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I said back in early March that the Law of Sod meant if we went into lockdown it'd be one of the best springs on record ..... and so it has been.  Almost continually warm, dry and sunny in Evesham.   And with just 0.9mm of rain in my garden May has been my driest month ever (records only from 2007 though) as the  driest May on record raises fears of summer hosepipe bans East Anglia, at the least is heading for sunniest spring on record - and one of the warmest and driest Meanwhile, in Holland, this spring is the sunniest on record And in Canada, Montreal shatters May temperature record with a 98f high on Wednesday This comes after an unprecedented heat waves hits the Arctic, raising temperature to 86 degrees  and where is our spring? Locals in western Siberia say it feels like they skipped a season - and went straight into summer. India heatwave: Delhi temperature hits 47c as north India reels Meanwhile in Australia,   WA's drought 'the driest the

Kolkata devastated as cyclone kills scores in India and Bangladesh earlier this week, as today, the survivors return to face destruction left by storm . And there's a heat wave in northwest, central and south India as Cyclone Amphan exits Meanwhile the remains of Cyclone Mangga set to hit WA on Sunday as Perth prepares for a severe storm And a 'terrifying' storm that tore roofs off homes in Geelong was a tornado, BOM says After heavy rain, Michigan floods: Evacuations after Edenville and Sanford dams breached Cyprus wilts under hottest May on record Antarctic algal blooms: 'Green snow' mapped from space Long-term data show hurricanes are getting stronger And more plastic pollution: Birds 'ingesting hundreds of bits of plastic a day'

Cyclone Amphan: India's east coast braces for severe storm For the sixth year in a row, an Atlantic named storm forms early Israel in midst of record heat wave How 'zombie' fires are burning the Arctic after smouldering under snow And the Moon's mysterious disappearance 900 years ago finally gets an explanation

The latest report from NOAA shows that 2020 rivals 2016 for warmest April on record globally (coming in just a fraction below)  Typhoon Vongfong slams into Philippines, threatening food crops and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate Last weekend, the Polar Vortex blasts the northeastern US as latest snow ever is recorded in New York's Central Park And here, p arts of UK see record low temperatures ahead of hotter weather next week On Monday, the d eath of five surfers in storm shocks Netherlands Rwanda: Dozens killed as heavy rains trigger floods, landslides Ozone layer: Concern grows over threat from replacement chemicals And, whilst COVID-19 lockdowns significantly impacting global air quality it's not all good news

Kenya, Somalia and Rwanda hit by deadly flooding   Climate change has already made parts of the world too hot for humans Watch as strange mini 'tornado' picks up debris as it swirls through Yorkshire village (actually a dust devil) In Brazil's Amazon: Surge in deforestation as military prepares to deploy The 'nearest black hole to Earth discovered' - only 1,000 light years away, and the parent star is visible to the naked eye (but only in the southern hemisphere) And scientists obtain 'lucky' image of Jupiter

Wildfires ‘critical’ in Siberia and Russian Far East, up to ten times worse than last year - most started deliberately ....  Meanwhile in the NW Highlands, more firefighters rush to tackle Kishorn wildfire as front expands rapidly overnight Scottish snowsports miss ‘one of best springs in years’ (as, indeed, did hillwalkers!) A warning that Ireland's potato crops 'need significant rain' after driest April on record In northern Alaska, the town of Utqiagvik just recorded its first record low temperature in 13 years   No, it's not a sign of global cooling ....!  New Zealand's drought: Rainfall 'lowest ever' in much of North Island Arctic 'shorefast' sea ice threatened by climate change How climate change has been influencing where tropical cyclones rage And it seems that our Sun is less active than similar stars

Meet the world's largest hailstone: Lump of ice the size of a football that fell from the sky during a 'supercell' thunderstorm in Argentina two years ago is dubbed 'gargantuan hail' Across the USA, April 2020 was the deadliest month for tornadoes since March 2012 In Australia, BOM declares April fifth warmest on record, as south-east shivers through cold snap Two parked Qatar Airways planes collide in storm at Doha airport Global carbon emissions could see an 'historic decline' in 2020 as energy usage is expected to slump to the lowest level since World War II The first results from NASA's ICESat-2 mission map 16 years of melting ice sheets show they are responsible for a 14mm sea level rise over that period How catastrophic outburst floods may have carved Greenland's 'grand canyon' Scientists find highest ever level of microplastics on seafloor of the Tyrrhenian Sea And how Antarctic meteor