Weather & Earth Science News

Aurora and rare moonbows light up the night in Scotland earlier this week At Walcott: Clean-up operation after village hit by sand storm at the weekend Two of Antarctica's most important glaciers which together cover area the size of Norway are crumbling faster than ever , satellite images reveal, whilst the Svalbard glaciers lost their protection in the 1980s and have been melting ever since   Around the world there are 300 million delta dwellers vulnerable to cyclones, flooding Has the world started to take climate change fight seriously? I won't hold my breath! Solving the strange storms on Jupiter And buried lakes of liquid water discovered on Mars

 Spring storm brings snow to New Zealand's beaches and travel chaos And in Europe there's been 'remarkable’ early snowfall in French mountain ranges whilst 10 inches of snow sweeps Swiss and Austrian mountains   Oh Noes ..... it's a new ice age! More from last week's East Anglian storm that brought power cuts, trees torn down and historic ferry damaged as storm batters region as Norfolk saw monthly rain in 24 hours and coldest and windiest September days for 40 years And keeping to the chilly theme, a new all-time coldest northern hemisphere temperature discovered

A Yorkshire 'supercell' storm covers region in hail on Thursday evening whilst yesterday in Norfolk flooding, downed trees and overturned cars amid high winds and torrential rain Wind bomb batters Sydney as heavy snow, hail and thunderstorms hit South Australia, Victoria and regional NSW Yakutsk, Russia’s coldest city suffocates under a thick blanket of smog from September wildfires Balearics battered by storms & strong winds Major wind-driven ocean currents are shifting toward the poles New model -- Antarctic ice loss expected to affect future climate change A new study suggests that island-building in Southeast Asia created Earth's northern ice sheets It's shown how the increased frequency of marine heatwaves are human-made And global warming driving California wildfire trends - study

Hurricane Paulette becomes a 'Zombie Storm' after almost blowing itself out and then regaining strength near the Azores Leighton Buzzard hit by two earthquakes in one day ; that's four in two weeks. Pictures show how volcanic ash covers Ecuador farming land after Sangay erupted on Sunday And an interesting, but in no way shocking, computer animation shows how Antarctica could emerge from the ice if global warming continues unabated

Arctic sea-ice shrinks to near record low extent Tropical storm Beta threatens flooding as it drifts to Texas and Louisiana shores California firefighters race to tame wildfires before hot, windy weather returns Kefalonia needs your help NOW after devastating hurricane-like storm as Medicane Ianos turns towards Crete after sweeping across Greece at the weekend. One missing as flash floods batter south of France And, corona-induced CO2 emission reductions are not yet detectable in the atmosphere

Lots of Atlantic activity.  Tropical Storm Beta forms in Gulf; Alpha making landfall in Portugal after   Hurricane Teddy explosively intensified into a Category 4 strength, severe impact to Bermuda possible And in the US, Storm Sally: Floods and destruction as weather system moves north Meanwhile, in the eastern Med, Greece lashed by rare hurricane-force storm In siberia, a large new ‘hole’ appears in Gydan tundra, following record-warm Arctic summer And an earthquake 'hack' reveals scale of ocean warming    

Hurricane Sally dumps up to three feet of torrential rain on Alabama and Florida US West Coast fires: Smoke spreads to New York and Washington Watch out holidaymakers!  It looks like a Mediterranean Cyclone could be heading to Greece this weekend Siberia's permafrost erosion has been worsening for years And whilst ancient volcanoes once boosted ocean carbon, but humans are now far outpacing them .  We're now out-pacing the PETM!

Hurricane Sally: 'Catastrophic flooding' as storm hits US as five cyclones churn in Atlantic Ocean for only second time in history Huge wildfire in Southern California threatens historic observatory Meanwhile, in the Amazon a long-running  wildfire burns Brazil's largest wetlands, killing thousands of wild animals The weekend saw the first autumn snow on Ben Nevis summit as summer ends whilst yesterday saw another UK date record fall as 30c was recorded for the 6th month running, as heatwave shatters September records in western Europe This comes as the NOAA report that the Northern Hemisphere just had its hottest summer on record Arctic transitioning to a new climate state : warmer and wetter, as warmth shatters section of Greenland ice shelf And is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?    If so, it's life not as we know it....

Oregon wildfires: Dozens of people missing in deadly blazes While over California last weekend a ‘fire-breathing dragon of clouds’: Formation over Creek Fire said to be biggest in US history Denver Sets 14 Hot And Cold Weather Records In Just 6 Days A nice picture of a Chinese tornado ripping through sea off Dalian And how volcanic ash may have a bigger impact on the climate than we thought

More towns are incinerated as America's West Coast wildfire death toll rises to 23 In Burkina Faso: 13 dead as days of heavy rains cause floods as deadly flooding spreads across Africa’s Sahel region UN report: Covid crisis does little to slow climate change And it looks like La Niña is here!

At least seven dead including a boy, 12, and his grandmother as more than 200 wildfires rage across California, Oregon and Washington after decimating an area the size of Connecticut Cold snap sweeps Rocky Mountains just days after record-breaking heatwave Meanwhile, LA is used to apocalyptic scenes in films - but this heatwave shows real impact of climate change Storm Francis uncovers more 'sunken' forest in Cardigan Bay from the legendary Cantre'r Gwaelod = Britain's own "flood" myth In the Sudan floods: Nile water level threatens ancient pyramids Thwaites: 'Doomsday Glacier' vulnerability seen in new maps 3.2 BILLION people will have a shortage of drinking water by 2050: Study warns that climate change will cause supplies to decrease by 60% A warning that when it comes to (potential) climate engineering: Modelling projections oversimplify risks And is there anyone out there?  Maybe not ..... Australian telescope finds...

Wildfires burn through record area in California as blazes continue to spread with at least one dead as wildfires trap 50 hikers in California, decimate an entire town in Washington, burn through Utah and Colorado and cause more than 100,000 to lose power in Oregon during record heatwave and seen from above: a passenger films plane flying above thick black clouds of smoke as California  wildfires continue to burn amid record-breaking temperatures of 121F Meanwhile Denver is under a winter storm watch two days after the city hit 101 degrees And it's proving a record year for Atlantic storms as two new systems form in a day    

Over the weekend, typhoon leaves 4 missing, injures more than 50 in Japan as today Typhoon Haishen batters South Korea after slamming Japan  Meanwhile, in eastern Russia, stunning beach with hundreds of colourful sparkling pebbles damaged by typhoon Maysak More than 200 people trapped by the raging Creek wildfire near Mammoth Pool Reservoir are rescued by California National Guard's helicopters as a "gender reveal party" is blamed for one wildfire, whilst Gov Newsom declares state of emergency and record temperature of 121 degrees fans the flames In Israel, boy, 14, dies of heatstroke as record-breaking heatwave enters 2nd week Senegal activates emergency floods aid plan after downpour produced the equivalent of 3 months rain in one day; in pictures: Flash floods in Senegal And a Russian glacier in Urals Region has completely melted, scientists say

The country's highest-ever recorded temperature, 46.2C, clocked at Athalassa , Nicosia on Cyprus, whilst at least 2 hospitalized for heatstroke as Israel roasts under extreme heatwave California braces for record heat even as wildfire smoke keeps windows closed Maximum caution urged as super typhoon approaches southwest Japan after which Super Typhoon Haishen expected to make historic landfall in South Korea - the first time the country has been hit by 3 typhoons in a year since records began in 1945 And last month, ten children killed after being struck by lightning while playing football in Uganda

Another red alert for September heatwave in Cyprus, whilst nationwide heat wave to continue until weekend in Turkey with Greece and isreal also seeing unusually high temperatures for September. Arctic wildfires break new records as ‘meltdown’ fears grow Bering Sea ice extent is at most reduced state in last 5,500 years Powerful Typhoon Haishen approaches Japan after earlier storm leaves several injured whilst 1 person killed as typhoon rips through South Korea, shattering windows and leaving homes without electricity And has Earth's oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years?

Giant new 50-metre deep 'crater' opens up in Arctic tundra as the record warm summer led to more permafrost melt and release of methane The Welsh ridicule the Met Office for choosing Heulwen as name for storm which translates literally as 'sun blessed' (but it's also a common girls' name) There's been summer snow in parts of Wyoming, Montana amid 'freezing' temperatures in region Meteorite crater discovered while drilling for gold in outback WA estimated to be 100 million years old South Korea braces for second typhoon in a week Argentina devastated by widespread wildfires whilst the Amazon fires: Are they worse this year than before? And Coronavirus: Pandemic 'causing new wave' of plastic pollution