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and polluting smoke – as well as property, economies and the environment. The second annual State of Wildfires report has been co-led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the UK Met Office, the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF

falling in the month. Areas to the south and east were particularly dry, with Bedfordshire, Greater London and Essex all recording figures to put the month in their respective top five driest Februarys on record. At a county level, Essex had the least amount of rainfall with 3.5mm falling

, especially the south. Gusts of up to 60mph are possible in the very far southwest early on Wednesday whilst further along the south coast the highest gusts will be during Wednesday daytime. “Despite the centre of the low pressure crossing the UK, the highest wind speeds will be further south over

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, Achnagart (Ross & Cromarty) wettest with 115.6 mm and Loch Glascarnoch (Ross & Cromarty) having gusts touching 72 mph, with plenty of cloud elsewhere and a few showers or outbreaks of mainly light rain. It was particularly mild on the 11th, overnight at Kinloss (Moray) and Prestwick Gannet (Ayrshire

of at least 1.5°C on average over a longer period. However, it does show that the headroom to avoid an exceedance of 1.5°C, over a sustained period, is now wafer thin.”   Professor Rowan Sutton, Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre added: “By itself 1.5°C does not represent a cliff edge in terms

As high pressure, currently centred over northern Britain, gradually migrates further north-eastwards, to become centred over Scandinavia, very cold air will spread from western Russia towards the UK.  By Monday it will turn very cold more widely and this will probably be the start of the coldest

Extreme heat A new study by Met Office Hadley Centre scientists has found that the chances of extreme high temperatures in parts of the UK could increase significantly by the end of the century. The research paper has been published in the journal Nature Communications. The highest temperature ever

production shocks, providing a wider global context for UK agricultural policy and resilience planning as part of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme.   Food insecurity and climate change: an interactive website which enables exploration of the way in which different scenarios of global

Office is helping to deliver WISER, which will help at least 24 million people across Africa (focusing initially on East Africa) be more resilient to natural disasters and climate change by 2030. It will do this by improving early warning systems as well as helping them make better decisions by knowing