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From local happenings to national topics and global events, here is the news worth knowing for the week of Nov. 7, 2022.
Local
The college basketball season is nearly set for tip-off as the Wright State Raiders take official on-court action this week.
According to the team website, the WSU women’s basketball team will play on the road against the Toledo Rockets on Monday, Nov. 7 at 11 a.m. This is the first game of the regular season for both teams. The Raiders won their first and only exhibition game against Ohio Dominion on Saturday, Oct. 29.
The WSU men’s basketball team will begin the 2022-2023 regular season at home against the Davidson Wildcats, which happens to be the alma mater of one Stephen Curry (‘09). The game will be played at the Nutter Center on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.
National
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) November 2022 Winter Outlook predicts warmer-than-average temperatures across the East and Southwestern United States and wetter-than-average conditions in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes states this winter.
Further, NOAA predicts continuing or developing droughts to occur throughout the West, the Great Basin and the Plains states.
According to the Climate Prediction Center at NOAA, there is a 75 percent chance of a climate pattern known as La Niña during the 2022-23 winter season. This would be the third consecutive year of this phenomenon, an uncommon occurrence.
La Niña occurs due to “the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific,” according to the National Weather Service. These conditions typically occur every three-to-five years, but can sometimes happen more often.
During La Niña, weather patterns in the U.S., as NOAA has predicted, are typically warmer and drier across the South and East, and wetter in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Stormier conditions in the North are likely as well.
Global
The U.S. with the United Arab Emirates signed a clean energy contract on Nov. 1 called Partnership to Accelerate Transition to Clean Energy (PACE), in Abu Dhabi.
On Oct. 29 in South Korea, more than 150 people were killed in a stampede in Itaewon.
North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile this week. South Korea detected 180 North Korean warplanes after the test of the missile.
Protests in Iran continue and the number of arrested have climbed to 14,000.
