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Climate dissonance and real solutions

FOR the last several weeks I keep hearing people commenting, ‘We’re not getting any winter this year.’ Yet when I go out in the mornings — when it’s as cold as it gets, which isn’t very cold — there are people in sweaters, jackets, mufflers, hats and gloves. Yes, it’s a smart adaptation technique, as unless people are used to extreme heat they are going to...

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Heading off weather influence on rice farming

AGRICULTURAL practices have faced various adversities that have threatened our food security. Some serious challenges include high temperatures, cold spells or low temperatures, flooding, drought, gusty winds, and hailstorms. These adversities are particularly responsible for unfilled grains in rice fields. Weather has a profound relationship...

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BBC celebrates 100 years of ‘poetic’ shipping forecast

Modern seafarers can now rely on sophisticated forecasting technology but the calm, rhythmic delivery of the forecast by one of BBC Radio 4’s silky-voiced continuity announcers has turned the forecast into something of a beloved British institution...

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Rare rainfall spell may begin on Friday

Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Tuesday warned about a spell of rainfall likely to start on Friday morning, describing it a rather rare weather event...

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BMD predicts dry weather across Bangladesh

The weather is likely to remain dry with a temporarily partly cloudy sky across the country, according to BMD’s latest weather bulletin on Tuesday...

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Six fishermen killed, 78 missing 

The depression-induced inclement weather continued to wreak havoc along the coast, especially in Cox’s Bazar, causing six more deaths, inundation of at least 200 villages, while leaving scores of...

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4 killed, 9 missing as rain continues

Four people were killed and nine others, including eight fishermen, remained missing as boats capsized in two separate incidents amid inclement weather triggered by incessant rainfall...

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Brief relief from heat likely after May 6

Dry and hot weather is likely to continue until a fresh spell of rain eases the ongoing heatwave on May 6, meteorologists said. The next spell of rain is likely to...

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Extreme April finally ends with rain forecast

April stood out as a month of extreme weather as temperature hit 35 years high on the last day of the month on Tuesday amidst an unprecedented heatwave continuing for...

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Playing Russian roulette with Middle Eastern oil

LAST September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or ‘medicane.’ Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn’t get hot enough to produce hurricanes...

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