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Alex. Further rain in the weekend By Saturday, further wet weather is likely, with some thundery showers likely for much of the country. Alex explained what’s behind the wetter theme. He said, “The jet stream is driving an area of low pressure that’s heading towards us. It’s not an especially deep

of the world’s oceans. Professor Adam Scaife leads the team behind the Met Office’s global forecast for 2025. He said: “Interestingly, the warm 2025 predicted global temperatures occur despite the tropical Pacific moving towards a La Niña phase which is driving slightly cooler conditions. “Years

. The café started with the ED NECJOGHA, Mr Patrick Luganda making introductory remarks where he welcomed participants and explained what a café is about. He explained that a café is a public discourse on the weather, climate and climate services especially climate forecasting services from end user

The build-up of atmospheric carbon-dioxide between 2023 and 2024 is forecast to be faster than that required to track IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5°C, that is the finding from the latest Met Office CO₂ forecast.

a temporary weakening of tropical land carbon sinks – areas which would normally absorb some of the carbon released will have reduced capacity because of the effects of El Niño. Professor Richard Betts is the Met Office author of the CO₂ forecast. He said: “This year’s estimated rise in atmospheric

Writing in the journal Nature ahead of COP28 a team of Met Office scientists has emphasised, surprisingly, there is currently no formally agreed way of defining the current level of global warming relevant to the Paris Agreement.

They have proposed a solution. While the global average temperature in a particular year is well-known, this will not be suitable as an indicator of whether the “Paris 1.5” has been breached or not, because the Paris Agreement refers to long-term warming, not individual years. But no alternative

, compared to winter when they are between 6°C and 8°C. Eastern England has high average summer temperatures of between 20°C to 23°C. The highest UK temperature ever recorded was 38.7°C in Cambridge Botanic Garden, July 2019. Some of the UK’s highest summer sea temperatures will be found in the southern

pressure systems that resulted in a number of notably windy days. The weather settled down for the final few days of the month, when it also became much warmer. The provisional UK mean temperature was 9.1 °C, which is 1.3 °C below the 1981-2010 long-term average, making it the coldest May since 1996

temperature forecast. Professor Adam Scaife is the Met Office head of long-range prediction. He said: “Natural events – such as El Niño-induced warming in the Pacific – influence the climate system, but in the absence of El Niño, this forecast gives a clear picture of the strongest factor causing

across the UK.   Temperatures increased in the third week briefly, before low pressure brought more unsettled weather. The last week of the month saw high pressure in charge, with the highest temperature of the year so far recorded on 30th of July with 32°C at Kew Gardens and Heathrow

is a Senior Scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, and co-edited the global climate chapter of the report. He said: “Despite 2017’s surface temperatures not breaking the absolute record, the fact that it is following the pattern of one warm year after another is concerning and we are seeing