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It is thought that on Friday 18 February there was a record number of homes without power, at around 1.4 million homes. [3] [101] 90,000 homes in South West England were left without power. [102] In Cornwall, power outages affected Bossiney, Lanarth, Marazion and Trevarrack. [102] Dorset was heavily affected by the storm. [103]
Most local universities were also forced to cancel classes for much of the following week due to the storm's effects. Additionally, over 130,000 people in the Pittsburgh area were without power as a result of the heavy, wet snow. [46] For many residents, power was not restored until Monday, February 15.
The Year Without a Summer was an agricultural disaster; historian John D. Post called it "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world". [4] [5] The climatic aberrations of 1816 had their greatest effect on New England, Atlantic Canada, and Western Europe.
In December 2022, Croft was sentenced to 19 years in prison. [141] On September 15, 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh was spotted by a Secret Service agent holding an SKS-style rifle on a private golf course belonging to Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh had his weapon pointed through the fence line of the golf course, at a place that was commonly ...
The winter storm strained the power grids in northern Mexico, leading to cascading blackouts for 4.7 million homes and businesses in Mexico. [12] Temperatures as low as −18 °C (0 °F) were recorded, as shortages of natural gas led to blackouts in Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Chihuahua along the border with Texas. [123]
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season was a destructive and deadly Atlantic hurricane season.Despite having an average number of named storms, [nb 1] it became the third-costliest Atlantic hurricane season on record, behind only 2017 and 2005, mostly due to Hurricane Ian.
By 21 December 2023, the port of Eilat, which gives Israel via the Red Sea its only easy shipping access to Asia without the need to transit the Suez Canal, had seen an 85% drop in activity due to the Houthi action. [108] On 26 December 2023, Houthis said they carried out drone attacks on Eilat and other parts of Israel. [109]
In December of 2022, it was reported that global demand for commercial jet aircraft far exceeded supply, with Jefferies Group reporting a backlog of 12,720 aircraft. Boeing and Airbus , which produce more than 90% the world's commercial airliners, [ 18 ] are sold out for most of their most popular models until 2029.