Tropical Storm Sara scraped along northern Honduras' Caribbean coast early Friday, dumping torrential rains across parts of Central America and southern Mexico after making an initial landfall overnight. Sara hit land about 105 miles west-northwest of Cabo Gracias a Dios on the Honduras-Nicaragua border, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. That is near Brus Laguna, a village of about 13,000 inhabitants. There are a few other population centers nearby. By dawn, the center said the storm was about 205 miles east-southeast of Belize City and was moving west at 9 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. The storm was expected to remain roughly on that path before heading out to sea again and threatening the coast of Belize.

A woman tragically passed away in front of her husband after being struck by lightning during a mountain hike. The Argentinian couple were on holiday in the Red Valley, part of Peru's Cusco region, when a weather-related disaster struck. Gabriela Daiana Basallo, 32, was hit by lightning and instantly killed in front of her husband, Samuel Andres Sierra, who was said to have sustained serious injuries from the incident. When called on Tuesday (12 November), authorities found Gabriela's body with burns following the freak accident, police reports reveal.

Residents of thousands of villages were ordered to evacuate and ports were closed as another typhoon - the fourth in less than a month - hit the weather-ravaged Philippines. This was reported by UCA News. According to the national meteorological agency, there have been no reports of casualties or damage yet. The typhoon, dubbed “Toraji” hit the country's northeastern coast near the city of Dilasag, about 220 kilometers northeast of the capital Manila.

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has declared this Sunday a disaster situation in the whole country due to the heavy rains of the last days that have caused floods, overflows and landslides affecting 27 of the 32 Colombian departments and about 46,000 families. “Due to what is happening in these days, a disaster situation is declared throughout the country due to climate variability, which generates unpredictable and unusual impacts, increasing vulnerability in the territories”, said the president in a press conference after an emergency committee -Puesto de Mando Unificado (PMU) - (Unified Command Post).

The impact of microplastics on cloud formation and disruption of cloud formation mechanisms and climate has been revealed by a study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, published Nov. 9 in the journal Acs ES&T Air. “Over the past two decades of research on microplastics, scientists have found that it's everywhere, so this is another piece of that puzzle,” explained Miriam Friedman, professor of chemistry at Penn State and senior author of the study. “Now it's clear. that we need to better understand how they interact with our climate system because we've been able to demonstrate that the process of cloud formation can be altered using microplastics.” According to the authors of the new study, microplastics act as ice nucleating particles, microscopic aerosols that promote the formation of ice crystals in clouds.

Due to investments in polluting activities, the use of private jets and superyachts, billionaires on average emit more CO₂ in just 90 minutes than the average inhabitant of the planet produces in a lifetime. This is according to a November 9 report by the non-governmental organization Oxfam, published on the eve of the COP29 climate summit in Baku. “Representatives of the richest socio-economic groups bear a major responsibility for the worsening climate crisis generated by their lifestyles, consumption and investments,” emphasizes Francesco Petrelli, Oxfam's representative in Italy.

Torrential rains brought by tropical storm Trami triggered widespread flooding in eastern Philippines, leaving at least 14 people dead, authorities said on Wednesday. Thousands of people were marooned in their homes and on rooftops as emergency services struggled to respond to a deluge of rescue requests. The storm, locally called Kristine, was advancing towards the northeastern provinces, prompting the government to close public schools and offices on the island of Luzon, except those directly involved in disaster response.

With temperatures rising across the region Tuesday morning, North Texans should plan to wear shorts and t-shirts again. Some areas as much as 10 degrees warmer than 24 hours earlier, feeling more like late September than late October. Part of the warm-up is thanks to winds out of the south bringing moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, raising the humidity. Temperatures will continue to rise over the next few days thanks to an area of high pressure across the Southwest. The First Alert Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert for Wednesday and Thursday due to near-record heat. The high temperatures will be as much as 16 degrees above average for this time of year.

Hurricane Oscar made landfall in northeastern Cuba on Saturday evening as a tiny but mighty storm. Cuba, which continues to deal with the fallout from a power crisis this week, will see strong winds and flooding rains over the next 24 hours as the storm traverses the island’s rugged terrain. Oscar unexpectedly and rapidly intensified into a hurricane on Saturday as it moved through the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. The storm formed as one of the smallest hurricanes ever recorded in terms of its wind field, according to data collected by the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC).