2nd May - Today's News: 18 Dead in US Tornadoes, Floods

Death toll rises to 18 in Midwest, South storms and flooding whilst an unsually active spring blizzard hits Kansas and Oklahoma

And in the central US, warnings today that more rivers to swell to major or record flood stage this week

Here, April was my driest month on record (from 2007) - and we had almost as much rain again on 1st May alone, indeed, some places I think had quite a bit more rain yesterday than in the whole of April.

The great stink: parts of New Zealand still 'putrid' after raft of floods 

Down in Argentina, parts of Welsh Patagonia have been left devastated by the worst rain in four decades

Ice cave in Transylvania reveals how Europe's weather has changed during the last 10,000 years - but no vampires

And how Antarctica's troublesome 'hairdryer winds' increase ice melt