6th September - Today's News: Irma: Mass Evacuations in Caribbean and Florida

Mass evacuation as Hurricane Irma rages into the Caribbean with 185mph winds after swelling to the size of France as Red Cross braces for 'major humanitarian response' - because when it comes to Irma: Category five hurricanes don't get much more powerful than this.   And heart-stopping video emerges of pilot flying intoHurricane Irma in order to measure the 200mph storm and predict its future movements

Meanwhile, in Texas, Hurricane Harvey's floods caused Houston to SINK by almost an inch under the extreme weight

Ash covers Oregon cities, wildfire smoke chokes US West

In NZ a tornado hits South Island's West Coast as lightning hits North

Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability

And a bid to rescue Ben Nevis weather data - a slightly misleading headline as the datas isn't in danger, it just needs uploading in a digital format.  And there's a lot of data!