22nd June - Today's News: Severe Heatwaves and Storms Across Europe

A week of Europe's crazy weather as in Germany, Hungary, Turkey: Heatwaves and storms disrupt life across Europe whilst Balkans hit by blackouts as heatwave persists and Swiss tourist ski resort is hit by flooding and landslide as river busts its banks in the shadow of the Matterhorn

Volunteer firefighter dies battling Greece blaze

Severe storm in Moscow kills at least 2

Meanwhile, another heatwave continues to roast 65m people in US midwest and north-east with some US schools sending students home for 'heat days'

Heatwave in Mexico claims lives of more than 150 since March

Climate change made US and Mexico heatwave 35 times more likely

Tropical Storm Alberto claims lives in Mexico and drenches US coast

Satellite images show a massive 200-mile long dust storm or ‘haboob’ sweeps over New Mexico 

In Saudi Arabia, death toll at hajj pilgrimage exceeds 1,000 following extreme heat

Death toll from southern China floods reaches 47

Excessive heat hits countries around the world - but, just to prove the exception, in Australia a polar outbreak and snow ahead this week with Sydney and Melbourne on track for coldest start to winter in decades

How large wildfires create weather that favors more fire

And is Jupiter's Great Red Spot an impostor? Giant storm may not be the original one discovered 350 years ago

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