15th August - Today's News: World Likely to be Warmer for Next few Years

A prediction that, globally, the next few years 'may be exceptionally warm' - but that doesn't mean England will get a summer heatwave each year, or any year, whatever the gutter press may say!

In the US: Torrential rain, flooding to continue across northeast

NSW bushfires: Emergency warnings for Bega blaze but Ulladulla and Nowra fires downgraded

 - conditions much worse because of the on-going drought

There have been ten times more wildfires in the Arctic than a decade ago

Photos show aftermath of 'tornado' that struck Chelmsford in Essex last Friday

How the heatwave reveals England's lost prehistoric sites

Trees and climate change: Faster growth, lighter wood

How historic space weather could clarify what's next whilst satellite measurements of the Earth's magnetosphere promise better space weather forecasts

And why the Atlantic hurricane season is so different right now compared to a year ago