25th August - Today's News: Fire Devil Filmed in Brazil

This is something you don't see every day, fire devil twister blazes a trail in Brazil (it's not a tornado though!)

One of the most intense, prolonged, downpours I've experienced in years produced 17mm of rain in the space of about 20 minutes just after lunchtime on Monday - and means monthly rainfall is now running at about 125% of average, with more on the way. And as the cold front that produced that deluge moved east a tornado damages Suffolk village.

Over on WUWT they've been getting excited over a chart that suggests there's lying snow in northern Russia - a quick check revealed that local temperatures were almost spot on average for the time of year and too warm for there to be snow on the ground. Sorry guys! However, there's has been a near decade-high snow dump on Mount Hotham in Australia whilst a current cold snap to bring last snow of winter - though I'm not sure they can be entirely certain about that? It might snow again next week ...

France drains lake under Mont Blanc glacier

Following recent floods, aid agency warns of 'double disaster' for Niger

More rain causes chaos in northern India

Hot weather aids fires in Oregon, Calif., Idaho

In Scotland, wind industry may bring 28,000 jobs - but that's a 'very best case' scenario and assmues wind becomes as big an industry as oil and gas ........ hmmmm I don't think so! Unless they employ thousands of people to spin the turbines on frigid cold winter days?

Deadly storm strikes Vietnam

There are fears for autumnal scenes after drought - forget all the recent rain, it's the dry spring that means many trees are shredding their leaves early this year.

Forest fires hit Turkey and Greece after heatwave

Extreme La Nina brings illness and misery to Peru

Why is the Isle of Wight so could for fossil dinosaur bones? Maybe fires and floods key to dinosaur island secrets?

Climate change may have led to the demise of the woolly mammoth, but it seems it's man who's more to blame now that the true causes for extinction of cave bear revealed.

How giant tortoises, alligators, thrived in the high Arctic 50 million years ago

Yet another study ion sea level rises and yet another different prediction - no surprise there then! This time they're saying sea level to rise even with aggressive geo-engineering and greenhouse gas control - between 30 and 70cm by 2100. Of course, so far sea levels are not rising by anything near as much as that, if indeed they are at all ...... Hmmm.

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