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High pressure dominated the UK for much of July, pushing any Atlantic influence, and therefore much of the rain, into the northwest and allowing temperatures to build elsewhere. Overall, the UK saw just 56% (46.3mm) of its average rainfall for July, making it the driest July in over 20 years

decrease or remain unchanged. At the same time, there is a likelyincrease in both the maximum wind speeds and rates of precipitation for tropical cyclones globally. The future influence of climate change on tropical cyclones is likely to vary by region, but the specific characteristics of the changes

as our climate warms. This will lead to heavier rainfall when it does rain, but also to more dry spells, and can be thought of as an intensification of the water cycle.  One outstanding question is how the strong influence of El Nino on Brazilian rainfall might change in future. El Nino years tend

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second warmest, it by no means guarantees that this ranking will be the same by the time we get to the end of the year. The figure will be highly dependent on the regimes that influence the UK’s weather through October, November and December. The UK’s September climate statistics were published earlier

examines weather phenomena outside the UK. Understanding the drivers behind weather in the UK There are several interconnected global weather and climate systems, known as global drivers, that have the potential to influence the weather we see here in the UK in the next three months. The jet stream

Food Security Pack The International Climate Services team at the Met Office has developed an information pack about how climate change is likely to impact food security in the Northeast Farming Region of China. The Food Security Pack aims to provide evidence-based information to industry, policy

and Africa leading to the season’s highest temperature of 18.4 °C at Santon Downham (Suffolk) on 24 February. Dr Mark McCarthy is the head of the Met Office National Climate Information Centre. He said: “February 2021 has seen a wide temperature range resulting from the two predominant weather patterns

to the satellite image above. An image of the sun during the morning of 16 October 2017 from Met Office Headquarters in Exeter, likely to be caused by a combination of Saharan dust and smoke from Portuguese wild-fires drawn north by the warm southerly airflow; a phenomenon observed widely across southern

Analysing climate change and its impacts in the urban environment.

, and the influence on regional climate of urban land use and urban waste heat emissions. Unified Model and Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) provide a traceable hierarchy of models across different space and time scales required to quantify interactions between global climate change and urban