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• UK Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP)

  partnerships, including our VCP work. Our work under VCP includes a range of project areas, some of which are outlined below. Weather observations Records of the global climate are essential for monitoring climate change, but maintaining them requires effective weather observations to be taken all over

• Microsoft Word - 2019_007_july_heatwave.docx

  , where 36.3 °C was recorded at Cranwell, setting a new record for the climate district of England E & NE. The panel of maps below show daily maximum temperatures from 22 to 26 July 2019, indicating the duration and spatial extent of the heatwave. Temperatures exceeded 30 °C widely across much central

• Summer resources for journalists

  anticyclones which can bring long spells of warm weather and create heatwave conditions. The summer heatwave of 2022 was unprecedented and marked a milestone in UK climate history with 40°C being recorded for the first time in the UK and new national records set in Wales, Scotland and England. Summer weather

• England’s warmest June on record – the second warmest for the UK and Wales

  The exceptional warmth was driven by an intense and record-breaking heatwave at the end of the month, following a much cooler and unsettled start.

  average sunshine totals. June heat and climate change As high temperature records are continuing to be broken, the influence of climate change is under the microscope. Professor Stephen Belcher CBE, Met Office Chief Scientist, said: “June’s heatwave was a significant weather event, with a Red Extreme Heat

• wiser-africa-one-pager.pdf

  Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes reports Africa recorded 1,695 weather, water and climate related disasters, resulting in 731,747 lives lost and US$ 38.5 billion economic losses, from 1970 to 2019. The Weather and Climate Information Services (WISER

• Chance of summer heatwaves now thirty times more likely

  Human-induced climate change has made the 2018 record-breaking UK summer temperatures about 30 times more likely than it would be naturally, the Met Office will say at CoP24 - in Poland – later today (6 December 2018).

  Professor Peter Stott is a world-leading expert on climate attribution based at the Met Office and the University of Exeter in the UK. He said: “Our provisional study compared computer models based on today’s climate with those of the natural climate we would have had without human-induced

• WISER report_Semazzi_v4

  of Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) for strengthening climate information generation where Data Rescue (DARE) is number 3 on WMO priority list. Supported by: Fund Manager: Delivery Partners: 26 The introduction of additional historical data will provide more robust historical climate record

• Europe experiences warmest year on record in 2020

  The latest edition in an annual series of global climate reports shows that Europe experienced its warmest year in 2020 by a considerable amount.

  the wealth of evidence of sustained climate change with long-term trends and record or near-record values across our climate system is growing and it is becoming abundantly clear that these historically unusual values of water vapour, relative humidity, evaporation, soil moisture, drought, extreme

• A look back at November's historical weather records

  Non-Executive Directors News & media Media centre Campaigns Contact the Press Office Weather & climate news Corporate news Official news blog Contact us Send us your feedback Ways to contact us How to find our offices Information for visitors A look back at November's historical weather records

• Spring Bank Holiday weather records in the UK

  Ahead of the Spring Bank Holiday, check out these weather records logged for the late-May bank holiday. 

  The final bank holiday in May was traditionally called the Whitsun Bank Holiday and observed on the Monday following Pentecost. Over the years, it has seen a wide range of weather extremes across the UK. In this article, we look back at the UK’s weather records ever logged on this late-May bank