Weather news

Three days of rainfall have caused a level of flooding seen only “once in a thousand years” in China, with scientists blaming the intensity of the downpour on global warming.

Angela Merkel has promised quick financial aid for the parts of western Germany devastated by flooding and has vowed to step up efforts to tackle climate change. 

Forecasters in the United States say that dry and windy weather will continue to fuel wildfires.  

Well earlier I spoke to flood forecasting expert Dr Linda Speight and began by asking why the floods in Germany were so devastating.

The true scale of the devastation caused by floods in parts of Western Europe has been laid bare as water levels drop. 

We spoke to Jutta Paulus, a German MEP for the Green Party, and began by asking her about the situation.

We spoke to journalist Giulia Saudelli, who is in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, and she gave us the latest update.

Record rainfall caused rivers to burst their banks and the intensity of the floods that followed have now claimed more than 120 lives. Towns and villages have been left devastated as buildings collapsed, and residents were left stranded. Germany has been the hardest hit. In the country’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, at least 43…

It’s feared that hundreds of sudden deaths in Canada may have been caused by the record heatwave there, which has seen temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs.

Heavy snow and bitterly cold weather are sweeping parts of the country – with amber warnings of snow across east and southeast England. Forecasters have warned of “significant disruption” into Monday – as Storm Darcy brings strong easterly winds from Ukraine and the Black Sea. Anja Popp was in Aylesford in Kent.

This afternoon here in Pontypridd I dropped in on a prominent environmental campaigner – currently not campaigning but cleaning out his shop wrecked by floods here.

For communities here in South Wales that have been devastated by Storm Dennis there was more heavy rain and flooding today.

Temperatures in the UK could hit a new record tomorrow – a staggering 39 degrees. 

The UK has recorded its hottest February day on record, with temperatures topping 20 degrees Celsius in parts of England and Wales.

A severe weather warning is in force across parts of the UK. Meanwhile, in some areas of the USA, at least eight people have been killed as temperatures hit record lows – even colder than the South Pole.