9th March - Today's News: Heavy Rain Brings Floods, Landslides to Highlands

As forecast, there was a landslip and flooding after heavy rain hits Scotland at the weekend with flood misery across Highlands as River Ness banks burst - Cluanie Inn reported ~185mm of rain in a 48 hour period. 

Meanwhile, strong winds over North Wales produced a host of pictures of rare lenticular clouds over Cheshire

States of emergency, power cuts as Bulgaria continues grappling with heavy snowfalls with tens of thousands without electricity as snow heaps southern Bulgaria

Australia's Bureau or Meteorology cyclone team to assess Coral Sea tropical low

And despite deep blankets of snow across much of US experts say this winter was the 19th warmest since records began – and for five states it was the warmest ever winter