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In ‘a very clear sign of climate change’: France prepares wildfire-fighting forces a month early Multiple tornadoes reported in South as new severe weather threatens Texas The big melt: Crushed houses, trapped cars and the threat of floods - inside California's buried ski resort Climate change caused catastrophic East Africa drought, scientists say And i t may have been snowing on Mars 400,000 years ago

Spain breaks record temperature for April with 38.8c at Cordoba airport as Spain pleads for aid from EU after historic drought devastates its farmers and at Tomelloso the epicenter of Spain’s drought: 134 days without rain Here we're struggling to reach high teens ... and it's been another wet month. Meanwhile there's ‘endless record heat’ in Asia as highest April temperatures recorded Surprise “Spring Snow” in Reykjavík Record high temperatures in Nunavik pose threat to Inuit way of life A California community braces for floods as epic snow melts NZers warned of downpours, gales, huge swells for North Island as 'atmospheric river' bears down Satellite maps warming impact on global glaciers And an unexpected discovery about Heinrich Events:  massive iceberg discharges during the last ice age had no impact on nearby Greenland, raising new questions about climate dynamics

Recent, rapid ocean warming ahead of El Niño alarms scientists - they are only likely to increase more over the next year .... Despite a wet March and, in some parts, April, we should plan now to preserve water supply, National Drought Group urges as South West Water hosepipe ban extends to 390,000 homes A new study shows that the 1903 Ulysses Storm among windiest ever in British Isles Air pollution kills more than 1,200 children a year in Europe, report says And auroras light up skies across the world after solar storm including Britain, in pictures: Northern lights display sends the skies purple on Sunday night (and although visible down here, I missed it again!)

Spain facing food shortages as severe drought leads to crop failure whilst Barcelona is heading for a ‘drought emergency’ as water shortages worsen and farmers face drought despair in parched France Meanwhile, satellite images highlight extreme drought in Europe And  no snow was left in the Alps last summer for the first time ever, grim climate report reveals 3 dead in Oklahoma as tornadoes hit the state In Miami, video shows moment a small waterspout crashes onto beach full of people Mystery cloud throws Istanbul into darkness Accelerating melt of ice sheets now 'unmistakable' Radar satellite data reveals 19,000 previously unknown undersea volcanoes And floods, drought, ferry disruptions. Highland climate change mapped

Thailand notches highest temperature on record as 'monster' heat wave roasts Southeast Asia .  Meanwhile, another heatwave singes India as mercury nears 45°C as severe heatwave engulfs Asia causing deaths and forcing schools to close 2 dead as severe storms, tornadoes move through central U.S. In Utah, rare desert waterfalls still flowing a month after record snowfall awakened them Scientists confirm 2022 was Europe's second warmest year and hottest summer ever Thousands in awe as solar eclipse hits totality over the skies of northern Western Australia A once-stable glacier in Greenland is now rapidly disappearing Meanwhile, the scale of glacier loss in Himalayas previously hidden, say scientists studying accelerating melting And a colossal iceberg trapped near Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' for 20 years is finally on the move

Fort Lauderdale got 25 inches of rain in 'unprecedented' storm 'Mini tornado' flips caravan onto its side at Bamptons Farm in Lymington Pardoo Roadhouse bears brunt of Ilsa on WA's Kimberley-Pilbara coast, with the severe tropical cyclone now downgraded Australian boaties treated to spectacular waterspout off Airlie Beach in Whitsundays Sandstorms bring misery from China to South Korea Heatwave grips parts of India; mercury levels expected to soar New look at climate data shows substantially wetter rain and snow days ahead And last year's Tonga volcano explosion equalled most powerful ever US nuclear test     ore at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/99499914.cms?from=mdr&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Heatwave grips parts of India; mercury levels expected to so .. Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/99499914.cms?from=mdr&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ilsa to cross WA coast as powerful category five system Named by the French, Storm Noa: Power cuts and trees down in Devon and Cornwall Severe flooding strikes Fort Lauderdale as parts of South Florida face historic amounts of rainfall Ashfall widespread as Russian volcano continues to erupt

In WA, ports cleared, extra services dispatched as Pilbara and Kimberley brace for Cyclone Ilsa But a cold snap to continue after Easter brings snow to Australia’s eastern states Anchorage reaches 100″ of snow for season, experiences coldest Easter on record As the National Park re-opens, a grueling winter leaves Yosemite scarred One Israeli woman rescued after flash flood carries her away; 2 still missing India's Odisha records season's first 40-plus temperature as heatwave singes state Spain swelters through the second hottest and driest March of the century whilst on Easter Monday the hot ‘terral’ wind helps Malaga set highest April temperature on record Two more bodies are found buried in snow as death toll from French Alps avalanche disaster climbs to six Satellite imagery reveals ‘hidden’ tornado tracks And the world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high - and that's before El Nino gets going ....

In Canada, a deadly ice storm leaves 3 dead, hundreds of thousands still without power New US tornado kills five, destroys homes At the Masters: Storms bring down three trees halting play in Augusta Last weekend saw floods wreak havoc across South Oxfordshire Coastal NSW recovering from hail, strong wind and power outages after Good Friday storm Romania gripped by cold weather, snow ahead of Orthodox Easter At least 21 dead in Somalia’s flash floods, says U.N. agency Water ban in drought-stricken Tunisia adds to growing crisis Scientists discover a way Earth's atmosphere cleans itself The unexpected contribution of medieval monks to volcanology Researchers correlate Arctic warming to extreme winter weather in midlatitude and its future And how the Norwegian seafloor holds clue to Antarctic melting

US tornadoes: Death toll grows as extreme storms ravage several states Lightning strikes One World Trade Center during Saturday night storms California lake reappears after 100 years and causes havoc Catalonia in grip of worst drought in decades On Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz: Residents evacuated from slopes of volcano over fears an eruption is imminent. El Niño is forecast to return in 2023. Here’s what it means for extreme weather and global warming And how Arctic scientists race against the clock as 'ice memory' melts away

More US tornadoes leave four dead, including one at Illinois music gig Floods hit Britain: Heavy rain sweeps nation after brutal Storm Mathis deluge - nearly an inch of rain in Evesham making the 31st the wettest day of the year here, so far and overall it's been the wettest March in over 40 years for England Norway avalanches: Tourists among four killed in north of country La Niña ending and SAM to blame for Australia's delayed summer, record hot March, says meteorologist Fiona, Ian retired from UN list of Atlantic hurricane names Thailand's extreme air pollution: 'I feel sorry for my daughter' And a heat wave at -37˚C? That’s bad news at the South Pole