Weather News

A woman died of electrocution as incessant heavy rains lashed the city and catchment areas, sending the Mithi river close to danger mark and inundating low-lying areas and disrupting air, rail and road traffic.

About a quarter mile into dense woods, geologists watch as a drilling rig twists a shaft deep into the granite bedrock of southeastern New Hampshire.

Britons should brace themselves for "much more changeable and considerably cooler" weather with rain at times over the next few weeks, weatherman John Kettley said.

Officials say one person has been killed in a lightning strike at a Fourth of July gathering in central Florida and 18 others were taken to hospitals.

Flooding in Surma and Khusiara rivers has left some 500,000 people stranded at their homes in three districts Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes in Bangladesh, officials said yesterday.

Only 19 of 112 Texas state prisons are air-conditioned, leaving most of the state's 155,000 prisoners and those who guard them to face the summer heat with fans and primitive air-circulating systems.

REDSTONE, Colorado - Highway 133 south of Carbondale was reopened late Friday evening, after a series of mudslides temporarily closed a 13-mile stretch between Carbondale and Redstone earlier in the day.

The Fourth of July got off to a rainy start on Saturday with the possibility of stronger storms entering the forecast later in the day.

More rain is forecast over the rest of the weekend. Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported.

Creating a new coal plant in Kent could lead to 100,000 more people in the developing world losing their water supply during dry seasons, it has been claimed.

Millions of mosquito eggs laid across southern Texas after Hurricane Ike hit the coast last summer are waiting for the little bit of rain and hot summer days they need to hatch.

Officials in Texas are investigating the torching of 30 palm trees in the last two months.

This weekend's wet weather has increased the bacteria count as several local beaches are closed.

Britain's hottest spell in years has come to an end as a cool front moved in, lowering the mercury across the country.

Road conditions in Co Mayo have improved this morning after several hours of torrential rain yesterday caused flooding in many areas.

Forecasters have signalled the end of Britain's hottest spell for years after half the country sweltered while the other half of the north-south divide was soaked.

The UK experienced a North-South divide in its weather today, with Londoners sweltering through another scorching day while Britons elsewhere suffered thunderstorms.

Torrential rains are soaking New England and causing traffic backups and power failures as the holiday weekend approaches.

The German shepherds died Tuesday in a car in the parking lot of police headquarters in Nottingham .

The Eastern U.S. was expected to continue seeing severe storm development on Thursday from a slow-moving low pressure system hovering over the Great Lakes region.