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• Met Office daily weather: Unsettled with heavy rain and thunderstorms

  . 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

• Zambia considers continuing with nowcasts following successful severe weather testbed

  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

• Amber warnings issued for Storm Goretti

  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

• Spotlight on the Head of the Met Office Hadley Centre

  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

• Briefing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice - August 2024

  Summary Arctic sea ice extent is currently 3rd lowest on record for the time of year, following record high ice loss during July. Extent is very low everywhere except in the Chukchi and East Siberian seas. This year is likely to see Arctic September extent in the lower or middle part of the range

• Hot weather continues, with Yellow Warnings for thunderstorms in Scotland

  This spell of hot weather is part of a broader heatwave event, which has brought very warm and humid conditions to many areas over recent days. However, heat is now giving way to increasing instability in Scotland, with a growing risk of thunderstorms. A Yellow Thunderstorm Warning is in place

• Storm Ciara triggers amber warnings

  and heavy rain across the UK this weekend and we have issued a range of severe weather warnings giving people time to prepare for potential impacts of the storm. “Winds will increase through Saturday across Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England and Wales, before turning very windy across the rest

• uk_monthly_climate_summary_annual_2018.pdf

  . It was also a relatively dry year, particularly across the north of the UK, with June a very dry month in the south. This was a very sunny year, particularly May, June and July. Notable extreme events during the year included a spell of severe winter weather in late February and early March. The Met Office

• A hot spell on the horizon

  to be well below the record-breaking temperatures we saw in mid-July.  “As the high pressure builds there is very little meaningful rain in the forecast, especially in those areas in the south of England, which experienced very dry conditions last month. Elsewhere in the UK, such as in northern England

• Wet and windy with warnings for Easter weekend

  Atlantic will impact our weekend weather, strengthening the jet stream and spinning up a deep area of low pressure towards the northwest of the UK on Saturday night. This will lead to a spell of very strong winds later on Saturday, and overnight into the morning of Easter Sunday.  “We have issued