2010 North Carolina elections, State, Ballot measures
At least one statewide ballot measure was on the November 2 ballot:


2010 North Carolina elections, Local
Many elections for county offices were also held on November 2, 2010.


2010 North Carolina judicial election
One justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 2, 2010, on the same day as the U.S. Senate election, U.S. House elections, and other state-level elections. North Carolina judicial elections are non-partisan. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. All incumbent judges and justices who sought re-election won their respective races, except for Judge Cressie Thigpen of the Court of Appeals, who had been appointed shortly before the election and lost North Carolina's first statewide election to use Instant-runoff voting.


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Supreme Court
Incumbent Edward Thomas Brady did not file to run for re-election. N.C. Court of Appeals Judges Robert C. Hunter  and Barbara Jackson filed to run for the open seat.


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals (Calabria seat)
Incumbent Ann Marie Calabria  first announced that she would not seek re-election, but then reversed course and filed to run for another term. Judge Calabria had intended to run for re-election until her mother’s health declined. Then, her mother's health improved before the deadline to file as a candidate. Other candidates who filed for the seat included state District Court Judge Jane P. Gray of Wake County and Superior Court Judge Mark E. Klass of Davidson County. Because more than two candidates filed for the seat, a primary election was held on May 4 to eliminate one candidate. Calabria won the primary with 37 percent, while Gray came in second with 36 percent of the vote. Klass, who took 26 percent, was eliminated. Calabria and Gray faced off in the general election.


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals (Elmore seat)
Incumbent Rick Elmore filed to run for re-election. Attorney Leto Copeley of Orange County, law clerk and 2005 law school graduate , and attorney Alton D. (Al) Bain also filed. Because more than two candidates filed for the seat, a primary election was held on May 4. Walker was the highest vote getter in the primary with 38 percent, followed by Elmore with 28 percent. Copeley, with 18 percent, and Bain, with 14 percent, were eliminated from the race. Walker and Elmore faced off in the general election.


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals (Geer seat)
Incumbent Martha A. Geer was opposed by appeals referee and adjunct law instructor .


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals (Steelman seat)
Incumbent Sanford L. Steelman, Jr. announced in 2009 that he would run for re-election to a second term. No candidates filed to oppose him.


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals (Wynn seat)
When longtime Court of Appeals Judge James A. Wynn, Jr. was appointed and confirmed as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, that triggered a special election for his seat. Under state law, because the vacancy in Wynn's seat occurred after the state's primary elections, the election employed instant runoff voting—the first time such a mechanism had been used in a statewide election in North Carolina. The law that allowed for instant runoff voting for judicial elections was eventually repealed in 2013.


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals (Wynn seat)
Governor Perdue appointed Cressie Thigpen to fill the seat through the election. Thigpen then filed to run for the full eight-year term, as did twelve other candidates, including attorneys Chris Dillon, Anne Middleton, John Sullivan and Pamela Vesper, all of Raleigh; attorney J. Wesley Casteen of Wilmington; attorney Daniel Garner  of Wake Forest; attorneys John Bloss, Jewel Ann Farlow  (a 2008 candidate) and Stan Hammer, all of Greensboro; Superior Court Judge Mark E. Klass (who had previously run for the Calabria seat); former Court of Appeals Judge Douglas McCullough; and former North Carolina Commissioner of Labor Harry Payne.


2010 North Carolina judicial election, Court of Appeals (Wynn seat), IRV Second Round results
Cressie Thigpen and Doug McCullough collected the most first-choice votes, while no candidate received fifty percent plus one vote. Therefore, the two advanced to the instant runoff, where second and third choices would be tallied to determine the winner. The State Board of Elections announced on Nov. 3 that it would be "at least a month" before the results would be known. Unofficial results were released in December, showing McCullough winning by about 6,000 votes. Thigpen called for a recount. The recount showed a slightly changed vote total, but the ultimate result was the same, and Thigpen conceded defeat.


2010 North Carolina's 7th congressional district election
North Carolina's 7th congressional district election, 2010 was an election held to determine who would represent North Carolina's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives during the 112th Congress. The candidates were incumbent Democrat Mike McIntyre and Republican  former United States Marine Corps second lieutenant Ilario Pantano. Mike McIntyre defeated Ilario Pantano, winning a seventh term in the United States House of Representatives, 54% to 46%. It was McIntyre's closest reelection campaign to date.


2010 North Carolina's 7th congressional district election, Background
North Carolina's 7th District is located in Southeastern North Carolina, stretching from the Sandhills to Wilmington. The district has a Cook PVI rating of R+5, meaning the district is slightly more conservative than average. The 7th district was won by Republican President George W. Bush in 2004 by a large margin and Republican Senator John McCain in 2008 by a slimmer margin.


2010 North Carolina's 7th congressional district election, Background
The 7th district race was especially competitive in 2010 due to uncertainty about the nation's economy and negative approval of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama. Mike McIntyre, a six-term conservative Democrat from Lumberton, supported the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. However, McIntyre opposed most of the other major pieces of legislation passed by Democrats in the 111th Congress, including the American Clean Energy and Security Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.


2010 North Carolina's 7th congressional district election, Background
Pantano used McIntyre's vote in favor of the stimulus bill and his vote to elect Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House to attack him, while McIntyre spun Pantano's association with Wall Street against him. Pantano was already a controversial figure after he was accused of shooting two unarmed Iraqis while serving in Iraq in 2004.


2010 North Carolina's 7th congressional district election, Background
In the general election, McIntyre was endorsed by the National Rifle Association, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and the National Right to Life Committee.


2010 North Carolina's 7th congressional district election, Primary Election Results
Ilario Pantano upset former 7th district Republican congressional candidate Will Breazeale. Breazeale lost to McIntyre in 2008 with only 32% of the vote to McIntyre's 68%. Breazeale endorsed Mike McIntyre after he lost 2010's Republican primary to Ilario Pantano.


2010 North Carolina's 7th congressional district election, General Election Results
Mike McIntyre won reelection by a slim margin compared to his last few elections, with 53.7% of the vote. Pantano did well in the Wilmington suburbs and nearly claimed victory in New Hanover and Cumberland Counties, but McIntyre's 44-point margin of victory in Robeson County and strong showings in other rural counties put him over the top.


2010 North Dakota State Bison football team
The 2010 North Dakota State Bison football team represented North Dakota State University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bison were led by eighth-year head coach Craig Bohl and played their home games at the Fargodome. They were a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They finished the season 9–5 overall and 4–4 in MVFC play to finish tied for third place. They received an at-large qualifier bid into the FCS playoffs, their first FCS playoff bid in school history since moving to Division I in 2004 and being eligible for the playoffs in 2008.


2010 North Dakota State Bison football team
The Bison were not expected to make the playoffs but managed enough votes to get in. NDSU punched above their seeding when then beat Robert Morris, 43–17, in the First Round and knocked off #4 Montana State in the Second Round, 42–17. In the Quarterfinals, the Bison lost on a last second fumble against #5 seeded Eastern Washington, 38–31, in overtime during a snowy game in Spokane, Washington. The Bison were driving down the field and were on the 5-yard line when quarterback Brock Jensen ran and appeared to be down at the 1-yard line; the play was called a fumble and recovered by Eastern Washington.


2010 North Dakota elections
Elections were held in North Dakota on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Primary elections were held on June 8, 2010.


2010 North Dakota elections, Federal, United States Senate
The nominees are Tracy Potter (Democratic Party), Keith Hanson (Libertarian Party), and incumbent Governor John Hoeven (Republican Party).


2010 North Dakota elections, Federal, United States House
The one North Dakota seat in the United States House of Representatives is up for election in 2010. The nominees are incumbent Earl Pomeroy (Democratic Party) and Rick Berg (Republican Party).


2010 North Dakota elections, State
Agriculture Commissioner, State Attorney General, Public Service Commissioner, Secretary of State, and Tax Commissioner are up for election in 2010.


2010 North Dakota elections, State, State Senate
One-half of the seats of the North Dakota Senate are up for election in 2010.


2010 North Dakota elections, State, State House of Representatives
One-half of the seats in the North Dakota House of Representatives are up for election in 2010.


2010 North Dakota elections, State, Judicial positions
Multiple judicial positions will be up for election in 2010.


2010 North Dakota elections, State, Ballot measures
One measure has been certified, and at least ten initiatives are pending.


2010 North Dakota elections, Local
Many elections for county offices will also be held on November 2, 2010.


2010 North Greenville Crusaders football team
The 2010 North Greenville Crusaders football team represented North Greenville University in the 2010 NCAA Division II college football season. The Crusaders offense scored 408 points while the defense allowed 195 points.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was the one of the most active tropical cyclone season in the North Indian Ocean since 1998. The season saw 8 depressions and 5 named storms forming in the region.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center releases unofficial advisories to the Indian Ocean in the Northern Hemisphere, east of the Horn of Africa and west of the Malay Peninsula. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean — the Arabian Sea to the west of the Indian subcontinent, abbreviated ARB and the Bay of Bengal to the east, abbreviated BOB by the IMD.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Seasonal summary
The season officially started on May 17, 2010, with Cyclone Laila and ended on December 8, 2010. During the season, cyclones Laila, Phet, Giri and Jal along with Bandu caused excessive life loss across the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Seasonal summary
This is the only season to have five named storms since the 1998 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. Multiple storms together killed some 402 people wreaking damage worth at least US$2.985 billion. Albeit very active, no tropical storms formed between mid June and early October because of a very strong southwest monsoon, a weather anomaly that caused the 2010 Pakistan floods.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Laila
On May 17, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded an area of low pressure to a depression, giving it the designation "BOB 01". At that time, the depression was located approximately 930 km (580 mi) east-southeast of Chennai, India. Later that day, the IMD upgraded Depression BOB 01 to a deep depression. That evening, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) designated the system as Tropical Cyclone 01B. The next morning, the deep depression strengthened further and was upgraded to a cyclonic storm and named "Laila" by the IMD. The storm continued to grow and became a severe cyclonic storm by May 19, it was given a Category 1 tropical cyclone status by the JTWC. Later the same day, it started weakening. On May 21, Laila dissipated completely.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Laila
The storm made landfall near Bapatla, Guntur District as a tropical storm between 11:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC (16:30–17:30 IST)on May 20.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Bandu
On May 19, the JTWC reported that Tropical Storm 02A had formed. Later that day, the IMD upgraded the system into a depression and designated it "ARB 01". The IMD further upgraded the depression into a deep depression that same evening. Late, May 20, the IMD downgraded ARB 01 to a depression over the coast of Somalia. However the next day it strengthened again to become Cyclonic Storm Bandu. The storm then weakened and dissipated on May 23.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Bandu
The island of Abd al Kuri in Yemen was hit by the storm causing the death of one girl and destruction of many houses on the island. On May 20 the storm disabled a cargo vessel, MV Dubai Moon, and left it drifting off the Somali coast. Twenty-three crew members were rescued by helicopters from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Chatham. The cargo ship later sank.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Phet
Early on May 30, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that an area of low pressure had formed about 925 km (575 mi), to the southwest of Mumbai, India. The area of low pressure had loose organized convection developing around the low level circulation center within the monsoon trough. The system was located to the south of a high pressure center anchored over Oman in an area of moderate vertical windshear.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Phet
On May 31, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded an area of low pressure to a depression, giving it the designation "ARB 02". The IMD further upgraded the depression into a deep depression the next day. JTWC reported the same day that a Tropical Storm had formed. On June 1, IMD upgraded the system into a cyclonic storm and named it "Phet". The storm intensified to a Severe Cyclonic Storm in early hours of June 2. The same day IMD upgraded the storm to a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm. By the 5th, the cyclone had been downgraded to a cyclonic storm by the IMD as it passed over the Gulf of Oman. On the 7th, Phet dissipated completely.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 02
On October 7, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded an area of low pressure to a depression, giving it the designation "BOB 02". At that time, the depression was located approximately 180 km (110 mi) southeast of Visakhapatnam. Later that day, the IMD reported that the system was 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Visakhapatnam. On the same day, the IMD reported that the system moved away from Visakhapatnam and maintained strength. The system was forecast to make landfall between Gopalpur and Paradip overnight but the depression made landfall over Paradip late on October 7 instead.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 02
On October 8, the IMD reported that the system had weakened slightly. Later on that day, the IMD reported that the depression had further weakened. The storm made its second landfall at Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Signal 3 cyclone alert was issued at the Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla. The Depression continued to weaken as it moved northwest until it was caught up in the jet stream and completely absorbed by a non-tropical storm early on October 9.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 02
11 people were killed in the submerged coastal areas of Bangladesh on the day when the storm made landfall. Tens of thousands of people were stranded as flooding triggered by the storm surge inundated thousands of homes in the low-lying coastal zone. The heavy rain took the toll further to 17.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression BOB 03
On October 13, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded an area of low pressure to a depression, giving it the designation "BOB 03". At that time, the depression was located approximately 700 kilometres (430 mi) east of Visakhapatnam. Late on that day, the IMD reported that the system had further intensified. The IMD upgraded the depression into a deep depression on October 15. The system was forecast to make landfall between Gopalpur and Paradip near Puri late on that day. Instead, it made landfall very close to Gopalpur. Early on October 16, BOB 03 started weakening. Later on that day, the depression degenerated into a remnant low. The remnants continued to weaken until it dissipated completely that day.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Giri
On October 19, an area of low pressure formed in the Bay of Bengal. During the next day, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded the area of low pressure to a depression giving it the designation "BOB 04". At that time it was located approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) southwest of Sittwe, Myanmar. Early on October 21, the IMD upgraded Depression BOB 04 to a deep depression. That day, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) designated the system as Tropical Cyclone 04B.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Giri
Later, the deep depression strengthened further and was upgraded to a cyclonic storm and named "Giri" by the IMD. Early on October 22, the IMD upgraded the storm to a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm. The cyclone had intensified to a Category 4 tropical cyclone on the SSHS according to the JTWC. Late on the same day, the IMD reported that the system had grown stronger than Cyclone Phet, becoming the most powerful storm of the season. According to the news, the cyclone made landfall late on October 22, at Kyaukphyu, Arakan, Myanmar.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Giri
Late on October 22, Giri weakened into a Severe Cyclonic Storm. Early on October 23, Giri further weakened into a Cyclonic Storm. Later the same day, Giri continued to weaken and became a depression. The depression continued to weaken until it decayed into a remnant low late on October 23. Early on October 24, the remnants of Giri were completely absorbed by a non-tropical low near the Himalayas.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Jal
On October 12, a disturbance formed in the South China Sea, just off the eastern coast of Borneo. During the next few days, the system entered the border of the east Indian Ocean and intensified slightly. As soon as the system entered the eastern border of the Bay of Bengal on November 1, the IMD immediately upgraded the disturbance into a depression, because the system had already organized itself on October 31, a day before the system entered the IMD's area of responsibility.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Jal
Later on November 1, the system began showing signs of further, but slow organization, as it continued moving west slowly. on November 2, the Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD) also issued their first advisory on the system, and simply called it Depression. Later on that day, the IMD reported that the system had weakened into a low-pressure area, but they forecasted it to intensify into a depression soon again. Late on November 3, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued a Tropical Cyclone Formation Alert on the system.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Jal
Early on November 4, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded the area of low pressure to a depression giving it the designation "BOB 05". That day, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) designated the system as Tropical Cyclone 05B. Early on November 5, the IMD upgraded Depression BOB 05 to a deep depression. Later, the deep depression strengthened further, prompting the IMD to upgrade it to a cyclonic storm, and was named "Jal." The storm continued to grow and became a severe cyclonic storm by November 6.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Jal
Soon afterwards, it was upgraded to a Category 1 Tropical Cyclone by the JTWC. On November 7, Jal started weakening. Soon afterwards, the IMD reported that Jal weakened into a Cyclonic Storm. Later that day, the JTWC downgraded Jal into a Tropical storm. Late on the same day, the IMD reported that the storm weakened into a Deep Depression. As a deep depression, the system made landfall at Chennai, a few hours later. The system continued to weaken and became a depression by early hours of November 8.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Jal
The depression continued to weaken until it dissipated into a remnant low on the same day. On that very same day the IMD said that there was a possibility of Jal's remnants regenerating over the north east Arabian Sea. As predicted, the system moved into the Arabian Sea without weakening by early November 9. However, instead of crossing the Arabian Sea, the system moved north along the western coast of India, restrengthening slightly, but not enough for it to regenerate completely. Within a few hours, the storm started moving inland, due to the prevailing winds. The system rapidly weakened as it moved farther inland over the next few days, causing severe flooding along the way. Early on November 12, the remnants of Cyclone Jal were completely absorbed by a non-tropical low over the Himalayas.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression BOB 06
In early December, a low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal. The low-pressure area moved towards the Indian coast and became more well marked. On December 7, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) upgraded the area of low pressure to a depression giving it the designation "BOB 06". At that time it was located approximately 450 kilometres (280 mi) south-southwest of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Until December 8, the depression moved northwestwards and made landfall at Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, India where it dissipated into a remnant low soon after the landfall.


2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects
This is a table of all storms in the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, duration, peak intensities (according to the IMD storm scale), damage, and death totals. Damage and death totals include the damage and deaths caused when that storm was a precursor wave or extratropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 2010 USD.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season
The 2010 North Queensland Cowboys season was the 16th season in the club's history. Coached by Neil Henry and co-captained by Johnathan Thurston and Matthew Scott, they competed in the National Rugby League's 2010 Telstra Premiership, finishing in 15th place and failing to make the finals for the 3rd consecutive year.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
Prior to the kick-off of the 2010 season, the media's attention surrounded the Cowboys' signing of ex-Australian international forward, Willie Mason on a one-year deal. The controversial figure was one of the team's most consistent players in 2010 but would leave the Cowboys at season's end to join English Super League side Hull Kingston Rovers.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
2010 resulted in a very poor season for the Cowboys who recorded just five wins from 24 matches, although four of those wins came against teams that would participate in the 2010 finals series. Had the Melbourne Storm not been deducted premiership points for salary cap breaches earlier in the year, the Cowboys would have received the wooden spoon. During the season the side went on a three-game losing streak, two four-game losing streaks and ended the season on a run of six straight losses.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
Highlights during the season included a golden point extra time victory over the Newcastle Knights in Round 20, in which rookie winger Will Tupou scored the match-winning try and the debuts of 18-year-old Michael Morgan and 17-year-old Jason Taumalolo, who would go on to play integral roles in the Cowboys' first Premiership win in 2015. Taumalolo was the youngest player to ever make his debut for the Cowboys.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
The Cowboys' season of disappointment only got worse when Johnathan Thurston was arrested in Brisbane for drunk and disorderly behaviour during the off-season. His captaincy role at the Cowboys was under review, but no further action was taken. Furthermore, CEO Peter Parr was removed from his role and relegated to football operations manager.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season, Season summary
During the off-season the club underwent a major overhaul of personnel, releasing 15 players and signing a number of new recruits for 2011, including Queensland and Australian representatives Dallas Johnson and Brent Tate.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season, Ladder
1 Melbourne were deducted eight premiership points and barred from receiving premiership points for the rest of the season due to gross long-term salary cap breaches.


2010 North Queensland Cowboys season, Representatives
The following players have played a representative match in 2010


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election
The 2010 Rhine-Westphalia state election was held on 9 May 2010 to elect the members of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. The incumbent coalition government of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) led by Minister-President Jürgen Rüttgers was defeated. The Social Democratic Party (SPD) subsequently formed a minority government with The Greens, led by SPD leader Hannelore Kraft, who became Minister-President.


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Campaign and issues
As the election was held in Germany's most populous state, it was seen as a test of the federal CDU–FDP government's performance after seven months in office. The government was accused of being indecisive as the two coalition partners had different aims. As the Bundesrat is made up of representatives from the states, the federal government also risked losing its narrow Bundesrat majority in this election.


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Campaign and issues
Other factors in the election were the proposed EU bailout of Greece as well as a fundraising scandal in the governing party and debate over the state's education policy.


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Parties
The table below lists parties represented in the previous Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Election result
The turnout of 59.3% was the second lowest of any North Rhine-Westphalia state election. Both major parties did poorly; the CDU achieved its worst ever result, while the SPD achieved its worst result since 1950. The main beneficiaries of the election were parties to the left of the SPD, the Greens and The Left, the latter winning seats for the first time. The success of The Left marked the first time since 1950 that a left-wing party had entered the state Landtag.


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Outcome
The outcome of the election was similar to the 2008 Hessian state election, with both the CDU and SPD winning the same number of seats, and neither the incumbent government nor SPD–Green opposition acquiring a majority due to the presence of The Left. The SPD–Green bloc came up one seat short of a majority, while the CDU–FDP bloc was ten seats short. There was speculation of a possible grand coalition between the SPD and CDU, an SPD–Green–Left arrangement, or an SPD–Green–FDP "traffic light coalition".


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Outcome
On 15 May, the FDP declined an offer to enter talks with the SPD and Greens, saying the offer "obviously lacked seriousness" as the two parties had, on the same day, made a similar offer to The Left. By 23 May, negotiations between the three left-of-centre parties appeared to have broken down. This prompted the FDP to enter negotiations with the SPD and Greens. At the same time, talks for a grand coalition between the SPD and CDU were taking place.


2010 North Rhine-Westphalia state election, Outcome
Ultimately, no deal could be reached with the FDP, CDU, or Left. The SPD and Greens reached an agreement to form a minority coalition government, and on 14 July, the Landtag formally elected Hannelore Kraft as Minister-President.


2010 North Sun Intercollegiate Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Northern Sun Men's Basketball Tournament in 2010 was won by the team representing St. Cloud State University.


2010 North Texas Mean Green football team
The 2010 North Texas Mean Green football team represented the University of North Texas in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 2010 season was the team's fourth under head coach Todd Dodge. The Mean Green played their home games on campus at Fouts Field in Denton, Texas as members of the Sun Belt Conference. They finished the season 3–9, 3–5 in Sun Belt play, during their final season at Fouts Field, before moving to their new stadium the following season.


2010 North Texas Mean Green football team, Season Recap
After starting the season with a 1-6 record head coach Todd Dodge was fired by the school. Dodge would finish at North Texas with a combined record of 6-36 over his 31⁄2 seasons. Mike Canales would take over as interim head coach. Under Canales the team would win 2 of its last 5 games and rebound to finish 3-9 overall.


2010 North Texas Mean Green football team, Season Recap
Following the season it was announced that former Iowa State head coach and Florida defensive coach Dan McCarney would take over as head coach for the 2011 season.


2010 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to North Tyneside Metropolitan Council took place on 6 May 2010 on the same day as other council elections in England and the UK general election.


2010 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
North Tyneside Council is elected "in thirds" which means one councillor from each three-member ward is elected each year with a fourth year when the mayoral election takes place.


2010 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election
One third of the councillors were elected in 2006. The Conservative party gained an overall majority of one on the council after the 2008 election which previously had been under no overall control, and also won the following mayoral election, in which Linda Arkley returned to office. The 2010 election proved victorious for the Labour Party, which gained 8 seats and lost none. The Conservatives lost 7 seats and the Liberal Democrats lost one. The Council returned to no overall control as the Conservatives lost their majority and fell into second place. The swing across the council on average was 10.7% from the Conservatives to Labour, against the national trend of the Westminster elections taking place the same day.


2010 North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council election, Battle Hill
A further by-election was held in September 2010. Details can be found here.


2010 North West 200 Races
The 2010 North West 200 Races, the 71st running of the event, was held on Saturday 15 May 2010 at the circuit, dubbed "The Triangle", based around the towns of Portstewart, Coleraine and Portrush, in Northern Ireland.


2010 North West 200 Races
The first Superbike race was won by John McGuinness followed by Alastair Seeley winning the first 600cc Supersport race. First-time winners at the North West 200 were Paul Robinson in the 125cc race and Keith Amor in the 1000cc Superstock Race. Amor's victory was also the first win for BMW and the first non-Japanese manufacturer to claim a victory since 1997. The Blue Riband event, the North West 200 Superbike Race, produced a second win of the meeting for Alastair Seeley and the first local winner of the race since Phillip McCallen in 1997 . The final race of the meeting, the 600cc Supersport 2 race was won by Ian Hutchinson.


2010 North West 200 Races
New for the 2010 event was the introduction of the daytime practice on the Thursday rather than the normal evening slot. The reasons for the change includes giving the riders the opportunity to practice in conditions similar to race day and also because of the extra time allowing classes to run separately. Race Director Mervyn Whyte MBE said that "altering the time of the traditional Thursday practice session will dramatically improve overall safety at the event." In an additional bid to improve safety, Mather's Cross was widened at the end of 2009.


2010 North West 200 Races
For 2010 further modifications were made to the circuit to improve safety. A new purpose built chicane was introduced near Mather's Cross to reduce speeds at the corner and safety improvement were made to the area at Station corner. The changes means that the circuit is now 8.970 mi (14.436 km) long.


2010 North West 200 Races, Practice
During practice on Tuesday evening Stuart Easton set a new fastest speed trap time, touching 204 mph (328 km/h) on the approach to University Corner. Steve Plater who had set the fastest time in Superbike practice on the Tuesday was injured in an accident during Thursday practice. Plater suffering a broken arm when he came off his bike at Quarry Hill on the Coast Road section of the course.


2010 North West 200 Races, Races
The first event, the five lap Superbike race, was delayed by over-night rain to allow the circuit to dry and also due to a medical emergency at Metropole Corner in Portrush. The delayed race was reduced to four laps (35.744 miles). These delays along with another medical emergency lead to other race reductions, including the North West 200 being cut from six to four laps. The event remained dry and there were no major crashes or injuries. The only notable incident was Conor Cummins high-siding his bike on the exit of University Corner during the Superstock race. Cummins was uninjured.


2010 North West 200 Races, Results, Race results, Race 1; Superbike Race final standings
Fastest Lap: Alastair Seeley, 4'26.909 on lap 2 (120.985 miles per hour (194.706 km/h))


2010 North West 200 Races, Results, Race results, Race 2; Supersport Race final standings
Fastest Lap: Alastair Seeley, 4' 39.386 on lap 3 (115.582 miles per hour (186.011 km/h))


2010 North West 200 Races, Results, Race results, Race 3; 125cc Race final standings
Fastest Lap: Paul Robinson, 5' 32.513 on lap 3 (97.115 miles per hour (156.291 km/h))


2010 North West 200 Races, Results, Race results, Race 4; Superstock Race final standings
Fastest Lap: Michael Rutter, 4'30.027 on lap 5 (119.588 miles per hour (192.458 km/h))


2010 North West 200 Races, Results, Race results, Race 5; North West 200 Superbike Race final standings
Fastest Lap: Alastair Seeley, 4'26.909 on lap 3 (121.875 miles per hour (196.139 km/h))


2010 North West 200 Races, Results, Race results, Race 6; Supersport Race 2 final standings
Fastest Lap and new class record: Keith Amor, 4' 37.591 on lap 3 (116.329 miles per hour (187.213 km/h))


2010 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2010 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 20 and ended on May 22, 2010, at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The league's top four teams competed in the double elimination tournament. Second-seeded Central Connecticut won their fourth tournament championship and earned the Northeast Conference's automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2010 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top four finishers were seeded one through four based on conference regular-season winning percentage. Bryant was ineligible for postseason play, as it completed its transition to Division I.


2010 Northeast Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Pat Epps was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Epps was a Junior outfielder for Central Connecticut.


2010 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place March 4, 7, & 10, 2010 on campus sites. One semifinal game was televised on MSG Network, and the finals were seen on ESPN2. The winner, Robert Morris, receives the NEC's automatic berth in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. The #1 seed Quinnipiac will receive an automatic bid to the 2010 NIT as the regular season champions. This is Robert Morris's NEC leading 7th NEC Tournament Championship.


2010 Northeast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
For the sixth straight year, the NEC Men's Basketball Tournament will consist of an eight-team playoff format with all games played at the home of the higher seed. After the quarterfinals, the teams will be reseeded so the highest remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals. This is Bryant's first year at D-I and is ineligible for any post-season tournaments and thus not allowed to participate.


2010 Northeast Grand Prix
The 2010 American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix was held at Lime Rock Park on July 24, 2010. It was the fifth round of the 2010 American Le Mans Series season.


2010 Northeast Grand Prix, Qualifying
The qualifying session saw David Brabham give Highcroft Racing another overall pole. Christophe Bouchut took LMPC pole for Level 5 Motorsports, Pat Long took the GT pole for Flying Lizard Motorsports and Jeroen Bleekemolen took GTC pole for Black Swan Racing, meaning the Black Swan Porsche has been on GTC pole in all three races they have raced so far.


2010 Northeast Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2010 Northeast Grand Prix, Race, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods
The 2010 Northeastern Brazil rains caused widespread flooding in the second half of June 2010. The flooding mainly hit Alagoas and Pernambuco, where entire villages were carried away, killing dozens and causing hundreds to disappear.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods
President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva convened an emergency session to arrange for the distribution of aid. The distribution of aid was complex, because the affected cities were isolated rural areas with few intact roads (in Pernambuco 79 bridges in critical areas were destroyed by the flood). Lula also cancelled a trip to Canada for a meeting of the G20 major economies.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Flood details
At least 44 people were killed, some 1,000 are missing, including 500 in União dos Palmares and at least 120,000 had to leave their homes. Entire towns were destroyed. Dams burst and river levels rose, engulfing entire towns. Electricity and telephone services were disrupted and destroyed. The homeless collected in schools and churches in their search for shelter.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Flood details
The Mundau river in Alagoas State flooded Uniao dos Palmares, causing the disappearance of at least 500 people. Corpses floated along on the beaches and in the rivers. Over 40,000 houses in Alagoas were flooded, affecting 22 towns. The death toll at one point of time in Alagoas was 26 and in Pernambuco state was 13.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Flood details
Rio Largo in Alagoas had its banks completely destroyed by water due to a dam collapse, leaving only a mangled railway and muddy ruins. A search is underway there for survivors.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Flood details
Weather officials in Alagoas predicted rain until at least June 25, 2010. More than 40 centimetres (16 in) of rain fell over a four-day period.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Response
President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met in an emergency session with the governors of both states to decide how to distribute emergency funds. The federal government sent supplies to the disrupted areas, consisting of R$100 million reais in funds, 20,000 food baskets, mattresses and blankets. 10 tons of supplies were delivered by 24 June which is not yet enough to cover the large amounts of destruction. Emergency services and the military embarked on missions to ensure supplies were safely delivered to isolated towns.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Response
There were difficulties with the delivery of aid as roads and rail routes were affected by the floods. This led to some citizens to retrieve their food from the mud for eating instead. On 24 June, the federal government announced it would grant an additional R$500 million reais for emergency relief efforts in the two states.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Response
President Lula cancelled his trip to Canada for the meeting of the G20 major economies as the situation unfolded, sending economy minister Guido Mantega instead. Those affected by the floods watched the Brazil national football team take on the Portugal national football team in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in makeshift shelters.


2010 Northeastern Brazil floods, Response
There are plans to relocate the entire city of Branquinha, one of the most damaged cities in Alagoas, to a higher place near the main highways. No public service buildings were left standing and the State Secretary of Health issued concerns about contaminated water causing diseases.


2010 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team
The 2010 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks football team represented Northern Arizona University as a member of the Big Sky Conference during the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season . The Lumberjacks were led by 13th-year head coach Jerome Souers and played their home games at the Walkup Skydome. They finished the season with an overall record of 6–5 and a mark of 4–4 in conference play, placing 6th in Big Sky.


2010 Northern Colorado Bears football team
The 2010 Northern Colorado Bears football team represented the University of Northern Colorado in the 2010 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bears were led by fifth-year head coach Scott Downing and played their home games at Nottingham Field. They were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 3–8 overall and 2–6 in Big Sky play place seventh.


2010 Northern Colorado Bears football team
Downing was fired at the conclusion of the season. He finished at Northern Colorado with a five-year record of 9–47.


2010 Northern Cypriot presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Northern Cyprus on 18 April 2010. The result was a victory for Derviş Eroğlu of the National Unity Party, who received 50.38% of the vote in the first round. If no candidate had crossed the 50% threshold, a run-off would have been held on 25 April.


2010 Northern Cypriot presidential election, Background
The International Crisis Group stated in an article titled Cyprus: Reunification or Partition?, published on 30 September 2009, that the upcoming elections in April 2010, were of critical importance to the then-ongoing negotiations between Talat and Demetris Christofias to find a solution for the Cyprus dispute. It was stated that the election results could have a defining impact on the future of the island and whether it would be reunited or divided.


2010 Northern Cypriot presidential election, Candidates
The two main candidates were the current President Mehmet Ali Talat from the Republican Turkish Party and the incumbent Prime Minister Derviş Eroğlu from the National Unity Party (Ulusal Birlik Partisi, UBP). In the parliamentary election the previous year, the UBP had narrowly obtained enough seats to form a single-party government.


2010 Northern Cypriot presidential election, Candidates
Talat supported the negotiations for a new plan to reunify the island (and had also been in favour of the Annan Plan for Cyprus) whereas his opponent supports a "two-state solution".


2010 Northern Cypriot presidential election, Results
Turnout was 70%. The count on election night proceeded as follows:


2010 Northern Cypriot presidential election, Results
According to final results, Derviş Eroğlu got over 50% of the votes in the first round, meaning a runoff was not necessary.


2010 Northern Cypriot presidential election, Aftermath
Derviş Eroğlu of the right-wing National Unity Party (UBP) said that he wanted to continue negotiation on the reunification of Cyprus: "My dream for a solution to the Cyprus problem continues. We will be at the negotiating table for an agreement that will continue the existence of our people in this land with honour."


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves
The 2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves included severe heat waves that impacted most of the United States, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, North Africa and the European continent as a whole, along with parts of Canada, Russia, Indochina, South Korea and Japan during May, June, July, and August 2010. The first phase of the global heatwaves was caused by a moderate El Niño event, which lasted from June 2009 to May 2010. The first phase lasted only from April 2010 to June 2010, and caused only moderate above average temperatures in the areas affected.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves
But it also set new record high temperatures for most of the area affected, in the Northern Hemisphere. The second phase (the main, and most devastating phase) was caused by a very strong La Niña event, which lasted from June 2010 to June 2011. According to meteorologists, the 2010–11 La Niña event was one of the strongest La Niña events ever observed. That same La Niña event also had devastating effects in the Eastern states of Australia. The second phase lasted from June 2010 to October 2010, caused severe heat waves, and multiple record-breaking temperatures. The heatwaves began in April 2010, when strong anticyclones began to develop, over most of the affected regions, in the Northern Hemisphere. The heatwaves ended in October 2010, when the powerful anticyclones over most of the affected areas dissipated.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves
The heat wave during the summer of 2010 was at its worst in June, over the Eastern United States, Middle East, Eastern Europe and European Russia, and over Northeastern China and southeastern Russia. June 2010 marked the fourth consecutive warmest month on record globally, at 0.66 °C (1.22 °F) above average, while the period April–June was the warmest ever recorded for land areas in the Northern Hemisphere, at 1.25 °C (2.25 °F) above average.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves
The previous record for the global average temperature in June was set in 2005 at 0.66 °C (1.19 °F), and the previous warm record for April–June over Northern Hemisphere land areas was 1.16 °C (2.09 °F), set in 2007. The strongest of the anticyclones, the one situated over Siberia, registered a maximum high pressure of 1040 millibars. The weather caused forest fires in China, where three in a team of 300 died fighting a fire that broke out in the Binchuan County of Dali, as Yunnan suffered the worst drought in 60 years by February 17.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves
A major drought was reported across the Sahel as early as January. In August, a section of the Petermann Glacier tongue connecting northern Greenland, the Nares Strait and the Arctic Ocean broke off, the biggest ice shelf in the Arctic to detach in 48 years. By the time the heatwaves had ended in late October 2010, about $500 billion (2011 USD) of damage was done, in the Northern Hemisphere alone.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves
The World Meteorological Organization stated that the heat waves, droughts and flooding events fit with predictions based on global warming for the 21st century, include those based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 4th Assessment Report. Some climatologists argue that these weather events would not have happened if the atmospheric carbon dioxide was at pre-industrial levels.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
A heat wave hit Eastern Europe as exceptionally strong jet stream winds blew in from the Sahara across the Balkans and into both Poland and Ukraine on June 10. The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) warned of temperatures in Poland exceeding 30 °C for the next 5 days, followed by heavy winds, rain storms, thunderstorms and possible flooding especially in the north-west of the country and neighbouring parts of Germany.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The period between June 13 and 19    saw a low pressure zone move south eastwards  taking a shallow pool of cooler air south eastwards across from the North Atlantic into Ireland and most of the United Kingdom.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
As the floods eased in Central Europe and the Balkans, apart from those in Romania, temperatures began to climb across Western Europe, including Frankfurt am Main in Germany and the United Kingdom on June 30.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
On July 2, Brussels saw its hottest day since 1976 and France, Germany and the Spanish resort Benidorm experienced record temperatures. Several heavy thunderstorms hit the Low Swiss Alps, accompanied by heavy sleet in some places.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
On July 3, a heat wave hit parts of Ryazan Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, and the cities of Copenhagen, Bucharest and Budapest, killing a Romanian man with heat stroke. Heavy thunderstorms hit the High Swiss Alps, accompanied by heavy snow in some places.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
On July 6, 3 low pressure areas moved towards and settled near the Black Sea after a week a high pressure in the region's jet stream far northward in its trek through Europe. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's GFS numerical model predicted the same weather for the following week.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
A meteorological synoptic pressure corridor ran from Germany and Poland east and northeast to western and north western Russia causing temperatures that were 4 °C, 8 °C and in one case 10 °C above the seasonal norm. Cities from Berlin and Warsaw to Kiev, Minsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg may well reach the 33 °C to 35 °C range.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Berlin and Warsaw recorded temperatures of 33 °C, while highs of nearly 34 °C in Moscow broke records. Earlier in June, temperatures in Minsk hit 30 °C, while temperatures as high as 34 °C were observed in Kiev.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
By July 8, a major heat wave hit most of Europe, European Russia and North America.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Both the French and Belgian authorities were on alert to respond to possible incidences of heat-related illnesses following the death of a Frenchman in the north of the country due to heat exhaustion. Brussels saw its next hottest day since 1976, while Portugal and Germany experienced record high temperatures.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Austria's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) issued public safety warnings on the 8th as it predicted temperatures as high as 35 °C (95 °F) by the weekend. The centre expected similar conditions continuing into the beginning of next week, where it would end in a heavy Alpine downpour.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The Swiss Meteorological Office reported that a record 34.8C was set in Basel and warned of both forest fires in the persistently drought-hit southern canton of Valais. The Swiss Health Office offered the public safety advice. The ozone level rose badly and was more than twice the permitted level at 257 microgrammes per cubic metre in Lugano on Friday, and things were in a generally bad condition across the Swiss Alps as a whole. Extreme heat and ozone levels were also harming tourists at the Gotthard Road Tunnel on the 8th and 9th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The Swiss Ornithological Institute, based in Sempach, said young swifts were stifling to death and others were jumping out before they could fly properly, as temperatures reached 50 °C (122 °F) in their under the roof nests. Most of them lived at the institute care home.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
A heavy rainy thunderstorm  hit Zürich on the 10th  and the Swiss-French border. They also threatened to close the Avoriaz stage of the Tour de France cycle race.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The UK declared a heat wave, set at Met Office Level 2/4, for the period 9–16 July 2010 for South East England and East Anglia. This was after temperatures reached 31.0 °C (87.8 °F) in London and night-time temperatures leveled around 21 °C (70 °F).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The UK recorded its highest temperature of the year, 31.7 °C (89.1 °F), in Gravesend, Kent, as the British Health Protection Agency gave out health advice and claimed there had been "several hundred" more deaths than normal over the previous two weeks and some appeared to be linked to the heat on the 11th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
July 11 and 12 saw heatstroke make several people ill throughout the Iberian Peninsula, European Russia, Belarus, eastern Poland and Ukraine.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The heat wave that left Morocco for the Iberian Peninsula on the 11th was attributed to the regional hot air currents that departed from the Sahara in Northern Africa at about 1,000 meters in altitude, which facilitated a movement in the hot air towards the Balkans and Ukraine via the Straits of Gibraltar, Spain and Italy.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
On July 11, temperatures skyrocketed in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid, Lisbon, Zurich and Bucharest. More heavy thunderstorms hit the High Swiss Alps, accompanied by heavy snow in some places.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Forty passengers were hospitalised with dehydration in Germany when 3 ICE trains' air conditioning system broke down in temperatures approaching 40 °C on the 11th. One thousand luckier passengers switched trains. Deutsche Bahn apologized for its ICE trains breaking down.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Hartmut Buyken, chairman of passenger association Pro Bahn, told radio station hr-INFO that the trains were ruined by cost-cutting measures, and weren't selling as well in international markets as the French TGV trains.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
On the 12th, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic all suffered the hottest temperatures of the year, and the heat wave was most likely to continue over the weekend, according to German meteorologists.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Most of Germany, including Berlin, recorded temperatures of 38 °C (100 °F) in some places. On the popular North Sea island of Helgoland, the temperature was only 20.5 degrees. In Berlin, the highest temperature was recorded at 38.9 °C (102.0 °F) as 3 more non-air conditioned local passengers trains had to be evacuated due to overheating of the interior passenger compartments, leading to passengers getting heat stroke, Deutsche Welle reported.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Hans-Dieter Muehlenberg, chief of a local rescue squad in Berlin told the German news agency DAPD he had found the temperature in a local train had reached 50 °C (122 °F) and that nine people had to be hospitalized for dehydration. Later on, official reports from the rescue squad denied that 9 people reported dead had died and that the air conditioning systems fail to cool the trains in temperatures over 32 °C (90 °F). Deutsche Bahn paid 500 Euros for the heat victims without a doctors note. According to the German Meteorological Service (DWD), the soaring temperatures were set to last for a week.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Belgian authorities were worried about water shortages as a result of both the hot weather and lack of rain. The water authorities in the eastern town of Bullange warned that several water sources have dried up. The Belgian interior ministry said that three other communes in the southeast of the country have also appealed for emergency water supplies.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The Czech Republic exceeded 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) for the third day running, as doctors in the Czech Republic issued safety advice according to the Voice of Russia. High temperatures were also occurring in parts of Slovakia and around the Black Sea.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The heat wave begins to end as heavy rain hits the Swansea-Port Talbot region of Wales, Devon, central Ireland and parts of eastern France.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Both Alpine and North Sea thunderstorms sweep across southeast and northwest Germany respectively. Heavy rainfall is also reported in parts of the Netherlands, Ireland, Normandy and the English Midlands on the 13th. Both melting glaciers and heavy rain in the Alps caused avalanches and flash floods in Switzerland. A nationwide near-record temperature of 39.4 °C (102.9 °F) was recorded in parts of Sion in Valais Canton, south west Switzerland on the 13th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Thunderstorms hit the English Midlands, Oxfordshire, Ireland, Northern Ireland and parts of the Swiss Alps. The heat wave ended in the British Isles and Northwest Europe on the 14th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
July 16 saw the heat wave peak in intensity throughout Italy, the Vatican, San Marino and Malta. The Civil Protection Board issued a heat warning for the 16th and 17th. The cities of Bolzano, Brescia, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Perugia, Rome, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Campobasso, Civitavecchia, Frosinone, Latina, Messina, Rieti, Verona and Viterbo. are at the maximum level 3 heat alert, and that on the 17th 3 cities in South Tyrol (which has the highest temperatures for 90 years) will also be affected.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The Health Minister Ferruccio Fazio told the Health and Social Services of the regions, General Practitioners (MMG) and local Prefects to take emergency measures. Foggia's town council gave free meals to those over age 65 due to temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) and Rome had issued over 200,000 bottles water to its people over three days.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
Heavy storms hit Vienna on July 16 and 17, ending the week-long heat wave in Austria.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
New heat record of Finland was recorded at Joensuu on 29 July when temperature rose to 37.2 °C (99.0 °F). In Sweden, temperatures were above the average maximum temperature, with Stockholm seeing temperatures of 32.5 degrees Celsius according to the Swedish Meteorogical Institute SMHI.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Europe in general
The Russian high temperature record dating back to 1940 was beaten on 12 July, when Utta in the Kalmykian Republic, registered 45.4 °C (113.7 °F). The highest temperature at a non-automated station was 44 °C (111 °F) in Yashkul, Kalmykia, also beating the previous record. The record for Asian Russia was also beaten: 42.7 °C (108.9 °F) was recorded in Ust-Karsk on 27 June, beating the record of 42.3 °C (108.1 °F) set in Belogorsk, Amur Oblast, two days earlier.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, Poland
A heat wave hit Eastern Europe as exceptionally strong jet stream winds blew in from the Sahara across the Balkans and into both Poland and Ukraine on 10 June. The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) warned of temperature in Poland exceeding 30 °C (86 °F) for the next 5 days, followed by heavy winds, rain storms, thunderstorms and possible flooding especially in the northwest of the country and neighbouring parts of Germany.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
A Portuguese man also died on the 7th, in Villar del Rey, Badajoz, Spain.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
Two Spaniards died of heat stroke as temperature hovered around 33 °C-35 °C in central Spain on July 9. One victim was in Central Spain and the other was in Sevilla. The woman from Sevilla had been admitted to the local Virgen Macarena Hospital said the woman had also had multi-organ failure.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
On July 11, temperatures skyrocketed in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Madrid, Lisbon, Zurich and Bucharest. More heavy thunderstorms hit the High Swiss Alps, accompanied by heavy snow in some places. Temperatures in the Iberian Peninsula climbed to an average of 43 °C as Spain witnessed temperatures up to 44 °C as the three-week-old heat wave continued; Madrid's temperatures climbed to 41 °C (106 °F).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
On the 12th, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic all suffered the hottest temperatures of the year, and the heat wave was most likely to continue over the weekend, according to German meteorologists.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
Spain suffered three deaths, including that of an 80-year-old man. The national meteorological agency, Aemet, warned of exceptionally warm central and southern Spain, with temperatures over the next few days reaching 39 °C in some areas.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
More than 1,200 fire-fighters fought 25 forest fires in northern Portugal on July 24


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
Temperatures of up to 40 °C (104 °F) hit the Portuguese town at Pataias on the 27th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
All of Rebordelo, Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro, Braga, Sobradelo da Goma, Povoa de Lanhoso,  Oporto, Viana do Castelo, Coimbra, Viseu, Leiria, Albergaria-a-Velha and Oliveira de Azemeis were ablaze. The A1 motorway connecting Lisbon with Oporto was closed due to low visibility caused by the smoke on the 27th. The Portuguese Army dispatched about 150 soldiers to fire-affected towns.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Iberian Peninsula
Two Italian water bomber planes were loaned to Portugal through the European Union's solidarity mechanism on July 28. Spain also provided its neighbours with water bomber aircraft, but Portugal requested further help from the EU and Spain. France readied a plane on the French island of Corsica, just in case things got any worse in Portugal.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
A heat wave hit Southern Europe as exceptionally strong jet stream winds blew in from the Sahara across the Balkans and into both Poland and Ukraine on 10 June. The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) warned of temperature in Poland exceeding 30C for the next 5 days, followed by heavy winds, rain storms, thunderstorms and possible flooding especially in the north-west of the country and neighbouring parts of Germany.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
As the floods eased in Central Europe and the Balkans, apart from those in Romania, temperatures began to climb across Western Europe, including Frankfurt am Main in Germany and the UK on June 30.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
In mid June, much of Europe experienced very warm conditions, whilst Central Europe was being flooded. Ruse, Bulgaria hit 36.6 °C (97.9 °F) on the 13th making it the warmest spot in Europe. Other records broken on the 13th includes Vidin, Bulgaria at 35.8 °C (96.4 °F), Sandanski, Bulgaria hitting 35.5 °C (95.9 °F), Lovech and Pazardzhik, Bulgaria at 35.1 °C (95.2 °F) as well as the capital, Sofia, hitting 33.3 °C (91.9 °F). The heat comes from the Sahara desert and is not associated with rain. This helped the situation with high water levels in that part of the continent.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
On the 14th, several cities were once again above the 35 °C (95 °F) mark even though they did not break records. The only cities in Bulgaria breaking records were Musala, peak hitting 17.6 °C (63.7 °F), and Elhovo, hitting 35.6 °C (96.1 °F).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
On the 15th, Ruse, Bulgaria peaked at 37.2 °C (99.0 °F). Although it was not a record, this was the highest temperature recorded in the country. Five Bulgarian cities broke high temperature records that day.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
As the floods eased in Central Europe and the northern Balkans, apart from those in Romania, temperatures began to climb across Western Europe, including Frankfurt am Main in Germany and the UK on June 30.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
On July 3, a heat wave hit parts of Ryazan Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, and the cities of Copenhagen, Bucharest and Budapest, killing a Romanian man with heat stroke. Heavy thunderstorms hit the High Swiss Alps, accompanied by heavy snow in some places.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
Heavy rain fell in Podgorica, Bucharest and parts of eastern Serbia on July 16.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Europe, The Balkans
Both the 14th and 15th saw Niš's thermometer hit 38.7 °C (101.7 °F). This temperature value was approaching the national record of 39.5 °C (103.1 °F) from 2007. The National Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (NIMH) at the Serbian Academy of Sciences (SANU) were concerned with the changing temperature patterns. On July 17, Belgrade recorded temperatures in excess of 38°C and 8 young people drowned swimming and bathing in various lakes.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Georgia
Both temperatures 30-40C wild fires hit land near Tbilisi between August 1 and 3. A 3-day wildfire consumed about 150 hectares of forest in Georgia's central region is now under control according to both the  Environment Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Kazakhstan
Central Kazakhstan witnessed a heavy spike in temperatures and a Kazakh farmer died of heat stroke on August 11. The hottest recorded temperature in Kazakhstan was 49.1 °C (120.4 °F), which set a new record, as the hottest temperature ever recorded in that country.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
The abnormal heat wave was also experienced in Russia, causing fires throughout the country, the worst drought in nearly 40 years, and the loss of at least 9 million hectares of crops. According to head of Rosgidromet state weather agency Alexander Frolov, there was no such heat during the last 1000 years. The highest temperature ever recorded in Russia was 44.0 °C (111.2 °F), set on 11 July, in Yashkul, Kalmykia, beating the previous record of 43.8 °C (110.8 °F) set on 6 August 1940, also in Kalmykia. The initial soil drying in June and early July is thought to be a major cause of the exceptional heat level after mid-July.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On 25 June a temperature record was set in the Asian portion of Russia, at Belogorsk, at a reading of 42.3 °C (108.1 °F). The previous record in the Asian portion was 41.7 °C (107.1 °F) set at Aksha on 21 July 2004.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
A heat wave started in Moscow on the 27 June, as temperatures reached 33.1 °C (91.6 °F), and stayed around 30 °C (90 °F) for the rest of the week. It also caused temperatures to rise noticeably in Yakutia, the Siberian Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range and the Volga Federal District.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On 30 June, the heat in Yakutia reached the temperature of 35.3 °C, as both the Siberian Federal District and Ural Federal District began to overheat.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
By the end of June, 1,244 people had drowned in Russia after swimming.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On 3 July, a heat wave hit parts of Ryazan Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, and the cities of Copenhagen, Bucharest and Budapest, killing a Romanian man with heat stroke. Heavy thunderstorms hit the High Swiss Alps, accompanied by heavy snow in some places.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On 5 July, the Russian emergency ministry confirmed that almost 300 overheating people had drowned swimming in various lakes, canals and rivers during the heat wave. In one case at least 63 people died in one day alone. An emergency ministry spokesman told the Ria Novosti news agency that 285 people had died in Russia's waterways. The 285 deaths occurred mainly due to the fact that they had swum in dangerous locations, they were ill-prepared and/or were dangerously drunk. A Bulgarian tourist also fell ill with sun stroke in Ryazan. Moscow was hit by a minor cholera outbreak on 5 July.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
Highs of nearly 34 °C (93 °F) in Moscow broke records. Earlier in June, Minsk hit 30 °C (86 °F) and Kiev's temperature soared to 34 °C (93 °F). Saint Petersburg, however, has yet to see the 30-degree mark.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
Temperatures hit a record-breaking highs of 37 °C in several regions in the Central Federal District on 5 July. In addition, the temperatures were becoming slightly hotter than usual throughout the Siberian Federal District. The official record temperature for European Russia was set at 43.8 °C on 6 August 1940. The Siberian record was set at 35.3 °C in the Yakutia, which was also seeing its provincial temperature rise.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
Russia's weather forecasts said it was the most prolonged heat wave since 1981. Moscow's City Hall sent out water tankers to put water on the roads to prevent the tarmac from melting.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
Moscow's temperature was 31 °C (88 °F) on 7 July. At the same time the heat in Yakutia recorded 35.3 °C. A record-breaking heat wave in late June saw temperatures reach 37 °C in several central Russian regions, sparking forest fires and causing heat stroke in many people in various parts of the Central Federal District and Ural Federal District.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On the 11 and 12 July, many people across Europe fell ill due to heat stroke caused by the very high temperatures reached on these two days.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
A total of 14 regions suddenly overheated on the 11 to 13 July, including Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Orenburg, Saratov, Samara Oblast as the heat cooked the partly drought hit Volga Federal District. Nineteen of Russia's 83 regions declared a state of emergency after crop failure caused by the heat-induced drought. Electricity demand went up by as much as 6% in some Oblasts, leading to power supply problems. Sales of ice-cream also went up by 10–15%. The lead into the summer heat wave in 2010 began as an abnormally warm autumn and spring in 2009–2010. World scientists consider the heatwave abnormal by today's standards, but warn that it will soon become the norm throughout summertime.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
The 3 week heat wave hit near-record temperatures in Russia and Ukraine on the 13 July; with near-record temperatures of 40 °C in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kaliningrad.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On 13 July the Russian Bird conservation Union (RBCU) said that the heat was killing most of European Russia's birds, especially those in Moscow. Meteorologists considered it likely that temperatures would reach up to 36 °C (97 °F) later in the week.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On 14 July, central Russia saw record temperatures and was predicted to face 38 degrees Celsius by the weekend, higher than the all-time temperature record of 36.6 °C, set in August 1920. Owing to the drought, the government considered introducing a state of emergency in another two regions of the Russian Federation. Both Volga Federal District and Southern Federal District reported large rises in temperature. The City of Yakutsk, with temperatures set to stick at 35 degrees for the next few days. Dagestan was also reported to be suffering a heat wave that day.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
5 Italians, a Latvian and a Russian also drowned in the lower reaches of the Volga, near Volgograd, all of whom were apparently drunk. As water levels in the River Volga have dropped Volga Federal District's drought swimming has become more risky due to hidden objects being closer to the surface and increased flying insect activity.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
In the first half of July, average temperatures in Moscow were 6.2 °C above average. The hottest July on record in the city, in 1938, was an average of 5.3 °C higher than average.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
1,200 Russians had died June 1 and July 15 due to swimming whilst drunk. Six children and a Ukrainian tourist also drowned, whilst sober, in the Sea of Azov. Vadim Seryogin, from the Russian Emergency Ministry said that 95% of the drowned had been consuming alcohol. 9,000,000 hectares of farmland were destroyed along with 20% of the grain harvest in what appears to be the worst drought in 130 years.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
In St. Petersburg, various temperature records were broken in July, and the maximum yearly temperature record was set on Wednesday, 28 July, when the temperature was 35.3 degrees Celsius (95.5 degrees Fahrenheit). This record was superseded on 7 August — 37.1 degrees Celsius (98.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The maximum temperature in Moscow was set on 29 July, when it was 38.2 degrees Celsius (100.8 degrees Fahrenheit).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On July 30, wildfires killed 25 people, leaving more than 2000 people homeless. The fires were still burning on 1 August.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
Likely in part due to the heat wave and smoke from forest fires, Moscow recorded 14,340 total deaths in the month of July, 4,824 more than the number recorded in July 2009. Pollution levels in the city were five times higher than normal.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
On 1 August, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia led a holy mass to remember the 28 who had died since July 30. The forest fires came as Russia was experiencing its worst drought in just over 100 years. Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said 774 forest fires had been registered, 6 new fires were rumoured to have started near Moscow, and a regional forestry department in the Central Federal District reported that the fires now cover approximately 100,000 hectares.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
Some 4,000 soldiers were called in to help fight both the 6 rumoured and several known fires in the Moscow Oblast. Over 5,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, and Vladimir Putin organised an emergency meeting for  August 2, with the governors of the various regions in the Central and Southern Federal District devastated by the fires. The grain harvest in these areas was also destroyed.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Russia
August 2 saw hundreds of wildfires threatening more than 200 villages around both Voronezh, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and in Mordovia the chief of National Centre for Crisis Situations, General Vladimir Stepanov said. The Volga Federal District saw 625 homes destroyed and Voronezh saw over 200 destroyed and more than 1,000 in both places  evacuated," general Stepanov said as firemen, troops and local farmers struggled to drive the fires back from the cities of the Volga Federal District.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine
A heat wave hit Eastern Europe as exceptionally strong jet stream winds blew in from the Sahara across the Balkans and into both Poland and Ukraine on 10 June. The Polish Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) warned of temperature in Poland exceeding 30 °C (86 °F) for the next 5 days, followed by heavy winds, rain storms, thunderstorms and possible flooding especially in the north-west of the country and neighbouring parts of Germany.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine
12 June saw the temperature of 34 °C (93 °F) in Kiev registered though the city was previously forecasted to hit the 37 °C (99 °F) mark, breaking the previous Kiev record that had stood since 1946 (33.3 °C (91.9 °F)). Ukrainian Galicia and the Crimea peninsula also saw temperatures rise sharply.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine
On 6 July, 3 low pressure areas moved towards and settled near the Black Sea after a week a high pressure in the region's jet stream far northward in its trek through Europe. The Accuweather.com GFS numerical model predicts the same weather for the next week and an even worse heat wave for the week of the Accuweather.com forecast Earlier in June, Minsk hit 30 °C (86 °F) and Kiev temperature soared to 34 °C (93 °F). Saint Petersburg had yet to see the 30 °C (86 °F) mark.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine
Heavy storms in Kiev at the end on 17 July. Temperatures of 30–35 °C (86–95 °F) were registered in almost the whole Ukraine in July, while in the east and in the northeast, they reached 36–39 °C (97–102 °F).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine
It was revealed on 19 July that 800 Ukrainians, including 115 kids, had drowned since 1 May.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine
Temperatures began rising again in Ukraine in early August, with 35–40 °C (95–104 °F) being recorded at many central and eastern locations, including the city of Kiev, in the first week. Wildfires broke out throughout Ukraine late July/early August. According to Ukrainian authorities these fires where not as severe as the 2010 Russian wildfires. A total of 522 fires, including 122 in residential areas were registered on August 11. No wildfires where recorded at Chernobyl during the heatwave., but fires reached the Bryansk region, east of Chernobyl.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Ukraine
On August 6 the Ukrainian Weather Forecasting Center forecasted the heatwave would continue at least until August 18 and probably till the end of August and that extremely high fire risks would remain in Ukraine, apart from western Ukraine. Indeed, a major cool-down did take place on the 18th, with showers and thunderstorms ushering in cooler temperatures (mid-20s°C (mid/late-70s°F)).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Northern Eurasia (Commonwealth of Independent States), Turkey
Heavy rain falls in the town of Rize, Turkey and along the Turkish/Armenian border on the 15th of July.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Burma (Myanmar)
Myanmar's hottest temperature on record was set on May 12, at 47.2 °C in Myinmu, Sagaing Division. The previous hottest temperature record in the country was set in May 1980 at 46.0 °C in Magwe, Magwe Division.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
Prior to the droughts in Yunnan and Guizhou, the China Meteorological Administration recorded temperatures averaging 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) warmer than normal over six months and half the average precipitation for the past year across the region, both unprecedented since at least the 1950s. By March 22, 2010, about 51 million people faced water shortages in a number of provinces. This drought would soon be replaced by record breaking thunderstorms in late June.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
June 27–29 saw the heaviest rain fall in Luolou township in the Chinese Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in 300 years. 6,673 people were affected; as the town was cut off, schools closed and people travelled by boat.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
The heat wave hit China's Liaoning Province and Hubei Province on the 2nd.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
The heat wave hit Wuhan city, Hubei Province, Qionghai, Hainan Province, Nanning city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on July 3. As the hot weather swept most of northern, central and southern China some regions recorded temperatures soaring up to 39 °C (102 °F).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
July 5 saw temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) scorch 16 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. The National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a yellow heat alert to the provinces of Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Gansu, Beijing, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shaanxi and Shanxi Province on July 5. About 400,000 square kilometres (150,000 sq mi), or 37.8%, of Inner Mongolia were hit by drought.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
Xingqing Lake, in the Xingqing Palace Park, turned crimson; park spokesman Liang Zibin blamed a mixture of pollutants and high heat for the aquatic phenomena. There were serious problems with green algae in the river surrounding the ancient city of Xi'an. Lakes and rivers turned green and red as a result of algae blooms flourishing in the hot weather, according to the Xinhua news agency.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
July 5 saw Beijing set a new highest temperature record at 40.3 °C (104.5 °F). Near record heat waves hit both Gansu Province, Guizhou and Inner Mongolia on the 5th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
A yellow-level heat alert was issued in the provinces of Guangdong and Hainan as well as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, due to predicted temperatures of 35 to 38 °C (95 to 100 °F) on July 5.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
Bajin, Macau and Hong Kong witnessed a heavy spike in temperatures on the 7th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
Temperatures in Sichuan and Quzhou rose sharply to 35 °C (95 °F) as the average heat wave temperature 13 of the China's provinces and regions reached over 35 °C. A record temperature of 41.8 °C (107.2 °F) hit Beijing on the 7th and were predicted to reach 40 °C (104 °F) on the 8th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
On 7 July, five people died and eight were missing after torrential rains caused flash floods in Huangyuan County, in China's overheating Qinghai Province, according to local government sources. Rumours that a homeless old man had also been crushed to death in a partly collapsed house were denied by rescue workers.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
July 8 saw the highest temperature and heavy rain storms across the People's Republic of China so far. China's National Meteorological Centre (NMC) predicted that temperatures would fall by the 9th. Local authorities and the NMC also issued an orange flood alert in central and southwest China were put on flood alert and the worst floods for 40 years hit the regions.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
Heavy rains hit Hubei and Anhui provinces on July 8 and caused a 1 meter deep flood which killed 1 person and made 500,000 homeless. The storm moved southeastward over the next day, helping to dissipate the local heat wave.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
Forest fires hit parts of Qinghai Province on July 20.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, China
There was a forest fire in the Greater Hinggan Mountains of Heilongjiang Province according to Sun Xiguo, director of the fire control headquarters of Greater Hinggan Mountains. More than 7,000 people in Heilongjiang and another 3,000 from Inner Mongolia battled the fires as the province's ground temperature had been as high as 50 °C (122 °F) on August 4.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, India
One of the hottest seasons on record was recorded in India through May, prior to the monsoon season. At least 250 people died from the heat wave in the country. The 2010 Indian heatwave is a period of ongoing extremely hot weather occurring during the summer of 2010 in India and much of South Asia. Temperatures of 53.7C (128.66 F) have been recorded in Pakistan. Said to be the harshest summer since 1800, the heat wave has killed hundreds of people due to heat exhaustion and food poisoning


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Japan
The summer of 2010 was the hottest since Japan began keeping records. Major Japanese cities recorded their highest temperatures between July 15 and September 6.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Japan
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)'s confirmed report, major Japanese cities on average, were at their highest level of hot temperatures, in August 2010. Fukuoka, Kyushu, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Hirakata, Osaka, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Okayama, Osaka and Takamatsu, Shikoku were all above 30 °C (86 °F) average temperatures in August that year. And low temperatures in 25 °C (77 °F) day are: 50 days in Tokyo, 49 days in Osaka, 48 days in Takamatsu, 47 days in Fukuoka, Hiroshima and Nagoya, 43 days in Kanazawa, 40 days in Yonago and 38 days in Niigata, all during same period. Following the above, 35 °C (95 °F) high temperature days are: 37 days in Kumagaya, Saitama, 33 days in Kyoto and Isesaki, Gunma, 31 days in Tokai, Aichi, 29 days in Tottori, Kofu, Yamanashi and Nishiwaki, Hyogo, 25 days in Osaka and 24 days in Hiroshima, all during same period.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Japan
According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan, a record of 1,718 people died from heat stroke.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Mongolia
An extreme heat wave hit Mongolia on June 23 with the temperature reaching as much as 41 °C (106 °F) in some places. The drought and heat wave combined to make wild fires inevitable. At the time, 73 wild fires had already been registered in the country, with four more erupting on July 4. The Khentii Mountains were hit hard, with Khentii Province overheating and the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area facing a possible drought on the 5th.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Mongolia
Officials claimed the forest fires of the 6th were caused by the heat wave and drought. The fires killed 3 people, injured 6, killed 936 head of livestock and caused about 910 million Tugrig (U.S. $670,000) in damages, officials said. About 984 fire-fighters, 164 border guards and 2,022 locals fought the bushfires.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Mongolia
The fires started in Selenge Province and then Tov Province on the 6th, but had spread to another 12 aimags (provinces) by the 7th, according to the head of the fire department of the general emergency management authority. The emergency authority said they wanted people to stay out of the danger zones unless they were fighting the fires and called upon the public for more volunteer firefighters. July 7 saw even more bush fires in the already burning counties.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Pakistan
Temperatures soared to 53.5 °C in Mohen-jo-Daro on May 26, and twelve cities in Pakistan saw temperatures above 50 °C. The previous record for Pakistan, and for all of Asia, was reached at 52.8 °C (127 °F) in Sindh Province on June 12, 1919. By May 27, the temperatures higher than 45 °C hit many areas across the country, at least 18 people died in Pakistan.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, Asia, Vietnam
Hanoi was hit by a heat wave from June 29 to July 2. Daytime temperatures were between 40 °C and 35 °C, while night time temperatures were 30 °C. Droughts and power cut were an imminent threat in the north of Vietnam.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
There were numerous heat records broken in the Middle east as well, such as in Bahrain, where the country set its hottest June temperature on record at 46.9 °C on June 20. There was also plenty of heat in Iraq, where a new unofficial hottest temperature record was set on June 14, 2010, at 52.0 °C (125.6 °F) in Basra. The previous record was 51.7 °C (125.1 °F) on August 8, 1937, in Ash Shu'ayba.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
On July 26 the heat reached near-record levels over Iraq.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
In Israel, the year 2010 was the hottest on record, and average temperatures were 2-3 degrees Celsius higher than the average. The temperature in Kibbutz Almog, near the Dead Sea, on August 7 was 51.4 °C (124.5 °F). The temperature was the hottest measured in 68 years. The summer lasted till December, when a severe storm hit the Israeli shore, with waves rising up to 14 meters in height and 70–220 mm fell in 3 days as well as 1–2 meters of snow on Mount Hermon.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
The temperature nearly break the record of July 2000, in Marka (civil/mil airport) Amman, where temperatures reached 42.2 °C according to the METAR recording at the mentioned airport, adding that temperatures were nudging the 40 °C in many consecutive days, and actually went beyond it.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
Meanwhile, it was unofficially reported that record were broken in the Tela' Al-Ai/Sweileh area, according to "JordanWeather" for Meteorological consultancies, where the temperature was reported to be 40.3 °C on August 1. Unofficial record temps were also reported in Anjara/Ajloun governorate where temperature hit the 39.1 °C on the 7th of August.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
By August 20, another intense heat wave arrived, and broke the previously mentioned record in Marka airport, and the temperatures reached 43.5 °C. The temperature in Tela' Al-Ali/Sweileh, Madaba, Anjara/Ajloun, reached 42.3 °C.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
In Kuwait, the temperature in Mitribah reached 54.4 °C on June 15 which was the highest temperature ever recorded in Asia, and is 2 degrees lower than the record for Death Valley, USA of 56.7 °C degrees, and 4 degrees lower than the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth of 58 °C at Al-Aziziya, Libya but scientists argue that this temperature is inaccurate as the thermometer was above the Tarmac floor and in the direction of the sun. In August 2010, the heat index reached 64 °C at Al-Nuwaiseeb due to the high humidity.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
On July 26 the heat reached near-record levels over Kuwait.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
On July 14, the highest temperature in Qatar reached 50.4 °C (122.7 °F).


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
The heat wave hit Saudi Arabia in June, setting an unofficial all-time temperature record on June 22, at 52.0 °C (125.6 °F), breaking the previous record of 51.7 °C (125.1 °F). The heat wave also caused sand storms to occur, causing a blackout after eight power plants in the country were knocked offline.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
In addition to the heat, Lebanon has been through the worst drought ever since 1931 – the temperatures reached 47.6 °C (117.68 °F) in the coast and 37 °C (98.6 °F) in the Beqaa Valley. And the summer unusually prolonged until 5 December. The spring started pretty early that year, after passing through a stormy January with no snow, which only fall on 21 January and lasted until the last days of February.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
There were several rain events, however, such as when Heavy rain fell in most of East Azarbaijan Province and West Azarbaijan Province on the 14th of July .


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, The Middle East
Heavy rain and thunder storms also hit the town of Samail in Oman's northern, coastal mountain range on July 14.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
Niamey, Niger took in refugees from Tillabéri Department 12 days before, after they turned up hoping the city would help them. The towns of Kongomé, Zinder, Tanout and Dalli were the worst hit by the drought by May 3.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
Dehydration was reported to have killed 1 person in Niger, while others in the region were at risk of water shortages on June 1.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
A new heat wave hit Niger on June 21, causing an increased area of drought; causing crop failure and the threat o widespread famine.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
In Chad, the temperature reached 47.6 °C (117.7 °F) on June 22 in Faya-Largeau, breaking a record set in 1961. Sudan reached 49.7 °C (121.5 °F) in Dongola the same day, breaking a record set in 1987. Niger broke its own record set in 1998 the next day at 48.2 °C (118.8 °F) in Bilma.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
Three years of famine and more recent sandstorms devastated Niger on July 14, prompting the new military junta to appeal for international food aid.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
On July 24, the British Red Cross flew its logistics teams to Niger to help the army and local officials with transportation. The relief effort has already been made possible by the response to the Red Cross's West Africa Crisis Appeal which aims to raise £500,000. According to UN agencies, 200,000 children need treatment for malnutrition in Niger alone, as Oxfam puts out an £7,000,000 appeal to cover both the Chad and Niger.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
France sends food and cash aid to Mali on July 25.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
On July 26 the heat reached near-record levels over Chad and Niger,  and about 20 had reportedly died in northern Niger of dehydration on July 27.


2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves, Events, North Africa, North Africa in general
On August 1, Gadabeji, Niger suffered 35 °C (95 °F) heat and drought. The exceptionally heavy rainfall of 2009 destroyed crops and devastated the year's harvest. The resulting fall in production in staples like maize, millet and sorghum affected much of West Africa's fragile Sahel, including neighbouring Chad and northern Nigeria.