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Summer 2018 in much of Europe was characterised by prolonged heatwaves, leading to droughts in some areas.

In the early weeks of 2007, heavy rain caused many deaths in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo resulting from severe flooding and related accidents.

Severe storm at Klerksdorp, South Africa in November 2006.

Maximum temperature records were broken in many parts of Europe, due to heatwaves.

Following an extremely dry spring causing a drought, parts of Italy suffered from water shortages in 2017.

Severe thunderstorms with golf ball size hail and flash floods hit Gauteng province of South Africa in late November.

Meteosat-8 spots series of dust outbreaks in March 2021.

In mid-September 2017 a huge mesoscale convective system (MCS) in Croatia caused flash floods.

Fires and rapidly growing burn scars over Mali and Burkina Faso.

Catastrophic floods hit Germany, Belgium and parts of West Europe mid July 2021.