4th March - Today's News: Alabama Tornado Leaves 23 Dead

Six-year-old boy among the 23 people killed by tornadoes that ripped through Alabama and Georgia - that's more than twice the number of tornado fatalities in the USA in the whole of 2018 .....

And here in the UK it was also a bit windy as 90mph Storm Freya batters Britain with 6in of snow, trees on rail lines and roads closed due to flooding.   It killed some of my daffodils!  And March 'to be the month of many weathers' as Storm Freya hits with unexpected heavy snow in Ireland.

Video captures huge avalanche covering interstate highway in Colorado

Meanwhile New York expecting its 'biggest snow accumulation' of the year, as storm makes its way across Northeast

In Australia, the Bunyip and Yinnar South bushfires destroy homes, close schools in Victoria's east

Afghanistan: More than a dozen killed in flash floods

And human beings are susceptible to 'boiling frog' phenomenon, climate scientists warn - a gradual change becomes the norm and we simply don't appreciate the longer trend ....