Weather & Earth Science News

More catastrophic scenes on Australia's east coast as entire towns go under water amid 'unprecedented' flooding The heatwave temperature threshold raised in England by Met Office Large wildfire on Isle of Lewis put out Wind and solar reach milestone as demand surges - now supplying 10% of the world's electricity How solid aerosols found in Arctic atmosphere could impact cloud formation and climate Solar energy explains fast yearly retreat of Antarctica's sea ice And it now seems that Pluto's giant 'ice volcanoes' made from many recent smaller eruptions: New Horizons study

Man dies, another missing in floodwaters near Toowoomba as severe weather in south-east Queensland brings heavy rainfall whilst  'life threatening' flood, evacuation warnings raised for NSW Northern Rivers, Mid North Coast In the US, a western heat wave sets records, fuels fire near Boulder, Colo Apocalyptic scenes on Gruinard Island: Fire on island used for Anthrax experiments - purportedly started by kayakers.   It put itself out though. Meanwhile, in Kenya, the KFS appeals for help to contain wildfires in Mt Kenya, Aberdares A warning that m any of New Zealand's 'skeletal' glaciers will be gone in a decade And as daylight saving time could end up being permanent in the US. Experts say it's a bad idea

Arctic winter 2022 sea ice found to be 10th-lowest on record whilst Antarctic sea ice reaches record low and satellite data shows entire Conger ice shelf has collapsed in Antarctica More flash flooding hits Sydney suburbs as rain bomb hammers the city again. Taal volcano near Philippines capital erupts, spewing plume of steam and ash And further warning issued over risk of wildfires in Scotland for at least the next few days

UK's rainfall records rescued by volunteer army   Teen driver behind wheel of tornado pickup speaks out - video shows his pickup being flipped over by the EF2 twister before righting itself, and driving away.   Meanwhile another strong tornado traps families, wrecks business of TV star in Texas whilst in New Orleans a tornado threw a house 30 feet. A woman was rescued from the rubble . Heat wave shatters records across California, spells trouble for drought-dried state Whilst it's dry and sunny here, Spanish holiday resorts battered with torrential rain and flooding March on course to be the sunniest and driest in Danish history At the Great Barrier Reef: Australia confirms new mass bleaching event caused by warmer than usual sea temperatures.  The 4th time this has happened in 6 years. Forest loss in India “worse than feared” due to climate change And the UN wants extreme weather warning systems for all 'in five years'

New Orleans tornado: At least one person killed after massive storm rips through city as a series of tornadoes tear through Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma As Britain lies under warm high pressure - yesterday was a date record - the wildfire season gets underway ... Wildfires break out at Mallaig and on Ben Lomond   whilst in Wales, grass fires: Services under 'significant pressure' .   And in the Mournes: Firefighters return to tackle mountain fires . Meanwhile, there's a high air pollution warning issued for London And in Petrópolis: Rain destroys memorial for flood victims in Brazil

It’s 70 degrees warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted and 30c warmer in the Arctic too as heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles alarm climate scientists Meanwhile, in India, March temperatures set new all-time highest record in J&K And it even hit 20c in Kinlochewe on Saturday - the warmest day of the year so far. But it's not hot everywhere as Turkey grapples with heavy snowfall before spring kicks off whilst Greece dusted with snow on the first day of spring

Death toll from Cyclone Gombe rises to 53 in Mozambique, 80 wounded A green island turns red: Madagascans struggle through long drought Another ferocious storm sweeps across Sydney knocking out TV signals In Alabama, 6 injured as powerful storms tear through the South And wildfire smoke linked to Arctic melting

Storm Celia brings 90km winds, rain, sleet, hail and snow to Gran Canaria with 4 deaths as people were swept away by strong waves. Whilst Saharan red dust cloud sweeps from Europe across the UK on Wednesday, it only affected the SE.  We just had a lot of rain ....   Meanwhile, in the Pyrenees one French ski resort looked like a desert as skies turned red amid major dust storm In Turkey, an eastern village at 1,800-meter altitude ‘swallowed’ by snow Why is Mumbai experiencing a heatwave in March? Two dead after Japan hit by tremor U.S. fires four times larger, three times more frequent since 2000 Australia's Black Summer bushfire smoke altered ozone-depleting chemicals in atmosphere, study finds And in Blaenau Ffestiniog,  why weather changes worry Wales' 'wettest town'

Eerie orange skies as a Sahara Desert dust cloud which could be the worst on record spreads from Spain to Switzerland and brings an eerie glow to the skies In the US at the weekend, winter roars back in Northeast with heavy snow, record-challenging chill Meanwhile, in the eastern Med, snow brings further disruption to Turkey, Greece  Death toll rises after Cyclone Gombe leaves parts of Mozambique in tatters Scientists are seeding clouds to encourage snowfall in a bid to tackle the ongoing drought in the western states Permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are approaching a 'tipping point And there's a powerful aurora borealis display above Scotland  

Temperatures drop, schools close as snowstorm Filippos hits Greece whilst snowfall grips Istanbul, more to come Freak storm sparks flash flooding at Walt Disney World NSW, Queensland floods on track to be among country's worst-ever natural disasters, Climate Council says Drought robs Amazon communities of 'life-giving' river New observations from ICESat-2 show remarkable Arctic sea ice thinning in just three years whilst at the other pole, ice-ocean interactions are accelerating melting in West Antarctica And a giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct - not a cause of the Younger Dryas (or destruction of Atlantis) then!

NSW floods cut off towns, roads destroyed across Illawarra and South Coast in week of ferocious storms as the PM Morrison to declare a national emergency Florida wildfires force hundreds to evacuate their homes Malaysia’s Klang Valley hit by flash floods again after heavy downpour - affecting Kuala Lumpur A new study questions explanation for last winter's brutal U.S. cold snap   A Western Isles angler catches fireball meteor in video Amazon rainforest is losing resilience: New evidence from satellite data analysis Increasing frequency of El Niño events expected by 2040 And does Planet Earth have a mind of its own?

Seven people killed by powerful 136mph tornado that barreled through a rural Iowa town North Queensland's extreme heatwave see temperature, power demand records tumble but there are more flood fears for parts of NSW, authorities warn In Zimbabwe, cloud seeding starts as crops suffer growing moisture stress (the accompanying pic does not show cloud seeding!) And 95% of Portugal in a severe or extreme drought

Queensland cops another huge storm in a matter of hours after being battered by a 'hail bomb' with floodwaters rising again as Queensland flood death toll rises to 11 Amazing pattern of clouds forms in the sky above Czech Republic resembling ocean waves Severe storms to threaten tens of millions in central, southern US Last year's heat wave a glimpse of climate change's impact in North America Wildfire on South Korea's east coast threatens nuclear and liquefied natural gas plants And Patagonia is rapidly rising up in the largest glacial adjustment ever recorded

More heavy rain, floods, heatwave, storms predicted across Australia as wild weather continues as a fifth death in NSW's flood crisis confirmed as man's body discovered And Australia's record-breaking floods can be traced back to one thing, experts say But at least the Tonga volcano eruption to have smaller cooling impact on climate change than first thought

NSW's severe weather is moving toward Sydney; fourth death confirmed in Lismore Evacuation warning for several Sydney suburbs with major flooding of Hawkesbury-Nepean expected Extraordinary photo of a quad bike hanging from a power lines proves how high the floodwaters rose Meanwhile, central and north Queensland to swelter through heatwave while south-east awash with floods And how unusual is all this rain we're having? The answer? Very Here in Britain, a mild winter blows out at the end!   Not a single flake of snow in Evesham, whilst February was both the warmest and wettest in my records. The latest IPCC report warns of ‘irreversible’ impacts of global warming and five things we've learned from the IPCC report