3rd December - Today's News: Ice Storm Hits Central Europe

Ice, frozen rain paralyse Czech public transport with more pictures as ice storm downs power lines and freezes trees in Austria, Germany and Czech Republic

Fire and rain: havoc as storm hits Sydney

Storm drenches California but it's only a drop in State's drought

Philippines starts evacuating residents ahead of Typhoon Hagupit

Antarctic glacial melt rate triples in Amundsen Sea embayment

Amazon indigenous land loss threatens climate, study says

Barrage of small impacts likely erased much of Earth's primordial atmosphere

'Year of wierd weather' on course to be named Britain's warmest for almost 250 years (ie since the CET record began) - though December looks like bucking the trend and not being quite so mild.  Indeed, it was the second coldest morning of the year in Evesham today.  But still only down to -1.7c    And according to our old friend Nathan, eight inches expected by weekend as the big freeze hits Britain.  But only if you happen to live on the summit of Ben Nevis ... (though lower accumulation are possible down to about 1,000ft in snow showers in the North and West Highlands on Sunday - as unusual for the time of year as a Nathan Rao headline about snow appearing in the Daily Express!)