• Thousands of homes remain without electricity after windstorm
    02/24/2020

    Emergency services, energy providers and fire fighters are dealing with the damage caused by the gale-force winds that hit the Czech Republic on Sunday afternoon and evening.

    The highest wind speed was recorded at the peak of the country’s highest mountain, Sněžka, in the Krkonoše Mountains, where it reached 223 kilometres per hour.

    Fallen trees complicated rail and road traffic in many parts of the country and thousands of households still remain without electricity, mainly in the west of the country.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Ledecká comes third in World Cup combined event in Crans-Montana
    02/23/2020

    Czech Ester Ledecká came third in a World Cup combined event in Switzerland’s Crans Montana on Sunday. The 24-year-old came fourth in the super-G and sixth in the slalom. It is the third time Ledecká reached the podium in a World Cup skiing event. The winner was Italian Federica Brignone, who currently leads the World Cup overall standings.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech boy falls to death in Austrian Alps
    02/23/2020

    A six-year-old Czech boy succumbed to fatal injuries after a fall in the Austrian Alps on Saturday evening, the APA agency reported.

    The boy slipped and fell from about 60 meters onto rocky terrain while descending the Drachenwand mountain by Lake Mondsee with his parents and a family friend.

    According to the mountain rescue service, the Drachenwand ferrata trail is very difficult and it is only suitable for adults.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather
    02/23/2020

    Monday is expected to be partly cloudy with daytime temperatres ranging between 5 and 9 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Plane with Czech humanitarian aid for China sent from Vienna
    02/23/2020

    A plane with Czech humanitarian aid for China took off from Vienna on Sunday, foreign minister Tomáš Petříček informed on is Twitter account. The Czech Republic sent 4.5 tonnes of medical equipment to tackle the coronavirus epidemic in the country, including in facemasks, respirators, latex gloves, disinfectants and protective medical uniforms. The consignment was shipped on a plane together with aid from other EU members states.

    The government on Monday approved the sending of another humanitarian aid consignment with over seven tonnes of medical equipment, which should be transported to China on an army plane at the end of the month.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Unseasonably mild weather set to continue in coming weeks
    02/23/2020

    Temperatures in the Czech Republic should remain considerably higher than average for the time of year in the next four weeks. The long-term average for the period from February 24 to March 22 is 2.7 degrees Celsius but in the next fortnight we can expect day-time highs of around 9 degrees Celsius.

    Despite the unseasonably warm weather, mountain areas could see some fresh snow in the next two weeks. According to a long-term forecast issued by the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute, precipitation will be average for the time of year.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Strýcová reclaims Dubai doubles title
    02/23/2020

    Czech Barbora Strýcová and her doubles partner Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan have defended their doubles title at the Dubai championships, scoring their second trophy of the season.

    The top-seeded duo defeated the Czech-Chinese couple Barbora Krejčíková and Zheng Saisai 7-5, 3-6, 10-5 in a nearly two-hour match in Saturday, reaching their seventh joint title.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Ledecká comes fifth in Crans-Montana downhill
    02/22/2020

    The Czech Republic’s Ester Ledecká finished fifth in the second downhill of the Alpine Skiing World Cup at Switzerland’s Crans Montana on Saturday. It is the fifth time the Czech skier finished in the top ten this season.

    The race was won by the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami, who crossed the line in 1: 27.73. Her compatriot Corinne Suter finished in the second place, and currently leads the Downhill standing on Ester Ledecká by 155 points.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather
    02/22/2020

    Sunday is expected to be mostly overcast with occasional rain showers and daytime highs ranging between 9 and 13 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Victims of communism commemorated in Želiv
    02/22/2020

    A mass was celebrated in the Želiv monastery on Saturday to commemorate the victims of the communist regime. The mass, celebrated by Hradec Králové bishop Jan Vokál, was part of a two-day conference focusing on Josef Toufar, a priest tortured to death by the communist secret police for allegedly faking a “miracle”.

    The Monastery in Želiv was turned into an internment camp in the 1950s. Over 460 priests ad monks were imprisoned there, including Cardinal František Tomášek and Archbishop Karel Otčenášek.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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