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or walk through flood waters as you don’t know what lies beneath. “If flooding is forecast in your area, we want to make sure people are doing all they can to keep themselves safe. Think about preparing a flood kit with any important documents and medication, moving your car to higher ground and moving

. 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

 typical February sunshine, making it a particularly dull month for many areas.   The Met Office’s full provisional statistics for February and winter will be released on Monday 2 March 2026.   How do we know when records are broken?    The answer lies in a Met Office dataset that's been quietly mapping our weather history for around the last two centuries.    

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

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

to snowfall, while low-lying routes tend to be foggier. Hills, bridges and coastal areas tend to be windier than lower inland locations. The M48 Severn Crossing for example frequently experiences a funnelling effect, producing much stronger winds than the surrounding land. This sometimes leads to closures

and drier conditions inland. Temperatures fell to -14.7°C at Tomintoul, Banffshire, overnight last night. Temperatures will once again drop overnight, widely falling below freezing and lows of -12°C or lower possible in areas of lying snow. Further warnings are likely to be issued for the continued

. The 27th began very windy, with blustery showers, wintry at times with rain, sleet and snow, coalescing occasionally into longer spells of precipitation, Middleton Hillside (Derbyshire) recording 17 cm of lying snow; the showers began to die away from western areas with sunny spells developing here

of Wight), while bands of rain and showers, some wintry in the north, and isolated thunderstorms crossed the country through the day, Copley (Durham) reporting 11 cm of lying snow. After a fine start to the 19th, with just a few isolated showers over the north-west, rain, sleet and snow spread quickly