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I'm glad I'm not on holiday this weekend with today's Wales weather: gales, heavy rain and floods warning .  Elsewhere in the country, three escape as high winds batter Devon and Cornwall , the Suffolk show near Ipswich abandoned due to high winds and rain and in Ireland freaky June weather: more downpours in store as Donegal gets ice storm But whilst May in Britain ended up just average and April was cool and wet, the US experienced second warmest May, warmest Spring on record, NOAA report Powerful storms damage himes on Colo., Wyo. The Big Apple is at big risk for hurricane damage, analysis shows Snow dump gives NZ ski season great start   and in Christchurch they've just had their coldest day on record Flash floods hit Thailand's southern provinces Earthquake strikes area 60km off Mayo coast Supervolcanoes 'can grow in just hundreds of years' - and there's already a big magma pool under Yellowstone ..... Scientist...

Bit of a catch up today - apologies for any stories over the past week that I've missed!   Normal service will resume shortly .... You can tell it's summer in Britain as west coast residents urged to stay indoors as winter storm batters Britain - suppose I should be glad I'm not still in Wales!   But at least Wet weather averts drought risk in England However it's been drier in Scotland where, at the weekend, wildfires rage across Highlands Tornado leaves three dead in Missouri whilst nine tornadoes tear through Maryland and Hampton declares emergency for tornado hit areas in Virginia In Australia, tornadoes tear through northern Perth suburbs and a power station hit by floodwaters as wild weather moves north through Victoria In NZ, thousands without power as snow storm hits Heatwave kills over 100 in Bengal whilst the Indian capital records hottest day ever at 46.7c   Is this the hottest rain on record?  Rain...

This will be the last entry until the end of next week as I'm away camping in North Wales. Wall of rain causes flash floods, evacuations, power failures in Montreal And in Minnesota, rain stops but Northland still draining Italy quake: search for survivors in Emilia Romagna where at 16 sixteen people have died Downpours trigger landslides, road closures across Bulgaria , but the  Ukraine ready with cloud-busters for Euro 2012 soccer matches Here's a surprise (not): EU greenhouse emissions rise despite climate change polices (and us all supposedly being broke) Also, not really a surprise, climate change led to collapse of ancient Indus civilisation Greenland's loss of ice mass during the last 10 years us unusually high compared to last 50 years .   But, apparently, lost photos prove Greenland's ice was melting faster 80 years ago than today However, climate change isn't to blame for melting glacier in Bolivia, but our aerosols are .  In oth...

The heatwave comes to a close, and with it some thunderstorms - though only in the SE so far where floods hit Medway after warm weather and it looks like scorching weekend will give way to sunshine and showers for Jubilee New earthquake shakes  northern Italy Beryl downgraded from tropical storm to a depression but still soaks US coast Homes, cabins among nearly 100 structures burned in Michigan by a wildfire started by lightning Groundwater depletion in semiarid regions of Texas and California threaten US food security

Tropical Storm Beryl whips northwest Florida and southern Georgia - an early season landfall Almost another record temperature at the weekend in Britai as Cromdale in Strathspey recorded 29.0c equalling the all time Scottish record for May, but sadly, hot weather marred by water deaths whilst nearly every North Wales rescue team called out as hot weather sparks crowds and chaos .  And the really good news is the sunshine will last to June bank holiday - though it'll be cooler and maybe not so nice down the British east coast as it will in Ireland and Wales. And it's not just been us, as Swedes bask in record May highs as well. More summer heatwaves likely in Europe - and we may be able to predict them based on winter and spring rainfall.  In other words, pattern matching. Two tornadoes hit communities near Montreal Rain cools northern Ontario wildfires but New Mexico firefighters struggle to control Gila forest blaze Australian ski season to s...

Warm weather continues for the north - it was 28.7c in Kinlochewe, in the NW Highlands, yesterday, the highest temperature of the year anywhere in Britain and very close to the all time Scottish May record.  It's almost certainly a site record.  And it was almost as hot down on the south coast too as Britain basks in sunshine .  Very hot in Ireland as well where heatwave to last all weekend but yesterday was peak with several May records broken across the country. Not as bad as parts of India though where heat wave to intensify in UP; mercury crosses 45 degrees celsius at many places More wildfires sweep across south-west US amid historic drought conditions whilst in Canada, raging wildfire leaves Timmins, Ont., in state of emergency Severe weather hits far North Queensland with up to 330mm of rain in 24 hours N Korea suffering severe drought: state media announce Some good news for the Amazon as Brazil President Rousseff vetoes parts of forest la...

Piers Corbyn's coldest ever May seems to have done a bunk as the weather takes a turn for the better and Britain skips straight to summer with glorious sunshine and soaring temperatures with on Wednesday, Altnaharra warmest place in UK as temperatures soar across Scotland .  Actually Cromdale was even warmer with 28.3c.   Now who'd have predicted that?  Actually, no-one forecast it would be quite that warm, even a few days ahead.   And it now looks like largely settled and often very warm weather will persist through into June.  Good news indeed for the Jubilee - and for my holiday in Snowdonia. But even the hot weather brings problems with London heatwave suspected to be cause of Stockwell rooftop collapse and, perhaps even more bizarrely, heatwave blamed for rise in children tumbling out of windows Butterflies move north due to hot summers - or perhaps, the lack of cold summers. There's also hot weather ahead in Midwest, Mid-Atlantic fo...