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for approximately a week, although the highest temperatures were mostly confined to London and the south-east. The figure below shows the duration of the heatwave based on the Met Office heatwave thresholds in the adjacent panel which requires daily maximum temperatures to exceed the given thresholds for at least

climate change research.  These metrics include at least one measure – Tropical Nights – which is currently not a common feature of the UK climate, but it could become more widespread in future. Tropical nights are defined as 24-hour periods when the minimum temperature doesn’t fall below 20.0 °C

and sea-levels in 2016. The report also highlights the fact that severe drought affected over 12 percent of the earth’s land surface in 2016, the longest such stretch of drought conditions on record. Professor Peter Stott is the acting head of the Met Office Hadley Centre. He said: “When viewed

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

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

What is a hurricane? A hurricane is an area of low pressure over tropical or sub-tropical waters, with organised convection (i.e. thunderstorm activity) and sustained winds near the surface of at least 74 m.p.h. (and stronger gusts) circulating either anti-clockwise (in the northern hemisphere

, 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

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

, 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

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