10th March - Today's News: Spring Brings Record Temperatures to Europe

Spring sprung yesterday as parts of UK enjoy warmest day of the year so far with temperatures reaching 20.5c in London (one of the earliest dates on which 20c has been recorded in Britain) and 18.9c in my garden - a fine days for a walk with friends through the woods and riverside around Pershore, and a couple of pints afterwards.  And it was warm in parts of Europe too over the weekend with record breaking temperatures as the Netherlands basks in the Sun, a Spring temperature record measured in Åland Islands in the Baltic, whilst today it's predicted that weather in Moscow about to set new temperature record

Twin cyclone threat strands tourists, shuts ports in north, far north Queensland

A shrinking country: Ireland 250 acres smaller after floods tear chunks off coastline over the winter.

Earlier last week tornado blacks out 13.500 homes in France

In Pune, India, unseasonal rain and hailstones lash district, 15 hurt

And is it too little too late?  After dry season rain begins to fall on Jersualem

Limpopo roads closed due to rain

Mysterious new man-made gases pose threat to ozone layer

And Sun's energy influences 1,000 years of natural climate variablility in North Atlantic - but this does NOT mean that human activities cannot also affect climate ....