510 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 https://www.thenationalherald.com/six-months-later-metropolitan-ieronymos-of-larissa-and-tyrnavos-speaks-about-the-floods/BOSTON – Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larissa and Tyrnavos, one of the most prominent and respected hierarchs of the Church of Greece and Orthodoxy in general, who is also a legal expert, was interviewed by The National Herald. Almost six months after the devastating floods in Thessaly, he spoke about the current situation.2024-01-20T12:24+0100thenationalherald-d046f91c9c6646ec33b92ae68a23150b20240120122400https://www.ruetir.com/2024/01/19/extreme-weather-7-nations-experienced-the-costliest-disaster-ever-in-2023-africa-two-of-the-deadliest-ruetir/Extreme weather in 2023 sets another sad record: meteorological disasters have cost the planet a figure of 63 billion dollars. According to the annual report of insurance broker Gallagher Re, the previous record of 57 billion dollars in 2020 was surpassed.2024-01-19T11:23+0100ruetir-4173cd09a5b57ab33ccc1ccbb3cb53bc20240119112300https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/15/1/120Ensemble weather forecasting involves the integration of multiple simulations to improve the accuracy of predictions by introducing a probabilistic approach. It is difficult to accurately predict heavy rainfall events that cause flash floods and, thus, ensemble forecasting could be useful to reduce....2024-01-19T11:15+0100mdpi-1b55f5c122600cee414f22ec05e0a97b20240119111500https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-record-63-billion-dollars-of-weather-disasters-hit-earth-in-2023/issued January 17. The total damage wrought by weather disasters in 2023 was $301 billion, with an unusually high 57% of that total being insured damages. For comparison, weather disasters did $360 billion in damage in 2022, with 39% of the total being insured damages. Gallagher Re’s historical database extends back to 1990.2024-01-19T04:46+0100reneweconomy-e6430dabee2beed132720100d4c0c18f20240119044600