29th August 2012 - Hurricane Issac Makes Landfall in Louisiana

Hurricane Issac makes landfall in Louisiana

Isaac slams into southeast Lousiana; tests New Orleans post-Katrina flood controls

Whilst in Asia, Typhoon Bolaven:  North Korea reports storm damage

At Egremont in Cumbria, house turned into real life dolls house by flood waters

While in Scotland, snow joke: first snow of the year predicted before the close of August.   I think they mean the first snow of autumn.    And there was quite a bit of snow on the Cairngorms in August last year ......  As Tom Jones would say, it's not unusual!   Very silly picture too.   But it is a comic.

Spark triggered by twi boulders' collision starts a Utah wildfire

Famed Italian botanic garden devastated by tornado

Record temperatures and wildfires in Eastern Russia - as seen by NASA

Traffic woes rain on Delhi

Six dead in weekend flooding in Senegal's capital

Arctic becoming a "giant slushie" says scientist

Work to resume on Brazil's Belo Monte dam - but I bet it stops again before long!

Up on Mars, Curioisty rover's intinguing geological find is a discontinuity in the rock strata -  further evidence there were once seas on the red planet.  Curiosoity has also spotted a bizarre collection of space aliens ......

And a new study suggests that 'Tattooine-like' double star systems can host planets