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received between a quarter to one third more rainfall than normal. For northern England (north of a line from the Wash to North Wales) this was the ninth wettest year in a series from 1862. “Parts of northern England, particularly South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, experienced some very severe flooding

the estimates are taken. The Sea Ice Outlook is shown as a boxplot indicating the range, median and quartiles of the 39 predictions submitted. Values more than 1.5 interquartile ranges from the first and third quartiles are shown as outliers. Antarctic sea ice state Antarctic sea ice extent on 11th August

in a green colour between Sicily and Sardinia. The second image utilises the absorption of SO2 in the SEVIRI channels around 7.3 μm and 8.7 μm to detect the SO2 and estimate the column loading. The third image is from Sentinel-5P which, as a polar satellite utilising visible light, is only able to view

? The majority of the sunshine duration observations in the Met Office’s historical records were made using a Campbell-Stokes recorder. However, nearly two-thirds of the current observing network now use a Kipp & Zonen sunshine sensor (the first such sensors were installed in 2000). The characteristics

also has the UK’s third wettest day on 15th February with 27.2mm, from named storm Dennis during what then became the wettest February on record”. More than 20 counties across the UK have already had 100% or more than their average October rainfall and many others are not far behind. Oxfordshire has

for pastoralists and endangered species. • Ongoing problems of land degradation and desertification in semi-arid Central Asian lowlands may be exacerbated by more intense droughts and higher temperatures. Roughly two-thirds of Central Asia’s land area consists of dryland habitats already experiencing

February began with a rather cold northerly flow and it remained colder than average for most of the first week. Westerly winds prevailed in the second week and brought rain at times, and further snow for some, especially over high ground. It was milder in the third week, then a er a settled spell, from

areas, while mean minimum temperatures were similarly high in parts of eastern England. Most areas from Wales and the Midlands northwards had a dry month, with less than a third of the usual rainfall in some areas, but south-east England was very wet with more than double the average rainfall

and the UK overall its third sunniest March. Reference climatology used for calculating anomalies is the period 1991-2020 unless otherwise stated. Weather impacts • Fog in some areas of England on the 5th, 9th, 26th and 27th led to warnings, but few impacts • The dry month may have contributed

of cloudy and wet weather to most of the country. The weather was more settled at times in the third week and on the last two days. Temperatures were mostly below normal but it was mild early in the month and again around the 25th-27th. The mean temperature for November was provisionally 0.7 °C below