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features and can represent certain atmospheric processes more accurately. The third brings together the scientific and modelling advances in the other workstreams to develop weather forecasting tools to improve the advice and forecasts needed to mitigate against high-impact weather.   Current partners

severe sea ice melt. Hence while the eventual September ice extent will be strongly influenced by weather conditions for the remainder of the summer, the chance of a record low is higher than it has been in the previous few years Antarctic sea ice extent is currently third lowest on record

in the same year. 2020 was third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest on record for the UK. Lead author and Senior Climate Scientist at the Met Office, Mike Kendon, said: “2020 was another notable year for the UK climate, with records broken for daily rainfall and monthly sunshine hours. Average

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of 1 degree between the poles and 30 degrees North/South, from which it increases smoothly to one third of a degree at the equator, giving 360 x 216 grid points in total, and 40 unevenly spaced levels in the vertical (a resolution of 10m near the surface). References: Johns, T.C, C. F. Durman, H. T

during the last few days of July.” Conversely, some parts of western Britain have been much drier than average so far this summer. In particular Pembrokeshire has only received about one third (31%) of July’s usual average rainfall, and during the first two months of summer it has only received

, mean temperatures in both June and July were below average across the UK, largely due to northerly winds bringing cold Arctic air. June started off cooler than average, with temperatures around 2°C below the long-term average in most areas, and although there was a warm spell in the third week

at the Met Office Hadley Centre. Contributing author to second and third IPCC Working Group I assessments of the science of climate change, and a lead author in the Fourth Assessment Report (2001).

month, leaving the UK to have recorded 72% of its average May rainfall. But how was May 2025 in the Midlands? May 2025  Sunshine was in abundance, with 250.2 hours recorded - 31% more than the long-term meteorological average and the third sunniest since 1910.  Mean temperatures were also up, 1.4°C

was one of the major models used in the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessments, and also contributes to the Fifth Assessment. Its good simulation of current climate without using flux adjustments was a major advance at the time it was developed and it still ranks highly compared to other models