16th April - Today's News: English Drought to Last All Year?

It's being warned that our drought may last until Christmas with even in Wales water warning by Environment Agency with low river levels after little rain - there'll be some this week but it will do little to ease the long term deficit

And the British wildfire season continues with Ardnamurchan moorland destroyed by wildfire with another currently being fought in Galloway and more gorse fires on hillside near Derry

Weekend tornadoes leave a 'royal mess' in Midwest; 5 dead

Lightning bolt kills man on building site near Crewe, last week

Rwanda: flood death toll rises

Some Asian glaciers 'putting on mass' though many others are in retreat - most likely down to changes in precipitation patterns.

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