6th March - Today's News: Record High Temperatures in Cape Town

SA weather confirms record high temperatures for CT - reaching 42c on Tuesday, the highest ever recorded in Cape Town

Hundreds of stranded drivers finally on the move after some were stuck in their cars without food or heat for 24 hours on Kentucky highway after 2,000-mile-wide winter storm as late winter snowstorm blankets South, Northeast

In Europe, Balkan blizzard cuts off villages, electricity.  One man dies in landslide in Bosnia as bad weather hits Balkans whilst skiers in cable car drama amid Italy storms

The elusive El Niño arrives: Forecasters predict it will stay weak, have little influence on weather and climate

Extreme rain may flood 54 million people by 2030 whilst another study suggests that the flood and drought risk to cities on rise even without climate change

Arctic sea ice is getting thinner faster than expected whilst around Finland, sea ice thinner than usual, FMI warns

And rough and tumble sea ice becoming rarer as Alaska's North Slope warms

There is direct evidence that drought-weakened Amazonian forests 'inhale less carbon'

Space technology investigates large-scale changes to Africa's climate

Yucatan Peninsular hit by tsunami 1,500 years ago, evidence indicates - the question is what caused it.   Could it be connected to the '536 AD Event', I wonder?  Some argue it was caused by a volcanic eruption, but others favour a cometary impact.

Mars: the planet that lost an ocean's worth of water

And the forecast is cloudy with a wisp of liquid rock: Clouds around exoplanets analysed