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SEO: broaden curated weather events beyond the US/Anglosphere (#101)

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Common-sense coverage pass on city_events.py: the list was 10/31 US and heavily
Anglosphere with no Latin America, no Middle East, and only London/Paris for all of
continental Europe. Add 9 verified events filling those gaps — Los Angeles (2025
wildfires), Moscow (2010 heat/wildfires), Madrid (2021 Storm Filomena), Athens (2018
Attica fires), Seoul (2022 floods), Dubai (2024 floods), Jeddah (2009 floods), Sao
Paulo (2014-17 drought), Rio de Janeiro (2010 floods). Every Wikipedia link
verified to resolve. 40 events total; nothing removed (no factual errors found).
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@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ EVENTS: dict[str, dict] = {
"oklahoma-city-oklahoma-us": {
"text": "Deep in Tornado Alley, the Oklahoma City area was struck by the May 3, 1999 tornado, which produced the highest wind speed ever measured on Earth, around 302 mph.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado"},
"los-angeles-california-us": {
"text": "In January 2025, wind-driven wildfires — chiefly the Palisades and Eaton fires — swept through Los Angeles, destroying thousands of structures in one of the most destructive fire disasters in California's history.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2025_Southern_California_wildfires"},
# --- Canada ---
"toronto-ontario-ca": {
@ -58,6 +61,15 @@ EVENTS: dict[str, dict] = {
"paris-ile-de-france-fr": {
"text": "The August 2003 European heat wave was catastrophic around Paris, contributing to roughly 15,000 heat-related deaths across France.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave"},
"moscow-ru": {
"text": "In the summer of 2010, a record heat wave and surrounding peat and forest fires smothered Moscow in smog for weeks, with temperatures near 38°C and thousands of excess deaths.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires"},
"madrid-es": {
"text": "In January 2021, Storm Filomena buried Madrid under its heaviest snowfall in decades — around 50 cm — paralyzing the city for days.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Filomena"},
"athens-attica-gr": {
"text": "In July 2018, wind-driven wildfires swept through Attica near Athens during extreme heat, killing more than 100 people in Greece's deadliest fire disaster.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Attica_wildfires"},
# --- Australia ---
"sydney-new-south-wales-au": {
@ -104,6 +116,25 @@ EVENTS: dict[str, dict] = {
"tokyo-jp": {
"text": "In October 2019, Typhoon Hagibis — one of the most powerful to strike Japan in decades — brought record rainfall and widespread flooding to the Tokyo region.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Hagibis"},
"seoul-kr": {
"text": "In August 2022, record-breaking rainfall flooded Seoul, submerging roads and low-lying semi-basement homes and killing several people across the capital region.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_South_Korea_floods"},
# --- Middle East ---
"dubai-ae": {
"text": "In April 2024, Dubai was deluged by about two years' worth of rain in a single day — its heaviest on record — flooding highways and bringing its international airport to a standstill.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Arab_Emirates_floods"},
"jeddah-mecca-region-sa": {
"text": "In November 2009, sudden flash floods swept through Jeddah after record rainfall, killing more than 100 people in one of the city's worst modern disasters.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jeddah_floods"},
# --- Latin America ---
"sao-paulo-br": {
"text": "From 2014 to 2017, the worst drought in about 80 years drove São Paulo's main Cantareira reservoir system toward empty, forcing water rationing across the megacity.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%932017_Brazilian_drought"},
"rio-de-janeiro-br": {
"text": "In January 2010, torrential rains triggered deadly floods and mudslides across the Rio de Janeiro area, among the region's worst weather disasters.",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2010_Rio_de_Janeiro_floods_and_mudslides"},
# --- Africa ---
"cape-town-western-cape-za": {