11th August - Today's News: Powerful Derecho Strikes US Midwest

 In the US, a powerful derecho storm wreaks havoc across the Midwest leaving 1.1M without power as 100mph winds blast beleaguered Chicago

 And July set a number of heat records in the US, as seven states report all-time high temperatures over 90F that lasted for weeks

Meanwhile, as our heatwave continues with horrendous temperatures,  that are surely illegal under the Geneva Convention,  Wales thunderstorms bring power cuts and flash flooding in Aberwystwth whilst elsewhere in North Wales pelted with hailstones so big they set off car alarms

Germany records hottest temperature of year as country braces for more heat

Temperatures soar across Japan, topping 40 degrees in Gunma

Australia sees atmospheric rivers form in both the Indian and Pacific Oceans, bringing rain from the tropics to the south

Typhoon Jangmi strikes South Korea whilst Tropical Storm Mekkhala brings rain to Taiwan, strikes China

In Indonesia, Mount Sinabung erupts for second time in three days, sending huge plume of ash into the sky

A warning that a warming world will be 'devastating' for frozen peatlands

Satellites record history of Antarctic melting

And in the asteroid belt, the dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world with active geology, according to close-up data from NASA spacecraft Dawn