This talk will briefly describe some of the more interesting weather of Europe in 2006, with facts, figures and varied anecdotes. Very low temperatures in W Russia spread W across Europe during January, followed by damaging snowfalls in February in central Europe. Further snowfalls in March melted and with heavy rainfall led to flooding in SE Europe - these continued into April. May turned hot in Spain, and pollen clouds wafted across N Europe. June brought more storms before July gave many countries their hottest month on record. For much of western Europe the remainder of summer and autumn continued very warm - autumn was remarkably warm, with a late start to the skiing season as a result.