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: Warm spells, thundery showers and Atlantic uncertainty Author: Press Office 14 August 2025 The latest 10-day forecast presents a more complex picture than usual, with the UK’s weather increasingly influenced by developments over the Atlantic. While the immediate outlook features warm, even hot

biodiversity hot spot, with the highest species diversity on the continent, and rainforests that sequester more carbon than any other tropical forest in the world in both above-ground biomass and major peat deposits (Abernethy et al., 2016; Eba’a Atyi et al., 2022). Central Africa is also the most water

cereals. It can tolerate hot and dry conditions but can also be grown in areas with high rainfall where waterlogging can occur. Grown in areas Climate risks Too much rain at flowering can cause a crop failure. It cannot tolerate waterlogging. The climate risk is from flooding, which is projected

projections. In the north of the UK, sea level rise projections are substantially lower than the global mean and minimum values are centred on South West Scotland. For UK capital cities, projections at 2100 range from approximately 0.1 - 0.5m (Edinburgh and Belfast under RCP2.6) to 0.5 - 1.1m (London

series, owing the additional uncertainty associated with regional processes. Time-mean sea level projections for UK capital cities show the largest sea level rise for London and Cardiff, where the central estimates are similar to the corresponding GMSL time series. Edinburgh and Belfast show similar

and to build the senior level and political buy-in and support for these. These are then expected to be followed up with more granular thematic or service level focused adaptation options. Climate Action Plan Leeds City Council sets out its vision for the city in its Best City Ambition which includes

quality and supply, risk to nuclear power plants due to increased temperatures. • Northern Urban Environments: Cities: air quality, urban heat island effect, water supply reliability all impacting human health; infrastructure and transport vulnerabilities. • Mountains: Ecosystem services: wildfire risk

its second warmest June, while Wales saw its third warmest. 30°C was reached and exceeded on several occasions in parts of central, southern and eastern England. Areas of southeastern England saw provisional mean temperatures over 3°C above average, and many counties including Greater London, Essex

. Showers and longer outbreaks of rain moved through Devon and Cornwall on the 15th, spreading into parts of the north, but it remained hot and sunny in many other areas with a high of 31.3 °C at Frittenden (Kent). This was followed by a warm night on the 15th/16th with London St James’s Park falling

on 26 February with temperatures exceeding 20 °C in London, west Wales and as far north as Rochdale making this a more widespread event than the previous record set in February 1998. New national records were also set for Wales (20.8°C at Porthmadog on 26th) and Scotland (19.3 °C at Aboyne on 21st