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• The risk of wildfires in a changing climate

  in these factors are leading to shifts in fire patterns in many regions of the world.   It is widely known that the overall global burned area is decreasing, as explored by one report from Science magazine in 2017. This is mainly driven by land-use change from natural savannah and grasslands

• A sunny but cold Valentine's Day for many

  As low pressure clears into Europe, Arctic maritime air will sweep across the UK, bringing a fine, sunny and cold day for most on Saturday, with a widespread frost to start. However, the settled weather will be short-lived. Cloud will increase from the west as the next Atlantic system approaches

• D-Day 6 June 1944

  Tuesday 6 June 1944 (D-Day) Weather chart for 1300 UTC on 6 June 1944 General summary Most places dawned cloudy with continuing showers across northern and eastern districts. In southern Britain it was dry with a few breaks to allow some bright or sunny spells to develop across South West England

• Coronation Day 2 June 1953

  Tuesday 2 June 1953 (Coronation Day of Queen Elizabeth II) UK weather chart for 12:00 UTC on 2 June 1953 Brief summary of the weather for London A mostly cloudy day with rain or showers. A gentle to moderate north-westerly breeze. Maximum temperature well below average for early June. Data from Kew

• Hottest July day on record for the UK

  take water with you when travelling and keep up to date with weather forecasts. "It’s also worth remembering to think about practical steps to keep homes cool during the day as this can aid sleeping at night and give the body time to recover from the heat.” After Thursday’s peak heat temperatures

• Bank holiday: warmest day of the year?

  The warmest late May Bank Holiday Weekend on record is officially 32.8 °C, recorded on Bank Holiday Monday itself on 29th May 1944 in Horsham (West Sussex), Tunbridge Wells  (Kent) and Regents Park (London) just a few days ahead of D-Day. Martin Young, Deputy Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office

• Met Office daily weather: Fine, dry and widely sunny

  , and sometimes it will creep further inland to affect, say, parts of the Midlands and southern England, East Wales perhaps. But it will ebb and flow, and by day it will tend to burn back to the immediate coast over the next few days. So Friday into Saturday and Sunday, we’ll see cloudy conditions

• Autographic Records

  of the other autographic devices work in a very similar way although one significant exception are sunshine cards where the mark left on the card is produced by a Campbell Stokes sunshine recorder which focuses sunlight through a glass sphere and uses the resulting beam to burn a line into the card during

• Met Office daily weather: Sunshine and warm temperature for many

  Saturday will begin with low cloud lingering across central and eastern areas, but this will lift and break through the morning, giving way to increasing amounts of sunshine by the afternoon. Elsewhere, conditions will be mainly sunny throughout the day. Temperatures will be very warm in the west

• High pressure brings plenty of sunshine and temperatures of 22°C

  . With a breeze developing across the south of the UK temperatures will be kept a little lower here through the day, with the highest temperatures likely in the northwest of England and north Wales where 19°C is possible. Wednesday will be another day of widespread sunshine, with temperatures possibly