Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 2023–2024 El Niño was regarded as the fifth-most powerful El Niño–Southern Oscillation event in recorded history, resulting in widespread droughts, ...
The El Niño–Southern Oscillation is a single climate phenomenon that quasi-periodically fluctuates between three phases: Neutral, La Niña or El Niño. [12] La Niña and El Niño are opposite phases which require certain changes to take place in both the ocean and the atmosphere before an event is declared. [12]
(Reuters) - El Nino weather conditions will continue through the Northern Hemisphere during April-June 2024 with a 62% chance, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday.
18–24 October 2024 ( – ) December blackouts: 4–5 December 2024 ( – ) Location: Cuba (nationwide) Type: Total and partial power outages: Cause: Fuel shortage [1] [2] Lack of spare parts (February 2024) [1] Failure of the Antonio Guiteras Power Plant (October 2024) [3] Outcome
December 4 – 2024 Cuba blackout: The entire national power grid affecting more than 10 million citizens fails after the Antonio Guiteras thermoelectric plant collapses again. [12] December 30 – Raul Ernesto Cruz, a Salvadoran national convicted for his role in the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings, is released after serving a 30-year prison sentence ...
The earthquake’s strength was felt along the coast of Cuba causing flooding, and major destruction. According to The New York Times, The quakes damaged homes and powerlines and caused landslides in the coastal provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Granma, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said on X.
The 2020–2023 La Niña event was a rare three-year, triple-dip La Niña. [1] The impact of the event led to numerous natural disasters that were either sparked or fueled by La Niña. La Niña refers to the reduction in the temperature of the ocean surface across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, accompanied by notable changes in the ...
The provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipalities (Spanish: municipios).They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976 [1] and reformed in 2010 with the abrogation of the municipality of Varadero and the creation of two new provinces: Artemisa and Mayabeque in place of former La Habana Province.