20th December - Today's News: Met Office Predict Near Record Warmth in 2019

2019: close to record-breaking year, forecasts Met Office thanks to an expected El Nino combining with underlying global warming.

Highly unusual tornado causes 'catastrophic' destruction in Washington state

Huge hailstones batter parts of Sydney as a severe storm sweeps through

Deadly Cyclone Phethai makes landfall in India with at least two dead

Why is sea level rising faster in some places along the US East Coast than others?  Bascially, it's not, but some coasts are sinking under post-glacial rebound as well 

New light shed on what drove last, long-term global climate shift around 1 million years ago

20 volcanoes across Indonesia currently showing above normal activity
Incredible pictures capture moment Mount Etna erupts sending lava and huge columns of gas into night sky

And the latest report from BoM on the State of the Climate: Thank goodness for ocean sinks currently holding more warming extremes at bay