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• Cold snap marks the end of a mild, wet Autumn

  climate. Temperatures over 30°C in early September seem a distant memory to the current cold snap, with a hard frost and snow currently lying on Dartmoor. "The succession of named storms experienced through the autumn illustrates the potential of our weather, strong winds and particularly heavy rain

• Warmest Autumn on record for Northern Ireland

  , 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

• Snow moving in for many – February 2021

  with the latest forecast.” There will be strong easterly winds during this period which may lead to blizzard conditions and blowing and drifting of lying snow at times. Daytime temperatures will stay in low single figures for much of the country over coming days, with some places staying below

• 2024: provisionally the fourth warmest year on record for the UK

  . 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

• An early look at the winter statistics: just how wet has it been?

  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.    

• How the Met Office helps millions of drivers stay safe on England's busiest roads

  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

• Red warning for wind issued as Storm Goretti approaches

  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

• NCIC Monthly Summary

  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

• NCIC Monthly Summary

  . 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

• hctn_summer_2025_analysis_v1.1.pdf

  is the empirical fraction of model values lying above the observed threshold. If the observed value of the UK summer mean temperature anomaly can be treated as an extreme value, then a Generalised Pareto Distribution (GPD) is fit to the model tail data and an exceedance probability is found from