Arctic Ice Loss Causes Cold Winters; Record Breaks Aussie Heat Wave; MI Sewer Storm Overflows 10B Gal

Cold winters in Europe, Asia linked to sea ice decline. In the latest study to look at the possible connection between the precipitous decline of Arctic sea ice and extreme weather over the Northern Hemisphere, researchers found that cold winters over Europe and Asia were twice as likely thanks to sea ice decline in a particular part of the Arctic.

First ‘big heat event’ melts Australian temperature records. Australia’s first major heatwave of the warming season has broken temperature records across the nation, more than a month before the official start to summer. On Saturday, the country set its warmest October day in records going back to 1910.

Michigan sewer overflows during storm hit 10 billion gallons.Almost 10 billion gallons of sewer overflows poured into southeast Michigan’s waters in the historic August flooding, according to a Free Press review of data from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, raising concerns about deteriorating water quality in the Great Lakes system.