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Heavy rain, strong winds and snow, New Year 2024-2025 The period from late December 2024 to early January 2025 brought some very wet and windy weather, with significant snowfalls across upland areas in the north. On 29 to 31 December, northern Scotland recorded its third-wettest 3-day period

for UK agriculture and food. For example, in collaboration with Defra, Fera Science, University of Exeter and University of Warwick, we have developed a web tool for estimating priority pest emergence. To support the Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) published earlier this year, Met Office

and 26th, heavy rain returned to close out the month on the 27th. Strong winds were also a feature at various points, adding to the unsettled feel. Temperatures fluctuated throughout September, with the first and third weeks seeing above average values, while the second and fourth weeks were notably

. Underlying map and data courtesy of NSIDC. July 2016 in context The average July Arctic sea ice extent was 7.84 million square km - the third lowest July extent since satellite records began in 1979. This July's extent was 1.63 million square km below the 1981-2010 average and 0.15 million square km

. The HadCRUT4 global temperature series shows that the average for 2019 as a whole was 1.05±0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels, taken as the average over the period 1850-1900. 2019 is nominally the third warmest year in the HadCRUT4 series. NASA and NOAA have also published their global mean

Weather Studio Live 👇 If you missed it earlier, you can catch up with the full episode here: https://t.co/vntivMDTzS — Met Office (@metoffice) June 13, 2025 Why It matters Recent surveys show that while nearly half of UK residents consider themselves outdoor enthusiasts, nearly a third have found

and Canadian coast, while the ice-ocean model PIOMAS estimated April Arctic sea ice volume to be the third lowest in the satellite era. The extremely low ice thicknesses in areas vulnerable to melt are likely to explain the relatively low September sea ice Figure 3: Average temperature anomaly at 925mb

the third-warmest June and second-warmest July in our official national records dating back to 1910, this year is currently vying with the current record holder, 2006, as the warmest summer for mean temperature (which includes both day and night temperatures). The mean temperature for 2018 is currently

. Perhaps surprisingly, March 2018 will not rank within the coldest ten Marches since 1910. However, it could end up being the third coldest March in the last 30 years. The month began with unseasonably cold air of Siberian origin covering the UK, and this became known in the media as “the Beast from

Although the story of the weather this month has been the prolonged high temperatures, particularly in the South East of England, in fact for the UK as a whole, provisional temperature data tell us this July is only the third warm

at 22.6 °C - the third hottest, behind hottest-ranked 1983 at 23.1°C.  With an average maximum daily temperature of 19.2 °C, July 2018 is ranked fourth hottest in Scotland – the hottest was July 2006 at 20.3°C . For Northern Ireland, 20.2 °C makes it provisionally the eighth hottest July on record