2420GDACS EMM News Feed Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material Weather in Germany: Heavy thunderstorms threaten here – tornadoes possiblehttps://www.breakinglatest.news/health/weather-in-germany-heavy-thunderstorms-threaten-here-tornadoes-possible/Panoramic Storm Thunderstorms with hail and heavy rain threaten – locally limited tornadoes possible. Status: 5:15 p.m. | Reading time: 3 minutes. The thunderstorms can be accompanied by hail and hurricane gusts. Source: Tobias Hartl/Vifogra/dpa/symbol image. You can listen to our WELT podcasts here.2023-06-21T18:08+0200breakinglatest-301578e6d00f6ea8ad7cb34ab05c0c0820230621180800From heat waves to wildfire: Is Germany prepared for climate extremes this summer?https://www.thelocal.de/20230615/from-heat-waves-to-wildfire-is-germany-prepared-for-climate-extremes-this-summerHeat waves. According to the EEA, heat waves will become more frequent, more intense and more prolonged as a result of climate change. The summer of 2022 was already a "summer of heat waves,” the organisation wrote. In fact, last summer was the warmest ever recorded in Europe.2023-06-21T13:12+0200thelocal-de-f9c2260db15d2e4b7a0c7b99809740c420230621131200New analysis indicates European cities and countries with highest expected losses from future floodinghttps://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-analysis-indicates-european-cities-and-countries-highest-expected-losses-future-flooding-2023-06-21_enThis study provides a large-scale risk assessment of river-based flooding in Europe for the years 2025, 2055 and 2085 — to estimate flood losses to homes. Floods affect more people globally than any other natural hazard. Fluvial flooding usually happens when a significant amount of rain falls over a....2023-06-21T10:13+0200EC-742352d3f612b1783fa5a211e523419c20230621101300Europe warming twice as fast as global average led to 16,000 premature deaths in 2022https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41165395.htmlEurope is warming twice as fast as the global average in the past four decades, with heatwaves alone contributing to more than 16,000 premature deaths last year. The State of the Climate in Europe 2022 report, which was released in Dublin on Monday as a major climate change conference got underway, said the continent was approximately 2.2023-06-19T13:05+0200irishexaminer-1a9246b1333c8e907816d71161560b0520230619130500