20th November - Today's News: More Snow for New York; Another Heat Wave in Australia

Northern US braced for more snowstorms after seven die and why is record cold and snow hitting US so early?   Also, from the MetO, more on US snowfall and will it impact UK?  (short answer, no - and the only place it may drop to -7c is the summit of Cairngorm, whatever Nathan Rao might say!)

Commuter chaos and blackouts as storm hits southeast Queensland whilst further south yet another heatwave begins with NSW rural fire service warning of a severe fire danger throughout the state

Researchers prove for first time that ash clouds can cross Atlantic ocean

And careful where you swim (not that you would till next summer now), because acid rain has turned Canadian lakes into a kind of jelly