1st March - Today's News: Storm Brings Welcome Rain to California

It was officially a snow-free winter in Evesham, the first I've recorded and the first I can remember experiencing anywhere.   Frosts were also notable by their absence with only 6 days recording temperatures below freezing and that helped make it my mildest recorded winter.  It was also my wettest winter - though by no means my wettest 3 month period, with rainfall for the whole of winter close to that of July 2007.   But spring arrives bright, sunny, calm and ..... frosty!

Storm lashes California, but not a drought buster

The great freeze over Great Lakes as seen by satellite

Cyclone warning in place for Tonga

NASA scientists find evidence of water in meterorite, reviving debate over life on Mars

And how Earth might have looked: how a failed Saharan Atlantic rift zone sculped Africa's margin