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, the University of Exeter, and the University of Warwick to develop tools for estimating pest emergence and assessing crop resilience. We also support the UK’s Third National Adaptation Programme (NAP3) and the Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA3), helping to identify and address key risks to the agri

ten years - a benefit-cost ratio of around 14:1. Around a third of that value can be attributed to the world-class standard of the Met Office, with its unified weather and climate model. There is no cross-cutting Government view of the national weather and climate requirements. An integrated view

and spring in context Winter 2023-24 in the Arctic was much milder than the 1981-2010 average, with an anomaly of +2.3°C. As measured by the average temperature above 70°N from November-March at 925hPa (about 1km high in the atmosphere), it was the joint-third warmest winter on record, with only

and Oxfordshire. 23 November 2024 was the third wettest day on record for Gwent in a daily county series from 1891, with 71.4mm; the only two wetter days being 30 December 1900 (80.9mm) and 3 November 1931 (75.6mm). The charts for Oxfordshire compare the extreme rainfall at the end of September 2024

be assimilated, such as visible-spectrum radiances and cloud-affected observations.  Incorporating new datasets to expand our observational coverage. The upcoming third generation of Meteosat satellites promises to enhance our ability to monitor severe weather events in near real-time. Since 2023

. The relatively sunny month was a welcome contrast to December, with just 27.9 hours, around two-thirds of normal and less than an hour a day. January’s sunny theme was replicated across much of the UK, with England and Scotland recording sunshine amounts within their top ten sunniest for the month

of November. England had its 10th warmest autumn on record for average minimum temperatures in a series from 1884. Rainfall totals Overall, this was a rather wet autumn with the UK recording 120%. Northern Ireland had its third wettest autumn on record in a series from 1836 and Wales had its 10th

and prompting some to ask, is this ‘just summer’? Yesterday, further drought declarations were issued across parts of the UK, following what has been the driest January to June for England since 1976. This past weekend saw the third official heatwave of the summer, and temperatures are set to rise again

In May and June 2021, the SCIPSA team successfully delivered the third and final module on ‘Co-designing national seasonal forecast products and enhancing user experience’ for the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) in Nepal and the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) individually

previously. This paper is the third in a series of three reports from the Met Office Hadley Centre that address the recent pause in global warming and seek to answer the following questions. What have been the recent trends in other indicators of climate over this period; what are the potential drivers