Bizarre season of heat, hail and floods

FLOODS sweep Romania, hailstones the size of walnuts batter Switzerland, drought-stricken France dreads a plague of locusts, while Spain and Portugal are burning up.
A vision of the start of the Apocalypse? No, just Europe’s bizarre weather pattern over the past couple of days. Closer to home, the south of England has had its hosepipe ban tightened and its wading birds left with nowhere to wade.