2006 was a very strange year, and it's looking like 2007 will be even stranger.

2006 was the 6th warmest year on record, worldwide, and the warmest ever recorded for the UK. In the US, it was a record setting year for wildfire, with over 9,500,000 acres burned. Heat waves in the summer set records in many parts of the country, and killing over 200. The arctic sea ice was recorded at it's lowest levels, following a trend of losing a double-Texas area each year.
On a personal gripy note, it's New Year's Day, and it's raining, I wish so much that it was snow.

What is 2007 going to be like?
Hotter than ever. A combination of the warming trends with what is looking to be an El Nino year is alarming the folks at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Nations agency that deals with climate prediction.

"The WMO said its latest readings showed that a "moderate" El Niño, with sea temperatures 1.5C above average, was taking place which, in the worst case scenario, could develop into an extreme weather pattern lasting up to 18 months, as in 1997-98. The UN agency noted that the weather pattern was already having "early and intense" effects, including drought in Australia and dramatically warm seas in the Indian Ocean, which could affect the monsoons. It warned the El Niño could also bring extreme rainfall to parts of east Africa which were last year hit by a cycle of drought and floods."