Weather & Earth Science News

2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years Two people dead in Louisiana after tornadoes sweep through US south 14 killed as storm topples huge billboard in India River levels rise in flood-hit Brazilian state Evacuation orders issued as wildfire grows near Canada’s Alberta oil patch Why does Canada have so many wildfires this season? ‘Impossible’ heatwave struck Philippines in April, scientists find Indonesia seeds clouds to block rainfall after floods killed at least 58 people while 35 are missing Middle East bears brunt of 30-year rise in heatwave deaths The US suffers radio blackouts after being hit by another solar storm, NOAA says A w arning of climate change risks to remote St Kilda One in eight Europeans now lives in an area at risk of extreme flooding, says new report And a look inside the giant 'sky rivers' swelling with climate change

Despite all the political rhetoric, there was a record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere in March Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire Mexico heat wave melts temperature records in ten cities 'Cold lava' sweeps villages near volcano , killing 41 Indonesians  More pictures from Friday night of the light show that stunned the world - no more aurora, although we did have some thunder in Evesham on Sunday (but not enough rain to register in the gauge!).   But in Ross-on-Wye (wettest place in the UK with over an inch of rain) there was a proper storm as f lash flood deluges roads and tears up pavement

Stunning auroras light up skies across world as massive solar geomagnetic storm hits Earth with more pictures as the Northern Lights arrive in Britain - it was even visible to the naked eye in Evesham (although I slept through the best of it!)  Baseball-sized hailstones fall in Texas as southern US hit by severe storms In WA, Bunbury tornado captured on film as it leaves trail of damage to 40 properties At least 60 killed in Afghanistan flash flooding Brazil floods drive thousands from their homes Mexico is fighting over 100 active wildfires amid a heat wave whilst rolling blackouts hit several cities as heat wave scorches Mexico

Brazil floods: horse stranded on roof is rescued as death toll rises to 107 people Two skiers dead and one rescued in Utah avalanche after heavy snow in the mountains Dozens rescued as tornado collapses Michigan FedEx depot Venezuela may be first nation to lose all its glaciers whilst Kamchatka's glaciers have shrunk by 36% since 1950 – Russian scientists Heavy rainfall in Iraq ends five years of drought Given the dry weather conditions, it not clear what caused this: SSE stops work after landslide near windfarm site on Shetland Mosquitoes found across Scotland as temperatures warm - I caught one in the Cairmgorms years ago! Hotter, drier, sicker? How a changing planet drives disease And hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat

World's oceans suffer from record-breaking year of heat .  Whilst El Nino is obviously a factor, we've never seen ocean temperatures this high, and they've been consistently the highest ever recorded for a whole year now .... Meanwhile, the global temperature record streak continues – April 2024 was the hottest on record Brazil floods: 'We've never experienced anything like it' with h undreds of Rio Grande do Sul towns under water as the death toll hits 100 Indians vote in scorching heat as temperatures cross 40C 3 dead as more storms move through eastern U.S. Last month's Oklahoma storm had 3 extraordinary features, including a "wrong-way" tornado  Study suggests heavy snowfall and rain may contribute to some earthquakes A possible atmosphere surrounding rocky exoplanet has been found And video shows another Fortean "fish fall" as fish rain in Iran; social media stunned by rare phenomenon

Death toll from southern Brazil rainfall rises to 78 with many missing Kenya floods death toll continues to rise as heavy rains, flooding persist Four-year-old boy is swept to his death in Texas floods with at least 400 rescued from flooding in Texas as waters continue rising Houses are destroyed as tornados rip through Oklahoma And Pakistan records ‘wettest April’ in more than 60 years  

Brazil floods: Dam collapses and death toll rises in Rio Grande do Sul as the flooding in Brazil's southernmost state Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 39 with almost 70 missing Kenya floods: Nairobi homes demolished as Cyclone Hidaya approaches So why has the flooding in Kenya been so devastating? Texas tornado rips through town before baseball-sized hail pummels residents as flooding swamps southeast Texas after more than a foot of rain Extreme wildfire warning issued for north-west Scotland Snappers have field day as storms light the night in parts of England A need to adapt as London seeing more days above 30C, experts say whilst c limate change amplifies severity of combined wind-rain extremes over the UK and Ireland Greece experiences warmest April in 15 years Antarctic ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes Evidence that an Earth-like environment likely on ancient Mars   But Webb telescope probably didn't find life on an exoplanet -- yet And summer

Kenyan Floods: Around 50 killed in villages near Mai Mahiu town whilst tourists and staff stranded in Maasai Mara game reserve - and what a deluge reveals about Nairobi's vulnerability Russia’s Ishim River swells to record high amid widespread flooding  Cars are swept away and roads turned into rivers as Saudi Arabia is hit by floods  Spectacular thunderstorms rumble across UK (nothing in Evesham though) Brazil floods: Residents stranded on rooftops in Rio Grande do Sul China highway collapse kills 19 people Climate change, El Nino factor into Japan’s warmest April in 130 years whilst Hong Kong records hottest April in at least 140 years How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods NASA's Webb maps weather on planet 280 light-years away And airlines lobby against EU plan to monitor non-CO2 emissions from flights (including contrails),  whilst big data reveals true climate impact of world