Weather & Earth Science News

Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters record Chard flooding: People rescued and homes damaged in Somerset on Monday  Moscow flooded & city streets in gridlock as apocalyptic torrential thunderstorms & winds break Russian capital's record heatwave A freak storm buries French town in deluge of hail, locals forced to dig way out of homes Sudden disappearance of giant Antarctic lake leaves massive crater – 200 billion gallons of water gone Brazil issues fire ban, redeploys military to fight Amazon blazes Rare black hole and neutron star collisions sighted twice in 10 days And scientists are surprised to find how COVID-19 lockdowns cut pollution, but not all of it

B.C. town sets another all-time temperature record as 'prolonged, dangerous' heat wave continues And the heat wave shattered records in California, too: 121 in Coachella, 90 in Tahoe Wild weather continues in Europe with an animal reported killed as tornado hits farm in Belgium on Sunday, whilst last week thunderstorms cause havoc across Belgium, 92 homes severely damaged by "small tornado" in Beauraing .   Meanwhile s torms in Germany blow roof off opera house and flood stage as people sit inside From Argentina, the postcards left by the snowfall in Córdoba and Mendoza Mountaintop glacier ice disappearing in tropics around the world Clouds of Venus 'simply too dry' to support life And a warning to those who are always moaning about the weather ..... Kuwait arrests man who posted TikTok weather rant

 Not quite as bad as the one in Czechia .... Barking severe weather: Lightning and torrential rain hit capital as a suspected tornado hits Dagenham causing thousands of pounds of damage and Essex floods submerge cars and cut off entire streets Elsewhere, the emphasis is on the heat: Greece heatwave turns Aegean Sea into steam bath as records crumble in Europe, Russia amid scorching heat wave Central Asian heat wave and drought creating water shortages, crop failures While western Canada heat wave expected to break daily, all-time temperature records New geochemical testing confirms cause of end-Permian mass extinction event that wiped out most life on Earth And a weird Neptune-like exoplanet may have water clouds  

Hundreds injured, villages destroyed as strong tornado rips through Czech Republic towns - reportedly (and very likely) the most powerful tornado on record hit the Czech Republic .  At least 4 people were killed. This occurred as storms trigger flash floods in Poland, Czechia, Germany and Italy Meanwhile, Moscow’s sweltering summer breaks heat records , and looks set to continue And the severe heatwave in US states breaks June temperature records As wild high temperatures worldwide show the extent of record June heat wave

Twelve dead as Tropical Storm Claudette lashes southeast US - 9 of them children killed in a multi-vehicle pile-up. A large and 'extremely dangerous' tornado rips through Chicago suburbs, injuring at least six Whilst elsewhere, the US heatwave sees Phoenix hit record 46C for five straight days - as doctors warn of third-degree burn risk In Australia, thousands without power, roads closed after storm batters WA's south coast The weekend also saw a tornado, huge hailstones and floods in France weather chaos And the curious incident of Swarm and sprites in the night-time

‘It’s brutal’: Las Vegas cooks amid blazing heatwave – and it’s going to get worse - as Death Valley hits 129F and cities in the West reach 100F by 8am as 'apocalyptic' heat wave affects 50M and puts huge strain on power grid and California declares state of emergency amid heatwave Meanwhile, potential Tropical Cyclone 3 brings heavy rains to central U.S. Gulf Coast Parts of England drenched by month’s worth of rain in a day and there’s more to come One person killed after suspected tornado hits Auckland Russian-annexed Crimea orders partial evacuation of Yalta over floods Snow falls in Argentina’s Córdoba for first time in 14 years New research suggests that the Earth has a pulse -- a 27.5-million-year cycle of geological activity And according to NASA, NOAA scientists: Earth’s energy imbalance has doubled since 2005

Many killed in monsoon flash floods, landslides in Bhutan, Nepal Florida skies to turn orange as dust storm travels over from Sahara whilst further west records fall in early summer heatwave as an eighth of the US population is sweltering under a record-breaking heat dome Pilot flies around Oklahoma tornado in unbelievable video In Australia, a 'ferocious' storm destroys large patches of central Victorian forest Here, torrential rain ends heatwave for south as flash flood reported in Kent - we had a whole 1mm in Evesham .... UK warned it is unprepared for climate chaos Iceland tourists rescued from snow There are fears Antarctic glacier could melt faster as it speeds up and ice shelf 'rips apart' NASA finds local Covid-19 lockdowns brought unexpectedly fast global ozone reductions , but not in the far south where ozone pollution has increased in Antarctica – from both natural and human sources And the 'Great Dimming' of Betelgeuse star is solved - but whe

In the western USA, the misery continues as record high heat soars, worsening the Western drought Tropical storm Bill strengthens in Atlantic, likely to be short-lived: NHC Satellite observations show marine clouds amplify global warming Ocean microplastics: First global view shows seasonal changes and sources Scientists expose the cold heart of landfalling hurricanes And how lightning impacts edge of space in ways not previously observed

The Middle East heatwave scorches Pakistan, cities record sweltering temperatures Meanwhile, in the US, record heat forecast to bake Southwest next week, amid worsening drought Russia’s largest and coldest region is on fire - again, and this year wildfires strike early The c ause, scope determined for deadly winter debris flow in Uttarakhand, India last year Plastic pollution: take-out food is littering the oceans On the Red Planet,  China's Zhurong Mars rover takes a selfie And t he peaks and perils of Australia's biggest snow seasons

 In the US, the extreme drought worsens in West, with 'exceptional' conditions covering more than 26% of the region as Lake Mead: Largest US reservoir dips to record low  In Australia, a woman's body found in floodwater as Victoria's storm toll rises, further rain expected overnight after millions of Australians wake up to the coldest day in almost forty years as polar blast dumps snow on three states Middle East heatwave: Temperatures top 50C in several countries 2 021 Arctic sea ice maximum extent ranks seventh-lowest on record  And yesterday's solar eclipse pictures: ‘Ring of Fire’ blocks the Sun in UK and US and leads to stunning image s - also seen (and photographed) in Evesham

Lightning strikes kill 27 during monsoon storm in eastern India In Australia, wild weather in south-west Victoria turns roads to rivers, creates 'reverse waterfall' An underwater avalanche continued for two days off the African coast Turkey president Erdogan vows to solve 'sea snot' outbreak Huge dust storm caught on satellite heading for the Americas And the mighty Jupiter moon Ganymede pictured in close-up

UK records hottest day of the year for third day in row on Wednesday Heat wave scorches US West with temperatures smashing 100 degrees while the Utah governor urges residents to pray for rain as drought bites More typhoons than usual forecast for East Asia by September Now, scientists are zapping clouds with electricity to make rain Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds Newly discovered atmospheric circulation enhances heatwaves and wildfires around the Arctic And a climate science surprise: Antarctica wasn’t as cold during the last ice age as previously thought (but it was still colder than today)

New Zealand flooding: state of emergency in Canterbury, with hundreds evacuated as the Air Force drops supplies at Canterbury's ground zero, a village cut off in the floods In pictures: Bank Holiday Monday brings hottest day of the year A warning that heatwave deaths set to soar as UK summers become hotter In the US, record-cold temperatures grip Northeast Memorial Day weekend whilst in Canada a 'devastating' late spring frost kills large swaths of fruit crops At 17.9°C, Delhi records lowest ever minimum temperature in June On Mars: Nasa's Perseverance rover's first 100 days in pictures Then and now: Pandemic clears the air - though there's been little change in CO2 levels And why satellites may have underestimated global warming in the lower atmosphere over the last 40 years