Weather and climate news

High pressure will continue to generate dry, fine and warm conditions before a change of weather type will bring a fresher feel to all parts of the UK by the end of the week, though with precious little rain for southern Britain.

A new UK and England June daily temperature record of 38°C has been verified by the Met Office’s site weather assessment team, higher than the 37.7°C figure previously reported.

New joint research from the Met Office and the University of Reading has revealed that a prolonged marine heatwave in the North Sea played a significant role in intensifying the impacts of Storm Babet (18 to 21 October 2023).

“What we used to think of as extreme, we increasingly consider as normal.” That is the summarising comment from Mike Kendon, the Met Office lead author of the latest edition of the State of the UK Climate report.

High pressure remains dominant bringing another week of mostly dry, sunny and very warm conditions for many, though a slight downturn in temperatures is likely by the weekend.

Climate change added between 3-4°C to maximum temperatures and is estimated to be responsible for about 42% of the deaths across both heatwaves

Guiding AI weather models to better preserve physical consistency during training could be the key to addressing limitations of future AI forecasts, according to new research from the Met Office and the Alan Turing Institute.