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in building partnerships, preferences. 1-page and benefits update from on progress face-to-face issued every interaction 6 months to at key outset. partners, highlighting their areas of interest. FCFA FRACTAL project • Flexible, emergent approach to understanding city processes and burning issues

warm, even hot conditions and the potential for thundery showers, the latter half of the period hinges on the behaviour of tropical systems and shifting pressure patterns. A tale of two systems At the heart of this week’s forecast lies a dynamic interplay between low pressure to the west and high

. 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

reliance on food imports will leave food systems vulnerable to price volatility in global markets, potentially raising food prices. Increasing reliance on food imports also creates vulnerability to climate impacts on agricultural production in global breadbaskets. Cities and infrastructure

of specific users in Europe Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL): Led by the Climate System Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town, and jointly funded by DFID and NERC through the Future Climate for Africa Programme (FCFA), the project is focused on climate risks and decision making

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

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

to help combat their grass allergy. Table 1: Awareness levels Most to least aware regions 1 Wales 77% 2 Yorkshire 69% 3 Northern Irelan 68% 4 South West 67% 5 South East 66% 6 East Midlands 65% 7 Scotland 64% 8 East Anglia 62% 9 West Midlands 59% 10 North East 55% 11 North West 54% 12 London 41% Worse

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

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