#weather-disruption

#weather-disruption

The level is crazy – I had to put a lot down to get here. To win, to be a world champion on International Women's Day definitely means a lot, but there are bigger things going on. This feels huge and I am so thankful, but there are bigger things. I just pray for peace.

The January storm caused widespread detours and weather related obstacles, significantly disrupting normal bus operations. The January storm and ensuing freeze limited the system's ability to deliver regular service. As a result, the metrics are excluded on Monday Jan. 26 through Friday Jan. 30.

Late on Friday morning, after the entire playing surface had spent most of the preceding few days shrouded in plastic sheeting, the sun broke out. The covers were peeled back and the ground staff a huge team of about 70 people, those covers don't move themselves set about trundling their roller slowly across a fresh pitch at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. The bad weather had lifted and, finally, work could begin.

With mortgage rates near 6%, weekly housing demand rebounded as winter weather effects began fading from the data. The improvement appears tied more to normalization following the late-January snowstorm than to a structural acceleration in market activity. New listings also increased week over week, reinforcing signs that weather-related distortions are easing. Housing inventory rose modestly, and the year-over-year price-cut percentage is now nearly 1% lower than during the same period in 2025.

We had a brief stopover in Frankfurt before connecting to a transatlantic flight back to the States a couple of hours later. There is no angst quite like "I hope we don't miss our connection" angst. We got to the Berlin airport and it said that our first leg was delayed by 10 minutes. Not a problem. I'm a veteran flyer and a regular Zoloft patient; a 10-minute delay ain't s-t to me.

Sunday's Championship game between Sheffield United and Oxford United is one of numerous EFL matches postponed because of frozen pitches. Seven fixtures have been called off in League Two and two more have fallen to the freezing weather in League One. In a statement, the Blades said a referee looked at the Bramall Lane pitch before the scheduled 12:00 GMT kick-off and found parts of the playing surface were frozen.

You don't want to come all the way over to this part of the world and only play one game, Harry Brook said. Very frustrating.

The Global Sumud Flotilla carrying aid to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip has been forced to turn back due to poor weather, according to a statement by the group and sources travelling with the mission. The flotilla said on X that strong winds on Sunday of more than 30 knots (55.6 kilometres per hour, or 34.5 miles per hour) on the Mediterranean Sea could have posed a problem for smaller boats in the convoy.

"I am an extraordinary manager but to control lightning and thunder, still I am not good enough, I am sorry," he joked.