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• Death in Venice: long-admired gondola feature threatened by rising waters

  21 Oct 2014: Gondoliers increasingly forced to remove iron ornament from stern to get their boats under bridges during high waters

• Stormy weather around Britain after hurricane Gonzalo – in pictures

  21 Oct 2014: Windswept, rainy conditions across coasts and cities as the remnants of hurricane Gonzalo blow in
  

• The wettest place on Earth - in pictures

  21 Oct 2014: Perched atop a ridge in the Khasi Hills of India’s north-east, the village of Mawsynram is subject to the highest average rainfall on the planet

• UK flights hit by severe weather triggered by Hurricane Gonzalo

  21 Oct 2014: Heathrow airport predicts disruption as remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo arrive in the UK

• Remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo bring winds of up to 75mph to UK

  20 Oct 2014: Met Office has issued a yellow, ‘be aware’ warning, with the weather moving eastwards across the UK on Tuesday

• British trekkers in Nepal urged to contact families after blizzards

  20 Oct 2014: Foreign Office unaware of any British casualties after unseasonal weather kills at least 38 and injures more than 175

• Weatherwatch: The greatest droughts in a thousand years

  19 Oct 2014: Kate Ravilious on a study showing that California’s current crippling three-year drought may be caused by the same atmospheric conditions as triggered the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s

• Remnants of hurricane Gonzalo set to bring stormy weather to the UK

  19 Oct 2014: Travel may be disrupted by the gale force winds and heavy rain forecast for many areas on Monday and Tuesday

• Amateur footage shows ferocity of blizzard in Himalayas - video

  Video (1min 48sec), 19 Oct 2014:

  Amateur footage shot by British hiker Paul Sherridan shows the deadly blizzard that engulfed Nepal's popular Annapurna trail in the Himalayas

• Hurricane Gonzalo pounds Bermuda with 110mph winds

  18 Oct 2014: Tempest scores direct hit on British territory, knocking out the majority of the island’s electricity but causing no fatalities

• British survivor of Nepal avalanche: 'people's eyes were freezing' - video

  Video (2min 10sec), 18 Oct 2014:

  Paul Sherridan recounts how 'the sun and ground were the same' as his hiking group in Nepal got caught in a deadly blizzard

• Nepal: all surviving trekkers either rescued or safe after storms

  18 Oct 2014: At least 40 people, including several Britons remain unaccounted for after Annapurna region of Himalayas hit by avalanches

• Nepal trekking disaster: fears over Britons unaccounted for in snowstorms

  18 Oct 2014: Families of a number of British holidaymakers hiking in the Himalayas are concerned that they have not heard from loved ones

• Nepal blames ‘cheap tourists’ for falling victim to snowstorm in Himalayas

  17 Oct 2014: Nepalese authorities seek to rebut criticism of their response to natural disaster which killed 32 people

• Hurricane Gonzalo bears down on Bermuda as a Category 4 storm

  17 Oct 2014: It is expected to weaken to Category 3 before landfall but will pass close enough to the tiny island to be considered a direct hit

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