The temperature on May 1, 2018 was between 2.6 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (54%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » For the first time in history all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.
January 23 » A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.
February 14 » Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
April 18 » King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini.
May 9 » The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
August 3 » Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.
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