A meteorite-like object has created a crater after landing near a farm in northern Latvia, the nation's official news agency reported.

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The study of Earth's mysterious noctilucent clouds got a boost on Saturday, when a rocket was launched to create an artificial cloud at the edge of space.

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Scientists follow the movement of an unusually discrete dust-cloud, formed in a N China desert storm, as it circles the globe.

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The rainy season has just started in Tokyo, but residents in a small coastal town have reported a different phenomenon: tadpoles dropping out of the sky.

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It will be a wet week ahead for Sydneysiders as tropical cyclone Hamish moves south along the Queensland coast towards the NSW border, and forces the evacuation of thousands of holidaymakers.

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This proves that you just can't reduce everything to numbers.

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Previous theories have claimed that there are just two large circular systems of air in the atmosphere...[and] that air rises at the equator and then travels towards either the north or south polar regions, where it falls.

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The three named storms so far this month appear to bolster forecasts for a very active season this year.

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WSI Corp increased its forecast for the number of named storms and hurricanes for the 2008 hurricane season due to warming in the Atlantic basin, the private forecaster said on Tuesday.

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Rainfall in Sydney this month has surpassed half the June average in just five days, the Bureau of Meteorology says. Sydney Catchment Authority spokeswoman Alison White said today that recent rains had resulted in dam levels rising for the first time in over a month.

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Arctic sea-ice will disappear routinely during summer months

This is a reaffirmation of a prediction I made earlier this year, enhanced by new data showing the ease with which the thinner sea-ice of the Northern Hemisphere melts during the warmer half of the year.

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Even for Americans, constitutionally convinced that there will always be a second act, and a third, and a do-over after that, and, if necessary, a little public repentance and forgiveness and a Brand New Start -- even for us, the world looks a little Terminal right now.

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A gentleman named J.D. Eggleston recently wrote to us with a rather interesting report, a nice piece of D.I.Y. Freakonomics concerning the accuracy of local T.V. weather forecasts. I thought it was interesting enough to post in its entirety here on the blog, and I hope you agree.

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Edward N.

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Groundhog Grunts Greetings

He is still in his hole but I can hear him tossing and turning and mumbling in his awakening through the fog of sleep.

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METEOROLOGISTS last night said Scots will need to learn to live with the extreme weather and the chaos it has brought to the country over the past few days, as the unpredictable effects of climate change begin to bite.

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And the data says….Global warming has a 'maintenance' problem

By: John E. Fiorentino Have we been snookered by skewed surface temperature data in the current global warming scenario? It would appear we have been, if you believe Anthony Watts a 25-year broadcast meteorology veteran.

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Remarkable new images of Earth's highest and most mysterious clouds have been captured by a Nasa spacecraft.

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Traditional meteorologists vs. the atmospheric physics modellers: Sudden cold and snow of December reflects increasing superiority of simulation-based long term weather forecasting.

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Emergency crews are responding to hundreds of calls for help after storms across Sydney, the Illawarra and central coast regions this afternoon.

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A severe thunderstorm with large hailstones had made its way across parts of Sydney this afternoon.

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The number of people threatened by coastal flooding could more than triple by 2070 due to climate change while the financial impact could surge by tens of trillions of dollars, according to a prominent international organization. Angel Gurria, secretary general of the Paris-base …

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Rain-making technology funded by the Australian Government has been given the thumbs down by international scientists, says an adviser to the World Meteorological Organisation.

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The weather service in Britain is warning of extreme danger to life and property in the next 12 hours. A tsunami is due to hit the Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex coastline.

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