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, with Scotland’s 6.3°C being its ninth warmest November since records began. Northern Ireland saw its third dullest November on record in terms of sunshine hours, with 33.9 hours, compared with the record low of just 30.3 hours seen in November 2007. Snow falling, and for some regions lying

conditions quite treacherous. Risk of a snow showers for hills further east. Skies remaining clear into the evening with a severe frost expected and lying snowfall likely to harden. Chance of cloud-free hill tops above 600m: 95%, early patchy cloud will lift and clear. Low Cloud and visibility

and the most arable land. The barn owls have settled on wildlife-friendly farms with management options such as wild bird cover and the retention of winter stubble. The county has a coastline along Belfast Lough to the north and Strangford Lough lies to the east between the Ards Peninsula

situation, it’s important to stay up to date with the latest forecast and further warnings are very likely.” By Friday, winds will also be increasing as low pressure moves in from the west. It remains uncertain where the boundary between the mild air to the south and cold air to the north will lie

mean sea level is currently rising by 3 mm every year. Mean sea level is expected to continue to rise for centuries, increasing coastal flood risk for millions of people around the world, particularly in densely populated, low-lying regions. Changes in mean sea level are due to thermal expansion

. Unusually, there was lying snow as far south as Met Office Headquarters in Exeter. Met Office Senior Scientist Mike Kendon said: “With 2024 joining the top ten warmest years for the UK’s annual temperature series, once again this is a clear illustration that our climate is changing, right now, and we

widespread storms over mainland Europe with flooding and widespread damage in their wake. The images above show the position of the UK thunderstorms storms on the Saturday and Sunday evening, shortly before sunset. In the left image from 26 May, the line of storms lie across south west England. The right

the pdfs of UK average warming that lie behind the regional changes featured in this document. For scenarios and time periods in which pdfs of projected UK warming lie between these two distributions in their ranges of response, the corresponding regional changes are likely to lie between those

July–December 2005). PDF: Probability that the number of tropical storms will lie within given ranges The predicted probability of exceeding the number of storms observed during July–December • 2009 (9 storms) is 100.0%, compared to a climate chance of 60.9%. • 2008 (15 storms) is 95.1% compared

Introduction At the heart of the Unified Model (UM) lies its dynamical core, that part of the model responsible for solving the equations of large-scale fluid flow in the atmosphere on the model’s discrete mesh. One component of this dynamical core, which just by itself is computationally very