18th June - Today's News: 'Brutal' Hailstorm Hits Dallas

Dallas residents begin cleanup after brutal hailstorm pelts property, shreds trees - with some reports suggesting that the total cost could be $2Bn 

Colorado fire tops 56,000 acres, weather stays hot and windy

Storm Carlotta weakens over Mexico's Pacific coast, two dead 

Storm chasers may have been disappointed, but I guess most Americans were quite happy that across the country, May was quietest months for tornadoes in 60 years

Unsettled, though not unduly so, over the weekend, with Sir Elton John Blackpool gig abandoned due to weather and in London three young cricketers crushed by falling tree are off the critical list

Why aren't there 50 words for rain?

Powerful typhoon to hit wide parts of Japan later this week  

Ancient warmed greened Antarctic - 20 million years ago

Colombian volcano Nevada del Ruiz spews ash and gas - its last eruption in 1985 killed 25,000 people in mudslides

And intrigue as UFO-shaped object found at bottom of Baltic Sea - though as yet there's no evidence that it isn't simply a natural rock formation.   In fact, it looks like a roche moutonee to me.  There's a less sensational report (but without pictures) here.