Category Yellow Alert

Weather Warnings For Parts Of The UK

Further warnings of high winds and rain are in place as parts of the UK prepare for the arrival of Storm Henry.   The Met Office has issued amber “be prepared” alerts for wind covering Scotland for Monday overnight into…

Yellow Alert Issued As Cat 2 Cyclone Develops Off Western Australian Coast

The cyclone could touch down on the Pilbara coast on Saturday morning. (BOM) A tropical low is forecast to become a category two tropical cyclone as it crosses the WA Pilbara coast, with communities in its path on yellow alert…

Eurasia’s highest volcano erupts in Kamchatka for second time in year; Yellow Warning Issued

Eurasia’s largest volcano, the Klyuchevskoy, located on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, has erupted for the second time this year, said Olga Girina, chief of the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT) of the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.  …

Alert level raised at Sakurajima volcano which is 50km from nuclear plant in Japan

Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, August 15th, 2015. Photograph: Reuters/Kyodo Japan warned on Saturday that a volcano 50 kilometres from a just-restarted nuclear reactor is showing signs of increased activity, and said nearby residents should prepare to evacuate.  …

Thousands flee Volcano Sinabung eruption in Indonesia

A resident rides his motorcycle as Mount Sinabung spews ash at Namanteran village in Karo Regency, Indonesia’s North Sumatra province yesterday More than 10,000 villagers have fled a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia this month, most in recent days after…