29th August - Today's News: Heatwave, Damaging Hail and Tornado in Italy

Extreme heat splits Italy: over 44C in the south, heavy downpours in the north with a tornado and hailstorm: Cremona brought to its knees. Damage to 10 churches and 10,000 cars

Nepal and China resume flood rescue as death toll surpasses 600 as the number missing rises to nearly 3,000 and Chinese rescuers find ‘nothing but ruins’ at border crossing as Nepal seeks help to ID and store the dead

Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn

Typhoon Narra: record flood waters submerge homes and force mass evacuations in China

Typhoon Saudel weakens into tropical storm after making landfall along China's east coast

Record rain pounds Hokuriku

Southern France village devastated by tornado: 'It was like bombs were dropped on our heads'

Even meteorologists are baffled by the Midwestern tornado season

Cloud seeding start-up uses drones to generate 19 million gallons of water in Alaska in three hours

Manhattan-sized ice island breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier

How the weather in space can affect us on Earth - and the team trying to protect us

And as the bank hoilday weekend turns into a washout (shades of 1976 there!) the race to stop England running out of water

 

 

 

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