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 with the third-sunniest March on record, followed by a record-breaking sunniest April and then the second-sunniest May. All three months of the summer also saw above-average sunshine hours and while sunny periods are not unusual at this time of year, the duration and consistency of high-pressure systems

in some places at certain times of year. Third, using these new estimates to reduce the effect of biases in the combined data set, we found that air temperatures cooled relative to sea surface temperatures in the early 1990s. This is likely due to residual uncorrected biases in air or sea temperatures

by at least 10 degrees. Rainfall totals for the period since early March had been one-third of average resulting in dry soil and vegetation. Indeed, from 7 July to 13 August in some southern districts only 1 or 2 mm of rainfall was recorded, while in parts of Sussex, Kent and Essex there was no measurable

a new data exploitation capability o A third work stream to retire legacy products and services which were no longer required. The Board approved and signed off KPI 3.9 on thought leadership. The Board noted the seasonal weather update that had been tabled. Hunada Nouss (Non-Executive Director and Audit

to the 1981-2010 average. Data are from the NCEP reanalysis.   June 2018 in context Average sea ice extent for the month of June 2018 was 10.84 million square km according to the HadISST1.2 dataset (Rayner et al., 2003). This is the third lowest June extent on record (the lowest was 10.58 in 2016

. These contributed to exceptionally wet and, at times, stormy weather. From 6th to 7th, October, Scotland had its wettest 2-day period on record, while Babet from 18th to 20th brought the third wettest 3-day period on record for England and Wales. Storm Ciarán, at the start of November

out there. End users were already receiving emails and messages from third parties, such as farm input and advisories suppliers. The WISER Western project team simply piggy-backed these communications. For instance, they added a weather forecast to a regular farming suppliers’ email. This approach

with the UK recording 1242mm, 107% of average rainfall. It was particularly wet across parts of central southern England with a quarter to a third more rain than normal fairly widely. Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire each recorded their second-wettest year in records

disruption due to lower than normal chance of ice and snow.    The research has recently been comprehensively cited in the UK’s third Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3), compiled by the Climate Change Committee. The Risk Assessment technical report makes frequent use of the findings from this research

for the UK, England and Wales, second warmest (behind 2003) for Scotland, and equal-third warmest (with 2003, behind 2006 and 2007) for Northern Ireland. It was also second warmest year (behind 2003) for the CET Tmax series from 1878. However, unlike 2003, there were no extreme heatwaves during