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Weather tracker: Cold weather sweeps Europe and cyclone hits Australia

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 428 words · By James Parrish; James Michelin; Guardian staff reporter
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What to know about Weather tracker: Cold weather sweeps Europe and cyclone hits Australia

The article reports on severe weather events in Southern Europe and Australia, detailing low-pressure systems causing snowfall in the Alps and Croatia, as well as Cyclone Narelle's path across northern Australia. Weather agencies monitor ongoing conditions and forecast continued impacts.

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What happened

Southern Europe has been under a variety of severe weather warnings this week owing to widely unsettled conditions driven by an area of low pressure in the region.

Why it matters

This area of low pressure – previously part of the system that brought colder conditions to swathes of the UK earlier this week – moved southwards across Europe through the middle of the week.

Common ground

In doing so, it brought a cold front across western and central parts of Europe, with spells of rain and hill snow across the Alps on Wednesday, followed by snow showers on a brisk north-westerly wind.

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The article reports on severe weather events in Southern Europe and Australia, detailing low-pressure systems causing snowfall in the Alps and Croatia, as well as Cyclone Narelle's path across northern Australia. Weather agencies monitor ongoing conditions and forecast continued impacts.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Cyclone Narelle re-intensified to category 4 strength on Thursday as it turned southwards towards the North West Cape of Australia.”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support Cyclone Narelle's re-intensification to category 4.
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Claim 2: “At the time of writing, the strongest gust of nearly 70mph was recorded at Rijeka international airport, probably produced by a cold, dense katabatic wind called the bora wind.”
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Wikipedia entries describe Rijeka's geography and football club, with no weather data or bora wind measurements.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hrvatski nogometni klub Rijeka (English: Croatian Football Club Rijeka), commonly referred to as HNK Rijeka, is a Croatian professional football club based in the city of Rijeka. HNK Rijeka competes i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNK_Rijeka
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third-largest city in Croatia. It is located in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and in 2021 had a population of 107,96…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijeka
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rijeka is a city in Croatia. Rijeka may also refer to: HNK Rijeka, a football club from Rijeka 11706 Rijeka, a minor planet Rijeka, Olovo, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina Rijeka (Trnovo), a villa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijeka_(disambiguation)
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Claim 3: “Croatia was one of the more adversely affected countries in the region where 15-50cm of widespread heavy snowfall in the Gospić region was forecast, alongside the risk of blizzard conditions and snowdrifts in association with strong north-easterly winds.”
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Wikipedia references historical battles and massacres in Gospić, with no weather event data or snowfall measurements.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Battle of Gospić (Serbian: Битка за Госпић, Croatian: Bitka za Gospić) was fought in the environs of Gospić, Croatia, from 29 August until 22 September 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gospić
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gospić (pronounced [ɡǒːspitɕ]) is a town in Lika, Croatia. It is the seat of the Lika-Senj County.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospić
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gospić massacre was the mass killing of 100–120 predominantly Serb civilians in Gospić, Croatia during the last two weeks of October 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence. The majority of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospić_massacre
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Claim 4: “Cyclone Narelle will move inland through Western Australia near the territory’s capital, Perth.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support Cyclone Narelle's inland movement near Perth.
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Claim 5: “Cyclone Narelle formed in the south-west Pacific Ocean on 15 March and quickly strengthened into a category 4 storm on the Saffir Simpson scale, with gusts of more than 165mph off the coast of Queensland.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support Cyclone Narelle's formation and category 4 status.
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Claim 6: “Weather warnings will remain in place across Croatia and Slovenia owing to the continued influence of the bora winds, with peak gusts of up to 100mph forecast by their respective national weather agencies.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support weather warnings with 100mph gusts in Croatia/Slovenia.
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Claim 7: “Southern Europe has been under a variety of severe weather warnings this week owing to widely unsettled conditions driven by an area of low pressure in the region.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support severe weather warnings in Southern Europe linked to low pressure systems.
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Claim 8: “By Friday morning, accumulations of 20-40cm were expected above 600 metres, and 60-100cm above 1,000 metres in the Swiss Alps.”
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Wikipedia entries describe Swiss Alps geography but contain no weather data or snowfall measurements for the specified dates/amounts.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 km (750 mi) across several Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switze…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alps
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The geography of Switzerland features a mountainous and landlocked country located in Western and Central Europe. Switzerland's natural landscape is marked by its numerous lakes and mountains. It is s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Switzerland
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura…
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Claim 9: “The last storm to survive the trip from east to west was Cyclone Steve in 2000.”
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No evidence found in cross-references, web search, or Wikipedia to support Cyclone Steve's circumnavigation of Australia.
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