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• How was May in the Midlands?

  You may have seen that Spring 2025 broke historical climate records, marking an unprecedented season of warmth and sunshine across the UK, according to provisional Met Office statistics.

  . This figure places the region among the sunniest in the UK for that month, showcasing its potential for long, bright days when high pressure dominates. Weather records for May highlight the Midlands’ variable climate, with conditions ranging from warm, settled spells to cooler nights

• Weather and climate guides

  A selection of useful guides to our weather and climate for those who want to learn more about the science of meteorology.

  Weather Forecasting  - helping you to understand the facts. The Met Office holds the nation's weather and climate records. Our UK climate and weather statistics will give you summaries, climate figures and much more. Latest Met Office guides and information on climate change.   Cloud Types

• What is ‘climate sensitivity’?

  How sensitive our climate is to increases in CO2? Hence the term – ‘climate sensitivity’.

  for policy decisions around climate change. How can we estimate climate sensitivity? Climate sensitivity cannot be directly measured in the real world. Instead it must be estimated and there are three main lines of evidence that can be used to do this: Historical climate records: instrumental records

• Centennial recognition for 'Memories of Weather'

  ’. These stations tell a unique story of recent climate. The records from the sites are a treasury of observations spanning some of the UK’s most memorable weather since the late eighteenth century. The archives capture the details of many notable weather events, including the harsh winters of 1947

• Annual climate stocktake shows weather records and extremes now the norm in UK Climate

  Record breaking and extreme weather has become increasingly commonplace in the UK as our climate has changed over the last few decades.

  The latest assessment of the UK’s climate shows how baselines are shifting, records are becoming more frequent, and that temperature and rainfall extremes are becoming the norm. The latest State of the UK Climate report, published by Wiley in the Royal Meteorological Society’s ‘International

• cssp_china_science__historical_obs.pdf

  Unearthing historical observations and extending the climate observation record To understand how our climate is changing we need a clearer view of the past. CSSP China is supporting ACRE China and extending historical climate records by extracting weather observations such as temperature, pressure

• cssp_china_science__satellite_data.pdf

  Chinese satellite data is improving global weather forecasts and fundamental climate data records In CSSP China the Met Office and CMA are exploiting new observations (including temperature, humidity and wind) made by China's flagship satellite programme, FengYun, which is leading to improvements

• Surface in-situ Instruments

  The use of surface in-situ measurements in support of weather prediction, airfield safety monitoring and climate applications.

  This area of Observations Research & Development focuses on improving the way in which we use in-situ surface based measurements to improve forecasting capabilities and climate records. In addition there is a strong link to the measurements that are used at flying airfields to provide safety

• Climate change drives Europe's record 2021 summer

  New analysis shows the summer seasonal temperature recorded across Europe in 2021 would have been impossible without human induced climate change.

  The summer of 2021 was Europe’s hottest on record with temperatures close to 1°C above the 1991-2020 average. To assess the impact of climate change on these high seasonal temperatures, scientists used a large collection of computer simulations to compare the climate as it is today, with about 1°C

• climate_grid_impact_story_finalpdf

  ARRCC Impact Story Gridding climate observation records in Pakistan Motivation Observational weather and climate records in Pakistan are underexploited in climate analysis and modelling because individual records (point data) are not easily compared to gridded (spatially interpolated) climate data