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There is a 98% chance that one of next five years will be the warmest year on record for the globe.

will temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one of the next five years There is a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years will be the warmest on record El Niño and human-induced climate change will likely combine to fuel global temperature increase next year

The sixth report in the State of the UK Climate series confirms that 2019 was the 12th warmest year in a series from 1884.

-temperature records for February and July. No national low-temperature records were set during the year. State of the UK Climate in 2019 All of the top 10 warmest years for the UK have occurred since 20021 6 of the 10 wettest years for the UK have occurred since 19982 Climate statistics over

was the wettest spring day on record in a daily series from 1891, with an average of 32.6mm of rain falling, exceeding 32.0mm on 23 April 1971. It was also the wettest spring day on record for the climate district of North West England and North Wales. Cumbria also recorded its wettest spring day in a daily

for the post-2007 climate. A new record low extent remains a possibility. Antarctic sea ice extent remains 2nd lowest on record for the time of year, although at the end of July it was briefly very close to last year’s record-breaking low extent. Arctic Arctic sea ice state Arctic sea ice extent

May has become the sunniest calendar month on record in the UK

for May. Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre. He said: “The most remarkable aspect is just how much some of the May and Spring records for these climate statistics have been exceeded. Exceeding the UK sunshine record is one thing, but exceeding

processes in the model, satellite derived global ozone, greenhouse gas and aerosol concentration datasets are being compared with model simulations to assess the model uncertainties. For the marine domain the sea surface temperature climate data record (CDR) is being used to define the sea surface

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The UK has had its fifth warmest July on record, according to provisional Met Office statistics.

it the fifth warmest July since the series began in 1884 and the warmest since 2018. All four UK nations recorded one of their top ten warmest Julys, with Scotland and Northern Ireland ranking sixth, England seventh, and Wales tenth. Regionally, both Shetland and Orkney have had their warmest July’s

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME Records which have already been transferred from Saughton to NRS are noted as [see NRS catalogue] or [transferred, not yet on NRS online catalogue] MET1 – Owner originally Scottish Met Society MET1/2 Climate Returns MET1/2/1 Observations from Gordon Castle [see NRS catalogue