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• 2021: the UK's weather in review

  Information Centre. He said: “Overall, it has been a fairly unremarkable year in terms of annual statistics. The UK as a whole has been slightly warmer and slightly drier than average, though with some variation around the country especially regarding rainfall. “Broadly speaking, colder than average

• Fool’s spring: why warm spells can be misleading

  and sprucing up the garden. However, this is often what people refer to as “fool’s spring” – a reminder that the journey from winter to summer is rarely smooth. Fool’s spring describes a short-lived period of warmer-than-average weather, quickly followed by a return to colder conditions. It most commonly

• Study clarifies Arctic impacts on British winters

  of Arctic impacts on UK winters. The paper ‘Robust but weak winter atmospheric circulation response to future Arctic sea ice loss’ is published today (Monday 7 February 2022) in the journal Nature Communications. The Met Office’s Dr Doug Smith is the paper’s lead author. He said: “Our study does show

• Summer 2022: a historic season for northern hemisphere heatwaves

  Botanic Gardens in July 2019. Following the first red warning for extreme heat – first announced last Friday – just before 1pm today, provisional data showed that Heathrow airport was the first station to breach 40°C. Nights were also exceptionally warm, especially in urban areas – with records being

• ukcp18-fact-sheet-derived-projections.pdf

  Report (CMIP5-13); • Projections at global mean warming of 2°C and 4°C - a set of climate futures for the UK at 60km grid resolution for global warming levels of 2°C and 4°C. These have also been derived from the global projections using statistical techniques. Key messages • Over land the projected

• Ex-Hurricane Ophelia

  Across the UK people will see a varied range of weather over the next few days. Whilst much warmer than average temperatures are likely over the weekend, extremely windy conditions will affect Northern Ireland, and western and northern Britain on Monday and Tuesday. The most dominant weather

• Key climate change indicators break records in 2021

  a temporary cooling effect but 2021 was warmer than any year prior to 2015. The average global temperature in 2021 was about 1.11 (± 0.13) °C above the pre-industrial level [1850-1900]. The WMO State of the Global Climate report complements the IPCC Sixth Assessment report, which includes data up

• New global temperature records on the horizon

  one of the next five years (2023-2027) will temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Dr Leon Hermanson is one of the Met Office scientists behind the report. He said: “Today’s report shows that the next five years are expected to bring new temperature records. “These new highs

• 2023: a year of new climate records

  was the highest on record for the twelfth successive year. Antarctic sea ice reached an all-time record low during 2023. Dr Robert Dunn, of the Met Office, is one of the report’s authors and editors. Commenting on the latest report, he said: “2023 will linger long in the memory of the climate record. Heat from

• Settled conditions set for last week of spring

  Office Chief Forecaster. He said: “If you have heard media hyperbole that a heatwave driven by an African plume will bring intense heat to the UK in the next few days you are going to be disappointed – this isn’t true. However, if you are looking forward to a spell of largely fine, sunny and warm