25th June - Today's News: Extensive Floods in Minnesota

Vast stretches of Minnesota are flooded as swollen rivers overflow

In Texas, storm brings welcome rain but also street flooding

A house is damaged as tornado touches down in New Tecumseth, Ont.

Lightning strike blows Georgia man out of his boots, literally

Plenty of pictures in the Daily Mail as Australia sees more than 80,000 homes without power: Severe weather batters the east coast as SES volunteers respond to thousands of calls across Victoria and NSW

 while storm smashes wind energy records - presumably they don't need to switch off their turbines when it gets a bit breezy as we do in this country?

In NZ, the north of South Island region soaked by winter storms with some families evacuated due to flooding

Near Toulouse, in France, a month of rain falls in three hours as more severe storms strike the country

In South Africa last week, 20,000 affected by Cape storms and flooding

Haze: Malaysia calls for immediate action by Indonesia as part of the country is afflicted by pollution from  forest fires

 

Did humans cause the great flooding of China's Yellow River? 3,000-year-old levees accidentally led to millions of deaths

Frozen underworld discovered beneath Greenland ice sheet

And when it rains, it pours ..... on the Sun