After above average temperatures for most of October in the Croatian capital Zagreb, and an October record recorded on Sljeme, there has been a big drop with snow falling on Medvednica mountain this morning.
According to data from the DHMZ weather station at Puntijarka, 4 cm of snow fell on Thursday on the Sljeme peak. With temperatures hovering around 0 °C and snow on the ground, there was a real winter look to Sljeme which was covered in warm sunshine just days ago.
Lauren Edmonds Daily Mail Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:15 UTC
Several areas in Illinois have decided to reschedule Halloween trick-or-treating to this Saturday because of the cold weather and snow
Storms are raging across the central United States from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes ahead of an arctic blast that could bring record shattering cold to the South.
Strong winds have brought down trees and power lines from Tennessee to North Dakota after tropical Storm Olga swept in from the Gulf Coast.
Forecasters say the severe storms could now hit states from Alabama to New England.
And in just a few hours, temperatures are expected to drop as much as 30 degrees as a cold front blows in from Canada.
A freeze warning has been issued for several states across the country, including Texas, regions in California, the Carolinas and Georgia.
Many of those areas will see temperatures dip into the 20s and 20s starting Thursday and continue on into Friday.
Chicago has already seen it earliest snow fall in 30 years and temperatures below zero are being registered in the Rockies and Great Basin.
As Tropical Cyclone Kyarr makes its way across the Arabian Sea, a combination of high tide, storm surge and high waves caused coastal flooding in parts of United Arab Emirates and Oman from 28 October, 2019.
In United Arab Emirates, roads were closed in Sharjah and Fujairah as high waves and storm surged caused flooding along the coast. Police urged caution.
Local media reported that around 20 houses were flooded with seawater in Kalba, Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Residents of the houses have been evacuated. Businesses and roads were also flooded and schools were closed. Gulf News reported waves of 7 feet (2 metres) in the area.
Disaster authorities in the country said there have been no reports of casualties or injuries.
Eight persons were reportedly killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in the Yavatmal, Amravati and Akola districts of Vidarbha region of east Maharashtra, informed the police here on Thursday.
On Wednesday, in Yavatmal district, lightning struck Gajanan Baliram Pimple (28),a resident of Lonbehal village in the Arni tehsil, while he was standing under a tree.
In Amravati district, three persons got electrocuted after lightning struck at them when they were standing under a tree.
The deceased were identified as Sayyad Nuruddin Sayyad Badryoyaddin (56), Shobha Sanjay Gathe (45) and Sonali Gajanan Bobde (34).
The temperature in Denver officially dropped to 3 degrees above zero early Wednesday morning. It was cold enough to shatter the previous record low for October 30 by 4 degrees. It was our third record temperature in 3 days and one more record is expected Thursday morning.
The records on Monday and Tuesday were related to the daily high temperatures. Denver only reached 21 degrees on Monday and 18 degrees on Tuesday. It had never stayed so cold on these dates in the past so new "record coldest maximum" temperatures were set for October 28 and October 29.
One final record is expected Thursday morning when the combination of clear skies, mainly light winds, and snow on the ground allows temperatures to plunge below zero along the Front Range. If the temperature manages to drop below -2° early Thursday, the all-time record low for October in Denver will be broken. That record was set on October 29, 1917.
Alberta has suffered YET MORE record-breaking low temperatures of late, as brutal Arctic air continues to descend anomalously-far south for the time of year.
The southwest of the Canadian province appears to have fared the worst this week.
According to data from Environment Canada, the mercury in Banff plunged to -23.3C (-9.9F) on Monday morning, which set a new daily low for October 29, eclipsing the previous mark of -22.6C (-8.7F) set back in 1991.
The Bow Valley area saw temperatures sink to -23.2C (-9.8F), low enough to pip the previous all-time record for the date — the -23C (-9.4F) from 2002.
A 4 year-old Hazel Park boy died Tuesday evening after a vicious attack by a 60-pound, male pit bull that the family was temporarily looking after, police said.
The child's mother had tried to fight the dog off with a knife.
"A preliminary finding appears that this case was a tragic incident," police said in a statement emailed Wednesday to the Free Press. "The Hazel Park Police Department extends its sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased."
It's unclear, Hazel Park Police said, what led to Tuesday's attack, but at about 6:45 p.m., a 14-year-old girl called 911 to frantically alert police that the dog pounced on her brother, and their mom was attempting to stop the animal.
A sperm whale calf (pictured) has washed up on a North Wales beach. The marine mammal is believed to have become stranded at Hell's Mouth in Gwynedd yesterday
A sperm whale calf has washed up dead on a Welsh beach, only the second to do so in a century.
The marine mammal is believed to have become stranded at Hell's Mouth in Gwynedd yesterday.
It is the first time a sperm whale has ever washed up on a Welsh beach, and only the second time it has happened anywhere in the UK in over 100 years.
A team from Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) and the Zoological society of London (ZSL) are heading to North Wales to examine the calf, where they will be working with the Marine Environmental Monitoring.
The team have stressed that this is an unusual stranding and will be investigating the calf's cause of death.
Comment: Elsewhere in India on the same day a lighting strike killed 2 workers in Telangana.