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Spain and Portugal wildfires drive worst EU season on record  whilst s ummer 2025 ranks among Spain's hottest ever after historic August heatwave - worth noting that 2022 was an El Nino years.  2025 is not. Clean-up under way after flooding hits South West   whilst more f lash flooding hits businesses and attractions on Wight Massive dust storm leaves thousands without power and blinds drivers in southwest US In Canada, millions of dollars in crop damage expected from Brooks hailstorm: insurance provider Trees down and building damage after Victoria lashed by strong winds and showers overnight with a  dusting of snow for parts of the ACT, NSW, Tas and Victoria amid Antarctic blast  (and over 40cm in some places) Flash floods sweep cars away in Saudi Arabia’s Asir Kashmir floods, landslides kill dozens  whilst  Pakistan’s Punjab province reels from deadly floods Tropical storm Kajiki kills five, leaves seven missing in northern Thailand Collapse of c...

  This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK - although 1976 will remain the warmest in the CET record.   Whilst we've not had any really exception heat, the summer has been persistently warm across the whole of the UK. On the North York Moors, m ine staff evacuated as moor fire continues  with further eveaacuations today as 'i t seems like anywhere you go, the fire follows' In North Wales, Ffestiniog t rains used as 'fire engines on rails' in hot weather  after a b ank holiday record for Wales as hottest place in UK Summer 2025 ranks among Spain's hottest ever after historic August heatwave California and Oregon fire crews battle several blazes as forecasters warn more may spark Flash floods leave 32 dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir as over 150,000 are displaced in Punjab Three killed after ‘absolutely terrifying’ Typhoon Kajiki lashes Vietnam Heatwaves may be speeding up your biological ageing, study warns Data centres are vital for t...

Typhoon Kajiki: China’s Hainan reports no deaths, recovery efforts ongoing   as   m ore than 500,000 ordered to evacuate as typhoon heads for Vietnam  with today t rees down, homes flooded as Typhoon Kajiki batters Vietnam Monsoon rains happen every year. So why do so many die in Pakistan? Freak maritime 'supercell' storm sparks chaos in Italian tourist hotspot as cars are crushed by falling trees and buildings flooded Water savings call as dry August hits reservoir levels in Scotland And h as the British summer changed beyond recognition?    Well, this year, maybe.  Next year?  We'll see.  

Wildfire explodes in California wine country as heatwave scorches US west Extreme heat linked to more than 1,300 deaths in Portugal in 20 consecutive days A  dramatic slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice surprises scientists How renaturalisation of wetlands slows global warming and species decline And is hot weather putting you in a bad mood? Science suggests it might be    

Italy is hit with deadly floods as ferocious 'water bomb' storm turns roads into rivers - while wildfires break out on tourist island Hurricane Erin's high waves thrash coast of North Carolina Hurricane Erin to drench parts of Virginia while approaching US northeast In Canada, a t rail of destruction in Brooks, Alta., after golf ball-sized hailstorm rips through Tropical Storm Lingling makes landfall on Kagoshima, southwestern Japan Heavy rain paralyses India's financial capital Mumbai What’s causing Pakistan’s deadly floods? And  WHO warns of risks of extreme heat in the workplace      

Spain and Portugal fires kill two more as Spanish troops battle blazes The moment tourists run for cover as freak 'Satan's Storm' lashes Spanish beach - while country battles wildfires in 45C heatwave and Portuguese villagers resort to fighting blazes themselves Italy's Ventina glacier has melted so much geologists now can only monitor it remotely   US East Coast faces life-threatening waves from Hurricane Erin Sydney records most rain since weather station opened in 1858 'The water had no mercy': Hundreds killed as floods ravage north Pakistan  with  more than 200 missing in flood-hit district in Pakistan, official says  and  Pakistan floods and cloudbursts visualised in maps and satellite images How  'misinformation is creating a moorland tinderbox' - though sadly that comes from both sides of the rewilding/grouse moor management debate.   And I don't believe 'keepers ever once considered that their actions were preventing wildfires, unt...

 ‘Hellish’: heatwave brings hottest nights on record to the Middle East   Floods, mudslides and giant hailstones hit parts of Scotland following thunderstorms, but despite this  there are s everal rivers close to having critically low water levels Yorkshire  'moor could take centuries to recover from fire' Parts of Wales see d rought declared after driest six months in decades Storm Éowyn was most expensive weather event in history for Irish insurers, costing €301m EU sends wildfire help to Spain as death toll rises Former mayor is killed trying to defend Portuguese town from wildfire inferno - as apocalyptic blazes rip through Europe Canada wildfire season already second worst on record as experts warn of ‘new reality’ Hurricane Erin threatens Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands with flooding Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after huge cloudburst Death toll after monsoon floods in Pakistan rises to more than 320 And eastern Australia faces another round of...