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More snow brings 'nasty' travel conditions to some parts of the country as snow causes major disruption at Glasgow Airport whilst down in the SW flats flooded and motorists trapped in flood water after storm batters Devon In Malta: Plane blown into airport building by strong winds One dead after crane crashes down on building during storm in Belgium Brutal cold spell sets record lows across the US From America's hurricanes to Portugal's fires, ABC Weather looks back at 2017's deadly extremes And how Bali's tourist beaches are disappearing under a mountain of plastic garbage with 100 tons of rubbish being removed each day

European storm Bruno: Man dies after being blown off balcony as Spain remains on alert Arctic cold grips Canada, northern United States as Environment Canada says long-lasting cold wave unusual for this time of year   It was 'ankle deep with marble size hail': Homes damaged as 'super-storm' slams into Queensland on Boxing Day

Christmas storm buries Pennsylvania city in more than five feet of snow Here, snow sparks road warnings and power cuts today with even around an inch of slushy snow in Evesham.  Second snowfall here of the winter.  And it was a white Christmas for some areas of UK - but no major towns or cities. Cyclone Tembin: Tropical storm left 240 dead as it cut a swathe across the Philippines but storm weakens as it nears southern Vietnam In Australia Cyclone Hilda hits WA mainland, Broome lashed with 100kmph winds Car ban in place as northern Italian cities fight smog Mars: Not as dry as it seems - but the water is locked in rocks

A rare ‘ghost snow tsunami’ wave caught on camera in Wyoming Italian island gets its first snow in 18 years Hopes fade for dozens missing after Tropical Storm Kai Tak pummels Philippines Warming seas double snowfall around North America's tallest peaks  A new paper from Svensmark on the missing link between exploding stars, clouds, and climate on Earth (Svensmark however believes that this explains all 20th century warming, rather than any anthropogenic factors - Mayhew's Law begs to differ ....)  And ancient fossil microorganisms indicate that life in the universe is common

Storm in Victoria: Buildings damaged, thousands lose power whilst in NSW, western Sydney sweats through new record high 15C hotter than city's beaches in SA, spectacular 'spider lightning' lights up Glenelg beach during storms overnight and WA drenched in huge rainstorm Unfortunately, it appears not to be a dead spaceship, but interstellar object may hold 'alien' water And a new approach promises early warnings of soggy summers

Freak hail & thunderstorms batter UAE desert Death toll rises to 32, dozens missing after Typhoon Kai-tak ravages Philippine province, local authorities say In Chile: Landslide destroys village and kills at least five An extreme heatwave heads to outback towns in Queensland, NSW At least 1 dead as 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia And rising seas will displace 150 million people by 2100, says climate report - which, unsurpisingly, has a different projection of sea level rises to all other studies (none of which ever seem to agree .... )

In parts of Scotland there's a 'stay at home' warning over ice on roads as bookies look set to make money on white christmas gambling - odds continue to fall (down to 7/4 for London!) despite there currently being little sign of snow even in the Highlands on the 25th .....  (though that may yet change) 60 million-year-old meteorite impact found on Skye California fires: Sentinel satellite tracks wildfire smoke plume One dead, thousands flee as storm pounds Philippines   Effects of climate change could accelerate by mid-century Temperatures in Alaska warmed so rapidly this year that a computer rejected the data as false And a real puzzle: If the Ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round, why do so many celebrities think it's FLAT?

In the Philippines, Tropical Storm Urduja brings landslides, floods to Eastern Samar - it's expected to make landfall in the next 24 hours The Arctic saw 2nd warmest year, smallest winter sea ice coverage on record in 2017 A dramatic time lapse shows 'fire cloud' collapsing in the Thomas Fire in California How deadly Storm Ana wreaks havoc in Portugal earlier this week And it looks like Mars overdue a planet-wide dust storm that could harm the rovers

In Australia, Penrith hits temperature record as hottest December day recorded at 43.4 degrees One dead as storm sweeps Switzerland Now it's floods (and more snow): Drivers are stranded and dozens of schools stay shut for third day  but this morning the snow and ice has largely cleared for most. Human-caused warming likely intensified Hurricane Harvey's rains as it's calculated that Hurricane Harvey rainfall 'weighed 127bn tonnes' Meanwhile scientists conclude, based in 2016 extreme weather events, that humans have 'changed world's climate for the first time' Did air pollution cause a deadly Chinese landslide? The oldest ice core ever drilled outside the polar regions goes back 600,000 years and was drilled in Tibet It appears that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability How Greenland would look without its ice sheet And how giant storms cause palpitations in Saturn's atmospheri...

Warmer Arctic is the 'new normal' as a study shows how fires are changing the tundra’s face Roads closed, buses stuck in Montreal's 1st major snowstorm 'Flash freeze' hits flights at Glasgow Airport A mystery as thousands of ice balls wash up on Russian coast - or is it?  Some with less short memories may recall the same story last year ..... California Thomas Fire: No end in sight for week-long wildfire In NZ, Wellington welcomes arrival of rain, after almost 30 days without it The mesmerising moment a rare double moonbow appears in front of shimmering Northern Lights is captured in a stunning image Jupiter Great Red Spot has deep roots And 'alien bright spots' could be proof Ceres is not a dead world: NASA reveals they could be a sign of geologic activity

Not as cold here as expected overnight, with a min of just -6.1c - though that's still the lowest temp I have recorded since 4th Feb 2012.   Still plenty of (frozen) snow around - expected to clear as (slightly) milder weather moves in overnight.   Still relatively cold though till next week when we look likely to see above average temps for the run up to Christmas ......  But how long will they last?   No-one yet knows ......    UK snow: Ice warning as commuters faced delays Meanwhile, snow in Europe triggers transport chaos as Storm Ana slams Europe Residents evacuated, traffic disrupted as snow and ice continue to batter Italy Winds wreak damage in southern Poland And there are avalanche warnings as Valais recovers from record snowfall In South Africa, Midvaal Tornado leaves hundreds displaced and multiple injured US flood risk 'severely underestimated' - with 3 times as many household at risk ...

Heavy snow and flooding hits homes, roads and rail in Wales whilst in SW England the wind brings down power lines and disrupts travel and  heavy snow causes 11-car pileup on the A19 as cold weather sparks road, rail and flight chaos across Britain forcing hundreds of schools to close as heavy snow disrupts road, air travel in UK, northern Europe At it's peak we had around 4" (10cm) of snow in my garden - the best snowfall here since December 2010. Meanwhile, today snow and ice thaws after hundreds of accidents on Germany’s streets And next time a sporting event is cancelled due to snow, remember this: NFL match fought in incredible snow storm sees Buffalo Bills edge Indianapolis Colts in overtime California's Thomas Fire scorches area larger than New York City December ‘heat wave’ is warmest in 73 years for Juneau Severe weekend storm could take weeks to fully repair homes in south-east Queensland In NZ, Christchurch's nu...

In the US, snow blankets much of Deep South on weekend trek up East Coast to New England Meanwhile, back home, UK snow: Ice could add to travel disruption as temperatures drop - tomorrow and Monday could be rather "interesting" ......  It's already been the 'Worst Isle of Man snow since 2013' and the same is likely to apply to much of Wales and the Midlands tomorrow.   As happened in 2013, though, I am expecting no more than a bit of slush .... California wildfires: Businesses face ruin as blaze rages CCTV captures dramatic footage of a tornado as it tears through a warehouse turning it to rubble And sweltering 2017 puts Hong Kong on track for hottest temperature and highest number of warm nights in its recorded history

First decent snow shower in years here in Evesham this morning - and a chance of quite a bit more to come over the next few days as snow, ice bring disruption after Storm Caroline But nothing we get is likely to be quite this severe:  Alaska just reported one of the most extreme snowfall rates on record: 10 inches per hour And even more unusually it's snowing in south Texas! Yes, you read that right In the ongoing California wildfires: Nearly 200,000 flee amid new blaze In NZ, baking-hot Christchurch could break dryness records  French bishop issues call for three days of prayers... for rain Extreme weather system Aina batters Norway South African heatwave brings record-setting temperatures across WC Birth of a storm in the Arabian Sea validates climate model And a slightly off-topic but interesting piece on what geomythology can te...

Winter-like weather sweeps across western Queensland - with the temperature in Burketown dropping to +16c and Mount Isa seeing a December record minimum of ......  +12c    Some Aussies found it so cold they had to put a t-shirt on! La Nina declared heralding a humid, wet summer for Australia's south How future arctic sea ice loss could dry out California And as Britain faces the prospect of the coldest, snowiest, December since 2010, a good blog piece by Liam Dutton on why you shouldn’t believe a UK snow forecast more than three days ahead

Taiwan rainbow 'lasts record-breaking nine hours' - if confirmed, it breaks the record previously set in 1994.  In Yorkshire.  Albania braces for fifth day of severe floods Summer in Tasmania brings torrential rain to dry east coast, snowfalls in Central Highlands Watch: mega-storm lights up the skies over Australia (but not if you suffer photo-sensitive epilepsy!) Sydney Harbour spills over into CBD due to supermoon NZ experiences a marine heatwave unfolding as hot temperatures continue Darwin storms: Bureau of Meteorology rain gauge breaks during downpour   Thailand flood death toll rises to 15 India v Sri Lanka Test match halted by smog in Delhi California wildfire: Thousands evacuated in Ventura County Across the US, what happened to winter?  It's not arrived there yet.  But it could hit Britain the end of this week .... Trickle-down is the solution (to the planetary core formation problem) Possi...

An enormous waterspout forms off Italian coast before tornado hits whilst here another waterspout caught on video off coast of Cornwall near Tintagel and Boscastle So far the predicted deluge in SE Australia hasn't been a s bad a feared.  However, in Victoria,  homes flood in Euroa, state's north-east on alert as 1,500 call SES for help whilst in Canberra emergency services to work throughout the night in response to heavy rain .  So whilst it's not been bad in Melbourne, cut the snarkiness and leave BOM alone   Torrential rain, floods paralyse Albania; 1 person dead whilst from elsewhere, pictures of snow as winter weather comes early to Europe New Sentinel satellite tracks dirty air And gravity signals rapidly show true size of giant quakes

As forecast, flash floods hit Melbourne as storm moves across Victoria and an explanation of why south-east Australia is expecting a tropical deluge this weekend Cyclone Ockhi: Dozens of fishermen missing in Indian storm Yesterday saw snow falls on England's east coast beaches whilst a tiny amount of snow hit London and people couldn't contain themselves - but it might be all they see this winter!   No signs of anything for Evesham just yet.  But the weather may turn interesting in a week's time .... Meanwhile, the new radar on Lewis can measure size of snowflakes - so we shoukld get more accurate radar returns from that corner of the Isles. After the successful tranbsfer of data from the Ben Nevis Observatory, there's now an even bigger huge weather rescue project under way And how Alaska's coast is vanishing, 1 storm at a time as Arctic sea ice hits record lows off Alaska

 

Spring storms cause chaos across New Zealand to end November whilst in SE Australia they await what is expected to be record rainfall over the next few days . 'Start panic buying bread!' Twitter users turn to #SnowWatch as two inches of the white stuff hits rush hour with temperatures plunging to -10C tonight on coldest night of year - it was -3.4c here this morning.  The same day last year saw -5.9c ......   The lowest I have seen for the UK this morning is -6.0c at Pershore (Throckmorton) - which is always colder than anywhere else locally in forsty weather.   Meanwhile, snow leads to accidents and closed schools in north east Scotland (but remember this? ) Flood hits Central Java, forces thousands to evacuate And it appear that the time between world-changing volcanic super-eruptions less than previously thought

Glencoe Mountain opens for snowsports but over in the east there's a row over webcam's removal at Cairn Gorm Bali volcano: 150,000 people to evacuate erupting Mt Agung, airport closes for another day   as terrifying pictures show tourist island being flooded with volcanic sludge from exploding Mt Agung .  Although today, Ngurah Rai Airport reopens after closure due to Mt Agung eruption BOM warns Victoria to be hit by 'unprecedented' thunderstorms, flash flooding A NASA satelite captures a great view of gravity wave clouds near Australia Cyclone kills 19 on Indonesian island of Java NOAA study could redefine '100-year' storm for Houston area A breakthrough in tornado short-term forecasting could mean earlier, more accurate warnings Decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide key to ancient climate transition 1mya From the Indus Valley, intriguing evidence that the river departed 'before Indus civilisation emergence...

Bali orders mass evacuation and raises volcanic eruption alert to its highest level as up to 60,000 travellers are trapped after airport is closed by huge ash cloud Mount Agung: Bali volcano eruption photos explained Blazing 'fireballs' shoot across the sky in southern England - the latest of many spotted around the world.   Are the Martians coming?!

Morocco prays for rain as shortage threatens agriculture Indonesia tornado injures dozens, damages hundreds of homes Our 4th air forst of the month here this morning!   Obviously not the tiniest slight hint of the merest prospect of snow, though.  But other parts have seen a bit, especially the Highlands where cold leads to boat false alarm on Loch Ness Spinning ice circle in frozen river attracts tourists to Inner Mongolia city Climate change could increase volcano eruptions in Iceland Eat more chips!  Deep fat fryers may help form cooling clouds More incomfortable scenes from picture postcard to plastic swamp: new images show how idyllic Caribbean island has been ruined by rubbish And with the Ministry Of Health looking onto changing Icelandic time zone by one hour back (west - which makes sense) a good map showing just why moving the UK's time zone one hour forward (east) is such utter nonsense.   Also worth n...

Emergency services rescue more than 70 from floods overnight as Britain is battered by heavy rain, 8 inches of snow and 70mph wind - but such weather is not unusual this time of year.  Meanwhile, in Eire, the army mobilised as Laois flood cleanup gets underway .  Here we just had a bright, breezy, day with a few spots of rain in the evening ....   We've only had around 425mm so far this year, against an annual average - in one of the driest parts of Britain - of just over 600mm.  Record-breaking heat blankets southern California ahead of Thanksgiving holiday In NZ, Cromwell in Central Otago heats up the record book Lightning, with a chance of antimatter And next time the schools shut because there's a forecast of a slight dusting of snow, or risk or icey pavements, take a look at this: Going home from school, Siberian-style, in violent storm force Arctic winds

There's already an avalanche risk in mountains amid wider warning of snow in the Scottish Highlands this week Beautiful Irish sandy beach which 'vanished' 12 years ago when it was washed away in a freak storm suddenly returns overnight - another beach, a few miles away, did the same earlier this year . Rain brings pain back to Jeddah And there's unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan

In parts of SE Australia, November heatwave a 150-year record as the BOM announces short, weak La Nina probability for summer lacking rainfall but packing heatwaves Tropical Storm Kirogi hits Vietnam In Greece: Body recovered, bringing flood death toll to 21 Added Arctic data shows global warming didn't pause Antarctic glacier's rough belly exposed Previous evidence of water on Mars now identified as grainflows And whilst discussing the bizarre shape of interstellar asteroid scientists still don't seem to be considering it could just be a spaceship after all....  But with no signs of intelligent life in oir soalr system it just sailed right through....

Greece unveils flood relief measures as death toll hits 20 In Australia, Kalgoorlie storm wreaks havoc, leaving homes and businesses without power An upsurge in big earthquakes predicted for 2018 as Earth rotation slows (by a millisecond) And some good news for the family who got stranded at my bothy as Hogwarts Express rescue family reunited with canoe

The latest prediction is that 2017 likely to be Earth's second warmest year on record, NASA says - that's with no El Nino and very low solar activity .....  October was also the second warmest on record according to NASA data. Three feet of snow dumped over 48 hours in California as winter starts early In Australia, a thunderstorm brings damaging winds to parts of NSW and ACT whilst outback Northern Territory hit with soaking rain, breaking dry stretch - in some places, the first rain this year ! This is what’s behind the dramatic, deadly flooding in Greece - storm called Numa.  It's not a "medicane" yet though. Some climate change impacts already locked in, but the worst can still be avoided Iceland's volcanoes may be getting ready to blow Stunning NASA 'oil painting' image reveals a massive raging storm on Jupiter with clouds that are eight miles wide Caught on video, a fireball in northern Finnish skies eith...

Flash floods kill 15 people in western outskirts of Athens with many more pictures here Nasa forecast: Which cities will flood as ice melts? Amazon's recovery from forest losses limited by climate change A stunning NASA animation reveals the Earth's atmosphere in 2017 - complete with swirling smoke and hurricanes - the distance forest fire smoke travels is especially interesting The terrifying moment commercial plane is struck by huge lightning bolt just moments after taking-off - or, rather, the impressive moment the strike was captured on camera!   Aircraft are frequently hit by lightning and it's not normally the least bit dangerous. Four fireball meteors flashed across the sky over the U.S. and Europe on Tuesday night Pluto's hydrocarbon haze keeps dwarf planet colder than expected And a nearby planet is 'excellent' target in search for life as NASA expert says we will find alien life within 20 years

Iran-Iraq quake: Survivors complain of slow relief effort, battle freezing cold; more than 530 dead Tornadoes hit Sicily (possibly) More pictures of the devastation caused by Aegean storms Greek island of Symi in state of emergency after heavy storm And there could be more problems ahead with a rare tropical-like storm forming in Mediterranean 25 injured after tornado ravages homes, greenhouses in southwest Turkey Climate change blamed for Arabian Sea’s unexpected hurricanes The National Hurricane Center issued its best forecasts on record this year - by which they mean their most accurate And yet another warning that artificially cooling planet 'risky strategy'

Cars fall into the sea of Symi Island after Storm “Eurydice” hits the island 1 dead, 5 injured as powerful storm blasts western Washington There are hundreds of lightning strikes across Auckland as surprise spring storm heads east and south Iran earthquake survivors plead for help as death toll rises Antarctica's warm underbelly revealed 15,000 scientists in 184 countries warn about negative global environmental trends In 1770, a huge solar storm turned the skies of Asia red for two weeks And how missing weather data is a 'life and death' issue in Africa

Iran-Iraq earthquake: Deadly tremor hits border region Sunday saw the Australian media invent a new weather term as lightning showers and hail the size of golf balls as severe storms lash Perth (or have they just missed out a comma?) The first CO2 rise in four years puts pressure on Paris targets Here, Venus and Jupiter conjunction: Sky-watchers witness dawn display - though one of the pics the BBC have published is fake, as the Moon was not in the same part of the sky (though it will move closer over the next 2 days) And choking on democracy: Why Delhi's air worsens as Beijing's improves

Vietnam braced for second storm after devastating impact of Typhoon Damrey Colombia mudslide: Three dead as Corinto town inundated Ben Nevis gets automatic weather station - but only for 3 weeks .... Winter is here! Polar air brings storms, sleet and snow to Germany Here comes La Nina, El Nino's flip side, but it will be weak How the onset of the Neoglacial ended the African Humid Period: Cooling in high and mid-latitudes led to aridification in Northern Afric a 5.5kya Western Canada's ice age melt offers preview for modern climate change Britain's Antarctic base comes out of deep freeze for the summer Hot news from the Antarctic underground - study bolsters 30 year old theory of a mantle plume under West Antarctica And how the site of asteroid impact changed the history of life 66mya

After record rainfall last month, is this the "severe weather capital of the world"?  Bundaberg storm clean-up continues but thousands of residents still without power Typhoon Damrey: Drone footage shows Hoi An floodwaters after deadly storm in Vietnam In New Delhi: Off-the-scale pollution prompts public health emergency, school closures A study shows Jordan water crisis 'to get worse' due to climate change And there were spectacular views of Northern Lights from Scotland last night - I forgot to go out and look, although down here they may have only be visible on camera, if at all.

Tropical Storm Rina forms in the Atlantic; how often do we get this deep into a named storm list? - not often! In Australia, hail, wild winds sweep south-east Queensland, some Bundaberg homes damaged whilst severe NSW weather blows roofs from buildings, brings unseasonal snow and 'giant hail' Death toll from Vietnam storm tops 60 and dams near bursting Malaysians unite in Penang flood relief efforts France shivers under cold front as first snow of season arrives In south Africa, Capetonians hold onto poles as strong winds cause chaos in city And 2017 'very likely' in top three warmest years on record - the warmest two years on record were 2015 and 2016 .......  whither now the so-called "pause"?

In Vietnam: At least 27 killed by Typhoon Damrey over the weekend.  Today, Vietnam's death toll from Typhoon Damrey nears 50 And flash floods kill five in Malaysia, army deploys to rescue thousands of displaced First air first of the season in my garden this mkorning - though it took it's time to finally, very briefly, dip down to -0.1c.  Normally second half of the month before we see a frost though, so a nice start.  Over the weekend the first snow hits the UK (I think some light snow had fallen already on Scottish hills, but there was the first noticeable, widespread, covering). In Ireland, too the 'first dusting of snow this season' - Stunning views from the top of Carrauntoohil mountain .  And the first snow of the winter has fallen in Italy October hottest month recorded since 1902 in Bahrain And do you believe chemtrails are real? Study finds 10% of Americans think the conspiracy theory is true - which is somewhat less than believe in...

First Argentina, now Bolivia: Intense hail storms trigger disruption in Bogota Damrey becomes strongest typhoon in 16 years to make landfall in southern Vietnam Down in the Antarctic, warm air helped make 2017 ozone hole smallest since 1988 Is there another close-by planetary system?    Evidence of planets around Proxima Centauri And US report finds climate change 90% manmade, contradicting Trump officials - I am sure Frump will just declare it a Russian plot and ignore it ....

Heavy monsoon rain sparks fear for India's Chennai with a repeat of the deadly 2015 floods possible Send some here! Snow falls in Tasmania after warmest October on record Freeview blames air pressure for TV disruption - pressure was fairly high at the time, but not unusually so. New Greenland maps show more glaciers at risk of melting Wind may be driving the melting of East Antarctica’s largest glacier UK's Halley Antarctic base set for second closure this winter due to nearby cracks in the ice (and the difficulties of evacuation in winter should that become necessary) We now have a clearer picture on how the Chicxulub asteroid impact plunged dinosaurs into catastrophic 'winter' An opinion piece in Forbes: Calling every bad storm a 'superstorm' or 'weather bomb' is why people tune out weather forecasts is as applicable to the UK as it is the US.   And it doesn't help either when the popular media publish stories biza...

A ferocious storm dumps five feet of hail with stones the size of tennis balls battering cars and homes, sparking evacuations and ruining crops in Argentina In the US, 1 million endure power outages as damaging Northeast storm unleashes hurricane-force winds Global atmospheric CO2 levels hit record high Plastic bottles, toothbrushes, chip bags make up huge floating garbage site in Caribbean And new analysis of Kepler data finds 20 habitable worlds 'hiding in plain sight' including a 'frozen Earth' astronomers say could hold life - I think we should name it Hoth !

Europe storms: at least six dead as winds and flooding create chaos across Germany, Poland and Czechia  Thousands without power as winds and heavy rains wallop East Coast of the USA whilst further south Tropical Storm Philippe crosses southern Florida bringing downpours and strong winds Storms create more than 130,000 lightning strikes in south-east Queensland Tokyo hit by second tropical cyclone in a week and a strange octopus invasion on Welsh beach blamed on effects of recent storms

Torrential downpours cause major flooding in Tanzania with many places seeing 24 hour and monthly records broken Queensland weather: Storms, golf ball-sized hail whip through state's south east In the eastern Pacific, NASA finds new Tropical Storm Selma has heavy rain-making potential with El Salvador and Guatemala under threat  The average length of the US winter has shrunk by more than one month in 100 years (it's shrunk to nothing at all here!) Typhoon Saola brings heavy rain in southern Japan  ‘Pollution season on’: Smog shrouds Beijing & suburbs, causes roads closures Brazil's Chapada dos Veadeiros park ravaged by fire - up to a quarter of the park destroyed ....  Suspicions are it was started deliberately.    Yellowstone spawned twin super-eruptions that altered global climate around 630kya Is current climate change unparalleled over the last 100 million years?   Estimates of past ocean temper...

Three dead in floods in Bulgaria’s Bourgas district Alpine passes close as snow hits Switzerland Heatwave history is being made as L.A. bakes under an October sun Meanwhile, on Bali, t housands defying evacuation as Mt Agung fails to blow And with that in mind, a warning that i ce sheets may melt rapidly in response to distant volcanoes Arctic sea ice may be thinning faster than scientists initially predicted Oh, and there's a risk of some snow on Scottish hills next week.  This is unusal.  Because it'll be the latest we've seen settling snow in years .....

Powerful typhoon brings heavy rain across Japan, leaving 5 dead For most of us it was, as expected, just a normal breezy October day, but in Aberwystwth Storm Brian blast dumps tons of sand, rock and debris dumped onto seafront and some West Yorkshire towns hit by flooding after heavy rainfall  In Croatia, heavy rain hits Rijeka, city centre flooded Autumn's first snow falls on Moscow An eight-year long study concludes that more acidic oceans 'will affect all sea life' And shocking images show how bottles, bags and rubbish are choking our oceans

Typhoon Lan rapidly intensifies in Pacific on its path toward Japan Storm Brian: UK braced for gale-force winds and disruption - but it's really only coastal flooding that's a concern and this storm doesn't warrnat being named (Met Eireann issued an amber warning, triggering the name, in part, I think because of continuing problems there after ex-Ophelia last weekend) Pollution linked to one in six deaths worldwide - with air pollution the biggest danger A brief history of the Earth's CO2 A little off topic, but one for those who argue Britain isn't (or shouldn't be) a single nation: Stonehenge builders 'ate food from Scotland' And as little later than usual, but the lies remain the same as Nathan Rao makes his annual prediction that UK faces MONTHS of SNOW: Sinking polar vortex to trigger COLDEST winter since GREAT FREEZE   So we may get a couple of frosts then ..... (actually, there's a chance it could be a colder, snow...

Typhoon Lan may threaten Okinawa, Japan beginning this weekend Addressing the Etsako flood disaster in Nigeria Flood, landslide fatalities in Vietnam surge to 77  Brazil minister: Amazon deforestation 'drops by 16%' - we're a long way off reaforestation ....  And maybe we should ban Cadbury's?  Chocolate production linked to increased deforestation in poor nations Rivers carry plastic debris into the sea And there's alarm over decline in flying insects - but I don't think the midge and mozzie population are under threat ..... Scientists determine source of world's largest mud eruption - which has been going on for 11 years on Java World's first floating wind farm starts generating electricity off the coast near Peterhead Potential human habitat located on the moon  A study shows how water could have flowed on 'cold and icy' ancient Mars And with NOAA's September data now in, 2017 on pace t...