There are no current tropical storms.
Zambia – Chama District in Muchinga Province has been hit with serious floods resulting in the loss of four lives. The floods that have hit Chama South Constituency as a result of heavy rains being experienced in the area have also, submerged crops destroying infrastructure such such bridges and feeder roads.
Massive Migrations
About 2 billion birds cross the Gulf of Mexico during the spring migration season, according to a new study that combined data from 11 weather radar stations and observations from citizen scientists.
Researcher Kyle Horton of Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology said that before he and his colleagues looked at the data from 1995 to 2015, "we could only guess at the overall numbers from surveys done along small portions of the shoreline."
Horton says that while climate change has caused the earliest seasonal migrations to begin 1.5 days earlier per decade, the peak has remained at the same period between April 19 and May 7.
Garbage Patch Cleanup Setback
A giant U-shaped floating barrier designed to corral debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been broken apart by the constant wind and waves of the North Pacific winter.
The prototype was towed to the patch between Hawaii and California last September, and early reports said it was moving slower than the plastic, allowing the trash to escape.
"This is an entirely new category of machine that is out there in extremely challenging conditions," said the device's 24-year-old inventor, Boyan Slat.
He said his Ocean Cleanup project will tow the broken device to Hawaii for examination, and it may need to be brought back to the project's headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area for full repairs.
CO2 Surge in US Emissions
A three-year decline in the amount of carbon dioxide being spewed into the atmosphere by the United States ended in 2018 with a surge that saw emissions rise by 3.4 percent.
Data collected by an independent economic research firm found it was the largest rise in carbon emissions in the country in eight years.
A report by the Rhodium Group said the spike occurred even though a record number of U.S. coal-fired power plants closed last year.
But prolonged cold spells in many areas and a hot summer increased demand for air conditioning and heating, fueling the surge.
The week's hottest temperature was 114 degrees Fahrenheit (45.6 degrees Celsius) in Learmonth, Western Australia.
The week's coldest temperature was minus 63.0 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 52.8 degrees Celsius) at Oimyakon, Siberia.
Cholera – Uganda
The Uganda Ministry of Health received a report of four suspected cholera cases on Jan. 5 who had been seen at Kirudu hospital with· diarrhea and vomiting, which had started on 4th January 2019. These suspected cholera cases were from Kabowa parish, Rubaga division.