Weather & Earth Science News

State of emergency declared in Ngongotaha on NZ's North Island after record rainfall As the snowpack melts, there are more evacuations in B.C. Interior as floods worsen whilst expanded evacuations in northern Alberta as Peace River flooding worsens due to ice jams In Croatia, summer starts early – new April temperature records set on Sunday The new EU satellite Sentinel tracks ships' dirty emissions from orbit

Death toll in Dead Sea flash floods rises to 10 as last missing teen found - with issues as to whether they should have been hiking in the areas given the weather conditions at the time.  At least two other teenagers have died in floods in the region this week. Floods, landslides, tornado batter Java this week Roads flooded as wind and rain hit Auckland   And a suggestion that fracking may have caused South Korean earthquake

Cape Town roads under water as city welcomes 'real rain' - meanwhile, earlier this month, "day zero" - when Cape Town runs out of drinking water - was pushed back to 2019. Two teens die in flash floods as storm hits Israel, West Bank  Sydney lost as fog, smoke from hazard reduction burns settles over city Russian Arctic glacier loss doubles as temps warm Kilauea's summit lava lake still overflowing into crater It appears that weather associated with sentiments expressed on social media - we're more positive in our comments when it's warm and sunny, but not too hot.  And on that note, a Polish study shows stress hormones spike as temperature rises

The tornado capital of the world goes quiet. Here's why. Experts baffled by mystery phenomenon spotted off coast of Devon - as yet no definite explanation, though a KH wave forming off a fog bank has been suggested.  It's not just heatwaves and floods we're getting more of, now winter wave heights and extreme storms on the rise in Western Europe too, Meanwhile, collapse of the Atlantic Ocean heat transport might lead to hot European summers , as well as colder winters.  Basically, everything's getting more extreme. In the Indian Ocean, Tropical Storm Fakir turns deadly after unleashing destructive winds, mudslides on La Reunion  Video footage as tornado-like winds ‘like the end of the world’ hit southern China - looks to me like it was a tornado. Kenya dams 'a flood risk' after heavy rains Vanuatu: landslide and flash flood hampers relief effort on Ambae where a volcanic eruption has forced evacuations Corals build '...

First thunderstorm of the year on Saturday evening, and I finally managed to capture my first ever photo of lightning.   So it was 4 hot days and a thunderstorm - not bad!   Back to normal April weathe now, but not for all of Europe as April heatwave brings record temperatures to parts of Croatia yesterday.  And last week parts of Switzerland see record temperatures as well as other countries previously reported in this blog Mysterious Arctic ice holes baffle scientists   and c ould sprinkling sand save the Arctic's shrinking sea ice? There's rotten egg gas around planet Uranus (or as another headline read: Uranus smells of rotten eggs) Models show how climate change intensifies droughts in Europe And I bet it won;t be like this when I finally return for a proper holiday later next month! 'Cloudless' view of the Highlands captured from space .  But one can dream ...

France's scorching early summer breaks weather records whilst Denmark has 'earliest summer day since 1964', warmer than any day last year Pre-monsoon heat builds across northern India Another study suggest that unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans - it appears it's just " something that we do ". And it's clear as mud: Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on Mars

As expected, yesterday smashed the date record and was the second highest temperature ever recorded in April as UK temperatures top 29C in hottest April day since 1949 .    It was a date record elsewhere too as Czech records highest temperature in 30 years and the hottest April 19th in Netherlands history as Europe sees hottest day of the year so far And on a very different note, the army are called in to help as a giant plastic 'berg blocks Indonesian river