UK weather office: 2008 likely to be hot
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This year is forecast to be among the top 10 hottest years on record, Britain's weather office said Thursday, despite a strong cooling effect predicted from the tropical weather phenomenon known as La Nina.
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BBC Scotland wants your help to record unusual weather events amid concerns over climate change.
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A heat wave was expected to continue gripping the West on Friday, while the cold front that has brought wet weather to the Northeast was forecast to move offshore, bringing clear skies and dry conditions to the region.
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The government's chief scientist says UK must prepare for heatwaves and torrential rain.
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The Old Farmer's Almanac says it used time-honored, complex calculations to predict that 2008 will be the warmest year in a century, along with a bit of folklore &#151; years that end in "8" have weird weather.
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The fixtures for the 2007/08 season are set to be announced at 1000 BST.
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European winters will disappear by 2080 and extreme weather will become more common unless global warming across the continent is slowed, warns a major new report.
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After a brief warming, the U.S.  Northeast and Midwest will get another frosty spell and a  possible major storm next week that will bolster demand for  heating fuels, forecasters said Thursday.
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SCORCHING summers, hotter than that of 2003, could become more common in Europe by the middle of this century. The risk has more than doubled because of human activity producing increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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The UK was being warned to brace itself for icy weather with gales and rain also predicted to sweep the country.
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The BBC News website gives its predictions for five technologies that could start to become big in 2008
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Most of the United States will experience warmer than normal weather this summer and the Pacific Northwest will be drier than normal, said the National Weather Service said on Thursday.
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This year is set to be the sixth warmest worldwide since records began, stoked by global warming linked to human activities, the British Meteorological Office and the University of East Anglia said on Thursday.
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If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is right, our planet is heading for some big upheavals. By 2100, they predict, global sea levels will have risen by 9cm to 88cm, and average temperatures will be about 1.5 to 5.5C higher than now.
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The European Union has found new partners in its campaign against global warming: weather forecasters.
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This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.
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January is on course to be the second warmest the UK has seen since 1914, the Met Office says.