1st September - Today's News: Dust Storm Shrouds Brisbane

Brisbane wakes to rare dust storm shrouding city, first in 'several years'

So, was it a record breaking summer?  Possibly.  It may end up the warmest for England, and third warmest in the CET record.

Tornado-like funnel clouds spotted in locations across Cornwall

Tropical disturbance could pose storm danger for western Europe.  Or it might not.  At present it's a bunch of thunderstorms off the African coast that may develop into a tropical depression that may or may not then develop into a hurricane that may or may not peter out into nothing before it may or may not start to track north towards the British Isles where it may or may not give us some weather that may or may not include a bit of wind and rain.  

Super Typhoon Jebi, Earth's strongest storm of 2018, a threat to Japan early next week

An ocean ‘heat wave’ just drove temperatures off Maine to near-record highs

In Canada, state of emergency extended as B.C. deals with worst wildfire season ever

Samoan PM calls climate skeptics ‘utterly stupid’ while calling out India, China and the US 

In Greece, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake strikes near Trikala, landslides reported

How a NASA scientist looks in the depths of the great red spot to find water on Jupiter

And water worlds could support life, study says, though perhaps not quite as advanced on rockier worlds with tidal shoreline