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Another day of persistent heavy rain in places as f lash flooding closes roads and blocks rail lines in the Marches whilst in Devon there were m ultiple rescues as vehicles trapped in flooding and h eavy rain brings widespread travel disruption to Wales.  N ot a big story though 'cos London was unaffected. Global water crisis leaves half of world food production at risk in next 25 years As a former CEO of Google proposes we ignore climate change, because "one day AI might come up with a solution" .... is it worse to have no climate solutions – or to have them but refuse to use them? And the Sun reaches maximum phase in 11-year solar cycle

'Irreversible' environmental disasters loom as global temperatures rise, new study finds Nearly 100 still missing in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene Caribbean islands put on hurricane alert as experts say storm Nadine will hit this week  Massive wildfire in Wyoming expands to over 75,000 acres - interestingly, I had a conspiracy theorist in my shop yesterday telling me how it's very strange that this wildfire isn't being reported by mainstream news ..... (I guess someone on social media made the claim). Ongoing African drought has plunged Zambia into daily blackouts as hydroelectric dam unable to run Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands vulnerable to flooding after 'freak' swells, high tides And with the demise of our last coal powered station, b urning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power - although the article misses the point that we shouldn't be putting any rubbish into landfill and burning it is still the better option (not producing

Eight dead as violent storms sweep Brazil after worst-ever drought The UK's f lood defences 'in worst state on record' as the p ublic urged to prepare for floods after wettest 18 months on record  How atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns Remembering Typhoon Tip: It's 45 years since the world’s biggest storm – but the record could soon be broken And catastrophically warm predictions are more plausible than we thought

Hurricane Milton's downpour around Tampa Bay was a 1-in-1,000-year rain event as Biden says Hurricane Milton caused staggering $50bn in estimated damage - along with at least 16 deaths How Hurricane Milton rapidly turned into a monster as climate change supercharges storms So h ow unusual has this hurricane season been? Earlier this week, a 'mini-tornado' knocks down trees and fences in Coventry whilst there were also t ornado reports after wind leaves trail of damage on Hayling Island Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century Kyrgyzstan opens rare probe into glacier destruction Mysterious 'blobs' in Earth's mantle are not what we thought, study claims And Australia facing one of the hottest summers on record, according to BOM prediction

Got to see (just about) and photograph the northern lights from my front door last night as the Aurora Borealis lights up Britain's skies as far south as Sussex and Devon in stunning nighttime display whilst down under, the aurora australis makes stunning return to southern Australian skies And this morning I also recorded my lowest ever temperature for this early in autumn with -0.9c Florida reels after hurricane devastation as s triking photos show the extent of Milton's devastation and other p hotos show skies over Florida turning purple before catastrophic Hurricane Milton hit  Meanwhile, hurricane tracker reveals latest on Nadine and Leslie - as one is upgraded and the other diminishes off Florida Meteorologists face death threats after debunking bizarre Hurricane Milton conspiracy theories and on a related subject, do electric vehicles catch fire when submerged in salty sea water?   They could, but the risk isn't quite as high as some would have you believe. Heavy

Hurricane Milton: nearly 3 million without power in Florida as category 3 storm makes landfall with tornadoes, floods as Hurricane Milton carves path of destruction in Florida And no, Hurricane Milton was not 'engineered' - albeit man-made global warming has likely made it more extreme than might otherwise have been the case.   Waters in the Gulf of Mexico are simply warmer ..... One dead as storm Kirk tears through Spain, Portugal and France In NE England, yet more h eavy rain brings floods which close A1 How even temporarily overshooting global climate targets could be more damaging than predicted: study And a bit of a laugh on social media this morning as a BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK - actually, a lot more than hurricane force!

Hurricane Milton on path for Florida landfall as a potentially historic major storm as Floridians warned ‘you are going to die’ if they don’t evacuate   US south-east reels from ‘unspeakable tragedy’ of Helene as new storm looms How is climate change affecting hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones? Last month was the second warmest September for the globe and Europe Flooding hits Sahara Desert after extremely rare rainfall Hundreds dead, more than 1 million displaced due to Niger floods In WA, as Beaufort Inlet turned into a salt lake researchers say they witnessed 'the death of an estuary' And r are Steve phenomenon seen with Northern Lights in the UK

New hurricane threatens Florida as it reels from devastation In the Cairngorms, the Sphinx s now patch deemed 'barometer for climate change' melts for fourth year in a row Severe weather leaves one dead in Western Greece At least three killed as floods swamp Thailand’s Chiang Mai And how d esertification threatens to decimate farming in Romania’s south

Bosnia declares state of emergency after at least 16 killed in flooding and landslides with latest reports suggesting that floods and landslides leave 19 dead in Bosnia San Francisco sees hottest day of 2024 as heatwave scorches US south-west as the e xtraordinary October heat wave scorches the west through the weekend In Taiwan, t orrential rain from storm Krathon kills two more Water levels in major Amazon tributary tumble to record lows amid drought Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats Most tropical lightning storms are radioactive Physicists explore possibility of life beyond Earth And t he asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone - there was at least one other impact around the same time

Very dry for much of Scotland, as the Met Office have to update their anomaly chart after we saw record-breaking rainfall for some this September .   For Evesham it was the wettest month since July 2007. Hundreds missing as Helene death toll rises to 135 Helene is now the deadliest mainland U.S. hurricane since Katrina Typhoon Krathon: two people killed and two missing in Taiwan With more than 200 killed: What caused the devastating floods in Nepal? Amazon’s indigenous people hit by record forest fires in Brazil And in the eastern USA, at least, major storms contribute to thousands of deaths up to 15 years later, study finds