Summer Washout!

After several months of water restrictions and we have just had the wettest June on record and all the water companies have lifted hosepipe bans.  For information, including how the Jet Stream is causing our soggy summer, try these links:  The Guardian or The BBC.  For facts and figures about June's record breaking weather. look here.  But it's not just the UK that's suffered from flooding recently - this article  is about floods in Southern R|ussia and explains how human actions and mismanagement of rivers may have made the situation much worse.

Chilean Volcanoes Erupt

A chain of volcanoes in Chile began erupting over the weekend. You can read about what has happened so far here and here. Residents have been evacuated, and people in neighbouring parts of Argentina have been advised to stay indoors. This website has some amazing pictures of the eruptions, as does this one.