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the Customer Centre on: Tel: 0370 900 0100 Fax: 0370 900 5050 Email: [email protected] If you are outside the UK: Tel: +44 330 135 0000 Fax: +44 330 135 0050 Introduction Have you ever wondered about the weather around the United Kingdom and perhaps the world? Would you like to know where
), Inverbervie (Kincardineshire) and Wick Airport (Caithness). Gust speeds were sustained at 40 to 50Kt (46 to 58mph) for a period of at least 48 hours. The prolonged nature of both the heavy rainfall and the strongest winds will have exacerbated the weather impacts experienced from this storm Babet. Author: Mike Kendon, Met Office National Climate Information Centre Last updated 26/10/2023
Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were at least three times more likely due to climate change and contributed to high levels of CO2 emissions from burning globally.
under different climate change scenarios. The report, which will be published annually, is co-led by the University of East Anglia (UEA, UK), the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the Met Office and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, UK). Published today in the journal
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activity) and winds at low levels, circulating either anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere or clockwise in the southern hemisphere. A tropical storm is a tropical cyclone with mean wind speeds of at least 39 m.p.h. The terms hurricane and typhoon are regionally-specific names for a strong
- making it almost impossible in a climate that had not been warmed by greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change increased the chances of the prolonged heat by a factor of at least 600. This is among the strongest results of any attribution study conducted to date. The scientists noted that even
on height levels Fraction of horizontal grid square occupied by cloud in layers centred on height levels. 1 [YYYYMMDD]T[hhmm]Z-PT[nnnn]H[mm] M-cloud_amount_on_height_levels.nc Hourly (0-54) 3-hourly (51-120) Instantaneous cloud amount on pressure levels Fraction of horizontal grid square occupied
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) (8) Figure 1 – Change in 1979-2018 September Arctic sea ice extent (9) 1 - The IPCC AR5 report (9) defines ’nearly ice free’ conditions in summer as having a sea ice extent of less than 1 million square km in September for at least 5 consecutive years. How likely is such a threshold to be crossed
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