3rd November - Today's News: Floods Kill 4 in Spain After "Severest Storm in 2 Decades"

Spain: Flood inundates nursing home, killing 4 residents after Spain suffers severest storm in two decades whilst in Portugal man, 79, found dead following Algarve floods, many left homeless.

Just dull and grey here, but fog disrupts flights at UK airports for third day, whilst yesterday Trawsgoed continued it's record warmth with a mx of 22.3c.  And a balmy start to November sees record temperatures in Eire too with 20.1c in Co Kerry on Sunday.

Cyclone Chapala bears down on mainland Yemen 

El Nino strikes! Snow falls in California during first wintery blast of the season as experts warn of record storms on the West Coast this winter

In Australia, Port Lincoln floods as Eyre Peninsula battered with heavy rain in severe weather over regional SA 

In parts of South Africa, snow hits as SA slides towards summer?

The lion left stranded by floods... in the Masai Mara: Incredible rainfalls leave the usually sun-baked nature reserve under water - and puzzle the wildlife

Latest models predict less ice, more water in Arctic by 2050 in what appears to be a more realistic forecast that the occasional individual's predictions that the Arctic could be ice free by whenever.

And a new report confirms robustness of global warming temperature data

Was prehistoric man responsible for the extinction of Australia's massive animals?   As elsewhere, almost certainly a contributory factor, almost certainly not the only factor.  In my opinion.

And  signs of acid fog found on Mars