Weather & Earth Science News

A large earthquake hits Greece and Turkey, bringing deaths and floods with Izmir and Samos badly hit,  whilst rescuers cheer as they haul teenager from rubble of devastated eight-floor apartment block as death toll from deadly earthquake in Turkey and Greece hits 26 with more than 800 injured Life-threatening storms sweep Australia's east coast leaving 30,000 homes without power - as monstrous hailstones smash properties and cars as South-east Queensland hit by very dangerous thunderstorms as hail up to 14cm pummels the region .  Meanwhile, the Bushfire inquiry says Australia must prepare for 'alarming outlook' Storm Aiden: Heavy rain and winds hit UK Typhoon Goni: Philippines orders evacuations ahead of 2020’s strongest storm Meanwhile, in Pictures: Ferocious Typhoon Molave smashes through Vietnam as today Vietnam tackles Typhoon Molave's deadly aftermath, searches through landslide destruction as new storm threatens region In El Salvador: At least 7 dead, more ...

Typhoon Molave: rescuers scramble to find dozens buried under landslides in Vietnam whilst earlier in the week in the Philippines: Typhoon Molave displaces thousands, floods villages Cirencester residents shocked at size of hailstones that fell during a thunderstorm yesterday (of course, we had nothing except a little rain in Evesham) Hurricane Zeta kills one in Louisiana as category 2 storm bashes coast Queensland storms forecast again, but now there's a risk of fires as well China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated' - the country's policy of planting huge new forests to counter desertification and provide timber resources appears to be paying other dividends And in the Great Barrier Reef: Scientists find reef taller than Empire State Building

Intense rain and large hail impacts Brisbane and inland areas as storms moves across South-East Queensland with warnings that the huge storm will batter Australia's east coast for another three days Hurricane Zeta closes in on resort zone of Mexico's Yucatan A new Silverado wildfire rages in California The greenhouse effect of clouds instrumental in origin of tropical storms And how newly discovered water on the Moon could sustain a lunar base (it's not liquid water though)

Tropical Storm Zeta stalls in Caribbean as Hurricane Epsilon passes eastern US The weekend saw more travel chaos as Scots roads flooded and trains cancelled as heavy rain batters country whilst flash flooding hits part of Brighton after Met Office warning Wild weather in Australia too as power restored to thousands after 100mm of rain falls in northern Sydney But snow in Colorado expected to put damper on wildfires - some of which have been burning since August

Met Office scientists build computer model to predict when tornadoes will hit the UK There's alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record In Canada, Okanagan snowstorm breaks 120-year-old record for most snow in October The drought in western U.S. is biggest in years and predicted to worsen during winter months And whilst the effects have so far been a reduction in pollution globally, in the UK, at least more pollution expected from stay-home workers this winter.

Record heatwave in Midwest and south Brazil, with warning of hyperthermia risk with Sao Paulo among the places recording their highest ever October temperatures. Homes evacuated and cars stranded after Aberdeenshire flooding UK Planners 'must prepare' for weather extremes - Met Office Waterspouts, torrential rains hit Greek Islands Storm Barbara leaves 76,000 homes in southern France without power And 10 million snowblowers? Last-ditch ideas to save the Arctic ice

Vietnam faces deadly flooding disaster - Red Cross with ‘catastrophic floods’: 105 killed, 5 million affected in Vietnam , as Tropical Storm Saudel lashes Philippines, heads for Vietnam There's been flooding on Moray coast amid warnings of heavy rain on the way The 26th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Epsilon strengthens to a hurricane, charges toward Bermuda The season's first major snowfall breaks record in Minnesota There's elation as Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe tags asteroid Bennu in sample bid And Typhoon-hit South Korea suffers cabbage shortage