6th November - Today's News: Britain on Alert as Normal November Weather Expected ....

Melbourne CBD hit by flash flood from freak storm whilst there are some impressive photos as massive thunderheads roll across Sydney bringing rain and strong winds as forecasters warn the east coast to expect flooding and hail this weekend

Meanwhile, is Australia in the midst of a tornado outbreak? And just how frequent are tornadoes in Australia?

8 killed in Yemen cyclone storm: Official

US western ski resorts buried in snow.  A sign of a blockbuster season? 

In Naples, Florida, November heat wave breaks 50-year high temperature record

Warm weather brough Scotland 'rare third midge hatch' - but there were less midges over all thanks to a cool spring. 

Climate change is moving mountains!  Is there nothing it cannot do?!

Study of cloud cover in tropical Pacific reveals future climate changes as atmospheric circulations systems change.

Global warming caused fourteen extreme weather events last year and affected every continent but Alaska, researchers reveal, although I am with Kevin Trenberth who, quite rightly, is quoted at the end of the article as saying that whilst we have affected the climate, it's "seriously misguided" to attribute any specific event to AGW.

Meanwhile, NASA scientist warned deniers would distort his Antarctic ice study - that's exactly what they did

Exxon Mobil investigated for possible climate change lies by New York attorny

Could Mount St Helens be about to erupt?   Probably not ...

'Solar storm' grounds Swedish air traffic in Wednesday

NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere  (some media reports infer that it has only now been discovered how Mars lost it's atmosphere, but in fact it has long been assumed that it was stripped by the solar wind after Mars' core cooled and the planet lost its magnetic field)

British scientists discover molten iron clouds on distant sunless star

And more nonsense from the gutter press, as we're told to beware Storm Abigail: Britain to be smashed by worst storm for a year this weekend - but is the first officially named storm heading towards our shores?  No.   And this highlights just how silly it is to have named storms here when most of our wet and windy weather does not originate from any one specific storm system.  Just a strong southwesterly airflow.   And whilst it will indeed be wet and windy in places, with gales in some exposed parts, it's just normal November weather and certainly not the worst for a year.  Though maybe the worst since September ...   And the least said about the "worst winter in five years" on the way, the better.   Though I suppose it is an improvement on the worst winter for 50 or 100 years ...