5th November - Today's News: Haitians Evacuate as TS Tomas Approaches

Breaking news this morning is that tropical storm Tomas lashes Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica with heavy rain and as a result there are tense evacuations in Haiti - as clearly stated, the main problem is likely to be mudslides caused by heavy rain falling on massively denuded hillsides.

Dozens die in new Mount Merapi eruption in Indonesia - many victims of a pyroclastic cloud.

Costa Rica landslide kills at least 20 as storm hits

Flooding returns to west Cumbria after heavy rain - 160mm reported yesterday at Seathwaite - and there's likely to be more rain over the coming days too.

Impact 'catastrophe calculator' updated - and looks great fun!

Matt Hughes, 'Storm Chasers' star, dies from non chasing 'injury' - sadly, he committed suicide after suffering depression. The 2010 series of Stormchasers will probably be shown in the UK early next year.

In Malaysia, nearly 40,000 evacuated in Kedah, flood eases in Perlis

Heat spike breaks records in southern California

Volcanoes have shifted Asian rainfall

Current global warming may reverse circulation in Atlantic Ocean, as it did 20,000 years ago - or then again, it may not. Perhaps they should look at what happened when Greenland was last much warmer and largely ice free (ie 115,000 years ago) rather than what happened - for different reasons - at the height of the last glacial?

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