9th June - Today's News: World's Warmest May on Record

"Last month was the warmest May on record with global temperatures 0.63°C above average, according to the European Union’s climate change monitor.

The last 12-month period also matched the hottest on record and was close to 0.7°C warmer than average, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said.

It comes after the UK experienced its sunniest spring and driest May since records began."

May 2020 global temperatures hottest on record

In England and Wales, missing Roman forts and roads revealed by drought

Wild weather swings in Siberia as extreme heat is followed by June snow, tornadoes and floods

Tropical Storm Cristobal makes landfall in Louisiana with 50 mph winds and huge storm swell but a storm dumping June snow on Montana, Idaho is not all that unusual.

Two killed as Cyclone Nisarga largely spares Mumbai but landslides kill at least 20 in India's Assam state

And Britain goes coal free as renewables edge out fossil fuels