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• Dry February so far for most

  has had just 1.6mm of rain since 15th January and for many counties of central and southern England the period from mid January to now has been a notable, but not record breaking, winter dry spell.   Mark McCarthy is the manager of the National Climate Information Centre at the Met Office. He said

• Climate change, drought and water security

  is projected to be most affected by water scarcity.  By using novel approaches and new datasets, the Met Office worked alongside Anglian Water to strengthen their understanding of drought risk – both for today and for the future, in a warmer world. This improved understanding enables Anglian Water

• Providing an evidence base on climate risk

  & Hydrology, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, among many others. Dr Daniel Donaldson, Deputy Head of Resilient Systems and Climate Action Research Group, University of Birmingham, was one of the lead authors. He said, “Working within the consortium as one of the lead authors for the infrastructure

• wiser0099_enacts-ethiopia.pdf

  been shown to have a critical role in the occurrence of malaria outbreaks in Ethiopia’s highlands. Higher-than-normal rates of malaria in Ethiopia have been associated with higher temperatures in the current and preceding season, often associated with El Nino.4 Evidence suggests that warming

• hctn_sept2023rapidhadgemstudy_v1.0.pdf

  , the observed world represents a more limited sample (53 years of HadUK-Grid compared to a HadGEM3-A model ensemble of 525 members for 7 years), so the model will have a greater number of these extreme events. Secondly, the current (2023) climate is warmer than any previous time in the observational

• hctn_sept2023rapidhadgemstudy_v11pdf

  (2). This is for two reasons: firstly, the observed world represents a more limited sample (53 years of HadUK-Grid compared to a HadGEM3-A model ensemble of 525 members for 7 years), so the model will have a greater number of these extreme events. Secondly, the current (2023) climate is warmer than

• hctn_sept2023rapidhadgemstudy_v1.1.pdf

  (2). This is for two reasons: firstly, the observed world represents a more limited sample (53 years of HadUK-Grid compared to a HadGEM3-A model ensemble of 525 members for 7 years), so the model will have a greater number of these extreme events. Secondly, the current (2023) climate is warmer than

• Met Office Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20

  , UK data produced by the National Climate Information Centre at the Met Office, chart the new records now broken almost on an annual basis. We recorded the all-time highest UK temperature of 38.7°C recorded during last July’s heatwave at Cambridge Botanic Gardens. By using a technique called

• NCIC Monthly Summary

  flooding on roads, with disruption to numerous rail services due to flooded platforms, stations, or lines. Vehicles were stranded in flood water in Ashington, West Sussex, and a mini-tornado was reported in Worthing causing some minor damage to gardens. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue reported

• How does climate attribution science relate to Loss and Damage?

  in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘Reasons For Concern’ (RFCs). The latest assessment (Working Group II (WG2) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)) finds that for a given level of warming, these climate-related risks are higher than previously assessed. Many specific hazards are monitored