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Barcelona is put on flooding red alert as flights are diverted and city airport is submerged Spain rescuers search underground parking as fresh flooding hits Barcelona Severe storms, tornadoes rock Oklahoma Last month the US saw a record-breaking dry spell: how October’s flash drought shocked the nation Snow blankets some parts of Saudi Arabia after heavy rains, hail Lightning kills 13 children at Uganda refugee camp At least 10 dead after volcano erupts in Indonesia In the Alps, the Jungfraujoch temperature hits record high for November And s chools close in Lahore as pollution hits record level

With over 200 confirmed dead, there are reportedly almost 2,000 people still missing after monster Spanish storm hit Valencia Spain floods: Before and after images show devastation Mallorca storm gradually easing As for how well predicted the rain event was, this was published in the Guardian on Monday morning: ‘Cold drop’ to cause heavy rain in Spain Meanwhile, s cientists say climate change made Spanish floods worse whilst globally the deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists Hawaii summit blanketed in snow in rare cold snap Study reveals acceleration in Pacific upper-ocean circulation over past 30 years, impacting global weather patterns And it's not to be. Universe too short for Shakespeare typing monkeys

Shocking new aerial footage shows apocalyptic scenes in Valencia following devastating floods as Spaniards recount horror of deadly floods and there are warnings the final death toll could be in the hundreds. Timing of Spain flood alert under scrutiny as blame game rages - but there have also been suggestions that people are becoming increasingly dismissive of severe weather warnings because they are occurring so often. What is DANA, the weather system that brought Spain a year's worth of rain in one day and its worst natural disaster in modern history? There's one person dead as strongest storm to hit Taiwan in nearly 30 years, Typhoon Kong-rey, strikes east coast More than half of European heat-related deaths in summer 2022 attributed to anthropogenic warming And it would appear that getting drunk is perfectly natural - alcohol consumption among non-human animals may not be as rare as previously thought, say ecologists

At least 51 dead in flash floods in Spain with many more missing and  entire suburbs underwater in one of Spain's worst-ever natural disasters and a tornado tears through eastern Spain in terrifying ‘historic’ event as locals run for cover Whilst the weather phenomenon (Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos or DANA) responsible isn't that unusual, the extreme amount of rainfall - 491mm in just 8 hours - certainly is.   But still people refuse to accept what we've done. Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum,  extreme drought areas treble in size since 80s - study Alarm call as world's trees slide towards extinction The Philippines is prone to extreme weather. But few expected Tropical Storm Trami to be this devastating   Super Typhoon Kong-rey edges towards Taiwan, could sweep ‘almost the whole’ island And another sign of what we done as declining tropical cyclones and east coast lows lead to major shift in Australia's rainfall

We're all seeing the consequences - both in storm damage and increased food prices - but we're still not doing anything about it.  World way off target in tackling climate change - UN    So is the UN warning of 3.1C global warming a surprise?    Not all all!   And if Trump and his selfish, arrogant, money-obsessed, anti-science, bigots win the US presidential election, it could be game over. It was a stormy Sunday night in Mallorca: road closures, eight rescues, and 77 emergency operations whilst on the mainland, Biblical hail storms smash car windows in Spain’s Andalucia as Dana sparks flooding and travel chaos -  a confusingly named storm given that Cyclone Dana has just hit India! China’s ‘Hawaii’ under water as tropical storm dumps record rainfall Still no snow on Japan's Mount Fuji, breaking record Worry over toxic Delhi air as pollution worsens Melting Arctic sea-ice could affect global ocean circulation, study warns although a slowing ocean current could ease A

Cyclone Dana sting in tail floods Kolkata; 4 die across state by daybreak At least 76 killed as Tropical Storm Trami batters the Philippines Blackouts and water rationing as South American drought worsens Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,' leading climate scientists warn - but whilst it could bring chaos to global weather systems, and agriculture, it won't quite result in the catastrophic freeze that some tabloids are scaring you with, and it's unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.  Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers Daylight saving ends in Europe this weekend, but experts warn the time change could harm your health - or, rather, the change to Silly Time in March harms our health.  The recommendation is to stick with Real Time all year round. And ‘You don’t want to waste time on climate change’: TV weather’s big problem with the environmental crisis