Category: Weather News

Last updated: 28 August 2026. This is a developing story and casualty figures are changing daily. All numbers below carry the date they were current. Quick Answer The disaster that killed at least 389 people in Nepal on 26 August 2026 was not a monsoon flood. It was triggered by a glacier collapse. A section…

Last updated: August 25, 2026. Quick Answer A tornado tore through the village of Pomas in the Aude, about 12 km south of Carcassonne, just after 5pm on Monday 24 August 2026, injuring 41 people and damaging around 300 homes in a commune of roughly 1,000 inhabitants. Fifteen people were hospitalised, including a pregnant woman…

Last updated: August 24, 2026. Quick Answer Arctic sea ice is not just shrinking in area — it is getting young. Ice more than four years old has collapsed by 95% since the 1985–2004 baseline, from 1.72 million square kilometres down to just 95,000 at the September 2025 minimum. On 2 August 2026 Arctic extent…

Last updated: August 23, 2026. Quick Answer Europe is in the grip of a drought that has pushed the Rhine to its lowest level since records began in 1880, exposed centuries-old “hunger stones” carved to warn of famine, and knocked out more than a fifth of France’s nuclear generating capacity. Around half of EU and…

Last updated: July 17, 2026. Quick Answer Smoke from more than 100 wildfires burning in Canada has pushed New York’s air quality to “very unhealthy” levels just two days before the World Cup final. New York City’s air quality index hit 270 on Thursday evening, and a statewide Air Quality Advisory covers all of New…

Last updated: July 16, 2026. Quick Answer A second heat dome, part of what forecasters are calling a “double heat dome” summer, rebuilt over the Great Basin, Rockies, and Plains on July 12, 2026, and broke records the first one never touched. Salt Lake City hit 109°F that afternoon, its hottest reading in 152 years…

Two breached reservoirs washed away a commercial snake farm in Guangxi, China, releasing roughly 900 snakes — including venomous cobras — into flooded villages. Here’s what happened, why China farms cobras at all, and what to do if you ever encounter one.

Every month of 2026 measured so far has ranked among the five warmest on record globally, and a strong El Niño is still intensifying. Here’s how 2026 stacks up against 2024’s record, updated monthly with the latest Copernicus, NASA and NOAA data.