A resident wades through a flooded street after heavy rains in Chennai, India on December 4, 2023. Cyclone Michuang is expected to make landfall on December 5 along the southern coast. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Kenyan students hold umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun during the celebrations of Kenya's 60th Independence Day, also known as Jamhuri Day, at the Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi on December 12, 2023. Jamhuri is the Swahili word for “republic”, and the national holiday officially marks the date when Kenya became an independent country from the United Kingdom on December 12, 1963. (Photo by Luis Tato/AFP Photo)





A pedestrian holding an umbrella walks along the “Promenade des Anglais” in the French Riviera city of Nice, on December 4, 2023. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)





Pedestrians hold umbrellas as they walk in the rain past the Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben, in central London on December 19, 2023. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/AFP Photo)





A person walks along a street during a snowfall in Berlin, Germany on November 29, 2023. (Photo by Lisi Niesner/Reuters)





Pedestrian shelters under an umbrella as the rain falls on an autumn evening, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Tuesday, November 21, 2023. (Photo by Alvaro Barrientos/AP Photo)





A student walks past the Calle de las Violetas in La Candelaria, a downtown neighborhood of Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, November 22, 2023. (Phoot by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





A woman tries to hold an umbrella amidst gusty winds as Cyclone Michaug is expected to make landfall on the eastern Indian coast, at Foreshore Estate Beach, in Chennai, India, 03 December 2023. The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for heavy rains in Chennai as the cyclonic storm, “Cyclone Michaung” is anticipated to make landfall between Andhra Pradesh's Nellore and Machilipatnam on December 05. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/EPA/EFE)





Work has started to remove six beech trees and prune several others in the Dark Hedges in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland on November 20, 2023. (Photo by Liam McBurney/PA Wire Press Association)





A woman waits for the bus near a damaged tree, after a severe storm, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 17, 2023. (Photo by Agustin Marcarian/Reuters)





A person strolls past Christmas lights and decorations at the outdoor Christmas market at Humboldt Forum in front of Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) in central Berlin, Germany on December 11, 2023. (Photo by Lisi Niesner/Reuters)





A seagull flies past a woman as she walks down a road holding an umbrella on a rainy day in central Sydney on November 23, 2023. (Photo by David Gray/AFP Photo)





Tourists shelter use umbrellas to shelter from the rain while visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra on November 30, 2023. (Photo by Pawan Sharma/AFP Photo)





A man stands at the snow-covered City Park during the first snowfall in Budapest, Hungary on November 30, 2023. (Photo by Bernadett Szabo/Reuters)





Britain's Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell uses an umbrella outside 10 Downing Street in London on December 19, 2023. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)