19th March - Today's News: Massive Devastation from Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai: Fears for 500,000 people as 90% of Mozambique city destroyed, aid officials say

as the country's president fears over 1,000 may have died in and around Beira and suggestions that Cyclone Idai 'might be southern hemisphere's worst such disaster'.  Meanwhile, relief reaches Zimbabwe's cyclone survivors as death toll rises

In Australia, Cyclone Trevor crosses coast as category three system, Lockhart River in lockdown

There are now three dead in record flooding in US Midwestern states

Record high US temperatures outpace record lows two to one, study finds

A warning that there could be water shortages in England 'within 25 years' as demand rises and rainfall becomes less reliable and more extreme.

Use forecast to talk about climate change, urges ex-BBC presenter

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano suffers largest eruption in years

NASA’s first rover mission to Mars more than 20 years ago may have unknowingly explored the edges of an ancient SEA formed by 'cataclysmic flooding'

Examining old data for the observatory days shows how soggy Ben Nevis can be remarkably dry.  But not very often!

And a celebration of Scotland's Munros and the man who listed them.  My favourite is Slioch