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• mwr_2025_08_for_printpdf

  sunshine hours by mid-month. Reference climatology used for calculating anomalies is the period 1991-2020 unless otherwise stated. Weather impacts • The sixth named storm of the season, Storm Floris, brought heavy rain and strong winds to northern Scotland on the 4th • Wildfires in North Yorkshire

• 2019 record temperatures conclude a decade of records

  for 2019 of 9.42 °C. This puts it just outside the top ten warmest years, all of which have occurred since 2002. It has also been the 11th wettest year on record, and at a local level some counties in central and eastern England such as Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire and parts of south Yorkshire which

• A milestone in UK climate history

  broke the national record by 1.6°C and across an extensive area of the country from Kent to North Yorkshire and from Suffolk to Warwickshire. “Even when you factor in the temperatures seen in summer 1976, they didn’t reach anywhere near the levels seen this week, although that was a much more

• Bank Holiday heat gives way to showers

  areas with a few spots from south Lancashire and Yorkshire southwards seeing 27 or 28 °C.  The highest temperature of the day is likely to be in or just west of the London area where 29 °C is possible, smashing the previous record high for early May Bank Holiday Monday. The warmest early May Bank

• November 2024: a month of two halves

  average.  Below average rainfall The average rainfall for the UK was 83.9mm, which is 32% below the long-term meteorological average. England, and specifically the south of England, has seen the most rain, with England seeing 75.5mm, 18% below average. To compare the north with the south, northern

• taf_summary.pdf

  category has been forecast correctly, it also considers the magnitude of any forecast error. Categories that often occur, and should therefore be easier to forecast, are harshly penalised by the GSS if they are incorrectly predicted. On the other hand, categories that rarely occur, and are therefore

• Satellite image of the month - 2024

  different information as illustrated here. The left-hand image is made using a number of visible and Near-Infrared channels to produce a false-colour image which shows a hotspot where the eruption is ongoing, and a faint bluish volcanic plume, which can just be distinguished from the whiter cloud

• Climate change increases global burnt area

  to spread. In these areas, direct human interventions in the landscape dominate for now over increasing risks due to climate change.” Chantelle added: “On the other hand, in forested areas such as California and Siberia, the number of fires is actually increasing, which is linked to longer periods

• The Royal Charter Gale

  progressed northwards over Britain from Cornwall to the Yorkshire Coast and the strongest winds in the system developed as a rather narrow stream from the N or NNE over the Irish Sea. The winds reached hurricane force 12 on the Beaufort Scale and were estimated at well over 100mph. Wind speeds recorded

• 2020 - a remarkable year

  with parts of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland seeing snowfall on the 25th. Rainfall All regions of the UK received more than their expected average rainfall with some eastern areas actually exceeding their normal December rainfall by the middle of the month. South England