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Climate Information Centre in 2009. Mike graduated with an MSc in Hydrology for Environmental Management from Imperial College, London in 2004. Mike graduated with an MEng Engineering from Cambridge University in 1996. Before joining the Met Office, Mike spent 3 years as a hydrologist for a Civil
Cambridge Botanic Gardens 01 October 2011 29.9 Gravesend (Kent) 01 November 2015 22.4 Trawsgoed (Ceredigion) 28 December 2019 (provisional) 18.7 Achfary (Sutherland) Highest daily minimum temperature Date Highest daily minimum temperature °C Location 25 January 2016 13.1 Magilligan (County Londonderry) 23
, China. Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. Centre for Rediscovered and Redefined Natural Resources Research and Education (C4RE), Dhaka, Bangladesh. CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental
of Wight. Details of the temperature records broken are given in the following table, with most of the stations having over 70 years of data: Station County August 1990 Maximum temperature (°C) Date Previous record Cheltenham Gloucestershire 37.1 3 35.9 Cambridge Botanic Gardens Cambridgeshire 36.5
that those in Cambridge and Oxford would avoid the use of slang, each similarly favoured the term ‘chucking it’ to describe heavy rain (83% and 57%). Glaswegians are most likely to use the term ‘pelting it’ and Londoners prefer to say ‘caning it’. Despite being almost 90 miles apart, the people
effect climate change had on an event. This might include many variables, like temperature and rainfall. An attribution case study: The European heatwave in 2019 In July 2019, we saw record breaking temperatures across the UK and Western Europe. In Cambridge, we saw a temperature of 38.7°C
, an oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge. Professor Cath Senior, Co-Director of the UKNCSP, and a climate scientist at the Met Office, says: “I am delighted to welcome Professor Meredith to UKNCSP, and together I believe we can build on the good progress already made
areas of the south, but northern areas were generally cooler. Cambridge saw the highest temperature of the year so far on 12 August with 34.8°C recorded. Summer in a changing climate Summer 2024’s average mean temperature of 14.37°C for the UK is considered ‘cooler’ when compared to the 1991-2020
at 17 to 18 °C across these areas with a 12-hour minimum of 19.6 °C at London St James's Park - exceptionally mild for the time of year. Numerous stations set October minimum temperature records, for example at Cambridge Botanic Garden and Hastings (East Sussex) in 80+ year record lengths. Last updated: 16 October 2018 © Crown Copyright
, the Guardian and a Carbon Brief blog on recent floods. Peter has a first degree in Mathematics from Durham University and completed Part III of the Mathematics Tripos at Cambridge University. The research for his PhD at Imperial College, London was atmospheric modelling of the environmental consequences
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