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Portugal wildfire deaths rise to seven after firefighters trapped in blaze Storm Boris batters Italy after wreaking havoc in central Europe Wednesday saw Scottish temperatures top 25C on warmest September day Drought leaves Amazon basin rivers at all-time low Sea surface temperature record in the southwestern Pacific - the highest for at least 600 years according to analysis of corals. And why c limate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia (I totally agree)

Italy next to face storm after 21 killed in Europe floods Meanwhile, Hungary braces for what could be the worst floods in a decade  Flooding in Poland: Wroclaw braces for major flood wave Three firefighters die tackling Portugal wildfires How an unnamed storm brought a 1,000-year rainfall in the Carolinas So w hy have record-breaking rains drenched the Carolinas and Europe? Motorist Throws Buckets of Water Out of Flooded Car in Rain-Ravaged Mexico City Typhoon Yagi deaths in South-East Asia hit 500 with at least 226 killed in floods and landslides in Myanmar A continent ablaze: South America surpasses record for fires Contrail avoidance is less likely to damage climate by mistake than previously thought, study finds And c limate change is turbo-charging Somalia’s problems - but there's still hope

‘Catastrophe of epic proportions’: eight drown in Europe amid heavy floods Storm Boris batters Romania, causing severe floods and six deaths With more pictures as the worst floods in decades claim lives in Central, Southeast Europe Cold snap leads to snow, hail and frost in unseasonable spring weather across south-east Australia with some places seeing their lowest spring temperatures for decades Storms and flooding in Myanmar after Typhoon Yagi leave more than 110 dead Typhoon Bebinca: Strongest storm to hit Shanghai since 1949 shuts down Chinese megacity

Severe flooding strikes southern Poland and central Europe as Central Europe braced for worst flooding in years - its going to be a very wet weekend in places. Meanwhile, the UK faces another autumn and winter of flooding, Met Office warns Francine weakens and moves inland after lashing Louisiana Millions in Southeast Asia struggle with floods, power cuts as Typhoon Yagi death toll passes 250 and Myanmar hit by deadly floods after Typhoon Yagi One million affected by northern Nigeria floods  In NZ, snow in south causes power outages, road and school closures Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running M ystery tremors were from massive nine-day tsunami in a Greenland fjord And h ow El Nino and mega ocean warming caused the greatest-ever mass extinction

Cars plunge into river as super typhoon destroys Vietnam bridge with there now being reported more than 150 dead in Vietnam as typhoon floods capital Louisiana braces as Hurricane Francine barrels in It's actually not at all unusual to see s now in September as Cairngorms restaurant covered in white ‘Three weeks without a drop of rain’: How the Balkans grappled with hottest summer in over 130 years  Zoo animals escape as flood hits Nigerian state   South Sudan floods: the first example of a mass population permanently displaced by climate change? South Korea's a utumn heat wave set to reach climax Wednesday Brazil's São Paulo river turns emerald green and skies orange-grey amid fires and drought And from w arm fronts to Y-fronts: Chinese city hit by underwear storm

Typhoon Yagi kills 59, injures hundreds in Vietnam Several people reported missing amid flash floods sweeping various regions in Morocco as North African floods kill 11 in Morocco and two in Algeria Southern California's Line Fire forces thousands to evacuate And w hat happened to predictions of a ‘historic’ hurricane season?    Well, it has been historic - just not for the reasons expected!

Summer 2024 was world's hottest on record (except in Britain .... ) Meanwhile, a  historic September heat wave has swelled over Europe Heatwave across US west breaks records for highest temperatures while Death Valley records hottest summer ever as Los Angeles braces for sweltering heat wave The s trongest typhoon in a decade hits 'China's Hawaii' Deadly Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam Monsoon Rain is falling in the Sahara Desert Flash floods hit south Wales after torrential rain And ho w Earth's most intense heat wave ever impacted life in Antarctica

In Arizona, Phoenix sees 100 days of 100-plus degree temps as record heat wave scorches residents while d angerously hot weather is spreading over California and will expand north The year to date sees new heat records across Croatia, Dubrovnik breaks sea temperature record There's been a new September heat record for Murmansk Constantine Arch in Rome damaged by lightning during violent storm when 60mm fell in an hour Hiker is found dead and British man is missing after they were 'swept away by water' when storm hit Majorca mountains Drought dries up lake to reveal sunken Greek village Yagi to hit China as a major typhoon  And Western Australia sees winter weather records broken from top to bottom of state - hot and wet!

UK experiences coolest summer since 2015 - it was also very wet in the NW but quite dry across much of England. However, Spain sees hottest August since records began Japan swelters through hottest summer while parts of China log warmest August on record Australia sweats through hottest August on record with temperatures 3C above average Tasmania faces record flooding as wild weather in Victoria and NSW causes flight cancellations and power outages Storm sets off floods and landslides in Philippines, at least 14 dead Two c hildren die in building collapse after Nigeria flooding And a irlines must monitor vapour trails under new EU climate rules