Britain Blanketed with Snow in Middle of May

Heavy snow yesterday left parts of Britain under a thick white blanket more reminiscent of Christmas than spring.  Elsewhere, homes were battered by torrential rain and gale-force winds. Shropshire, Dartmoor in Devon, the Pennines… Read More →

Britain hit by May storm, as 65 mph winds sweep across the country and a month’s worth of rain falls in just 24 hours

UNITED KINGDOM – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – so it’s rather odd that we find ourselves in mid-May. Snow fell across parts of Britain last night while another area had a… Read More →

Giant chunk of ice slams to Earth near kids playing in Tenn.

A Tri-Cities man has video of what appears to be a large chunk of ice that he says fell from the sky on Wednesday and landed in a yard in Gray, TN. Andy Miller… Read More →

Wall of ice destroys Manitoba homes and cottages

CANADA - A local state of emergency has been declared in a western Manitoba municipality after homes in Ochre Beach were destroyed and seriously damaged by a wave of lake ice. Area officials told CBC News the… Read More →

Lightning Strike Injures 39 In Germany

A lightning strike has injured 39 people, eight of them severely, at a Father’s Day party in Germany. The majority of those hurt were affected by shock and burns. The strike happened at a fairground… Read More →

Arkansas sees first May snow since records began in 1819.

For the first time since written weather history began in Arkansas (1819), snow has fallen in the month of May. This snow has set records for the latest snowfall and latest measurable snowfall… Read More →

MAY FREAK: HISTORIC SNOW HITS HEARTLAND

The same storm that brought heavy snow to Denver and Cheyenne Wednesday has the potential to bring a swath of heavy, wet snow from eastern Nebraska to northwestern Wisconsin and the western Upper… Read More →

Spring disappears from northern hemisphere: the winter that won’t end

MINNESOTA – April has been a freakishly cold month across much of the northern USA, bringing misery to millions of sun-starved and winter-weary residents from the Rockies to the Midwest. “The weather map … looks… Read More →

Storms sweep across Texas and the South, dumping up to 7 inches of rain

A day after heavy downpours flooded Texas and parts of the South – dumping as much as 7 inches of rain in some areas – waters were receding in Houston on Sunday morning,… Read More →

Saudi city covered with snow following unrelenting weather

Saudi Arabia’s northwestern city of Hael was covered with snow Sunday after almost three days of unrelenting weather conditions, according to Al Arabiya correspondents. A number of provinces in the kingdom have been hit… Read More →