7th January - Today's News: A1 Closed as Gales Hit Northern Britain

Strong winds forecast close A1 road in East Lothian - and more gales expected later this week for England.   No sign of winter though.

Australia fires: Almost 2,000 homes destroyed in marathon crisis

Meanwhile, in WA, Nullarbor remains cut off by bushfires as travellers wait for Eyre Highway to reopen

 

Passengers describe flying through fire-generated cloud on Melbourne-to-Canberra flight

The places in New Zealand for which 2019 was the warmest year on record

India suffers hottest decade on record

And Japan's average temperature in 2019 hits record high

Storm hits Istanbul, plane skids off airport runway as storms cause flooding in southeast Europe, Levant

Puerto Rico earthquake: Punta Ventana collapses as powerful tremor hits - an iconic rock arch no more. 

Frumpy won't be happy about this:  How the shutdown of coal-fired plants in US saves lives and improves crop yields

And an interesting piece on Fishlake: How can we stop our village flooding again?  Appear it used to be a common occurrence, but folk back then were prepared and adapted accordingly.  But since then we've forgotten that it even happens ....  And upstream defences, coupled with much more building on ground we forgot flooded, hasn't helped matters.