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• Warnings updated as cold weather continues

  temperatures and the potential for snow and ice in places, there are a number of simple steps you can take to prepare your home, garden, or business for the winter weather. Our WeatherReady pages provide expert seasonal advice from carefully selected organisations to help keep you and your property

• 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

• Compounding climate challenges for UK businesses

  Office projections indicate that days with ‘very high’ fire danger levels could double during summer in England and Wales with 2°C global warming and increase five-fold with 4°C warming (Perry et al., 2022). Most UK fires occur in urban and garden areas (54.4%), improved grasslands (14.4

• A largely settled period before another potential heatwave early next week

  warm. Tony Wisson is a Met Office Deputy Chief Forecaster. He said: “Toward the weekend, high pressure will continue to build in across most of the UK as it extends from the Azores. This will lead to more settled, warm or very warm conditions for many, especially across England and Wales, though some

• 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

• Cold weather to grip the UK with risk of snow and gales

  for snow and ice, the Met Office’s WeatherReady campaign offers practical advice to help you prepare your home, garden, and daily routines for winter weather.  Read: 5 tips for staying safe in snow Read: 4 tips for staying safe in ice Read: Keeping your home warm this winter Read: How cold weather affects

• Weather 'not ideal' for BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend

  of the weekend. After a chilly start, the day will begin with clear skies and plenty of sunshine. As the day progresses, cloud cover will increase from the west, with mostly light winds but these are expected to pick up later in the day. Temperatures will climb into the low 20s Celsius, making for a warm

• 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

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

  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 is set to sweep