1st July - Today's News: Earliest Recorded Cyclone Forms off NE Australia

Cyclone Raquel forms as earliest big storm recorded off Australia's north-east - the official season doesn't start intil October ....

An interesting weather day in Britain with temperatures at 09z already up to 31c - and 26c even in the Highlands .....  Records will very likely fall as Britain is scorched on hottest July 1st ever (possibly) and Europe swelters as heatwave hits

Meanwhile, in North America, heat dome parked over West shatters temperature records, sparks fires

Major Midwest flood risk underestimated by as much as five feet, study finds

And in the evening sky, Venus and Jupiter become cosmic neighbours