19th July - Today's News: Clouds Cause Japanese Cucumber Crisis

There's a cucumber crisis after Tokyo hit by cloudiest spell since records began

Record heatwave will hit two thirds of the US this weekend

In Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin in 'most severe' two-to-three year drought conditions in 120 years of records, BOM says

Death toll climbs to 200 as South Asia copes with monsoon rains

How May's Cyclone Fani is a sign that tropical storms are becoming more intense

4 drown in heavy rains unleashed by typhoon in Philippines

Wildfires continue in Siberia with Hell on fire! Raging bush inferno at Batagai Depression, giant gash in the tundra

The world experienced hottest June on record in 2019, says US agency as NOAA confirm previous findings.  Oddly, some science deniers still maintain it's getting colder .....

Sea level rise: West Antarctic ice collapse may be prevented by snowing ocean water onto it

Flying ants: Swarms appear on weather map as 'rain' although some are sceptical of the Met Office's explanation for anaprop on Wednesday's rainfall radar, especially as it was there from early morning, before ants would have swarmed, and they haven't been picked up in the same way before.

Climate change to blame for displacement of 55 species in UK (but there are nearly 40,000 other species in the UK)

'Incredibly rare rainbow' photographed in Highlands

And more rubbish from Scotland as Ben Nevis walkers told not to drop banana skins