[Andy Mayhew]

Britain & Ireland:

UK trees' fruit rippening '18 days earlier'

Record warm Irish temperatures fools Mother Nature that it is springtime

Anglia Water seeks winter drought order

Millions of households face water rationing and hosepipe bans next year

Very mild start to November

Weather's gone quackers as ducks born born six months earlier and roses bloom in November

Kennet and Avon Canal water levels lowest for 90 years

Drought forces rail line closure after causing track movement

Fog disruption of flights from Heathrow


Europe:

Global warming could being 50-degree days to Germany

Low French water tables need heavy winter rains

Cyprus: excessive rain causes further problems

UHI research warns of 'black Christmases' in Santa town


North America:

Round 2 of winter storm hits

Texas fire season roars on, with no end in sight

Storm chasers of Utah

Deforestation causes cooling in northern US, Canada, study finds

Tornadoes in Southeast kill 6, flatten homes

Record Fairbanks cold continues as air quality warnings issued

Weather harder to predict, Environment Canada warns

Wind driven wildfire destroys 25 homes in Reno

Cliff crumbles, streets floods as storm hits L.A.

New low temperature recorded in North Pole


Australasia:

Helicopter rescues people caught in flooding


Polar Regions:

Record long Arctic navigation season

Are lemmings turning the Arctic green?


Rest of the World:

First winter snow falls in China

Bangkok floods could go into next year

In Malaysia, 28,000 personnel on standby for floods

Silent flood misery for 1.8m in Cambodia, Vietnam

Afghan drought hit families could be cut off by extreme weather within weeks


Other General & Climate News:

October 2011 the 10th warmest on record

Weather satellites and the gathering storm

Erratic, extreme, day-to-day weather puts climate change in new light

Date and rate of Earth's most extreme extinction pinpointed

Massive volcanoes, meteorite impact delivered one-two death punch to dinosaurs

Acid pollution in rain decreases with emissions, long-term study shows

Gamburstev 'ghost mountains' mystery solved

IPCC chief braced for storms of denial over extreme weather report

More accurate cyclone prediction model developed

Cassini chronicles life of Saturn's giant storm

Extreme weather will strike as climate change takes hold, IPCC warns

Autumn's birds delay migration