BBC News - Met Office says 2010 'among hottest on record'

Professor John Christy, a climate sceptic from the University of Alabama in Hunstville, said global temperature had plunged in the past two weeks, so 2010 was likely to remain in second place.

He challenged the Met Office conviction that greenhouse gases were to blame for the warmth.

"The cause of the warmth is speculation. There are numerous feedbacks at work (many of which are poorly modelled if at all), and it seems to me unimaginative to conclude that greenhouse gases are the dominant cause," he said.

"There is no proof of such a cause in classical scientific sense - so we end up with a lot of opinions on the matter. Evidence is strong that centuries in the past 10,000 years were warmer than today without influences from human-related greenhouse gases."

San Diego has one of coldest November nights in years - SignOnSanDiego.com

The temperature fell to 43 degrees at Lindbergh Field at 4 a.m. today, tying the record for November 26th, which was set in 1884.

Thanksgiving cold breaks records across Calif. - Forbes.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- Californians are hoping for a warmer weekend after a Thanksgiving cold snap broke or tied cold-temperature records - some more than a century old - up and down the state.

The National Weather Service reports that San Francisco's low of 42 degrees on Thursday tied a record set back in 1892. Across the bay in Oakland, 36-degree daytime temperatures shattered the old record of 42.

Record low temps lead to power outages - Columbia Basin Herald: Latest News

MOSES LAKE - Early Wednesday temperatures broke records around the Columbia Basin region as temperatures measured well below the freezing mark.

Snow chaos as -7.8°C freeze grips Britain | The Sun |News

The Arctic blast is already the worst November weather in 17 years and experts now say it could last up to TWO WEEKS.