286 result(s) for storm
Budapest Sets New Temperature Record
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian capital Budapest set a new daily temperature record yesterday, with the heat rising to 37.8 °C in Újpest, District IV. The new record is almost 0.5 °C above the previous highest temperature, 37.4 °C, measured on the same day in 1946. However, the national temperature record – 39.8 °C, recorded in the southern town of Kaposvár in 1946 – was not surpassed as temperatures remained ...
Majority Of Hungarians Feel Defenceless In Face Of Effects Of Climate Change
- 12 Aug 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Fully 80 % of Hungarians feel the effects of climate change on a daily basis, and worry about it, while every seventh feels correspondingly defenceless, according to a survey published by the Energiaklub thinktank. People in small towns and villages especially feel summers are getting hotter and hotter and droughts are getting more frequent, while damagecausing pests are spreading at a faster ...
Hungry Children In Hungary
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Their refrigerators are mostly empty, but impoverished parents cook for their children every day in Rozsály and Tisztabercel, where the local government did not apply to the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) for funds with which to provide hot meals to children during the summer break. The program would help hungry children, like the ones pictured here, but the local leaders were afraid that ...
July 25 Storm Damage Claims Reach Huf 733m
- 29 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Claims by policy holders on damages resulting from a storm that swept through Hungary last Saturday could come close to 733 million forints (EUR 2.4m), insurance companies told MTI. Generali put the claim on the storm damages at 300 million forints based on preliminary estimates. Allianz faces claims of 130 million, Aegon could pay 103 million and Groupama expects to pay up to 200 million forints.
Lightning Strikes Bathers In Hungary
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
One woman was knocked unconscious and another was injured when lightning struck bathers at Vonyarcvashegy on Lake Balaton on Thursday. A beach employee said bathers were repeatedly warned to leave the water when a storm broke out, but refused to take heed. Lightning also struck a man in Martonvásár as he was cleaning the bed of a stream running through the municipality.
Weather In Hungary – Cooling Expected From Saturday
- 24 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Extreme temperatures will continue on Friday, with heat expected to reach 33-37 °C. Showers and storms may fall here and there from the appearing cumulus clouds, and winds may pick up during stormy weather. The same level of heat will remain us over Saturday until a cold front will reach the region in the afternoon and evening hours from the west, with strong northwestern winds and rainfall ...
Insurers Estimate Storm Damage At HUF 3bn
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Damages from the recent storm in Hungary are estimated around 3 billion forints (EUR 9.5m), the Association of Hungarian Insurers (Mabisz) said. Some 20,000 claims are expected in connection with storm damages, Mabisz said.
One Dies, 29 Injured In Hungary In Storm
- 10 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
One person died and 29 others were injured in the storms that hit Hungary on Wednesday, a spokesman for the disaster management authority said. The man suffered an electric shock after he entered a basement flooded in the downpour, Dániel Mukics said. Authorities were called to help at over 3,500 locations nationwide with uprooted trees, broken electric lines, flooded facilities and collapsed or ...
Intense Storm In Budapest Causes Heavy Damage
- 9 Jul 2015 10:40 AM
- current affairs
Disaster Control offices received 1,600 reports of damage in Budapest and another 3,000 elsewhere in the wake of the storm that swept across Hungary yesterday. A house collapsed in Budapest, leaving injured people trapped under the rubble. Several trolleybuses and trams did not run as their overhead cables were damaged in the storm.
Budapest Sets New Temperature Record
- 17 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian capital Budapest set a new daily temperature record yesterday, with the heat rising to 37.8 °C in Újpest, District IV. The new record is almost 0.5 °C above the previous highest temperature, 37.4 °C, measured on the same day in 1946. However, the national temperature record – 39.8 °C, recorded in the southern town of Kaposvár in 1946 – was not surpassed as temperatures remained ...
Majority Of Hungarians Feel Defenceless In Face Of Effects Of Climate Change
- 12 Aug 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Fully 80 % of Hungarians feel the effects of climate change on a daily basis, and worry about it, while every seventh feels correspondingly defenceless, according to a survey published by the Energiaklub thinktank. People in small towns and villages especially feel summers are getting hotter and hotter and droughts are getting more frequent, while damagecausing pests are spreading at a faster ...
Hungry Children In Hungary
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Their refrigerators are mostly empty, but impoverished parents cook for their children every day in Rozsály and Tisztabercel, where the local government did not apply to the Ministry of Human Resources (Emmi) for funds with which to provide hot meals to children during the summer break. The program would help hungry children, like the ones pictured here, but the local leaders were afraid that ...
July 25 Storm Damage Claims Reach Huf 733m
- 29 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Claims by policy holders on damages resulting from a storm that swept through Hungary last Saturday could come close to 733 million forints (EUR 2.4m), insurance companies told MTI. Generali put the claim on the storm damages at 300 million forints based on preliminary estimates. Allianz faces claims of 130 million, Aegon could pay 103 million and Groupama expects to pay up to 200 million forints.
Lightning Strikes Bathers In Hungary
- 27 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
One woman was knocked unconscious and another was injured when lightning struck bathers at Vonyarcvashegy on Lake Balaton on Thursday. A beach employee said bathers were repeatedly warned to leave the water when a storm broke out, but refused to take heed. Lightning also struck a man in Martonvásár as he was cleaning the bed of a stream running through the municipality.
Weather In Hungary – Cooling Expected From Saturday
- 24 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Extreme temperatures will continue on Friday, with heat expected to reach 33-37 °C. Showers and storms may fall here and there from the appearing cumulus clouds, and winds may pick up during stormy weather. The same level of heat will remain us over Saturday until a cold front will reach the region in the afternoon and evening hours from the west, with strong northwestern winds and rainfall ...
Insurers Estimate Storm Damage At HUF 3bn
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Damages from the recent storm in Hungary are estimated around 3 billion forints (EUR 9.5m), the Association of Hungarian Insurers (Mabisz) said. Some 20,000 claims are expected in connection with storm damages, Mabisz said.
One Dies, 29 Injured In Hungary In Storm
- 10 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
One person died and 29 others were injured in the storms that hit Hungary on Wednesday, a spokesman for the disaster management authority said. The man suffered an electric shock after he entered a basement flooded in the downpour, Dániel Mukics said. Authorities were called to help at over 3,500 locations nationwide with uprooted trees, broken electric lines, flooded facilities and collapsed or ...
Intense Storm In Budapest Causes Heavy Damage
- 9 Jul 2015 10:40 AM
- current affairs
Disaster Control offices received 1,600 reports of damage in Budapest and another 3,000 elsewhere in the wake of the storm that swept across Hungary yesterday. A house collapsed in Budapest, leaving injured people trapped under the rubble. Several trolleybuses and trams did not run as their overhead cables were damaged in the storm.