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Winter finally arrives in Tasmania with dusting of snow, as Australia braces for cold snap .  Meanwhile, the driest start to winter on record has farmers worried and Perth breaks June heat record Torrential rain swamps Berlin’s streets, stretches firefighters to limits Bergen sets new record for rain - with 26 consecutive days of rain this month There's a 'very strong' climate change signal in record June heat , especially for Iberia Temperatures in Iranian city of Ahvaz hit 127.4 degrees, near hottest on Earth in modern measurements In the US, 27 large wildfires are burning across the West Global tropical cyclone activity paltry so far, despite Cindy and Dora More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt NASA's colorful clouds light up the sky Incredible footage shows Boeing 787 Dreamliner create a giant billowing vapour-trail cloud (and not a chemtrail in sight) 'Bulges' in volcanoes could ...

A month's worth of rain falls in just 12 hours in East Anglia whilst here in Evesham the 17 day drought finally broke .... with 4.7mm of rain this morning.  That's the longest period with no recordable rain fall since I set up my current weather station on 1st July 2011.  S ome places, where it's been raining for 24 hours now, may see storm totals close to 100mm.   Meanwhile, there is no sign of another heatwave on the way just yet.  Despite the usual made up nonsense in the media! Extreme Southwest heat wave may be to blame for 12 Phoenix-area deaths, authorities say Last weekend, extreme weather conditions hammer northern Italy And the map that fills a 500-million-year gap in Earth's history

Southwestern USA's record-setting heat wave to end as wildfire threat ramps up in southwestern US Already, lightning storm ignites multiple wildfires in Idaho and it's reported that lightning is sparking more wildfires in the north as climate change causes more frequent storms Rate of global sea level rise has increased by 50% in just two decades amid rising temperatures and a thaw of Greenland's ice sheet And a computer reconstructions shows how the collapse of European ice sheet caused chaos in past

Cheeky fox suspected to be making regular contribution to WA farmer's BOM rain gauge One Upstate NY city just got a month's worth of rain in one day China landslide: More than 90 missing as search continues after torrential rain wreaks havoc in south China And Australia’s having its second worst start to the snow season in 21 years 

China landslide leaves at least 140 missing in Sichuan Heat wave boosts burns in Phoenix as pavement, cars scald Phoenix heat, Tropical Storm Cindy show how climate change is a threat to our infrastructure And measuring the hot spell of June 2017

Tropical Depression Cindy state by state: Tornado damages structures near Birmingham; mayor of Lafitte, Louisiana, urges evacuations with additional warnings of a terrifying threat from Tropical Storm Cindy: Floating masses of deadly fire ants In Germany, tornado tears through Hamburg after extreme heat wave with trains cancelled across north Germany as fierce storms kill one Satellite images show devastating extent of Portugal forest fire Large hailstone deluge marks midsummer in Altai, breaking car windows, ruining harvests And there have been 'major improvements' to Met Office Mountain Forecasts although some reports suggests pages may be slow to load on mobile phones where signal strength is poor - exactly the situations where these forecasts are most needed!

Yesterday saw the date record set for the UK and it was also the hottest June day since summer of 1976 in heatwave .  In my garden it was also the highest I have recorded in June at 32.4c.  In addition, dew points were extremely high getting above 20c to make a very sweaty and uncomfortable evening.   But the heatwave (4 consecutive days above 30c in my garden) ended here with not a rumble of thunder nor drop of rain .....  And it's not just the British Isles that have been unusually hot as California sees some of highest temperatures ever recorded amid heat wave whilst in the Arizona heatwave: Strange consequences of extreme heat with the life-threatening heat wave to retain its grip on southwestern US into the weekend Meanwhile, France's heatwave reaches peak as pollution spike hits Paris Already deadly Tropical Storm Cindy could cause “life-threatening” flash flooding, forecasters warn  as it continues to bring heavy rain to the US Gulf...