30th April - Today's News: Fen Blow Hits Farmers

Fen blow phenomenon: farmer's count cost of 'perfect storm'

Average Briton whines about the weather for four months of their life - or, if you're a member of a weather forum, for about four months of every year!

More than 44,000 animal carcasses recovered after Northern Ireland snow - that's a lot of lamp chops

Video of Spain's spring snow: ususual weather blocks roads

Balkans brace for a scorching spring

There's been awesome Aussie weather this autumn - and it's still warm in South Africa too.  In the Northern Territories, the wet was dry now dry will start wet as Cyclone Zane forms off north Queensland coast

In Oman, rain woes continue unabated and why more rainfall in Oman?  Experts link it to delayed European spring.

Plants can moderate climate warming, new study shows, by releasing gases which aid cloud formation

Saturn hurricane snapped by Cassini craft

And more nonsense from the Daily Mail, claiming the next big freeze could last 250 years:  Experts say Sun's activity wanes every 200 years - and the next 'cooling period' is due by 2040.   This 'annoucement' from some Russian scientist has, of course, excited Wattsy's gang - after all, if 10,000 people tell you something you don't want to be true and one person tells you what you want to hear, whom do you believe?   That's not to say that a period of reduced solar activity won't occur, it's just that other factors mean it will not produce the cold spell associated with the Maunder Minimum and at best it'll just stall any further rise in temps due to various human activities.   Of course, we should note that the start of this 'cold spell' is constantly getting put back.  It was supposed to have started around 2000 ......