1st October - Today's News: Caribbean Storm Matthew Becomes Cat 5 Hurricane

Now the strongest Atlantic storm since Felix in 2007, Matthew intensifies into a rare category 5 hurricane; forecast to turn toward Jamaica, Cuba

South Australia storms: Ring of wind slams into state a day after power blackout with the latest SA weather: Gawler flooding in wake of severe storms as river levels peak whilst thousands without power, flood warnings issued for Barossa Valley and Onkaparinga

Elsewhere in Australia NSW weather: Evacuation order for Condobolin as Lachlan River flood moves downstream as floods strand 181 families for month on islands in the middle of NSW whilst a  WA storm blacks out homes, blocks roads as severe weather warning remains.  Makes Britain's weather all seem very benign .... 

In Ontario, storm sets new rain record for Windsor and Tecumseh

Swedes bake during 'record' warm September

Largely unreported (except for here!) recent forest fires 'destroyed' 2 million hectares - 'an unprecedented catastrophe in Siberia'

Flights probe jet stream role in floods

Is the big one about to hit? Fears rise amid 'quake swarm' of more than 35 mini earthquakes less than four miles from the San Andreas fault whilst Mexico's Colima volcano erupts, forcing nearby communities to evacuate and in in the Atlantic, ‘Elevated unrest’ at Katla volcano triggers aviation alert increase in Iceland

And it's so long Rosetta: Spacecraft ends its historic 12-year mission by 'crashing' into a comet at crawling speed