2nd March - Today's News: New York Homes Encased in Ice

Homes in New York become 'igloos' and trap residents inside after strong winds blow water off Lake Erie and turn it to ice

At Snaith, in East Yorkshire, flooded homeowners open their doors to reveal terrible scenes of misery from 15-day deluge as more rain arrives - though I really don't see why that want Boris to visit them!  Surely it's enough of a disaster as it is .... Meanwhile, closer to home, Worcester and Shropshire flooding 'not over yet' and a warning that Storm Dennis is 'a taste of things to come' for Wales

As BOM says last summer was the second-hottest on record, new data shows that Australian summers 'twice as long as winters' - though here we don't even have winter any more!   Though not everywhere was as warm, it was actually a cool summer for parts of Australia, especially Melbourne.

And we're not the only ones seeing warmer than normal weather.  Moscow winter 'warmest since records began'

One up side to the coronavirus: Nasa images show China pollution clear amid slowdown

And more plastic pollution: Snowdon research is a 'wake-up call'  There is plastic in our rain ....