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relative to the period 1850-1900. Although this is an average, some regions are experiencing a much faster rate of warming. Nowhere is this more apparent than parts of the Arctic, where melting sea ice is creating areas where heat from the sun is absorbed by darker ocean water, rather than being

maximum temperature maps - calendar view 9. Daily minimum temperature maps - calendar view 10. Daily rainfall maps - calendar view 11. Monthly atmospheric circulation 12. Weather diary 13. Notes UK overview May overall was sunny, warm and dry, with high pressure dominating for most of the month. May

of climate futures for the UK at 60km grid resolution for a low emissions scenario, RCP2.6 and a global warming level of 2 °C and 4 °C. These have been derived from the global projections using statistical techniques. † Note that the “RCPs” are not strictly emission scenarios but the term is used

Forecasting impactful snow is famously tricky in the UK and there are a number of factors that our expert meteorologists look for. These include: Where the air has come from: If air has come from a warmer area, or has spent a long time over warm seas, then it would be harder to generate snow. If it’s coming

. Mark Sidaway is a Deputy Chief Meteorologist with the Met Office. He said: “Although we have had a Sudden Stratospheric Warming event and other drivers pointing towards colder conditions in March, at this stage there is a low probability of having widely disruptive winter weather like that of five

tree cover taking up more than 8890 tonnes of carbon each year and storing ~319,000 tonnes of carbon. One of Belfast City Council's parks, Botanic Gardens, is also a pilot area for a Horizon 2020-funded project, Upsurge, which is focused on nature-based solutions. This is being used as a demonstrator

. Julian Heming is the Met Office’s expert on tropical cyclones. Commenting on this year’s forecast he said: “What is interesting this year is that the forecasts issued by many different agencies are all indicating an above-average season. As they are all pointing in the same direction this gives us

drier and rather warmer than average month as a whole. Most of the month’s rainfall came between the 5th and the 12th, with several days of scattered locally intense thundery downpours, especially across a belt stretching from the south-west through central southern and into eastern England. The only

was severely injured in a stagecoach accident. It ended his seagoing career, and he was then put to work as Superintendent of the US Navy Depot of Charts and Instruments at the US Naval Observatory. He realised that he now had at his disposal thousands of observations about wind, weather and currents

from Rainbow Grey 10 minutes Video “Rogues, Rogues, Rogues,” he trilled. “They refuse to use instruments to channel their weather magic, making it chaotic, unpredictable and destructive. They have created some of the WORST weather the Earth has ever seen. What do we call a group of Rogues working