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• Briefing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice - August 2020

    Summary Arctic sea ice extent is currently joint-3rd lowest on record for the time of year (since satellite records began in 1979). Sea ice loss in the Arctic during July was the largest on record by a small margin. However, sea ice loss from 21st July – 10th August was very slow because

• Briefing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice - June 2022

  , Antarctic sea ice extent remains very low for the time of year, equal-lowest with 2019.   Current Arctic sea ice state Arctic sea ice extent on 10th June was 11.32 million sq km. This was 0.75 million sq km below the 1981-2010 average and was the 11th lowest on record for this date (Figure 1). Figure 1

• metoffice_extremeweather_secondary_final.pdf

  © Crown Copyright 2019, Met Office 5 Exploring extreme weather | Extreme weather Extreme weather profile cards Hurricane Hurricanes are very large, rapidly rotating storms, with very strong winds and thunderstorms. Each year several make landfall and can cause considerable damage to property

• Decadal forecast 2018

  conditions in the north Atlantic sub-polar gyre are predicted to return to more normal conditions, with potentially important climate impacts over Europe, America and Africa. During the five-year period 2019-2023, global average temperature is expected to remain high and is very likely to be between 1.03°C

• strong-winds-and-heavy-rain-from-storms-ali-and-bronagh---met-office.pdf

  Strong winds and heavy rain from storms Ali and Bronagh Storm Ali brought very strong winds and heavy rain to Scotland and Northern Ireland on 19 September 2018. Storm Bronagh brought further stong winds and very heavy rain acrosss England and Wales overnight 20 to 21 September. The storms tracked

• january-2005---stormy-spells---met-office.pdf

  January 2005 - stormy spells January 2005 was characterised by unsettled weather conditions with several wet and very windy days, particularly in the first half. There were two particularly stormy spells - on the 7th/8th and 11th/12th - each resulting in widespread damage and disruption. Many wind

• Met Office daily weather: Thunderstorms and staying warm

  , but, where they do occur, they have the potential to bring torrential downpours of rain, lightning, hail, and some strong gusty winds around at times. “But because these downpours will be so torrential and very sharp, they do have the potential to provide some localized flooding in places because

• Storm Bram has been named

  Storm Bram will bring strong winds and very heavy rain to northern and western parts of the UK, with Amber warnings issued.

  for south Wales and south Devon, while these have now expired Yellow warnings for rain remain for most of Wales, the southwest of England, northern England and the Central Belt of Scotland.   Met Office Chief Forecaster, Dan Suri, said: “Storm Bram will bring a very wet and windy spell of weather

• What is ‘climate sensitivity’?

  for what we might expect over the current century when atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are changing. Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS): The climate system will continue to warm for some time after the TCR point, largely as the oceans are very slow to respond. Therefore we can also consider

• PowerPoint Presentation

  consisted of Moodle consolidation quizzes at the end of each week, group presentations and a final seminar ran on the final day which required groups to research and prepare scientific presentations on a specific climate service sector. “The practical quiz. Presentation and climate games are very good