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• Weekend weather: Changeable conditions heading into a new month

  note across Scotland and Northern Ireland, where clear skies overnight allow temperatures to fall well below freezing in some spots. Where snow remains on the hills, the cold will feel particularly sharp. Despite the chilly start, these areas will see a generally bright morning with good spells

• 10-day trend: Turning drier and a little chillier into Christmas week

  to Boxing Day Currently, temperatures across much of Europe are not as low as they might typically be at this point in winter, so while an easterly breeze will introduce chillier conditions, it is not expected to deliver a sharp drop in temperature. Most places will see daytime highs a few degrees

• Does a hot summer mean a cold winter? 

  whether winter might swing sharply in the opposite direction.  The answer is that the summer itself does not make a colder winter more likely.  Can a hot summer tell us anything about winter?  Not directly.  What a hot summer can tell us is something about the broader climate. Recent decades have

• Week ahead forecast: Milder conditions but heavy rain possible later in the week

  on Wednesday. This will allow temperatures to drop sharply overnight, bringing a notably chilly start. Many rural areas are likely to experience a frost, with a risk of icy patches. A yellow weather warning for ice has been issued. Despite the cold beginning, Wednesday looks likely to be the best

• 10‑day trend: spring warmth holds on before changeable conditions return

  to lift to around 14 or 15°C. Clear skies at night will allow temperatures to fall sharply away from cloudier eastern areas, bringing chilly starts and a widespread frost in places. These large day‑to‑night temperature swings are typical under spring high‑pressure systems. Subtle shifts bring

• Contextualising February’s warm spell: A notably mild end to winter

  –27.2°C, was set in Braemar, a location well known for its extreme winter lows. Even in recent years, sharp cold snaps have occurred: Aviemore recorded –9.6°C last year. Altnaharra in Sutherland fell to –13.8°C during the same period. These bitterly cold temperatures usually develop under very

• Briefing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice - June 2024

  , and slightly below average in the Indian Ocean sector. Extent was slightly above average in the western Weddell Sea, the western Ross Sea and the Bellingshausen Sea (Figure 8). This pattern contrasts sharply with that observed during the exceptionally low sea ice period of June-September 2023, when

• Week ahead forecast: shifting patterns bring a colder end to the week

  and at times windy weather. However, a significant change develops later in the week, when colder air begins to move south across the UK. By Friday, many areas will notice sharply lower temperatures, increasing the risk of snow, particularly over higher ground in Scotland, northern England

• Met Office 10-day trend: Mild November continues as unsettled weather approaches

  developing. However, this is not expected to bring a sharp drop in temperatures, as the North Sea and near continent are not particularly cold at present. Instead, temperatures will likely return closer to average. Uncertainty and the role of high pressure Probability plots for next week suggest that high

• Deep Dive: European heat builds while the UK sits on the boundary

  a sharp contrast across the UK, with a so-called baroclinic zone – a boundary between warm and cool air masses – positioned across or close to the country. Along this boundary, weather fronts will develop and move slowly, bringing outbreaks of rain, particularly to northern and western areas