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. Outlook for Sunday Sunday continues the unsettled theme, with a mixture of rain bands and showers, some locally heavy with thunderstorms, moving generally northwards. Between these, there will be windows of drier, brighter, or sunny weather. Further very heavy rain may arrive into the far south

Nowcasting is a method used for very short-range forecasting. Directly connected to observed weather, it involves mapping the current weather and using its estimated speed and the movement of its direction to carry out forecasts with a lead time of zero to six hours. The technique is considered

This warm weather will extend to parts of Northern Ireland, as well as parts of central and western England and Wales on Friday. There’s very much a north/south divide in the weather, with unsettled conditions in the south but drier, warmer conditions in the north. There’s a marked east/west split

edge, this most likely over Wales and the Midlands. Here accumulations of 5-10 cm are likely widely, with 15-25 cm in some places, especially hills, and perhaps up to 30 cm very locally. An Amber warning has been issued where the greatest risk of disruption is likely on Thursday night into Friday

Welcome to the Met Office, how are you finding things so far? Everyone has been very helpful throughout science, management and every area I have met. What are your initial impressions? After working for 25 years at KNMI (the Dutch meteorological service) in climate science, it is a change

Storms are very complex systems that play an important role in the transport of heat and energy across the world. Therefore, they can be affected by small changes in regional and global patterns. Some influences on storm activity that are likely to be affected by climate change are: Sea surface

caused widespread flash-flooding and disruption to the road and rail networks, with Falkirk, Fife, Perth, Edinburgh and the Aberdeenshire area all affected by flashflooding. Several schools were closed across Aberdeenshire, and there were reports of lightning strikes. The very heavy rain from

over the last three months. The exceptions being of Turkey, Tunisia, parts of Algeria and Morocco, which were wet or very wet in June. In the Caribbean, dry or very dry conditions were observed in June, returning to near-normal in July and August. Outlook: Over the next three months it is likely

of very wet conditions. The rest of North Africa has been mainly dry. Haiti and Guyana have also seen wet conditions through August, Haiti in particular with rainfall exacerbated by the passages of Tropical Cyclones Fred and Grace in quick succession. Outlook: Below normal rainfall is likely across

while northern Libya was very wet in November and December before returning to near-normal in January. The Caribbean and British Overseas Territories were either dry or had near-normal rainfall over the last three months, the exception being Haiti which was very wet in December. Outlook: Over