29th May - Today's News: Britain's Best Ever Spring?

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 land has been in 40 years' despite the fact parts of Western Australia hit by 'once-in-a-decade' storm earlier this week, whilst in Perth the second storm of the week floods road, causing traffic chaos

Whilst in the east, icy blasts send shivers across Queensland, causing temperature records to tumble

Could the Atlantic see a third tropical system before hurricane season?

Around the world, trees are 'getting shorter due to climate change'

A spectacular 'underwater tornado' is captured deep in the sea near an Australian reef

Is there life on Proxima B?  ESPRESSO confirms the presence of an Earth around the nearest star   (technically, of course, we've always known there is an Earth around our nearest star - which is the Sun)

And the dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck Earth as 'deadliest possible' angle