[Andy Mayhew]

Britain & Ireland:

Driver killed on M73 as wintry weather takes hold

Caution urged in icy conditions across Scotland today.

Met Office warns of UK climate risks

Too windy for wind turbines! 165mph gales raise MORE questions about wind farms as gusts leave trail of destruction across country

Met Office researchers fly into violent Atlantic storm affecting Scotland

Police declare 'major incident' in storm-battered Lochaber

Engineers work to restore power to homes

Cumbria suffers flooding after heavy rain

Three rescued from floodwaters and bridge collapses in Yorkshire Dales

End of house collapses in Fleetwood due to strong winds

High winds cause North-east disruption

Roads closed and ferries cancelled due to high winds

Northern Ireland weather alert as gales down trees and power lines

Gales pound North Wales.

Scotland's Hurricane Bawbag raises Twitter storm

UK faces future of droughts if we do not cut water use, Minister warns

Global warming could boost Britain's farm crops by 10%

Scotland clears up storm damage but many still without power

Family flee as wind whips through house

Oil vessels broke anchors in winds

A82 briefly reopens and snow returns

Plain English award for Met Office 'gobbledygook'

Get ready for the windiest week of the year as storms are on their way to batter most of the UK

Britain's birds suffer bust and boom due to 2011's rollar-coaster weather

There have been 1,500 accidents and incidents on UK wind farms


Europe:

Snow finally arrives in the Alps

Wintry weather causes road chaos

French alpine glaciers in retreat

Accidents aplenty as snow hits Sweden

Snow fall in the Alps - and not a minute too soon

Motorists trapped in flooded Gothenburg


North America:

Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes

Winter storm blasts New Mexico with snow, cold

USA slammed by 12 disasters that each cost at least $1B

2011 weather shattered dozens of records

Autumn and November both warmer than average in United States

Strong earthquake rattles Mexico, killing two


Australasia:

Perth hit by wild storms

Brisbane chills out through first week of summer

Sydney's coldest start to summer since 1960

Expect to be drenched: rain causes Sydney chaos


Polar Regions:

2010 spike in Greenland ice loss lifted bedrock, GPS reveals


Rest of the World:

S Korea: highest-ever average temperature recorded for November.

Dense smog in Beijing, China stops hundreds of flights

New Taipei City sets record high winter temperature

Hot weather heralds severe harmattan

Chile's Jorge Montt Glacier shrinks half a mile in a year

Why the Haiti earthquake may not have been a natural disaster


Other General & Climate News:

Cores reveal when Dead Sea 'died'

Study links tropical cyclones to earthquakes

Computer simulations shed light on the physics of rainbows

Paleoclimate record points toward potential rapid climate changes

More shubbery in a warming world

Is climate change altering human's 'vacation plans'?

Early Earth may have been prone to deep freezes

NASA Mars rover finds mineral vein deposited by water

Uk to build atmospheric sentinel