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After consultation with provincial authorities and experts, the Austrian government has confirmed the end of the nationwide lockdown on 12 December. Trade, catering and services will reopen after this date. The restrictions for people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 will remain in place. Before the lockdown ends, Austria will face a severe winter attack.more

At least 59,000 households and businesses in Ireland have been left without power as a result of the impact of Storm Barra yesterday, Irish electricity network operator ESB Network said. Police are advising people not to leave their homes unnecessarily.more

London will be battered by 50mph winds on Tuesday as Storm Barra reaches the capital.more

The snowstorm Barra, which is passing through Western Europe, has paralysed traffic on the roads in Spain. Around 60 routes are impassable today.more

Britain can expect greater disruption from storms in the future and should prepare for more extreme weather following the chaos wrought by Storm Arwen which brought snow and high winds to much of the country earlier this week, ministers have warned.more

Much of the UK has been warned about potentially dangerous winds hitting the country from Tuesday, while snow is expected in some areas.more

The Army has been called in to help as thousands of people in the north of England remain without electricity a week after Storm Arwen struck. About 6,000 Northern Powergrid (NP) and 1,700 Electricity North West (ENWL) customers in Cumbria have no supply.more

Snow has fallen on London and several other parts of the country as the UK continues its headlong plunge into winter. more

About 30 thousand UK homes are still out of power as a result of the Arwen snowstorm passing through the country five days ago, and some of them will not be restored before the weekend, it said.more

Dozens of people were stranded due to a snowstorm at England's highest pub in the north of Yorkshire Tan Hill Inn on Friday evening. 61 people spent three nights there. The stranded customers were engaged in watching films, social games and karaoke.more

Repairs are under way after Storm Arwen wrought the "worst" damage to the North East's power network in 20 years. more

Intense snowfall paralysed motorway traffic in central and eastern France last night. In turn, the Arwen snowstorm passing through Spain blocked several hundred roads across the country. more

At least two people have been killed in the UK's first snowstorm this year, with speeds reaching 160 kilometers per hour in some places, the Associated Press reported yesterday.more

The Met Office has issued an amber wind warning across parts of north-east England and Scotland from Friday afternoon, lasting until Saturday morning.more

Rome is the Italian city where you can feel the most climate change. The capital area is haunted by whirlwinds, floods and droughts, underlined in the report of the League for Environmental Protection (Legambiente). A record of extreme weather events has been broken in the last decade.more

It’s time to find the waterproofs as forecasters are warning this winter is likely to be a wet and windy one.more

Christmas is nearly upon us, and this year will hopefully feel a bit more normal after Covid-19 put paid to many of the celebrations in 2020.more

A billion people could be living with potentially lethal levels of heat stress if global warming were to hit 2C, new research has revealed.more

Londoners are in for a soaking as Storm Wanda is set to lash the capital with rain and drizzle over the coming days. It comes as the Met Office has issued flood warnings in parts of the UK as remnants of the tropical storm drift in from the Atlantic.more

In Portugal, heavy snow fell on Wednesday morning near the eastern border with Spain. The most impassable roads are in the Castelo Branco and Guarda regions.more

What is historically the UK's longest lasting patch of snow has disappeared for "only the eighth time in 300 years". Dubbed the Sphinx, the patch on remote Braeriach in the Cairngorms has melted away more frequently in the last 18 yearsmore

Three people have died and one is in critical condition when a group of paddleboarders (surf-type rowers) run into trouble on a rain-swept river in West Wales, police said.more

Heavy rain has caused flooding across part of northwest England and Scotland, blocking railway lines and roads and forcing hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.more

The lack of rain that the Alt Empordà (Girona) has experienced in this extremely dry summer (in some areas it has been one of the worst of the century) has forced this Thursday for the Generalitat to declare the alert for drought in 22 municipalities that are nourished from the Fluvià Muga aquifer, one of the main sources of supply for the Pyrenean region.more

There will be no announced strike by Scottish Rail during the UN COP26 climate summit which begins on Sunday. ScotRail lines and the RMT union announced last night that a pay agreement had been reached.more