Catania Airport suspends flights as Mount Etna sends ash cloud over Sicily

 Catania Airport in Sicily suspended all incoming flights Saturday after Mount Etna’s renewed eruption sent an ash plume approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) high, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.

Bangkok underwater: 50 districts now declared flood disaster zones as 300mm rain fills canals, submerges roads

  Bangkok authorities declared a flood disaster across the Thai capital on Saturday after almost 48 hours of heavy rain left canals full, roads submerged and residents wading through deep water.

Another typhoon approaches Japan’s Okinawa, moving towards Tokyo

  Another typhoon is approaching the southwestern Japanese island prefecture of Okinawa and is moving northeast towards the main Japanese island of Honshu, where Tokyo is located, according to the national meteorological office.

Hurricane Nolo brings catastrophic, life-threatening flooding to Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend

 

Residents on Hawaii's Big Island were bracing Friday for potentially life-threatening and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Nolo, while Mexico was still under the threat of Hurricane Polo as it headed toward the Baja Peninsula after bringing storm conditions to the southwestern coast as AP reports.

Europe will once again be hit by an abnormal heatwave with temperatures reaching up to +40°C in late September

 

The cause will be an influx of hot air from North Africa:

Current El Niño could cause 451,000 heat-related deaths - Study

 This year's El Niño could cause an estimated 451,000 additional deaths from extreme heat worldwide in the first half of the climate pattern, according to a University of Chicago report released Wednesday.