13th September - Today's News: 3 Dead in Colorado Flash Floods

Colorado towns are left stranded in deadly floods as thousands warned to evacuate in Boulder, Colorado and with 3 dead, 1 missing, rescue efforts continue amid rain.   More pictures here and also, this being the internet age,  31 instagrams from the wild flood in Colorado

And an assessment of the weather conditions that led to catastrophic flooding in Boulder, Colorado from Christopher Burt

Meanwhile, in Europe, Romania flash floods kill eight and force evacuations

Tropical Storm Gabrielle heading north to Atlantic Canada

In NZ, after this week's wild weather: thousands still without power

Doppler weather radar traces tornado in Chennai

Arctic sea ice nears annual summer minimum - likely to be the 6th lowest on record

Are these the scariest cloud formations ever photographed?  asks the Daily Mail.  No, but they're pretty good shots of supercells

Five-fold rise seen in UK landslides

Unprecedented rate and scale of ocean acidification found in the Arctic - much faster than models predicted

And a century of human impact on Arctic climate indicated by new models, historic aerosol data

Current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions put over 600 million people at risk of higher water scarcity - but I warrant most would be at risk regardless of any climate change.  More and more and more people all wanting more and more water?  The outcome is obvious.   Although, that said, some good news as Kenya aquifers discovered in dry Turkana region

Mount McKinley 83ft shorter than previously thought (the story confused me at first as I thought the highest peak in N America was Denali .... I'd completely forgotten its English name)

It's now official: NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft embarks on historuc journey into interstellar space.  How long before V'Ger returns to destroy us though?!!!

Oh, and a good blog piece from last month: Comet ISON: the real story - still looking good for a naked eye object towards the end of the year.