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• 2025 continues series of world’s three warmest years

  has been 1.47°C above the average for 1850-1900.” Professor Tim Osborn is the Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. He said: “Our global temperature observations show that the world is continuing to warm in line with predictions made by climate scientists

• 2020 set to extend series of Earth’s warmest years

  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

• Consensus needed on Paris Agreement 1.5 °C guard rail

  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

• uk_monthly_climate_summary_201809.pdf

  sunny and warm across most areas, with a high of 26.5 °C at Cambridge Botanic Gardens. Storm Helene brought very windy weather to many parts overnight 17th/18th, and the 18th saw some rain in the north during the morning, and some light rain over the south-west, but otherwise it was bright and breezy

• uk_monthly_climate_summary_201809pdf

  sunny and warm across most areas, with a high of 26.5 °C at Cambridge Botanic Gardens. Storm Helene brought very windy weather to many parts overnight 17th/18th, and the 18th saw some rain in the north during the morning, and some light rain over the south-west, but otherwise it was bright and breezy

• record-breaking-heat-and-sunshine---july-2006---met-office.pdf

  which commenced in 1659, it was the warmest calendar month yet recorded. The numerous warm, sunny days were associated with anomalously high pressure over northern Europe and a persistent southerly airstream over the UK. Warmest calendar month yet recorded Impacts The heat placed strains on water

• Changing conditions on the horizon, but for how long?

  likley to see snow.  Paul Gundersen is a Met Office Chief Forecaster. He said: “Over the last week, the UK has been held in a northerly airflow bringing cold, sometimes Arctic air, to the UK. We will still have this northerly influence to our weather patterns until the weekend, but then the cold

• A cool career studying the impacts of a warming planet  

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• Summer warmth in the forecast

  Neil Armstrong is a Met Office chief forecaster. He said: “After a brief, less settled, interlude on Friday and Saturday, fine conditions will return by Sunday and into next week.  For much of the UK this will be accompanied by a boost in temperatures with many places reaching the mid-20°Cs

• 2017 likely to be third warmest year in the historical record

  as noteworthy because it will be the warmest year in the series which hasn’t been influenced by an El Niño – the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific. Based on the HadCRUT4 data set, global mean surface temperatures for January – September were 0.42°C ± 0.09°C above