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climate records, and also to provide consistency and certainty. Climatologically, Christmas Day is like other winter days in the UK, where the weather is strongly driven by the air mass we are influenced by at the time and the behaviour of the jet stream. Since 1960, around half of the years have
Summaries of the climate characteristics of 11 regions of the UK
in this climate change visualisation tool. This tool is a collaboration with the BBC. It combines our climate projections and records to visualise climate change in the UK.
The Weather and Climate Science for Service Partnership (WCSSP) South Africa is a collaborative initiative between research institutes in the UK and South Africa.
the observational climate record through data rescue and digitisation of large collections of historical observations. These improved datasets will help scientists to study long-term trends and better evaluate the performance of models across timescales. The project is also aligning with ongoing
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does 2020 compare so far? Author: Press Office 23 June 2020 The Earth’s average temperature has increased by about 1 degree C since pre-industrial times, which for the climate record is calculated as the period 1850-1900. Figure shows values from GISTEMP, NOAAGlobalTemp and HadCRUT4 relative
The climate monitoring and attribution research area is involved in collaborations with institutions around the world.
station meteorological observations for application to extremes and health hazards. We develop climate data records of upper tropospheric humidity under the EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring Satellite Application Facility. We work together with other groups in the UK and in Europe on the ESA Climate
as these statistics are, it is crucial to place them in context. The summer of 1976 is often regarded as the benchmark for extreme British summers. However, the climate in which it occurred was fundamentally different from today’s. While summer 2025 is exceptional in the context of the historical record, just as 1976
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not currently in the digital climate records also document a value of 60F 15.6 °C at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk on 31 December 1901). The daily maximum temperature of 16.3 °C at St James’s Park, Central London on 1 January 2022 made this the UK’s warmest New Year’s Day on record, exceeding 15.6 °C at Bude
of events, though unusual, has earlier precedents in the historical climate record, for example in 1999, 2000 and 2001 but this has now come to an end. Instead, our latest long-range forecasts suggest that the tropical Pacific is about to transition into El Niño – the warm phase of ENSO. The figure shows
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