Snapshot of recent weather events

Below is a snapshot of current and recent weather-related events reported by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration:

In Algeria, Ouargla, in the Sahara Desert, a maximum temperature of 51.3 degrees Celsius was reported on July 5, probably a national record, while in Oman a 24-hour minimum temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius was recorded on June 28 at Quriyat, south of Muscat.
Temperatures reached 33.4 degrees Celsius in Kevo, Finland, and 33.5 degrees Celsius in Badufoss, Norway, on July 17.
A new record minimum overnight temperature of 25.2 degrees Celsius was set on July 18 at Makkaur in the country's north.
About 50 forest fires burned across Sweden in mid-July.
In Greece, deadly fires fanned by extremely high winds killed dozens of people near Athens Tuesday night in one of the nation's worst tragedies for years.
Japan experienced its worst flooding and landslide in decades, with many daily rainfall records broken between June 28 and July 8. More than 200 people were killed and about 10,000 houses were destroyed or inundated. A heatwave the following week saw 200 out of 927 weather stations recording maximum temperature above 35 degrees Celsius on July 15.
The city of Kumagaya, near Tokyo, set a new maximum daily temperature record of 41.1 degrees Celsius.
Schools in Manila in the Philippines and nearby provinces were shut Friday, while some flights were either diverted or canceled due to heavy monsoon rains which flooded streets in the capital.
Siberia is experiencing a huge wave of wildfires in the taiga forests, with hot, dry weather frustrating attempts to quell blazes that have blackened as many as 10 million hectares (38,610 square miles) in 2018 and led to smoke reaching Canada.
South Korea's daily maximum temperatures exceeded 35 degrees Celsius in some places, breaking daily records.
The driest first-half of summer on record was observed and a heatwave is predicted to continue across much of England this week, with temperatures peaking at 32-34 degrees Celsius in some places on Thursday or Friday.
Heatwaves and drought were recorded at 15 synoptic stations in Ireland.
In the U.S., the Furnace Creek weather station in Death Valley national park in California recorded a temperature of 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on July 8. (It already holds the record for the highest temperature on Earth at 56.7°C (134°F), on July 10, 1913.)
Downtown Los Angeles set a new monthly July minimum overnight record of 26.1 degrees Celsius on July 7.
Moderate to exceptional drought covers 26.3% of the U.S., affecting almost 133 million people.
A heatwave combined with high humidity in the Canadian province of Quebec contributed to dozens of deaths, especially among the vulnerable and elderly.

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