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. He said: “There is the potential for some disruptive snow through the middle to latter part of next week as warmer Atlantic air attempts to push in from the southwest. As this occurs, some substantial snow could fall in some places, but the details of that are uncertain at the moment.” The weather's

the information from the latest 30-year period (1991-2020). Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, which manages the UK’s climate records. He said: “The publication of climate data from the latest 30-year period is a perfect opportunity describe some

hurricane season Julian Heming is a Met Office tropical cyclone expert who has been studying these systems for many years. He said: “In the second half of May several prediction centres, including the Met Office, forecast an active Atlantic hurricane season with between 150% and 200% of usual

this week has seen temperatures well below average for the time of year. Paul Hutcheon is a meteorologist with the Met Office Global Guidance Unit. He said: “By Thursday and Friday there is the potential for record-breaking temperatures in Spain, with inland areas like Córdoba expected to reach 15 degrees

April 2020 has been a warm, dry and sunny month

Ireland 211.5 144 ‘Anomaly’ – refers to the anomaly relative to a 1981-2010 baseline climatology given as a percentage Fifth warmest April on record It was significantly warmer than average for most of the country and the fifth warmest April on record. Daytime maximum temperatures were particularly

Meteorologist Steven Keates is providing the medium range forecast. He said: “More of a northwest/southeast split in the UK weather is developing from Friday and into the weekend. High pressure will begin to establish itself from the southeast, allowing a good deal of settled weather through the weekend

Services at the Met Office Hadley Centre. He has also been a reviewing editor on the Working Group III report. Commenting on its publication today, Prof Lowe said: “The IPCC publishes these series of assessment reports about every six years, with the last in 2013/2014. “If we are to maximize

Mike Kendon is a senior scientist in the Met Office’s climate information team. He said: “If confirmed at year end this will be the second annual UK temperature record for the UK this decade with the previous being in 2022. This should come as no surprise. Over the last four decades we have seen

between different and contrasting phases lasting for a while before the next phase in the sequence begins to dominate. Let’s look at January’s conditions: the average across the month isn’t headline grabbing. But the pattern back-and-forth between weather types is remarkable.  The year began warm

Hadley Centre. He said: “Tackling climate change is ultimately about trying to prevent every fraction of a degree rise in the earth’s global temperature, and adapting to the fraction of warming that is unavoidable. Every delay in reducing emissions increases the risks from climate impacts and increases