Tuesday night could be the coldest of the year so far, the Met Office has said, as it issued weather warnings for snow and ice across the UK. The forecasting body said the mercury could drop to minus 15C in some sheltered Scottish glens, especially where there is fresh snow cover. The lowest temperature in the UK so far this year is minus 10.4C, which was recorded at Drumnadrochit near Inverness in the Highlands in the early hours of January 19.
No sign of temperatures going up anytime soon as spring nears
A County Durham street has been branded the worst in the North East for potholes by our readers – but do you agree?
A mega-tsunami could hit the UK as early as tomorrow said Sir David King. It would wipe out coastal towns including Brighton and Bournemouth along with London
The trees at the centre of a bitter row in Plymouth have been given a temporary reprieve by the High Court.
A group of trees set for the chop after a resident complained it was blocking light to her garden has been spared – after the Scottish Government ruled it could not be considered a ‘high hedge’.
More flood alerts have been issued after earlier warnings that coastal properties were at risk from water damage.
Over 1.4 million affected by Cyclone Freddy that could be declared the longest ever in recorded history
More than 50 million people across a large swath of the nation were on alert Thursday for tornados, large hail, damaging winds and flooding after a severe weather outbreak spawned by a "bomb cyclone" in California moved east, leaving a wake of destruction from mudslides, tree-toppling gusts and the largest twister to hit the Los Angeles area in 40 years. Residents of Texas and Oklahoma and up to Pennsylvania are bracing for large hail, flooding and tornadoes Thursday night. The wild weather system is the same one that blew in from the Pacific Ocean in Northern California as a "bomb cyclone," packing powerful winds that toppled more than 700 trees in San Francisco and killed at least five people in the Bay Area who were either struck by falling limbs or uprooted trees, officials said.
It was seen swimming around a harbour during high tide this week.
Belgium’s Pairi Daiza zoo and botanical garden welcomed its latest arrival, a rare Rothschild’s giraffe calf, to their herd on Wednesday, March 22, the institution said on Facebook.The calf was born at 4:09 am on Wednesday and measured about 1.5 meters (five feet) tall.Footage shared by the zoo shows the unnamed calf being looked after by its mother, Juul, shortly after the birth.“The little one, whose sex has not yet been determined, weighs about 70 kilograms [154 pounds] and is already eating well,” the zoo management said in a Facebook post.With the birth, Pairi Daiza’s giraffe section now houses four animals of the Rothschild subspecies, including the new arrival. Credit: Pairi Daiza/Belgium via Storyful
A monkey snuck into a Hougang estate last Sunday afternoon. It washed its hands in an outdoor basin and stole a vegetable to eat.
It has been a week of mostly warm, sunny weather in the Alps although there have been light snow up high and there are hopes of significant fresh snowfall arriving this weekend.
A new rare giant species of trapdoor spider has been discovered in Queensland, Australia. In research published on March 15, Euoplos dignitas are giant golden arachnids with a body measuring approximately 2 inches in length, not including the legs. They exhibit burrow-building behaviour, and are endangered due to loss of habitat from land clearing.
Langstone, Hampshire: The pond is almost devoid of life, apart from several of these greenish-grey segmented worms burrowed into the silt at the bottom
A dangerous tornado outbreak is headed to the South, where intense, long-track tornadoes reaching EF-3 or higher are possible Friday afternoon and evening. Damaging winds and large hail are also a threat all the way to Tennessee and Indiana, as is flash flooding, which could stretch from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania. The storms will start up in eastern Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas Friday afternoon and will strengthen in the evening along the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Mississippi to Memphis.
Villagers are desperate to stop hundreds of lorries “thundering” past their houses every month.
Brookfield Zoo’s latest addition, a silverback gorilla named Jontu, is ready to meet the public following his move from Saint Louis Zoo in February.Jontu, a 26-year-old western lowland gorilla, has been acclimatizing to his new home since his arrival in early February, according to the zoo.Over the past few weeks, Jontu was given access to his habitat while the section was closed to guests, allowing him to meet the other members of the gorilla group: Binti, 35; Koola, 28; Kamba,18; Nora, 9; and Ali, 4.According to staff at Brookfield Zoo, the nearly 500-pound ape has been enlisted to maintain harmony within the group, as silverbacks are known to do.“Guests may notice Jontu, sitting away from the others a lot of the time, but he is very attentive and aware of where other members of the troop are and monitors them, always looking out for their best interest,” said Tim Sullivan, interim director of primate care.Western lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, with an estimated 300,000 western lowland gorillas found throughout Western Equatorial Africa. Credit: Lynette Kleisner/CZS-Brookfield Zoo via Storyful
(Bloomberg) -- The costs of California’s relentless winter storms keep rising. And outside of the human toll — with at least 28 people killed since January — the price will be measured in billions.The “bomb cyclone” that lashed San Francisco on Tuesday was the latest in an epic series of extreme weather events to hit California since New Year’s Eve. It blew out windows from skyscrapers, flung barges into a historic bridge, sent trees tumbling across roads, knocked down power lines, and threatene
The U.S. Geological Survey found that the invasive Burmese python population in Florida has expanded from a small area near Everglades National Park to the bottom third of the Sunshine State
Billions of people face water shortages by the end of the decade with floods, droughts and water-borne diseases becoming more frequent and intense.
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