We may not always like to admit it, but we did pretty well last summer as far as the weather was concerned. So are we set for a scorcher this year?

Well, it’s the start of winter and you know what that means - there's some cold weather on the way.

What's the weather going to be like for the next week? Well, not that bad as it turns out…

Ireland is set to enjoy some mixed but generally pleasant weather over the coming weeks, according to many forecasts.

TOMORROW, my younger sister and I will travel to Notre Dame University for my son’s graduation. But today, we’re on the train, heading towards Hotel Lincoln, Old Town Chicago, and my sister’s tapping in unnerving fashion on her iPad, giving me a beady look from time to time. Not quite the stink-eye but almost.

The number of cholera cases is rising in parts of Haiti hit by heavy rains earlier this week.

THE US Coast Guard said it was to start a “controlled burn” yesterday to battle a giant oil slick from last week’s deadly offshore drilling rig explosion, as the spill threatened wide-scale coastal damage to four US Gulf Coast states.

Massive snowfall and strong winds again blasted Washington and much of the US east coast as the US capital struggled with the latest storm in its most difficult winter in memory.

The price of oil has risen to its highest level since December.

The 2006 US hurricane season, which runs from May 15 to November 30, will be more active than normal but not as busy as last year, a weather company announced.

The 2006 US hurricane season – which runs from May 15 to November 30 – will be more active than normal but not as busy as last year, a weather company announced tonight.

Ten-foot waves crashed ashore in Jamaica and hundreds of islanders fled flooded homes for shelters today as Hurricane Dennis lashed Caribbean coastlines with winds whipped up to 110 mph.

President George Bush today led hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from the path of hurricane Isabel as it bore down on America’s east coast.

A howling desert sandstorm cast a yellow pall over the city and distant explosions could be heard more and more frequently today as Baghdad braced for the onslaught of allied forces closing in on the capital.