30th June - Today's News: Lochailort Charity Devastated by Flash Flood

Last week saw my 'local' railway line and road damaged during thunderstorms and worst, a local Highland charity picking up pieces after years of work washed away by flooding at Craiglea.

Meanwhile, from yesterday, a striking picture shows 'mini-tornado' in skies above rural Aberdeenshire

And it's claimed that Britain suffers its wettest June day ever as 10 weeks of rain falls in just 24 hours - at a remote location in the lake District ......  Where they actually see that amount of rain quite frequently

Heavy rainstorm leaves 12 dead, 10 missing in China's Sichuan at the weekend, with, today, China on blue alert as rainstorms continue to wreak havoc and flooding below China's Three Gorges raises questions about dam

Over 1 million people affected and 13 killed by India's floods

And at least seven killed in Ivory Coast flash floods

Finnish fire officials battle large wildfire

More evidence that the asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs

Geochemists solve mystery of Earth's vanishing crust

And the South Pole is warming three times faster than rest of world due to increases in greenhouse gas emissions and shifting tropical weather patterns, study shows