27th July - Today's News: Flash Floods Hit Athens

Now Athens has been battered by flash flooding after wildfires killed 82

UK weather: Heatwave set to bring highs of 37C on hottest day of year - before lightning, flooding and hail - yesterday saw Wisley record a UK date record and highest temperature so far this year of 35.1c   Just 31.6c in my garden though.   Thunderstorms, hail and floods are not expected here, but we should get some much needed frontal rain over the weekend.   However, ‘everyone is laughing’: Australia reacts to British heatwave hysteria.  Of course, Aussies reach for their overcoats whenever the temperature drops below 25c.   So really the last laugh is on them.

So, is summer temperature 2018 – the ‘new normal’?

And meanwhile, the Netherland's national heatwave a fact; 15 records broken

 and Germany swelters under heatwave - also recording its hottest day of the year yesterday.  In Denmark, after their 7th hottest night in history, national crisis group called in as drought crisis deepens

Raging NorCal wildfire turns deadly, forces "mass evacuations"

Another typhoon barrels towards flood-hit western Japan 

Myanmar flooding displaces more than 16,000 people

Vanuatu: Ambae island evacuated again over volcano eruption

Earth's ocean wilderness 'disappearing' globally

And Siberian worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life