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• Wintry weather into the weekend

  A cold Arctic maritime airmass pushing south across most of the country has brought unsettled conditions and morning frosts for many that contrast sharply with the recent warm weather seen across the UK.   ⚠️ Yellow weather warning issued ⚠️ Ice across parts of northern and eastern Scotland

• Slow-worm poster-MM amends

  Slow-worms at the Met Office Slow-worm (Anguis fragilis) A long-term resident at the Met Office, the slow-worm is a native species to Eurasia and they are inhabitants of grasslands, scrub, woodlands and gardens. Slow-worms are one of six species of reptile found in the UK, and the only one

• Turning colder and unsettled

  (@metoffice) March 27, 2022 Met Office Chief Meteorologist Neil Armstrong said, “We’re going to be seeing a marked shift in the weather for the UK in the coming week as the warm weather is displaced south.   “Temperatures will drop as cold air sweeps south with single figure maxima for most places from

• Met Office employee becomes world's first digital accessibility apprenticeship graduate

  Adam who joined the Met Office in September 2022 as a Specialist Apprentice in Digital Accessibility, officially completed the apprenticeship programme this month, achieving a Distinction. He now continues his career at the Met Office, applying his specialist skills to ensure digital services

• New report on the state of global climate in 2019

  The 30th edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society is a peer-reviewed report with contributions from climate scientists around the world, including from the Met Office. The latest BAMS report includes the following headlines: Each decade since 1980 has been successively warmer

• UK heatwave likely, with warm air boosted by weather conditions from Europe

  is a Met Office Chief Meteorologist. He said: “An area of high pressure over southern England will build across a larger part of the UK through midweek. Ahead of this, wet and windy weather will affect the far northwest later today and into Tuesday morning. It will remain very warm across parts

• Met Office Weather Deep Dive: A change is on the way

  plans, it brings a welcome change for gardeners and farmers who have been hoping for rain. So what does the immediate weather picture look like? Showers are expected across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, with some potentially heavy and thundery. As we move into midweek, a band of rain

• 2016: indicators of a changing climate

  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

• More settled weather on the way?

  The current regime of sunshine and showers will increasingly yield towards brighter and warmer conditions for many as an area of high pressure will build from the South West later next week.

  for much of the UK. Daniel Rudman is a Met Office Deputy Chief Forecaster. Commenting on the conditions, he said: “We anticipate that the  area of high pressure currently over the Azores will increasingly extend towards the South West of the UK. This will lead to leading to a good deal of warmer

• A mixed picture for the Bank Holiday weekend

  will have a fresher feel overall, with fewer and lighter showers. Temperatures will be near average in northern areas, while parts of the southeast could still feel fairly warm where cloud breaks occur later in the day. Showers lingering into Monday Mark Sidaway is a Deputy Chief Forecaster. He said: “Bank