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

  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 occurs

• 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

• One billion face heat-stress risk from 2°C rise

  of the Met Office Hadley Centre. He concluded: “These maps reveal areas of the world where the gravest impacts are projected to occur with higher levels of global warming. However, all regions of the world – including the UK and Europe - are expected to suffer continued impacts from climate change

• Storm Goretti to bring very strong winds, heavy snowfall and rain

  of England until 12 January. Advice on staying safe in severe weather With multiple types of severe weather impacting the UK over the next couple of days, the Met Office’s WeatherReady campaign offers practical advice to help you prepare your home, garden, and daily routines for winter weather.  Snow

• 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

• 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

  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

• 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

• 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