2nd August - Today's News: South Korea's Hottest Day on Record 40.3c

On Wednesday the mercury hits record 40.3 C in South Korea as country battles heat wave with those in North Korea also struggling with heatwave 

Last month NI had normal rainfall - despite heatwave.  But most of that fell in one day.   So actually not normal at all!    But the weekend's rain and cooler weather does mean United Utilities calls off summer hosepipe ban in England.   Though temnperatures are now on the rise again .....

Flash flood in Corsica canyon kills four including girl aged 7

Arctic heat melts away Sweden's highest peak

Snow and hail blanket southern Alberta highway — in July

Half of Oregon in ‘severe drought’ following record-setting July heat as wildfires rage

In Australia, snow falls at Bluff Knoll as cold front knocks out power to WA homes whilst dust storms stretching 250 kilometres hit SA's Eyre Peninsula after driest July in 19 years

Japan's record heat, excessive rain in some areas made for an 'abnormal' July: JMA

Fears grow as flooding displaces 130,000 in Myanmar

How Typhoon Jongdari took a weird path across Japan 

Climate change-driven droughts are getting hotter, study finds

Scientists draw new connections between climate change and warming oceans

It's suggested that plate tectonics not needed to sustain life

And how Greenland scorched its underside