News of weather

Authorites: One dead, three missing in floods

19-05-2025 01:54 Rescuers searching for three people missing in floods that killed one man and forced almost 3,000 to flee their homes, authorities said.

FLOODING & TORRENTIAL RAIN

More than 7,500 flee from flooding in Buenos Aires Province

18-05-2025 09:06 More than 7,500 people have now been evacuated in Buenos Aires Province due to flooding caused by heavy rains; Kicillof blames "climate change."

FLOODING & TORRENTIAL RAIN

Heavy rainfall slams BA Province, forces thousands to evacuate

17-05-2025 17:08 Twenty-four hours of heavy rainfall and flooding forced the evacuation of more than 2,200 people across Buenos Aires Province, authorities said Saturday, with storms set to continue.

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

Clouds and conspiracies: concerns over push to make rain

28-03-2025 12:06 As climate change drives floods and drought, rainmaking is in fashion across the world, despite mixed evidence that it works and concerns it can stoke cross-border tensions.

Fossil Fueled

Trump leaves Paris climate agreement

21-01-2025 11:45 Trump withdraws from the Paris climate accord for a second time, a defiant rejection of global efforts to combat warming as weather events intensify worldwide.

ENVIRONMENT

Paris climate agreement goals 'in great peril,' warns UN meteorologist

11-11-2024 12:11 Paris climate agreement’s goals are in danger, warns top meteorologist Celeste Saulo; Rapidly rising temperatures are placing the planet in danger, wreaking havoc on communities and economies around the world, warns UN agency.

WEATHER

Porteños feel the chill and dream of snow in Buenos Aires

20-05-2024 16:56 With this coming Saturday set to be the coldest day of the year, could it snow in the capital?

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

2023 hottest recorded year as Earth nears key limit

09-01-2024 12:13 The year of 2023 was the hottest on record, with the increase in Earth's surface temperature nearly crossing the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, EU climate monitors have concluded.

CLIMATE CHANGE

New WMO head Saulo says top priority is helping climate-vulnerable countries

04-01-2024 16:58 Argentina’s Celeste Saulo, the first woman to head the World Meteorological Organisation, says her top priority is to help the most vulnerable countries cope with climate change and extreme weather.

POWERFUL STORMS

13 dead in Bahía Blanca after sportsclub roof collapses in storm

17-12-2023 09:23 Storms with heavy rain and winds of up to 140km per hour hits Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area; At least 13 killed when roof of a sportsclub in Bahía Blanca collapses on top of victims.

ENVIRONMENT

Storms kill three, displace thousands in southern South America

04-11-2023 13:16 El Niño leaves thousands displaced by floods in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil.

Science & Nature

Storms swell Iguazú waterfalls to near decade-high flow

31-10-2023 20:25 Heavy rains have swollen the famed Iguazú waterfalls, with the flow reaching gushing to 24.2 million litres per second – more than 16 times the falls' normal level.

Celeste Saulo interview

Incoming UN climate agency chief forecasts wind of change

03-06-2023 08:34 Celeste Saulo, the head of Argentina's Servicio Meteorológico Nacional since 2014 and the new incoming head of the UN's weather and climate agency, insists it's not too late to change how the climate crisis story ends.

ENVIRONMENT

Celeste Saulo elected first female chief of World Meteorological Organization

01-06-2023 08:42 Celeste Saulo, who has headed Argentina's weather agency since 2014, elected as the first female leader of UN climate agency.

ENVIRONMENT

Argentine in running to be UN weather agency's next chief

31-05-2023 10:13 The World Meteorological Organization, which plays a critical global role in tracking climate change, chooses a new leader this week to turbocharge that work over the next four years. UBA professor and the WMO's first vice-president Celeste Saulo is among the frontunners.