on Tuesday evening, turning to ice on Wednesday morning. The capital is set to be worst affected but the East of England, Midlands and South West will also be hit by the wintry weather. Weather warnings of snow and ice are in place from 9pm Tuesday to 12pm Wednesday in these places. Snowfall of up to 3cm is likely to be widespread but some areas could see up to 10cm, especially over higher ground. The Met Office has warned of “a small chance of travel delays on roads with some stranded vehicles and passengers, along with delayed or cancelled rail and air travel”. There is also a “slight chance” some rural areas could be cut off and that power cuts will cause disruption to services, such as mobile phone coverage. The public has also been warned of the risk of slips and falls on icy surfaces. Forecasters predicted there could be also be some snow over higher ground in Scotland and northern England on Monday evening, while much of the UK will wake to a cold and frosty start on Tuesday morning. London is expected to see highs of just 4C or 5C this week. Temperatures will hover around zero most nights, potentially plunging to -3C on Wednesday. Forecaster Ellie Creed said: “It’s a case of normal wintry hazards that we would expect – snow, ice, frost are going to be quite prevalent over the next few days.” The cold snap comes after parts of the UK were battered by 70mph winds over the weekend. Areas of Wales were left without electricity on Sunday after overhead cables were brought down. Transport for London (TfL) has insisted London will not grind to a standstill amid the predicted snowfall. A spokeswoman told the Evening Standard all transport agencies would be “working around the clock to minimise disruption” to Tube, bus, rail and road networks.
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Chiara Giordano
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http://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-forecast-latest-london-snow-ice-warnings-travel-disruption-met-office-a8750586.html
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2019-01-28 16:46:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-28--UK snow forecast Met Office issues weather warnings as freezing conditions sweep country and temper
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UK snow forecast: Met Office issues weather warnings as freezing conditions sweep country and temperatures fall
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Britain is bracing for heavy snow, sleet and ice after the Met Office issued two yellow weather warnings for the next few days. Snow showers will develop in the northwest on Monday night, and by Tuesday a band of rain, sleet and snow will move eastwards across the country. A yellow weather warning for “possibly heavy snow” is in place for London and the southeast, from Tuesday night to Wednesday lunchtime. The Met Office said there was a chance of travel disruption in the southeast and a small risk of power cuts, triggered by the freezing weather. The weather experts warned rural communities should take particular care, as they are at risk of becoming cut off. The snow in eastern England is likely to clear on Wednesday, but around 1cm to 3cm is expected to accumulate “quite widely”, the Met Office said, with the possibility of 5cm to 10cm falling on higher ground. “It’s a case of normal wintry hazards that we would expect – snow, ice, frost are going to be quite prevalent over the next few days,” said forecaster Ellie Creed. Temperatures may fall to -2C in London and Manchester on Tuesday, with conditions likely to be colder outside of major cities. A yellow weather warning for ice is also in place until Monday lunchtime for Scotland. Temperatures will further plummet in early February, with snow showers continuing across the country next week. The Met Office said there was a chance of “disruptive snow” in the coming days but added that the forecast was still uncertain. The freezing temperatures follow a wintry weekend that left parts of Wales without electricity on Sunday after overhead cables fell.
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Zamira Rahim
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-latest-snow-london-temperatures-met-office-a8749831.html
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2019-01-28 15:38:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-28--UK weather forecast aposHeavy snowapos warnings issued by Met Office as freezing conditions swe
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UK weather forecast: 'Heavy snow' warnings issued by Met Office as freezing conditions sweep country and temperatures fall
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Britain is bracing for heavy snow, sleet and ice after the Met Office issued two yellow weather warnings for the next few days. Snow showers will develop in the northwest on Monday night and by Tuesday a band of rain, sleet and snow will move eastwards across the country. A yellow weather warning for "possibly heavy snow" is in place for London and the southeast, from Tuesday night to Wednesday lunchtime. The Met Office said there was a chance of travel disruption in the southeast and a small risk of power cuts, triggered by the freezing weather. It warned rural communities to take particular care, as they are at risk of becoming cut off. The snow in eastern England is likely to clear on Wednesday but around 1cm to 3cm is expected to accumulate "quite widely", the Met Office said, with the possibility of 5cm to 10cm falling on higher ground. "It's a case of normal wintry hazards that we would expect - snow, ice, frost are going to be quite prevalent over the next few days," said forecaster Ellie Creed. Temperatures may fall to -2C in London and Manchester on Tuesday, with conditions likely to be colder outside of major cities. A yellow weather warning for ice is also in place until Monday lunchtime for Scotland. Temperatures will further plummet in early February, with snow showers continuing across the country next week. The Met Office said there was a chance of "disruptive snow" in the coming days but added that the forecast was still uncertain. The freezing temperatures follow a wintry weekend that left parts of Wales without electricity on Sunday after overhead cables fell.
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Zamira Rahim
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-latest-snow-london-temperatures-met-office-a8749831.html
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2019-01-28 09:34:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-29--UK weather - live updates Heaviest snow of winter forecast as Met Office issues ice warnings across
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UK weather - live updates: Heaviest snow of winter forecast as Met Office issues ice warnings across Britain
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Britain is facing its heaviest wintry storms of the year so far today, with up to 10cm of snow forecast to fall on higher ground as temperatures drop across large parts of the country. Weather warnings for snow and ice have been issued by the Met Office and flurries were reported in Glasgow overnight. Snow showers are even forecast in London, but may fall as sleet and not settle. Around 0.4in to 1.2in (1cm-3cm) could accumulate on lower-lying levels, with the possibility of 2in to 4in (5cm-10cm) falling on higher ground, Marco Petagna from the Met Office said. Please allow a moment for our liveblog to load
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Joe Sommerlad
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-live-update-snow-met-office-forecast-warning-ice-travel-road-disruption-a8751731.html
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2019-01-29 10:00:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-31--UK weather forecast aposRisk to lifeapos snow warning issued as temperatures hit -14C
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UK weather forecast: 'Risk to life' snow warning issued as temperatures hit -14C
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A severe weather alert warning of a risk to life has been issued as forecasters warned heavy snow would spread to more parts of Britain. The Met Office has an amber warning for snow in place across the southwest and south Wales for 2pm to 9pm on Thursday as up to 10cm is predicted to fall in some places. It follows the coldest temperatures so far this winter, with the mercury dropping to -14.4C in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, on Thursday morning. It is the lowest recorded in the UK for seven years since temperatures fell to -15.6C in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, in 2012. The lowest ever recorded in the UK was -27.2C, again in Braemar, on 10 January 1982, and in Altnaharra, Scotland, on 30 December 1995. Forecasters have warned a band of rain will arrive on Thursday afternoon, quickly turning to snow and becoming heavy at times. Between 3cm to 7cm of snow will accumulate within two to three hours, and up to 10cm in some areas. The Met Office has warned travel delays are likely on roads and could cause some vehicles to become stranded, while there is likely to be delays to rail services. Highways England has urged motorists to “take care when driving” and advised the key routes affected include the A30, the A38 and the M5. Met Office spokesperson Grahame Medge warned motorists could be putting their lives at risk if they found themselves stranded and unprepared – and told them to only travel if absolutely necessary. “If people don’t heed the warning and put themselves at risk then there’s the potential for situations to become dramatic quite quickly,” he told The Independent. “For example, if someone set off on a journey and their car got stuck and they were in their car for a long time and weren’t prepared, it could become a risk to life. “We are warning people to be ready for that situation; try to plan ahead and make sure you have a hot drink, warm clothing and a phone with battery.” The AA advises motorists to keep a blanket, shovel, de-icer and torch in their cars during the winter months. In the event of severe weather, the AA also recommends carrying winter clothing, such as a hat, scarf and gloves, sturdy footwear and a flask of hot drink. Areas which will be most affected by the amber warning in England are Hampshire, Bath, Bournemouth, Bristol, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire. In Wales, the warning is for Blanenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan. Mr Medge said temperatures would continue to be cold overnight on Thursday, through to the early part of next week. “It will be down to freezing and below quite widely across England with grass and air frost on Thursday night, and sub-zero temperatures quite widely across Scotland,” he said. “When we get snow that tends to warm the temperatures a bit so temperatures on Friday will be in low single figures for a large part of the UK. “This weekend is expected to remain reasonably cold and snow is expected on Sunday. “Monday is looking to be drier but remaining cold into the early part of next week.” Southeastern trains said 21 trains were being cancelled or altered on Thursday morning to minimise the impact of ice forming on the rails and to ensure lines were clear. Transport for Wales warned snowfall could cause short-notice delays and alterations on its services on Thursday and Friday while the alert is in place. There are already changes to services in place on the Heart of Wales line and Cambrian line. Bristol airport said it was running as normal on Thursday morning, but advised customers to allow extra time for travelling to the airport and to keep up to date with weather and travel updates. Manchester and Liverpool airports were brought to a standstill on Wednesday morning, although a full service had resumed at Liverpool by 2pm and one runway was also opened at Manchester by midday. Several schools in the cities were also forced to close their doors because of the harsh conditions. Councils have prepared for heavy snowfall, with more than 1.4 million tons of salt stockpiled, the Local Government Association said.
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Chiara Giordano
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http://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-forecast-snow-met-office-warning-risk-life-latest-roads-airports-a8756456.html
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2019-01-31 15:36:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-01-31--UK weather forecast Fresh snowfall leads Met office to issue warning of treacherous icy conditions
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UK weather forecast: Fresh snowfall leads Met office to issue warning of treacherous icy conditions on roads as temperatures could drop to -12C
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More snow will bring treacherous icy conditions to Britain's roads, forecasters have warned as they suggested temperatures could drop to -12C in parts of Scotland. This year’s record low of -10.8C could be broken, the Met office said, adding that London could see its second dusting of snow of the winter. Yellow weather warnings for ice are in place in north-western Scotland and the northern and western isles, alerting travellers to be wary of slippery roads. A similar warning is in place for north-west England, south-west England, Wales, Yorkshire and Humber. The Midlands, east of England, Greater London and the south of England should also beware of fog making driving on icy roads even more complicated on Thursday morning. A yellow warning for snow is also in place across large swathes of England and is due to remain in place until late on Friday night. Councils have prepared for heavy snowfall, with more than 1.4 million tonnes of salt stockpiled, the Local Government Association said. Most of Scotland should also be prepared for snowfall, forecasters said as they urged commuters to check local conditions before venturing out. The deepest snowfall recorded by the Met Office at 9am on Wednesday was 11cm at Tulloch Bridge in Inverness-shire. Depths of 9cm were also recorded in Thomastown in Co Fermanagh and Spadeadam in Cumbria. Manchester and Liverpool airports were brought to a standstill on Wednesday morning, although a full service had resumed at Liverpool by 2pm and one runway was also opened at Manchester by midday. An injured climber was also rescued during a seven-hour operation after falling down a gully during an avalanche on Wales' Mount Snowdon. The man was amongst a team of climbers caught in the snowslide on and had suffered a broken leg. Volunteers from Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team, an RAF rescue team and the coastguard launched a successful rescue operation after the group became trapped in the mountain’s Right Hand Trinity gully after fresh snow fell on Tuesday afternoon. Several schools in the cities were also forced to close their doors because of the harsh conditions. The latest weather warnings came after Nest thermostats failed to work and users around the world wre unable to adjust their app-and website-controlled heating systems because the online service was down. Nest's range of thermostats, smoke detectors and cameras are intended to make people's houses safer by adding the internet to commonly used technology.
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Samuel Osborne
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-latest-snow-ice-cold-temperature-warnings-met-office-a8755501.html
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2019-01-31 08:47:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-02-06--UK weather forecast Met Office issues warnings over 70mph winds as snow set to return
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues warnings over 70mph winds as snow set to return
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Winds of up to 70mph are set to batter Britain before snow returns at the end of the month, forecasters have warned. Weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office for large swathes of the UK from 10pm Wednesday until Thursday morning and much of Friday and Saturday. Heavy rain is also predicted for Scotland at the end of the week and into the weekend. Gales could cause large waves, disruption to travel and power cuts, Met Office forecaster Alex Burkill warned. Rain is also expected for much of the country on Wednesday night, especially in the South and South East, before it pushes west later on. “The biggest issue is the strong winds; they are really going to be strengthening Wednesday evening," Mr Burkill told The Independent. “The windiest places will be will be South coastal parts and the South West, where we are likely to see gusts of 60-70mph. Across the bulk of the country we could get gusts of 50mph in the early hours of Thursday. “It won’t be a particularly cold night. Most places will be around 6-7C but there’s likely to be some snow mixed in with the rain over the hills in Scotland.” While Thursday will be drier and less windy with highs of about 9-10C, the weather will become more unsettled on Friday "with rain for most places, which could be heavy at times," Mr Bukhill said. He also warned of "very strong winds for most of the UK of up to 50-60mph and exposed parts seeing gusts of 70mph." The unsettled weather will continue into Saturday, turning more settled on Sunday, he said. There will be highs of 12C on Friday, 11C Saturday and 9C Sunday, although it could feel colder in the wind. Temperatures are expected to stay around average or slightly above for much of February, although snow could return at the end of the month. “With those wind speeds we are likely to get some large waves and inland there may be some tree branches blowing around,” Mr Burkill said. “People need to be aware there’s likely to be some disruption to travel and there could be some power cuts and other utilities could be affected. As we go through much of February it looks like temperatures will stay around or above normal however towards the end of the month into March there are hints that we could end up with some snow.” The forecaster said the latest storm has not yet been named – but it has not been ruled out.
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Chiara Giordano
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http://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-met-office-forecast-latest-warnings-wind-snow-rain-met-office-a8766256.html
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2019-02-06 16:33:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-02-07--UK weather forecast Wind and flood warnings issued by Met Office as 80mph gales pummel Britain
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UK weather forecast: Wind and flood warnings issued by Met Office as 80mph gales pummel Britain
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Power cuts and travel delays could hit the UK as Atlantic gales of up to 70mph sweep in from this morning. The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind across Wales and southern and central parts of England. It advised the public there could be disruption to roads and rail, and possible blackouts. Overnight winds reached 79mph on the Isle of Wight and 67mph on the Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall. London and other inland regions are expected to weather gusts of 50 to 60mph early on Thursday morning, as the wind pushes further north. While the winds will ease off into breezy weather mid-morning, leaving sunshine and showers, gusts are due to pick up again by midday on Friday, with a warning for then covering most of the UK and remaining in place until Saturday evening. This will be accompanied by a warning for persistent heavy rain in Scotland, where as much as 60mm is forecast to fall over high ground. The Met Office said melting snow over the weekend would contribute to the risk of flooding. It said there was also a risk of thunder and hail throughout the rest of the week. He said: “Be mindful that there could be some tricky conditions on the roads, for example there will be strong winds that could affect transport, like high-sided vehicles crossing bridges, so there could be delays.” Temperatures will stay mild on Thursday, with highs of 7C in Scotland and 10C in the south of England, Mr Wilson added.
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Samuel Osborne
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-latest-met-office-flood-warning-wind-speed-gales-a8767141.html
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2019-02-07 08:28:27+00:00
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theindependent--2019-03-18--UK weather forecast Flood warnings issued with more rain on way before temperatures climb to 17C
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UK weather forecast: Flood warnings issued with more rain on way before temperatures climb to 17C
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Torrential rain and high river levels have left much of England and Wales at risk of flooding on Monday, experts have warned. The Environment Agency has put 18 flood warnings and 27 lower-risk flood alerts in force, with the majority in Yorkshire and the Midlands. Natural Resources Wales have one flood warning and four flood alerts in place. The Met Office said more showers are expected to hit western parts of the country today following the weekend’s heavy downpours, which saw a month’s worth of rainfall in some areas. However, conditions are expected to get warmer and drier over the next few days as the rain finally eases up. And forecasters are predicting a return to February’s mild and pleasant weather, with temperatures set to climb as high as 17C by the end of the week. The Environment Agency said its teams were still out operating flood defences on Monday, having installed a series of temporary barriers to keep communities safe. Six flood warnings are in place along the River Ouse, including two in York, with a further five warnings on the River Swale and one on the River Ure. The River Severn had six flood warnings in force along its course, while there were further warnings were issued along the River Dee at Farndon and Keswick in Cumbria. Fire engines had to pump flood water away to protect homes in Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden in West Yorkshire at the weekend. West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service also tweeted pictures of firefighters rescuing people trapped in vehicles in rising floods. Meteorologist John West said the current high river levels were due the weekend’s rain, with parts of Wales having half a month’s rain in the space of a day. Mr West said on Monday: “The wettest areas over the next few hours are the south-west, Scotland and west Wales. We are probably going to see an additional 10mm over the hills of west Wales.” The meteorologist said temperatures could rise toward the mid-teens on Tuesday before climbing even higher by the end of the week. He added: “There’s certainly going to be a bit of an improvement. We should probably get up to about 11 degrees as a max somewhere in the south-east (on Monday), that jumps up by Tuesday with highs of 14 in the south-east. “We will probably hang on to those temperatures in the mid-teens, we could see 16 or 17 as we go through the back end of the week.”
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Adam Forrest
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https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-flood-warning-latest-rain-yorkshire-midlands-warm-dry-a8828076.html
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2019-03-18 13:25:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-04-03--UK weather forecast Met Office issues snow warning as temperatures set to plummet
| 2019-04-03T00:00:00 |
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues snow warning as temperatures set to plummet
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Temperatures are expected to fall below freezing again tonight with heavy hail and snow in parts of the country as the wintry start to spring continues. The cold weather is predicted to last until the weekend as the Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for parts of northern England and southern Scotland. The forecast follows hill snow and sleet which was seen around those parts of the country this morning. Met Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said: "There won't be any major change tonight so it's going to be a cold one again with possible temperatures of minus 2C and minus 3C." Last night saw temperatures of around minus 3C in parts of the country with the coldest weather seen in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire, where temperatures dropped to nearly minus 4C. Up to 5cm of snow could accumulate in areas above 200m and up to 15cm is possible in the Scottish Highlands, the Met Office said. Temperatures are expected to remain in the single figures during the day, around 5C or 6C as a maximum for many, with 10C expected in the south-east. Forecasters said a deep area of low pressure was centred over the UK, bringing with it the potential to drive showers and produce long spells of wet and changeable weather. Met Office meteorologist Mark Wilson said: "In the north of the UK there will be more persistent rain and hill snow today, particularly on higher ground in southern Scotland and northern England. "There is a weather warning in force in those areas for until 10 o'clock. There could be some snow to lower levels, but essentially it's a high-ground feature and it could cause some localised disruption over high routes." Parts of Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham were affected by the warning, as were parts of Dumfries and Galloway, East and West Lothian, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire across the Scottish border. The band of rain and hill snow will move eastwards through Wednesday, while Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to see strong winds with coastal gales. Elsewhere, there will be sunshine and some rain in southern and western parts of the country, but heavy showers with hail and thunder are also forecast. Similar conditions are expected on Thursday, although most of the showers will move to the south-west of the UK. Mr Burkill added that the cold weather was not entirely unexpected for this time of year. "It's cold for sure, but it's not perhaps as uncommon as you might think," he said. "Snow is actually more likely to fall in April than in November."
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Conrad Duncan
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https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-forecast-snow-hail-met-office-warning-yellow-a8852106.html
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2019-04-03 09:00:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-04-17--UK weather forecast Temperatures to hit 25C over Easter weekend as heatwave sparks aposdeadly pol
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UK weather forecast: Temperatures to hit 25C over Easter weekend as heatwave sparks 'deadly pollen bomb' warning
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Britain is set to bask in blue skies, sunshine and the warmest temperatures of the year during the long Easter weekend, as forecasters predicted highs in the mid-twenties. The four-day spring break is expected to see the hottest days of the year so far, with temperatures climbing to 23C or 24C in the southeast, and possibly even reaching 25C in isolated spots. It will leave parts of the country warmer than the Spanish holiday destinations of Marbella and Torremolinos, where temperature will struggle to reach 20C over Easter. The anticipated heatwave has prompted concerns about pollen, with Sonia Munde, head of services for Asthma UK, warning: “A deadly pollen bomb is due to hit … putting people with asthma at risk of a potentially life-threatening asthma attack.” Discussing the ways that asthma sufferers can protect themselves, Ms Munde added: “Take your prescribed preventer medicine to soothe your irritated airways so you’re less likely to react to the pollen trigger. “Take hay fever medicines such as antihistamines as they stop the allergic reaction that triggers asthma symptoms and keep itchy eyes and runny noses at bay. Everyone with asthma should keep their blue reliever inhaler with them at all times in case of an emergency.” The Met Office said an earlier spring might have led to plants flowering sooner, potentially increasing the risk of pollen. Temperatures will climb into the high teens on Wednesday before climbing above 20C on Thursday in time the four-day break. Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: “As we go into the long weekend, the weather is fine, warm and sunny.” Temperatures could reach the high teens in many parts of the country on Wednesday, said Mr Deakin, who predicted any residual cloud over the Midlands, Wales and Scotland to “melt away” this afternoon. Although clear and sunny conditions will be widespread on Friday and Saturday, some parts of the UK will experience a turn for the worse over the second half of the holiday. The Met Office is predicting some cloudy spells and patchy rain in the north and west on Saturday and Sunday. “The second half of the weekend, there’s a bit of uncertainty about that,” said Mr Deakin. “I suspect many places will stay fine and with sunshine, but there is an increasing chance of a bit more cloud and rain at times in parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and into other western areas.” The last time Britain enjoyed temperatures over 20C was a late winter heatwave at the end of February, when several records for the season were broken. The warmest-ever February day was recorded at Ceredigion in Wales, with the mercury hitting 20.6C. Daily maximum temperatures for the month reached their highest since records began in 1910, according to the Met Office.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-easter-weekend-latest-pollen-hayfever-a8874231.html
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2019-04-17 12:20:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-17--UK weather forecast Met Office issues flood warnings as thunderstorm set to lash Britain with rain
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues flood warnings as thunderstorm set to lash Britain with rain
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Britain is braced for two days of thunderstorms which could bring hail, lightning and more flooding. The Met Office has weather warnings for storms and floods in place from 6pm on Tuesday until 9pm on Wednesday. The alert covers a large part of southern and eastern England, stretching from Bath in the southwest to Hull in the north. Heavy downpours could cause particular disruption to already rain-hit places such as Lincolnshire, where almost 600 households in and around Wainfleet were told to leave as the area was hit by flash flooding. The town first flooded on Wednesday after more than two months’ worth of rain fell in two days, causing the River Steeping to burst its banks. The Environment Agency described the situation as “unprecedented” after 132mm of rain fell between Monday and Wednesday. RAF Chinook helicopters dropped an additional 76 tons of sand and ballast in the area on Sunday after drafting in 270 one-ton sandbags in an attempt to repair the bank on Friday. Forecaster Dean Hall said the Met Office was “keeping an eye on it as there could be some issues with surface water and flooding”. There were six flood warnings and 17 flood alerts in place on Monday morning, affecting parts of eastern and western England. The northeast, Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to see periods of heavy rain and hail on Monday, broken up by bright, sunny spells. Rain will also hit parts of northwest England, the Midlands and Wales, but will die out by the evening, forecasters say. In the southeast, a cloudy start to the week is expected, while temperatures in the region, East Anglia and along the south coast are predicted to hit around 21C and 22C. Things are then expected to take a turn for the worse on Tuesday and Wednesday. Sunny spells and showers are predicted for Thursday and Friday, with the heaviest rainfall in the north. Forecaster Bonnie Diamond told The Independent: “On Tuesday temperatures will be in the low twenties in southern England with a chance of 24C in the best of the sunshine. “Quite a wide area could see showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday and Wednesday. “With the heaviest showers there’s a chance 15-30mm could fall within an hour, and with that there’s a chance of hail. “It looks like it will be fine and dry this weekend but next week will be more unsettled, particularly for northwestern parts of the UK, although it could stay drier and warm in the southeast.”
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Chiara Giordano
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https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-latest-flood-warnings-thunderstorm-rain-a8961691.html
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2019-06-17 09:04:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-21--Glastonbury 2019 weather forecast Met Office issues thunderstorms warning ahead of festival
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Glastonbury 2019 weather forecast: Met Office issues thunderstorms warning ahead of festival
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Glastonbury is back in business this year and the full lineup has been announced, so the biggest question remaining is whether the weather will be any good. With Stormzy, The Cure and The Killers all set to headline the Pyramid stage, festival-goers are keen to know if the British summertime will deliver a beautiful setting for performances from the world’s best live acts... or if they’ll need to pack a raft and some wellington boots instead of sunglasses and shorts. At the moment it’s looking mixed: weather during 28 – 30 June is currently set to be fairly warm and dry, with some risk of thunderstorms as an area of high pressure arrives in the UK from Europe. According to the Met Office, temperatures will rise considerably next week and forecasters are “confident” that southern parts of the UK will be hit by heavy thunderstorms. However, spokesman Grahame Madge told Somerset Live that uncertainty still surrounds how far the storms will spread as a plume of hotter air is pushed towards the UK from the south. “Conditions continue to be quite unsettled for next week,” he said. “At this stage we are quite confident that the current weather pattern will drive up a plume of hotter air from the south through next week. “This means that a lot of warmth will be brought up, but also moisture will be brought with that, and we are confident that this will spark thunderstorms in large parts of southern England, and this will quite possibly be a daily occurrence. “However, the uncertainty is around just how far west these thunderstorms will travel.” “We are expecting these storms on Monday and Tuesday, and there is a continued risk of heavy thundery showers heading further into the week up to Thursday, and these could well be torrential downpours,” he continued. “However, the current model is indicating that these will be further east and could miss Somerset entirely, but at the moment it is proving very hard to track this warm air coming up from the south. It is very possible that Somerset could see some heavy thunderstorms.” Definitely bring your waterproofs, then.
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Roisin O'Connor, Charley Ross
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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/glastonbury-2019-weather-forecast-met-office-latest-update-festival-camping-a8961731.html
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2019-06-21 06:00:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-06-27--UK weather forecast Warnings of 50mph winds before temperatures soar to 34C this weekend
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UK weather forecast: Warnings of 50mph winds before temperatures soar to 34C this weekend
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Parts of the UK will be battered by 50mph winds – before temperatures soar to 34C this weekend. The worst of the strong, gusty winds are expected to hit the west country from midnight on Thursday. A weather warning is in place until 12pm on Friday for Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, Plymouth and Somerset – where Glastonbury Festival is being held on Worthy Farm. The Met Office warned the wind could cause delays to road, rail, air and ferry travel. But it’s good news for festival-goers as the blustery weather should soon blow over in time for a warm and sunny weekend. The winds will remain strong in the southwest on Thursday night before early cloud clears on Friday to leave a sunny day with most places feeling hotter. The best of the heat will be seen in the South, where temperatures could reach 30C on Friday, while elsewhere it will still be warm with highs in the 20s. Forecasters are predicting the best of the sunshine is to come on Saturday when the mercury could hit 33C or 34C. The hottest temperatures will be seen in eastern and central parts but it will be a fine and dry day for most, with many places experiencing 30C. It will then turn cooler and breezy at times on Sunday and Monday with scattered showers and sunny spells. Met Office forecaster Bonnie Diamond told The Independent: “On Saturday the focus is the heat as the highest temperatures move eastwards to central and eastern parts of England. “We could see temperatures of 30C quite widely and up to 34C. “It will still be very warm in parts of the west on Saturday.” But she added that the temperature will drop again from the middle of next week. She said: “From Monday it will be widely cooler temperatures, still in the high teens and low 20s. “That’s closer to the average for the time of year. “Temperatures could be on the cool side towards the middle of the week and a bit unsettled with the chance of some showers.”
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Chiara Giordano
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https://www.independent.co.uk/weather/uk-weather-forecast-latest-warning-wind-heatwave-europe-a8977631.html
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2019-06-27 13:36:22+00:00
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theindependent--2019-08-07--UK weather forecast Met Office issues aposdanger to lifeapos flood warning with storms to batte
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues 'danger to life' flood warning with storms to batter Britain
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The UK could see floods with the potential for property damage and "danger to life", as thunderstorms, rain and “unseasonably strong” winds expected to arrive on Thursday evening prompt extreme weather warnings. Boardmasters music festival in Cornwall was cancelled hours before the gates were due to open on Wednesday over fears for the safety of attendees, while a sailing race on the Isle of Wight hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was brought forward amid forecasts of 50mph winds on the south coast. The Met Office has issued five separate yellow warnings for rain, wind and thunderstorms, less than a fortnight after the UK experienced its second hottest day on record. Heavy rainfall is set to engulf the southwest on Thursday evening, caused by a band of low pressure from across the Atlantic, predicted to affect most of the country before clearing into the North Sea on Friday evening, a Met Office spokesperson said. Thunderstorms are expected to follow swiftly behind, which could see parts of the UK receive 35mm of rainfall in a 24-hour period. Friday’s rain could bring floods, resulting in damage to homes and businesses, temporary isolation of rural communities and travel delays, while the ensuing storms could wreak similar havoc along with power outages, the Met Office’s website said. Betting company Ladbrokes reportedly cut their odds of this being the wettest August in the UK’s history to 2:1, however a Met Office spokesperson said “there are no red flags waving at the moment”. However, for residents in the Derbyshire town of Whaley Bridge threatened by the potential collapse of a nearby dam, the forecast spells worry. The region is subject to the Met Office’s yellow warning for rain on Friday, which will likely bring 10-15mm, but the unpredictable nature of Saturday’s thunderstorms make it difficult to predict if they will also affect the area. The adverse weather will also affect Scotland, which is also subject to two separate thunderstorm warnings on Wednesday and Thursday. In the south, revellers at Boomtown Fair in the South Downs National Park in Hampshire will likely battle with rain and wind. The organisers of Boardmasters festival, who had expected to welcome headliners Wu-Tang Clan and Foals, and around 50,000 attendees, said in a statement: “The safety of you, the fans and attendees, as well as performers and crew comes first, and the potential risk is too severe for the event to go ahead at this time.” Meanwhile, Kensington Palace announced William and Kate’s outing as skippers in a Cowes sailing race would take place on Thursday, a day earlier than planned. Aiming to raise money for eight charities by alongside figures like Bear Grylls, John Bishop and Helen Glover, the event would have seen eight teams vie for a trophy first awarded by King George in Cowes almost a century ago, dubbed the King’s Cup. The unstable weather is expected to continue until the middle of August. “Stay up to date with the forecast, keep up to date with the weather warnings and follow any guidance from the organisers of any events that you are attending,” the Met Office advised.
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Andy Gregory
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-met-office-warning-floods-rain-boardmasters-cancelled-a9045281.html
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2019-08-07 12:55:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-08-29--UK weather forecast Met Office issues warning for heavy rain and possible flooding
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues warning for heavy rain and possible flooding
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Forecasters have issued several yellow warnings for heavy rainfall over the coming days, with flooding possible across swathes of Britain. The glorious Bank Holiday weekend weather is set to be replaced by periods of rain, wind and even hail storms at times, the Met Office said. Forecaster Oli Claydon told The Independent parts of the north and west of the UK would see windy and wetter conditions over the next 48 hours. “We have got some periods of prolonged showers and persistent rain in the north and the west, especially on the coast of Scotland and Northern Ireland. It is also quite breezy up there,” he said. From Friday lunchtime to Saturday afternoon, two yellow warnings have been issued, for most of Northern Ireland and a large swathe of western Scotland, he added. The warnings caution locals to expect heavy rainfall which is likely to cause “flooding of a few homes and businesses”. The unseasonable storms will also affect transport links, with bus and train services slowed down and spray on motorways also hindering traffic. A band of rain will move across the UK from the west, Mr Claydon said, but in the south and east the weather will be drier and brighter. Temperatures could even reach as high as 25C in the best spots but by the weekend it will have taken a turn for the worse. “There will then be a band of rain with a cold front which will cover the UK from north to south. It will bring rainfall through the day and on Saturday at various times.” By Sunday there will continue to be scattered showers and even hailstorms at times, Mr Claydon added. “The unsettled nature of the weather looks to continue in the beginning of next week.”
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Tim Wyatt
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-latest-rain-flooding-warning-met-office-a9083431.html
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2019-08-29 09:57:00+00:00
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theindependent--2019-09-02--UK weather forecast Flood warnings issued and heavy rain predicted as September starts with washout
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UK weather forecast: Flood warnings issued and heavy rain predicted as September starts with washout
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Downpours are forecast in much of the UK, with flood alerts in place in parts of Scotland and England, as the early part of September looks set to be a washout. The north and west of the UK are set to bear the worst of the wet and windy weather, which the Met Office predicts could continue into the following week. Met Office meteorologist Oli Claydon said that despite the extreme weather taking hold across the Atlantic, things are expected to be much more “business as usual” in the UK. “Broadly speaking for the UK there’s a northwest/southeast split for the next couple of days, with at times wet and windy weather for Scotland and the North, and drier weather in the South and East,” Mr Claydon said. “It’s quite a pronounced difference to the northwest where they’re going to be affected through much of the week.” While there will be some rain in southeast England, for the most part it is expected to remain dry. But the Environment Agency warns the region could still see flooding next to rivers and in coastal areas due to seasonal high tides. Flood alerts are in place along coasts and rivers around England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and along the west coast of Scotland. After a summer of record-breaking temperatures in parts of the UK, colder climes are set to take hold, having already dropped several degrees in Scotland and Northern Ireland on Saturday and Sunday. Cloud cover and stiff breezes are expected to contribute to chillier conditions, but when skies are clear, temperatures should remain warm. The Met Office predicts highs of 23C on Tuesday, which could drop slightly as the week continues. “Rain can be expected in nearly all parts of the UK at some point through the week, with a cold front moving east from Tuesday evening,” Mr Claydon said. ”It will also be windy at times in the north, especially on Wednesday with further rain moving in." Northern Ireland and Scotland could see difficult driving conditions, with up to 50mm of rainfall in higher areas in Scotland. But Mr Claydon said the UK won’t be feeling the effects of Hurricane Dorian this week. “It’s making incredibly slow progress, moving at one to two miles per hour due to various meteorological processes,” Mr Claydon said. “But that will speed up at some point and the pressure will weaken as it becomes an ex-hurricane. “It’s looking like the most likely track for that is north of the UK, so it doesn’t look likely we’ll see the impact of that.”
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Andy Gregory
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-latest-flood-warning-rain-met-office-a9088691.html
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2019-09-02 12:28:13+00:00
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theindependent--2019-10-11--UK weather forecast: Met Office issues rain warnings ahead of wet and windy weekend
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UK weather forecast: Met Office issues rain warnings ahead of wet and windy weekend
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Flooding could hit parts of the UK as “persistent” rain soaks the country ahead of a wet and windy weekend, the Met Office has warned. Forecasters have issued weather alerts for Wales, northwest England and western Scotland, where deluges were expected on Friday. This wet weather is set to continue into the weekend, with downpours also possible on Sunday. Yellow weather warnings for rain are in place across most of Wales and parts of northwest England until 6pm on Friday. A similar alert for western Scotland is in place until 3pm. Flooding of “a few homes and business” is likely while roads could become waterlogged, causing delays for drivers, the warnings state. Trains could also be affected. Downpours are likely to ease on Saturday but “it will still be a wet, grey, rainy day,” particularly in the southern half of the UK, said Met Office spokesman Ollie Claydon. “There’s a band of rain that is fairly persistent and is still going to be a feature by Sunday,” he told The Independent. He added: “That’s right across the south coast and up to south Wales and a little bit further into the Midlands. “It’s also going to be quite windy, especially in the northwest and the southwest.” Further bands of rain are set to move in later in the weekend, with “only the far north of Scotland holding on to any sort of brightness,” Mr Clayton said. The Met Office added “autumnal, unsettled weather” would continue into next week, with further showers and longer spells of rain in many parts of the country. It is also forecast to be windy, “with a chance of coastal gales at times”.
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Chris Baynes
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-forecast-latest-met-office-yellow-warnings-rain-weekend-a9151711.html
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Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:43:49 GMT
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